Home-Grown Vegetables Are So Different 
Burpee’s Bush Lima Beans 
Bush Lima Beans 
Sow 1 quart of seed to 100 feet of drill 
Culture. Seed 2 inches apart or plant in 
rows 2 feet apart and make hills 1 foot apart 
in the rows. About 75 days. 
Burpee’s. Pods abundantly and well fdled 
with handsome flat Beans. 
Burpee’s Improved. Bears an abundance 
of thick, kidney-shaped Beans. 
Fordhook. Everybody loves these delicious 
thick, roundish Beans of just the right 
shade of green. The sturdy bushes bear 
the pods in clusters of 4 to 6, the pods 
averaging 4 large Beans each. 
Henderson’s Dwarf. Popular Baby Lima. 
Its flavor is excellent. 
M.-S. ENORMOUS. The vigorous plants 
bear in reckless abundance really enor¬ 
mous pods which are filled with great big, 
delicious, kidney-shaped Beans. It is sur¬ 
prising to find that these enormous Beans 
are of the very highest quality. 
Enslish or Broad Windsor Beans 
Culture. Same as Bush Limas, only 
plant thinner. A Bean similar to Lima Beans, 
but a different flavor and larger. Should be 
planted early (March or April), as they are 
very hardy. 
Pole String 
Green- and Wax-podded 
Culture. Same as Pole Lima. 70 days. 
Horticultural or Pole Cherry. Pods green, 
dashed with red when Beans are matured. 
Very showy. 
Kentucky Wonder or Old Homestead. 
It grows luxuriantly and bears for a long 
period. Pods are very long, very fleshy and 
deeply creased or saddle backed, green in 
color and stringless. Seed light brown. 
Lazy Wife or White Cherry. Pods 6 to 
8 inches long, entirely stringless, of a rich, 
buttery flavor when cooked as a Snap 
Bean; also a good white Shell Bean for 
winter. One of the very finest flavored. 
M.-S. KENTUCKY WONDER WAX. 
Same as Kentucky Wonder with excep¬ 
tion of beautiful yellow pods. 
Yard-Long or Snake Beans. This is an 
ornamental as well as useful Pole Bean. 
Produces an abundance of dark green foli¬ 
age and stringless green pods, often mea¬ 
suring from 2 to 3 feet long, which when 
cooked make a delicious dish. Seeds very 
small. 
For Postage Rates, see page 1. Prices on 
bushel lots on request. 
I 
I Cow Beets • Mangel-Wurzel 
Used for feeding cattle. Sow 5 pounds per acre 
Culture. Sow in April and May in 
thoroughly plowed, well-manured soil, in 
drills 2 inches deep and about 18 inches 
apart. Thin out to 12 inches. Low ground is 
best adapted for Mangel-Wurzel. 100 days. 
Golden Tankard. Large, yellow, excellent 
sort. 
Mammoth Long Red. Immense, long, red, 
very fine quality. 
M.-S. GATE POST. The best long yellow 
Mangel in cultivation. Relished by milch 
cows and sheep. Matures earlier than 
other large sorts. 
M.-S. JUMBO. This is an enormously pro¬ 
ductive variety, yielding from 50 to 70 
tons to the acre, a single root often weigh¬ 
ing 20 to 40 pounds. 
BEETS, TABLE 
Sow 1 ounce of seed to 60 feet of drill; 
5 pounds to an acre in drills 
Culture. Beets like rather light soil pro¬ 
vided it is thoroughly mixed with manure. 
For main crop sow in the spring as soon as 
ground becomes fit to work, in drills 1^ feet 
apart and 1 inch deep. For winter use sow 
as late as July. Thin out to stand 5 to 6 inches 
apart. Store in cellars or pits, same as pota¬ 
toes. Dry earth thrown over them before the 
straw and earth covering is put on insures 
their keeping over winter. Be careful not to 
bruise them in handling. 45 to 50 days. 
