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BOUNTIFUL 

PLENTIFUL & STREAMLINER, 
ASGROW SIRINGIESS 

WHAT TO GROW IN THE 
VEGETABLE GARDEN 
Everybody who has a garden ought to have an ASPARAGUS bed. Nothing 
tastes finer right from the garden than fresh ASPARAGUS. You can either grow 
your own roots from seed or buy the roots already grown. (It takes a year longer 
if you grow your own.) The trouble is that most people hate to wait two years afte1 
setting out the roots before they can cut ASPARAGUS. Don’t put it off any longe: 
—start a bed this year. 
ARTICHOKES are kind of hard to grow but if you can get them they’re good 
eating and quite unusual. They make a big head of thick scales and you boil them 
and eat the inner tips of the scales. Delicious. 
All kinds of BEANS are good to eat but everybody seems to have a different 
preference. Snap Beans are the kind where you eat pods and all when they are 
young. The dwarf varieties are best and we have both green and yellow pods in 
this class. (The yellow pods are called Wax.) BOUNTIFUL is the most popular 
flat-podded GREEN BEAN, but two new varieties—STREAMLINER and PLENTI- 
FUL—are getting more calls all the time, probably because they both yield so much 
more and are so tasty. LANDRETH’S STRINGLESS is the best round-pod for 
home gardens because its flavor is so good, but market gardeners like TENDER- 
GREEN and ASGROW STRINGLESS VALENTINE because they are longer and 
yield more. The ASGROW is sort of semi-flat. 
We think PENCIL POD is the best ROUND YELLOW OR WAX BEAN but 
some people like ROUND POD KIDNEY which is better for canning. It’s all a 
matter of opinion. However, TOP NOTCH is the best flat pod for home gardens 
and SURE CROP OR BOUNTIFUL WAX is the best for market gardens. 
UNRIVALLED is semi-flat and is a very fine quality Bean when it is young and 
tender. 
SHELL BEANS are dandy for succotash or eating like Limas. FRENCH 
HORTICULTURALS make very long pods which when ripe are colored yellow 
and striped with red—very attractive. DWARF HORTICULTURAL OR CRAN- 
BERRY make shorter pods which are green, striped with red, while LOWS CHAM- 
PION and VERMONT CRANBERRY are all green. They are both wonderful 
eating though. FAVAS are great big Beans, sometimes called WINDSOR or 
HORSE BEANS and have a different kind of a taste. Try some—maybe you'll 
like them a lot. 
Nothing tastes any better than LIMA BEANS right from the garden. BURPEES 
IMPROVED BUSH makes big flat Beans like the Pole Limas, and FORDHOOKS 
are thick and fat and mealy. You get more Beans with Pole varieties but of course 
it’s more work to get Poles. GIANT PODDED is the biggest Pole Bean but KING 
OF THE GARDENS are earlier. 
Other Pole Beans are KENTUCKY WONDER GREEN POD and WAX POD 
which make big, long, fleshy, tasty pods; KING HORTICULTURAL—a shell Bean 
that grows nearly a foot long and WHITE DUTCH RUNNERS and SCARLET 
RUNNERS which make big Beans like limas and have an attractive blossom, too. 
FIELD BEANS are for winter use when dried and are dandy baked or boiled. 
If you have the room, try a few. 
CULTURE 
ASPARAGUS seed should be sown as early as the ground can be worked. When roots are 
1 yeur old transplant to their permanent location in rows 3 feet apart with root crowns 1 foot apart 
in trenches about 8 inches deep. Manure heavily. 
ARTICHOKE needs well drained, rich soil and must have winter protection. The seed should 
be sown early indoors and transplanted when frost danger is over. This is a biennial and will not 
bear until the second year. 
BEANS should not be planted until the ground is thoroughly warm. A well drained sandy 
loam is best suited and seeds should be sown in rows 18 inches apart 2 to 3 inches apart in the rows 
and about 2 inches deep. Pick when pods are young and tender and they will continue to bear over 
a longer period. Sowings every two weeks insure a succession of pods. POLE BEANS should be 
sown a little later than dwarfs. 
Top NOTCH 




