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VEGETABLE. SEED SPECIALTIES 
Henderson’s Early Leviathan Pole Lima. 
—. HENDERSON’S = 
EARLY LEVIATHAN 
POLE LIMA BEAN. 
One week earlier than any other Pole 
Lima, 
and two weeks earlier than 
most! 
Of superior quality. Immense 
size. 
Wonderfully productive . . . 
TI 12 best variety of Pole Lima for general 
use. This delicious vegetable is denied 
many would-be growers on account of the 
length of season required to mature it, 
the early frost coming on just as the crop 
is ready to pick. This sort is at least one 
week earlier than any large Pole Lima yet 
offered and fully two weeks earlier than 
most, consequently it will prove a boon to 
thousands of growers. Earliness is often 
obtained at the sacrifice of other valuable 
features, but in this variety we claim su¬ 
periority, not only in this respect, but in 
size of bean and pod and enormous pro¬ 
ductiveness It is in fact about perfect 
and of incalculable value (See cut.) 
Price, 15c. h pt., 25c. pt., 40c. qt., $2.50 pk., 
$8.50 bush. 
*' Your Leviathan is par excellence in earliness, size, 
flavor and productiveness ; far ahead of any pole lima 
1 have ever seen.” C. 11. JONES. Galveston, Texas. 
“/ am very much pleased with your Leviathan Early 
Lima Bean, being early and grand for table use. / 
planted them May 12th. and they were coming up 
May 16th, and grew so rapidly that I had to hustle to 
keen them tied up. First picking for the table July 
26th. we are still picking ( September 17th), and uouna 
beans still forming.'' E. HOLLISTER, Wellston, Mo. 
“Your Early Leviathan Lima Bean has done bet¬ 
ter than any of three standard varieties; the season has 
been wet and cold but they have given us great satisf ac¬ 
tion.’' I. L. POWELL, 
Gardener to Sam' l Thorn, Esq., Millbrook N Y 
OLD HOMESTEAD 
- — OR - 
IMPROVED KENTUCKY WONDER 
Green Podded Snap 
... POLE BEAN ... 
A marvel of Productiveness from July 
until 
frost. 
Large, thick , 
stringless 
pods , 
meaty , 
tender and 
delicious. 
This best and most popular green-podded 
snap pole bean is a marvel of continued 
productiveness and ten days earlier than 
any other green pole bean. First pickings 
may be made in this latitude early in 
July, and if the pods are gathered as they 
become ready for “snaps , ,} the vine will 
continue to produce in great abundance 
until killed by frost. 
The pods hang in great clusters from the 
top to the bottom of the vine and can be 
gathered by the handfuls ; the pods are 
very large, 8 to 10 inches in length, entirely 
stringless, plump, round and almost “solid 
meat,’’ cooking meltingly tender and of 
superb flavor. 
We have supplied Old Homestead Beans 
to customers in almost every State in the 
Union, and those who report on them invari¬ 
ably do so in most flattering terms. (See 
cut.) Price, 15c. J pt., 25c.pt., 40c. qt., 
$2.25 pk., $7.50 bush. 
'The Old Homestead just simply beats anything 
in the uay of vole beans 1 ever saw, both for productive¬ 
ness and quality — many of the pods being a foot in 
length and as tender and delicately flavored as it is 
possible for a bean to be. 1 had the first on the Sth of 
June , which was ahead of any one else in this section.'' 
THOMAS P. JONES Griffin , Ga. 
Last spring I procured what was claimed to be early 
strains of Pole Lima Beans from four seed houses and 
tested them along with your Early Leviathan • yours 
“/ have been using your seeds for years and am 
highly pleased with them, especially your Old Home¬ 
stead Beans. I picked my first of these July 16th, 
and from that time on until frost, the rines hung so full 
that one could pull off great handfuls at a time. All 
uho saw them say they brat anything they ever saw.” 
JOS M. SCOTT New Alexandria, Ohio. 
7 would like to say a word of jiraise about your 
Old Homestead Bean. I ordered only a small quan- 
i r ,V , 7 11 ween- earner man 
the Jersey Extra Early, and 10 days earlier than any 
other large White Pole Lima. As a general thing . the 
large White Limas will not ripen in this cold climate; 
with Leviathan there will be no trouble. I can but 
congratulate you on its introduction.” 
EDWARD L. COY, Melrose , Mass. 
SOIL-INOCULATING GERMS for GARDEN 
BEANS, We can . supply customers who wish 
to experiment, a garden size package, 
with directions, for 50 cts., mailed free. 
that our curiosity was satisfied. Such beans! — they 
came into bearing just after our first planting of string 
beans had passed and we used Old Homestead from 
those few hills from that time until frost killed the 
vines. Their quality, as well as quantity, was all that 
could be desiredMrs. E. S. ROOT, 
39 King Street, Westfield, Mass. 
For our complete list of Garden Beans 
Green and Wax Podded Bush 
Climbing Beans and Limas, 
see pp. 49 and 50; Field Beans, p. 66. 
