POLE SNAP BEANS 
The advantage of them is that they will 
give a bigger yield in a smaller space 
than will the dwarf sorts, and, too, they 
bear for a rather longer time. They are 
not quite as early in starting, though, and 
of course they need some support, a trellis, 
a fence, or simply stakes or poles. 
McCASLAN—The pods are thick, flattened, 
crispy, about eight inches long. Entirely 
stringless until too old to eat as a snap 
bean anyway, and the quality is excellent. 
The seeds are pure white, and it makes a 
fine shell bean, so it’s of dual economy in 
the limited garden. Pkt. 10c; %4 Ib. 25c; 
1 Ib. 40c. 
KENTUCKY WONDER (Old Homestead)— 
Very long and large green pods, slightly 
curved, are carried in clusters. They are 
thick, meaty, brittle, and eaten in the 
right young stage they are entirely string- 
less. They have a quite distinctive, rich, 
full “bean” flavor that you will either 
like very much indeed, or will scarcely 
eare for at all. That more like it than do 
not is shown by the long continued demand 
for the sort. Kentucky Wonder bears for 
a long season, and the total yield will be 
surprisingly large. As the pods get older 
they may develop slight strings, but the strings are easily 
removed in preparing them for cooking, and the table 
quality is still high. Can be used as a shell bean, too, 
so scant need for any to be wasted. Seeds light brown. 
Pkt. 10c; 14 Ib. 20c; 1 lb. 35c; 2 Ibs. 65c. 
KENTUCKY WONDER WAX—Few showier sorts than this 
when carrying its massive burden of bright lemon yellow 
pods. Save in color of pods, and of seeds (rather dark 
brown), the description of the last will apply to this 
also. The flavor is perhaps less pronounced, more like that 
of other beans, a point that may make some prefer it, but 
others not. Pkt. 10c; % lb. 25c; 1 Ib. 40c. 

SNAP BEANS FOR WINTER—Canning wax or 
green beans in glass is the usual home way of 
saving garden surplus for winter use, but they also 
make excellent sweet pickles. An oldtime way of 
preserving them was by salting down in jars or 
casks, mixing them thoroughly with 4th their 
weight of salt. They will form their own brine. 
Cover surface with paraffin. 

LIMAS FLAVOR-RICH 
Lima Beans will yield over a very long period, indeed 
most of the season, and what they are yielding is not just 
something good to eat, and good for one, but beyond that 
it is a very real, nutritious food, high in proteins, with 
added values in fats. Usually they are eaten in the green- 
shell stage, but any not so needed may be allowed to ripen, 
and be kept for later use in the dry state. Cultural directions 
sent with the seeds. All here are bush sorts that need no 
support save the last which should have poles or a trellis. 
FORDHOOK BUSH LIMA—If you like a Lima of rich, 
nutty flavor, texture dry and mealy, (and most folks do), 
then you will find nothing better than Fordhook. It’s rather 
early, and an enormous bearer, the beans wide and thick 
of a good green coloring until nearly ripe. A long bearer, 
you can pick from a planting of it for more than a month. 
Pkt. 10c; % Ib. 25c; 1 Ib. 45c; 2 lbs. 80c; 5 Ibs. $1.80. 
HENDERSON BUSH LIMA—The earliest Bush Lima that 
we list, shortest time from sowing to picking, and by that 
virtue it is indicated for short season climates. The seeds 
and the pods are smaller than those of the others, but there 
are such vast numbers of them that the yield is of the 
heaviest. The flavor is delicious, sweet, rich, buttery, in- 
deed an old name for it is Butter Bean. A _ particularly 
good sort for canning or freezing. A dual purpose bean, 
superb in the green shell stage, but grown, too, as a dry 
bean for winter use. Pkt. 10c; % Ib. 25c; 1 lb. 40c; 2 lbs. 
75c; & lbs. $1.70. 
RED WONDER BUSH LIMA—(Buist’s Red Jackson Won- 
der). Very early, and rather like the Henderson Bush, but 
seeds are the brilliant maroon of the Red Kidney Bean. 
Quality particularly high, flayor rich, nutty. Pkt, 10c; 
% Ib. 25e; 1 Ib. 45e, 

