Title: Currie's farm and garden annual : spring 1930
Identifier: curriesfarmgarde19curr (find matches)
Year: 1930 (1930s)
Authors: Currie Brothers Company; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture) Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs
Publisher: Milwaukee, Wis. : Currie Bros. 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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Kentucky Wonder Bean Page Sixty-two POLE OR RUNNING BEANS One pound to 100 hills; 30 lbs. per acre. Early Golden Cluster Wax—The vines are strong and vigorous, bearing clusters of yellow pods six to eight inches long in great profusion. Pkt., 10c; y2 lb., 25c; 1 lb., 45c; 2 lbs., 80c; prepaid; 5 lbs., $1.75; 10 lbs., $3.25; 50 lbs.. $15.00. Kentucky Wonder—(Old Homestead)—Bears great clusters of long green podded delicious beans from top to bottom of the vines. Very early. Pkt., 10c; y2 lb., 25c; 1 lb., 45c; 2 lbs.,' 80c; prepaid; 5 lbs., $1.65; 10 lbs., $3.00; 50 lbs., $14.00. Kentucky Wonder Wax—Similar to the green podded Kentucky Wonder with longer and broader yellow pods. Pkt., 10c; y2 lb., 25c; 1 lb., 45c; 2 lbs., 80c; prepaid; 5 lbs., $1.75; 10 lbs., $3.25; 50 lbs.. $15.00. Horticultural or Speckled Cranberry—Much esteemed as a shell bean. Pkt., 10c; 1 lb., 40c; 2 lbs., 75c; prepaid; 5 lbs., $1.50; 10 lbs., $2.65; 50 lbs., $12.00. Scarlet Runner—An excellent shell bean of fine flavor, although it is generally grown for its brilliant scarlet blossoms. Pkt., 10c; 1 lb., 45c; 2 lbs., 80c; 5 lbs., $1.75; 10 lbs., $3.25. POLE LIMA BEANS Early Leviathan Lima—The earliest, largest and best of all the Pole Lima Beans. Pkt., 10c; y2 lb., 25c; 1 lb.. 45c; 2 lbs., 80c; 5 lbs., $1.75; 10 lbs., $3.25; 50 lbs., $14.00. Carpenteria Lima—Yields an abundance of large pods, well filled with large, thick beans of a greenish tint and of the finest flavor. Pkt., 10c; 1 lb., 45c; 2 lbs., 80c; 5 lbs., $1.75; 10 lbs., $3.25; 50 lbs., $14.00. Large White Lima—Pods and beans large. Pkt, 10c; 1 lb., 45c; 2 lbs., 80c; 5 lbs., $1.75; 10 lbs., $3.25; 50 lbs., $14.00. King of the Garden Lima—A strong grower, bearing extra large pods well filled with large beans. Pkt. 10c; 1 lb., 45c; 2 lbs., 80c; 5 lbs., $1.75; 10 lbs., $3.25; 50 lbs., $14.00. DWARF SHELL BEANS Subject to Market Fluctuations Boston Small Pea Bean -A strong grower, very early and exceedingly prolific, The pods grow in clusters. Plant in rows J! feet apart and 4 to 6 inches apart in the row s. Pkt., 10c; 1 lb., 35c: 10 lbs.. $3.00; 50 lbs. $12.50. White Marrowfat—Pkt.. 10c; 1 lb., 35c; 10 lbs., $3.00; 50 lbs., $12.50. Red Kidney—Pkt., 10c; 1 lb., 35c; 10 lbs.. $3.00; 50 lbs., $12.50. Garden beans should be inoculated the same as all other legumes. The bacteria attach themselves to the roots forming nodules—simply colonies, masses of germs. These germs lake nitragin from the air. supplying it to the plant, causing increasing growth, more prolific bearing, higher food value, and above all, early maturity. Inoculated beans come into bearing earlier, often 10 days to 2 weeks earlier than when not inoculated. When ordering, slate bacteria is wanted for garden beans. NITRAGIN INOCULATING BACTERIA Garden size 20c ^4-bu. size, for 15 lbs. seed, 40c. Plus postage, 3c. /2-bu. size, for 30 lbs. seed, 60c. Plus postage, 5c. 1-bu. size, for 60 lbs. seed. $1.00. Plus postage, 6c. 5-bu. size, for 300 lbs. seed, $4.75. Plus postage, 10c INOCULATE THIS'SEED Nitragin

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