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38th Annual Catalogue
1908
[image: a white rose] Kaiserin
[image: a pinkish red rose] American Beauty
[image: a golden yellow rose] England's Favorite
[image: a pink rose] Killarney
[image: a woman sniffing a rose]
International Rose Collection 75¢ Postpaid.
2 Year Olds $1.75
[image: a red rose] King Oscar
[image: a yellow rose] Marechal Neil
Iowa Seed Co.
Only One Quality The Best
Seedsmen to The American People.
Des Moines, Iowa, U.S.A.
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International Rose Collection
The Rose is without doubt the world's most popular flower and almost every civilized country has a favorite variety of its own. It is with great pleasure that we offer this year this choice collection. The American Beauty, of course, heads the list, but our collection contains also the favorite varieties of the English, German, Irish, Swedish and French Nations.
No matter what else you may order this year, do not fail to put on your list one of these collections, as these varieties will make a permanent improvement to your grounds.
This collection really should sell for $1.50 in the ordinary sized plants but we have propagated a large number this season so that we are enabled to furnish them at the low price of 75¢ for one strong plant each of the six varieties.
American Beauty. - Our national favorite and of course we consider it the most beautiful of all. It is unequaled tor large size, beauty and fragrance. They do well grown in the open ground, and with slight protection live throughout the winter in the northern states. Flowers are very double of deep brilliant red shading to a rich crimson carmine. Has the true over-blooming qualities. Strong young plants ea. 15c, large two-year-old dormant plants 35c ea, doz. $3.25.
England's Favorite. - Our attention was immediately attracted by this charming, peculiar colored rose when we were traveling through Northern England where this variety is very popular. The outside petals are a rich, deep golden yellow, shading to deep coppery yellow toward the center of the flower. A hardy climber. Each 20c, doz. $1.75; two-year-old plants each 40c, doz. $3.50.
Kaiserin. - In Germany roses are very popular and it is not surprising that they have named this, their very choicest variety, the Kaiserin Augusta Victoria as it is decidedly the finest white everblooming hardy garden rose. It is not of a shiny, snowy whiteness but a soft pearly white lightly tinted with lemon at the center. It has proven to be the most free and continuous bloomer and most hardy of any double white rose that we know of. Buds are of faultless shape developing into large, very double flowers of exquisite fragrance. Each 15c, doz, $1.50; large two-year-old plants, each 30c, doz. $3.00.
Killarney. - For many years the Bridesmaid and La France have been the most popular pink varieties, but last season a new rose called the Killarney came to the front which is fast pushing out the other sorts with the city florists and the cut flowers sell at about fifty per cent higher prices. This is owing to the fact that the buds are especially long and the color of the rose is a peculiarly bright, living, rosy pink, different and more beautiful than any other pink rose that has ever been on the market. It is a free bloomer, easily grown, and of strong, healthy constitution, and we believe will produce as many flowers to the plant as any variety on our list. Each 20c, doz. $1.75; large two-year-old plants each 40c, doz. $3.50.
Marechal Neil. - The grand old French variety which is ever beautiful and of surpassing fragrance. It is a climbing rose which, when well cultivated, will produce an immense number of flowers and we have known single plants to have on more than five hundred roses at one time. They are hardy in the South but will not stand our severe winters here, and therefore must be taken in and kept dormant during the winter or can be kept growing in the house or conservatory. They are excellent winter bloomers. Each 15c, doz. $1.50; large two-year-old plants each 35c, doz. $3.25.
King Oscar. - This is one of those rich, dark, velvety, crimson roses which are so surpassingly beautiful and this new variety named after King Oscar, of Sweden, it seems to us, surpasses any heretofore offered. This is a hardy strong growing variety and flowers as freely as any dark colored sort, though it will not produce as many flowers during the season as the Kaiserin or Killarney. It is of such a rich, dark color that in comparison with other varieties it appears almost a maroon black. Each 20c, doz. $1.75; large two-year-old plants each 40c, doz. $3.50.
