Tii'w is an age of progress in gardening as 
v/ell as in other professions. Tliere is an increas¬ 
ing demand for hetter vegetables and flowers. 
The successful gardener, before ordering his 
supply of seeds, makes a careful study of one or 
more reliable .seed catalogues. He has probably 
learned that there are two classes of seedsmen. 
One class offer each year, in bewildering num¬ 
bers, novelties from the four quarters of the globe, 
which they claim are destined to eclipse all simi¬ 
lar varieties heretofore known. Such catalogues 
the gardener must regard hnmorousl}’ if he con¬ 
siders them at all. 
There is another class of seedsmen who are 
.constantly on the lookout for something of value, 
'fhey keep closely in touch with experts in this 
anrl in foreign countries. New varieties of proven 
and distinct r:erit are prompjtly included in their 
lists, after tijorough trials, such as made by us 
each season at Cedarcroft Trial Grounds. 
SECTION OF oril TRIAI.. OROUNDS. 
EUROPEAN NOVELTIES. 
The New Hodson Beans—"Wax and Green-Pod 
The Ilodsons are the latest novelties in beans, originating in Northern New York. 
The Hodson 'Wax Bean 
pods are brittle, tender and of fine 
t(;xture. If picked when they 
should be, are entirely stringlesa. 
The fine table quality of the long, 
handsome pods will soon be appre¬ 
ciated. In our trial ground tests 
this variety was easily distin¬ 
guished by its rank growth, great 
vigor, productiveness and freedom 
from blight and rust. Pkt., 10c. ; 
pint, 26c.; qt., 40c., postpaid ; qt., 
26c.; peck, 11.60 ; bush., $6.00, by 
freight or express. 
Hodson Green-Pod Bean 
Discovered in a trial plot of 
Hodson Wax. A strong, robust 
grower, unallectod by rust or blight, 
many of the bushes measuring 2 to 
2i feet in height and the same in 
breadth. It is an enormous yielder, 
often ijroducing 60 to 75 pods to the 
plant, and withstanding adverse weather conditions remarkably. 
It is a late variety, coming to maturity a little later than Refugee. 
The table quality is first-class. Pkt., 10c.; pint, 25c.; qt., 40c., by mail, post¬ 
paid; qt., 26c.; peck, $1.40 ; bush., ^.50, by freight or express. 
Early Orders Earnestly Solicited—An 
Extra Inducement Offered 
In addition to the tw’o nameless Novelties, for which we offer cash 
prizes for the best names, on page 15, we have also a very distinct new 
white-seeded, green-pod, snap-short bean, originated by that noted hy¬ 
bridizer, Mr. A. N. Jones, of Genesee County, -New York; also a new beet 
from France, both of which promise to become valuable acquisitions. The 
supply of seed of both is so small this season that we cannot offer them for 
sale; but, in order to induce more of our customers to order early, before the 
rush of our busy spring trade, when nightwork is often necessary, we have 
decided to give free a liberal trial packet of one, in orders for any kind of 
seeds of $1.00 and over, or of both in all orders of $2.00 and over, provided 
the orders are mailed during January or February, 1907. 
Will you not help us (and at the same time benefit yourself) by send- 
, your order early this winter? Should you delay, however, even until 
Api il or i hon seeds ordered are needed immediately, you can rely upon receiving them promptly, 
but without these extra premiums, which will no doubt be exhausted before that time. 
A plant of hodson CKEEN-roD bean. 
1-011 OK IIOII.SUN WAX. 
