Small Tendergreen Beans 
Ready for Quick Freezing 

Burgess’ Special Golden Wax 
Ready for Quick Freezing 
Improved Fordhook Bush Lima 
Sets Beans Under Adverse Weather Conditions 
Our Improved strain of’ Fordhook is the No. 
standing characteristics are its ability to set beans during high temperatures and it out- 
yields regular Fordhook by 50%, as. well as being 5 days earlier. 
but the green shelled beans are identical. 
beans of best quality. Recommended for freezing and for market. 
smaller than Fordhook, 
PRICES 

Baby Fordhook Lima 
Bountiful. 
Brittle Waxes deretee aie bvaleresne elt 
Burgess’ Special Golden Wax 
Burgess’ Special Stringless 
Burpee’s Improved Bush Lima 
Dwarf Horticultural 
Fordhook Bush Lima, Improved 
Full Measure 
Henderson’s Bush Lima.. 
Pencil Pod Black Wax 
Tendergreen : 



Packet 




Burgess’ Special Stringless 
(Rust-Resistant Green Pod) 
53 days. Burgess’ Special Stringless is an improved 
strain of Burpee’s Stringless Green Pod. It is a much bet- 
ter yielder with darker, straighter and more slender pods, 
fully seven inches long. This fine quality. variety is en- 
tirely without strings or fiber and holds snap bean stage 
longer than the old Burpee type. 
TENDERGREEN 52 days; sometimes earlier. 
. Plants large and sturdy, tol- 
erant to bacterial blight and common mosaic disease; de- 
pendably productive over a long period. This handsome, 
delicious, fine-flavored snap.bean has become the standard 
of excellence among early round pod snap beans for home 
gardens, for market gardens and for commercial canning 
and quick-freezing as cut-pods and whole-green-pods. The 
tender ‘‘shoestring’’ pods, which may be canned whole, are 
attractive light green, long, siraight, slender, smooth, meaty 
and of unexcelled flavor. 
Northern Grown Beans 
Our Northérn Grown Beans are the best that can be produced. 
selected with extreme care, and the growing crops carefully rogued several times each 
season. The ainatask list comprises the best of their Par pee 
DWARF GREEN-PODDED BEANS 
ONE PINT OF SEED FOR {00 FEET OF ROW; 60 LBS. PER ACRE 
Our stock of seed is 
Bountiful 
48 days. Earliest green snap bean. 
one bushel of pods per fifteen feet of row. Excellent for 
home garden; most popular bean for shipping fresh. Pods — 
long, flat, fleshy, straight to slightly curved, tender and — 
stringless at snap stage ; 
FULL MEASURE One of the very best round 
podded, stringless, dwarf 
green beans in existence, and on account of its superior 
quality, it is especially desirable for the home garden. It 
begins to bear in 
producing throughout a long season. Very productive; 
pods average 6 inchés long, fieshy and absolutely stringless. 
DWARF HORTICULTURAL. An all-purpose bush bean. 
Stringless snap beans very early; large attractive green 
shell beans about 60 days. 5-inch pods, splashed ~with 
carmine at maturity; seeds light buff, spotted red. 

Dwarf Wax-Podded Beans 
ONE PINT OF SEED FOR 100 FEET OF ROW 
Burgess’ Special 48 days. Rust resistant. 
Golden Wax A selection from Rustproof 
Golden Wax. A few days ear- 
lier and more productive. The pods are 6% to 7 
inches long and entirely stringless. Its long bear- 
ing period makes it ideal for home gardens and 
market growers. 
BRITTLE WAX or ROUND POD KIDNEY 
WAX. 55 days. Handsome, round, extremely 
fleshy pods of waxy yellow. Brittle; always 
stringless and tender; prolific. 
PENCIL POD BLACK WAX. 52 days. The 
finest strain of Black Wax yet introduced and 
of the very best quality. Round pods 6 to 7 
inches long and of uniform rich yellow color; en- 
tirely stringless, brittle, tender, meaty, exceed- 
ingly fine grained and without fibre. Bears pro- 
fusely and throughout a long season. Rust re- 
sistant. 

BUSH LIMA BEANS 
One pint of Lima Beans plants 100 feet of row 



Improved 
Fordhook 
meet 
242 developed by the U.S.D.A. Out- 
The seed.is slightly 
Large thick -meaty 
PREPAID 
Y% Pint Pint Quart 
$0.25 $0.40 $0.75 
24 -38 -71 
oot -44 -83 
-26 -42 .80 
-24 38 .71 
-24 -38 -71 
25 -40 .75 
-27 -44 83 1.60 
25 -40 -75 1.45 
23 36 767 1.30 
‘25 -40 -75 1.45 
25 -40 -75 1.45 
2 Quarts 
$1.45 
1.37 
1.60 
1.50 
1.37 
1.37 
1.45 

$2.90 
2.70 
3.20 
3.00 
2.70 
2.80 
2.90 
3.20 
2.90 
2.60 
2.90 
2.90 


HENDERSON’S BUSH. 
earliest Lima grown and continues 
to produce until killed by frost. 
Will produce an abundant crop un- 
der a wider range of weather and 
soil conditions than any other Lima. 
Beans not large, but quality is ex- 
cellent.’ Our seed, which is bred to 
seasonal 
Michigan, is unexcelled for earli- 
ness and dependability. 
BURPEE’S IMPROVED BUSH. 
The largest of all Bush. Limas, 
bearing pods almost equal in size 
to those of the large Pole Limas. 
Pods 5 to 6 inches long by 1% 
inches wide and the full size beans 
are of luscious flavor. 
The 
Baby Fordhook 
Twice as Thick 
as Henderson's 
This Lima of exceptional merit 
“was developed by the Ohio Ex- 
periment Station. It is a small 
requirements 
leaf growth. 
merous, 
The pods are nu- 
somewhat curved, and 
filled with 3 to 4 thick beans 
which at first are deep green but 
become lighter as plants mature. 
These plump beans are of the 
true Fordhook type “and are of 
superb quality. Very productive 
and a few days earlier than Im- 
proved Fordhook, 
NOT PREPAID 
10 Lbs. 
25 Lbs. 
$6.75 
6.25 
7.50 
7.00 
6.25 
6.50 
6.75 
7.50 
6.75 
6.00 
6.75 
6.75 
100 Lbs. 
$25.00 
23.00 
28.00 
26.00 
23.00 
24.00 
25.00 
28.00 
25.00 
22.00 
25.00 
25.00 


Baby Fordhook Bush Lima E 
xtreme produe- a 
tive; under favorable conditions has been known to yield” a x 
delicious flavor. Bape 
of Plant with vigorous branch and 



55 days, and the heavy pods continue 
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