1900

[images] 30th Annual Catalogue

American Flag White Beauty Italia Climaxer Blue Boy

New Century Collection of Mammoth Verbenas 1900 Strong Plant of Each 75¢ Seed 15¢ a Packet

Beauty of Oxford Venus Machaden Dolores Sambo

Fire Ball Aurora Borealis

Seeds Bulbs Plants Tools Only One Quality The Best

Iowa Seed Co Des Moines Iowa, "Seedsmen to the American People"

Century Collection of Mammoth Verbenas. Everybody likes verbenas. We say this without fear of contradiction, as no one can help enjoying the sight of a nice bed carpeted with the dark green leaves and brilliant blossoms. If for any reason you have been disappointed with verbenas be sure and try our "CENTURY COLLECTION" this year, as the varieties are grand beyond description. Our artist has tried his best to portray the magnificent colors on the front cover of this catalogue, painting the flowers from nature. The twelve varieties which we have selected for our CENTURY COLLECTION are unexcelled for large size, exquisitely beautful [beautiful] coloring and profusion of blooms. Be sure and order at least one of the collections so as to have all of the best colors. Many of our customers will want a dozen or more each of several separate colors for solid massing or ribbon work in their beds. Verbenas cannot be excelled for a long bed beside a driveway or walk, and show up especially well when flanked by a row of geraniums. FIREBALL.--This is the most brilliant dazzling color which can be imagined. Color is vivid scarlet, brightened by the large pure white eye. AURORA BOREALIS.--The name describes the flower; a more beautiful play of coloring does not appear in any flower that you ever saw. Beautifully and irregularly striped white, pink, crimson and scarlet; a wonderful show of colors, a bushy plant, blooming profusely. AMERICAN FLAG.--A beautifully striped variety named in honor of "Old Glory." Pure white, striped with most brilliant crimson. WHITE BEAUTY.--Everyone wants a good white and this is the best. Very large flower, large truss, and pure snow white. ITALIA.--A handsomely penciled purple and white flower; striping is very distinct. CLIMAXER.--Extra large flower of bright scarlet color, a strong vigorous grower, and is really dazzling when in full bloom. BLUE BOY.--Of pure deep heavenly blue color. BEAUTY OF OXFORD.--The most popular pink variety in existence. Color is very rich and flower of immense size. VENUS.--A beautiful large flower, delicate pink color shading to white in the center. MACHADON.--Of deep, velvety, blood red color. DOLORES.--The richest deep purple color imaginable, a royal shade. SAMBO.--The nearest pure black that appears in verbenas, has just a slight shading of maroon. One strong plant each of the above, postpaid for 75 cents. Any of the varieties separate 10 cents each; 75 cents per dozen, postpaid. If sent by express purchaser to pay the charges, we furnish them at $4.50 per 100. NEW CENTURY MAMMOTH VERBENA SEED.--Saved from the choicest flowers. By starting this seed early in the house and setting plants out at the proper season, you will obtain a fine showing of flowers the first year, but of course you cannot depend on getting all the named varieties which we list above. Packet 15 cts., 2 pkts. for 25c.

Foreign Orders. Our trade with European countries, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, the West Indies and other foreign countries, is increasing constantly, and while it is still somewhat expensive and slow to send large shipments by freight, small lots can be sent by mail quite easily. It is expected that in January a new ruling will go into effect reducing the postage to Porto Rica, the Philippines, Hawaii, Guam and Cuba, but as yet it is impossible to state just what it will be. We are willing, however to prepay the postage on all vegetable and flower seeds ordered by the packet or ounce, at the prices named in our large catalogue, to Canada, Mexico, all parts of Europe, West Indies, Natal, Cape Colony, Australia, New Zealand, Hawaii, the Philippines, Japan, South America, India, and all countries of the Postal Union. Not more than 12 ounces can be sent in each package. FREIGHT.--Persons ordering large quantities to be sent by freight to foreign countries must send sufficient money additional to prepay the freight from Des Moines to New York City or San Francisco, and also to prepay ocean transportation. PARCELS-POST.--Packages not exceeding 11 pounds in weight can be sent by "parcels-post" to Bahamas, Barbados, Columbia, Costa Rica, Hawaii, Jamaica, Salvador, British Guiana, Windward Islands, New Foundland, Honduras and Trinidad, at the rate of 12 cents for each pound, which must be prepaid. It will be well for customers in foreign countries to make inquiry from their postmaster for further information. Live Plants we pack in the best condition possible, but we do not advise ordering where plants will be a very long time in transit.