International Rose Collection. —
Consists of one strong plant each of the above six varieties for only 75 cents, or a large sized two-year-old plant of each ready to begin blooming at once, for only $1.75, sent prepaid to any town in the United States or Canada. Four collections for $5.75.
About Ourselves
The first question which comes to the mind of the prospective buyer ahout any seed house is "are they reliable." Almost everyone in Iowa who uses seeds knows the Iowa Seed Company and our Choice Iowa Seeds are sown in every neighhorhood in the state, but as this catalogue goes to many in all parts of the world who have not dealt with us, a few words about our business may help us to become better acquainted. This business was established abont [about] forty years ago, and it has grown until now it occupies a permanent place in the seed trade of the country.
The business has been under the same management many years past, the present manager having been connected with the company thirty years. During all this time we have been constantly in close touch with the farmers and gardeners, and know what will prove the most satisfactory in the various localities. Success in the seed trade depends almost entirely on the confidence of the people, and our customers have learned that they can rely implicitly on us.
Our Establishments.
This business has now reached such proportions and is so diversified that it is impossible to conduct it all under one roof, and the accompanying illustrations will help you appreciate our efforts in building up one of the most substantial business enterprises in the world to-day.
The Iowa Seed Store is so well known in Des Moines that it would be difficult to find even a child in this city of 80,000 inhabitants who does not known [know] its location. It occupies the large building at 613-615 Locust street within three or four blocks of the postoffice, express offices and principal railroad passenger stations. The large store room is full of interest to everyone who has a farm or garden, or who loves flowers. Here are located the offices and correspondence department. During our busy season we receive 2,000 to 5,000 letters every day. and it requires seventeen typewnters to answer the correspondence. We are always glad to have our customers call and examine our stock and manner of doing business.
32 new greenhouses erected during the past five years are devoted exclusively to growing plants for the mail order trade, and they contain a greater variety of plants than any other greenhouse establishment in the west. Hundreds of plant orders are filled daily during the busy season; small plant orders can be mailed direct from the branch postoffice nearby. They are located convenient to the electric car line and fronting on Kingman Boulevard, one of the finest driving streets in the city. Here we devote fully 12 acres to flowers, making the finest display to be found in the west.
The warehouse on South Fifth street we have occupied for many years for storage purposes only. Large lots of seed which come in after harvest, are thoroughly cleaned and then put away in this building and held in readiness for the spring trade.
Mail order building. — Our trade has increased so constantly that we purchase the ground at 208-210-212 S. Eighth St. about six blocks from the store, and erected thereon a large trade. The railway tracks beside the building give us excellent facilities for handling carload lots, and we are centrally located between the various freight depots, so that small shipments can be made promptly. Our machinery is operated by four electric motors, and we claim that our mills for cleaning seed cannot be surpassed. We can readily fill 2,000 to 4,000 orders per day in this building, and they are handled in such a careful way that errors seldom occur. Most of our employees have been with us many years and appreciate the importance of each order, no matter whether small or large, and no "green hands" handle seeds in bulk.
Seed farms. — It requires the seed crop from about 8,600 acres to supply our trade and the farms are widely isolated so as to avoid any danger of mixtures. Some seeds cannot be grown to advantage here, and we contract with practical seed growers elsewhere to grow for us. Our special Seed Corn House is illustrated on page 24 of this catalogue.
