Keywords: Everything for the garden (15768349674).jpg HI <br> 12 <br> EVE3RYTHEHG FOK THE GAlDEM Vegefelbk Seeds <br> K <br> LONGFELLOW <br> Green' <br> Podded <br> BUSH BEAN <br> Remarkably Early <br> Exceedingly Prolific <br> An Extra Early Round Green-Podded Bush Bean of Fine Qyality <br> Long Round Green Pods Always Solid Tender and of Delicious Flavor <br> This extra early variety although comparatively new has been pietty widely <br> distributed and we have yet to hear anything but praise about its fine quality <br> and other merits; it is in fact an ideal Snap Bean producing a fine crop of round <br> straight solid fleshy pods averaging 6 inches long wonderfully tender and <br> brittle without a trace- of tough interlining and having no string when broken ex- <br> cepting when the pods are quite old The flavor is most delicious captivating the <br> most critical while the delicate green color of the pods is retained after cooking adding <br> to its attractiveness when served The plants are of robust compact habit unex- <br> celled in bearing qualities maturing the crop very regularly It is extra early the <br> pods being fit to pick four days in advance of any other variety of approximate size <br> and merit See cut Price 10c pkt 20c pt 35c qt 1 25 for 4 qts 2 00 pk <br> Last year I tried your Longfellow Bush Bean and think it the finest and altogether most satisfactory <br> Bush Bean I ever had during over thirty years' experience for pi ivate family use I am so well satisfied <br> with it that I have no desire to try for a better I think you will have several orders from persons who <br> have seen mine Mrs BENJAMIN P RENCH Oberlin Ohio <br> Last year I had your Longfellow Beans I have never had the pleasure of growing such Beans as they <br> re We have discarded all others and will use none but the Longfellow hereafter <br> � � t � H E MARGVARDT Cincinnati Ohio <br> 1 think there is no better Bean than your Longfellow JOSEPH SCHOFF Peoria Ill <br> Gen'l Brown' s family have discarded every other Bean; the only Bean they will have on the table is <br> Longfellow From four rows I have been gathering daily for three weeks in large quantities and <br> the vines are still bearing heavily I am glad to endorse it; it is the best Bean I have grown in <br> twenty years' practice A M McTOSH Falmouth Foreside Me <br> Mi j <br> Henderson's Earliest RED VALENTINE BEAN <br> A Standard Green-Podded Dwarf Snap Bean Full round meaty pods of unsurpassed tenderness and quality <br> Remains long fit for use Yields prodigiously <br> This grand variety is a great improvement over the original Red Valentine which it has now entirely supplanted as it is very <br> much earlier and remains fit for use for a long time The healthy vigorous plants are unusually hardy successfully withstanding early <br> frosts; it may therefore be planted very early <br> It will always yield a large crop of handsome long round fleshy pods <br> rich green in color and of unsurpassed tenderness when gathered young <br> when it is practically stringless It is the Standard Snap Bean not only <br> for the earliest but for successive plantings bearing up to frost See cut <br> Price 10c pkt 20c pt 30c qt 1 00 for 4 qts 1 75 pk <br> Your Earliest Red Valentine Beans are the best I ever raised I have had Beans from <br> nine different seedsmen but none equal Henderson's R D MILLER Gainesville Ga <br> From half-a-pinl of your Earliest Red Valentine Bush Beans we gathered 5\4 bushels of <br> pods besides allowing some to mature for seed JOHN B BLACKIE Alioona Pa <br> For cultural instructions for growing Beans see our pamphlet <br> Garden Culture of Beans sent Free if asked for <br> Green-Podded Bush Beans <br> 1 quart to 100-feel of drill <br> BLACK VALENTINE HENDERSON'S Early extra long round straight tender pods; <br> enormous yielder and also suitable for late planting Price 10c pkt 20c pt 30c qt <br> 1 10 for 4 qts 2 00 pk <br> DWARF HORTICULTURAL A bush variety of the popular Climbing Horticultural <br> and the most popular green shell Bean Price 10c pkt 20c pt 35c qt 1 30 for 4 <br> qts 2 50 pk <br> HODSON LONG GREEN POD Practically identical with Hodson Long Pod Wax de- <br> scribed on page 13 except the pods are green instead of yellow Price 10c pkt 15c pt <br> 25c qt 85c for 4 qts 1 50 pk <br> REFUGEE OR 1 000 TO 1 A popular medium to late variety very productive; extensively <br> grown for pickling; handsome tender pods Price 10c pkt 20c pt 30c qt 1 10 <br> for 4 qts 2 00 pk <br> REFUGEE EXTRA EARLY Similar to above but nearly two weeks earlier; enormously <br> prolific exceptionally free from string and tender Price 10c pkt 20c pt 30c qt <br> 1 10 for 4 qts 2 00 pk <br> We deliver Free in U S \ m PosI E w Vegetable and Flower Seeds � by J hepk - f- Also Lawn Grass Seeds <br> - ' or rreight at our option Q _ I and quarter lb ' -_ ____ - ; __ __ __-_ ___ _ 43874804 149634 78295 Page 12 Text http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/43874804 c1915 10 5962/bhl title 78295 Henry G Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection ; Peter Henderson Co NameFound Alioona NameFound Peoria NameConfirmed Peoria EOLID 47609 NameBankID 2627534 Biodiversity Heritage Library Everything for the garden 1915 Garden Stories Books Bulbs Plants Catalogs Equipment and supplies Flowers Gardening Lawn mowers Seeds U S Department of Agriculture National Agricultural Library bhl page 43874804 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/43874804 bhlGardenStories BHLinbloom bulbs plants u s department of agriculture national agricultural library bhlgardenstories bhlinbloom Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2015-01-28 Check categories 2015 August 25 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/15768349674 2015-08-25 03 01 25 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 Everything for the garden 1915 Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script |