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4. SEED CATALOGUE AND GARDEN GUIDE.

[image] GOLDEN CLUSTER WAX.

POLE BEANS.
Plant from five to six seeds in each hill, about two inches deep; one quart will plant 100 to 150 hills.
GOLDEN CARMINE.--See illustration on cover and description on page 101. Pkt. 10c, ½ pint 20c, quart 65c.
GOLDEN CLUSTER WAX.--In our tests this has proved to be the best of all wax pole beans. It bears profusely its long golden-yellow pods in clusters of three to six from bottom to top of pole, and continues in bearing from the middle of July till the vines are cut by frost. Pods are seven to eight inches long and three-fourths of an inch in width. Although the pods are quite flat they are fleshy, absolutely stringless and very brittle, while their flavor is delicious. Pkt. 5c, ½ pt. 15c, qt. 50c; by express ½ pk. $1.25, pk. $2.25.
OLD HOMESTEAD.--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. Can be grown with corn to good advantage. Pkt. 5c, ½ pt. 15c, qt. 50c.; by express, ½ pk. $1.15, pk. $2.00.
LAZY WIFE.--The most popular pole bean and we presume it derived its name from its immense productiveness, and from the ease with which they are cooked. The pods, of medium dark-green color, are produced in great abundance, and measure frem [from] 4½ to to 6 inches in length. The pods retain their rich, tender and stringless qualities until nearly ripe. The white beans make excellent winter shell beans. Pkt. 5c, ½ pt. 20c, qt. 60c; by express ½ pk. $1.25, pk. $2.25.
CUT SHORTS.--The old-fashioned corn field bean, so popular and often so difficult to obtain. Pkt. 5c, ½ pt. 15c, qt. 45c; by express, ½ pk. 90c, pk. $1.60.

[image] LAZY WIFE'S POLE BEAN

MAMMOTH HORTICULTURAL POLE.--Of the highest quality as a shell bean, either green or dry. Pods very large, bright carmine, lightly streaked, very handsome and exceedingly productive. Deserves more general planting. The mammoth pods are striped and splashed with exceedingly brilliant crimson. The beans when fit for use are of immense size. Pkt. 5c, ½ pt. 20c, qt. 60c; by express, ½ pk. $1.25, pk. $2.25.
WHITE DUTCH CASE KNIFE.--Yields an immense crop of handsome flat white beans of excellent flavor. Cooks easily. Pkt. 5c, ½ pt. 15c, qt. 50c; by express, ½ pk. $1.15, pk. $2.00.
YARD LONG.--Produces pods 18 to 24 inches long. Pkt. 10c.

[image] EXTRA EARLY CRIMSON GLOBE BEET.

KING OF THE GARDEN LIMA.--An improvement on large White Lima, and the finest stock for market gardeners. When not closely planted they set their pods early at the bottom of the pole, producing a continuous bloom and fruitage to the end of the season. Pods of enormous size. Pkt. 5c, ½ pt. 15c, qt. 50c; by express, ½ pk. $1.15, pk. $2.00.
SCARLET RUNNER.--Valuable for table use or as an ornamental vine. Pkt. 5c, ½ pt. 20c, qt. 60c; by express, ½ pk. $1.25, pk. $2.25.

BEETS. One ounce sows 50 feet of drill. Four to six pounds for one acre.
For early, sow as soon as ground can be worked, and about the middle of May for general crop, in drills fifteen inches apart and one and one-half inches deep. As the plants grow, thin to six inches in drills. The young plants make excellent greens. The seed will germinate more freely if soaked in warm water twenty-four hours before sowing; but care should be taken not to plant soaked seed in very dry ground. The soil should be a deep rich loam.
MARKET GARDENERS.--The best and most profitable table variety. See description with novelties. Pkt. 5c, oz. 10c, ¼ lb. 25c, lb. 75c.
EARLY CRIMSON GLOBE.--A very early variety, generally of spherical form. Skin very smooth and it is as handsome a beet as you can imagine. It is of a rich, deep red color shading to purple. Cooks readily, is very fine grained, and flavor cannot be surpassed. When cooked it is of even, dark color throughout and is attractive when on the table. Of uniform shape and size, desirable for selling in bulk in the fall and for bunching. Pkt. 5c, oz. 10c, ¼ lb. 25c, lb. 75c.
CROSBY'S IMPROVED EGYPTIAN.--We believe this to be the earliest variety in existence. It was originated by Josiah Crosby, a market gardener for the Boston market, and is a great improvement on the old Egyptian, being thicker, handsomer and more regular in shape, smooth, with very small tops and small tap root; perfect shape when small, being good for bunching; very popular with Des Moines market gardeners for this purpose. Pkt. 5c, oz. 10c, ¼ lb. 25c, lb. 70c.

EDMAND'S BLOOD TURNIP.--One of the best varieties grown for main crop. The roots are round, very smooth, of good marketable size, and for table use no variety can excel it in fine quality. The skin is deep blood red; the flesh is also dark red and sweet and tender. Pkt. 5c, oz. 10c, ¼ lb. 20c, lb. 60c.
DEWING'S IMPROVED BLOOD TURNIP.--An improvement on the old Early Blood Turnip. Globe-shape, deep blood-red color, fine flavor, a good keeper for main crop. Pkt. 5c, oz. 10c, ¼ lb. 20c, lb. 50c.
ECLIPSE.--This variety has become exceedingly popular and is one of the best early sorts. It possesses all the qualities requisite in a first-class beet, and is of a uniform, globular shape. The roots are of a bright, glossy red, fine-grained and delicious with none of that earthy flavor so objectionable in many varieties. Pkt. 5c, oz. 10c, ¼ lb. 20c, lb. 60c.
LONG DARK BLOOD.--Our stock of this standard variety is greatly improved, smooth, sweet and tender. Pkt. 5c, oz. 10c, ¼ lb. 20c, lb. 50c.
SWISS CHARD, or Silver Beet.--A distinct vegetable and much superior to the common beet for greens, which are produced soon after planting. Later the leaves grow very large, with broad, flat, beautiful, white, wax-like stems and mid-ribs, which may be cooked like asparagus. Pkt. 5c, oz. 10c, ¼ lb. 25c, lb. 75c.

[image] CROSBY'S IMPROVED EGYPTIAN.

REMEMBER THAT WE PREPAY THE POSTAGE ON BEANS AT THE QUART RATE.