A Few Letters. Received potatoes, clover seed and garden seeds all right, and I must say that your seeds are bright, choice and fresh. The potatoes are sound, showing careful selection; your sweet potato plants have always been "out of sight," much better than any I ever bought elsewhere.--George W. Dinsmoor, Ardmore, Mo. The season here was very unfavorable for corn growing this year, and my common corn only yielded 16 bushels per acre, but I raised 80 bushels of your Profit corn on one and one-fourth acres or just about four times as much as my other varieties. I am well pleased with it and have no doubt that your Profit corn will yield 100 bushels on good land.--J. W. Tate, Coles Co., Ill. The Iowa Silver Mine Corn received from you was planted May 30th, and still it matured thoroughly and made a good crop. The ears are unusually large for this northern country, about ten to ten and one-half inches long. Have been using your seeds for 20 years and am well pleased with them.--Peter Lambert, Martin Co., Minn. The Turkish Red Winter Wheat that I purchased from you raised a splendid crop--42 bushels per acre.--John Althouse, Clinton Co., Mo. I was very much pleased with the seed I received from you last year, and consider them the best I ever bought. Hurrah for the Iowa Seed Co.--Hugh Hodges, Leap Wood, Tenn.

PROSPERITY COLLECTIONS. YES, we are prosperous--we are enjoying a large and increasing trade, and we realize that our success is due to the kind orders sent by those who know that our Choice Iowa Seeds, Plants and other goods are UNSURPASSED IN QUALITY. To help our customers enjoy their life this summer shall be our aim, and there is nowhere that you can be happier than at home in your garden if you have a good one that you can be proud of. Right here at the first of our catalogue we want to make these special offers. PROSPERITY VEGETABLE SEED COLLECTION.--Consists of one full sized packet each of Washington Wakefield Cabbage, White's New Excelsior Tomato, Dewing's Improved Beet, Giant Pascal Celery, Perfect White Spine Cucumber, California Cream Butter Lettuce, Mammoth Prizetaker Onion, Improved Guernsey Parsnip, Improved Chartier Radish and Golden Ball Turnip. A total of 10 packets worth 60 cents for only 25 cents. PROSPERITY FLOWER SEED COLLECTION.--Consists of one full sized packet each of Improved American Hollyhock, New Double Calliopsis, Madam Gunter's Hybrids Nasturtiums, Early Dawn Cosmos, Royal Mixed Asters, Mixed Varieties Dianthus Pinks, Japanese Striped Maize, Imperial German Pansy, and Imperial Mixed Sweet Peas, making a total of 9 packets worth 62 cents for only 25 cents. PROSPERITY BULB COLLECTION.--Consists of 1 choice French Canna, 1 nice Gladiolus, 1 Spotted Calla, 1 Excelsior Pearl Tuberose, 1 Maderia Vine, 1 Cinnamon Vine and 4 Lily of Valley. Total 10 bulbs worth 65 cents for only 25 cents. PROSPERITY PLANT COLLECTION.--A nice assortment consisting of one strong plant each of Alaska Carnation, Weeping Lantana, Swanley White Violet, New Paris Daisy, and S. A. Nutt Geranium. A total of 5 plants worth 60 cents for 25 cents. We prepay the postage on all the above collections. They cannot be changed or divided, as the only way that we can sell them at these special prices is by putting up a very large number of them.

