We Offer Stout. Gedar B EAN is POLE S for climbing sorts LE a dozen. 

POLE SNAP BEANS 
One pound plants 200 hills. 
The flavor and quality of these types of Bean are 
very high. Grow them if you have the room. Erect 
stout poles 3 feet apart; sow 8 Beans in a circle 
around the base after danger of frost has passed; 
thin to five plants per pole. Or you may grow them 
against a wire fence, allowmg 1 pound per 100 feet 
Decatur. Vigorous novelty, climbing 6% 
feet and covered with dark green, high- 
quality pods, round in section and string- 
less. Seeds are small and white. Resistant 
to disease, it is recommended for garden 
and commercial use. Won Silver Medal in 
the All-America Seed-Trials for 1942. Pkt. 
20 cts., 3 pkts. 50 cts. 
Old Homestead (Green Kentucky Wonder). 
The pods are tender, stringless when young 
and silvery green, hanging in clusters 
throughout the plant. Begins to yield in 
ten weeks, and thereafter is a continuous 
bearer. Pkt. 10 cts., %Ib. 30 cts., Ib. 
50 cts., 5 Ibs. $2.10. 
Scarlet Runner. Has scarlet flowers. The 
green pods, though containing strings, are 
probably the best flavored of any Bean. 
ee cts., %lb. 30 cts., Ib. 50 cts., 5 Ibs. 
Yard-Long Asparagus. A _ remarkable 
Bean, yielding narrow rounded pods of 
enormous length. The quality is excellent. 
Pkt. 20 cts., Ib) 50 cts., 5 Ibs. $2.25. 
Golden Cluster Wax. Climbing Bean with 
yellow pods. Pkt. 10 cts., lb. 30 cts., 
Ib. 50 cts., 5 Ibs. $2.25. 

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Beans for Growing Under Glass 
(DWARF) 
These are of interest only to the professional 
gardener anxious to produce a crop out of season in 
a greenhouse. 
The Prince. New sort, quick to mature and 
cropping enormously. The pods are with- 
out strings, meaty, of fine flavor, 11 to 12 
inches Jong. Pkt. 20 cts., 3 pkts. 50 cts. 
S. & W. Co.’s Wonder. Of fine color and 
refined flavor. Round, 6-inch pods are 
borne in great abundance. Mlb. 30 cts., 
Ib. 50 cts., 5 Ibs. $2.25. 
Masterpiece. Strong, quick grower and 
very prolific, the pods attaining a length 
of over 7 inches, straight, tender, meaty 
and stringless. Bean thick-flat. Ib. 30 
cts., Ib. 50 cts., 5 Ibs. $2.25. 
Beans for Baked Beans 
Grow until fully ripened; then shell. Pods are 
inedible. 
White Marrow. The large straight pods 
each contain half-dozen large white Beans, 
ready in about 4 months. Excellent flavor. 
Height 11% feet. 4b. 25 cts., Ib. 45 cts., 
5 Ibs. $2. 
Pea or Navy. Large, spreading plant with 
strong runners. The white ‘““Boston”’ Beans 
are small and oval. Harvested 3 months 
after seeding. Mlb. 25 cts., Ib. 45 cts., 
5 Ibs. $2. 
Red Kidney. Beans are red. Ib. 25 cts., 
Ib. 45 cts., 5 Ibs. $2. 
Broad (Fava) Beans 
Differ from American types m that they should 
be planted early. Select strong Iand and spray 
continuously against aphis and blight. Not recom- 
mended for the home-garden. 
English Windsor. Heavy pods are pro- 
duced in pairs with 3 or 4 large Beans in 
each. Tolerates frost. W4lb. 30 cts., Ib. 
50 cts., 5 Ibs. $2.25. 

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amounts to 

Early Giant Lima 
Beans 
Pole Snap Beans 
Edible Soy Beans 
If you have plenty of room, grow this new 30-inch 
high crop, the yield of which 1s so heavy m proteins, 
fats and vitamins A, By and G. Extraordinary 
yields are obtained. Beans may be harvested in 
about the same relative stage as garden peas, and 
cooked in the same way. Or they may be grown 
along like Pea or Navy Beans, allowed to ripen on 
the plant. Pods are discarded. Send for our leaflet 
“Soy Beans as a Garden Crop.” 
Sawco Selected. An excellent variety. 
Ib. 35 cts., Ib. 65 cts., 5 Ibs. $3. 
How to Grow Lima Beans 
Don’t waste your seed by sowing Lima Beans be- 
fore all danger of frost is over and the soil is thor- 
oughly warm. Sow Bush sorts in rows 2 feet apart 
and about 2 inches deep, putting the Beans 3 inches 
apart in the row, ‘“‘eye down,” later thinning so that 
the plants stand 6 to 8 inches apart. For Pole varie- 
ties put 6 seeds in each hill, arranging the hills 3 feet 
apart each way. They require a pole 7 feet high, 
and when the vines have vesshed, the top, pinch 
them and so increase the yield. Some gardeners 
plant under glass and transplant about the time 
seeds are usually sown. Limas always do best on a 
nice, rich, loamy soil. Surplus stock may be ripened 
on the vines, the Beans dried and kept for winter 
use. The pods have no value. 
Lima Beans take almost the whole season to 
grow. You cannot plant them for succession, as you 
may Snap. Beans. About the best you can do is 
first to sow an exceptionally quick crop, like radish, 
mustard or spinach, dig when harvested and then 
sow Limas. 
One pound of seed plants 50 to 100 feet of drill 
or 50 hills. 
Should you notice your plants bemg spotted or 
spoiled by blight or fungus Gand this applies to Snap 
Beans also), pull out each affected plant and burn 
it; this does not often happen, but you are very 
likely to find damage by the Mexican bean beetle. 
In the soil around the plants you may see the mature 
beetle, like a spotted, rather large yellow lady bug. 
Under the leaves are clusters of the orange-yellow 
eggs, with the yellow, spiny larve that hatch from 
them. The leaves will be eaten into lacy designs, the 
larve eating the leaves, but leaving the veins. Hurry 
and dust your plants with Hortex, or spray them, 
especially the under side of the leaves, with Rotene. 
(See pages 112 and 113.) 
A 25-foot row or ten hills should supply 
25 pounds or more of Lima Beans (pods). 
They supply vitamins B:, C and G; also 
phosphorus, copper and some iron. 

