VEGETABLE SEEDS 
BLACK WAX BEANS 
Pencil Pod Black Wax. Very desirable for home and ma'-“et garden 
and for truckers. Plant large and thrifty. Heavily prouuctive over 
long period. Pods handsome bright yellow. 5V1> to 6 inches long, % 
inch thick, cylindrical ; very fleshy, stringless, brittle, fine grained, 
and tender. Qualit.v unexcelled. Seeds black. 
Pole Beans 
Prices: Pkt. 10c; 1 lb. 30c. 
Kentucky Wonder. The most popular of all pole beans should be 
III every garden. The dark green pods are round and long, measur¬ 
ing !) to 10 inches ; they are always stringless as snaps, and never 
become tough. Seeds light brown colored. 
Oregon Pole Lima. Proven over many years to be well adapted to 
our cool Northwest climate. A strong, vigorous grower, bearing con¬ 
tinuously until frost. Pods are at their best when turning yellow. 
Scarlet Runner. About in season with pole limas. Good climber. 
Flowers scarlet, decorative. Pods dark green : 6 inches long ; flat 
oval. Fleshy ; desirable for snaps and green shell beans. Seeds kidney 
shaped, flat; dark purple, spotted with reddish buff. 
Tall Horticultural. The pods when young are of excellent quality 
and make fine snapshorts. They measure 5 to 6 inches long and are 
stringless. The dried beans are grown extensively for winter use. 
They are large, of light fawn color, speckled with dull red. Highly 
recommended as a baking bean. 
Lima Beans, Dwarf 
Henderson’s. Sometimes called the Baby Lima, and known in some 
sections as the Butter Bean. Plant is small, dark green, erect, bushy, 
and very early. Pods flat, green shelled beans flat, small and excel¬ 
lent quality. Pkt. 10c; 1 lb. 25c. 
Burpee’s Improved Bush. Plants, large, heavily productive. Pods 
large, flat, greenish white. Pkt. 10c; 1 lb. 25c 
BEET 
1 oz. to 100 ft., 6 lbs. per ocre. 
Seed should be sown at the rate of one ounce to 100 feet of row. 
The rows should be spaced 18 to 24 inches apart. Work the soil 
well and cover the seeds about an inch deep. A rich sandy loam 
is most favorable, but nearly all types of soil will produce Beets 
if sufficiently fertilized and properly tilled. All varieties of Beets 
sell for: Pkt. 5c; 1 oz. 10c; % lb. 25c; 1 lb. 75c 
Detroit Dark Red.The standard of e.xcellence in table Beets for 
home and market garden, for shipping, and for canning. Tops uni¬ 
form, small, slender, erect. Roots globe shaped; symmetrical, with 
small, collar and small tap-root. Very dark blood red. 
Early Blood Turnip. For home and market garden. Tops medium 
small, but fairly coarse. Roots deep turnip shaped. Dark purplish 
red. Fiesh deep purplish red zoned with a lighter shade. 
Early Wonder. Very desirable for home and market garden. Tops 
small. Root flattened globe shape with small collar and tap-root. 
Dark purplish red. Flesh deep purplish red zoned a lighter shade. 
SWISS CHARD 
Extra Early Flat Egyptian. Best for forcing and particularly valu¬ 
able for early market. Tops small and upright. Roots flattened, 
with long slender tap-root. Flesh dark purplish red zoned lighter. 
SWISS CHARD (Cut and Come Again) 
1 oz. to 100 ft., 6 lbs. per acre. 
Only tops of this Beet are used, like spinach, and the succulent 
stalks and midribs may be prepared in the same way as asparagus. 
The plants are cultivated like Beets except that they should be 
thinned to 8 or 10 inches apart. Pkt. 5c; 1 oz. 10c; % lb 25c; 
1 lb. 75c. 
Lucullus, Dark Green.The fleshy crumpled leaves of this variety 
make very choice greens. Plant erect; stalks rounded and finCfy 
ribbed. Foilage a rich deep green. 
Pkt. 5c; oz., 10c; % lb. 25c; 1 lb. 75c. 
SUGAR BEET 
1 oz. to 100 ft., 6 lbs. per acre. 
Sugar Beets are desirable not only for sugar making but for 
stock, feeding, and when small they may be used for the table. The 
soil producing best results is a rich, friable sand or clay loam. 
Cultivation is the same as for Mangel Wurzel. Pkt. 5c; loz. lOe; 
14 lb. 25c; 1 lb. 75c. 
Klein Wanzleben. The most desirable Beets for sugar manufacture. 
Valuable for stock feeding. Roots medium large 12 to 16 inches long, 
‘SY 2 fo 4 inches at shoulder, tapered; white, with a tinge of gray: 
very rich in sugar content. Good keeper. 
Pkt. 5c; oz., 10c; ^4 lb. 25c; 1 lb. 75c. 
CO.NSl I/I' I S I'OK \ AKIE'UKS of X FGFTAliLFS TO I'LAM' FOR ASSURED SUCCESS. 
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