VEGETABLE 
“SEEDS: 
Carefully selected 
gor your terrifory/ 
1. Bountiful, 2. Improved Stringless 
Green Pod, 3, Tendergreen. 4. Blue 
Lake, 5. Kentucky Wonder. 6, London 
Horticultural, 7, Golden Wax. 

See index on inside of 
back cover for other 
seeds, tools, and garden 



equipment. Monarch 
handles all you need for 
gardening. 

BEANS FOR THE NORTHWEST 
The Right Bean Varieties for This Area . . . And 
Plant to Give You Bigger Yields, Finer Quality 
Dwarf or Bush Beans 
Prices: Pkt. 15c: ¥%2 lb. 40c; 1 lb, 75c 
Dwarf Tendergreen has ‘‘won its spurs” 
and is today’s outstanding variety. Ma- 
tures in 54 days from planting. Plants 
large, erect, productive. Pods are round, 
fleshy, stringless and of the finest flavor. 
Seeds brown, mottled with light fawn. 
Include Dwarf Tendergreen in your 
garden this season. 
Improved Stringless Green-Pod. Matures 
in 48 days. High quality for home and 
market garden. Splendid as a canning 
variety or for snap beans. Plant heavily 
productive. Pods medium green; 5% 
inches long, almost 1% inch wide and 
equally thick; very fleshy, strictly 
stringless, fine grained, tender. Seeds 
coffee brown. Pods similar to Giant 
Stringless Green Pod but a trifle shorter 
and thicker. 
Pencilpod Black Wax. Plant large and 
thrifty; heavily productive over long 
period. Pods handsome, bright yellow; 
5%-6 in. long, % in. thick, cylindrical; 
very fleshy, strictly stringless, brittle, 
fine grained and tender; quality un- 
excelled. Seeds black. 
Golden Wax. Matures in 48 days. A 
splendid home garden variety; also 
much used for canning. Plant small, 
productive. Pods very attractive; golden 
yellow; 4% to 5 inches long; % inch 
wide, thick, oval; fleshy, brittle, string- 
less. Seeds white, splashed with violet- 
carmine and purple. 
Pole or Running Beans 
Pkt. 15c: % Ib, 40c: Ib. 75c 
unless otherwise noted. 
Prices: 
Oregon Giant. A very desirable snap 
bean. A good climber and very prolific. 
Pods long, thick-flat, stringless when 
young, exceedingly tender, rather broad, 
meaty, pods splashed purplish blue. 
Blue Lake Bean. Matures in 62 days. A 
splendid snap bean for home garden 
and early market. Good climber, heavily 
productive. Pods light green, 5% inches 
long, Yz inch wide, almost as _ thick; 
nearly stringless, very fleshy, brittle, 
tender. Seeds white; excellent for bak- 
ing. 
Dwarf or Bush Beans 
One pound will plant a row 100 feet 
long; about 114 bushels to the acre. Make 
the rows 18 inches or 2 feet apart, and 
drop the beans 4 inches apart in the row. 
If the soil is warm and loose, plant 2 
inches deep; if rather cold and wet, plant 
only one inch deep. 
Beans, especially the yellow-podded varie- 
ties, will rot very easily if planted when 
the soil is wet and the atmosphere is cold. 
Cultivate often but never when the plants 
are wet, as this brings on rust. Special 
prices to market gardeners, Send your 
list to us for prices, 
Pole or Running Beans 
One pound will plant 50 hills, 30 pounds 
per acre. The soil should be warm. 
Lay the ground out in hills 4 feet apart 
each way, and set poles 8 to 10 feet 
long firmly in the hills before planting the 
seed. Plant 5 or 6 beans in a hill and 
cover about 2 inches deep; leave three 
plants at each pole, and when a few 
inches high draw a little earth around 
them as support. 
Many gardeners set the poles when plant- 
ing. 
Kentucky Wonder (Old Homestead). 
Matures in 65 days. Unexcelled for 
home garden and for market. Excellent 
climber, thrifty, heavily productive. 
Pods medium green; 9 to 10 inches 
long, nearly round and ¥ inch in 
diametér; slightly stringy, very fleshy, 
brittle, tender, ; 
Scarlet Runner. Matures about same as 
Limas. Good climber, Flowers scarlet 
decorative, Pods dark green; 6 inches 
long, flat oval; fleshy; desirable for 
snaps and green shell beans. Very at- 
tractive as porch or arbor cover, Pkt. 
15c: 2 lb. 50c; lb. 90c. 
London Horticultural (Speckled Cran- 
berry). Ready for snaps in 65 days; 
green shell beans in 74 days. Splendid 
for home and market garden. Good 
climber, thrifty, heavily productive. 
Pods green, becoming splashed with 
carmine at green shell stage; 7 inches 
long, wide, straight, stringless, 
Bountiful, 47 days. Early and heavy 
yielding. Leading flat podded bean for 
market or home use.~ Stringless, but 
slightly fibrous pods of finest quality. 
LIMA BEANS 
Prices postpaid: Pkt. 15c; 
lb, 80c. 
Y Ib. 45c; 
King of the Garden Lima. Matures in 
88 days. Climber, heavily productive. 
Pods 6 inches long, 1% inches wide, 
¥g inch thick, usually with 4 or 5 beans. 
Seeds large, thick, flat, white. An im- 
proved strain of large White Lima. 
Burpee’s Bush Lima. Matures in 75 
days. Plant large, heavily productive. 
Pods large, 4% to 5 inches long, 1% 
inches wide, ¥% inch thick; usually con- 
tain 4 large, thick beans. Dry beans 
large, flat, greenish-white. 
Cangreen Bush Lima. All America Se- 
lection, Honorable Mention 1943. Sixty- 
eight days to maturity. Cangreen is 
notable for the green color of fleshy 
part of the seed in the dry stage. At- 
tractive for canning or for freezing. 
Very prolific . . . yielding a large crop 
of pods and seeds. 
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