Burgess’ Northern Grown Beans 
i’ Our Northern Grown Beans are the best that can be produced. Our stock of seed is selected with ex¬ 
treme care, and the growing crops carefully rogued several times each season. The following list com¬ 
prises the best of their respective types. 
Dwarf Green-Podded Beans 
ONE PINT OF SEED FOR 75 FEET OF ROW 
Burgess’ Special Stringless 
(Rust-Resistant Green Pod) 
53 days. Burgess’ Special Stringless is an improved strain of Burpee’s 
Firingless Green Pod. It is a much better yielder with darker, straighter 
and more slender pods, fully seven inches long. This fine quality variety 
i entirely without strings or fiber and holds snap bean stage longer than 
the Burpee type. 
BURPEE’S STRINGLESS GREEN POD. 53 days. Round-podded, pro¬ 
lific,-sort, bearing abundantly, long, medium green, stringless pods, 5Y 2 
inches in length and of excellent quality; rust resistant. 
TENDERGREEN 
The Everbearing Green Pod 
52 days. Delicious, fine-flavored snap bean. Very popular with mar¬ 
ket growers because it yields a heavy crop of early beans. Its ability to 
continue to bear throughout the season makes it an ideal home garden 
variety. The pods are light green, of handsome appearance, grow 7 inches 
in length, and are round, extremely meaty and tender. Even when fully 
grown they are absolutely stringless. The plants make a strong and 
vigorous growth and are remarkable for their large yields of long straight 
pods. 
Earliest Green Pod Bean 
and a Continuous Bearer 
BOUNTIFUL. 48 days. Bears continuously for several weeks, being the 
first to give pods fit to pick in the spring. Under favorable conditions of 
soil and season this variety has been known to bear one bushel of pods 
per 15 feet of row. The pods are long, flat, slightly curved, tender, of 
delicious flavor and absolutely stringless. See page 22 for what one of 
our customers writes about the Bountiful Bean. 
Bountiful 
Full Measure 
“Full Measure’ * Stringless 
Full Measure is one of the very best round podded, stringless, dwarf green beans in 
existence, and on account of its superior quality, it is especially desirable for (he 
home garden. It begins to bear in 52 days, and the heavy pods continue producing 
throughout a long season. Very productive; pods average 6 inches long, fleshy and 
absolutely stringless. 
GIANT STRINGLESS GREEN POD. 53 days. The plants are of strong growth, 
making large, compact bushes, and are very productive. The pods are straight, quite 
long, nearly round, meaty, brittle and stringless. A few days later than Burpee’s 
Stringless, and are borne continuously for weeks. 
“Chestnut Bean” 
This wonderful Bean looks 
like a gigantic Pea. When 
boiled it has a flavor like boiled 
chestnuts, and is one of the 
most delicious beans grown. 
Grows in the form of a tall 
bush, and is completely cov¬ 
ered with pods. For soup and 
turkey stuffing it cannot be sur¬ 
passed. It is a Spanish Bean, 
and is known as the “Gar- 
banzo” Bean. 
“Chestnut Bean” 
INOCULATE 
Your Bean Seed for 
Best Results. Hastens 
maturity, increases the 
yield and enriches the 
soil. Inoculation for 
Beans only, half bushel 
size’ 25c; bushel size, 
40c; 5 bushel, $1.20, 
postpaid. 
Garden Culture. Good 
for Beans, Peas and 
Sweet Peas. Sufficient 
for 5 lbs. of seed, 10c, 
postpaid. 
PRICES 
PREPAID 
NOT PREPAID 
Bountiful. 
Burgess’ Special Stringless. 
Burpee’s Stringless Green Pod. 
Chestnut . 
Packet 
Yl Pint 
Pint 
Quart 
2 Quarts 
5 Lbs. 
10 Lbs. 
25 Lbs. 
100 Lbs. 
$0.10 
.10 
.10 
.10 
.10 
.10 
.10 
$0.18 
.18 
.18 
.35 
.18 
.18 
.18 
$0.32 
.33 
.32 
.60 
.33 
.33 
.32 
$0.55 
.60 
.55 
1.00 
.60 
.60 
.55 
$1.00 
1.10 
1.00 
1.80 
1.10 
1.10 
1.00 
$0.75 
.85 
.75 
1.75 
.85 
.85 
.80 
$1.40 
1.60 
1.40 
3.40 
1.55 
1.55 
1.50 
$3.25 
3.75 
3.25 
$11.95 
13.90 
11.95 
Full Measure. 
Giant Stringless Green Pod. 
Tendergreen. 
3.65 
3.65 
3.50 
13.50 
13.50 
12.95 
BURGESS SEED & PLANT CO., Galesburg, Michigan 
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