Historic, Archive Document

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Do not assume content reflects current scientific knowledge, policies, or practices.

Our present national and international repu- tation is the result of furnishing seed of un- usual purity, germination and vitality at prices that are as low as good seed can commercially be sold. The practices that have advanced us to this enviable position in the seed world, we shall faithfully continue.

We are not bound by the prices in this catalogue for any definite time and all prices are subject to advance without notice.

Prices quoted are f. o. b. Chicago. Bags, boxes and barrels, to insure safe transportation, are charged for at cost. Proportionately higher prices will be charged for quantities less than one-quarter pound or one-quarter bushel.

TERMS: Garden Seeds, Net Cash, June 1, 1916, without regard to date of

purchase, or a discount of 1 per cent per month for unexpired time if paid before maturity.

Grass seeds, potatoes, field seeds, onion sets and sunflower, net cash, without any time or discount whatever.

Our telegraph code is the one adopted by the American Seed Trade Association.

WE GIVE NO WARRANTY, express or implied, as to purity, description, quality, productiveness or any other matter of any Seeds, Bulbs or Plants we send out, and we will not be in any way responsible for the crop.

LEONARD	SEED COMPANY
	GENERAL OFFICES
Loner Distance Phone.
Main 2762	226-228-230 WEST KINZIE STREET
Automatic 33222
Registered Cable Address	CHICAGO
“LEONARD” Chicago
RETAIL STORES:	WAREHOUSES: COLUMBUS, WIS.
810 W. RANDOLPH STREET	MARSHALL, WIS.
10912 MICHIGAN AVENUE	ANTIGO, WIS. JEFFERSON PARK, ILL.
4845 MILWAUKEE AVENUE	AVONDALE, ILL.

Vegetable seed price list in alphabetical order. Pages 6 to 21

Flower seed price list in alphabetical order Pages 22 to 30

Miscellaneous prices Pages 3 I to 32

Descriptions of vegetable varieties in alphabetical order with cultural

directions Pages 33 to 79

Description of field and grass seeds Pages 8 I to 86

Description of Flower Seeds and Bulbs Pages 87 to 102

Seeders, Cultivators and other tools Pages 103 to 107

Fertilizers Pages 1 08 and 1 09

Reference notes Pages 110, 111, 112

LEONARD SEED COMPANY. CHICAGO . !

-WE RESPECTFULLY SUBMIT THESE FACTS FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION

WE ARE A WHOLESALE SEED HOUSE.

We do not solicit retail trade, we help the merchant to secure that by furnish- ing seed of superior quality at prices that allow a good margin of profit.

WE SELL SEED IN BULK ONLY.

We do not commission seed or send out commission packets or box seed. The village of yesterday, that is, the city of today, knows the properly equipped seed store to be a necessity. The seed box and the commission package serve the yes- terday very well, ^ but the today needs and requests a bulk assortment of live seed.

WE ARE SEED GROWERS.

We are the largest growers of some varieties of seed in the world. TTie quan- tity of seed we handle compares favorably with that of any seed business, and as to quality, it is well known we are the choice of thousands of critical market gardeners. True, we do buy seed but what we buy is comparatively “the drop in the bucket.” It is probable that some of our seeds are now reaching you indirectly; see that our products reach you directly.

WE HAVE A CATALOGUE SERVICE.

By its use our customer can send out a catalogue of his own. This catalogue has a beautiful lithograph cover that is made new each year. It is printed on good paper and is illustrated with excellent half-tone cuts. We have it printed in Octo- ber and ready in sufficient time for the seed trade each year. A copy of this catalogue- will be sent upon request and with it other information of interest to the seed dealer.

Any acquaintance with the company’s products and the company’s methods like these facts will recommend the

LEONARD SEED COMPANY to the

thinking seed dealer.

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LEONARD SEED COMPANY, CHICAGO

PRINCIPAL WAREHOUSES, LEONARD SEED COMPANY, KINZIE AND FRANKLIN STREETS, CHICAGO

The LEONARD SEED COMPANY is in the thirty-second year of its business career. The President, S. P. Leonard, who started the business and has been with it the entire time, is actively engaged in directing the firm’s course. The Vice-President, J, C. Leonard, has put in close to twenty-one years, and the Treasurer, Albert H. Smith, has rounded out his twenty- second year. The Secretary, E. S. Leonard, comes fresh from studying varieties and their variations as Superintendent of the extensive growing operations of the Company in Wiscon- sin, to take the place of Mr. J. M. Clark, deceased.

System is the first thing that presents itself to anyone who observes the farm gardens, warehouses, stores and offices of the firm. The method that is best — not necessarily the method that is last — is the one the firm is using. By this long developed system, by the most ap- proved methods, and by making department heads responsible for an error, the firm and its reliant patronage feels it makes the fewest errors possible in the seed trade. There is no place where the seed buyer can turn where mistakes do not occur, and in some firms they occur with distressing frequency. That great slogan “Safety First’’ dictates the seed buyer’s course and turns his orders to THE LEONARD SEED COMPANY.

System exists in both the experimental and the test garden, and these two gardens should not be confused. This system occurs in the growing of stocks, that is, the seed from which the commercial crop of seed is grown. This system occurs in the growing of the crops upon their own land or farms superintended adjacent to the Company’s warehouses and farms. This system occurs in the threshing, cleaning, drying, hand picking and polishing of the seed. The picture at the bottom of the opposite page shows some of our hand pickers at work. Some of them have been employed at this work fifteen years or more. This system occurs in the packing and shipping. Quickness, particularly in this last department, is most noticeable and often mentioned pleasantly by our trade.

When one thinks of a system one unconsciously thinks of the men who operate it. At the top of the next page is a picture of salesmen with members of the firm and expert grow- ers of seed as they appeared while studying growing crops in the fields and trial grounds. In every department the men employed by the Company are picked and educated for the place they occupy.

Another thing to be considered in buying of the Leonard Seed Company is the advantage of Chicago as a shipping point. All great trunk lines center there. The fifth zone of the Par- cels Post, Which takes in the distances to one thousand miles from Chicago, includes most of Maine, Florida, Colorado and all within.

Yet one other thing to be considered is that the Leonard Seed Company does appreciate your trade fully.