[image: a number of buildings owned by the Iowa Seed Company]
Establishments of the Iowa Seed Company Des Moines Iowa
Ware House
Green Houses
Seed Store
Offices
Mail Order Department
Seed Farms - 8600 Acres
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Moil1es.lowa. January. 1908 To
Our Friends and Patrons: ITH HEARTY GREETINGS and well wishes to our many customers in all parts of the country, we send out this, our annual messenger. It is always a pleasure to meet our customers, many of whom visit our store every spring, but by far the larger number of them we never see as our trade is so world-wide ln extent, and therefore, our only means of talking with them Is through this, our annual cat!ogue. Most heartily do we thank you for the liberal patronage received which is much larger than ever before during the history of our busness. The past season' s seed crops have been, as a whole, very satisfactory, the principal shortages being in onion seed, peas, and almost all kinds of clover and grass seeds which are consequently somewhat higher in price. Of almost everything else the crops were abundant, they were harvested in excellent condition, are of superior quality, and we are 'prepared to furnish our customers this season with best seeds, we believe, that they ever had. We are constantly striving to make our CHOICE IOWA SEEDS unexcelled and our highest ambition is to merit the title whioh has so ofte' been applled to us, namely: ''SEEDSMEN TO T H E AMERICAN PEOPLE, "
By this we mean not only native .born Americans, but all residents of this country. For many years we had thought that our business was established by Mr. S. L. Fuller in 1870, but. the following letter just received from Mr. Geo. A. Jewett, president of the Jewett Type-writer Co" and of the Jewett Lumber Co" explains itself: 3 DES Moines
I oove blYUflht seeds every year from your company silWe 1871, atter. Mr, Fuller started the business at Des MoinesilIaye always fbund your seeds good.-w.1S Maxwell,Lawndale, Tex. loo'Ve been a customer Of the lowa Seed Company since 1875, and always intend to be. Both they and their seeds are reliable.-J.C. Jessup,Fairmount, ~ lndiana. . I ha'Ve now been purchasing seeds ~ rom you for 30 yearg and" -veJoun" f ,.... ... tllem true to name and of goo quality. I recommend your seeds to aU gardener8. - Henry Rollinson, Dea
Dea Mmnes,lowa, Sept. 18, 1907. Iowa Seed 00. Des Moines, Iowa, Dear .Sirs: 1 have been much interested in watching .the progre8s of your company for many years pa,t and am g.ad to see toot you. are making such a 1'api<t advancement. , You ' may '/Wt krwwit but I WaB one of the founders of your business through oo'Ving 'been connected with the firm of Brown & SpoffordJ who started the first' seed bminess in Des Moines in 1865, qnd sola same to Mr. Fuller in 1870, I notice that you oove been frtt,n,g tI~e estab· lishment of your business only from Mr. lI¥lle~ s t,me, but ' you reall.y shml./d date same from actual begtnn~ng ~n 1865. Occasionally I see some Of the farmers to whom. J sold seeds O'Ver forty years ago, arid it is, 1 aBsure you, pleasant to '/Wtice that the Inwa Seed Oompany rww hag B'UCh a good name not onlll locally but thrlYUfl hout the country. With /'est wishes for your future' B'UCcess. 1 remain.. Yours truly, qEO. A. JEWETT.
DURING the past few yel!;rsour trade has .extended so greatly Gmo. A. JEWETT, that in order to give It· b~tter attentIOn we have taken Founder Iowa Seed Co. into the company three of our most valuable IJ?-OO who h~e a ersonal interest in seeing tha' . been-employed by us m responsible positionS for 16 years, 12 y!lars and I) years respec~iy~ly. ThIS giving t em u~ atrona e and wishing yOU a . g, l)Ur oustomers are well treated. Again thanking you for past · wors, respectfully soliCltmg a ,continuance pf yo P hppy and prosperous New Year, we remain. ' , XOoogv'.A. SEED 0 0 . M, KURTZ WElL, President. . KURTZ WElL Directors CHAS. N. PAGE, 7'reasurerandManager. J. N. ALBRIGHT, GEO. C. BAKER. AND GEO. L, , .
