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TOP CROP 
“Ail-America Winner" 
49 days. Enormous yields, plus 
earliness, vigorous growth and gen- 
eral all-around excellence make Top 
Crop deserve its name. It is fast be- 
coming the most popular bush bean, 
and should have a place in your gar- 
den. Long, round, medium light green, 
straight, very tender and meaty; you 
can't say too much for it. Also re- 
sistant to mosaic. Wonderful fresh; 
good for canning and freezing. 
BOUNTIFUL 
Very Productive 
47 days. Extremely productive and 
known to yield 1 bu. of pods per 15’ 
of row. Excellent. for home garden. 
The light green pods are 7” long, 
broad, flat and of delicious flavor. 
TENDERGREEN 
53 days. This handsome, delicious, 
fine-flavored snap bean has become 
the standard of excellence among the 
early round-pod varieties for home 
and market gardens, as well as for 
freezing and canning. The dark green 
pods are round, slender, stringless, 
6” long. 
Top Crop 
Pkt. plants 
25’ of row, 
Ib. plants 
150’ of row 
CHEROKEE 
51 days. Its upright growth, keep- 
ing 6” bright yellow, oval fruit high 
and clean off-the ground, make this 
productive new variety one of the 
very best. It is thick, crisp, very 
tender and free of strings. Beans 
turn yellow early and stay bright and 
tender longer. 
GOLDEN WAX 
Improved Strain 
50 days. Our Improved strain is 
more productive than the older type. 
Widely planted for market, freezing 
and home gardens. Best of the flat- 
podded varieties. Pods are 54” long, 
stringless, tender and of fine flavor. 
PENCIL POD BLACK WAX 
Cherokee Wax for freezing and canning. 
JUMBO 
Prepaid BEAN PRICES PKT. 
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BEANS 
GREEN PODDED BEANS 
Pkt. plants 25’ of row, lb. plants 150° of row. 
, powdery mildew. 
Early Wonder Wax 
pods are 6” long, stringless and tender. 
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Stringless GREEN POD 
52 days. Our strain of Stringless 
Green Pod is extra choice and more 
productive than the older strains. 
Extensively used for home and mar- 
ket gardens. The dark green pods 
are round, 614” long, stringless, and 
of good quality. An old variety, but 
still one of the very best. 
WADE 
Rich Flavored New One 
54 days. This new USDA bean has 
everything. Fine dark color, won- 
derful flavor, fine appearance and 
resistance to mosaic and powdery 
mildew. Its 5 to 6” pods are straight, 
smooth, fresh-looking and meaty. Up- 
Tight vines that keep beans off the 
ground and clean. Fine for canning 
and freezing, too. 
CONTENDER 
54 days. A new dark green, 6” 
bean resistant to common mosaic and 
Good for home gar- 
den, market and shipping. Round 
and long with buff and lightly mottled 
seed. 
WAX PODDED BEANS 
BRITTLE WAX 
or Round Pod Kidney Wax 
55 days. Finest quality of the wax 
varieties. High'y recommended for 
freezing and canning. The round 
golden-yellow pods are 6” long, 
stringless, free from fiber and of mild, 
delicious flavor. 
EARLY WONDER WAX 
40 days. This earliest bean is a 
bountiful early yielder and continues 
throughout the season. Plants 18” 
high. Pods 5 to 7” long, flat, plump, 
handsome and entyi of a clear waxy-- 
color, tender, brittle and of 
yellow ‘ 
Rustproof—stringless. 
fine texture. 
53 days. The leading round-podded 
wax variety. The round, deep-yellow 
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BUSH LIMA BEANS 
Pkt. plants 20’ of row, Ib. plants 125 of row 
BIXBY i 
Best in Hot Weather 
70 days. New dis- 
ease resistant, high 
ly productive. Lima 
of Fordhook type, but 
Henderson size. Com- 
pact, dwarf plants, 
with 2% to 3” pods 
containing 4 thick 
beans. Bright green 
color makes them 
ideal for canning or 
freezing. Stands hot 
weather better than 
others. 
HENDERSON'S 
The Earliest One 
65 days. Improved 
Bush. The earliest and most productive Li 
Will produce an abundant crop under a w 
range of weather and soil conditions than 
other variety. Pods contain 3 to 4 small o 
beans of the finest quality. Excellent for fre 
ing and canning. 
IMPROVED GIANT BUSH 
75 days. This home and market gar 
variety is the largest of the Bush Limas. M 
pods contain 4 large flat, palegtess bea 
Suitable for freezing. 
FORDHOOK NO. 242 
75 days. Unquestionably the finest and de- 
servedly the most popular of all Limas. It sets 
beans even under cold and hot condi- 
tions making it the safest to plant. 
Pods are 3% to 4” long, well-filled 
with plump beans of finest. qual- 
ity. Delicious flavor fresh, as 
well as canned or frozen. 
Healthy plants yield early 
and right up to freez- 
ing. Best yielder of 
all. 
Six Broad Beans laid on a 6-inch ruler to show siz 
It differs from other beans in that it should be vege 
early. We plant them here in Michigan as soon as — 
ground becomes workable, sometimes in March. Phi 
hardy and not sensitive to cold. As large as Lima Bean, 
and same shape. Botanically, it belong to the bean famil} 
but the flavor is more like shat of the pea. Some 
called Lima Pea. 
The plant is a bush of netiens growth, about 2% ft. 
with strong, sturdy ‘stalks. Pods 7 in. long and 7 
wide, flat and straight. Each holds 5 to 7 mammoth s 
beans. It is wonderfully productive and is delicious coo 
either ae or as a winter shell b By Bans 
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