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BURPEE IMPROVED BUSH LIMA—Both 
the seeds and the pods are larger than 
those of any other Bush Lima offered here. 
Big flattened seeds, four or five of them 
in each pod. Quality very good, flavor 
and texture distinct from the other kinds, 
and by many preferred to them. We sug- 
gest that all of them be sown, each is 
good, each tastes different, each has its 
own season. Pkt. 10c; % Ib. 25c; 1 Ib. 
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KING OF THE GARDEN POLE LIMA— 
We consider this the very best of the pole 
Limas, so much the best that no other 
climbing Lima is needed. Remember, the 
pole beans will give heavier total yield 
than will the bush kinds, and they tend 
to yield over a longer period also, but they 
do not begin as early, so you need a bush 
sort to start the season. King of the Gar- 
den bears pods and beans of great size, 
the quality very good. Seeds green when 
young, becoming white with age. Pkt. 
10c; \% lb. 25c; 1 Ib. 40c; 2 lbs. 75c. 
FOR DRY BEANS 
If you have room enough, be sure to 
grow some of these for much food in small 
compass, a valuable food-reserve that you 
can keep without canning. Served hot from 
the oven, what can be better on a cold 
day than home-baked beans, the nutty, mealy dryness of 
them contrasting with their brown-crisped pork, served with 
potatoes (peeled ones of course) that have been baked in 
the same dish, the sweet tartness of fried apple-rings as a 
side offering. Perhaps, tco, you have heard, as have we, 
that the commercial canned beans may not be available 
much longer because of tin shortage. 
BEAN WHITE NAVY—A heavy yielding, high quality small 
white soup or baking bean, to be used dry. This is an im- 
proved selection. Pkt. 10c; % Ib. 20c; 1 lb. 30c; 2 Ibs. 55c; 
5 Ibs: $1.25. 
RED KIDNEY BEAN—Nceotable ffor rich flavor. Seeds 
deep red-brown. A favorite shell bean, for use either green 
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DWARF HORTICULTURAL—An all-purpose bush bean, 
stringless when young, and then of excellent snap quality. 
As the seeds develop, it is used for green shelling, and we 
think it is the best of all varieties for this. Any pods 
that escape to reach maturity may be shelled out for dry- 
bean use, soup or baking. Pkt. 10c; % Ib. 20c; 1 Ib. 40c; 
2 Ibs. 70c. 
SOY BEAN, SELECTED TABLE VARIETY—tThis is, we 
think, the best of the vegetable-type Soy Beans, an early 
maturing, heavy yielding kind, adaptable to widely varying 
soils and climates Will thrive in hot, dry positions, pro- 
ducing a greater weight of food to a given area than will 
other Beans. Can be used in either the green shell or the 
ripe dry stage. Exceedingly nutritious, analyzing over 36% 
proteins, over 17% fats. Rather easy to grow, resistant 
to most bean pests. Botaniecally Glycine Max. Pkt. 10c; 
1% |b. 25c; 1 Ib. 45c. 
WINDSOR BROAD—A distinct type of Bean, botanically 
Vicia Faba, that is much in favor in England and on the 
Continent. The beans, carried on sturdy, upright plants, are 
more or less the shape and size of a large Lima, but thicker 
at one edge than the other. They are used like Limas, as 
green or dry shell. The Windsor Broad, unlike other Beans. 
is hardy, standing fully as much frost as will Peas, and 
planting can be as early as with Peas. Indeed it only 
does well with early sowing, and just the one spring sow- 
ing. No use making succession plantings. Pkt. 10c; 
Ti lbs 2bce 1. lb. 45e: 
- APIOS or GROUND-NUT 
An excellent food as well as a pretty flower. Makes 
strings of round tubers that are very good boiled or roasted 
and eaten with butter. Roots can be dug as desired, for 
they are winter-hardy. The plant will soon establish itself 
in any loose, deep soil. Flowers are like Wisterias in 
smaller clusters, of chocolate-toned purple. To establish, 
plant a linked string of two to four tubers every 20 inches. 
Leave it a year to spread and establish itself, then you can 
start digging. You are pretty likely to miss enough tubers 
so_that the patch will be perpetually self-renewing. Strings 
of 2 to 4 small linked tubers, each 20c; 3 strings for 50c; 
8 for $1.00. 