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SUGGESTIONS TO CUSTOMERS. WlIAT WE GV.&l!.AlfTEE.-That all money sent us for seed s)lall r each us If sent by registered letter, P. O. or express maney order,or bank draft, made payable to our order. That your oider wlll be filled promptly and well. That goods ordered will reach you safely. Xe.p a copy of your order. Sometimes persons think t.h ey have ordered articles which they have omitted and blame us for not sending them. ABOVT W ARRAliTDrG.--We thoroughly test all our seeds and nothing is sent out which we !Io not believe to be good in every r espel;t. 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 Boil, unfavorable,' weather. insects, etc.,onr customers will rea411y ·see that it would be shee,' folly for anyone to warrant them to l'>roduce a perfoot crop, .a nd we want it plainly understood that while we exer~lse great care to have all seeds pure and reliable, and also true to name, We do not give any warranty, express or Implied. If the purchager 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 wlll be refunded. No officer, agent or employee of thiG company Is authorized to make any warranty whatsoever. However, we have sO 'mucbconfidence 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 theIl1-._ We know of no responsible s eed firm in the world whlch guarantees sseds any further than this. Compare with other· seed catalo!rues and you will find that we are right. ' JU.RXET GAlIJlENERS and others who buy vegetable seed.s In bulk to the amount of ~.OO or mpre, are requested to send for Ollr Ma"ket Gardenera' Price List. This list for market gardeners is.!ntended only for large buyers, and is exclusively for those wbo order vegetable seeds alone by weight or meaSure amounting to ~.OO or over. Club orders which call for this amount of bulk seeds altogether are entitled to these prices. PREPAID ltAILROAD STATIONS.--Many of our farmer customers live at Prepaid Railroad Stations where there are no agents. In such cases we must request them to send sufficient money to prepay freight charges on heavy shlpm'lnts, also in cases where perishable or other !rOods are ordered to be sent by freight or express to such great distances that cost of transportation wlll nearly or quite equal the value of goods. FOREIGN ORDEltS.--Our trade with European countries, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, the West Indies and other foreign countries, is increasing constantly. and while It is stlllsoIDewhat expensive and Slow .. to send large shipments by freight, small lots can be sent by mall quite easily. We are willing to prepay the postage On all vel'etable and flower seeds otIered by the packet or· ounce. at the prices named in this catalogue, to Canada. MeXico, all parts of Europe, and all countries of the Postal Union. Not more than 12 ounces oan be sent in each package.
OUD EARLY.-The best time to order is jnst as soon as you receive this catalogue, as we can always give your o.rders more of our perBonal attention if they come in before the rush of the spring trade. Flease 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. i", quite larg.. Posta!re stamps received as cash. SHIP!,IJrG.-There are five express companies and tifteenra!1road lines at De .. MOines, so that quick shipments can be made to ;my town In the United States. It is well to remember that express charges are usually much higher on heavy goods, and you should order them by fast freight. ClIAllGES PREPAID.-All Vegetable and Flower Seeds, Bulbs and Plants, except those noted, are sent prepaid by mall or express by the quickest and most direct routes unless ordered otherwise, and we guarantee their safe arrival. Seeds sold by the peck or bushel, field seeds, potatoes. Implements and other heavy goods arl' sen.t by frelgpt or express. The terms "by express" and" by freight" mean that· goods are shipped at purchaser's expense, not prepaid, DELIVERY,--The ·polnt of dell very of all goods is on cars at Des Moines. When we quote a. dell vered price it means simply that we prepay the freight express charges or postage. OUR PRICEB.-our constant aim is to make the high••t quality the first consideration. and next to put our prices as low as good seed can be sold. PREMIUMS.-on all orderFl for seeds In packets the purchaser may selecU1.1I6 worth for eachoDl. dollar sent us. This refers only to seeds In p.ackets, not In bulk and we., do not send plants or other ,goo<:1s as a premium on seed orders. This eliBGOunt doe. not apply to Co.lections. ~f any kind nor other special otIers. Each year we put UP. thousands of packets of seeds for free distribUtion among our customers, by adding llberally of them to orders. We w1l1 allow you a discount of ten cents peT pound on Tegetabl!i seeds, such as are listed as prepaid, if you are 'villing to have them sent by express or freight at yourexpenee. SKAT.L ORDERS.-If you only want a Single packet, do not hesitate to <!end for it. We take as much pains to flilsmall orders pramptlyand correctly as we do large Ones. Orders for Flower Plants and Nursery Stock, \lowever, must amount te at least twenty-five cents, PLA)fT ORDERS.-orders for plants wlll be filled as early in sprln.. as we consider It safe to send them. If ordered for immediate shipment tn severe weather they will be sent at purchaser's risk. on RESPO)fSIBILITY -As this book wlll probably go into the hands of many who are ulOacqualnted with us,thls question wlllnaturally arise, and In answe~ to !!lame we refer you, by permission, to the Century Savings Bank, ()f this city, to the postmaster, or to any express company.
