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Seed Catalogue and Garden Guide.

Old Homestead Pole Beans.
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 a silvery green color. The pods, though large, cook tender and melting, and we can recommend it as the best green pole bean. 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. 25c, qt. 60c.

Stringless Green Pod Bush Bean.
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. 10c, pt. 20c, qt. 70c.

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Burpee's New Stringless Green Pod
Astro
Old Homestead Beans.
Giant Scarlet Ground Cherry.

Giant Scarlet Ground Cherry.
(Physalis Francheti.) A most remarkable novelty which we now offer for the first time. The plant is of good size, and loaded with fruit which is at first green then changing to bright yellow, then orange, and finally to a bright scarlet. The fruit is fully three times the size of the ordinary ground cherry, and very rich and striking in appearance, being really worthy a place in the flower garden. The fruit is excellent in flavor and desirable either for use as fresh fruit on the table or for preserving. Don't fail to try it; it will please you. Per pkt. 10c.

Roger's Lima Wax Bean.
A decided novelty which we now offer for the first time. 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. 10c, 1/2 pt. 25c.

Astro Cucumber.
A novelty of the hightest merit, and one which has greatly pleased our market garden customers, some claiming that they made more money from a crop of these grown early in the hot beds than from any other crop, as they sell quickly at $1.00 per dozen. They do excellently well under glass, yielding a continual daily picking of large, perfect shaped fruits, eight to twelve inches long, almost solid throughout. Excellent for slicing, solid and crisp. With common outdoor culture in the summer, it produces large cucumbers fifteen to eighteen inches in length with very few seeds. Seed will always be expensive, as it produces only eight to twelve pounds per acre, while the White Spine and other common sorts produce 200 to 500 pounds. In packets only, containing twenty seeds each. Per pkt. 10c, 6 for 50c.