22 BUTZER’S SEED STORE, PORTLAND, OREGON 
Butzer’s List of 
Select Strains of 
VEGETABLE 
SEEDS 
ASPARAGUS 
Every home garden should have a bed about ten by twenty feet, planting about one hundred roots. This 
would furnish enough tips from day to day to supply the family table. 
Set the rows two feet apart instead of four as for field culture, and one foot apart in the row. 
Drill the seed thinly in rows fifteen inches apart during March or April. 
Transplant during February, setting the roots two feet apart, in furrows six feet apart. Carefully spread 
out to avoid matting. The furrows should be ten or twelve inches deep and run North and South in order to get 
the sun on both sides of the rows. Cover the roots about three inches and as the plant grows throw the soil 
toward the plant. Each year when the berries are red, cut the plants close to the ground and burn, then spray 
the entire field with sulphur, in order to destroy any germs of mildew. Keep a mulch over the row with a har¬ 
row, but cultivate more deeply between the rows. Use stable manure liberally and hill up a little higher each year. 
BURPEE’S STRINGLESS 
Pedigreed Washington—The tips are tight and firm and do not open out or 
begin to branch until well out of the ground, making the finest kind of green 
Asparagus both for home and market. Pkt. 5c; % oz. 10c; oz. 15c; % lb. 35c. 
Prices of Asparagus Roots—2-year roots, by mail postpaid, 50, $1.35; 100, 
$2.25. By express, 50, $1.25; 100, $2.00. 
BEANS—Culture 
No crop responds more readily to good soil and cultivation than beans. A light, 
rich, well-drained loam which was manured for the previous crop is desirable. 
If too rank manure is used it is apt to make the plant run too much to vine. 
Beans are extremely sensitive to both cold and wet, and it is useless to plant 
them before the ground has become dry and warm. The largest returns will re¬ 
sult from planting in drills from two to three feet apart and leaving the plants 
two to six inches apart in the row. Up to the time of blossoming they should 
have frequent shallow cultivation, but any mutilation of the roots by cultivation 
after the plants come into bloom is likely to cause the blossoms to blast and so 
cut off the crop. The cultivation of beans should always be very shallow and it 
is useless to expect a crop from a field so poorly prepared. 
BURPEE’S STRINGLESS GREEN POD 
The Best Green Podded Bush Bean for the 
Northwest, should be in every garden 
This famous bean is absolutely unequaled! It combines unusual hardiness, 
extreme earliness, and wonderful productiveness with pods of handsome appear¬ 
ance and finest quality. Extra early plantings may be made to produce the 
earliest crop, and even with later plantings Burpee’s “Stringless” is always 
the quickest to produce pods. By repeated plantings pods may be had in constant 
succession from Spring until cut off by heavy frosts in the Fall. Combined 
with the extra hardiness and early maturity, the pods are the finest in quality, 
of a rich green, very round and straight, five inches long, solidly meaty and 
broad—deeply saddle-backed, caused by the rounded swell of the fleshy sides. 
The pods are tender, brittle, and of finest flavor, always entirely stringless, even 
when fully matured. Per pkt. 10c; % lb. 15c; lb. 25c; 5 lbs. $1.00, postpaid. 
FULL MEASURE 
A splendid early bean, which has gained much prominence. Is entirely 
stringless. It is sometimes called the Dwarf Kentucky Wonder on account of 
the similarity of pods. Pkt. 10c; % lb. 20c; lb. 30c, postpaid. 
EARLY STRINGLESS REFUGEE 
An improved stringless strain. Very hardy and extremely productive. Pods 
round and straight, tender, brittle, absolutely stringless and of finest quality; 
medium early. Per pkt. 10c; % lb. 20c; lb. 30c, postpaid. 
LIMA BEANS 
Limas should be planted a little later than the ordinary running beans, in the 
most favorable location possible, as they are very late in maturing. Always 
plant with the eye down. They may be sown in hills, or in rows, and allowed to 
run on chicken wire or strings and then thinned to eight or ten inches apart. 
The Bush Lima is more easily grown than the tall, and is earlier and more 
economical of space. 
Fordhook Bush— The highest quality bush variety. It grows erect, and its large 
pods contain 4 to 5 large, thick, beautiful green beans. For heaviest yield give 
each plant at least 10 inches in the row. Pkt. 10c; % lb. 20c; lb. 30c. 
Henderson’s Bush— An early and prolific bearer of small beans. Thrives in 
ordinary soil and is an excellent variety for home gardeners who have difficulty 
growing the larger limas. Crop reliable, very productive. 
Pkt. 10c; y 2 lb. 20c; lb. 30c 
Burpee’s Improved Bush— 76 days. This has larger pods and beans than the 
original. The vines are heavier and produce larger pods. 
_ „ , T . „ Pkt. 10c; y 2 lb. 20c; lb. 30c 
Oregon Pole Lima— Proven over many years to be well adapted to our cool 
Northwest climate. A strong, vigorous grower, bearing continuously until frost. 
Pods are at their best when turning yellow. Pkt. 10c; y> lb. 20c; lb. 30c. 
Scarlet Runner— 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. 