LEONARD SEED COMPANY, CHICAGO

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TICKING ROOM LEONARD SEED COMPANY, 4th FLOOR, KINZIE STREET WAREHOUSE, CHICAGO —

100 MACHINES IN CONSTANT OPERATION

In the picture are Traveling- Men. No. 1. Geo. P. liUngton, who covers parts of Illinois and Wisconsin. No. 2. O. P. Niswonger, Ohio and Alabama. No. 3. Jos. A. Daly, Northern Indiana and part of Illinois. No. 4. W. A. Sutherland, Maryland and East Atlantic Coast. No. 5. A. J. Colman, the New England States, Northern New York and Eastern Canada., No. 9. J. V. Odil, the Southwest, Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri and Kansas. No. 10. Louis Bloom, Miss., So. Ind. and Western New York. No. 12. Burt Calhoun, Florida, North and South Carolina, West Vir- ginia and part of Ohio. No. 13. W. W. Hoisington, Kentucky, Tennessee, Michigan and part of Pennsylvania. No. 15. C. A. Monahan, Iowa and Minnesota. In addition, not shown in the group, we have Leslie Hopps, Georgia, part of Michigan and Illinois. Fred Gunther, Wiscon- sin. In the group as instructors are: No. 6. S. P. Leonard, President. No. 7. A. H. Smith,

Treas. No. 8. J. F. Geary, in charge at Columbus, Wis. No. 11. O. L. Daily, our Pea and Bean Expert. No. 14. Glen La Pres, in charge at our Marshall, Wis., branch.

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LEONARD SEED COMPANY, CHICAGO

If you are a retail seed dealer you know that order and system are absolutely necessary in this line of endeavor, where the business of the year is crowded into a few weeks. Long acquaintance with the seed business has given us the opportunity to acquire a vast fund of information. Our clientele understands that not only seed, but superior seed and service second to none is what they receive from us. Whenever LEONARD SEED COMPANY’S advice can be of use to the seed trade it is to be secured by the asking whether the one requesting the information is our patron or not.

Many requests have come to us for methods of displaying, storing, and handling seed that would harmonize with the excellent store fixtures of today. Some suggestions we offer are found in this and the companion page^

We have had made for us an ideal jar with a crown top that we can now offer to our customers desiring to make this branch of their business attractive and con- venient. Not only must the beauty of these jars and the ease with which seed can be handled in them be con- sidered but they are insurance against the great seed loss from rats, mice and some insect enemies. Their use is pleasing to us because it prevents in a measure the mixing of seed and the consequent blame for this mixing, which is generally given to the wholesaler.

These jars hold about 2 lbs. of garden seed.

Note — These jars are sold to you at cost. Our aim is to help you improve your Bulk Seed Business.

Size of jars, 3%x3%xl0 in.

Put up 2 Dozen In Box for $3.75 4 Dozen for $7.25 1 Dozen for $2.00

BEAUTIFUL LITHOGRAPH LABELS LIKE LABEL ON JAR (SEE CUT) WE FURNISH FREE.

LEONARD’S SEED DISPLAY JARS

THE BETASCALE

(BEAT-A-SCALE)

Seed Measuring Glass

SlMPLEr— ACCURATE— SAVES TIME AND LABOR

Measures from % oz. to ^4 lb.

Some of the advantages gained by using the BETASCALE

Measuring Glass

1. — You give balance weight, not down weight.

2. — By the use of Betascale glass you can wait on customer in 1-5

time than by the old way of using a scale.

3. — You do not have to consult a catalog. With each gl^s we

furnish a chart with numbers corresponding with those on glass showing how to measure out 38 varieties of seed; vege- table, herbs, sweet peas, nasturtium, etc., etc. By trans- ferring these figures to the labels on the seed jars the method is quickened.

4. — On account of the shape of the measuring glass the quantity

of seed looks larger in the glass than it does in the scoop of the scale and satisfies the customer.

5. — By its use a boy or girl can handle the trade accurately and quickly.

Price of Betascale Measuring Glass Chart furnished with each glass, f. o.* b. Chicago.

Single Glass 25c

Single Glass by mail, post- paid 35c

Per Dozen $ 2.50

Per 100 16.00

LEONARD SEED COMPANY, CHICAGO

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LEONIRD’S CHOICE BULK SEED

THE STAND SET UP — Jars are extra

BULK SEED PICTURE

SLIDE

There is one thing at which you cannot avoid looking and that is an ad- vertising picture slide when it is thrown on the screen. It is admittedly the very best medium for FACSIMELE AND EXACT SIZE or eantern slide

calling people’s attention to anything you wish to specialize.

LEONARD SEED CO.> CHICAGO

FOR SALE BY

THE BETEMALL SERVICE STAND

(Beat ’em All)

Where ever you find the best crops — There you will find that they plant Leonard's Fresh Garden Seed.

This stand will make a handsome addition to store fixtures, being made good and strong, yet light weight; firmly bolted, not a nail in its con- struction, and with ordinary care will last a life- time. Is Collapsible, so that it can be stored away in small space when not in use, and comes to you' crated.

Is suitable for the attractive display of any- thing in the Grocery or Hardware line, and espe- cially adapted for the proper display and sale of

bulk garden seed. Will hold 36 jars — jars are extra, see page 4. We have contracted for a large number of these stands, owing to numer- ous requests from our customers for something in this line, so we are able to make the price low.

Price per stand, $4.00 each, F. O. B. Chicago.

THE STAND FOLDED

We have had so many requests from our customers for something of this kind, and, realiz- ing its value, we have had made up for them an unbreakable, up-to-date, attractive slide, in colors, which we are offering at cost.

Send for one at once and begin showing it in your local picture house. It will get the people interested. Price, with your name and business on, postpaid, 25 cents.

Consult the following pages for your seed wants.

Write, wire or call on the LEONARD SEED COMPANY for prices on seed for present or a future delivery, or for any relative information..

The LEONARD SEED COMPANY maintains a most efficient sales force that is to your advantage to get acquainted with. Should the salesman miss you, write to have the repre- sentative in your territory call on you, and if he finds he is unable at that time he will mail you a complete seed list for immediate use and call on you at the earliest moment possible.

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LEONARD SEED CO.. CHICAGO. WHOLESALE PRICE LIST

	ARTICHOKE.	Tel, Cipher.
Large Green Globe			"Ppr Th no
Tubers (Jerusalem)
	ASPARAGUS— Seed.		Lb.
Conover's Colossal
Barr's Mammoth.*
Palmetto
Columbian Mammoth White			30
Giant Argonteuil
Bonvallets Giant
	ASPARAGUS— Roots.		Per 1,000
1 year old roots '			$4 Fin
2 year old roots			5 00
3 year old roots			6 00

BEANS — Dwarf, Bush or Snap. Green Podded Varieties.

, Beans are 60 lbs. to Bu., except Limas and Broad Windsor which are

^ 56 lbs. and Flageolets and Red Kidney which are 58 lbs. to Bu.

