12 SATEX SEED COMPANY — SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS 
SATEX FRESH VEGETABLE SEEDS FOR 1941 SEASON 

ASPARAGUS 
(Esparragos) 

CULTURE —Sow 
seed thinly in 
drills 1 foot apart 
early in the 
spring or fall, af- 
ter soaking seed 
in warm water 
for 1 hour. Use 
a rich well work- 
ed light soil and 
when well up, thin 
plants to 1 inch 
apart and culti- 
vate often until 
the plants are a 
year old. 
Transplant or 
set out the roots 
in permanent bed, 
using the richest 
soil you have 
thoroughly pre 
pared and worked 
very deep. Set 
roots 4 inches deep and 18 inches apart in 
rows 4 to 6 feet apart. Cultivate frequently 
until plants meet in the rows. Use plenty 
of stable manure or other fertilizer on bed be- 
fore and after setting out roots, mixing well 
into soil. 

Martha Washington 
MARTHA WASHINGTON — Light green, 
heavy yielding early producing large, clear 
stalks of excellent quality. Very early. 
Pkt. 5c; oz. 10c; %4 Ib. 30c; 1 Ib. 75c. 
BEANS 
(Green Bush Beans) 
1 Ib. to 100-ft. row 
CULTURE — Plant beans after all danger 
of frost is past, in warm, dry, well-prepared 
soil. The rows should be 2 to 3 feet apart, 
and the seeds covered 1 to 1% inches. Shal- 
low cultivation should be frequent until bloom- 
ing then stop, to avoid injury to the root. For 
succession, plant every two weeks until sum- 
mer. Frequent picking of the crop insures 
long bearing. 
BURPEE’S STRINGLESS GREEN POD — 
52 days — The pods are medium green, 5 to 6 
inches long, cylindrical, larger than those of 
the Red Valentine but not quite as fleshy, of 
equally high quality and remain crisp and 
tender longer. Absolutely stringless. 
Pkt. 10c; Ib. 30c, postpaid. 10 Ibs. $1.50, not 
postpaid. 
GIANT STRINGLESS GREEN POD — 54 
days — Another exceptionally fine bean for 
home or market, perfectly stringless, pods 
longer than Burpee’s Stringless, strong, vigor- 
ous grower, and a continuous bearer of deli- 
cious beans for weeks. 
Pkt. 10c; Ib. 30c;, postpaid. 10 Ibs. $1.50, not 
postpaid. 
TENDERGREEN or NEW STRINGLESS 
GREEN POD — 52 days — Highly desirable 
for truckers and canners. Plant medium large, 
erect somewhat thick-stemmed, heavily pro- 
ductive. Pods nearly straight, dark green, 
round, meaty, succulent, absolutely stringless, 
of outstanding quality. 
Pkt. 10c; Ib. 35c, postpaid. 10 Ibs. $1.75, not 
postpaid. 
STRINGLESS BLACK VALENTINE. — 49 
days — A wanted sort for market gard- 
eners and home use. Most attractive oval 
pods, nearly straight, dark green and strictly 
stringless. Quality and flavor exceptionally 
good. Pkt. 10c; lb. 35c; postpaid. 10 Ibs, 
$1.50 not postpaid. 

Live at home this year and laugh at Old Man Depression. 