Cut Flowers. In response to numerous inquiries and for the accommodation of our customers in places where there are no greenhouses, we have arranged to fill orders for cut flowers promptly whenever our customers may require them. Owing to the fluctuation in the value of cut flowers at various seasons of the year, it is impossible to give a list of prices in this catalogue, but we will quote lowest price on any list of flowers desired, by mail. Roses vary from $1.00 to $4.00 per dozen, and Carnations from 25 cents to $1.00 per dozen. They are always much higher at Christmas and Easter than at any other time. BOUQUETS OF FLOWERS.--We put up nicely assorted bouquets of good flowers suitable for a present or for decorating with, at from $1.00 to $5.00 each. BRIDE'S BOUQUETS.--$2.00 to $10.00 each. BUTTONIERS FOR GENTLEMEN.--75 cents to $2.00 per dozen. FLORAL BASKETS.--We will fill baskets tastefully with nice cut flowers at $1.00 to $15.00 each. We can furnish a great variety of floral designs thoroughly well made and we are sure they will prove satisfactory to the most critical. The following designs for weddings and funerals are most called for. WEDDING EMBLEMS.--We have bells, wish-bone, horse shoe and hook and eye at various prices ranging from $5.00 to $10.00 each. FUNERAL DESIGNS.--The most popular styles are the following: ANCHOR.--12-inch $2.50; 16-inch $3.50; 20-inch $5.00. BROKEN WHEEL.--16-inch $5.00; 24-inch $10.00. CROSSES.--12-inch $1.50; 16-inch $3.00; 20-inch $5.00. CRESCENTS.--10-inch $2.00; 14-inch $3.00. GATES AJAR.--15-inch $7.00; 18-inch $9.00; 21-inch $12.00; 30-inch $20.00. HARPS.--12-inch $2.50; 18-inch $5.00. KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS DESIGNS.--$5.00, $10.00 and $15.00. MASONIC.--$7.00; $10.00. KNIGHTS TEMPLARS.--$10.00. ODD FELLOWS.--$5.00; $10.00. PILLOWS.--12-inch $3.00; 15-inch $5.00; 21-inch $10.00. SICKLES.--12-inch $2.00; 18-inch $5.00. STARS.--10-inch $2.00; 12-inch $3.00; 16-inch $5.00. WREATHS.--8-inch $1.50; 10-inch $2.50; 12-inch $3.00; 14-inch $4.00. These prices are for flowers sent by express, purchasers to pay charges. CASH should be sent with all orders for cut flowers. When it is necessary to have flowers promptly for funeral purposes, customers can have some bank or well known responsible business firm telegraph order for them and we will ship C. O. D., or money can be sent by telegraph if desired. We do not make shipments C. O. D. to strangers whose responsibility we have no way of ascertaining.

[image] Thompson's Jadoo Vegetable Fibre JADOO TRADE MARK.

JADOO FIBRE. We most highly recommend this new material for growing plants in and request our customers who like nice flower plants to give it a trial. It is a light spongy substance and plants grow in it very vigorously, stocky, and show more brilliant foliage and finer, more continous bloom. There is no manure in any form in its constitution therefore it is clean as well as free from weeds. It can be mixed with soil if desired, but if used alone smaller pots may be used than would otherwise be employed. Press it tight around the roots when potting and water seldom as the fibre retains more than double the moisture that ordinary soil will. Price 30 cents per lb., 3 lbs. 75c by mail postpaid. By express or freight per lb. 10c, 3 lbs. 25c, 10 lbs. 60c, 25 lbs. $1.00.

BERRY BOXES Since the part of our catalogue in which fruit packages are listed was printed there has been a great advance in price of all kinds of lumber and we are theerfore [therefore] obliged to withdraw quotations on these goods. Prices may decline again before fruit season begins, but we request fruit growers to write for quotations whenever they desire to purchase.

[image] 1871 - 1900 Twenty Nine Years Successful Business!