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VEGETABLE SEEDS
[Image (left): Seedlings planted in rows, labelled from left to right as radish, pepper, onion, leek, lettuce and cabbage. Subtitled "SEED TESTING AND TRIALS."]
After more than a third of a century of seed growing and selecting and comparing with stock from other dealers, we are thoroughly convinced that our stock of vegetable seeds cannot be excelled either in quality or selection. We watch our growing crops with great care, taking pains to isolate and keep pure and true to name. Every variety listed is desirable and has our recommendation. The packets are, we believe, as well filled as any reliable seed dealers 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. We make it a rule to carefully test all seeds as soon as received from the grower, or as soon as they are brought in from our seed farms. We also carry on extensive trials on our grounds by which we are enabled to offer only those strains of seeds which come up to the standard of purity and excellence, and are of the highest vitality, and the result is that we very rarely have complaints. Our Choice Iowa Seeds are sure to please.
A CHOICE LIST OF THE BEST NOVELTIES ARE DESCRIBED ON THE COLORED PAGES IN THE CENTER OF THIS BOOK.
ASPARAGUS. 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 seed 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 growing. COLUMBIAN MAMMOTH WHITE.- A new and entirely distinct variety that produces shoots which are white and stay white as long as fit to 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, 3/4 lb. 25c. lb. 75c. PALMETTO.- Stalks frequently measure two inches in diameter, and even when twelve inches long, are perfectly tender when cooked. Pkt 5c oz. 10c. 1/4 lb. 20c. lb. 50c. CONOVER'S COLOSSAL.- The standard variety. Pkt. 5c, oz. 10c, 3/4 lb. 15c. lb, 45c. ASPARAGUS ROOTS. - We can furnish strong roots of the Conover Colossal a 25 per dozen: 1.00 per 100. Columbian Mammoth White 30c per doz. $. 25 per 100 postpaid. See page 23.
[Image (below): 8 asparagus spears stood upright, wrapped in two pieces of string. Subtitled "COLOMBIAN MAMMOTH ASPARAGUS".]
ARTICHOKE. This vegetable is a great delicacy, highly valued in all parts of Europe, and also one of the most prominent table vegetables in California and other parts of this country. It is a perennial, producing the large flower heads, which is the part eaten, the second season and every year thereafter. Sow seed early in hotbeds or boxes in the house, and when weather becomes settled transplant in rows four feet apart and two feet apart in the rows. When started early it sometimes blooms the first year. I.ARGE GREEN GLOBE.- The best variety for general use; buds large; scales green, very thick and fleshy. Pkt. 10c, oz. 35c, 1/4 lb, $1.00. ARTICHOKE ROOTS.- These are an entirely different plant from the above and used mainly for stock food. See description in Farm Seed Department. Per lb, 25c, 3 lbs, 60c postpaid. By freight pk. 75c, bu. $2.25.
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. It is not desirable for warm or dry countries, but is of special value in the North. Cultivate the same as Cauliflower. EARLY LARGE WHITE.- The most popular sort. Has medium sized creamy white heads. Pkt. 5c, oz. 35c.
[Image (above): Multiple artichoke heads on a table. Subtitled "LARGE GREEN GLOBE ARTICHOKE".]
BRUSSELS SPROUTS. One ounce win produce about 3,000 plants. Of the cabbage family, producing numerous heads on the stern, of most delicious quality, as well as cabbage-like head at the top. Use and cultivate the same as winter cabbage. AMERICAN MAMMOTH.- A new and greatly superior variety of American growth which forms heads teady for picking about three weeks earlier than other varieties. It makes stronger plants and more heads. A profitable crop for market gardeners. Pkt. 10c. oz. 30c, 1/4 lb. $1.00. ENGLISH.- Pkt. 5c, oz. 15c, 1'4 lb. 45c. BORECOLE or KALE. One ounce will produce about 3,000 plants. A hardier vegetable than cabbage; excellent for greens during winter and spring; splendid winter food for poultry. Cultivate like cabbage. EXTRA CURLED MOSBACK.- Fine, crimped leaves, light green, admirable for garnishing. Best cooking. Pkt. 5c, oz. 15c, 1/4 lb. 40c, lb. $1.25. DWARF GERMAN GREEN or SIBERIAN.- Popular. Pkt. 5c, oz. 10c, 1/4 lb. 25c. lb. 75c. THOUSAND HEADED.- Grown mainly for forage. See description elsewhere. Pkt. 5c, 1/4 lb. 15c, lb. 50c
[Image (above): Brussels sprouts on the plant, with bushy leaves at the top. Subtitled "BRUSSELS SPROUTS".]