Hopkin’s Improved Red Valentine Bark ....

Early Improved Red Valentine Baneful .

Early Mohawk Badness .

Long Yellow, Six Weeks Bade ....

Round Yellow Baker ...

Extra Early Refuge Baleful ..

Refugee or 1,000 to 1 Bailiff ..

Giant Stringless Bash ....

Burpee's Stringless Green Pod,. ‘ Baste ...

Bountiful Barratary

Longfellow Barr ....

Tenn Green Pod or Brown Bunch Barked ..

Black Valentine Backvale

Pheasant Eye Stringless Green Pod Bant ....

Dwarf Horticultural Bandy ...

Goddard, or Boston Favorite Bandage

Improved White Kidney Battes ...

White Marrow Batting .

Prolific Tree Barnac ..

Vineless Marrow Backed ..

Navy Badger ..

Boston White Pea Bean Baccate .

Red Kidney Barrab ..

Broad Windsor Bob, Fava, or Horse Bean Bacchanal

Bu.

Crop failed

$8 00

8 00

Crop failed

12 00

. . 8 00 Crop failed Crop failed

5 00

6 00

5 00

BEANS — Bush Lima Varieties.

Burpee's Bush Lima

Henderson's or Dwarf Seiva

Dreer's Bush Lima

Wonder Bush Lima

Fordhook Bush Lima

Billow 7 00

Binmac 6 00

Binder '. 7 00

Bilious 7 00

Bit 8 00

BEANS — Dwarf, Bush or Snap. Wax Podded Varieties.

Davis White Wax

Improved Golden Wax, Rust Probf

' Black Wax....,

Pencil Pod Black Wax

Challenge Black Wax

Prolific German Black Wax

Bismarck Black Wax

Currie’s Rust Proof Wax

Jones Stringless Wax

White Wax

Bidden Crop failed

Bespeake

.Bedlaw

Beguile

Begrime

Betroth

Becloud

Believe

Belko Crop failed

Bilber Crop failed

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BEANS — Dwarf, Bush or Snap — Continued. Tel. Cipher. Bu.

Detroit Wax

Black Eye Wax

Webber Wax, a very superior Wax Bean

Yosemite Mammoth Wax

f^oupd Podded Kidney Wax s*

Wardwell's Kidney Wax .^.

Golden Eye Wax or Yellow Eye Wax

Scarlet Flageolet Wax

Violet Flageolet Wax

Refugee Wax....

Valentine Wax

Hodson Wax

BEANS — Pole or Running.

White Creaseback

Red Speckled Cut Short or Corn Hill

Kentucky Wonder or Old Homestead

Lazy Wife

Horticultural Cranberry or London Horticultural

Early Golden Cluster Wax

Siebert's Early Lima

Jersey Extra Early Lima

Dreer’s Improved Lima or Challenge

Large White Lima...

Carolina Small White Lima or Seiva

King of the Garden Lima

Scarlet Runner

Early Dutch Case Knife..

MAULES NOXALL OR MISSOURI WONDER

Mammoth Podded Horticultural

BEETS— For the Table.

Leonard's Egyptian

Early Egyptian Blood Turnip

Early Eclipse

Lentz Early Blood Turnip ^

Crosby Egyptian

Early Crimson Globe.".

Edmand’s Blood Turnip

Dewing's Blood Turnip

Bastian's Blood Turnip

Early Flat Bassano

Detroit Dark Red Turnip

Early Blood Turnip, Improved

Long Smooth Dark Blood

Half Long Blood

Swiss Chard

Columbia

Arlington

Early Dirigo

Electric

Ruby Dulcet

.Bellow

. Bedrid

.Bid $14 00

.Billet Crop failed

.Bill Crop failed

.Bicorn

.Beryme 12 00

.Bibac Crop failed

.Bicap Crop failed

.Bewitch 12 00


	6 50
	6 50
	6 00
	7 00

	6 00
	6 00
	€ 00
	5 00
	6 50
	5 25
	8 00
	6 00
. . . Bolbonto . . .

	Lb.
	$0 60
	45

.Brasen .. .Bracelet . .Brabburg . Brain . . . .Bract ... .Brabback .Bragger . . Brackish .Brassage . Branch . . .Brangle . .Bream . . .Brabbork .Brabast .

.Branching

45

50

45

40

50

45

40

50

40

50

BEETS — Mangel Wurzels.

Long Red

Leonard's Improved Mammoth Long Red

Norbiton Giant Long Red

Giant Intermediate or Ovoid Yellow

Golden Tankard

Yellow Globe

Orange Globe

Per

Per 100

10 lbs. at 100-lb. price.

Bride

Brew

Brilliant

Breve

Brevier

Broad . . . . —

Brimming . . .

Lb. Lbs.

$0 20 $15 00 20 15 00

20 15 00

20 -15 00 20 15 00

20 15 00

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LEONARD SEED CO., CHICAGO, WHOLESALE PRICE LIST

BEETS — Sugar.

Lane’s Imperial Sugar

French White Sugar, Red Top

Vilmorin's Improved Sugar

French Very Rich...

Klein Wanzieben

Giant Rose Half Sugar for Cattle

Giant One-Half Sugar Winter

White Red Top

BROCCOLI.

White Cape

Purple Cape

Per

10 lbs. at 100-lb. price. Per 100

Tel. Cipher.	Lb.	Lbs.
Brora	, .$0 25	$20 00
Broncho . . . .	20	15 00
Brownie . . . .	25	20 00
Bruisome . . ,	25	20-00
Brook	25	20 00
Broom	.. 20	15 00
	20	15 00 15 00

Butteris $4 00

Burscbe 4 00

BRUSSELS SPROUTS.

Dwarf Improved Bybach

Tall French... r

1 25 1 25

CABBAGE.

Lb.

Extra Early Etampes

Extra Early Express

Early Jersey Wakefield

Early York

Charleston Large Wakefield

Early Spring, Earliest Flat Head

Henderson’s Early Summer

All Head Early

Leonard’s Faultless

All Seasons

Succession

Early Dwarf Flat Dutch

Early Large York

Early Winnigstadt

Glory of Enkhuizen

Acme Flat Dutch

Stein's Early Flat Dutch

Early Drumhead

Early Deep Head

Fottler’s Early Brunswick Blue Stem..

Copenhagen Market

Premium Late Flat Dutch

Surehead

Louisville Drumhead

Stone Mason Drumhead

Large Late Drumhead

Leonard’s Bridpegort Drumhead.......

