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f. e. McAllister, 22 dey st., new york.—novelties in vegetable seeds. 
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Thorburn’s Valentine Wax Bean. 
FIRST IN EARLINESS, FIRST IN PRODUCTIVENESS, AND FIRST IN QUALITY 
This is an improved Extra Early Valentine Bean, with round wax pods. Originated with T. V. Maxon, the 
well-known cultivator, of Jefferson Co., N. Y. The type is so perfectly fixed that only one plant with green p< 
was found in the field, and that was probably from a stray bean. It grows only about 15 inches high, witu 
a strong stalk and an abundance of foliage. 
It is, without any exception, the earliest Wax Bean in use, being earlier even than the Refuge Wax. Bea> 
planted on June 18 produce pods 4 inches long by July 25, and on August 1 half a crop could be picked. 
The pods are very meaty, and with so very little string that they may be justly called stringless. Certain' 
no other beau has less string or less hard shell to the pod as long as they are suitable for cooking. It is the bes 
quality for snap beans of any Wax Bean in use. It is remarkably free from rust, and remains a long tin 
without becoming tough. 
Combined with these valuable features of extreme earliness and excellence of quality is its enormous pr: 
ductiveness. In this respect, also, it excels any bean in cultivation. All who saw the field before harvest pr. 
nounced it the fullest podded field they had ever seen. The pods are well held up from the ground. 
Per pkt., 25c.; 34 pk, 50c.; pint, 80c.; qt., $1.50 
Keeney’s Rustless Golden Wax Dwarf Bean. 
This new Bean, now first offered, combines hardiness and productiveness with fine quality; is a vigorous bu 
variety, with entire freedom from rust. It puts forth short tendrils on which pods are formed, in addition to tho 
near the central stalk of the plant, which accounts for its great productiveness, amounting, under favorable con¬ 
ditions, to 100 to 150 fold. The pods, although flat when young, are meaty and well filled, and semi-round later; ofri 
yellow color, fine quality, and entirely stringless, even when large enough to shell. If the pods are picked as fast 
developed, the plant continues to furnish a bountiful supply for an unusually long season. 
Each packet contains an ounce of beans, sixty to seventy-five in number, and if planted singly, ten inches apart 
in the row, and with the rows twenty-four to twenty-eight inches apart, two packets will produce, under favorabl 
conditions, a sufficient supply for a family of six or eight persons. 
Per pkt. 15c 
Burpee’s White Wonder Cucumber. 
The cucumbers are thicl 
ly set throughout theleng 
of the vine and are unifor 
in color, shape and size : 
they average about eigl 
inches long by two to t\ 1 
and a half inches through ; 
the skin is thin, but toug ; , 
and the pearly white fle 
is exquisitely fine in quali 
quite brittle, and remai 
solid for a long time. T 1 
color is always ivory whi 
Owing to unusual bardim s 
of constitution, the Win 
Wonder can be plant, d 
earlier than most other 
Cucumbers, and is also a 
sure cropper. 
