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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. pkt., 
20c. pt., 30c. qt., $1.50 pk., $4.75 bush. 
“/ prefer your Earliest Red Valentine Bush Bean to any other 1 
have ever used." M ISS S A L L / E TIIOMAS, 
2001 Terrace Place, Nashville, Tenn. 
“ Your Valentine Snap Beans were a marvel for inn form maturity 
and earliness; the best word in my vocabidary I am glad to say in their 
favor.” A. O’JIOLLORAN, Lynchburg , Va. 
erson's 
Earliest 
Red Valentine Bean. 
AMERICA’S STANDARD GREEK 
PODDED DWARF SNAP BEAN. 
Ready for picking in 45 days from planting. 
Yields prodigiously. Full, round, meaty pods 
of unsurpassed tenderness and quality 
“Straws show which 
way the wind blows.” 
"It may interest you to 
know that some Longfellow 
Beans purchased from you 
turned out magnificently, 
surprising myself and 
friends with their yield and 
splendid quality.” — D. .1. 
NISBITT, N yack, N. Y. 
"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. M e have no desire 
to tn/ for a better.” 
Mrs. BENJ.P. RENCII, 
Oberlin, Ohio. 
"Gen 1 1 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.” 
/I. M. McTOSH, 
Falmouth Foreside, Me. 
THE LONGFELLOW BUSH BEAN. 
The Longfellow G p e odded Bush Bean. 
:: :: AN EXTRA EARLY "QUALITY” SNAP BEAN. 
Remarkably early. Exceedingly prolific. Long green 
pods, always solid, tender, and 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 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 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 
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