Bountiful Beans 
ASPARAGUS 
One ounce will produce about 200 plants. 
Sow in autumn or in spring as soon as 
the soil is in good working condition. At 
one or two years transplant to permanent 
beds. 
Mary Washington. Resistant to Asparagus 
rust; most extensively grown variety. 
Large, green spears with tight purple 
tinted tips of fine quality. Pkt., 20c; oz., 
50c. 
ASPARAGUS ROOTS 
It requires 100 plants for a single row 
of 150 feet. 
Culture: The permanent bed should be 
trenched or plowed very deeply, and well 
manured with rich, thoroughly decayed 
manure. Set the plants 18 inches apart in 
rows, carefully spreading out and separat- 
ing the roots and deep enough to admit 
of the top of the plants being covered 6 
inches. 
3-year-old roots—Mary Washington. Dark 
green. 25 for $3.00; 100 for $8.50. 
2-year-old roots—Mary Washington. 25 for 
$2.00; 100 for $6.00. 

Marcha MIATCHLESS 
ARTICHOKE 
One ounce will sow 100 feet of row, and 
produce about 500 plants. 
A rich, sandy loam is best adapted for 
this plant. The seed should be sown in 
crills 144 inches deep and 1 foot apart. 
Transplant to rows 3 feet apart. They 
reach maturity the second year. Protect 
in winter by a covering of leaves or 
eccarse Manure. 
Large French Globe. Heads large, fleshy 
and of rich flavor. Pkt., 25c; 42 oz., $1.25; 
oz., $2.00. 
BEANS 
Beans like a well drained, rich and light 
loam. Plant about the middle of April 
when warm and favorable and at intervals 
throughout the season for a succession, 
until the latter part of August. Bush va- 
rieties should be planted in drills 2 feet 
apart, and from 2 to 6 plants to the foot 
in a row. Keep them well cultivated and 
draw the earth up to the stem. 
Dwarf Green-Podded Beans 
Bleck Valentine String’ess 55 days. 
Fods are 6 inches long, slightly curved, 
oval or semi-flat, dark green, very good 
quality. 45 lb., 35c; Ib., 65c; 5 lIbs., $3.00. 
Beunt' ful 51 days. 
Pods are 7 inches long, straight, broad, 
flat, light color, stringless. 1% lb., 35c; 
lb., 65c; 5 Ibs., $3.00. 
Giant Stringless 56 days. 
Pods are 6 inches long, round, fairly 
straight. light green. 14% lb., 35c; lb., 65c; 
5 Ibs., $3.00. 
Idaho Refugee 66 days. 
Pods ere 512 inches long, round, slightly 
curved. medium green, stringless, mosaic 
resistant. 4 lb., 35c; lb., 65c; 5 Ibs., $3.00. 
Masterpiece 53 days. 
This Bean is well named as it is a 
masterpiece in this section of vegetables. 
Flat, firm, straight, stringless pods of 
luscious flavor. Superb for forcing and 
exhibition. 14% lb., 60c; Ib., $1.00. 
Pientiful 50 days. 
Black-Seeded Bountiful. Plants strong 
and productive; pods flat, light gre >n 
and stringless. 145 lb., 35c; lb., 65c; 5 Ibs., 
$3.00. 
Red Valentine Stringless 54 days. 
Pods are 5 inches long, round, somewhat 
curved; a selection from old style Red 
Valentine. 14 Ib., 35c; Ib., 65c; 5 Ibs., $3.00. 
Stringless Green Pod (Landreth’s) 54 days. 
An early, round, green-podded Bean; 
stringless, tender and crisp; pods are 6 
inches long, slightly curved. 1% Ib., 35c; 
Ib., 65ce; 5 Ibs., $3.00. 
The Prince 60 days. 
Extremely long-podded. A very heavy 
cropper and the finest for exhibition or 
general purposes. 1% lb., 60c; lb., $1.00. 
Tendergreen 53 days. 
An outstanding variety of superior qual- 
ity. Plants are strong and vigorous, 
bearing attractive medium dark green 
pods 7 inches long. Pods are round, 
meaty, tender, stringless. 14% lb., 35c; Ib., 
65¢; 5 Ibs., $3.00. 
Dwarf Wax-Podded Beans 
Pencil Pod Black Wax 59 days. 
Pods are 6 inches long, round, slightly 
curved, deep yellow, stringless. 142 I1b., 
35c; Ib., 65c; 5 Ibs., $3.00. 
Sure Crop (Bountiful Wax) 62 days. 
Pods are 612 inches long, flat, straight, 
deep yellow, stringless. 14% lb., 35c; Ib., 
65c; 5 Ibs., $3.00. 
DWARF WAX BEANS—Continued 
Top Notch Golden Wax (Imp. Gol.) 50 days. 
Pods are 5 inches long, flat, straight and 
yellow. Stringless. 142 lb., 35c; Ib., 65c; 
5 lIbs., $3.00. 
Dwarf or Bush Lima Beans 
Burpee Improved Bush 75 days. 
Bush. 20 inches tall, compact, runnerless, 
dark green. Pods 512 inches, curved, fiat, 
with 3 to 5 Beans. Seed large, creamy 
white: 14 Ib., 35c; Ib., 65c; 5 Ibs., $3.00. 
Fordhook 75 days. 
Bush. 19 inches tall, gray-green. Pods 
5 inches, straight to recurved, thick, 
plump, 3 to 5 Beans. 
dimpled, greenish white. 
65¢; 5- lbs., $3.00: 
Fordhook 242 70 days. 
Bush. Outstanding characteristic of 242 
is its ability to set under adverse 
weather conditions. 242 has outyielded 
regular Fordhook at a three to two rate. 
Quality is excellent. Recommended for 
freezing. 1% lb., 50c; lb., 90c. 
Thorogreen (Henderson Type 
Green Seed) €8 to 70 days. 
Plants 16 inches, erect, runnerless, dark 
glossy green. Pods 312 inches, curved, 
flat, with 2 to 4 Beans. Same habit, etc. 
as Henderson Bush, except for distin- 
guishing feature of green cotyledons. 
14 lb., 35c; Ib., 65c; 5 lbs., $3.00. 
Seed potato type, 
15) Ibs -35Cs. be, 
Dwarf Shell Beans 
Broad Windsor or Fava 74 days. 
A green shell Bean, long-podded type. 
Large, erect plants. Pods of glossy green, 
5 inches long, 114 inches broad, 5 to 7 
seeds. Used similar to Limas. 12 lb., 35c; 
lb., 65c; 5 Ibs., $3.00. 
Horticultural Dwarf (Speckled Cranberry; 
Dwarf Cherry) 54 days. 
Used for snap Beans, also for green 
shelled Beans. Pods green at early stage, 
splashed carmine at maturity; thick, flat, 
stringless. 42 lb., 35c; Ib., 65c; 5 Ibs., $3.00. 
Bush Lima Beans 


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