DES MOINES, IOWA, January, 1900. Hearty Greetings and Good Wishes Are hereby extended to our FRIENDS AND CUSTOMERS who have so kindly favored us with their orders during the past year, which has been the best season that we have ever had, and now as we are entering our thirtieth year in the seed trade and the closing year of the nineteenth century, we are resolved to make it by far the best in the history of this house. To accomplish this object we have enlarged and greatly improved our catalogue, comparing the descriptions with the crops growing in the field and carefully revising them so that they shall be correct in every particular. We have dropped some varieties which have been supplanted by better ones. The GARDENING PUBLIC AND FARMERS EVERYWHERE are requested to thoroughly examine all parts of this book which we have tried to make of practical value to everyone. Do not be satisfied to devote your entire crop to old varieties, but test some of our new improved sorts and in this way add greatly to your yield and also improve the quality. Our store is as conveniently arranged a building as there is in America for the seed business and orders can be filled with great rapidity, our mail during the busy season averaging 1,000 to 2,800 letters and postals per day. About five blocks away, located beside the railroad tracks, is the warehouse where large quantities of seed are stored and hauled to our city store as needed. We Grow Our Seeds, either on our own place or have them grown from carefully selected stock seeds and it requires the entire seed crop from about 4,800 acres to supply our trade. The soil and climate of Iowa are specially adapted to growing and maturing most seed crops, still there are some varieties which will produce better seed in other localities and we have this year traveled between 6,000 and 7,000 miles inspecting our growing crops. OUR COLORS.--For many years we have illustrated the National colors on the cover of our catalogue, and what is more appropriate for a firm which is called "SEEDSMEN TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE?" We are proud of this title and love and honor the old flag as every true citizen should, and are trying to uphold the principles for which it stands, since the late war, however, many firms are using the flag simply for advertising purposes, and this year we show "OUR COLORS" in another form.

[image] CHOICE IOWA SEEDS TESTED AND TRUE IOWA SEED CO. DES MOINES.

We are determined to do business in such a manner as to give our patrons complete satisfaction and secure their entire trade and retain it from year to year. In almost every neighborhood in America our seeds are known and used and our highest ambition is to deserve the title which has been applied to us, namely, SEEDSMEN TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE Again thanking you for past favors, respectfully soliciting a continuance of your patronage and wishing you a happy and prosperous new year, we remain, Your friends, IOWA SEED CO. M. KURTZWEIL, President. CHAS. N. PAGE, Treasurer and Manager.

What Our Postmaster Says: To whom it may concern: I have known the proprietors of the Iowa Seed Co. for many years and can recommend them as trustworthy, energetic businessmen. They are shipping thousands of packages to all parts of the U. S. and we hear no complaint from their customers. Respectfully, EDW. H. HUNTER, P. M.

24 YEARS A CUSTOMER.--"I have been a customer of the Iowa Seed Co. since 1875 and always intend to be so long as they prove as satisfactory as in the past. Both they and their seeds are reliable."--J. C. Jessup, Fairmount, Ind.

SUGGESTIONS TO CUSTOMERS. ORDER EARLY.--The best time to order is just as soon as you receive this catalogue, as we can always give your orders more of our personal attention if they come in before the rush of the spring trade. Please use the order sheet, as it makes it more convenient for us in filling orders. Terms are invariably cash with order, as we keep no book accounts in our mail order department, and the expense of sending goods C. O. D. is quite large. Postage stamps received as cash. SHIPPING.--There are five express companies and fifteen railroad lines at Des Moines, so that quick shipments can be made to any town in the United States. It is well to remember that express charges are usually very much higher on heavy goods, and you should order them sent by fast freight. CHARGES PREPAID.--All Vegetable and Flower Seeds, Bulbs and Plants, except those noted, are sent prepaid by mail or express by the quickest and most direct route, unless ordered otherwise, and we guarantee their safe arrival. Seeds sold by the peck or bushel, field seeds, potatoes, implements, and other heavy goods are sent by freight or express, purchaser paying charges. OUR PRICES.--Our constant aim is to make the highest quality the first consideration, and next to put our prices as low as good reliable seeds can be sold. DISCOUNTS.--ON ALL ORDERS FOR SEEDS IN PACKETS the purchaser may select twenty-five cents' worth extra for each one dollar sent us. This refers only to seeds in packets, not in bulk. Each year we put up thousands of packets of seeds for free distribution among our customers, by adding liberally of them to orders. We will allow you a discount of ten cents per pound on vegetable seeds, such as are listed as prepaid, if you are willing to have them sent by express or freight at your expense. SMALL ORDERS.--If you only want a single packet, do not hesitate to send for it. We take as much pains to fill small orders promptly and correctly as we do large ones. Orders for Flower Plants and Nursery Stock, however, must amount to at least fifty cents. PLANT ORDERS.--Orders for plants will be filled as early in spring as we consider it safe to send them. If ordered for immediate shipment in severe weather they will be sent at purchaser's risk.

