HENDERSON'S EARLIEST 
RED VALENTINE 
- —~ BEAN ■■ - - 
America's standard Green-Podded Dwarf Snap Bean 
Ready for picking 45 days from planting Yields prodigiously 
Full, round, meaty pods of unsurpassed tenderness and quality 
T HIS grand variety is a great improvement over the 
original Red Valentine, which it has now entirely sup¬ 
planted, as it is very much earlier often being ready.to 
pick in forty-five days from sowing. The health)', vigorous 
plants are unusually hardy, successfully withstanding early 
frosts; it may therefore be planted very early. This, with 
its quick development, makes it the earliest large-podded va¬ 
riety, and on this account it is extensively grown by truckers 
over wide sections of the country, though it is equally desirable 
for home gardens. 
It will always yield a large crop of handsome, long, round, 
fleshy pods, rich green in color and of unsurpassed tenderness 
when gathered young, when it is practically stringless. It is 
the Standard Snap Bean, not only for the earliest but for 
successive plantings, bearing up to frost. (See cut.) Price, 
10c. pkt., 20c. pt., 30c. qt., $1.00 for four qts., $1.75 pk. 
"STRAWS SHOW 
WHICH WAY THE 
WIND BLOWS" 
11 From half-a-pint of your Valentine Bush Beans we gathered, 5}4 bushels of pods besides alloyviyig some to mature for seed." 
JOHN B. BLACK IE, Altoona, Pa. 
"We have been using your Valentine Bush Beans for some tune while the String Beans of our neighbors are only in blossom." 
Mrs. JAMES STORM, Gallipolis, Ohio. 
"Your Valentine Snap Beans were a marvel for uniform maturity and earliness; the best word in my vocabulary I am glad to 
say in their favor." A. O' IIOLLORAN, Lynchburg, Va. 
"Last year I had your 
Longfellow Beans. I have 
never had the pleasure of 
growing such beans as they 
The Longfellow podded Bush Bean 
were. We have discarded 
all others and will use none 
but the Longfellow here¬ 
after. " 
H. E. MARGUARDT, 
Cincinnati, 0. 
"I think there is no better A 
Beayi than your Longfellow." q 
JOSEPH SCHOFF, v 
Peoria, III. 
"Gen'l Brown's family 
have discarded every other 
bean; the only bean they 
will have on the table is 
Longfellow. From four 
rows I have been gathering 
daily for three weeks in 
large quantities, and the 
vines are still bearing heavi¬ 
ly. I am glad to endorse 
it; it is the best beayi I have 
grown in twenty years' 
Practice. ” 
A. M. McTOSH, 
Falmouth Foreside, Me. 
An Extra Early, Round Green-Podded Bush Bean of Fine Quality Remarkably Early Exceedingly Prolific 
Long, Round Green Pods Always Solid, Tender, and of Delicious Flavor 
T HIS extra early variety, although comparatively new, 
has been pretty widely distributed, and we have yet 
to hear anything but praise about its fine quality 
and other merits; it is in fact an ideal Snap Bean, producing 
a fine crop of round, straight, solid, fleshy pods averaging 
6^2 inches long, wonderfully tender and brittle, without a 
trace of tough interlining, and having no string when broken, 
excepting when the pods are quite old. The flavor is most 
delicious, captivating the most critical, while the delicate green 
color of the pods is retained after cooking, adding to its attrac¬ 
tiveness when served. The plants are of robust, compact 
habit, unexcelled in bearing qualities, maturing the crop very 
regularly. It is extra early, the pods being fit to pick four 
days in advance of any other variety of approximate size and 
merit. (See cut.) Price, 10c. pkt., 20c. pt., 30c. qt., $1.00 
for four qts., $1.75 pk. 
"It may interest you to know that some Longfellow Beans purchased from 
you this spriyig turned out ynagyiificeyitly to the surprise of my faryner frieyids 
who have been iyi the habit of playiling anything without regard to quality, 
‘anything being good enough' for them. I thhik yny little yyiissioyiary work 
in the seed line has coyivinced theyn that the best is the cheapest ui the eyid." 
D. A. NISBITT, Nyack, N. Y. 
THE LONGFELLOW BUSH BEAN 
Beans, Peas and Corn we do not deliver free, but will do so if 5c. per pt. or 1 Oc. per qt. is added to the prices 
