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VEGETABLE SEED SPECIALTIES-^ 
Henderson’s Early Leviathan Pole Lima- 
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Early Leviathan 
Pole Lima Bean 
One weeK earlier than any other Pole 
Lima, and. t~wo weehs earlier than 
most! Of superior quality. Im¬ 
mense size. Wonderfully produc¬ 
tive. 
With this sort we reach the ideal Pole 
Lima. 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. J pt., 25c. pt., 40c. qt., $2.50 pk., 
$9.00 bush. 
"Your 'Leviathan' is par excellence in earliness, size, 
flavor and productiveness ; far ahead of any pole lima 
J have ever seen C. II. JONES, Galveston, Texas. 
* */ am very miich pleased with your 'Leviathan Early 
Lima Bean, being early and grand far table use. I 
planted them. Alay 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 
£6th, we are still picking ( September 17th), and young 
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 satisfac¬ 
tion." /. L. POWELL, 
Gardener to Sam'l Thorn, Esq., Millbrook, N. Y. 
' 'Last spring / procured what was claimed to be early 
strains of Pole Lima Beans from four seed houses arid 
tested them along with your 'Early Leviathan'; yours 
gave fine large beans for the table a week earlier than 
rly,* an' ' 
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. 
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Green Podded “Snap” 
Pole Bean. 
A marvel of Productiveness from July 
until frost. Larg'e, 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 unexampled abun¬ 
dance 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 Homstead” 
Beans to customers in almost every State 
in the Union, and those who report on them 
invariably do so in most flattering terms. 
(See cut.) Price, 15c. \ pt., 25c. pt., 40c. 
qt., $2.25 pk., $8.00 bush. 
"The 'Old Homestead* just simply beats anything 
in the way of pole beans I ever saw, both for productive¬ 
ness and quality—many of the pods being a foot la 
length and as tender and delicately flavored as it is 
possible for a bean to be. I had the first on the 8th of 
June, which was ahead of any one else in this section." 
THOMAS P. JONES, Griffin, Ga. 
"I 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 vines hung so full 
that one could pull off great handfuls at a time. All 
who saw them say they brat anything they ever saw.** 
JOS. M. SCOTT , New Alexandria, Ohio. 
"I would like to say a word of praise about your 
'Old Homestead Bean.' I ordered only a small quan¬ 
tity of them just from curiosity and I can assure you 
that our curiosity was satisfied. Such beans!—they 
came into bearing just after our first planting of string 
beans had vassed and we used l 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 desired." Mrs. E. S. ROOT, 
89 King Street, Westfield, Mass. 
GOLDEN CARMINE=P0DDED POLE BEAN. 
color, mottled with carmine; unsurpassed both as a “snap* 
A new climbing wax bean of robust growth; an early and prolific 
yielder of large, fleshy, stringless pods of a handsome golden 
and shell bean. Price, 15c. A pt., 30c. pt., 50c. qt., $3.00 pk. 
