Keywords: Everything for the garden (16390804665).jpg 14 <br> EVEMYTHUHG FOR TIE GARDEN - Vegetable Seeds <br> Improv dGo Ld <br> WE ALSO OFFER THE FOLLOWING VARIETIES OF <br> Wax Podded Bush Beans <br> U quart to 100 feet of drill <br> DAVIS' KIDNEY WAX Largely grown by market gardeners; an excellent <br> shipper Price 10c pkt 20c pt 35c qt 1 20 foi 4 qts 2 25 pk <br> FLAGEOLET WAX Medium early and unusually free from rust; exceedingly <br> productive; pods fiat very long succulent and tender Price 10c pkt <br> 20c pt 35c qt 1 30 for 4 qts 2 50 pk <br> GOLDEN-EYED WAX Medium early plant vigorous and free from rust <br> bearing an enormous crop of broad well-flavored Beans of excellent color <br> Price 10c pkt 20c pt 35c qt 1 20 for 4 qts 2 25 pk <br> REFUGEE WAX A most attractive round-podded sort; bears an enormous <br> crop of rather small round pods of attractive color which are protected by <br> dense foliage Price 10c pkt 20c pt 30c qt 1 10 for 4 qts 2 00 pk <br> WARDWELL'S KIDNEY WAX Bears very long broad pods in great abun- <br> dance; one of the best late sorts excellent quality free from rust a reliable <br> cropper Price 10c pkt 20c pt 35c qt 1 30 for 4 qts 2 50 pk <br> YOSEMITE MAMMOTH WAX HENDERSON'S Bears a medium crop of <br> pods of remarkable length and great thickness perfect in quality and flavor <br> and grows freely under less favorable conditions than many sorts It is the <br> parent of nearly all the stringless varieties Price 15c pkt 25c pt 40c qt <br> 1 40 for 4 qts 2 50 pk <br> Dwakf Bush or Shell Beans <br> THESE APnE GROWN ONLY FOR USE IN THE DRY STATE <br> AND SHOULD THEREFORE BE PLANTED FROM <br> MAY 25th TO JUNE I Oth IN THIS VICINITY <br> BOSTON SMALL PEA BEAN Small round white; early and prolific <br> Price 10c pkt 15c pt 25c qt 90c for 4 qts 1 70 pk <br> BURLINGAME MEDIUM Handsome medium-size white; prolific Price <br> 10c pkt 15c pt 25c qt 90c for 4 qts 1 70 pk <br> LARGE WHITE KIDNEY Excellent as a shell Bean Price 10c pkt 15c pt <br> 25c qt 90c for 4 qts 1 70 pk <br> RED KIDNEY IMPROVED Large red kidney-shaped Beans distinct and <br> superior in flavor Price 10c pkt 15c pt 25c qt 90c for 4 qts <br> 1 70 pk <br> WHITE MARROW The most popular shell Bean; ivory-white oval seeds <br> Price 10c pkt 15c pt 25c qt 90c for 4 qts 1 70 pk <br> See also DWARF HORTICULTURAL BEAN page 12 <br> Improved Golden Wax <br> BUSH BEAN <br> THE STANDARD FLAT WAX-PODDED VARIETY <br> Among the Yellow Wax-podded or Butter Beans the Golden <br> Wax has long been in popular favor but this Improved variety <br> by far surpasses the old favorite in several desirable points The <br> plants are of vigorous bushy growth not susceptible to rust moder- <br> ately early and very prolific Ihe pods are exceedingly handsome <br> long uniformly broad thick and remarkably fleshy of good quality <br> tender and brittle absolutely without string or coarse fibre at all <br> stages until maturity while the color is of a rich golden-yellow <br> Although not the earliest Dwarf Wax Bean its reliability in produ- <br> cing a heavy crop of large handsome pods whether planted in <br> spring summer or early fall renders it highly valuable for both <br> home and market planting See cut Price 10c pkt 20c pt <br> 35c qt 1 20 for 4 qts 2 25 pk <br> Am inclosing order for seeds and can say that last year's trial of your seeds <br> gave us the best garden in the neighborhood The Improved Golden Wax Beans <br> grew to eight and nine inches in length and were wonderfully sweet and tender <br> Mrs GEORGE DE VRIES Milwaukee Wis <br> Your Improved Golden Wax Beans are all you claim for them and more <br> They are almost absolutely without strings even after fully matured <br> W M McCREIGHT Cheraw S C <br> For Full Cultural Instructions for Growing Beans see our <br> Leaflet Garden Culture of Beans sent free if asked for <br> HENDERSON'S <br> Golden ScimitaiWVax <br> BUSH BEAN <br> A PERFECT ROUND-PODDED STRINGLESS WAX BEAN <br> This is emphatically the best round-podded Wax Bush Bean in <br> cultivation <br> For many years we have bred and selected it until we have <br> attained the acme of perfection whether considered from the <br> standpoint of quality productiveness or flavor In these respects <br> it excels all others of its class <br> The plant is of vigorous constitution ” strong and bushy in habit <br> which enables it to mature large crops of perfectly shaped Beans <br> of large size It rarely produces inferior or malformed pods <br> Its chief value lies in its perfectly stringless character which <br> renders it peculiarly suitable for private use where quality is the <br> thing most desired See cut Price 10c pkt 20c pt 35c qt <br> 1 20 for 4 qts 2 25 pk <br> Last year 1 had some Golden Scimitar Wax Beans which you say will average <br> 5 to 6 inches I had a good many that measured 7 inches and they were hand- <br> some E C BABSON Danielson Conn <br> I think your Golden Scimitar Beans the best Bush Beans on the market <br> J W SUTHERLAND West Roxbury Mass <br> The Golden Scimitar Wax Beans surpassed any other in beauty crop and <br> quality F F WALKER So Sudbury Mass <br> PURCHASER PAYS TRANSPORTATION ON BEANS PEAS AND CORN IN PINTS AND OVER If wanted bv Parcel Post see zone rates on page 1 A pint weighs 1 lb 43874806 149634 78295 Page 14 Text http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/43874806 c1915 10 5962/bhl title 78295 Henry G Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection ; 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