That kitchen garden is always good to have, for no vege- 
tables will ever be quite as crisp, will ever taste quite as 
sweet as those you grow. Largely, of course, that is be- 
cause of their complete freshness, prime quality factor, 
but again it is partly the keen sauce of appreciative satis- 
faction in production accomplishment. Never was the 
growing of food more important than now, never was each 
garden more of an individual and collective insurance policy. 
The vegetable varieties that we have chosen for our offer- 
ing are just those ones that we know to be of the very 
highest merit, actual eating quality the consideration. 
Under this standard we have tried to cover the whole 
range of desirable variations in season, form, size color. 
and flavor, to meet each climatic condition and personal 
taste, while avoiding those long lists of useless duplications 
that serve only to confuse effort and choice Some of the 
kinds that we offer are old time favorites. We have 
always kept such unless a later introduction along the same 
line was really better, but we don’t consider that a new 
sort is necessarily better simply by virtue of its youth. 
When we have good reason to believe, usually after actual 
growing tests, that the newer kind does have values that 
the older kind does not, then, of course, it is the newer kind 
that we list. We offer nothing simply because it is new, 
each thing only because it is good. 
ALL VEGETABLE SEEDS ARE SUPPLIED POSTPAID, 
unless actual statement to the contrary is made You need 
add to our prices only the amount of any sales, purchase or 
similar taxes that may be levied or in effect. As to CUL- 
TURAL DIRECTIONS, they are not printed on the packets. 
Instead we send out with each lot of seeds a folder that 
contains in ready reference form, all necessary directions 
beyond those given here. 
THESE THINGS ALWAYS APPLY. The soil should be 
well spaded or plowed, thoroughly broken and fined, and it 
should be made at least reasonably rich. Poor soil grows 
poor vegetables, poor in both yield and quality. The brands 
of pulverized sheep manure on general sale are good and 
safe fertilizers if sufficiently applied and well mixed in. 
Keep your garden hoed or cultivated, weeds out while still 
small. Thin rows that need it. 
ASPARAGUS IN 
SPRING 
ASPARAGUS MARY 
WASHINGTON — It’s the 
best green Asparagus (and 
thereby the best Asparagus). 
It will give great, thick, rich 
green shoots, the tips some- 
what darker, firm and tight. 
Rust-resistant. Flavor de- 
licious. You may cut third 
year from sowing. Sow early, 
soaking the seed first. Pkt. 
10¢3- 1 oz" 15e's'" 14. Ibs Abe: 
ASPARAGUS ROOTS—One 
year old. We strongly advise 
planting this size, rather 
than those older. They will 
give better eventual results, 
even though you should wait 
an extra year before cut- 
ting. 25 for 75e: 50 for 
$1.25; 100 for $2.25; 250 
for $5.00. Postpaid 
JERUSALEM 
ARTICHOKE 
Grown for’ the rough, 
somewhat potato-like tubers, 
these yielded profusely. They 
may be cooked in many 
ways, almost any way that 
a potato is handled. Said 
to be very good in soups, 
but we haven’t tried them 
so. Flavorful pickles, sweet or sour, may be made from 
them, the roots being pickled after cooking to the “half- 
tender” stage. Sometimes they are sliced raw and served 
with salad dressing. For use during winter, the roots 
may be dug in fall and stored in cellar, but any left un- 
dug will winter in open garden without protection. Helian- 
thus tuberosus. Propagated by planting the roots, potato 
fashion. Roots, 25¢ per Ib.; 5 Ibs. for $1.00. Postpaid. 

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cra THE VEGETABLE GARDEN 
GREEN SNAP BEANS 
Wax Beans or Green Beans, which are best? Well, blind- 
fold tests show that they can’t be told apart by taste alone, 
and if tobacco advertising convinces, then parhaps this 
will, too, (but we doubt it). Most folks are likely to 
keep to their fixed opinions, in this as in other. things. 
STREAMLINER—Pods of an attractive soft green, slim, 
long, straight, rather flattened. Quality good, meaty, string- 
less, snapping at a touch. A wonderful market variety, 
giving high yields even when conditions are none too fay- 
orable, and carrying well. And it has two points of 
merit that the home gardener will like; as a snap bean it 
continues still in good bearing when most of the others aré@ 
done; and the seeds are pure white, suitable for dry bean 
use baked or otherwise. That makes it dual purpose, for it 
gives you good use for the ones not needed for fresh snaps. 