WHAT WE GUARANTEE.--That all money sent us for seed shall reach us if sent by registered letter, P. O. or express money order or bank draft, made payable to our order. That your order will be filled promptly and well. That goods ordered will reach you safely. KEEP A COPY of your order. Sometimes persons think that they have ordered articles which they have omitted, and blame us for not sending them. ABOUT WARRANTING.--We thoroughly test all our seeds and nothing is sent out which we do not believe to be good in every respect. Still, when it is considered how many are the contingencies on which the success of any crop depends, such as sowing too deep or too shallow, too wet or dry soil, unfavorable weather, insects, etc., our customers will readily see that it would be sheer folly for anyone to warrant them to produce a perfect crop, and we want it plainly understood that while we exercise the greatest care to have all seeds pure and reliable, and also true to name, we do not give any warranty express or implied. If the purchaser does not accept the seeds on these terms and conditions, they are to be returned at once, and the money that has been paid for same will be refunded. No officer, agent or employee of this company is authorized to make any warranty whatsoever. However, we have so much confidence in our seeds that we hereby agree to refill any retail order for vegetable or flower seeds free of charge should they prove otherwise than as we represent them. We know of no responsible seed firm in the world which guarantees seeds any further than this. Compare with other seed catalogues and you will find that we are right. OUR RESPONSIBILITY.--As this book will probably go into the hands of many who are unacquainted with us, this question will naturally arise, and in answer to the same we refer you by permission to the Valley National Bank of this city, to the postmaster, or to any of the various express companies. MARKET GARDENERS and others who buy VEGETABLE SEEDS IN BULK to the amount of $5.00 or more, are requested to send for our Market Gardeners' Price List. This list for market gardeners is intended only for large buyers, and is exclusively for those who order vegetable seeds alone by weight or measure amounting to $5.00 or over. Club orders which call for this amount of bulk seeds altogether are entitled to these prices.

WE ARE ALWAYS PLEASED TO RECEIVE SAMPLES OF ANY NEW, RARE OR SUPERIOR SEEDS YOU MAY SEND US FOR TRIAL.

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OUR STOCK.

Of vegetable seeds we are sure cannot be excelled either in quality or selection by any firm in the country. We exercise the greatest care in watching our growing crops, and secure the best growers to produce for us those varieties which can be grown to greater perfection in other parts of the world, visiting the crop during the growing season to make sure that it has been kept isolated and is pure and true to name. In this department will be found only such varieties as have proved after years of trial the best adapted to the soil and climate of Iowa and the central states. Every kind is recommended to our customers. When the selection is left to us we will send such sorts as we know will do well in your locality. Our packets are, we believe, as well filled as any reliable seed dealer's in the United States, and, in fact, a comparison has shown that they contain more seed, on the average, than those of any other firm whose packets we have secured. We pay the postage at these prices, except on Beans, Peas and Corn at the peck or bushel rates.

NOVELTIES.

A choice list of the best novelties will be found described on the colored pages in the center of this book.

ARTICHOKE.--Ger. Artischoke.

When traveling along the Pacific Coast last summer we found that this was one of their leading vegetables there. It was found on all the market stalls and is considered a great delicacy. It is a perennial producing the large flower heads, which are the part eaten, the second season and every year thereafter. The young stalks are also sometimes tied and blanched like celery, but they are not equal to the flower heads. Cook like asparagus and serve with cream or butter sauce. Sow seed early in hot-beds or box in the house, and when weather becomes settled transplant in rows four feet apart and two feet in the row. When started early it sometimes blooms the first year.

LARGE GREEN GLOBE.--The best variety for general use; buds large; scales green, very thick and fleshy. Pkt. 5c; oz. 25c; 1/4 lb. 90c.

ARTICHOKE ROOTS.--These are an entirely different plant from the above and used mainly for stock food. See description and price in Farm Seed Department.

BRUSSELS SPROUTS.--Ger. Spresssen-Kohl. One ounce will produce about 3,000 plants. Of the cabbage family, producing numerous heads on the stem of most delicious quality, as well as a cabbage-like head at the top. If you have never grown it, try it this year and you will be pleased. Use and cultivation same as winter cabbage. Pkts. contain about 800 seeds.

