BUTZER’S SEED STORE, PORTLAND, OREGON 
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BEANS—Pole or Running 
Culture—Pole Beans are even more sensitive to cold and wet as well as to 
droughts and hot winds than the dwarf varieties, but are of superior quality 
and productiveness. After settled warm weather set poles four to eight feet 
long and slanting slightly toward the north, in rows four feet apart and extend¬ 
ing north and south, the poles being three feet apart in the row. Set in this 
way, the vines climb better and the pods are straighter and more easily seen. 
Around each stake plant five to eight beans two inches deep, and when well 
started thin to four plants. It is a natural habit of all vines to climb around a 
pole always in one direction, and they will not do well if an attempt is made to 
train them to run in the opposite direction. Another plan is to plant in rows 
thickly enough so that there will be one plant to eight or ten inches. Set posts 
five feet high firmly at each end of the rows and drive stakes made of 2x2 lumber 
at intervals of about sixteen feet along the rows. Stretch a wire, size No. 10 
or 12, between the posts along each row, and fasten it to the tops of the stakes 
with wire staples; run a light wire or twine along the bottom about six inches 
from the ground, fastening likewise to the posts and stakes. Between these two 
horizontal wires stretch a wire or twine perpendicularly wherever there is a 
plant ; the vines will run up these until they reach the top wire, when they will 
care for themselves. Another way is to omit the bottom wire and stick small 
stake two to six inches in the soil and fasten to top wire. 
GREEN PODDED VARIETIES 
Kentucky Wonder is the best Pole Bean for the West 
Often sold as Asparagus Beans 
Old Homestead, or “Kentucky Wonder”—See natural size of pod, engraved 
from a photograph. The pods seven to nine inches long, are so fleshy that they 
are greater in width than in breadth, being deeply creased or “saddle-backed”. 
They are solidly meaty, stringless when young, and of finest quality. If pods are 
gathered as they mature, the vines will continue to bear to the end of the 
season. Per pkt, 10c; Yz lb. 15c; lb. 30c; 5 lbs. $1.25, postpaid 
Burger’s Green-Pod Stringless—This is earlier than Old Homestead and 
covers a longer season of productiveness. The pods, borne in clusters, average 
six to eight inches in length, are uniformly straight, of a rich dark green, and 
so meaty as to be really “saddle-backed.” The pods are as entirely stringless as 
the popular Burpee’s Stringless Green-Pod Bush Bean ; they are equally tender 
and of similar sweet, mild flavor. The dry beans are of a pearly whiteness. 
Per pkt. 10c; Yz lb. 15c; lb. 30c; 5 lbs. $1.25, postpaid 
Chinese Yard-Long (Pole Beans)—Brown seed, an 
attractive and curious variety. The pods often grow to be 
nearly a yard long. The whole pod and beans are crisp, 
tender and with a delicious asparagus flavor, rivaling 
almost any of the little podded beans when cooked. 
Pkt. 10c 
Horticultural, Cranberry or Wren’s Egg—A popular 
old variety for either snapshorts or dry shell beans, espe¬ 
cially adapted for short seasons and cool locations. 
Per pkt. 10c; lb. 30c, postpaid 
A Great Pole Bean—OREGON GIANT 
If you have not grown this bean, by all means do so 
this season. It is a quick grower, quite early and produces 
the MOST WONDERFUL LONG, PLUMP, MEATY PODS 
that are TENDER, BRITTLE and of DELICIOUS MILD 
FLAVOR when cooked. 
This bean of unknown origin is called by some 
Dickenson’s Yount, Mother’s Favorite, Oregon Giant, etc. 
The mammoth 10 to 12-inch pods of OREGON GIANT 
picked in their prime are ENTIRELY STRINGLESS. The 
QUALITY IS SUPERB for canning or used fresh as a 
stringless “snap” bean. As a SALAD BEAN whole or 
sliced, and served with dressing it is DELICIOUS. The 
pale green pods are lightly penciled with carmine which 
disappears when cooked. 
Large pkt. 15c; Yz lb. 20c; lb. 35c, postpaid 
Scarlet Runner—In northern locations where the 
summers are cool and short, this takes the place of the 
Large Lima Beans. Plants are of strong quick growth, 
bearing large sprays of bright scarlet pea-like flowers. 
When fully ripened, the dry beans are of bright scarlet, 
heavily blotched with purple. Pkt. 10c; lb. 30c, postpaid 
White Creaseback or Blue Lake—A popular early green 
podded pole bean for snapshorts; of rapid growth and very 
productive. Pods grow in clusters and are from five to six 
inches in length, perfectly round, being deeply creased or 
“saddle-backed.” They are solidly fleshy, entirely string¬ 
less, and of fine quality. The dry seed is pure white and excellent for winter 
use. Per pkt. 10c; lb. 30c, postpaid 
WAX POD POLE VARIETIES 
Kentucky Wonder Wax Beans—In saying that this bean is even more prolific 
than its green podded namesake, we do not overstep the bounds of truth. It 
commences to bear when scarcely higher than the average bush variety. The 
seed is brown. Price 10c per pkt; Yt lb. 15c; 30c per lb., postpaid 
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