Crimson Globe. A second-early variety, 
medium in size and of good shape. The 
flesh and skin are both very dark and 
quality fine, being sweet and tender. Tops 
are small and dark in color. 
Crosby’s Improved Egyptian. Very de¬ 
sirable. Thicker in body than the Egyp¬ 
tian, small necked and dark fleshed. Fine 
for early market. 
Detroit Dark Red. A fine early variety with 
globe-shaped roots of brilliant red. Ready 
in 60 days. 
Early Wonder. A very early dark red Beet 
similar to Crosby’s Egyptian in shape. It 
IS sweet and tender and a good variety for 
the home-garden. 
Extra-Early Eclipse. Matures in an in¬ 
credibly short time. Round root. Small 
top. Excellent table quality. An attrac¬ 
tive market variety. 
Extra-Early Flat Egyptian. Matures 
quickly. Bulbs half globular, or flattened 
at the poles; roots very slim; skin smooth; 
flesh quite dark. Leaves red and green. 
Long Smooth Blood. Roots 10 to 15 inches 
long; grows partly out of ground, deep red, 
of good quality and suited for winter stor¬ 
age. 
M.-S. EARLY MARVELOUS. This splen¬ 
did Beet is nearly a perfect globe, about 
10 inches around, with smooth skin free 
from rootlets; the flesh is a rich blood-red, 
nicely ringed, never stringy and always 
tender and sweet. Excellent for canning. 
M.-S. PERFECTION DETROIT DARK 
RED. 1 he ideal Beet for market garden¬ 
ers. It is the darkest red and most uniform 
Beet ever introduced. Just the right size 
top for bunching and will run better than 
99 per cent, extremely dark red in color 
without visible zones. * 
BEANS, BUSH LIMA 
Pkt. 
Pt. 
Qt. 
VzPk- 
Peck 
Fordhook. 
.$0 10 
$0 25 
$0 40 
$1 50 
$2 50 
M.-S. Enormous. 
10 
30 
50 
1 75 
3 00 
Burpee’s Improved. 
10 
25 
40 
1 50 
2 50 
Burpee’s. 
10 
25 
40 
1 50 
2 50 
Henderson’s Dwarf Lima. 
10 
25 
40 
1 50 
2 50 
BEANS, ENGLISH or BROAD WINDSOR 
10 
30 
50 
BEANS, POLE STRING 
M.-S. Kentucky Wonder Wax. 
10 
30 
50 
1 50 
2 75 
Lazy Wife or White Cherry. 
10 
20 
35 
1 25 
2 00 
Kentucky Wonder (Old Homestead). 
10 
20 
35 
1 25 
2 00 
Horticultural (Pole Cherry). 
10 
20 
35 
1 25 
2 00 
Yard-Long (Snake Beans). 
.Oz. 25c. 
10 
BEETS, COW (Mangel-Wurzel) 
Oz. 
Vdb. 
Lb. 
5 lbs. 
M.-S. Gate Post Mangel. 
.$0 10 
$0 25 
$0 60 
$2 50 
Mammoth Long Red . . 
10 
20 
50 
2 00 
Golden Tankard . . 
10 
20 
50 
2 00 
M.-S. Jumbo . 
10 
25 
60 
2 50 
Pkt. 
Oz. 
Vdb. 
Lb. 
10 lbs. 
25 lb,s. 
BEETS, TABLE 
Detroit Dark Red . 
.. $0 10 
$0 15 
$0 25 
$0 75 
$6 50 
per lb. 
$0 60 
M.-S. Perfection Detroit Dark Red. . 
10 
15 
25 
90 
M.-S. Early Marvelous 
10 
15 
25 
90 
Early Wonder. 
10 
15 
25 
75 
6 50 
60 
Extra-Early Flat Egyptian . 
10 
15 
25 
90 
Crosby’s Improved Egyptian. 
10 
15 
25 
75 
Extra-Early Eclipse. 
10 
15 
25 
75 
Crimson Globe. 
10 
15 
25 
90 
Long Smooth Blood . 
10 
15 
25 
90 
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