BUTZER’S SEED STORE, PORTLAND, OREGON 
BEANS—Pole or Running 
Culture—-Pole Beans are even more sensitive to cold and wet as well as to droughts 
and hot winds than the dwarf varieties, but are of superior quality and productiveness. 
After settled warm weather set poles four to eight feet long and slanting slightly toward 
the north, in rows four feet apart and extending north and south, the poles being three 
feet apart in the row. Set in this way, the vines climb better and the pods are straighter 
and more easily seen. Around each stake plant five to eight beans two inches deep, and 
when well started thin to four plants. It is a natural habit of all vines to climb around 
a pole always in one direction, and they will not do well if an attempt is made to train 
them to run in the opposite direction. Another plan is to plant in rows thickly enough 
so that there will be one plant to eight or ten inches. Set posts five feet high firmly at 
each end of the rows and drive stakes made of 2x2 lumber at intervals of about sixteen 
feet along the rows. Stretch a wire, size No. 10 or 12, between the posts along each 
row, and fasten it to the tops of the stakes with wire staples; run a light wire or twine 
along the bottom about six inches from the ground, fastening likewise to the posts and 
stakes. Between these two horizontal wires stretch a wire or twine perpendicularly 
wherever there is a plant; the vines will run up these until they reach the top wire, 
when they will care for themselves. Another way is to omit the bottom wire and stick 
small stake two to six inches in the soil and fasten to top wire. 
GREEN PODDED VARIETIES 
Kentucky Wonder is the best Pole Bean for the West 
Often sold as Asparagus Beans 
Old Homestead, or “Kentucky Wonder”—See natural size of pod, engraved from a 
photograph. The pods seven to nine inches long, are so fleshy that they are greater in 
width than in breadth, being deeply creased or “saddle-backed”. They are solidly meaty, 
stringless when young, and of finest quality. If pods are gathered as they mature, the 
vines will continue to bear to the end of the season. 
Per pkt. 10c; % lb. 20c; lb. 30c; 5 lbs. $1.25, postpaid 
Burger’s Green-Pod Stringless—This is earlier than the Old Homestead and covers a 
longer season of productiveness. The pods, borne in clusters, average six to eight inches 
in length, are uniformly straight, of a rich dark green, and so meaty as to be really 
“saddle-backed.” The pods are as entirely stringless as the popular Burpee’s Stringless 
Green-Pod Bush Bean ; they are equally tender and of similar sweet, mild flavor. The 
dry beans are of a pearly whiteness. 
Per pkt. 10c; *4 lb. 20c; lb. 30c; 5 lbs. $1.25, postpaid 
China Yard-Long (Pole Beans)—Brown seed, an attractive and curious variety. The 
pods often grow to be nearly a yard long. The whole pod and beans are crisp, tender 
and with a delicious asparagus flavor, rivaling almot any of the little podded beans 
when cooked. Pkt. 10c. 
Horticultural, Cranberry or Wren’s Egg—A popular old variety for either snapshorts 
or dry shell beans, especially adapted for short seasons and cool locations. 
Per pkt. 10c; lb. 30c, postpaid 
A Great Pole Bean—OREGON GIANT 
If you have not grown this bean, by all means do so this season. It is a quick grower, 
quite early and produces the MOST WONDERFUL LONG PLUMP. MEATY PODS 
that are TENDER, BRITTLE and of DELICIOUS MILD FLAVOR when cooked. 
This bean of unknown origin is called by some Dickenson’s Yount, Mother’s Favorite, 
Oregon Giant, etc. 
The mammoth 10 to 12-inch pods of OREGON GIANT picked in their prime are 
ENTIRELY STRINGLESS. The QUALITY IS SUPERB for canning or used fresh as a 
stringles “snap” bean. As a SALAD BEAN whole or sliced, and served with dressing 
it is DELICIOUS. The pale green pods are lightly penciled with carmine which dis¬ 
appears when cooked. Pkt. 10c; *4 lb. 20c; lb. 30c, postpaid. 
Scarlet Runner—In northern locations where the summers are cool and short, this 
takes the place of the Large Lima Beans. Plants are of strong quick growth, bearing 
large sprays of bright scarlet pea-like flowers. When fully ripened, the dry beans are 
of bright scarlet, heavily blotched with purple. Pkt. 10c; lb. 30c, postpaid. 
White Creaseback or Blue Lake—A popular early green podded pole bean for snap- 
shorts ; of rapid growth and very productive. Pods grow in clusters and are from five to 
six inches in length, perfectly round, being deeply creased or “saddle-backed.” They 
are solidly fleshy, entirely stringless, and of fine quality. The dry seed is pure white 
and excellent for winter use. Pkt. 10c; lb. 30c, postpaid. 
WAX POD POLE VARIETIES 
Kencuky Wonder Wax Beans—In saying that this bean is even more prolific than 
its green podded namesake, we dot not overstep the bounds of truth. It commences 
to bear when scarcely higher than the average bush variety. The seed is brown. 
Price per pkt. 10c; V-& lb. 20c; lb. 30c, postpaid 
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KENTUCKY WONDER 
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