“It's the Crop that Counts ” 
ABEL’S SEED HOUSE. READING, PA. 
GREEN-PODDED 
Burpee’s Green Stringless. Pods round, slightly curved, stringless, 5 
inches long. Very productive; 54 days from planting to table. 
$4 pt. 10c; pt. 20c; qt. 35c; pk. $2.25; bus. $8.50. 
Giant Stringless. Round, nearly straight, stringless, light green pods 
6 inches long; 56 days from planting to table. V4 pt. 10c; pt. 20c; 
qt. 35c; pk. $2.25; bus. $8.50. 
Abel’s Stringless Black Valentine. Height 2 ft., heavy, very ro¬ 
bust dark vine. Six inch dark green round stringless brittle pod 
of wonderful quality. Season 54 days to table. % pt. 10c; 
pt. 20c; qt. 35c; pk. $2.25; bus. $8.50. 
Abel’s Tendergreen. Height 15 inches, dark coarse vines. Six inch 
round stringless green pod. Season 56 days to table. Vt pt. 10c; 
pt. 20c; qt. 35c; pk. $2.25; bus. $8.50. 
Bountiful. Pods semi-round, straight, stringless; sweet flavor. 7% 
inches long. % pt. 10c; pt. 20c; qt. 35c; pk. $2.25; bus. $8.50. 
Landreth’8 Stringless Green Pod. Pods 6 to 7 inches fairly straight 
ROUND dark green stringless. Season 54 days. % pt. 10c; pt. 20c; 
qt. 35c; pk. $2.25; bus. $8.50. 
SHELL 
Red Kidney. A dwarf grower and very hardy. Pods 5 to 6 inches 
long. Season 62 days. V4 pt. 10c; pt. 20c; qt. 35c; pk. $2.50; 
bus. $9.00. 
White Kidney. Same as above, only white-seeded. %pt. 10c; pt. 
20c; qt. 35c; pk. $2.50; bus. $9.00. 
White Marrowfat Sottp. Extra-fine Shell Bean. Pods large, flat, and 
straight, with 5 to 7 pure white seeds in each pod. %pt. 10c; 
pt. 20c; qt. 35c; pk. $2.25; bus. $8.50. 
Dwarf Horticultural (Bird Egg). Used both as Snap and Shell Beans. 
Pods 4 to 5 inches long, thick, flat, stringless. %pt. 10c; pt. 20c; 
qt. 35c; pk. $2.25; bus. $8.50. 
Robust Pea Beans (Navy Beans). Small, white baking Beans of 
extra-fine quality. $4pt. 15c; pt. 25c; qt. 40c; pk. $2.50; bus. $9.50. 
POLE BEANS 
GREEN-PODDED 
Kentucky Wonder. Pods so fleshy that they are greater in thickness 
than in breadth, being deeply creased and saddle-backed, very 
meaty, stringless when young and of finbst quality, 7 to 9 inches 
long. %pt. 10c; pt. 20c; qt. 35c; pk. $2.50; bus. $9.00. 
Lazy Wife. A late variety excellent for snap-shorts or shelled. Pods 
about 6 inches long, thick, meaty, with fine flavor. %pt. 10c; 
pt. 20c; qt. 35c; pk. $2.50; bus. $9.00. 
Scarlet Runner. Mostly used as an ornamental climber but edible 
and mav be cooked in samp manner as other Snap Beans. $4pt. 
15c; pt. 25c; qt. 45c; pk. $3.25; bus. $12.00. 
Abel’s Mammoth Horticultural (Wooster Pole). We have an excep¬ 
tionally fine, choice, large-seeded, large-podded, high-colored stock 
of these Beans. They are the true old-fashioned type, hard to be 
found. V-_.pt. 15c; pt. 25c; qt. 45c; pk. $3.50; bus. $12.00. 
White Dutch Runner is a hardy prolific plant, used quite extensively in 
the North for planting along fences because of its flowering bloom. 
It can also be used for a green bean, or a green shelled bean. It has 
much the same habit as Scarlet Runner, although the pods are 
larger and it has a white flower. Scarlet Runner lins a six-inch flat 
oval pod, and can also be used as either shell bean or snap, and 
the flowers are scarlet. V4pt. 15c; pt. 25c: qt. 45c; pk. $3.50; 
bus. $12.00. 
