CATALOGUE OF VEGETABLE SEEDS. 
17 
GENERAL LIST OF 
We forward seeds by Mail or Express as the purchaser may wish. When ordered by mail, 
add postage for Beans and Peas at the rate of 15 cents per quart and to Corn 10 cents per quart to 
Catalogue prices. 
Half pounds furnished at Pound Rates. 
Half bushels furnished at Bushel Rates. 
ASPARAGUS. 
Sow early in May, thinly, in rows, one inch deep and two feet apart. 
The next season plant in drills, two inches deep and two feet apart, spread¬ 
ing the roots well out, in ground thoroughly manured and trenched, at 
least two feet deep. 
Per Pkt. Oz. £ lb. Lb. 
Conover’s Colossal. The best variety.05 .10 .15 .40 
Conover’s Colossal Roots, 2 years old per 100. .$1.25. 
In consequence of the great bulk of Asparagus Roots we cannot send them by mail. 
ENGLISH BEANS. 
Plant as early in the spring as the ground can be worked, from two to four inches apart, in 
drills from twenty-four to thirty inches apart. As soon as the plants are in full blossom, and the 
lower pods begin to set, pinch oh the tops; this will insure the filling of the pods and hasten the 
maturity of the seed. 
Beans ordered by mail are subject to an extra charge of 15 cents per quart for postage. Pints 
furnished at quart rates. 
Per Pkt. Qt. Pk. 
Broad Windsor. The best sort, very hardy.10 .30 $1.25 
BEANS—Dwarf or Bush. 
A succession of sowings can be made from the first week in May until August. Plant in drills 
about two inches deep, and from eighteen inches to two feet apart, according to the richness of the 
soil; the poorer the soil the closer they can be planted; the plants should be about three inches 
apart. 
One quart is sufficient for one hundred feet of drill; 1 % bushels for one acre in drills. 
Per 
Burpee’s Bush Lima. The only bush form of the true large lima bean; the 
bushes grow eighteen to twenty inches high. It is an immense yielder, of 
handsome large pods, well filled with very large beans, which are identical 
in size and luscious flavor to the well-known large pole lima .. 
Low’s Champion. Early , hardy, thrifty , and enormously productive ; it also 
combines extreme tenderness and delicious flavor , and being absolutely without 
strings to the pods, it excels every other variety as a snap or string bean. As 
a shell bean it has but few equals, and is of splendid flavor when cooked dry. 
Early Long Yellow Six Weeks. Hardy and prolific. . 
Early Valentine. Round pods, early, good flavor. 
Early Mohawk. Very productive and of good quality... 
Dwarf Horticultural. A fine early shell bean... 
G-Oddard. Resembling Horticultural in habit of growth and coloring of pod. 
A popular market variety. 
Qt. 
Pk. 
Bu. 
.25 
1.50 
$5.00 
.20 
.90 
3.25 
.15 
.80 
3.00 
.15 
.80 
3.00 
.15 
.80 
3.00 
.20 
.90 
3.00 
.20 
.80 
3.00 
