14 < DE GIORGI BROTHERS CO. 
Beans 
OUR BEAN SEED is of superior quality carefully grown and 
inspected in the fleld 3 to 4 times. At no time is the crop harvested 
if it shows even a trace of anthracnose halo or bacterial blight. 
HOW MANY BEANS, TO PLANT AN ACRE? 
Planting in rows 3 ft. apart, dropping 3 beans in hills foot apart 
in the row, 40 lbs. of bush beans will easily plant an acre. Pole 
Beans 25 lbs. per acre. Bush Lima and Pole Limas also English 
beans are planted at the rate of 45 to 60 lbs. per acre. Less if you 
plant small seeded Limas, more if the variety planted is large seeded. 
One pound of beans will plant a row 50 feet long. 
Beans do well in any soil, light soil is best for them. Have the 
rows three feet apart to allow horse cultivation, or 16 inches apart 
for hand cultivation. Plant the seeds 2 inches apart in the row 
und cover up with two inches of soil. Never plant Beans until the 
apple trees are in bloom. Give frequent cultivation. Some people 
plant extraordinarily early, and in most cases they lose their first 
planting which, considering the price of seed and labor, is rather 
expensive. Do not cultivate your Beans when they are wet from dew 
or rain; if you will, the plants will get blighted and pods rusted 
CULTURE FOR LIMA BEANS. These are VERY sensitive to 
cold, therefore must be planted later than is usual with regular 
beans—when the weather is thoroughly settled and warm and not 
before, or the seed will rot in the ground. Avoid ground fertilized 
heavily with fresh manure, because the plants on such ground drop 
their blossoms, resulting in few or no pods. Space bush limas 1% 
ft. apart in the row, pole limas 4 ft. each way, placing one seed of 
bush limas to a hill and 4 to 6 beans in a circle about the pole of 
pole limas; always planting the seed with the eye DOWN. Cover 
the seeds about 2 inches deep. 
In our locality Dwarf Beans can be planted up to August Ist. 
Pole Beans up to July 15th, Limas up to June ist, English Beans 
must be planted as soon as the ground is open in the spring. 
POLE BEANS. Perhaps you think it is too much trouble fuss- 
ing with the poles. A friend of ours had the same idea, but he was 
prevailed upon to try them several season’s ago, Now he always 
plants pole beans, always KENTUCKY WONDER. And about twent- 
ty-four poles, three plants to a pole, furnish all the beans for a fam- 
fly of seven—and they’re pretty big ‘‘bean eaters” at that. If your 
garden is of fair size, try some this season—get GOLDEN CLUSTHR 
if you want the wax—and you'll have some every season afterward. 
They are enormous producers; you have no idea until you try them 
how big a crop they produce. 
Set the poles four feet apart each way, tie each set of three to- 
gether at the top, wigwam fashion and you'll be surprised at the 
results, 
Unlike other beans they are per- 
ENGLISH BEANS fectly hardy, must be planted as 
soon as the ground is open in the spring, which in our sec- 
tion of the country is March list. In the South and on the 
Pacific coast, plant late in September or real early in October. 
English Beans can go through many frosts unharmed, they are 
hardier than Peas. Heavily productive in rich heavily ma- 
nured soil. Fresh manure does not affect these beans. Pods 
5 inches long, an inch wide, dark green and 4 to 5 beans in 
each pod. Only the beans are edible either in the green stage 
or dry. Dry beans have thick skin, boil them for a few 
minutes. This makes the skin to inflate and the beans are 
easily skinned. Will cook in about one hour. The beans 
contain a large percentage of organic sulphur for that rea- 
son are very healthy food. English Bean is the coming vege- 
table, the demand growing speedily in all large markets. 
BUSH BEAN COMMODORE (63 days) 
Really KENTUCKY WONDER in bush form. Plants large of 
upright growth producing an extra heavy crop of very fleshy dark 
green stringless pods 8 inches long till frost if kept picked: Differ- 
ent from other bush beans in flavor. The pods cook up in less than 
half the time required for other beans and they are the tastiest 
and tenderest of ALL string t. 10c; lb. 60c, prepaid. 
Not prepaid: 10 lbs. $4.00. 
TASMANIA BEAN 
Tasmania Bean is a variety of edible gourd, producing 
an immense amount of fruit, delicate in taste and nourishing, 
whether boiled, fried, stewed or baked. To many people, the 
fruit sliced, breaded and fried in butter tastes like a most 
tender veal steak. The fruit grows on vines similar to those 
of squash but much more vigorous in growth. If given sup- 
port the vines will climb and the fruit will hang down and 
be of fine, straight, symmetrical form. Pick when young, 
when the fruits weigh about 8 pounds or less. Cultivate 
same as for watermelons. Place 2 or 3 seeds in eack hill, 
oat more Pkt. 10c: oz. 3Nc: % Ib. &0e: Th. $3.00. 
CONSULT the front pages of this catalog. You will find many 
important novelties listed on those pages. 
NOTE: Maturity dates are relative and, having been deter- 
mined for one growing location, may vary in other growing 
sections. 