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35 VARIETIES BEST GARDEN VEGETABLES.
ALL GOOD DESIRABLE SORTS - SURE TO PLEASE YOU.
Consists of one full-sized packet each of Improved Golden Wax Beans, Old Homestead Pole Beans, Market Gardner's Beet, Henderson's Snowball Cauliflower, Washington Wakefield Cabbage, Shortstem Drumhead Cabbage, Oxheart Carrot, White Plume Celery, Early Cory Corn, Country Gentlemen Corn, Perfect White Spine Cucumber, Improved Ground Cherry, American Mammoth Brussells Sprouts, Page's Striped Rice Pop Corn, Continuity Lettuce, Improved Hanson Lettuce, Rocky Ford Musk Melon, Duke Jones Watermelon, Large Red Wetherfield Onion, Mammoth Prizetaker Onion, Nott's Excelsior Peas, Early Scarlet Globe Radish, White Icicle Radish, Improved Table Guernsey Parsnip, Ruby King Pepper, Early Crookneck Squash, Long Standing Spinach, Mammoth Sandwich Island Salsify, Market Gardener's Parsley, Bond's Early Minnesota Tomato, Matchless Tomato, White Egg Turnip, Purple Top Strap Leaf Turnip, Monarch Ruta Baga, and Vine Peach.
Total 35 Full-Sized Packets sent Postpaid for $1.00. At regular catalogue price they amount to about $2.00. NOTICE.- These collections are all put up ready for mailing before our busy season begins and therefore cannot be changed or divided.
IT IS A BARGAIN! CAN ONE DOLLAR BE BETTER INVESTED?
[Image (right): a kale plant with lots of bushy leaves. Subtitled "EXTRA CURLED MOSBACK KALE."]
SET OUT A BED OF ASPARAGUS THIS YEAR AND HAVE IT FRESH DAILY.
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IOWA SEED COMPANY, DES MOINES, IowA. [center column] BEANS. Dwarf Bush Varieties. One quart wilt sow 100 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. A sandy loam is the best. The half pint packages will be found very desirable tor small families. We furnish pints at ·ne-halt the quart price. Packages contain about two ounces. Price includes postage except at peek, and half peek, rates. Deduct 15c from qt. rate if to be shipped by express. All varieties of beans are scarce owing to the crop failure in many sections.
ERFURT EARLY PROLIFIC BROAD.- See novelties. Per pkt. 100c, 1/2 pint 20c, quart 65c.
IMPROVED EARLY VALENTINE.-About ten days 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 cen be taken at one picking, usually within thirty-five days after planting. Pkt.50, Yo pt. 150. qt. 45c; by express or freight, Yo pk. 850. pk. $1.25,
STRINGLESS GREEN POD.-The only stringless green pod bush bean in cultivation. Consequently it surpasses all others in crisp, tender fiavor. The finely shaped, loag green pods are absolutely stringless, and are ready to market two weeks earlier than the Valentines. It is of immense value, not only to the market gardener but also to the amn,tnur who seeks a rare quality early for the home table. Pkt. 5c, Yo pt. 15c, qt. 500; by express. Yo pk. $1.00. pk. $1.75.