Pkt. 10c; 1% Ib. 25c; 1 Ib. 45c; 2 Ibs. 85c; 5 Ibs. $2.00. 
STRINGLESS GREEN-POD—A dependable and long-proved 
sort of the very highest eating quality Understand, please, 
that we don’t mean that it is best of all, but just that 
there is none better. Some few other kinds do equal it in 
flavor and texture. The round pods are meaty, juicy, brit- 
tle. Rather early, an excellent yielder, and of our fullest 
recommendation for market, for canning, and above all 
for use right fresh picked and unwilted from your own 
garden row. Seeds brown. Pkt. 10c; % Ib. 25c; 1 Ib. 40c; 
2 lbs. 75e; 5 lbs. for $1.80. 
STRINGLESS REFUGEE—Here the pods are smaller than 
with the other sorts, very slender, quite round, fully string- 
less and brittle, being’ all in all just what one wants in a 
bean for canning, or serving whole, no slicing or breaking 
needed. Table quality is very good, meaty, fine-grained, 
satisfying in mild richness. A tremendous yielder, to be 
actually gathered in handfuls. Seeds purple-and-buff. Pkt. 
10c; 1% lb. 25c; 1 lb. 40c; 2 Ibs. 70c; 5 Ibs. for $1.70. 
TENDERGREEN—There is no better flavored, more tender, 
more crispy green bean, at least that’s the way we feel 
about it. Slender as a pencil, and near as long, are the 
pods, almost crystalline in texture and brittleness. Early. 
Pkt. 10c; 4% Ib. 25c; 1 Ib. 45c; 2 Ibs. 80c; 5 Ibs. $1.90. 
WAX SNAP BEANS 
BRITTLE WAX—If you like the wax (yellow) varieties, 
then surely you will be enthusiastic about Brittle Wax. The 
pods are six inches long, round, meaty, so tender that they 
snap at slight pressure as though really of wax. It is 
a fine home or market sort, for fresh use, or for canning. 
An early, long and heavy yielder. Seeds white with black 
eye. Pkt. 10c; %4 Ib. 25c; 1 Ib. 45c; 2 Ibs. 85c; 5 Ibs. 
for $2.00. 
SURECROP STRINGLESS WAX—A tremendous yielder; a 
vigorous and sure variety for every garden. It gives great 
handfuls of pods, that’s literal. They are thick and crispy, 
somewhat flattened, very long, and, of course, completely 
stringless. See illustration opposite of a 24-quart straw- 
berry crate filled with them. Highly desirable for fresh use, 
but very good, too, for canning or pickling. (Ever try 
sweet-pickled beans? They’re delicious.) Rust-resistant. 
Black seeds. Pkt. 10c; % Ib. 25c; 1 Ib. 40c; 2 Ibs. 5c; 
5 Ibs. $1.80 
PENCIL-POD WAX—A quality superlative here. 
round, meaty, crystalline, slender, straight. Prefers rich, 
heavy soil, yielding excellently then, and over a long 
period, the last a quality that appeals to the home gar- 
dener rather than to the market grower who likes to 
harvest his crop quickly and clear his ground for other use. 
Pkt. 10c; 1% Ib. 25c; 1 lb. 40c; 2 Ibs. T5c. 
RUSTPROOF GOLDEN WAX—An early sort particularly 
suited to sandy loam soils. Pods wide, flat, but thick, aver- 
aging about 6 inches length. Entirely stringless, and 
highly resistant to rust. Pkt. 10; % lb. 25c; 1 Ib. 40c. 
SR EN NE NS A A A 
KNOW BEANS, for they are easy to grow, and space 
for space, are likely to yield you more table servings 
than any other vegetable of the garden. Full growing 
directions come in the folder sent out with all shipments. 
In ordering, provide for several succession sowings during 
the season of the Dwarf Snap Beans, but of the other 
Beans, Pole, Lima, and Dry Shell, it is usual to make 
only one sowing. Be sure to provide enough for 
canning and pickling, too. 
See 
Pods 