GREEN BUSH BEANS 
Any variety, 10c per pkt.; % lb. 25c; lb. 50c, postpaid. 
Not prepaid: 10 Ibs. 100 Ibs. 
Black Valentine Stringless (49 days)... .$3.20 $29.00 
Bountiful (49 days) ....:220..0.6s..5- 3.20 29.00 
Full Measure’ (54 days)......3.5-2+-«. 3.20 30.00 
Giant English (70 days). Thee 2s RO 
Landreth’s Stringless (52 days) ....... 3.00 28.00 
Masterpiece (53 days) oo eee ee 
Pride of Iowa (53 days) Poets Sper at - 33.00 
Stringless Green Pod (52 days)......... 2.80 26.00 
Tendergreen (54 days)......-.. te ae eee 3.00 28.00 
Burpee’s Stringless (54 days).........-- 2.80 26.00 
Top Crop 2c. vee «ces» ole eee eter 3.80 35.00 
Wade’S) © srsicusce ac ciatdvnwe creer alee aloe ei Renee Rol Reema eae 3.90 36.00 
BEAN KEYSTONIAN (52 days) 
Pods dark green, stringiess, fibreless fine grained flesh, 
straight 6 inches long, notable for holding fleshy stage. Vines 
18 inches tall with sturdy stem and branches, heavily pro- 
ductive. 10 lbs. $3.00; 100 Ibs. $28.00. 
STRINGLESS GREEN POD—We offer an improved strain 
producing extra heavy crop of tender, large, round very 
meaty and highly flavored pods. Fine for canning and freez- 
ing. Price quoted above. 
GREAT NORTHERN—Popular large, white seeded shell- 
bean. 1 lb. 40c, prepaid. Not prepaid: 10 Ibs. $2.00; 100 Ibs. 
$20.00. 
WAX BUSH BEANS 
Not prepaid: 10 lbs. 100 lbs. 
Admiral Wax (49 days)...............$3.20 $30.00 
Brittle Wax (58 days)............-.6-. ... 38.00 28.00 
Champion Wax (52 days) !:>.). 200.79. 3:20 30.00 
German Black Wax (52 days)......... 3.20 30.00 
Golden Wax Improved (51 days)........ 2.80 26.00 
Pencil Pod Wax (55 dayS)...........+.- 3.00 28.00 
Prolific Black Wax (55 days)..:......... 3.00 28.00 
Round Pod Kidney Wax (58 days)...... 3.00 28.00 
Unrivaled: (52 days) 2000+ ee eer ee 3.20 30.00 
Pods 6 to 7 
BUSH BEAN DELICATA (58 days) inches long 
of light transparent yellow, almost straight, semi-round, fully 
stringless and fiberless of delicate flavor. Plants sturdy, 
heavily productive. Delicate is the tastiest of all beans and a 
sort to grow for trade that insists on highest quality. 10 Ibs. 
$3.00; 10 Ibs. $28.00. 
BUSH LIMA BEANS—-BUTTER BEANS 
Any variety, 10c per pkt.; %4 Ib. 30c; Ib. 50c, prepaid. 
Not prepaid: 10 lbs. 100 lbs. 
Fordhook Bush Lima (75 days)......... $3.00 $28.00 
Henderson’s Improved (65 days)........ 2.60 24.00 
Prolific: Bush-Lima (66\days). <2. 4. a7 3.00 28.00 
Burpee’s Improved Lima (75 days)...... 3.00 28.00 
Fordhook (242) (75 idays)i gap tae eto 3.00 28.00 
Cangreen Bush Lima (72 days)......... 3.00 28.00 
POLE LIMA BEAN JUMBO (90 days) 
Hxtraordinarily productive, the vines bearing pods from the bot 
tom to the top of vine, the pods often over 8 inches long and about 
2 inches wide, filled with beans of extra large size. The pods are 
produced in clusters of from 4 to 8 until the vines are killed by frost. 
Pkt. 10c; Ib. 50c, postpaid. Not prepaid: 10 lbs. $3.40. 
POLE LIMA BEAN CHALLENGER—A potato lima similar in pod 
and seed to Fordhook Bush Lima. Plant vigorous, hardy good 
climber heavily productive. Pods straight, smooth produced in 
clusters of 4 to 8 well filled with 4-5 large plump beans. Pkt. 10c; 
lb, 55c, postpaid. Not prepaid: 10 lbs. $3.20; 100 lbs. $30.00. 
POLE BEANS 
Any variety, 10c per pkt.; % Ib. 30c; Ib. 50c, prepaid. 
Not prepaid: 10 Ibs. 100 lbs. 
Early Golden Cluster Wax (74 days). . .$3.80 
Kentucky Wonder Green Pod (65 days).. 2.90 $26.00 
THE QUALITY of our seeds is the very best every time in all 
cases. In actual field trials we find that our seeds are the equal 
and in MANY cases of better quality than seeds from other sources. 
Lower prices asked by us NEVER mean low quality. Our policy is— 
give the cusotmers most for their money. 
