Hummert’s Highest Quality Vegetable SEEDS for Florists | 

VEGETABLE SEEDS 
Prices quoted are subject to change 
One of the most profitable spring crops for the green- 
house or hotbed plant is seedling vegetable plants for 
home gardens. We are offering vegetable seeds only in 
the best standard varieties for market and home garden. 
Should you desire any variety not listed, please write. 
ASPARAGUS 
Mary Washington. (Rust-proof.) Undoubtedly the fin- 
est rust-resistant variety grown. Shoots thick: heavy 
yiclogs of fine quality. Oz., 15c; 14 Ib., 50c; 1 Ib., 
BUSH BEANS, GREEN POD 
_ Plant seed when danger of frost is past and the soil 
is quite warm, in rows 18 to 30 in. apart for hand culti- 
vation or 214 to 3 ft. apart for field cultivation. Make 
furrows about 2 in. deep and space the beans 2 to 3 in. 
apart in the row. 
1 Ib. will plant 100 ft. of row. 
Bountiful Stringless. 48 days. This is the best flat- 
podded stringless variety. The light green pods are 
614 to 7 inches long. 
Black Valentine Stringless. A shipping and market gar- 
den variety. True strain develops a fine, long, abso- 
lutely round, stringless pod. 
Stringless Green Pod. 52 days. A very desirable dwarf. 
round, green-podded snap Bean, largely grown for 
the market. 
Tendergreen Stringless. 56 days. A very high quality 
green-podded sort, of the finest quality. Pods are 
perfectly round. 
Large pkt., 10c; 14 Ib., 30c; 1 Ib., 50c; 10 Ibs., $4.50; 
25 Ibs., 38c per Ib.; 100 lbs., 34c per Ib. 
BUSH WAX BEANS 
Pencil Pod Wax. 52 days. The pods average 5 to 6 
inches in length. a round-podded wax variety: they 
are very solid, meaty and tender. 
Round Pod Kidney Wax. A leader and standard in the 
wax pods as a canning variety. Has supreme quality. 
Widely used in the home garden and recommended 
as adapted for freezing preservation. 
Above Two Varieties: 
Large pkt., 10c; 14 Ib., 30c; 1 Ib., 55c; 5 Ibs., $2.50. 
BUSH LIMA BEANS 
Burpee’s Improved Bush Lima. 80 days. Grows 10 to 
30 inches: handsome large pods. 
Pkt., 10c; 14 Ib., 35c; 1 lb., 55c; 5 Ibs., $2.50. 
Henderson’s Bush Lima. 74 days. Produces enormous 
crops. Small seeded—sure to produce under any con- 
ditions. Pkt., 10c; 14 Ib., 25c; 1 lb., 45c; 5 Ibs., $2.00: 
10 Ibs., $3.75. 
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Bountiful Stringless 
Early Wonder Beet 
POLE BEANS 
One pound will plant 200 hills. 
Kentucky Wonder, Old Homestead. 65 days. 
celled for home and market garden. 
St. Louis Perfection. 70 days. An early maturing, 
green-podded, white-seeded pole sort, desirable for 
snaps and unsurpassed in its class as green shell 
Beans. The pods are round. 
Large pkt.. 10c; 14 Ib., 35c; 1 lb., 60c; 5 Ibs., $2.60. 
POLE LIMA BEANS 
King of the Garden. 84 days. One of the best pole 
Limas. large leaved. good climber. Pods about 41% 
to 514 inches long. Large pkt., 10c; 14 Ib., 35c; 
1 lb., 60c; 5 Ibs., $2.60. 
SOUP BEANS 
Grown mostly for dried Beans for winter use. 
Great Northern or Large Navy. Splendid field Bean, 
excellent flavor, cooks rapidly. 
White Navy. The most widely known and grown of 
the commercial Beans. 
Red Kidney. The old-fashioned baking Bean. Rich in 
flavor. Many uses. 
Large pkt., 10c; 15 lb., 20c; 1 lb., 35c; 5 Ibs., $1.50. 
TABLE BEETS 
1 oz. to 60 ft. of row. 
Sow seeds as early in the spring as the ground can 
be worked: For a continuous supply make repeated 
sowings 3 to 4 weeks apart, allowing plenty of time for 
the last sowing to mature before frost. Sow seed in 
rows 114 to 2 ft. apart, cover with 14 in. of fine soil. 
Early Wonder. 50 davs. Earliest and best for forcing 
Unex- 
or home garden. Tons short. flesh dark red. Pkt., 
10c; oz., 15c; 14 lb., 50c; 1 Ib., $1.40. 
Detroit Dark Red Selected. 55 days. Standard for 
home and market garden. Uniform globe-shaped. 
Pkt., 10c; oz., 15c; 14 Ib., 50c; 1 Ib.. $1.40. 
MANGEL BEET 
Used largely for winter feeding of your stock. Sow 
seed in early spring in rows 2 to 3 ft. apart: cover with 
14 in. of soil. 
Mammoth Long Red. Oz., 15c; 14 lb.. 35c; 1 Ib., 95c. 
BROCCOLI 
Green Sprouting. (Calabrese.) 85 days. The standard 
variety of sprouting Broccoli for home garden, mar- 
ket. Pkt., 10c; 14 0z., 20c; 0z., 35c; 14 lb., $1.00. 
BRUSSELS SPROUTS 
Long Island Improved. 120 davs. Grown extensively 
on Long Island for the New York market. Compact 
plants, 20 in. tall, with solid, round, Cabbage-like 
sprouts measuring 114 to 11% in. in diameter. Pkt., 
10c; 14 oz., 25c; oz., 40c. 

Mary Washington Asparagus 
