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BUTZER’S SEED STORE, PORTLAND, OREGON 
Butzer’s List of 
Select Strains of 
VEGETABLE SEEDS 
ASPARAGUS 
Every home garden should have a bed about ten by twenty feet, planting about one hundred roots. This 
would furnish enough tips from day to day to supply the family table. 
Set the rows two feet apart instead of four as for field culture, and one foot apart in the row. 
Drill the seed thinly in rows fifteen inches apart during March or April. 
Transplant during February, setting the roots two feet apart, in furrows six feet apart. Carefully spread 
out to avoid matting. The furrows should be ten or twelve inches deep and run North and South in order to get 
the sun on both sides of the rows. Cover the roots about three inches and as the plant grows throw the soil 
toward the plant. Each year when the berries are red, cut the plants close to the ground and burn, then spray 
the entire field with sulphur, in order to destroy any germs of mildew. Keep a mulch over the row with a har¬ 
row, but cultivate more deeply between the rows. Use stable manure liberally and hill up a little higher each year. 
Palmetto—This is the favorite and earliest variety grown in the South. Pkt. 
5c; oz. 20c; V\ lb. 35c; lb. 75c. 
Pedigreed Washington—The tips are tight and firm and do not open out or 
begin to branch until well out of the ground, making the finest kind of green 
Asparagus both for home and market. Pkt. 5c; Vz oz. 10c; oz. 15c; V\ lb. 35c; 
lb. $1.00. 
Prices of Asparagus Roots—2-year roots, by mail postpaid, 50, $1.35; 100, 
$2.25. By express, 50, $1.25; 100, $2.00. 
BEANS—Dwarf or Bush Green Podded 
Culture—No crop responds more readily to good soil and cultivation than 
beans. A light, rich, well-drained loam which was manured for the previous 
crop is desirable. If too rank manure is used it is apt to make the plant run too 
much to vine. Beans are extremely sensitive to both cold and wet, and it is 
useless to plant them before the ground has become dry and warm. The largest 
returns will result from planting in drills from two to three feet apart and 
leaving the plants two to six inches apart in the row. Up to the time of blos¬ 
soming they should have frequent shallow cultivation, but any mutilation of the 
roots by cultivation after the plants come into bloom is likely to cause the blos¬ 
soms to blast and so cut off the crop. The cultivation of beans should always 
be very shallow and it is useless to expect a crop from a field so poorly prepared. 
BURPEE’S STRINGLESS GREEN POD 
The Best Green Podded Bush Bean for the 
Northwest, should be in every garden 
This famous bean is absolutely unequaled! It combines unusual hardiness, 
extreme earliness, and wonderful productiveness with pods of handsome appear¬ 
ance and finest quality. Extra early plantings may be made to produce the 
earliest crop, and even with later plantings Burpee’s “Stringless” is always 
the quickest to produce pods. By repeated plantings pods may be had in constant 
succession from Spring until cut off by heavy frosts in the Fall. Combined 
with the extra hardiness and early maturity, the pods are the finest in quality, 
of a rich green, very round and straight, five inches long, solidly meaty and 
broad—deeply saddle-backed, caused by the rounded swell of the fleshy sides. 
The pods are tender, brittle, and of finest flavor, always entirely stringless, even 
when fully matured. In a word, all planters now agree that Burpee’s Stringless 
is absolutely unequaled! Per pkt. 10c; Vz, lb. 15c; lb. 25c; 5 lbs. $1.00, postpaid 
FULL MEASURE 
A splendid early bean, which has gained much prominence. Is entirely 
stringless. It is sometimes called the Dwarf Kentucky Wonder on account of 
the similarity of pods. It is a great favorite with the growers in the Willamette 
Valley. Pkt. 10c; Vz lb. 15c; lb. 30c 
EARLY STRINGLESS REFUGEE 
An improved stringless strain. Very hardy and extremely productive. Pods 
round and straight, tender, brittle, absolutely stringless and of finest quality; 
medium early. Great improvement over Refugee or 1,000 to 1. Excellent home 
or market variety as a “snap.” Per pkt. 10c; Vz lb. 15c; lb. 30c, postpaid 
DWARF HORTICULTURAL 
One of the best dwarf sorts for green shell beans for the home garden and 
market and can be used early as a green podded snap bean. The plants are very 
productive, compact and upright, with large leaves. The mature pods are about 
five to five and one-half inches in length, broad and thick curved, with splashes 
of bright red on yellowish ground. They become fit for use as green shelled 
beans early and in this condition the beans are very large, easily shelled and are 
about equal to the Lima in quality. Seed large, oval, plump, pale buff, 
splashed with deep red. Large pkt. 10c; Vz lb. 15c; lb. 30c, postpaid 
ENGLISH or BROAD WINDSOR, or FAVA BEANS 
In the Willamette Valley these should be planted in the fall, November and 
December preferably, although they can also be planted in the early spring 
with good success, when the season is favorable. When sown in drills, plant so 
that seeds are six to nine inches apart, covering three or four inches deep, and 
in rows thirty to thirty-six inches apart. 
Per pkt. 10c; Vz lb. 15c; lb. 25c; 5 lbs. $1.00, postpaid 
CASTOR BEAN—Used for medicinal purposes and by some claimed to keep 
moles away. Per pkt. 10c, postpaid 
