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Burpee's Tender Pod 
All-America Bronze Medal Winner for 1941 
Tender Pod Bean has quality, tenderness, succulence, and flavor 
from the time the pods first reach edible size until the seed is well 
developed. The pods are to 5 in. long, thick, round in cross 
section, smooth, deep, dark green in color, curving slightly, with 
long and distinctively curved tips. They are stringless, of course, 
very fleshy, brittle, and succulent. The seed is pearly white, with a 
small red spot on either side of the eye so that it is also suitable for 
use as a dried bean. The most tender podded bush bean. 
Tender Pod Bush Bean will be of the greatest value to the home 
garden, where its superior table quality can best be appreciated. 
For commercial use the pods may be a little small; however, for a 
quality trade, Tender Pod is worth a test, and regardless of what 
bean you grow, make a trial planting of Tender Pod just to see how 
good a green bean can be. Ready to pick in about 48 days. Crop 
is very short. Pkt. (60 seeds) ISjzi; 2 pkts. 25(^; 1/2 lb. $1.25. 
200 X 18 BURPEE-GRO TABLETS 
A scientifically compounded and 
tested plant food, containing all ele¬ 
ments essential for plant growth in 
balanced proportion, with minor ele¬ 
ments, growth-promoting hormones 
and Vitamin Bi added. 
It has given marvelous results with 
both vegetables and flowers in pots 
and in the open ground. Fine for 
soilless culture. Burpee-Gro Tablets 
Contain 7% Nitrogen, 13% available Phosphoric Acid, P2O6, and 
26% Potash. Full directions for use with every package. 
30 tablets 25^; 75 tablets 50^; 200 tablets $1.00. 
Burpee's 
Rhubarb 
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Rhubarb Chard 
Here’s a colorful vegetable with a new flavor— 
a “green ’’ that isn’t green and looks like Rhubarb. 
If you have grown Chard before, you know its 
ease of cultivation; that it thrives anywhere; that 
it produces throughout the season; that no other 
vegetable gives so much for so little trouble. 
Rhubarb Chard grows like the best of the green 
varieties. In 60 days from the time the seed is sown 
the plants are 18 to 20 in. tall, and if allowed to grow 
longer (which they will do without losing either their tender¬ 
ness or flavor), reach a height of 2 ft. The leaves are long and 
moderately broad, very thick, tender, heavily crumpled, 
dark green in color with crimson veins. The stalks begin 
at the ground level and grow straight, clean, and upright 
for 10 or 12 in. before the leaves begin. On 
well-grown plants stalks are 2 in. and more 
across, slightly ridged and bright but delicate 
translucent crimson, sometimes shaded or¬ 
ange on the inside, from end to end. See back 
cover for color picture of Rhubarb Chard and 
page 1 for two of our favorite recipes. 
50 seeds 150; 100 seeds 250; 
225 seeds 500; oz. $1.00. 
W. Atlee Burpee Co.,Seed Growers 97 
