ABEL'S SEED HOUSE, READING, PA 
“/t’s the Crop that Counts” 
AbePs Quality Vegetable Seeds 
Martha Washington Asparagus 
Plant beans after all danger of frost 
is passed, in warm, dry, well prepared 
soil. The rows should be 2 to 3 feet 
apart and the seeds covered iy 2 to 2 
inches deep. Thin the young plants 
to 3 to 6 inches apart in the rows. 
Shallow cultivation should be fre¬ 
quent until blossoming; then stop to 
avoid injury to the roots. (Root injury causes the blossoms to fall 
off.) For succession plant every 2 weeks until mid-summer. Fre¬ 
quent picking of the crop insures long bearing. One quart of seed 
sows 100 feet, and 60 pounds sows 1 acre. 
ASPARAGUS 
Martha Washington Rust-Resistant As¬ 
paragus. A variety bred up by the 
U. S. Department of Agriculture, at 
Washington, D. C., from a careful 
selection of plants of the Washing¬ 
ton variety, and is now more popu¬ 
lar and more widely grown than any 
other. It produces large, beautiful, 
straight, dark green tender shoots 
of the most delicious flavor. 
Large Two-Year-Old Roots of Genuine 
Martha Washington. (Doz. 40c; 50 
roots. $1.35; 100, $2.00; 1,000 
$12.()0. 
Martha Washington Seed—Can have a 
light cutting in 3 years. Pkt. 5c; 
oz. 15c; Vit lb. 40c; % lb. 60c; 
lb. 90c. 
BEANS 
BUSH BEANS 
GREEN-PODDED 
Abel’s Tendergreen. Height 15 inches, dark coarse vines. Six inch 
round stringless green pod. Season 56 days to table. ViPt. 15c; 
pt. 25c; qt. 40c; pk. $2.50; bus. $9.00. 
Abel’s Stringless Black Valentine. Height 2 feet, heavy, very 
robust dark vine. Six inch dark green round stringless brittle 
pod of wonderful quality. Season 54 days to table, ^pt. 15c; 
pt. 25c; qt. 40c; pk. $2.50; bus. $9.00. 
Burpee’s Green Stringless. Pods round, slightly curved, stringless, 5 
inches long. Very productive; 54 days from planting to table. 
y 2 pt. 15c; pt. 25c; qt. 40c; pk. $2.50; bus. $9.00. 
Giant Stringless. Round, nearly straight, stringless, light green pods 
6 inches long; 56 days from planting to table. V^pt. 15c; pt. 25c; 
qt. 40c; pk. $2.50; bus. $9.00. 
Bountiful. Pods semi-round, straight, stringless; sweet flavor. 7% 
inches long. ^4pt. 15c; pt. 25c; qt. 40c; pk. $2.50; bus. $9.00. 
Landreth’s Stringless Green Pod. Pods 6 to 7 inches fairly straight 
ROUND dark green stringless. Season 54 days. ^^pt. 15c; pt. 25c; 
qt. 40c; pk. $2.50; bus. $9.00. 
SHELL 
Red Kidney. A dwarf grower and very hardy. Pods 5 to 6 inches 
long. Season 62 days. % pt. 10c; pt. 20c; qt. 35c; pk. $2.50; 
bus. $9.00. 
White Kidney. Same as above, only white-seeded. %pt. 10c; pt. 
20c; qt. 35c; pk. $2.50; bus. $9.00. 
Easy Cook. Maturity 130 days. An edible soybean that can be cooked 
in half the time of other varieties. Used for human consumption in 
the green stage, as well as dried beans. Easy Cooks are in big 
demand among sanatoriums for grinding into flour for diabetic cases. 
A heavy yielder, similar in size to Mammoth Yellow, but lighter in 
color. This is an excellent cash crop to grow. Lb. 10c; 5 lbs. 40c; 
1/4 pk. 60c; pk. 95c; i/4 bus. $1.70; bus. $3.10. 
White Marrowfat Soup. Extra-flne Shell Bean. Pods large, flat, and 
straight, with 5 to 7 pure white seeds in each pod. Vzpt- 10c; 
pt. 20c; qt. 35c; pk. $2.25; bus. $8.50. 
