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Title: Annual descriptive catalogue of seeds : the largest collection in the world for the flower garden for the lawn for the vegetable garden for the farm & nursery
Identifier: annualdescriptiv1895jmth (find matches)
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: J. M. Thorburn & Co; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nurseries (Horticulture) New York (State) Catalogs; Vegetables Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Catalogs
Publisher: New York, N. Y. : J. M. Thorburn & Co.
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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Catalogue of High-Class Seeds. i3 DWARF WAX BEANS. Per qt. % pk. Perpk. Per bus. Thorburn Valentine Wax (See Novelties) . . . pkt. 25c, ^-pt.soc, pt. 80c. . $1 50 $5 00 Black-Eyed Wax. A cross between Golden and Black Wax ; very early and very productive ; yellow yods 30 1 00 $1 Improved Proline Black Wax. Very early and prolific. The pods are round, full, stringless, and of fine quality 30 90 Challenge Black Wax. An extra early strain of the dwarf Black Wax ... 30 90 Algerian Black Wax. Very productive ; round pods 30 1 00 Bismarck Black AVax. Resembling in growth Wardwell Kiduey Wax ... 30 90 Detroit AVax. Very much like Golden Wax, but less liable to rust 30 90 Flageolet Red Wax. Flat, yellow, stringless^pods of great length and breadth; exceedingly productive 30 1 00 Improved Golden AVax. Very early ; round, golden pods 30 90 Golden-Eyed Wax. Very hardy and prolific, with flat, yellow pods ; very early and exceptionally free from rust ; a very desirable and popular sort 30 Pink-Eyed AVax 30 Cnrrie's Rnst-Proof Wax 30 Thorbnrn Refugee Wax. A perfect Refugee, with long, round, yellow, wax pods. Suitable for early or late sowing, and an immense yielder 30 AVardwell Kidney AVax. Extra early ; purely wax pods, long, flat, and remarkably free from rust 30 90 1 50 5 50 AVhite AArax. Flat, yellow pods . . 35 1 25 2 00 7 00 Yosemite Mammoth AVax. The largest pods of all the wax sorts ; very' productive and of good quality 40 1 50 2 50 9 00 $6 00 1 50 5 50 1 50 5 50 1 75 6 50 1 50 5 50 1 50 5 00 1 75 6 00 1 50 5 00 90 1 50 1 00 1 75 90 1 00 90 5 00 6 00 1 50 5 00 1 75 6 50 91 93 94 95 96 97 9* 99 100 WHITE BEANS. Thorburn Dwarf Lima (Kumerle Strain). For a complete description, see Novelties, page 8 50 Burpee Bush Lima. A bush form of the large Pole Lima, the beans being large and flat, like those of that variety. It is very productive, and its dwarf character is well established 50 Henderson Bush Lima, or Sieva. Productive 35 AVhite Valentine. Round pod 30 Emperor AVilliam. Very long pod. Earliest white bean for forcing .... 30 Extra-Early Maine. A small white kidney-shaped variety ; valuable as a string, baking or soup bean ; very early 25 Mexican Tree Bean. A very productive white sort, of upright growth .... 25 White French Flageolet. Used as a shell bean in the green state ; fine . . 30 AVhite Kidney. Excellent, either green or ripe 20 AVhite Marrow. Good either as a string or shell bean 20 00 11 00 3 00 2 00 1 50 1 50 1 25 1 25 1 50 1 25 1 25 ENGLISH DWARF BEANS. Feve de Marais. Haba. ©rofje 53o^nen. Culture.—Sow in drills two feet apart, as early in the spring as the ground can be worked (these are as hardy as Peas), in order to get them into pod before the heat of summer. When in pod, break off the top of the plant to check the growth. Plant and hoe same as for Dwarf Beans. A strong soil suits them best. These beans are eaten shelled. Per qt ^_pk Per pk> Per bus- 106 Early Mazagan. The earliest of this class fo 25 $0 75 $1 25 $4 50 107 Broad AVindsor. The largest and best of the class of English Dwarf Beans for main crop ; good 30 90 1 50 5 00 109 Sword Long-Pod. A size smaller than Windsor 25 75 1 25 4 50 no Green AVindsor. A green " Long-Pod" 25 75 1 25 450 112 Small Horse Bean. Half the size of Mazagan 25 75 1 25 4 50
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