. Catalogue of fresh and genuine field and garden seeds. Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Ornamental trees Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs. ^VANS' pESCRIPTIVE ^EED pATALOGUE. Large White Marrowfat.—One of the best and most productive varieties for field culture ; a valuable vs'inter variety. Packet, 10 cts.; pint, 25 cts. Turtle Soup.—A very productive late variety, popular as a soup bean. Packet, 10 cts.; pint, 25 cts. Dwarf Wax or Butter.—One of the most desirable and valuable of the dwarf beaus ; the pods are of a beautiful waxy yellow color, string- less,
. Catalogue of fresh and genuine field and garden seeds. Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Ornamental trees Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs. ^VANS' pESCRIPTIVE ^EED pATALOGUE. Large White Marrowfat.—One of the best and most productive varieties for field culture ; a valuable vs'inter variety. Packet, 10 cts.; pint, 25 cts. Turtle Soup.—A very productive late variety, popular as a soup bean. Packet, 10 cts.; pint, 25 cts. Dwarf Wax or Butter.—One of the most desirable and valuable of the dwarf beaus ; the pods are of a beautiful waxy yellow color, string- less, and very tender and rich when cooked. Packet, 20 cts.; pint, 50 cts. BEANS (pole). Plant in Ma}', in hills 4 feet apart, 4 or 5 beans in a hill, and train to poles; in planting set the eye of the bean down. Large Lima.—The well-known Lima bean ; by sprouting in small pots and setting out when the ground becomes warm, they can be had a week or ten days earlier. Packet, 10 cts.; pint, 40 cts. Carolina, or Sieva.—Smaller, but earlier and more productive than pre- ceding. Packet, 10 cts.; pint, 40 cts. Horticultural, or Wren's Egg.—Valuable as a snap short or shelled bean ; popular where the Lima cannot be grown successfully. Packet, 10 cts.; pint, 30 cts. Indian Chief.—(German AVax), excellent either as a snap or shelled bean ; pods fit for use a long time; seeds black. Packet, 10 cts.; pint, 40 cts. Giant Wax Bean.—A new and veiy productive variet}'; pods long, pale, wax}' yellow, and perfectly tender when full grown; a valuable market varietj'. Packet, 25 cts.; pint, 75 cts. Chestnut Bean (Improved White Runner).—A vigorous, rapid-growing variety, of remarkable beauty and productiveness; seeds pearly white, about twice the size of the Lima, and remarkably farina- ceous and high-flavored, resembling when stewed a boiled chest- nut. It can be jilanted several weeks earlier than the Lima, comes earlier into bearing, is much more productive, and is ex- cellent eit
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