
Bean Sprouts Like These in 5 Days 
Chinese Salad 
or Mung Bean 
Chinese Bean Sprouts Are an 
All-the-Year-Around Salad 
A delicious bean that is used for bean 
sprouts and served in chop suey and sal- 
ads in the finest Oriental Cafes. 
Bean Sprouts are an all-the-year-around 
Chinese 
Broad Bean 
Frost-Proof 
Survived 24° Temperature 
on Our Michigan Seed Farms 



Six Broad Beans laid beside a@ 6-inch ruler to show 
the size of the dry beans. 
This bean is highly esteemed in Europe. It differs from American 
types of beans in that it should be planted early. We plant them 
here in Michigan as soon in the spring as the ground becomes 
workable, sometimes in March. Plants are hardy and not sensitive 
to cold. : 
The beans are as large as the largest Lima Bean, and nearly the 
same shape. Botanically, it belongs to the bean family, but the 
flavor is more like that of the pea, which accounts for it sometimes 
being called the Lima Pea. 
The plant is a bush of upright growth, about 2% feet high, with 
strong, sturdy stalks. Pods 7 inches long and 1% inches wide, flat 
and straight. Each holds 5 to 7 mammoth size beans. It is won- 
derfully productive and is delicious cooked either fresh or as a 
winter shell bean, 
BEANS IMPORTANT IN OUR DIET 
Snap beans contain Vitamins A and C, as well 
as Calcium and Iron. 
Lima beans contain Vitamins B, and G, as well 


Edible Soy Bean Bansei 
EDIBLE SOY BEAN 
BANSEI. These beans are delicious when 
eaten green or dry, and are superior to navy 
beans for baking. The food value is very 
high; the starch content low. About four 
times the protein content of eggs, and twice 
the protein and twelve times the fat of navy 
beans. Superior to spinach in available iron, 
and calcium content about 60% greater than 
cow’s milk. They are also an exeellent source 
of Vitamins A, B, and G. Bansei is one of 


the earliest (ready to pick in 90 days), and 
is very productive. Resistant to drought, dis- 
ease and insects. ‘Seed is bright green while 
young and yellow when mature. Plants grow 
24 inches in height and require no support. 

salad. Enough for a good sized family 
can be grown in a small dish or pan in the 
kitchen in only 3 to 5 days. Grows with- 
out soil, sunshine oy chemicals of any 
kind. This bean is unexcelled for soups. 
CHESTNUT 
OR GARBANZO BEAN 
This chestnut-flavored, bean is one of the most 
delicious grown. Grows in bush form to a height of 
18” and completely covered with pods. For soup 
and turkey stuffing it eannot be surpassed, Popu- 
lar in Spain, where it is known as the “‘Garbanzo.” 

beans. 
POLE OR CLIMBING BEANS 
One pint of seed for {00 poles 
KENTUCKY WONDER. 65 days. The finest flavored snap bean 
grown. The silvery-green pods grow 814” to 9” long and are so 
fieshy they are often greater in thickness than width. They are 
solid, meaty and very crisp. They commence bearing exceedingly 
early for a pole or climbing sort, and if pods are gathered as they 
mature the vines will continue to bear until killed by the fall frosts. 
KENTUCKY WONDER WAX. 68 days. An ideal pole wax bean 
for all localities. Similar in habit. of growth to the green podded 
Kentucky Wonder. The 8” yellow pods are so fleshy that often the 
thickness surpasses the width. Of most delicious quality, a heavy 
yielder and bears a long season. 
WHITE-SEEDED KENTUCKY WONDER (Burger’s Stringless). 
65 days. One of the most desirable of the pole beans. It combines 
attractive appearance with productiveness, and for quality it is un- 
surpassed. Straight, round, dark green pods, 7 to 8 inches long, 
fleshy, entirely stringless, fiberless, and tender. The beans, being 
white, are also fine for winter use. 

(Sufficient for 6 lbs. of seed), 15c, postpaid. 
PRICES 
Packet | 14 Pint 
Chinese Salad or Mung 
Edible Soy Bean Bansei 
Kentucky Wonder 
Kentucky Wonder Wax 
King of the Garden Lima 
Michelite Pea or Navy 
Scarlet Runner 
Sieva Lima (“Butter Bean’’) 
White-Seeded Kentucky Wonder 
Nard Longe. .i.5.- : 
INOCULATE BEANS FOR BEST RESULTS 
Inoculating bean seed hastens maturity, increases the yield and enriches the soil. Nitragin Inocu- 
lator for Beans only, bushel size, inoculates up to 60 Ibs. seed, 35c, postpaid. 
Garden Culture. Good for Beans, Peas, Sweet Peas and Lupinus. Supplied in Garden Size Only. 
PREPAID 
as Phosphorus and Iron. 
Dried Lima and Navy beans are high in lron, as 
well as fair amounts of Calcium and Vitamin By. 
SHELL BEAN 
40 pounds will plant an acre. 
YARD LONG BEAN 
70 days. An excellent variety, as |B 
well as an interesting curiosity. 
Vines are rampant growers and 
produce an enormous crop of long, 
slender, round pods which are of 
excellent quality for snap beans 
when young. The round pods have 
the thickness of a lead pencil and 
sometimes grow to a length of 3 ft. 
Very productive, tender and of fine 
flavor. 
SCARLET RUNNER 
A fine ornamental vine, bearing 
large sprays of bright scarlet pea- 
like flowers and an abundance of 
edible beans. Used both for shell 
and snap beans. 




Quart 

MICHELITE PEA OR NAVY. The most valuable of all field 
Developed at the Michigan State College Experiment Sta- 
tion. Resists disease, yields heavier, and quality is better. 
early and evenly ; beans uniform in size and the whitest of all. 
25 Lbs. 
Ripens 
Yard Long 
NOT PREPAID 



100 Lbs. 





DOP ORM 
COoooeoSe 
$9.00 
8.00 
5.50 
8.50 
10.00 
9.00 
5.00 
8.00 
9.00 
$34.00 
30.00 
20.00 
32.00 
38.00 
34.00 
22.00 
30.00 
34.00 

Kentucky Wonder 
Plant a few hills in your corn. The 
corn stalks will act as a support for the 
vines. 

POLE LIMA BEANS | 
KING OF THE GARDEN. 
vines to each pole. 
throughout the season. 
pint of this variety will plant about 50 
poles. 
SIEVA (“Butter Bean’). 
son’s Bush Lima. 
long bearing season. 
variety will plant about 125 poles. 
NOTICE 
NO C.0.D. SHIPMENTS 
FROM THIS CATALOG 

88 days. 
A vigorous grower, requiring but two 
Begins flowering 
early, at the bottom of the pole, pro- 
ducing a continuous bloom and fruitage 
Pods are large 
and beans are of excellent quality, 
well-formed and mammoth in size. One 
75 days. 
A climbing variety similar to Hender- 
Begins bearing very 
early and continues to produce until 
frost; very productive; excellent qual- 
ity. Should be extensively grown be- 
cause of its hardiness, earliness and 
One pint of this 