AMERICAN MAMMOTH.--A new and greatly superior variety of American growth which forms heads ready for picking about three weeks earlier than other varieties. It has the additional merit of making stronger plants and more heads. A profitable crop for market gardeners. Pkt. 10c, oz. 40c. ENGLISH.--Per pkt. 5c, oz. 15c.

BROCCOLI.--Ger. Broccoli. One ounce will produce about 3,000 plants.

Growth and habit like the Cauliflower, except that it is more hardy, and the heads are not as compact. Cultivate the same as Cauliflower.

EARLY PURPLE CAPE.--A popular sort; heads well and is very hardy. Pkt. 5c, oz. 30c.

EARLY LARGE WHITE.--Pkt. 5c, oz. 30c.

[Image] LARGE GREEN GLOBE ARTICHOKE. [Opposite side] [Image} AMERICAN MAMMOTH BRUSSELS SPROUTS.

ASPARAGUS.--Ger. Spargel. One ounce will sow forty feet of drill.

Asparagus is so easily grown and such a large quantity is produced on a small amount of ground that every garden should contain a bed. A bed ten feet square requiring 50 plants will give an abundant supply for any ordinary family. Soak the seeds 24 hours in tepid water; sow early in spring, in rows a foot apart; keep clean by frequent weeding and hoeing. Ask for circular giving instructions for making asparagus bed.

COLUMBIAN MAMMOTH WHITE.--A new and entirely distinct variety, that produces shoots which are white and stay white as long as fit for use. It is more robust and vigorous in habit, and throws up larger shoots and fully as many of them as Conover's Colossal and requires no earthing up in order to furnish the white shoots so much sought after. Per pkt. 5c, oz. 10c, 1/4 lb. 25c, lb. 75c.

PALMETTO.--Stalks frequently measure two inches in diameter, and, even when twelve inches long, are perfectly tender when cooked. Per pkt. 5c, oz. 10c, 1/4 lb. 20c, lb. 60c.

CONOVER'S COLOSSAL.--The standard variety. Pkt. 5c, oz. 10c, 1/4 lb. 15c, lb. 40c.

ASPARAGUS ROOTS.--See list of vegetable plants.

[Image] COLUMBIAN MAMMOTH WHITE ASPARAGUS

BORECOLE, or KALE.--Gen. [Ger.] Blatter-Kohl One ounce will produce about 3,000 plants.

A hardier vegetable than cabbage; excellent greens during winter and spring; splendid winter food for poultry. Is improved by frost. Cultivate same as Cabbage. For winter, sow in September, and treat as Spinach, giving it a light covering of straw or litter to protect from severe cold.

[Image] EXTRA CURLED MOSBACH KALE.

EXTRA CURLED MOSBACH.--Fine crimped leaves; light green color; admirable for garnishing. Best for cooking. Pkt. 5c, oz. 15c, 1/4 lb. 40c, lb. $1.25.

DWARF GERMAN GREEN.--Popular. Pkt. 5c, oz. 10c, 1/4 lb. 30c, lb. 75c.

[Image] WE PAY THE POSTAGE PLEASE REMEMBER. In comparing our prices with those of other dealers that we prepay the postage on all vegetable seeds except on Peas, Beans and Corn at the peck and bushel rates. We also prepay the charges on flower seeds, flower plants, bulbs and most other goods except where noted.

IOWA SEED COMPANY, DES MOINES, IOWA. 3.

[image] IMPROVED VALENTINE.

