HENDERSONS 
EARLIEST 
HENDERSON’S 
EARLIEST RED VALENTINE. 
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 develop¬ 
ment, 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 unsur¬ 
passed 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. \ pt., 
20c. pt., 30c. qt., $1.50 pk., $4.75 bush. 
“/ bought half a pint of your Valentine Bush Beans last spring, 
and gathered 4 k bushels for market, besides about 5 pecks we used in 
the family.”—JOHN B. BLACKIE, Altoona, Pa. 
“ 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’ HOLLORAN, Lynchburg, Va. 
“ Straws show which 
way the wind blows.” 
“7 never had the pleas¬ 
ure of growing such beans 
as your Longfellow; we 
have discarded all oth¬ 
ers.”— II. E. MARQUA- 
RA T, Cincinnati, Ohio. 
“ Your Longfellow Bean 
is the finest and most 
satisfactory bush bean 
for private family use we 
have ever had in over, 
thirty years of experi¬ 
ence. We have no desire 
to try for a better.” 
Mrs. BENJ. 1\ RENCII, 
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 quan¬ 
tity, and 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. McTOSII, Fal¬ 
mouth Foreside, Me. 
Kfi EXTRA EARliY "QUALITY” S^AP BEAN- 
Remarkably early. Exceedingly prolific. Lon£ sfreen 
pods, always solid, tender, and delicious flavor. 
' 5^'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 inches long, wonderfully tender and brit¬ 
tle, 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 re¬ 
tained after cooking, adding to its attraction 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. \ pt., 20c. pt., 30c. qt., 
$1.80 pk., $6.50 bush. 
THE LONGFELLOW BUSH BEflfl- 
THE LONGFELLOW BUSH DEAN. 
