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JAMES J. H. GBEGOBT & SON'S BET AIL CATALOGUE. 
The cut was engraved from a photograph of a vine raised on our farms, A 
more descriptive name would be Improved Pea Bean, for that is just what it is, — 
a decided improvement on the common standard pea beans in earliness, having 
dry beans eighty days from the time of planting. It is an upright grower and a 
great, bearer. The pods are packed thick, in clusters, and ripen in August, all 
ripening at once. The leaves falling earlier than with some varieties, opens the 
pods to the sun. Enormously productive, one hundred and twenty well-filled 
pods having been counted on a single vine. 
.Mr. S. H. Seamans of Milwaukee, who made a careful comparative test of the 
yield of the Snowflake, White Wonder, and Burlingame beans, writes us that he 
found that in this respect Snowflake surpassed the others. He counted one hun¬ 
dred and twenty completely filled pods on a single vine. A correspondent of the 
New York World prefers them, as a green snap bean, to either the Refugee,or 
Mohawk. Price, per peck, per express, $1.50; per quart, postpaid, 50 cents; per 
package, 10 cents. 
EARLY CARMINE=PODDED DWARF HORTICULTURAL. 
There is no bean raised that is earlier than this. While just as early as our 
Marblehead Dwarf Horticultural, it surpasses it in the richer red color of its 
pods, which makes it decidedly more desirable as a market bean. While the 
common Bush Horticultural is a late bush bean, the Marblehead and the Carmine 
stand in the front rank of the earliest sort. Price, per quart, postpaid, 50 cents • 
per package, 10 cents. 
RHODE ISLAND WHITE BUSH. 
This is the earliest snap bean raised by the marketmen around Portsmouth for 
the Yew York market, to the exclusion of all others. Very early, very produc¬ 
tive, first-class as a snap bean. Price, per qt., postpaid, 50 cts.; per pkg., 10 cts. 
CHALLENGE DWARF BLACK WAX. 
One of the earliest wax beans in cultivation. As vigorous 
and prolific as Prolific German Wax, Black Seeded; pods as 
large and of as good dolor , ripening remarkably uniformly and 
well together. Price, per qt., postpaid, 50 cts.; per pkg., 10 cts. 
EXTRA EARLY DWARF REFUGEE WAX. 
This is a perfect Refugee, with long, round, yellow wax 
pods. An immense yielder. We find that they are not inclined 
to rust. Price, per qt., postpaid, 45 cts.; per pkg., 10 cts. 
DWARF SPECKRED WAX. 
Probably the best late yellow podded bean, not only for 
market but for private gardens. Its long, cylindrical, waxy 
yellow pods are tender, of the best quality, when in condition, 
to use for snaps, while as a green shelled bean the variety has 
no superior. Price, per peck, per express, $1.75; per quart, 
postpaid, 45 cents ; per package, 10 cents. 
BOSTON SMALL PEA BEAN. 
This is the bean which sells in Boston market at from twenty- 
five to forty cents a bushel above the ordinary varieties of pea 
beans and mediums. It is early, very hardy, and very prolific, 
and yields from forty to sixty fold, and, in some instances, a 
hundred, with ordinary field culture. One hundred and twenty- 
three pods have been picked from one plant. The ripened 
seed is small, round, and handsome. Price, per peck, express 
or freight, $1.50; per qt., postpaid, 40 cts.; per pkg., 10 cts. 
HENDERSON’S NEW BUSH 
LIMA BEAN. 
Snowflake Field Bean. 
CYLINDER IVORY POD DWARF WAX. 
The following strong points are claimed for this new r bean: 
Perfect freedom from rust and blight; great earliness; that its 
pods take on the wax color soon after they are formed; that 
its pods are perfectly round, entirelv stringless; that it is re¬ 
markably productive. Price, per quart, postpaid, 55 cents; 
per package, 10 cents. 
IMPROVED ROUND YELLOW SIX WEEKS DWARF. 
This bean ought to have been called 44 Improved Dwarf 
Cranberry,” for it is a bean decidedly better than Six Weeks 
in that, while that variety becomes stringy early in its growth, 
this new bean is just about destitute of stringiness in its early 
stages. It is an excellent cropper, and of rieher flavor than 
the wax beans. The beans are the color of Six Weeks, not so 
oblong. Our friends will find this an excellent sort, either as 
string , green-shelled , or dry-shelled. Price, per peck, per express 
at purchaser’s expense, $1.25; per quart, postpaid, 40 cents; 
per package, 10 cents. 
Marblehead Early Horticultural. 
What would our customers say to a variety of Dwarf Horti¬ 
cultural that, with all the fine traits of that excellent variety, 
large beans, and large, rich-colored pods, excellent either for 
shelling or stringing, there could be added the capital trait of 
being in the very front rank for earliness? The Marblehead 
Early Horticultural is, we think, one of the earliest beans 
grown. Price, per qt., postpaid, 50 cts.; per pkg., 10 cts. 
HENDERSON’S NEW BUSH LIMA. 
This grows from fifteen to eighteen inches high, in a compact bush 
form, and produces heavy crops, which can be gathered as easily as the 
common bush bean. It has, also, the excellent trait of maturing its crop 
at least two weeks earlier than the common Lima. We find this to be 
the Small Lima, or Sieva. It is a thorough dwarf. To get full satisfac¬ 
tion from this bean it is necessary to grow it on a light soil inclining to 
sand. Piice, pei quart, postpaid, 50 cents; per package, 10 cents. 
DREER'S bush lima. 
This is a much larger beau and of decidedly better quality than the 
Henderson Bush Lima. It is. not quite as large as Burpee’s Bush Lima, 
but the beans are thicker, sweeter, grow closer together in the pods 
are more tender andsucculent, and, what is of great importance, it is a 
decidedly earlier variety, and the pod remains longer green after matur¬ 
ing. For some reason, unknown to us, it is sometimes called the u Pota¬ 
to •’ Lima. On our grounds it grows about two feet high, is of vigorous 
branching habit, matures early and yields well. Plant in rows two and 
one half feet apart, and have the plants a foot apart in the rows For 
private gardens, and wherever the use of poles is undesirable, it will be 
a great acquisition. Price, per qt., postpaid, 85 cts.; per pkg., 10 cts. 
champiok i ms is, a 
This new bush bean is well adapted to the table, garden, and market. 
Bemg_ entirely stnngless, it is extremely tender. The pods are large, 
containing from five to eight beans each. Price, per quart, postpaid 
40 cents; per package, 10 cents. 