BEANS.--Dwarf Bush Varieties. One quart will sow one hundred feet of drill. Dwarf or Bush beans require no support, and should be planted in drills an inch and a half deep and drop the beans three inches apart in the drills. Beans are tender annuals, and cannot be planted until danger of frost is past. Keep clean, and do not hill up or hoe when wet. A sandy loam is the best. The half pint packages will be found very desirable for small families. We furnish pints at one-half the quart price. Price includes postage. See special prices by the peck or bushel on page 22. Packets contain about two ounces. IMPROVED EARLY VALENTINE.--About ten days darlier [earlier] than the common Early Valentine. In addition to this, it is more robust and vigorous, and produces the true, round, curved pods very abundantly. Unexcelled in quality and uniformity of ripening, nearly the whole crop can be taken at one picking, usually within 35 days after planting. Crop is quite short this year, and while apparently we have sufficient for ordinary demands, still stock may be exhausted late in season. Better order early if you prefer this sort. Pkt. 5c, 1/2 pt. 15c, qt. 45c. LONG YELLOW SIX WEEKS.--Very early and prolific; long, green, tender, flat pods; matures quickly. Pkt. 5c, 1/2 pt. 15c, qt. 35c. EARLY REFUGEE, OR THOUSAND TO ONE.--Most prolific green podded sort, thick and fleshy. Per pkt. 5c, 1/2 pt. 12c, qt. 35c. STRINGLESS GREEN POD BUSH.--The only stringless green pod bush bean in cultivation. Consequently it surpasses all others in crisp, tender flavor. The finely shaped, long, green pods are absolutely stringless, and when we add that the pods are ready to market two weeks earlier than the best stock of improved extra early Red Valentines, we are sure that Stringless Green Pod will supply a long felt want. It must prove of immense value, not only to the market gardener who wants to make more money, but also to the amateur who seeks a rare quality early for the home table. Per pkt. 5c, 1/2 pt. 20c, qt. 60c. ROGERS' LIMA WAX.--A decided novelty. Its bright, glossy foliage and bloom resemble Dwarf Lima. The pods are the broadest of all wax beans, of most excellent quality as snaps, and retain their bright and attractive appearance a long time after picking. Has a delicious Lima flavor. Pkt. 5c, 1/2 pt. 20c, qt. 60c.

DAVIS' WAX.--A new white, rustless, productive, wax-podded bean; pods flat, very long, white, straight and handsome; seeds clear white; excels all others in hardiness and productiveness. Valuable for market gardener's and canner's use. Pkt. 5c, 1/2 pt. 15c, qt. 50c. WARDWELL'S DWARF KIDNEY WAX.--Earlier, more productive than Golden Wax; rust proof, vigorous, pods large, showy, tender and stringless, excellent flavor and good for either snap or shell. Pkt. 5c, 1/2 pt. 15c, qt. 50c. BLACK WAX.--Popular with market gardeners. Per pkt. 5c, 1/2 pt. 15c, qt. 40c. 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. 15c, qt. 50c.

[image] HENDERSON'S DWARF LIMA.

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 to the fact that the variety we have is a great 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. 45c. SCARLET FLAGEOLET WAX.--This is really one of the most valuable varieties for either private or market garden purposes. It is as early as either the Black or Golden Wax sorts, and has a peculiar value in the fact that it is nearly always exempt from rust. The pods are often a foot in length, exceedingly succulent, stringless and tender. It is an enormously productive variety. Per pkt. 5c, 1/2 pt. 15c, qt. 50c.

[image] YOSEMITE MAMMOTH

CALIFORNIA BRANCH, or PROLIFIC TREE.--This is quite a valuable variety for field culture. Grows about 20 inches high, has stiff, upright branches and bears immensely, sometimes yields 45 bu. per acre. The beans closely resemble the White Navy. Per pkt. 5c, 1/2 pt. 12c, qt. 35c.

YOSEMITE MAMMOTH WAX.--Pods frequently attain a length of ten to fourteen inches, with the thickness of a man's finger, and are nearly all solid pulp, the seeds being very small when the pods are fit for use. The pods are a rich golden color and are absolutely stringless, cooking tender and delicious. The cut shows one half of a pod, and exhibits the size and fleshy thickness of this monster wax bean. Extremely productive. Per pkt. 5c, 1/2 pt. 20c, qt. 60c. BURPEE'S BUSH LIMA.--A dwarf or bush form of 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 from 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. LARGE WHITE MARROW.--Excellent as a shelled bean; cooks in twenty minutes. Grown very largely for the market. The beans are ivory white and double as large as the Navy. Pkt. 5c, 1/2 pt. 12c, qt. 35c.

[image] EARLY MOHAWK.

EARLY MOHAWK.--Very early and will stand more cold than most bush varieties. Vines large and stout with very large coarse leaves; will stand a slight frost. This variety is largely grown in the southern states for northern markets. The pods are from 5 to 6 inches long; the seeds, when ripe, drab with purple spots. Pkt. 5c, 1/2 pt. 15c, qt. 40c.

[image] BURPEE'S NEW STRINGLESS GREEN POD