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1943 VEGETABLE SEEDS 
Carefully Tested and Selected for Home Gardens and Market Gardeners 
Unless otherwise stated all seed packets priced at 10c each, 6 for 50c. 
ASPARAGUS 
CULTURE—Soak seeds 24 hours before plant- 
ing. Sow in February and March in rows, cov- 
ering seed about 1 inch. The following winter 
transplant to rows 3 to 6 feet apart and a foot 
apart in the rows, with at least 10 inches cover- 
ing. Asparagus prefers light loamy soils. 
SELECTED MARY WASHINGTON — A new 
giant rust-proof variety. Pkt. 5c, oz. 20c, 1% lb. 
50c. 1 lb. $1.50. postpaid. 
BEANS ASK FOR QUANTITY PRICE 
We Can Always Supply Any Quantity for 
Large Plantings 
PRICES ON BEAN SEED—Packet 10c, 1 lb. 25c, 
1 lb. 45c, 
Beans—Bush, Wax Pod 
IMPROVED BLACK WAX—Round podded. A 
beautiful bright yellow color, very early and 
continues long in bearing. Very productive. 
IMPROVED GOLDEN WAX—This bean is a dis- 
tinct improvement on the old Golden Wax. 
Beans—Dwartf or Bush 
_ Green Pod 
PLENTIFUL—This excellent new variety won 
the All-America award in 1939. Very produc- 
tive. Pods long, straight, tender and stringless. 
Excellent flavor. Seeds black. 49 days. 
BOUNTIFUL—Desirable early type for market 
or home garden. Plants large and thrifty. 
Pods flat, medium green, fine flavor. Seeds 
yellow-straw color. 49 days. 
IMPROVED STRINGLESS GREEN POD — This 
stringless green pod bean is one of the most 
popular beans in America. In earliness it is in 
the lead, in quality it is unexcelled, and as a 
cropper it is unrivaled. The straight fleshy, 
round, thick pods are stringless. 
CULTURE—For a spring crop plant in Feb- 
ruary, March and April, according to the 
location. For fall crop, plant in August and 
early September. Beans enjoy a _ well- 
drained loamy soil. Irrigate beans only 
when needed and do not flood the vines. 
Cultivate frequently and before the soil has 
a chance to crust. Plant Bush Beans about 
3 inches apart in 3-foot rows at the rate of 
about 1 pound to 100 feet of row and from 
75 to 100 pounds per acre. Plant Pole Beans 
at the rate of 1 pound to 200 feet of row and 
about 40 pounds per acre. 


F. F. SMITH & CO., INC., SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA 
Pole Beans 
KENTUCKY WONDER (Brown Seeded) — Very 
early and enormously productive. Entirely 
stringless, very tender. Plant as early in the 
spring as possible, and again in the latter part 
of July to the 20th of August. 
KENTUCKY WONDER (White Seeded) — The 
nearly round, silvery green pods are tender, 
fleshy and stringless. Excellent snap bean; 
the dry beans good for baking. An improved 
rust-resistant strain. 
KENTUCKY WONDER WAX — 67 days. 
similar to the green podded Kentucky Wonder, 
Very 
except the pods are a little broader and of 
handsome light yellow color, often 8 to 10 
inches in length. They are very fleshy and 
stringless as snaps and of excellent quality. 
Lima Beans 
IMPROVED BUSH LIMA — The earliest matur- 
ing of all the large seeded Limas. 
POLE LIMAS 
LARGE LIMA—A pole variety, large seeded, 
bearing usually three to four beans to a pod. 
Henderson's Bush 
Also called Baby Lima, Small White Lima 
Bean, of excellent flavor, enormously prolific. 
FORDHOOK LIMA—A large bush Lima. 
