Permalawn Products Company 
EVANSTON, ILLINOIS 
For Local Orders Call University 2260 


BETTER BRED VEGETABLE SEED 
BEANS 
Plant only in warm, well-prepared soil, about 4 
in. apart, 1% in. to 2 in. deep. Cultivate only before 
blooming and never when wet. Pick frequently 
as pods reach maturity, to get full yield. Plant a 
succession every two weeks to insure supply 
throughout the season. One pound plants 100 ft. 
of row. 
Note: The abbreviation Pkt. wherever used refers 
to “Estate Packet” introduced by us this year. 
The Estate Packet contains about one third the 
quantity of seed in the smallest weight unit 
given. 
DWARF OR BUSH 
GREEN PODDED: pkt., 10c; % 1b., 20c; 1 Ib., 
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*Asgrow Stringless Green Pod: 53 days. All- 
America Gold Medal Award. The pods are 
entirely stringless and fiberless, meaty and 
richly flavored, attractive dark green in color. 
The plants are hardy, strong, and dependably 
productive even under trying weather condi- 
tions. 
*Asgrow Black Valentine (Stringless): 49 days. 
All-America Award 1933. Like the old Black 
Valentine in every way except that it is com- 
pletely free from strings. Handsome oval dark 
green pods which keep their color and firm- 
ness well. Plants are large, erect, and prolific. 
An excellent variety for home and market gar- 
den when an early, very hardy bean of fine 
quality is desired. 
*Burpee’s Stringless Green Pod: 52 days. As- 
grow originated. The large, bushy plants 
produce plenty of rich, round, green pods 
about 5% inches long, stringless and of fine 
flavor. 
Bountiful: 49 days. Popular early variety with 
light green flat-oval stringless pods, 6% to 7 
inches long. 
Stringless Red Valentine: 54 days. A stringless 
strain of Red Valentine. 
DRY SHELLED VARIETIES: pkt., 10c; 1 Ib., 
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Red Kidney: 95 days. 
quality. 
White Marrow: 100 days. Good sized beans for 
baking. 
White Navy (or White Pea): 90 days. Small 
white beans. Extensively used for baked beans 
*Varieties which are considered especially desirable. 
For dry beans of fine 
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WAX PODDED: pkt., 10c; % Ib., 25c; 1 Ib., 40c; 
5 lbs., $1.35. (Except as noted). 
*Pencil Pod: 55 days. Asgrow originated. Gen- 
erally regarded as the finest wax bean either 
for the market or home garden. Pods are a 
beautiful golden yellow, 6 to 7 inches long, 
round and crease backed, fleshy, brittle, string- 
less, fiberless, tender, and sweet; grown abun- 
dantly on stocky, vigorous plants. An early 
variety of the highest quality and productive 
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*Sure Crop (Bountiful Wax): 53 days. Asgrow 
originated. Thick-flat, golden yellow pods, 6 
to 7 inches long, stringless and brittle, meaty 
and well-flavored. Plants are strong, probably 
the hardiest of all wax pod beans, fighting 
both adverse growing conditions and disease. 
A heavy yielder with a long picking season. 
Improved Golden Wax: 51 days. Popular in 
home gardens because of its rich flavor and 
resistance to disease. Straight,  thicl<-flat, 
stringless, creamy-yellow pods. 
Improved Prolific Black Wax: 52 days. Asgrow 
originated. Very prolific; pods golden yellow, 
round, fleshy, stringless, fiberless, and of fine 
quality. 
LIMA BEANS: pkt., 10c; % Ib., 25c; 1 lb., 45c; 
5 lIbs., $1.50: (Except as noted). 
*Fordhook Bush: 75 days. A potato Lima. The 
plants are strong and vigorous, standing erect 
and bearing clusters of thick, fibrous pods, each 
with 3 to 5 large, oval beans of rich flavor. 
**Henderson’s Bush: 65 days. A Baby Lima, 
known in the South as Butter Bean. Early, 
nnest quahty: Pkt, 10c;.4%4. Ib: -20e3) 1) (Ib: 
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Burpee’s Bush: 77 days. A prolific and popular 
variety of the large seeded type with 3 to 4 
broad, flat beans to the pod. 
Improved Burpee’s Bush. A few days earlier than 
Burpee’s, larger and more prolific. Clusters 
of 5 or 6 pods, averaging 4 beans each of ex- 
cellent quality. 
Baby Potato Lima Bean. All America Silver 
Medal 1939. Pkt., 20c; % 1b., 45c; 1 1b., 80c. 
Seeds are small but thick, of bright green 
color when fresh, and similar in flavor to 
Fordhook. Plants are very prolific and more 
vigorous and robust than Henderson’s Bush 
Lima. 
