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Title: Annual catalogue of high grade garden, flower, field seeds : implements for farm, garden and lawn
Identifier: CAT31284069 (find matches)
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Young & Halstead; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nursery stock New York (State) Troy Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Agricultural implements Catalogs
Publisher: (Troy, N. Y. : Young & Halstead)
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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BEANS—Continued. Golden Eyed Wax, This variety is also classed among the early productive varieties; very profit- able and prolific; used largely by market gardeners; pods of long waxy appearance, produces a beautiful appearance. Try them and be convinced. Pkt. ioc; pt. 15c. ;qt. 20c; pk. $1. Golden Wax. Pods long, entirely stringless and of rich golden wax color; very prolific, of dwarf, compact, growth; as a snap sort it excels in rich buttery flavor. Pkt. ioc.; pt. 15c; qt. 20c; pk. $1. Improved Golden Wax. Pods long, stringless. Round, golden yellow, excels in richness and tenderness, very early and pro- lific. Beans one of the best for medium to late, an improve- ment on the above strain. Pkt. ioc; pt. 15c; qt. 20c; pk. $1. German Wax. (Black). One of the best for family use. "Mother's kind;" old and reliable. Pkt. ioc; pt. 15c; qt. 20c; pk. $1. Pole, or Running Varieties. Culture.— Sow May 1st for all except limas, which should not be sown before the last of the month, or until it has become warm. Plant in hills four feet each way. One quart of limas will plant about 100 hills, allowing four to five beans to each hill. Of s m a 1 le r sorts about 200 hills. Set poles eight to ten feet long in hill before plant- ing seed. Lima. Extra Early Jersey. This particular strain of limas is two weeks earlier than other limas, making them very profitable to the grower on account of earliness and productiveness. Seeds when ripe are of flat- tish kidney shape, and have a dull white color. Beans being a trifle smaller than Large White Limas, but are very tender and delicious. Pkt. ioc; pt. 15c; qt. 30c.; pk. $1.50. Dreer's Improved Lima. These early limas have a distinctive feature of early maturity, large yield and extra quality. Bean itself is thick and round instead of flat, as other limas. Pkt. 10c; pt. 15c; qt. 30c; pk. $1.50. King of the Garden Lima. Pods exceedingly large and beans of about same size as Large White Limas. Vigorous grower, the pods vary in length from five to seven inches. When not too closely planted they set beans early and continue until frost. Pkt. ioc; pt. 15c; qt. 30c; pk. $1.50. HI Early Golden Cluster Wax. See page 6 Large White Lima. Seepage 6 Our seeds are tested, of the very best ."quality obtainable.

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