GREEN POD BEANS 
★ GURNEY'S EARLIEST BRITTLE WAX 
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Five reasons why you should plant Gurney’s Earliest 
Brittle Wax for the Home Garden and for market. 
1. Quality: —The thick, meaty pods are absolutely 
stringless, very tender, and the most deliciously 
flavored of any wax beans. 
2. Yield:—The vines are large and vigorous and are 
completely covered with pods throughout a long 
bearing season. 
3. Appearance:—The long straight, meaty pods are a 
beautiful waxy golden yellow. 
4. Earliness:—50 days from planting to table—the 
very earliest of any of the wax beans. 
5. Hardiness:—Nearly blight proof and very drouth- 
resistant. Gurney's Earliest Brittle Wax has pro¬ 
duced a good crop in all of the dry, hot seasons. 
!4 pt., 14c; 1 lb., 25c; 5 lbs., $1.20; Postpaid. 
Not Prepaid: 10 lbs., $1.70; 30 lbs., $4.75; 60 lbs., $8.95. 
★ GURNEY’S EVERBEARING WAX 
RUST-PROOF BUSH BEAN 
This bean only takes 65 days to mature and when 
it is matured, you have something. 
These beans are the very best for canning as you 
housewives probably already know. They are also the 
most excellent, tasty beans you have ever eaten when 
used fresh as string or snap beans. The plants are very 
large, practically rust-proof, and bear enormous crops 
of beautiful long yellow pods. 
y 3 pt., 13c; 1 lb., 25c; 5 lbs., $1.15; Postpaid. 
Not Prepaid: 10 lbs., $1.65; 30 lbs., $4.65; 60 lbs., $8.70. 
★ IMPROVED GOLDEN WAX 
(52 days to maturity)—This extra early wax bean is 
one of the best for the home garden. 
The long, straight, waxy yellow pods are absolutely 
stringless. They are heavy bearers of delicious quality 
beans, which are excellent for canning or pickles. The 
seed is white, mottled with red and purple. 
Yt Pt., 12c; 1 lb., 23c; 5 lbs., $1.10; Postpaid. 
Not Prepaid: 10 lbs., $1.55; 30 lbs., $4.35; 60 lbs., $8.10. 
POLE or CLIMBING BEANS 
★ KENTUCKY WONDER OR ^ 
OLD HOMESTEAD 
(65 days to maturity.) This climbing variety is very 
vigorous and productive and bears its pods in large 
clusters. The pods are green, very long, often being 
nine or ten inches, nearly round, stringless and very 
crisp when young, and so fleshy that they are greater 
in width than breadth. 
14 pt., 12c; 1 lb., 23c; 5 lbs., $1.10; Postpaid. 
Not Prepaid: 10 lbs., $1.55; 30 lbs., $4.35; 60 lbs., $8.10. 
Health Value of Beans 
Calories per lb. 184—Vitamins A, B, C, D 
Proteins 2.3% Carbohydrates 7.4% 
Fats .3 % Calcium .046% 
Iron .0011% 
Pencil Pod Black Wax 
| PENCIL POD BLACK WAX 
(55 days to maturity)—A wonderfully flavored, rich 
dark yellow stringless snap bean. It is a very vigorous 
and hardy plant, being one of the few to survive the 
heat and lack of moisture of last summer. The thick 
meaty pods are very brittle and cook up into a very 
appetizing dish for the whole family. The seed is black 
when ripe. 
14 pt., 12c; 1 lb., 23c; 5 lbs., $1.10; Postpaid. 
Not Prepaid: 10 lbs., $1.55; 30 lbs., $4.35; 60 lbs., $8.10. 
Inoculate your bean seed with Nitragin. The beans will 
be larger and better. GARDEN SIZE ENOUGH FOR 4 
POUNDS, 10c. 
LIMA BEANS 
★ FORDHOOK BUSH LIMA 
(75 days to maturity.) The very best large seeded 
variety. The pods, which are produced in large clusters, 
are about 5 inches long, each containing four to five 
large beans of exceptionally fine quality. 
!4 pt., 15c; 1 lb., 30c; 5 lbs., $1.40; Postpaid. Not 
Prepaid: 10 lbs., $2.25; 30 lbs., $6.20; 60 lbs., $11.75. 
★ IMPROVED HENDERSON 
BUSH LIMA OR BABY LIMA 
(65 days to maturity)—These beans are produced on 
a small, bushy plant with many large clusters of pods 
which are filled with medium size flat beans. This bean 
is very early and is very productive. They are delicious 
either as a snap or dried bean. 
Y> pt., 12c; 1 lb., 23c; 5 lbs., $1.10; Postpaid. 
Not Prepaid: 10 lbs., $1.55; 30 lbs., $4.35; 60 lbs., $8.10. 
★ NEW TENDERGREEN 
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An entirely new green podded bush bean, enor¬ 
mously prolific, entirely stringless, and bearing a 
profusion of finely flavored beans that are more 
tender than those of any other variety. The pods 
of Tendergreen are long and round, a lovely dark green 
in color, absolutely free from strings and fibre, and are 
of the finest eating qualities. Plants are of strong up¬ 
right dwarf growth. Tendergreen is a bean of real 
merit, combining productiveness and hardiness with the 
highest quality, and we urge a generous planting. Splen¬ 
did for canning. Matures in 55 days. 
y 3 pt., 10c; 1 lb., 22c; 5 lbs., $1.10; Postpaid. 
Not Prepaid: 10 lbs., $1.50; 30 lbs., $4.35; 60 lbs., $8.10. 
★ BURPEE’S STRINGLESS GREEN POD 
(50 days) — This extra early dwarf green pod bean is 
a very heavy bearer. The medium size, meaty, green 
pods are absolutely stringless, of high quality, and ex¬ 
cellent flavor. Besides their other good qualities, they 
will stand more drouth than any other variety. The 
seed is dark brown. 
■ y 3 pt., 10c; 1 lb., 20c; 5 lbs., 95c; Postpaid. 
T Not Prepaid: 10 lbs., $1.45; 30 lbs., $4.05; 60 lbs., 
$7.50. 
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★ NAVY BEANS 
Did you know that our Navy Beans are absolutely 
pure and hand picked ? You are sure not to get a 
mixed uneven variety if you order from the House of 
Gurney, so order Navy Beans now. 
1 lb., 15c; 5 lbs., 70c; Postpaid. Not Prepaid: 
10 lbs., $1.00; 30 lbs., $2.25; 60 lbs., $4.20; 100 lbs., 
$6.90. 
CULTURE: Planting should be delayed until danger of 
frosts is past. Plant in rows about 2 leet apart 5 or * 
6 inches apart in the rows. Cover seed about 2 inches. 
Keep well cultivated but do not cultivate when the 
plants are wet. 
One pound for 100 feel of row; 
sixty pounds per acre. 
PLANT MORE BEANS 
You can have fresh string beans all summer if you make plantings every two weeks until August 15th. 
One pound for 100 feet of row; sixty pounds per acre. 
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