Any home 
that has a plot of ground 50x50 feet can produce enough by canning and 
storing, to supply a family of 4 or 5 with enough delicious vegetables to last 
throughout the entire year. 
SATEX high-tested garden seed offer you the 
best that years of experience can produce. 
BUSH WAX BEANS 
(Yellow Pod Beans) 
IMPROVED GOLDEN WAX — 49 days — 
One of the best beans in cultivation. Pods 
are long, nearly straight, broad and flat, and 
golden yellow; seed white, more or less covered 
with two shades of purplish red. 
Pkt. 10c; Ib. 30c, postpaid; 10 lbs. $2.00, not 
postpaid. 
PROLIFIC BLACK WAX -— 51 days — 
Early; pods are round, about 5 inches long, 
fleshy, brittle and stringless, deep yellow in 
color and attractive. Standard sort. 
Pkt. 10c; Ib. 30c, postpaid; 10 Ibs. $2.00, not 
postpaid. 
PENCIL POD WAX — 52 days — Early 
and very productive; pods large, 5 to 6 inches 
long, round, straight and creaseback, strictly 
stringless, free from fibre, fleshy and brittle; 
of highest quality; color very clear yellow. 
Pkt. 10c; Ib. 30c, postpaid; 10 Ibs. $2.00, not 
postpaid. 
BUSH LIMA BEANS 
HENDERSON’S DWARF LIMA — 66 days 
— The earliest variety of dwarf Lima Beans, 
fully 2 weeks earlier than any other variety. 
Plants about 16 inches high and very prolific. 
Beans are small. Recommended to anyone de- 
siring early Lima Beans. 
Pkt. 10c; lb. 30c, postpaid; 10 Ibs. $1.50, not 
postpaid. 
SPECKLED BUSH LIMA — 65 days — This 
variety is generally known as ‘“‘calico or speckled’”’ 
The beans are of fine quality, either 
It is very prolific and does 
The seed is sort of 
butter bean. 
green-shelled or dry. 
well in the driest weather. 
a brownish color. 
Pkt. 10c; Ib. 35c, postpaid. 
POLE LIMA BEANS 
CAROLINA or SIEVA — 177 days — Beans are 
small and white on the order of Henderson Bush 
Plant of large growth, very early, vigor- 
Lima. 
ous and productive. 
Pkt. 10c; Ib. 35c, postpaid. 
POLE BEANS 
Y~ Ib. to 100-ft. row 
IDEAL MARKET or BLACK-SEEDED 
POLE BEAN — 58 days — This bean is ac- 
knowledged to be the best pole bean in exist- 
ence. It yields better than all other varieties 
and is very thrifty and extremely prolific. 
The pods are thick, stringless, meaty, tender 
and delicious. ; 
Pkt. 10c; Ib. 30c, postpaid. 
STRIPED CREASEBACK — 72 days — A 
hardy and very productive green podded corn-— 
field bean. The vines are sturdy and of good 
climbing habit, with small-medium, deep green 
leaves. ‘the pods are long, about 6 inches, very 
eylindrical or completely rounded. 
Large pkt. 10c; 1 Ib. 30c, postpaid. ze 
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KENTUCKY WONDER — 65 days — An 
excellent green-podded variety; enormously 
productive, the long pods hanging in great 
clusters among the entire vine. They cook very 
tender and melting. Seed dark brown. 
Pkt. 10c; Ib. 30c, postpaid. 
KENTUCKY WONDER (WAX) — 68 days 
— One of the earliest of the pole wax sorts. © 
Pods 8 to 9 inches long, thick, decidedly crease- — 
back ; very fleshy, brittle, but stringy. Attract- — 
ive and fair quality. Color light yellow. 
Pkt. 10c; Ib. 35c, postpaid. 














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POLE SPEF7KELED LIMA — 78 days — This 
fine Kutter bean is better adapted for the wancs 
of the Southern farmer than any other variety. 
It is a certain and abundant cropper. The vines 
are strong growers and cling well to the poles 
or trellis. Bear early and late. Both pods and 
beans are larger than the old white Carolina or 
Sieva Butter Beans; the beans are speckeled in 
color, white splotched with red but are of the 
bhae highest quality, both in the green and dry 
state. 
Pkt. 10c; lb. 35c, postpaid. 
FIELD BEANS 
PINTO BEANS — Grown mostly for a dry bean 
but makes a good snap bean when the pod is young 
and green. Pods are flat and tender. 
Lb. 25c, postpaid. 
PINK BEANS — These beans are grown as a 
dry bean and find a ready market. 
Lb. 25c, postpaid. 

body, and with it, a good complexion. 
Vegetables are not the only foods to produce such results of course, but they are the 
“deficiency”? types which supply the hidden food element lacking in so many other | 
The fact that they are grown at home and can be used fresh | 
from the garden without the loss brought about by being kept out of the ground, makes | 
them doubly valuable for the health and complexion seeker. fe 
modern table deficiencies. 

DON’T BUY COMPLEXION, EAT IT, CHEMISTS SAY 
The home garden is no friend of the beauty specialist where complexion is concerned, 
scientists tell us, because the properly balanced diet containing vitamin and mineral 
fresh vegetables will give nature its chance to do what was intended, bring health to the 

















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Inoculate Beans 
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