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2. Seed Catalogue And Garden Guide.

[Image: Illustration of a bush bean plant, caption-Improved Golden Wax.]
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Large White Marrow.--Excellent as a shelled bean; cooks in twenty minutes. Pkt. 5c, 1/2 pt. 12c, qt. 35c.
Red Kidney.--A very popular variety with first-class restaurants, as they possess a peculiarly rich flavor and are very desirable as a shelled bean. Should be grown more generally. Per pkt. 5c, 1/2 pt. 15c, qt. 50c.

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Improved Golden Wax.--In spite of all the new sorts of beans being introduced every year, our trade calls for more Golden Wax than any other variety. This great popularity is due largely to the fact that the variety we have is a great improvment [improvement] on the old Golden Wax having larger pods and being much more prolific. This improved stock is one of the handsomest beans we have ever seen, the pods being of dark, rich golden yellow color and of perfect shape. For family or market you can make no mistake in planting them. Per pkt. 5c, 1/2 pt. 15c, qt. 40c.
Early Mohawk.--Very early and will stand more cold weather than most bush varieties. It can be planted earlier and often in this way will furnish beans fit for use before any other kind. Vines large, stout, with large, coarse leaves which will stand a slight frost; beans long, kidney shaped, variegated with drab, purple and brown. This variety is much in favor for forcing under glass, as it matures quickly and carries a good weight of long, large pods. Per pkt. 5c, 1/2 pt. 12c, qt. 35c.
Dwarf Horticultural.--Has all the good qualities of the old Horticultural Pole. Per pkt. 5c, 1/2 pt. 15c, qt. 50c.
Early Refugee, Or Thousand To One.--Most prolific green podded sort, thick and fleshy. Per pkt. 5c, 1/2 pt. 12c, qt. 35c.
Blue-Podded Butter.--A most remarkable and strikingly odd novelty. Has compact, bushy plants 12 inches high and bears abundantly. The leaves and stems are of a bright purple color and rich deep-blue pods. The entire pods cook a rich green, are very tender, stringless, and of a rich delicious flavor. Supply of seed very short. Per pkt. 10c.
Henderson's Bush Lima.--Grows in compact bush form, producing enormous crops of delicious Lima beans which can be as easily gathered as the common garden bush bean; is at least two weeks earlier than any of the climbing Limas, produces a continuous crop from the middle of July until frost. Enormously productive. A very small patch will supply a family with this splendid vegetable throughout the season. Pkt. 5c, 1/2 pt. 15, qt. 40.
California Branch, Or Prolific Tree.--This is quite a valuable variety for field culture; grows about twenty inches high, has stiff, upright branches, and bears immensely, sometimes yields forty-five bushels to the acre. The beans closely resemble the White Navy. Per pkt. 5c, 1/2 pt. 12c, qt. 35c.
Burpee's Bush Lima.--A dwarf or bush form or the true large Lima which is of great value. They are of perfect bush form, growing 18 to 20 inches high, of stout and erect growth, yet branching and vigorous. An immense yielder, each bush bearing 50 to 200 handsome large pods, well filled with very large beans of luscious flavor. Does not always mature dry shelled beans in this latitude, but you are sure of a good crop of green ones. Per pkt. 5c, 1/2 pt. 15c, qt. 50c.

Pole Beans.
One quart will plant 100 to 150 hills.
These succeed best on clay loams, which should be liberally enriched with short manure in the hills, which are formed according to the variety, from three to four feet apart. From five to six seeds are planted in each hill, about two inches deep. After planting all beans be sure and firm the ground, either with feet or roller.
Old Homestead.--This is an improvement on the Kentucky Wonder, and we regard it as far ahead of any other green podded pole variety, and the best, as well as earliest sort, being fit for the table August 1st. It is enormously productive, the pods hanging in great clusters from top to bottom of pole. It is entirely stringless, and the pods are of a silvery green color, and cook tender and melting. Pods are often twelve inches in length, and instead of picking them into a basket, it is customary to pile them up on one arm like kindling wood when gathering a mess for family use. The dry beans are long, oval, duncolored and of fair quality as a shelled bean. Can be grown with corn to good advantage, and thus secure two crops from the same ground. Per pkt. 5c, 1/2 pt. 15c, qt. 50c.

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Mammoth Horticultural.--An improvement on the old Horticultural Pole. The beans are of enormous size, splashed and spotted with red, and of the highest quality as a shell bean either green or dry. It originated at Worchester Mass., where it has been grown for several years by one of the leading market gardeners, and he has always been able to command from 25 to 50 cents per bushel more than others for their beans, as his were always of such bright carmine color, and would keep longer after being picked. Pods very large, bright carmine slightly streaked, very handsome and exceedingly productive. It is somewhat earlier than the parent variety, shows no rust, and is considered by some eastern gardeners the best pole bean in the world. Per pkt. 5c, 1/2 pt. 20c, qt. 60c.
King of the Garden Lima.--An improvement on the Large White Lima. While the dried beans are about the same size as the common large Lima, the green beans are of unusual size. The pods are very long, and frequently contain four to six very large beans. Per pkt. 5c, 1/2 pt. 15c, qt. 50c.
Scarlet Runner.--A favorite snap bean in Europe, valuable for table use, or as an ornamental vine. Per pkt. 5c, 1/2 pt. 20c, qt. 70c.
Cut Shorts.--The old-fashioned corn-field bean which is so popular and often so difficult to obtain. Per pkt. 5c, 1/2 pt. 15c, qt. 50c.

White Dutch Case Knife.--Good green-podded variety. Pkt. 5c, 1/2 pt. 15c, qt. 45c.
Lazy Wife's.--The very best late green podded pole bean. The pods are of a medium dark-green color, broad, thick, very fleshy, and entirely stringless. The pods retain their rich, tender and stringless qualities until nearly ripe and at all stages are unsurpassed for snap shorts. Each pod contains from six to eight round, white beans, which make excellent winter shell beans. Per pkt. 5c, 1/2 pt. 15c, qt. 50c.
Yard Long.--A great curiosity, and withal a bean of excellent quality. Pods three feet long and highly ornamental. Tender and of asparagus flavor. Pkt. 10c.
[Image: Illustration of a pole bean plant, caption- Old Homestead Beans.]