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Title: Burpee's farm annual, 1887 : garden, farm, and flower seeds
Identifier: burpeesfarmannua1889watl (find matches)
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: W. Atlee Burpee Company; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nursery stock Pennsylvania Philadelphia Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Vegetables Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs
Publisher: (Philadelphia, Pa. ) : W. Atlee Burpee 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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BURPEE'S VEGETABLE SEEDS. 35
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^me's PERFECTION WAXBEAm Introduced by us in 1887, Burpee's Perfection Wax Bean has given splendid satisfaction. It was developed from the Scarlet Flageolet Dwarf Wax Bean, perfected by eight years' careful selection, and named in our honor by our friend, A. H. Ansley, of Yates County, N. Y., well known as an experi- enced grower of beans for more than a quarter of a century. In visiting Mr. Ansley, we were much struck by the exceeding beauty and purity of a ten-acre field of these beans which he was growing for us. It was a grand sight—the plants all uniform and vigorous in growth, free from runners, and so crowded with the magnificent golden-yellow pods (with not a sign of rust), that the whole appeared as might a field of gold. We quite agree with Mr. Ansley, that " it was the finest field of beans in all New York." The illustration herewith, drawn at our trial grounds in 1887, by Mr. Wm. C. Scranton, the well-known artist, represents two mature^pods, natural size, and also a plant showing habit of growth. For vigor of growth and ifnmense prodtcctiveness, it is ttnequaled by any other dwarf Wax Bean, the plants being loaded with the long, rich pods. One of our customers, Mr. Sam'l Sea- grave, of Uxbridge, Massachusetts, sent us a single dwarf plant of Burpee's Perfection Wax Bean, on which we counted Jifty-seven matured pods. In comparison with the Golden Wax, they are as early, or earlier ; they are of more vigorous habit of growth, and have much larger pods on a stronger bush, by which they are held well up from the ground; they have never blighted. The magnificent, large, golden-yellow pods are of the most "handsome appearance and finest quality, being stringless, tender and of very rich flavor. Per large packet 15 cts.; per pint 30 cts.; per quart 55 cts., postpaid, by mail. By express or freight, per quart 40 cts.; 2 qts. 75 cts.; 4 qts, $1,25 ; per peck $2.25 ; per bushel 38.00.

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