VEGETABLE SEEDS 
BOUNTIFUL GREEN POD 
Pole Beans 
Prices: Pkt. 10c; 1 lb. 30c. 
Blue Lake or White Creaseback. Splendid snap bean for home 
garden and early market. Good climber, heavily productive 
Pods light green, 5% inches long. V 2 inch wide, almost as 
thick; nearly stringless, very fleshy, brittle, tendei. 
white; excellent for baking. 
Seeds 
Kentucky Wonder. This most popular of all pole beans should 
be in every garden. The dark green pods are round and long, 
measuring 9 to 10 inches; they are always stringless as snaps, 
and never become tough. Seeds light brown coloied. 
Kentucky Wonder White Seeded. Largely used by local mar¬ 
ket gardeners as it has an abundance of large tender pods and 
is two weeks earlier than the Brown Seeded Kentucky Won¬ 
der Seeds snow white when ripe and are good used as dry 
beans. Pkt. 10c; 1 lb. 30c; 10 lbs. $2.50, postpaid. 
Kentucky Wonder White Seeded Rust Resistant. The rust 
resistant* strain of white seeded Kentucky Wonder. 
BEET 
1 oz. to 100 ft., 8 to 14 lbs. per acre. 
Seed should be sown at the rate of one ounce to 100 feet of 
row. The rows should be spaced 14 to 24 inches apart. Work 
the soil well and cover the seeds about an inch deep. A rich 
sandy loam is most favorable, but nearly all types of soil will 
produce Beets if sufficiently fertilized and properly tilled. All 
varieties of Beets sell for; Pkt. 5c; 1 oz. 15c; l A lb. 25c; 1 lb. <5c. 
Crosby’s Egyptian. A turnip-shaped variety with dark-red 
flesh showing zones of a lighter shade, short, dark leaves, a 
good table variety and very early. The market gardener’s 
favorite. 
Detroit Dark Red. The standard of excellence in table Beets 
for home and market garden, for shipping, and for canning. 
Tops uniform, small, slender, erect. Roots globe shaped; sym¬ 
metrical, with small collar and small tap-root. Very dark blood 
red. 
SWISS CHARD 
1 oz. to 100 ft., 6 to 10 lbs. per acre. 
Only the tops of this Beet are used, like spinach, and the 
•succulent stalks and midribs may be prepared in the same way 
as asparagus. The plants are cultivated like Beets except that 
thev should be thinned to 8 or 10 inches apart. Pkt. 5c; 1 oz. 
15c; % lb. 25c; 1 lb. 75c. 
Lucullus, Dark Green. The fleshy crumpled leaves of this 
variety make very choice greens. Plant erect; stalks rounded 
and finely ribbed. Foliage a rich deep green. 
White Swiss Chard. Best suitable for table use, but is also 
used extensively for poultry feed. It has a large white rib, a 
rather smooth leaf, making it easily cleaned for table use. 
The large midrib is sometimes cooked as you would prepare 
asparagus. 
SUGAR BEET 
1 oz. to 100 ft., 6 to 10 lbs. per acre. 
Sugar Beets are desirable not only for sugar making but 
for stock feeding, and when small they may be used for the 
table The soil producing best results is a rich, friable sand 
or clay loam. Cultivation is the same as for Mangel Wurzel. 
Pkt. 5c; 1 oz. 15c; *4 lb. 25c; 1 lb. 75c. 
Klein Wanzleben. The most desirable Beet for sugar manu¬ 
facture Valuable for stock feeding. Roots medium large. 12 
to 15 inches long, 3 V 2 to 4 inches at shoulder, tapered; white, 
with a tinge of grav; very rich in sugar content. Good keeper. 
King of the Garden. Very prolific; large and desirable both 
for the home garden and for the market gardener. Not quite 
as early as the bush varieties, but bear over a long period. 
Plant from April 1 to Sept. 1. 
Morse’s Pole No. 191. An attractive new pole bean, white 
seeded, showing definite resistance to rust. Earlier than Ken¬ 
tucky Wonder. Strong productive vines. Smooth dark green 
pods 7 to 9 inches long, tender and stringless. Strongly rec¬ 
ommended for home garden or market garden use, especially 
where bean rust is prevalent. 
Pole Fordhook (New). A sensational new pole Lima which 
combines the distinctive qualities of Fordhook Bush Lima 
with an enormous yield surpassing the heavy production of 
other pole Limas. The lustrous green, glossy pods contain 
four to five, and sometimes six, big thick beans of green color. 
The pods are straight, 5 to 6 inches long, 1% inches wide, fully 
% of an inch thick, and grow four to eight in a cluster. The 
beans are exceptionally tender and have the fine nutty flavor 
of Fordhook Bush Limas. It is a vigorous and rapid grower, 
reaching a height of 10 to 15 feet, and produces a continuous 
setting of pods until frost. 
Scarlet Runner. About in season with pole limas. Good 
climber. Flowers scarlet, decorative. Pods dark green; 6 
inches long; flat oval. Fleshy; desirable for snaps and green 
shell beans. Seeds kidney shaped, flat; dark purple, spotted 
with reddish buff. 
Lima Beans, Dwarf 
Fordhook Bush Lima. The best of the Bush Limas, sometimes 
called Butter Beans, grows a vigorous erect bush with large 
pods containing three to five beans, in clusters making pick- 
ing easy. Beans are large, very thick, white with a tinge of 
green and of finest quality. Our stock of this splendid variety 
is very superior and we highly recommend it for your garden. 
Fordhook Pole Lima Beans 
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