WAX-PODDED 
Golden Cluster. Sweet, tasty, brittle pods, 614 to 714 inches long, 
perfectly straight and flat, of fine quality. !4pt. 15c; pt. 25c; 
qt. 45c; pk. $3.50; bus. $12.00. 
Kentucky Wonder Wax. Pods 8 to 9 inches long, thick, almost 
straight, of a light yellow color and very good flavor. 14pt. 15c; 
pt. 25c; qt. 40c; pk. $3.00; bus. $11.00. 
LIMA BEANS 
BUSH 
Sow 1 quart to ISO feet of row 
Abel’s Nu-Green Lima. The new Bush 
Lima that is different and has real 
merit. Entirely new and different. 
Strong, stocky bush with big root- 
system. Small pod like a Baby Lima 
but Bean large, thick, Potato type. 
Will stand cold and wet weather in 
the spring much better than other 
large-seeded Limas. Will stand ex¬ 
treme heat in summer much better 
than other large-seeded Limas. 
Green-seeded, retaining a green tint 
when cooked. Dry seed small and 
shriveled, like a sugar pea, requiring 
less seed for planting than other 
large-seeded Limas. By weight, 
larger percentage of Beans and less 
percentage of pods than other large- 
seeded Limas. Unusually sweet 
flavor, different from any other Lima. 
Very prolific. V4pt. 15c; pt. 25c; 
qt. 45c; pk. $3.25; bus. $12.00. 
Pordhook Bush. Pods borne in clusters 
of 4 to 8, each measuring 4 to 5 
inches by 1% to 1% inches wide, 
and quite often % inch thick, with 
4 to 5 sweet, delicious Beans to a 
pod. %pt. 15c; pt. 25c; qt. 40c; 
pk. $3.00; bus. $11.00. 
Burpee’s Improved Bush. Pods enor¬ 
mous (5 to 6 inches long by 1V4 
inches wide), borne abundantly, and 
well filled with Beans larger and 
thicker than most Bush Limas and 
fully 8 days earlier. Matures in 85 
to 95 days from date of sowing. 
V4pt. 15c; pt. 25c; qt. 40c; pk. 
$3.00; bus. $11.00. 
Henderson’s Bush. A small podded, 
very early Sieva or Butter Bean of 
the South, growing in bush form. 
V4pt. 15c; pt. 25c; qt. 40c; pk. 
$3.00; bus. $11.00. 
Dreer’s Bush. Dwarf form of Dreer’s Improved or Challenger Lima. 
V4 pt. 15c; pt. 25c; qt. 40c; pk. $3.00; bus. $11.00. 
Italian Fava. A bean similar to the English broad beans and very 
popular among the Italian trade. They are very late and produce 
a fine crop of dark green pods seven or eight inches long, they are 
much hardier than other beans and should be planted early in the 
spring. Average four to six beans to a pod. V4 lb. 20c; 1 lb. 3oc; 
5 lbs. $1.50. 
POLE 
Sow 1 quart to ISO hills 
Dreer’s Pole. In some sections this variety is called Challenge or 
Potato Lima. Plants strong, medium late and very productive. Pods 
contains 4 or 5 thick light green beans, and shells out more beans 
from a given number of pods than any other pole lima bean. \z pt. 
15c; pt. 25c; qt. 40c; pk. $2.75; bus. $9.00. 
King of the Garden. Pods contain 4 or 5 Beans of excellent quality, 
easilv shelled and of handsome appearance. Vz pt. 15c; pt. 25c; 
qt. 40c; pk. $2.75; bus. $9.00. 
Burpee’s Giant-podded. One of the largest-podded Pole Limas, meas¬ 
uring 7 to 8 inches long and 1 inches wide. Beans extra^ large, 
of superb flavor. Vines grow 10 to 12 feet high. % pt. 15c; pt. 
25c; qt. 45c; pk. $3.25; bus. $12.00 
NOTICE 
In most every case a quart of beans equals two pounds. 
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