Marblehead Mammoth Drumhead

Leonard’s Luxemburg

Leonard’s Winter Cabbage (new)

Danish Ball Head, Imported Stock

The Holland, Leonard’s Strain, Imported Stock Holland Short Stem Strain, Imported Stock...

Holland Cabbage, Domestic Sstock

The Lupton

Autumn King

Early Blood Red Erfurt

Mammoth Rock Red

Large Red Drumhead

Red Dutch

Houser Flat Dutch

Volga

Improved American Savoy

Chinese Cabbage or Pe Tsai

i' We can put Cabbage Seed up in %-lb. V2-lb. and 1-lb. Packages if desired

Carnal	1	00
Causer	1	50
Carun	.... 1	50
Cathol	1	00
Carbine	.... 1	50
Carnif	1	50
Centime	1	50
Caravas	1	75
.Cavern	.... 2	00
Capture	1	50
Cento	1	50
Carrom	.... 1	50
Chamade	1	00
Castel	.... 1	50
Cavil	2	00
Captor	1	50
Chime	1	50
Carpen	.... 1	50
Cardin	1	50
Cavity	1	50
Carapax	2	50
Chemic	1	50
.Chintz	1	50
Chare	1	50
Chimney	1	50
Chancel	1	50
Caravan	1	50
Charity	1	50
Charade	2	00
Cent	.... 2	50
Carcass	1	50
Central	2	00
Centralia	1	50
Centrally	1	50
Center	.... 1	50
.Carapace	1	50
Carouse	1	50
Chariot	1	50
Channel	1	50
.Cherub	1	50
	...*. 1	50
	1	50
Cerated	1	50
	.... 2	50

LEONARD SEED CO., CHICAGO, WHOLESALE PRICE LIST

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CARROT.

Early French Forcing

Early Scarlet or Short Horn

Half Long Nantes

Chantenay

Geurande op Ox Heart

Danvers

Half Long Scarlet Carentan

Saint Vallery

Long Red Altringham

Improved Long Orange

Large Orange Belgian

Long White Belgian

Improved Short White

Large White Vosges

Coreless

Tel. Cipher.

Clabbug . . . Clamber . . . Clause . . . . Clabbisk . . Clasper ... .Clabbolt . . , Clabrate . . .

Cloudy

Climate . . .

Cleave

.Clevert . . . .

Clew

.Clement . . . Click

Lb.

$0 80 80 80 80 60 80 60 60 60 60 60 50 50 50 80

CAULIFLOWER.

Leonard's Early Snowball

Earliest Dwarf Erfurt

Early Snowball, Danish

Danish Dry Weather

Early Erfurt

Extra Early Paris

Early Paris or Nonpareil

Lenormand's Short Stem

Autumn Giant

Late Algiers

CELERY.

Golden Self-blanching, French Stock

Golden Self-blanching, American Stock

Rose Ribbed Paris, Self-blanching

Pink Plume, Self-blanching

White Plume, Self-blanching

Winter Queen

Dwarf Golden Heart ?

Boston Market

Giant Pascal

Giant White Solid

Evans Triumph

Crawford’s Half Dwarf

Giant Golden Heart

Perfection Heartwell

Dwarf White Kalamazoo

New Rose

Apple Shaped, Celeriac

Large Smooth Prague, Celeriac

Erfurt Large Early, Celeriac

Soup OP Cutting Celery

Celery Seed, for flavoring

Curled

CHERVIL.

CHICORY.

Common

Large Rooted

Witloof or French Endive

CARDOON.

Oz. $1 00 $14 00
1	00	12 00
1	00	10 00
1	00	14 00
	75	10 00
	50	4 50
	50	4 00
	40	3 50
	35	3 00
	35	3 00

. Coiner	, ... 10	00
.Composition ....	... 3	00
. Cocket	, . . . 5	00
.College	... 2	00
. Compound	.. . . 1	50
..Comprest .......	, . . . 1	00
.Codger	... 1	00
.Cobble	... 1	00
.Cohort	, . . . 1	00
. Coif	... 1	00
.Compile	... 1	00
. Cockney	... 1	00
.Cohere	... 1	00
.Commerce	... 1	00
.Colly	... 1	00
.Comer	... 3	00
. Concam	. . . 1	25
. Conclined	... 1	25
.Concise	. . . 1	25
.Complex		30
. Cognate		25

C^ncurse 1 00

Condemn 50

Condense 50

Condign 1 50

Large Solid

Concoct

1 00

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LEONARD SEED CO., CHICAGO, WHOLESALE PRICE LIST

True Georgia	COLLARDS.	Tel. Cipher. . . Condole	Lb. $0 35
Southern or Creole			. . Condolence	. . . . 35
Large Seeded, Large Leaved	CORN	SALAD.	..Conduce	.... 50
SWEET CORN. Sweet Corn is sold by measured bushel. Golden Bantam (Yellow)	, . Conspire	Bu. ....$4 00
Cory Early Red Cob			, . Confirm	2 50
White Cob Cory			, . Capart	3 00
Chicago Market or Ballard			, . Confer	. . . . 3 50
Mammoth White Cory			, . Constituent	.... 3 00
Premo			. . Confriar	3 50
Peep o’Day			, . Conformation . .	. ... 3 50
Extra Early Adams			. Confect	2 00
Perry’s Hybrid			. . Contrary	3 00
Early Adams			..Confab	2 00
Early Minnesota			. Congruent	2 50
Kendall’s Early Giant				3 00
Early Crosby			..Confutant	. . . . 3 00
Champion			..Confident	. . . . 3 00
Moore's Early Concord			. Consume	. . . . 3 00
Stabler’s Early			, . Convoke	. . . . 3 00
Shaker’s Early			..Convert	. . . . 3 00
Early Mammoth			. Constitute	3 00
Shoe Peg			. Convex	. . . . 4 00
Country Gentlemen !			. Conflict	4 00
Zig-Zag Evergreen			.Copious	3 50
Hickox Improved			.Consent	. . . . 3 00
Old Colony			. Continent	3 50
Egyptian			. Conical	. . . . 3 00
Stowell’s Evergreen			. Cooler	. . . . 3 00
Early Evergreen			. Conjunction ....	3 00
White Evergreen			. Coon	. . . . 3 25
Leonard’s Sweet Corn, Narrow Grain. . . .				. . . . 4 00
Mammoth			..Constrain	3 00
Black Mexican			. Conference	3 50
White Mexican				. . . . 3 00
Malakoff				. . . . 3 50
Early Iowa.
Big Whiskey. A large new yellow dent.	CORN-	—Field.	. Coward	. . . . 2 00
Improved Learning			. Costal	. . . . 2 00
King of the Earliest			. Costard	. . . . 2 00
Reid’s Yellow Dent			. Cowboy	. . . . 2 50
Pride of the North			. Cousin	2 50
Iowa Gold Mine			. Costape	. . . . 2 00
Iowa Silver Mine			. Cottager	. . . . 2 00
Early Sanford •.
Boone Country White
Champion White Pearl			. Corban	, ... 2 00
Early 8-Rowed Canada Flint			. Cornea	, ... 2 00
Improved King Philip (Flint)			. Cosset	, . . . 2 00
Longfellow (Flint)			. Cougar	, . . . 2 00
Red Cob Ensilage			. Cover	... 2 00
Southern Horse Tooth			. Cowardly	... 2 00
Wisconsin White Dent			. Cowmass	... 2 00
Evergreen Sweet Fodder			. Coolie	... 2 00