[image - Black and white image of bean pods and leaves] IMPROVED GOLDEN WAX
[left column] [image improved valentins beans and leaves] IMPROVED GOLDEN VALENTINE
IMPROVED GOLDEN WAX-In spite of all tbe new sorts of beans being introduced every year, our trade calls for more Golden Wax than and other variety. This great popularity is due largely to the fact that the variety we have is a great improvement on the old Golden Wax, having larger pods and being more prolific. 'l'his improved stock is one of the handsomest beans we have ever seen, the pods a dark, rich golden yellow color and of perfect shape. For family or market you make no mistake in planting them. Pkt. 5c, 1/2 pt. 15c. qt, 50c; by express, 1/2 pk, $1.10, pk. $1 85.
DAVIS WHITE 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. One of the best tor shipping as snap beans and of the greatest value as a mar· ket variety, The length. uniformly perfect shape and fine color of the pods and the clear, white seed, make this one of the best for canners. It is just what they want, a long, straight, clear white pod which does not discolor in canning. Pkt. 5c, 1/2pt. 20c, qt. 60c; by express, 1/2 pk. $1.10. pk. $2.00.
CHALLENGE BLACK WAX.-Earlier, more productive and of better qual [illegible]; than the old Black Wax. Pods tender, round, fleshy and stringless. Pkt. 5c, ~ pt. 15c, qt. 50c; by express. 1/2 pk, $1.10, pk. $1.85.
EARLY REFUGEF, or THOUSAND TO ONE.-Most prolific green podded sort, thick and fleshy. Pkt. 5c, 1/2 pt. 15c. qt. 45c; by express, 1/2 pk. 85c. pk. $1.50,
PROLIFIC TREE, or California Branch.- A valuable variety for field culture. Grows about 20 inches high, has stiff, upright branches and bears immensely, sometimes yielding 45 bu. per acre. The beans closely remsemble White Navy. Pkt. 3c, 1/2 pt. 12c, qt. 35c; by express, 1/2 pk. 75c pk. $1.25.
[center column] LARGE WHITE MARROW. - Fine as a shelled bean. The beans are ivory as the Navy. Pkt. 5c, 1/2 pt. 15c, qt. 45c: by express 1/3 pk. 75c, pk. $1.25.
IMPROVED NAVY, or Boston Pea.-An improvement. over the old-time Navy bean Pkt. 5c, 1/2 pt. 12c, qt. 35c; by express 1/3 pk. 60c, pk. $1.00.
WARDELL'S KIDNEY WAX.-One of the earliest, hardiest, and most productive of all wax beans. Yields a large crop of long, nearly straight, broad and creamy white. handsome pods. They are of good quality and always command a ready sale. Pkt. 5c, 1.2 pt. 20c, ct.60c; by express, 1/2 pk.$1.25, pk. $2.25.
CHINESE SAGO BEANS. -A very small variety from China, which is quite a curiosity. Pkt. 10c. 1/2 pt. 30c.
THE IMPROVED NAVY BEANS LISTED ABOVE ARE A PROFITABLE CROP FOR FARMERS.
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[image two stringless green beans] STRINGLESS GREEN POD.
HENDERSON'S BUSH LIMA -Grows in compact bush form. producing enormous crops of deliscious Lima beans which can be as easilygathered as the common garden bush bean; is at least two weeks earlier than any of the climing Limas; produces a continuous crop from the middle of July until frost. Enormously productive. Pkt. 5c, 1/2 pt. 20c. qt. 66c; by express, 1/2 pk. $1.25, pk. $2.25.
BURPEE'S BUSH LIMAA dwarf of bush form of the true large Lima which is of great value. They are of bush form, growing 18 to 20 inches high, of stout, erect growth, yes branching and vigourous; an immense yielder. Does not always mature dry shelled beans here, but yields a cro of green ones. Pkt. 3c, 1/2 pt. 20c. qt. 60c; by exp.1/2 pk.$1.35, pk.$2.50,
LONG YELLOW SIX WEEKS.-Very early and prolific; long, green tender, flat pos; matures quickly. Pkt. 5c, 1/2 pt. 15c, qt. 45c; by ex-, press, 1/2 pk. 73c, pk. $1.25. bu. $3.25.
[image illustration of greenbeans with two banners, banner 1 is Wardwell's, banner 2 is Kidney, wax, bean]