To Our Customer Friends — 
This descriptive list was prepared with the thought that many of you 
may not be fully familiar with the characteristics of the varieties of vege- 
etable seeds which we offer. We have told the story on each as we see it 
after continuing observation of both commercial production and our own 
trials. Assuming reasonable growing conditions and good practices, you 
may buy with every expectation that your produce will conform to the 
description we have given. 
We strive constantly, not to maintain, but rather to improve, our strains 
of the various vegetables. Our breeding, selection and production is under 
constant and close observation. Every step is taken to assure you of quality, 
uniformity and trueness to type. 
We continue to solicit your business and know you will still find that 
GUNSON and GOOD SEED have become synonymous. 
Sincerely, 
L. P. GUNSON & CO. 
ASPARAGUS 
CULTURE. Pour hot, but not boiling, water on the seed and let it stand until cool; pour it off 
and repeat two or three times, with fresh hot water. Then sow in drills one foot apart and two inches 
deep in light, rich soil. When the plants are well up, thin to about one inch apart and give frequent 
and thorough cultivation during the summer. The plants will be fit to set the next spring. The 
permanent beds should be prepared by deep ploughing or spading and thoroughly enriching the 
ground with stable manure or other fertilizer. Set the plants about four inches deep and one to 
two feet apart in rows four to six feet apart. After the plants are well started give frequent and 
thorough cultivation. The next season the bed may be cut over two or three times, but if this is 
done, al/ the shoots, no matter how small, should be cut. After the final cutting, give a good dress- 
ing of manure, ashes and salt. 
CALIFORNIA 500 (New) 
This is the first definite improved Washington strain in many years. Earlier 
than Mary Washington, producing noticeably larger and more uniformly 
compact heads, with consistently high yields. Excellent for canning or freezing. 
MARY WASHINGTON 
The best of the several strains of rust resistant asparagus originated by the 
U.S. Department of Agriculture. The shoots are larger and grow more rapidly 
than other varieties. Very vigorous with thick stalks, deep green in color with 
purple tips. The best variety for commercial planting. 
BEANS 
A packet of bush beans will plant 25 feet of row; a pound 150 feet; 60 to 75 lbs. 
per acre. 
CULTURE. Plant about one inch deep in rows 2 to 2% feet apart, dropping seed 2 inches apart 
Beans are extremely sensitive to both cold and water. In this latitude do not plant before May 10th 
and sow every two or three weeks until August for successive crops. Do not cultivate or pick beans 
when plants are wet. 
WAX PODDED BUSH VARIETIES 
DAVIS STRINGLESS WHITE WAX _ 52 Days 
This white seeded variety developed from the old Davis White Wax is 
entirely stringless. Excellent as a snap bean and can be allowed to ripen 
and make the finest quality baking beans. Pods thick, flat, light yellow, 
straight, very uniform, 61% inches long and attractive. 