LEONARD SEED CO., CHICAGO, WHOLESALE PRICE LIST

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CORN— Pop.

White Rice, Shelled

Pearl, Shelled

Red Rice, Shelled

Golden Queen, Shelled

Pepping Corn (not for seed)

	100 Lbs.
	Per	Per
Tel. Cipher.	Lb.	Lb.
Crawdart . . .	0 0	$0 06
Cravat	10	06
Crawbad . . .	10	06
	10	08
		05

CRESS. Lb.

Curled or Pepper Grass Cuniform 25

True Water Curaeva 2 50

CUCUMBER.

West l^ndia Gherkin. A small, burr-shaped variety. .

Early Cluster

Green Prolific or Boston Pickling

Early Frame or Short Green '

Chicago Pickle, Westerfield’s, Leonard's Strain...

Chicago Pickle, not our growing

Jersey Pickling

Everbearing

Cumberland

Improved Long Green

Nichol’s Medium Green

Parisian Pickling

Livingston’s Evergreen

Fordhook Pickling

Leonard’s Greenhouse Cucumber

Early Improved White Spine

Peerless White Spine

Evergreen White Spine

Arlington White Spine

Cool and Crisp

Emerald

Japanese Climbing

Fordhook Famous.

Davis Perfect

Snow Pickle

Klondyke

Crust $0 60

Crest 45

Croaket 45

Cretac . . ; 45

Write for Crushing 45

Special Cremona 40

Price in Crdssbol 45

100-lb. Criminal 45

lots Crumbier 45

Croon .' 50

Crucial 45

We can Cruciform 45

put Cu- Crossroad 50

cumber Crosscut 45

Seed up Crowsnest 60

in 14-lb., Crone 45

%-lb. and Cruelty 45

1-lb. Crimple 45

Packages Creduling 45

if desired Crescent 45

Crime 45

Cross 60

Crowbite 60

Crost 60

45

DANDELION.

Improved Large Leaved Daggo

Cultivated or French Common....,

3 00 3 00

EGG PLANT.

Leonard’s Improved New York, Purple. Spineless Edda .,

New York Improved Purple Ecstasy

Black Pekin Eager

Early Long Purple Earlap

White Pearl Eden ..

2 50 2 50 2 50

2 25

3 00

	ENDIVE.
Green Curled White Curled Moss Curled Broad Leaved Batavian
Bulbs	GARLIC.
	GOURDS.
Dipper Fancy Varieties, Mixed Japanese Nest Egg Sugar Trough

75

80

75

80

25

1 00 1 00 1 00 1 00

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HORSE RADISH. Tel. Cipher.

Small Roots Google

Per 1000 ...$4 50

HERBS.

Anise

Balm I

Basil Sweet

Borage

Catnip

Caraway, for Planting

Coriander

Dill — Mammoth

Dill — Common

Fennel, Sweet

Florence Fennel

Horehound

Hyssop

Lavender

Sweet Marjoram

Rosemary

Rue

Sage — Broad Leaved

Saffron

Summer Savory

Thyme

Wormwood

Lb.

Habitat $2 00

Hackle 2 00

Haggard 2 00

Halser 2 00

Hamlet 3 00

Halter 60

Hamper 1 00

Harbing 50

Harbinger 50

Hardness 2 00

Hardy 2 00

Haven 2 00

Havoc 2 00

Hawser 2 00

Heraldic 2 00

Helical 3 00

Heirloom 2 00

Helmet 1 00

Helix 2 00

Helter 1 50

.Hermit 3 00

Hiatus 2 00

KALE.

Dwarf Curled Scotch Bugal .

Half Dwarf Moss Curled Bunk .

Siberian, Dwarf German Greens or Sprouts Burgher

Tall Curled Scotch Burin ..

Dwarf German Purple Bunch

Thousand Headed Kale Burley

50

35

50

30

KOHL-RABI.

Early White Vienna Forcing Kildong

Early White Vienna Kolpie

Large Green Knave

Early Purple Vienna Keblap

Early Purple Vienna Forcing Kildern

1 50 1 25 1 00 1 25 1 40

LEEK.

London Flag

Large American Flag Rouen — Large Winter Large Musselburg . .

Monstrous Carentan.

Lacteal 1 25

Laconic 1 25

Lama 1 25

Lactic 1 25

Lagoon 1 25

LETTUCE.

Black Seeded Simpson

Early Curled Silesia, W. S

Grand Rapids, B. S

Early Curled Simpson, White Seeded

Tilton’s White Star, W. S

Boston Curled, B. S

The Morse, W. S., similar to Black Seeded Simpson..

Denver Market, W. S

Prize Head, W. S

Improved Hanson, W. S

Boston Market, W. S •

. Landman 45

. Laughter 45

. Leggin 50

. Laxity 45

. Logline 45

. Landslide 50

.Lest 50

. Lattice 50

. Linstock 45

. Levant 50

50

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LETTUCE — Continued. Tel. Cipher.

Tomhannock, W. S

Iceberg, W. S

Early Tennis Ball, White Seeded. The best head variety for forcing.

This is also called Boston Market

Tennis Ball, B. S

Silver Ball, W. S

Buttercup, W. S

St. Louis Butter, W. S

All Season, B. S

Royal Summer Cabbage, B. S

Big Boston, W. S

White Summer Cabbage, W. S

Defiance, W. S

Hubbard’s Market, W. S

Wonderful, same as New York, W. S

New York, W. S

California Cream Butter, B. S

All Year Round, B. S

Salamander, B. S

Golden Stonehead, W. S

Chartier Head, W. S

Blonde Blockhead, W. S

Philadelphia Butter or Early White Head, W. S

Mammoth Black Seeded Butter

Brown Dutch, B. S

Large Drumhead or Victoria Cabbage, W. S

Speckled Dutch Butter, W. S

Tom Thumb, B. S

Mignonette, W. S

Deacon, W. S

May King, W. S.

