GURNEY’S 
BEANS 
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Easy to raise and pick. Can be 
cooked and pickled many ways. Let them cnt your food bills 
Plant every two weeks to August 15—have beans all summer 
WAX POD BEANS 
GURNEY’S EARLIEST BRITTLE WAX: 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 abso¬ 
lutely stringless, very tender, and the most de¬ 
liciously 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 produced a good crop in all of the dry, 
hot seasons. 
Vi 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. 
Vi pt., 12c; 1 lb., 25c; 5 lbs., $1.15; Postpaid. 
Not Prepaid: 10 lbs., $1.65; 30 lbs., $4.65; 60 
lbs., $8.70. 
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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% 
CULTURE: Planting should be delayed until 
danger of frosts is past. Plant in rows about 2 feet 
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. 
PENCIL POD BLACK WAX: (55 days to ma¬ 
turity)—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 w'hole family. 
The seed is black when ripe. 
Vi pt., 12c; 1 lb., 23c; 5 lbs., $1.10; Post¬ 
paid. Not Prepaid: 10 lbs., $1.55; 30 lbs., 
$4.35; 60 lbs., $8.10. 
IMPROVED GOLDEN WAX: (52 days to matu¬ 
rity)—This extra early wax bean is one of the 
best for the home garden. 
The long, straight, waxy yellow pods are abso¬ 
lutely stringless. They are heavy bearers of de¬ 
licious quality beans, which are excellent for can¬ 
ning or pickles. The seed is white, mottled with 
red and purple. 
Vi pt., 12c; 1 lb., 23c; 5 lbs., $1.10; Postpaid. 
Not Prepaid: 10 lbs., $1.55; 30 lbs , $4.35; 60 
lbs., $8.10. 
GREEN POD BEANS 
NEW TENDERGREEN: An entirely new 
green podded bush bean, enormously pro¬ 
lific, entirely stringless, and bearing a pro¬ 
fusion 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 upright dwarf growth. Ten¬ 
dergreen is a bean of real merit, combining pro¬ 
ductiveness and hardiness with the highest quality, 
and we urge a generous planting. Splendid for 
canning. Matures in 55 days. 
Vi 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 qual¬ 
ity, and excellent flavor. Besides their other good 
qualities, they will stand more drouth than any 
other variety. The seed is dark brown. 
Vi pt., 10c; 1 lb., 20c; 5 lbs., 95c; Postpaid. 
Not Prepaid: 10 lbs., $1.45; 30 lbs., $4.05; 60 
lbs., $7.50. 
POLE or CLIMBING BEANS 
KENTUCKY WONDER or OLD HOME¬ 
STEAD: (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. 
Vi 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 Nltra- 
gin. The beans will be larger and 
better. GARDEN SIZE ENOUGH FOR 
4 POUNDS, 10c. Vi bu. 25c; 1 bu. 40c 
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