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We Offer Stout Cedar 
BEAN-POLES 
for climbing sorts at $3.50 per dozen. 
They last 
many years. 

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, allowing 1 pound per 100 feet. 
Decatur. Vigorous novelty, climbing 614 
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. 
15 cts., Ib. 30 cts., Ib. 50 cts., 5 Ibs. $2.25. 
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. 110 cts:, %4Ib. 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. 
Le cts., 4lb. 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. 

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., Ib. 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. 14Ib. 30 
Cts be 50 cts..5 lbsao2-25- 
Beans for Baked Beans 
Grow until fully ripened; then shell. Pods are 
inedible. 
White Marrow. The lIarge 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 in that they do best 
in cold weather; light frost does them no harm, and 
they should be planted early. Select strong land and 
spray continuously against aphis and blight. Not 
recommended for the home-garden. 
English Windsor. Heavy pods are pro- 
duced in pairs with 3 or 4 large Beans In 
each. Tender and delicious. M4lb. 30 cts., 
Ib. 50 cts., 5 Ibs. $2.25. 

NEW YORK 8,N.Y. 

Pole Snap Beans 
Early Giant Lima 
Beans 
Edible Soy Beans 
If you have plenty of room, grow this new 30-inch 
high crop, the yield of which is so heavy in proteins, 
fats and vitamins A, B; 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. 
Y4Ib. 25 cts., Ib. 45 cts., 5 Ibs. $2. 
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 reached 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 lned 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 being spotted or 
spoiled by blight or fungus (and 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 Jarge yellow lady bug. 
Under the leaves are clusters of the orange-yellow 
eggs, with the yellow, spiny Jarve that hatch from 
them. The leaves will be eaten into lacy designs, the 
larvee 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 Bi, C and G; also 
phosphorus, copper and some iron. 

Your attention is directed to pages 23 and 24 for an 
interesting assortment of Herbs 


DWARF LIMA BEANS 
One pound will plant 50 to 100 feet of drill. Yield 
in from 12 to 14 weeks. 
Fordhook 242. An improved Fordhook and 
an All-America Seed-Trials Winner. [ike 
Fordhook, the Beans are thick, but of only 
medium size—the true “potato” type. 
Yields are outstanding, and although Foth 
begin to bear at about the same tire, first 
pickings of Two-forty-two are much larger. 
Quality is very high. Pkt. 20 cts., Mlb. 
40 cts., Ib. 75 cts., 5 Ibs. $3.50. 
Fordhook. A dwarf form of the Challenger 
or Potato Lima, and earlier. Pods measure 
4 to 5 inches, frequently containing 4 fine 
Beans of medium size, thick, meaty and 
very tender. Pkt. 15 cts., W%Ib. 30 cts., Ib. 
50 cts., 5 Ibs: $2.25. 
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 interest to 
the amateur, whose garden space may be 
limited. Its flavor is especially good. Pkt. 
15cts., Ib. 30 cts., Ib. 50 cts., 5 Ibs. $2.25. 
Early Giant. The short period in which this 
Bean matures enables it to be grown for 
succession, sowings being made from May 
15 to July 10 near New York. Other 
Limas take so long to mature that more 
than one seeding is barely practical. The 
flavor is particularly refined, and the fine, 
luscious Beans, which are large, thick, and 
flat, are produced in remarkable quantity. 
Pkty £5 cts., Vib. 30 ‘cts. Ibs 50acts. 
Balbseep2e2 5 
Improved Bush. A fine standard Bush 
Lima and the pods are large in size and are 
well filled with larger Beans. A great pro- 
ducer; growth vigorous; the blossom- 
bearing stalks are thrown well out of the 
foliage, and the Beans are ready for picking 
very early. Wlb. 30 cts., Ib. 50 cts., 
5 Ibs. $2.25. 
Henderson Bush. Beans are small, but are 
produced in quantity. Pkt. 10 cts., M%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 
strong and vigorous, with large runners or 
branches, producing many pods closely 
filled with large Beans, many of the pods 
containing four. This is a broad-seeded 
variety much nearer to having every Bean 
perfect than any other Pole Lima. The 
green tint is distinctive, for it retains this 
tint in the dry state to a greater extent 
than usual, which mdicates good quality, 
being fine-flavored and more tender than 
white-seeded Beans. It is the most perfect 
Pole Lima. Pkt. 15) cts., %lb. 30 cts., 
[be >O0tctseeonlbsunp2e25: 
Challenger or Potato Improved. Early. 
A small thick Bean of excellent flavor. 
Polb. 30 cts.; [b- 50 cts. 5 Ibs. 92:25. 
King of the Garden. Beans flat and large. 
Yélb. 30 cts., Ib. 50 cts., 5 Ibs. $2.25. 
Ford’s Mammoth. Very large pods, fre- 
quently measuring 9 inches long; Feans 
flat and large; productive and of good 
flavor. Mlb. 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., 14Ib. 30 cts., Ib. 50 cts., 
5 Ibs. $2.10. 


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