Best-Grade Vegetable Seeds 
FOR FARM, MARKET, AND KITCHEN GARDENS 
Best Adapted to this Climate 
We Will Furnish Accurate Germination Tests on All Our Vegetable Seeds 
Varieties marked with ® are best suited for Market-Gardeners 
Wax or Yellow-Podded Beans, continued 
Artichoke 
Globe Artichoke. Matures second year. A 
perennial cultivated for its flower-buds, which 
are cooked like asparagus. Sow seed in the 
greenhouse or hotbed in March, and when all 
danger of frost is over, set plants out about 
3 feet apart. Mulch over winter, so that the 
crowns are not choked. Requires warm 
weather to grow to perfection. Pkt. 15 cts.; 
3^oz. 30 cts.; oz. 50 cts. 
Asparagus Seed 
The roots should be planted as early in spring 
as the ground can be prepared, setting them a 
foot apart in rows 3 to 4 feet apart. 
Seed may be sown in a bed and thinned as 
they grow; or may be transplanted to a perma¬ 
nent bed the second year. Fair crops may be 
expected the third year. 
One ounce of seed will produce 100 plants; 
4 pounds will sow an acre 
©Mary Washington. A variety of recent 
introduction. Very large and free from 
blight. Pkt. 5 cts.; oz. 15 cts.; 30 cts.; 
Ib. SI. 
Asparagus Roots 
5,000 to 8,000 roots will plant an acre 
Mary Washington. 2 yr., SI.50 per 100; $12 
per 1000. 
BEANS 
Dwarf or Bush 
The seeds should not be planted before the 
ground becomes light and warm, in favorable 
seasons usually about the first of May. Bush 
Limas should not be planted so early as other 
sorts, as Limas are particularly sensitive to cold 
and damp. The soil should be rich and mellow, 
and the seeds sowed about 3 inches apart in 
drills from 3 to 3^ feet apart, and covered about 
2 inches deep. The plants will need frequent 
hoeing, but should never be cultivated when the 
leaves are wet with dew or rain, as this will cause 
them to rust. Sowings made at intervals of about 
two weeks until the middle of July will give a 
supply all season. 
One pound of seed will sow 100 feet of drill; 
60 pounds, an acre 
Wax or Yellow-Podded Beans 
Price: Vfelb. 15 cts.; lb. 25 cts.; 2 lbs. 45 cts.; 
7V 2 lbs. $1.50 
©Brittle Wax. 52 days. Fleshy, round, solid 
pods, tender, brittle, entirely stringless, with 
a rich flavor. The seeds are white with a 
black eye. 
©Sure-Crop Black Wax. 52 days. Valuable 
from the fact that it seems to be “rustproof,” 
after having been tested with other Beans 
which rusted badly. 
New Top-Notch Golden Wax. An improved 
strain of Golden Wax, being much more 
disease-resistant, with pods about an inch 
longer than the old type. Entirely stringless. 
Golden Wax. 50 days. A very popular va¬ 
riety. The vines are hardy, productive; pods 
long, straight, flattish, very fleshy and wax¬ 
like; of the best quality. Beans are small, 
oval, white, shaded purplish red. 
©New Round-Pod Kidney Wax. 56 days. 
One of the best round-podded Wax Beans. 
©Pencil-Pod Black Wax. 52 days. The earli¬ 
est of the Wax Beans, having beautiful, long, 
round pods, entirely stringless. The seed 
is all black. 
INOCULATE YOUR BEANS WITH 
LEGUME-AID FOR LARGER CROPS 
Green-Podded Bush Beans 
Price: y 2 lb. 15 cts.; lb. 25 cts.; 2 lbs. 45 cts.; 
7i/ 2 lbs. $1.50 
©Asgrow Valentine. 49 days. New. A string¬ 
less black Bean of easiest culture, quick 
growing, hardy, prolific and a good shipper. 
Unsurpassed for market. 
©Black Valentine. 48 days. One of the best 
varieties to raise for early market, because 
of its hardiness, earliness, and good cropping 
quality. 
©Bountiful. 49 days. The pods are long, flat, 
of good quality, and entirely stringless; early 
and prolific. 
Burpee’s Stringless Green-Pod. 52 days. 
This is an extremely early, hardy and pro¬ 
ductive variety bearing an abundance of 
handsome stringless green pods of fine 
quality. 
©French Dwarf Horticultural. 70 days. This 
variety, for a Shell Bean, is very popular. 
It is a heavy cropper; pods long and almost 
entirely scarlet in color, well filled. Does 
not blight. 
Low’s Champion. 56 days. Very productive, 
with stringless, large, green, flat pods. Ex¬ 
cellent as either a String or a Shell Bean. 
Landreth Stringless Green-Pod. 52 days. 
Improved type of Stringless Green-Pod. 
Slimmer pods than Burpee’s Stringless. Fine 
for home-garden. 
©Ruby Dwarf Horticultural. 60 days. Fur¬ 
nishes green-podded Beans of fine quality; 
the seeds are yellowish white, with red 
splashes; large, oval, plump, and are easily 
shelled. 
©Tendergreen or New Stringless. 53 days. 
A new variety of remarkably fine quality. 
Early, hardy, and very prolific. Tender, 
stringless, light green, round pods about 
7 inches long. 
W. E. BARRETT CO., Providence, R. I. 
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