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HENDERSON’S 
"LONGFELLOW" BEAN. 
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 0 h inches long, 
wonderfully tender and brittle, without a trace of tough inter¬ 
lining, 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 attractiveness 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., $1.75 pk., $6.50 bush. 
" It may interest you to know that some Longfellow Beans purchased f v om you 
turned out magnificently, surprising myself and friends with their yield and splen¬ 
did quality .” D. A. NISBITT, Nyack, N. Y. 
“Your Longfellow Bean is the finest and most satisfactory hush bean for private 
family use we have ever had in over thirty years of experience. We have no desire 
to try for a better." Mrs. BENJ. P. BENCH, Oberlin, Ohio. 
‘‘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 quantity, ami the vines are still bearing heavily. I am glad 
to endorse it; it is the best bean I have grown in twenty years' practice." 
A. M. McTOSH, Falmouth Foreside, Me. 
“Last year I had Longfellow beans. I never had the pleasure of growing such 
beans as they were. We have discarded all others and will use none but Hender¬ 
son’s Longfellow." H. E. MARGUART , Cincinnati, Ohio. 
‘‘I think there is no better bean than the Longfellow." 
JOSEPH SHOFF, Peoria, III. 
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tative book published on the subject, .post paid, 50c. 
HENDERSON'S 
EARLIEST RED VALENTINE BEAN. 
America's standard Green-Podded Dwarf Snap Bean. Ready for picking in 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 supplanted, and is very much earlier; often ready 
to pick in forty-five days from sowing. The healthy, vigorous plants are 
usually hardy, successfully withstanding early frosts; it may therefore be planted 
very early. This, with its quick development, makes it the earliest large-podded 
variety, 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 practic¬ 
ally 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., $1.50 pk., $5.25 bush. 
"Your Earliest Red Valentines are such nice stock that I wish another bushel and a half of 
them.’ C. M. Berry, Orlando, Fla. 
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with orders of $1 or over. 
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