Dwarf Horticultural (Bird Egg). Used both as Snap and Shell Beans. 
Pods 4 to 5 inches long, thick, flat, stringless. ^Apt. 10c; pt. 20c; 
qt. 35c; pk. $2.25; bus. $8.50. 
Robust Pea Beans (Navy Beans). Small, white baking Beans of 
extra-fine quality, ^pt. 15c; pt. 25c; qt. 40c; pk. $2.50; bus. $9.50. 
NOTICE 
In most every case a quart of beans equals two pounds. 
WAX or YELLOW-PODDED 
Burpee’s Brittle Wax. One of the earliest of all Wax Beans. Vines 
are 15 inches high. Pods 5inches long, round, slightly curved, 
stringless, deep yellow; 62 days from planting to table. %pt. 15c; 
pi. 25c; qt. 45c; pk. $2.75; bus. $10.00. 
Burpee’s Round-pod Kidney Wax. Very productive. Round pod, 
stringless. 14 pt. 15c; pt. 25c; qt. 45c; pk. $2.75; bus. $10.00. 
Burpee’s German Black Wax. Extra-fine, 6 V 2 inch round yellow pods. 
Seeds black, kidney-shape; 59 days from planting to table. %pt. 
15c; pt. 25c; qt. 45c; pk. $2.75; bus. $10.00. 
Abel’s Bountiful Wax. An entirely stringless variety, with long, 
6 V 2 inch flat handsome pods. A good yielder and one of the best 
Wax sorts. Matures in about 45 days. 14 pt. 15c; pt. 25c; 
qt. 45c; pk. $2.75; bus. $10.00. 
POLE BEANS S' 
GREEN-PODDED 
Kentucky Wonder. Pods so fleshy that they are greater in thickness 
than in breadth, being deeply creased and saddle-backed, very 
meaty, stringless when young and of finest quality, 7 to 9 inches 
long. 14 pt. 15c; pt. 25c; qt. 40c; pk. $2.50; bus. $9.00. 
Lazy Wife. _ A late variety excellent for snap-shorts or shelled. Pods 
about 6 inches long, thick, meaty, with fine flavor. 14 pt. 15c; 
pt. 25c; qt. 40c; pk. $2.50; bus. $9.00. 
Scarlet Runner. Mostly used as an ornamental climber but edible 
and may be cooked in same manner as other Snap Beans. 14 pt. 
15c; pt. 25c; qt. 45c; pk. $3.25; bus. $12.00. 
Abel’s Mammoth Horticultural (Wooster Pole). We have an excep¬ 
tionally fine, choice, large-seeded, large-podded, high-colored stock 
of these Beans. They are the true old-fashioned type, hard to be 
found. 14pt. 15c; pt. 25c; qt. 45c; pk. $3.50; bus. $12.00. 
White Dutch Runner is a hardy prolific plant, used quite extensively in 
the North for planting along fences because of its flowering bloom. 
It can also be used for a green bean, or a green shelled bean. It has 
much the same habit as Scarlet Runner, although the pods are 
larger and it has a white flower. Scarlet Runner has a six-inch flat 
oval pod, and can also be used as either shell bean or snap, and 
the flowers are scarlet. ^^pt. 15c; pt. 25c; qt. 45c; pk. $3.50; 
bus. $ 12 . 00 , 
Tennessee Wonder (Egg Harbor Pole). A moderately prolific green 
podded sort, very similar to Kentucky Wonder, though earlier. The 
blossom is purple. The pods are extremely fleshy, twisted, and 
about nine inches long. Without doubt one of the best vining 
varieties. */4pt. 15c; pt. 25c; qt. 40c; pk. $2.50; bus. $9.00. 
WAX-PODDED 
Golden Cluster. Sweet, tasty, brittle pods, 6 V4 to 7 Vz inches long 
perfectly straight and flat, of fine quality. ^4pt. 15c; pt. 25c; 
qt. 45c; pk. $3.50; bus. $12.00. 
Kentucky Wonder Wax. Pods 8 to 9 inches long, thick, almost 
straight, of a light yellow color and very good flavor. 14 pt. 15c; 
pt. 25c; qt. 45c; pk. $3.50; bus. $12.00. 
Abel’s Stringless Black Valentine 
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