. Burpee's farm annual, 1887 : garden, farm, and flower seeds. Nursery stock Pennsylvania Philadelphia Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Vegetables Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs. BURPEE'S SPECIALTIES FOR 1887. 23 DWARF BOxNNEMAIN BEAN. This distinct new variety'' was raised by Mr. Bonnemain, Secretary' of the Etampes Horticultural Society, of France, who is also the originator of the Etampes Bean and the Ecampes Cabbage—the latter being the earliest of all cab- bages. This new bean is decidedly the earliest of all heanSy including not only all varieties known in America, but also all varieties of Europea
. Burpee's farm annual, 1887 : garden, farm, and flower seeds. Nursery stock Pennsylvania Philadelphia Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Vegetables Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs. BURPEE'S SPECIALTIES FOR 1887. 23 DWARF BOxNNEMAIN BEAN. This distinct new variety'' was raised by Mr. Bonnemain, Secretary' of the Etampes Horticultural Society, of France, who is also the originator of the Etampes Bean and the Ecampes Cabbage—the latter being the earliest of all cab- bages. This new bean is decidedly the earliest of all heanSy including not only all varieties known in America, but also all varieties of European origin. The Etampes Bean, until the introduction ot this new variety, was the earliest grown by the Paris market gardeners, and was a fiw days earlier than our Yellow Six Weeks; but the Dwarf Bonnemain produces both pods and shell beans ready for the market five days to a week earlier than the Etampes, and fully eight to ten davs earlier than ajzy American green-nodded variety. For first picking, both for market and family use, before any other beans are ready, it 'will be particularly valuable. It forms low growing, thick-set bushes, with leaves of a pale gray- ish-green color, and white flowers ; pods straight, almost cylindrical in shape, and of mediuni size; seeds white and oblong, remaining green until they ripen. Per pkt. 15 cts.; pint 40 cts, ; qt. 73 cts., postpaid. By express, per qt. 40 cts.; 4qts.$ ^BFAmr Ppa" -^^fWvW SinglePuKT S^htfd^ DRAM From Life BLISS'S EVER-BEARING PEA. Height of vines, eighteen inches to two feet; pods three to four inches long, each pod containing six to eight wrinkled peas ; size of peas very large, half an inch and over in diameter; quality unsurpassed in sweetness. Its habit of growth is of a peculiar branching character, form- ing as many as ten stalks from a single root stalk. One hundred pods have been counted on a single vine. The individual branches are of an extraordinary strength and substance, so that when hilled up
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