We send “‘Vegetables for Victory” free on request if your order 
or more and reaches us before March 1, 1944 

They last 


DWARF LIMA BEANS 
One pound will plant 50 to 100 feet of drill. Yield 
in from 12 to 14 weeks. 
Baby Potato. Medium-sized plant that is 
a great producer of Beans which are some- 
what smaller than those of Fordhook. 
The pods which contain them are small, 
also, so the variety is of special mterest to 
the amateur, whose garden space may be 
limited. Its flavor is especially good. Pkt. 
15 cts., 4b. 30 cts., Ib. 50 cts., 5 Ibs. $2.25. 
Fordhook. A dwarf form of the popular 
Challenger or Potato Lima, and earlier. 
Pods measure 4 to 5 inches, frequently 
containing 4 fine Beans of medium size, 
thick, meaty, of the finest flavor, and very 
tender. Pkt. 10 cts., %Ib. 30 cts., Ib. 
50 cts., 5 Ibs. $2.10. 
Early Giant. A quick-growing variety. The 
short period in which this Bean matures 
enables it to be grown for succession, sow- 
ings being made from May 15 to July 10 
in the neighborhood of New York. Other 
varieties of Lima Beans take so lIong to 
mature that more than one seeding Is barely 
practical with them. The flavor of this 
variety Is particularly refined, and the fine, 
luscious Beans, which are large, thick, and 
flat, are produced in remarkable quantity. 
Rke 15 ectsnolbw 30) cts. lb. 50 ectse 
5 Ibs. $2.25. 
Improved Bush. A fine standard Bush 
Lima and the pods are lIarge in size and are 
well filled with larger and thicker Beans. 
A great producer; growth vigorous; the 
blossom-bearing stalks are thrown well out 
of the foliage, and the Beans are ready for 
picking very early. M4lIb. 30 cts., Ib. 50 cts., 
5 Ibs. $2.25. 
Henderson Bush. Beans are small, but are 
produced in quantity. Pkt. 10 cts., Ib. 
30 cts., Ib. 50 cts., 5 Ibs. $2.10. 
POLE LIMA BEANS 
One pound will plant 50 hills. Yield in from 13 
to 15 weeks. 
S. & W. Co.’s Green-seeded. The vine ts 
very strong, of vigorous growth, with many 
large runners or branches, producing a 
great many fine pods which are closely 
filled with large Beans, many of the pods 
containing four. This is a broad-seeded 
Bean, much nearer to having every Bean 
perfect than any other Pole Lima. The 
green tint Is a distinctive feature of this 
Bean, for it retains this tint mn the dry state 
to a greater extent than usual, which tmdi- 
cates the good qualities which it possesses, 
being fine-flavored and more tender when 
cooked than white-seeded Beans, and mak- 
ing it more pleasing to gardeners and house- 
keepers. It is the most perfect Pole Lima. 
Pkt. 15 cts., %Ib. 30 cts., Ib. 50 cts., 5 Ibs. 
$2.25. 
Challenger or Potato, Improved. Early 
and prolific. A small thick Bean of excel- 
lent flavor. 14lb. 30 cts., Ib. 50 cts., 5 Ibs. 
$2.25. 
King of the Garden. Beans flat and large. 
Yelb. 30 cts., Ib. 50 cts., 5 Ibs. $2.25. 
Ford’s Mammoth. Very large pods, fre- 
quently measuring 9 inches long; Beans 
flat and large; fine for the home-garden; 
productive and of good flavor. Ib. 30 cts., 
Ib. 50 cts., 5 Ibs. $2.25. 
Early Leviathan. Early variety with pods 
in clusters. Splendid where the season is 
short. Pkt. 10 cts., 4%Ib. 30 cts., Ib. 50 cts., 
5 Ibs. $2.10. 
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