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DORR'S IOWA SEEDS.

BLACK ALGIERS BEAN.

This magnificent variety cannot be too highly
praised, either for snap beans or shell beans for
Winter use. It is a week earlier than the German
Wx, and the pods are of a beautiful waxy white,
even before fully grown, so they can be marketed
very early. When of full size the pods are long,
brittle, stringless, of a transparent ivory white, tender,
succulent, and of rich, creamy flavor. The beans are
medium size, oval, white and smooth, and are
veru easily threshed. It is, without doubt, the
most productive wax bean grown, the vines being
a perfect mat of pods the entire season, Pkt., 15
cts.; pint, 40 cts.

THE VALPARAISO SQUASH.

The Valparaiso Squash is a native of Chili,
a State in South America, and takes its name from
Valparaiso, one of the largest cities in that
country. In shape it is oblong, as shown in the
engraving, on second cover page of this catalogue,
which was made from a photograph of a specimen
taken from our field. They grow very uniform
in shape, of a rich yellow color outside; the flesh
is a rich golden color, solid and thick, with very
little hollow or seeds, inside it has a remarkably
fine grain and, when cooked, is unusually dry
and free from any hard lumps or tough stringy
pieces. Owing to its remarkably pleasant flavor,
unusual and extra fine grain of the flesh when
cooked, it is decidedly the most valuable variety
for culinary purposes ever introduced.

Pies or Custards Without Eggs

made with the Valparaiso Squash, are equally as
rich and palatable a. when eggs are used in cook-
ing our common varieties of squashes, or best
varieties of pie pumpkins. Another pecu-
liarity of this desirable squash, or pumpkin, is its
Enormous Productiveness,
making it one of the most valuable varieties for
feeding purposes. The quantity grown upon
one acre, when estimated by tons, would hardly be
credited. Pkt., 10 cts. ; 3 for 25 cts.; oz., 30 cts.;
1/4 lb., $1.00 ; lb., $3.50.

New Kinver Yellow Globe Mangel. The
London Times, says: "This splendid variety pos-
sesses most distinctive features in size, shape and color.
Unlike the ordinary Globe Mangel, it is of greater
girth at the top or shoulder than at the middle of
the bulb, whence it gradually tapers to a perfect
tap root. Its skin, which is as fine as that of an
apple, is as far as it penetrates the soil, of a bright
orange tint. It is of superb quality and an enormous
cropper; the great weight of eighty-four tons per
acre having been grown on it, and single bulbs
weighing forty-flve pounds each," Oz., 10 cts.; 1/4
lb., 20 cts.; lb., 60cts.