Marblehead Mammoth, W. S

Winter Lettuce, W. S

.Lordship .Lesson ..

.Logbook . Lodgment Lobule .. Lapidist . Liturgy . . .Lessee .. Liquid . . . Lanchup Luxury . . Lather . . . Lessing . . .Limbo . . . Limbo . . . Lapstone Lanby . . . Loadstar Legbail . . Largess . Landscape

Liner

Landlock . Lanking . Lexicon . Lockage . Lute .... Luther . . , Latchet . , Lobbyist . Lighter . .

COS OR BLANCHING VARIETIES.

Paris White Cos, W. S Lineal . . . .

Romaine Cos, W. S Lubber

MUSKMELON.

Burrell's Gem Menacing ,

Ordway Gem Mentklly .

Osage Gem Mentality .

Admiral Togo...,* Memory ..

Hoodoo Mechanical

Paul Rose Manitou ...

Emerald Gem Mallard ...

Princess Medallion .

Osage Maypole ...

Jenny Lind Marker ...

McCotter’s Pride Madesafe ..

Banquet Magian ...

Delmonico Malac

Tip Top Melody ....

Surprise Melodeon .

Banana Madman ..

Ornamental Pomegranate Medallic ..

Rocky Ford Mandrake ,

Eden Gem

Netted Gem Mattock . ^.

Delicious Gold Lined

Early Nutmeg Maligner ..

Skillman’s Netted Megrim ...

Early Hackensack Malcon ....

Large Hackensack ....Marmoset .

Defender

Lb.

$0 50 50

50

45

50

45

50

53

45

50

45

5C

45

50

45

50

60

80

45

60

45

50

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Chicago Market Nutmeg..

Melrose

Jersey Belle

Long Island Beauty

Early Green Citron

Shumway’s Giant

Montreal Market

Acme or Baltimore

Cosmopolitan

Improved Cantaloupe

Champion Market

White Japan

Bay View

Vine Peach, Mango Melon

Garden Lemon

Casaba

Pine Apple

Norfolk Button

MUSKMELON— Continued,

Tel. Cipher. Lb.

..Main $0 50

...Massacre 50

..Marksman 50

. . Marshal 50

. .Manger 45

. . Medicine 60

..Matross 50

. . Madam 50

. .Major 50

♦ .Mansion 50

..Maihem 45

..Memoir 60

. . Magic 45

..Membrane 60

..Mammon 60

. . .Magnifier 50

..Mechanism 50

50

WATERMELON.

Phinney’s Early Molar

Vick’s Early Mooring ..

Cole’s Early Messmate ,

Harris’ Early

Excell, new, the coming variety, the best shipping melon

Gypsy or Rattlesnake Millstone .,

Peerless Modish ....

Sweetheart Moodiness .

Dixie Metrop . . . .

Florida Favorite Midday....

Kolb’s Gem Mission ...

Seminole , Monologue

Black Diamond Moody

Halbert Honey Moping ....

T om Watson Momentary

Pride of Georgia Momentous

Ironclad Mirrow ....

Alabama Sweet.... ^ Money ....

Light Icing Miter

Dark Icing Methodic ..

Jumbo Misguide ..

Cuban Queen Meter .....

Success Milltrack . .

Mountain Sweet Mocker ....

Ferry’s Iceberg Minute ....

Ice Cream Minstrel ...

Monte Cristo Military ...

Triumph Modesty ...

Mclver’s Sugar Mopsey ...

Kleckly Sweets, same as Monte Cristo Military ...

Hungarian Honey Minnow ...

Eden Monotonous

Bradford Mirthful

Duke Jones Miscreant . .

Red Seed Citron, for preserving Momentum

Green Seed Citron, Colorado preserving Merman ...

Girardeau Favorite Midway ...

The Boss Merciful ..

MUSTARD.

Brown (Wild) Mordant...

White, London Mower ....

Southern Giant Curled, Ostrich Plume, Fordhood Fancy Motto

Chinese, Smooth Leaf, or Bloomdale Large Leaved Morion

30

35

30

50

30

40

30

25

30

40

30

50

30

35

50

40

35

30

40

35

30

10

25

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MUSHROOM SPAWN.

Pure Culture — in bricks

English — in bricks

French — in 3-lb. boxes

NASTURTIUM.

Tall or Garden

Oak Park Tall

Dwarf Mixed

Oak Park Dwarf...

OKRA.

Perkins Mammoth Long Pod

Dwarf Green, Improved

Long Green

White Velvet

Tel. Cipher.

Murat Brick. .$0 20

Mumming Lb... 15

Mural 1 00

Lb.

Nectar 35

60

Nadir 40

60

Obeah 25

Oast 20

Oath 20

Oblate 25

ONION SEED.

Leonard’s Onion Seed is endorsed by market gardeners everywhere. Each year adds to its

popularity with them. This is the surest indication of merit.

Leonard’s Early Yellow Cracker

Early Flat Yellow Danvers

Yellow Dutch or Strasburg

Australian Brown. Skin Brownish yellow

yellow Globe Danvers

Michigan Yellow Globe

Ohio Yellow Globe

Leonard’s Yellow Globe. A true globe shaped variety; the best yellow sort for muck lands; the best market gardeners’ variety; the

handsomest yellow skinned onion known; a splendid keeper

Southport Yellow Globe

Prize Taker. A popular variety for fall marketing; very showy and a

prolific yielder; ordinarily not a real good keeper

Extra Early Flat Red

Large Red Wethersfield

Leonard’s Red Globe. True globe shaped, bright red colored; the best red skinned variety for market purposes; well adapted for ail

soils; the best red sort for muck land

Southport Red Globe

' Red Victoria

White Portugal. American Silver Skin

Philadelphia Silver Skin

Extra Early White Pearl

Leonard’s White Globe. True globe shaped; the best white skinned

variety for market; the best white sort for muck land

Southport White Globe

ONION — Imported Sorts.

Red Bermuda

White Bermuda

Crystal White Wax

White Barletta

White Queen

White Welch

Early Neapolitan Marzajola

Mammoth Silver King

White Italian Tripoli

Mammoth Spanish King

Red Rocca

Mammoth Copper King

Tel. Cipher. Lb.

