VEGETABLE SEED SPECIALTIES 
ai Earliest R6d Valentine Bean. 
rica’s Standard Green-Podded Dwarf Snap Bean. 
Fully JO days earlier than the old popular Valentine* 
Often 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, being fully ten days earlier; 
often ready to pick in forty-five days from sowing. 
The healthy, vigorous plants are unusually hardy, 
withstanding frosts that kill other varieties; 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 is a big yielder of handsome, long, round, fleshy 
pods, rich green in color and of unsurpassed tender¬ 
ness and quality 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., $1.75 pk., $6.50 bush. 
"/ bought half a pint of your Valentine Bush Beans last sjjring, 
and aathered AVi bushels for market, besides about 5 pecks we used in 
the familyP— JOHN B. BLACKIE, Altoona, Pa. 
“ Earliest Red Valentine Bean is an excellent cropper; it has a strong 
constitution, hence not subject to the rust that spoils the appearance 
of many other beans.” — AM ERIC AN GARDENING. 
“Straws show which 
waij the wind blows.” 
‘ 1 1 never had the pleas¬ 
ure of growing such beans 
as your Longfellow ; we 
have discarded all oth- 
The Lonoteiiow pk) Bush Bean. 
Remarkably early. Exceedingly prolific. Long green pods, always solid, tender, and of delicious flavor. 
THE LONGFELLOW BUSH BEAN* 
ersP—H. E. MARQUA- 
RAT, 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 P 
Mrs. BENJ. P. REACH, 
Oberlin, Ohio. 
* 'Gen 9 1 Brown's family 
have discarded every 
other bean ; the only bean 
they will have on the 
table is Longfellow. 
From four roivs 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. McTOSH, Fal¬ 
mouth Foreside, Me. 
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, a prolific 
producer of perfectly 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, 10 pkt., 20c. pt., 35c. qt., 
$2.25 pk., $8.00 bush. 
