Start Your Garden Right 
---Buy Abel's Seeds 
Where this insignia appears in this 
catalog it indicates the varieties so 
marked are proven new introductions of 
merit and have received an award in 
the All-America Selection Trials. 
ASPARAGUS 
MARTHA WASHINGTON RUST-RESIST- 
ANT ASPARAGUS. A variety bred up by 
the U. S. Department of Agriculture, at 
Washington, D. C., from a careful selection 
of plants of the Washington variety, and 
is now more popular and more widely 
grown than any other. It produces large, 
beautiful, straight, dark green tender 
shoots of the most delicious flavor. 
Large Two-Year-Old Roots of Genuine Martha 
Washington. Ask or write for prices. 
Martha Washington Seed. Can have a light 
cutting in 3 years. Pkt., 10c; 0z., 30c; 14 
lb., 75c; lb., $2.25. 
BEANS 
Plant beans after all danger of frost is 
passed, in warm, dry, well prepared soil. 
The rows should be 2 to 3 feet apart and the 
seeds covered 1% to 2 inches deep. Thin the 
young plants to 3 to 6 inches apart in the 
rows. 
Shallow cultivation should be frequent until 
blossoming; then stop to avoid injury to 
the roots. (Root injury causes the blossoms 
to fall off.) For succession plant every 2 
weeks until mid-summer. Frequent picking 
of the crop insures long bearing. One quart 
of seed sows 100 feet, and 60 pounds sows 
BEANS 
BUSH GREEN POD 
PLEASE NOTE 
IN MOST EVERY CASE A QUART OF 
BEANS EQUALS TWO POUNDS. 
1, pt., 30c; pt., 55c; qt., 95c; 2 qts.,$1.85; 
4 qts., $3.60; 8 qts., $6.95. 
(Ask for larger quantity prices) 
SUPERGREEN. 58 days. This All-Amer- 
ica Bronze Medal Winner produces a 6 to 
7 inch long, slim, smooth, dark green and 
stringless pod. Seed: Light brown mottled 
with buff. 
LONGREEN. 56 days. Pods are 7 inches 
long, round, straight, dark green. String- 
less. Seed: Brownish purple mottled with 
fawn. Garden and canning variety. 
GIANT STRINGLESS. 56 days. Pods are 
6 inches long, round, fairly straight, light 
green. Stringless. Seed: Yellowish brown. 
Garden’ and canning variety. 
BURPEE’S8—tLandreth Stringless. 54 days. 
Pods are 6 to 7 inches long, fairly straight, 
light green. Stringless. Seed: Yellowish 
brown, Garden and canning variety. 
BOUNTIFUL. 51 days. Pods are 7 inches 
long, straight, broad, flat, light. Stringless. 
Garden and canning variety. 
WADE’S BUSH (New Variety). 65 days. 
Pods 5144-6 inches long, straight, meaty, 
dark green and stringless. Seed: Purple- 
Brown. Mosaic Resistant. Adapted for 
freezing. Garden and canning variety. 
ABEL'S SEED HOUSE, READING, PA. 
BEANS 
WAX OR YELLOW PODDED 
Prices on Wax or Yellow-Podded Beans 
Voupt.,.o0Cs Di. OoOC I db. GOCCP eS Gtsanpl.oD. 
4 qts., $3.60; 8 qts., $6.95. 
(Ask for Larger Quantity Prices) 
BRITTLE WAX or ROUND POD KIDNEY. 
62 days. Pods are 6 inches long, very 
slightly curved, round, yellow, stringless. 
Seed: White with black eye. Garden and 
canning variety. 
SURE CROP or BOUNTIFUL WAX. 62 
days. Pods are 6% inches long, flat, 
straight, deep yellow, stringless. Seeds: 
Black garden variety. 
GERMAN BLACK WAX or PENCIL POD 
BLACK WAX. 65 days. Pods are 5% 
to 6 inches long, round, slightly curved, 
yellow, stringless. Seed: Black. Garden 
BEANS 
SHELL 
Vy hes, BLUXGR TOs, BOS Ohigy GKeR YA Chetks tallcteting 
4 qts., $3.60; 8 qts., $6.95. 
(Ask for Larger Quantity Prices) 
DWARF HORTICULTURAL. 56 days. Bird 
egg—used both as shell and snap beans. 
4”-5" pods are broad, flat, dark green 
streaked with red. STRINGLESS. 
ITALIAN FAVA. 90 days. Similar to the 
English broad beans. Late and produce a 
fine crop of dark green 7144” pods. Hardier 
than other beans. 
RED KIDNEY. 95 days. Dwarf grower and 
very hardy. 5%” pods waxy green color, 
oval-flat type. 
WHITE KIDNEY. 100 days. 
Excellent for dry shelled use. 
bushy, productive. 
WHITE MARROWFAT SOUP. 
5%” pods. 
Plant large, 
100 days. 
Extra fine shell bean. 514” pods large, fiat, 
and straight. 
each pod. 
5 to 7 pure white seeds 
For baking. 
BRITTLE WAX 