Obtrude $2 00

Obstruse 2 00

Outim 2 00

Orion 1 75

Outig 1 75

Opera 1 75

Ophide 1 75

Opal 2 00

Ordeal 1 75

Oppose .‘. 1 50

Oddity 2 00

Ominous 1 75

Outing 1 75

Orbit 1 50

Orphoming 1 50

Ouchaf 3 00

Opinion 2 00

Ovated 2 00

Onward 3 50

Ordain 3 00

Orphokule 1 75

Ovapor 1 75

Ovading 1 50

Ovally 1 50

Oveck 1 50

1 25

Outoss 1 50

Orpherate 1 25

Orphan 1 25

Orphiol 1 25

Origion 1 25

Orphaton 1 25

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HEADQUARTERS FOR ONION SETS.

We are now and for many years have been the leading Onion Set Growers.

We claim a superiority for our product, which comes from superior knowledge in planting, harvesting, storing and shipping, as a result of long continued experience and large operations.

Red Bottom Sets

White Bottom Sets

Yellow Bottom Sets

Yellow Globe Sets

Prizetaker Sets

Crystal White Wax Sets

Pearl Sets

Genuine Top Sets

Winter Top Sets or Perenniai

Potato Onions....

White Multipiiers or Shallots.

Yellow Multipliers or Shallots

Buyers of onion sets should write for prices, as the values are always changing.

	PARSLEY.	Tel. Cipher.	Lb.
Plain or Single		Paleness	$0 40
Double Curled ... .T".		Packstaff	40
Champion Moss Curled		Pacify	40
Fern Leaf			60
Triple Curled or Myatt’s Garnishing...			40
Hamburg or Rooted			50

Bu.

Write

for

Market

Prices

PARSNIP.

Improved Hollow Crown Guernsey Improved..... Long White Dutch

Palfrey 20

Palladium 20

Palpable 20

PEAS — Smooth Seed.

Smooth Seed Peas, 60 ibs. to Bu.

				Bu.
Alaska				3 50
Ameer				3 25
Bountiful				3 25
Blue Imperial				3 25
Blue Beauty				.3 25
Blackeye Marrowfat				4 00
Claudit				3 25
D’Anoney Amelior....
Early May				3 50
Extra Early				3 50
Essex Star
Early Morn Suttons				. .Sold out
First and Best				3 50
French Canner				3 25
Fillbasket
Giant Lightning				3 50
Giant Blue Express				.. .Sold out
Improved Sugar Marrow........				3 25
Long Island Mammoth				3 50
Mauritania				. .Sold out
Maud S				3 50
Mammoth Meiting Sugar
Prolific Early Market				4 00
Primo
Peter Pan				. . Sold out
Pilot , . .				. . Sold out
Pride of Market				4 25
Saxonia or Saxa				5 00
Telegraph				3 50
Tom Thumb
Velocity ,				R nn
White Marrowfat

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PEAS — Wrinkled Seed.

Wrinkled Seed Peas, 56 lbs. to Bu

American Wonder

Advancer

Admiral

Abundance

Autocrat

Alderman -

Admiral Dewey

Boston Unrivaled

British Wonder

Buttercup c ...... .

Clatawa, Leonard’s

Champion of England

Chelsea Gem

Dwarf Telephone or Daisy

Dwarf Defiance, Sutton’s

Danby Stratagem

Duke of York

Duke of Albany

Duchess

Dwarf Gray Sugar

Exonian

English Wonder .'

Everbearing

Forty Fold

Gems, Premium

Gems, McLean’s Little

Green Gem

Gradus

Gladstone

Golden King

Heroine

Horsfords Market Garden

King Edward VI I

Laxtonian

Little Marvel

Lincoln

Nott’s Excelsior

Potlatch, Leonard’s

Prince of Wales

Richard Seddon

Surprise or Eclipse

Suttons Excelsior

Suttons A-1

Suttons Peerless

Suttons Pioneer

Shropshire Hero

Stratagem

Sharpes Queen

Sherwood

Senator

Stanley

Thomas Laxton

Telephone

Witham Wonder

Wm. Hurst

-World's Record -

Yorkshire Hero....

Tel. Cipher.	Bu.
Pantaloon	$6 00'
Pedestal	3 25
Panic	3 50
Panel	3 25
Petalody
Perfectly	. .... 4 00
Petalism	4 00
Petaline	4 00
	5 25
Pettifog
Clatawa
Parent	4 00
Pet
Phone
Perfected	6 00
Peterkin	6 00
Phony
Parotid	4 00
Patronage	4 00
Perjurer	4 00
Partner
Passionate . . . .	6 00
, Partisan	3 50
Peterson	. .Sold out
Pencern	3 50
Pedant	3 50
, Peter \ .Peerless
6 00
. Petrology	5 00
, Petitioner
. Pavillion	3 25
. Petaled
. Petaliform . . . .	. . Sold out
, Petiolar
. Petiolate	5 00
.Pellit	6 00
.Potlatch	6 00
. Petitionary . . . .	. . Sold out
. Petalous
. Permanence . . .
.Permit
. Perfection	. .Sold out
. Peacefully . . . .	. . Sold out
. Petalum
. Penury	3 50
. Percolate	6 00
. Penult	6 00
. Petresent	6 00
. Petrine	6 00
.Petrous	5 00
.Park	6 00
.Perfidious	4 00
. Patroling	6 00
. Perfume	6 00
.Pettiness	. .Sold out
. Pergolt	3 50

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FIELD PEAS. €0 lbs. to Bu.

Common White or Canada Common Blue or Green... Scotch Green_ Field

Tel. Cipher. Bu.

Pathos. Subject to

Pathetic. V Market

Patriot, .j Changes

PEPPER.

Long Cayenne...

Red Chili

Red Cluster

Celestial . . .^

Coral Gem

Kaleidoscope . . . Bell or Bull Nose Sweet Mountain.

Pimento

Ruby King

Chinese Giant. . . Procopp’s Giant.. Golden Upright. . Golden Dawn . . . . Golden Queen . . .

Tobasco

Red Cherry

Lb.

Phalynx $1 50

Phrenetic 1 50

Physical 1 50

Personage 2 00

Perspector 2 00

Petard 2 00

Petrel 1 50

Picaroon 1 50

2 00

Pianist 2 00

Pharo 2 50

Photograph 2 50

Pestel 1 50

Perusal 1 50

Pester 1 50

Persue 1 50

1 50

PUMPKIN.

