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Title: 1962 catalog
Identifier: 1962catalog19jste (find matches)
Year: 1962 (1960s)
Authors: J. Steckler Seed Co; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Seed industry and trade Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs
Publisher: New Orleans, La. : Steckler Seed Company, Inc.
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
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ASPARAGUS !^ TENDER6REEN SNAP BEANS, DWARF or BUSH—GREEN PODDED Height of bush 15 to 25 iaehes. All varieties marketed as green beons except Red Kidney and White Nary or Boston whiefa are left to mature. ASGROW BLACK VALENTINE STRING- LESS—48 days. An improved selection of the old Black Valentine which is stringless and yet retains the valuable quality of the old type of being immune to damage by light frosts. TENDERGREEN—53 days. Desirable for home and market garden. Pods round, fleshy, dark green, strictly stringless, of fine quality. Seeds brown, mottled and blotched with light fawn. An improve- ment on Full Measure. TENN. GBEEN POD—50 days. Good home garden variety, dork green, slightly stringy, but very flavoifuL HARVESTER — A white seeded, green podded bush Snap Bean. Stringless, medium green color, pods medium long. Plants are upright, about 18 inches tall, late maturing and a good shipping bean. TOP CROP—50 days. Mosaic resistant, heavy yielding. Round pods—SVi to 6 inches long and very meaty pods. NEW LONGVAL —High yielding, mosaic resistance, drought and heat tolerant. Straight oval pods, dark emerald-green. Plants about 16V4 inches. RED KIDNEY—Left to maturity. A red kidney- shaped bean used for boMng and soup. Culture—Planting time. Southern States: Spring, January to May; Fall, August to No- vember. Plant 1 pound to 150 feet of row IVt bushels to one acre; drop two beans every two or three inches in rows; IV2 feet apart, cover one inch with earth. Average pro- duction green beans about 100 bushels per acre. BOUNTli'UL—53 days. Pods longer than Black RTmfT WAY RF.ANS Valentine and flat. A prolific bearer, abso- KUStl WAJV DCjAI^S lutely stringless at all stages, the very best Height of Bash 15 to 25 Inches for private and shipping purposes. IMPROVED GOLDEN WAX—18 days. Used CONTENDER—54 days. A recent introduction, largely by home wirdeners; heavy bearer, with resistance to common bean mosaic vigorous ^wer. Pods large yellow, soUd. and powdery mildew. Pods are stringless, brittle and waxy texture, cmd absolutely round and seed buff lighUy mottled. Ideal stnngless. A good rust resisting variety. for home, marketing and shipping. BUSH LIMA BEANS Height of Bush 15 to 25 Inches NEW CALICO or JACKSON WONDER BUSH BUTTER—65 days. Pods short, used also for shelling. Name "Ckillco" f .^^■K/A HI^^^H derived from appearance at maturity. (h^^^^mmb^ HB ^^H An excellent Southern bean, both for '^- family use and for shipping, cannot be % IBH ^°° highly recommended. f BURPEE'S BUSH LIMA—77 days. Plants are » ; k ^m uniform dwarf, vigorous and productive, .^' i m \ ^ pods medium green, very large, about ' ^ S five inches long. An extensively used bush limn. fp^m / # i HENDERSON'S BUSH or BABY LIMA—68 days. Extremely early, hardy and pro- ductive, pods are medium dark green, short, flat, of excellent qiiolity either ^.^ , y^ green-shelled or dry. Much used by can- THOROGREEN — A new green seeded small bush lima of the Henderson type. Strong grower, more prolific and with TOP CROP slightly larger seeds. Bean Prices ^ postpaid , ^ot Postpaid-^ (1/4 lb. 25c) Bush Green, Wax & Lima V^ lb. Lb. 5 Ibc 15 Ibi. SO Ib«. Asgrow Black Valentine $ .40 S .70 SZ.95 S4.30 $12.65 Tendergreen 45 .80 2.95 5.00 15.25 Longvol 45 .85 3.45 6.35 19.00 Tenn. Green Pod 40 .70 3.25 4.50 Bountiful 45 .80 2.95 4.95 15.00 Top Crop 45 .80 2.95 5.20 Contender 40 .70 2.95 4.50 13.35 Harvester (I/4 lb. 35c) 55 1.00 3.75 8.40 27.00 Red Kidney 40 .75 2.95 4.60 14.00 Improved Golden Wax „ 45 .80 2.95 5.20 15.85 New Calico or Jackson Wonder 40 .70 2.95 4.30 12.50 Burpee's Bush Lima 45 .80 2.95 5.10 15.50 Henderson Baby Lima „ 40 .70 2.85 4.15 12.00 Thorogreen 40 .75 2.95 4.30 13.00
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STECKLER SEED COMPANY, Inc., NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA
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