Small Sugar

Japanese Pie

Large Cheese or Kentucky

Connecticut Field

Mammoth Tours

Mammoth Potiron. Called Cushaw or Crookneck

Portly	40
Pompilo	50
Pondal	12
Polymp	25
Poplit	60
Popery	60
Polysyl	60
Postern	40
Pomifer	50
Postal	40
Polygram	40
Poser	50

RADISH.

Leonard’s Three v.eaf; excellent forcing sort; color, bright scarlet;

shape, olive

Olive Shaped Leafless Forcing

Non Plus Ultra, or Deep Scarlet Turnip Forcing

Scarlet Turnip White Tipped Forcing

White Tipped Scarlet Turnip

Early Scarlet Globe. The best forcing variety

Crimson Giant Forcing.

Long Scarlet Short Top Wood’s Early Frame...

Cincinnati Market

Colorado Glass

White Icicle

Early Scarlet Turnip...

Deep Scarlet Turnip...

Scarlet Olive

Carmine Turnip........

Rosy Gem

French Breakfast

We put Radish Seed up in ^4-lb., %-lb. or 1-lb. Packages if desired.

Write for Special Prices in 100-lb. lots.

Realistic , Rebuker . Rebuff . . . Rectory . . Regara . . Ratooner ,

Refined . . , Rapacious Regrate . . Raised . . . Rayless . . Refraining

Rattle

Rancer . . . Rectify . . . Ramoose . Reclaim . . .Rayful . . .

Early White Turnip or White Box Ravenous

White Olive Refrask .

Small Early Yellow Turnip Raymel ..

Golden Globe

35

30

25

30

25

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RADISH — Continued.

Half Long Deep Scarlet

Long Brightest Scarlet White Tip.

Improved Chartier

Long White Vienna or Lady Finger.

Long White Pearl

White Strasburg

White Summer Turnip

White Stuttgart

Yellow Summer Turnip

Gray Summer Turnip

Rose China Winter

White China or Celestial

California Mammoth

Large White Spanish

Round Black Spanish

Long Black Spanish

RHUBARB.

Victoria

Linnaeus

Roots of Either Variety. . . .Per Doz., 75 cts. Per 100, $5 00

SALSIFY.

Large White

Mammoth Sandwich Island

We put Radish Seed , up in 1/4 -lb., V V2-lh. or 1-lb. .

Packages if desired.

Write for ! Special price in 100-lb. lots.

Large Leaved French

SORREL.

SPINACH.

Savoy Leaved

Large Leaved Viroflay or Thick Leaf

Round Leaved

Prickly or Winter. . . .'r

Long Standing

Broad Flanders

Victoria

New Zealand

SQUASH. Summer Varieties.

Leonard's Giant Straightneck

Leonard’s Giant Crookneck

Summer Crookneck

Leonard's Mammoth White Bush

Early White Bush

Yellow Bush

White Summer Crookneck

Strickler’s Summer

Italian Veg. Marrow (Cocozelladi-Napoli)

Winter Varieties.

Colvin’s Orange Marrow

English Marrow

Boston Marrow

Sibley or Pike’s Peak

Essex Hybrid

Red or Golden Hubbard

Mammoth Chili

Hard Shelled Marrow

Tel. Cipher. Lb.

Reach $0 25

Really 25

Reading 25

Repeating 25

Reasoning 25

Refuple 25

Refuting 25

Reform 25

Regress 30

Razure 30

Recital 30

Reflect 30

Rafter 35

Reaffure 30

Reelose 30

, Realty 30

.Relegate 1 00

• Reinder 1 00

.Rejoicing

■ Sabian 1 50

, Sacker 1 50

Sagita], 1 25

Per

Lb. 100 Lbs. .$0 30 $25 00

.Satchel

Sanction . . .	30	25 00
Saracen ....	30	25 00
.Sapwood ...	30	25 00
.Sandal	30	25 00
.Salient	30	25 00
Satrap	30	25 00
Sanguine . . .	40	35 00
		Lb.
Scobs		. €5
Scion		. 60
Secant		50
Scutcheon . . .		€0
Scarp
Seeker •		45
Secretive ....		50
Seaward		50
Script		. 60
.Scald		. 40
Schedule ....		. 40
Saver		. 40
.Seahorse ....		. 60
Schemer ....		. 50
Scotch		50
.Sculler		60
		50

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SQUASH — Winter Varieties — Continued.

Tel. Cipher.

Fordhook Sciatic ....

The Delicious Sceptical ..

Hubbard Scoundrel .

Marblehead ■ Seaborn ...

Leonard’s Warty Hubbard ."1 Scaffold ...

Lb. $0 60 60 50 50 60

TOBACCO.

Connecticut Seed Leaf

Havana

White Burley

Yellow Pryor

Tabling 2 00

Tactic 2 00

Tandem 2 00

1 75

TOMATO.

Leonard’s Early Market

Atlantic Prize

Early Michigan

Royal Red

Early Optimus

Dwarf Aristocrat

Dwarf Stone

Volunteer

Favorite

Perfection We put To-

Chalk’s Early Jewell

Ignotum

New Stone

Paragon

Trophy

Honor Bright

Matchless

Earliana

Crine’s June Pink

Early Detroit

Trucker’s Favorite

Success

Coreless

Acme

Beauty

Livingston’s Globe

Dwarf Champion

Mikado

Essex Hybrid

Imperial

Dwarf Giant

Greater Baltimore

Red Rock. Grown from original strain

Buckeye State

Ponderosa

Tenderloin

Magnus

Crimson Cushion

Red Currant

Red Cherry

Red Pear

Red Peach

Yellow Cherry

Yellow Plum

Yellow Pear

Yellow Peach

Golden Queen

Golden Trophy

Husk or Ground Cherry

mato Seed up in 14 -lb., i/^-lb. or 1-lb. Packages if desired.

Write for Special Price for 100-lb. lots.

For Preserving

. Taste . . . . , Tapster . . . Teacher . . , Theatric . . , Teadly . . . . Taurine . .

.Tester

, Thirster . .

Teeter

Testaning Tearful . . . Tender . . .

Thesis

Terror ....

Tenent . . .

Teetotaler

Termagant

Theatrical

Thankfully

Tapan

Target

Thin

Taurus

Terminer . ,

Tawny

Theorist . . ,

Tardy

Thickset . , Thatcher . , Tarnish . . . Testudo . . .

Thirst

Thirsty

Tattle

Thane

Textual . . ,

Thatch

Thankgiver

Thong

Thrall

Thorax . . . ,

Thoral

Templar . . . Templet . . . Tenancy . . .

1 25 1 25 1 25 1 25

1 25

2 00 .2 00 1 25 1 25 1 25 1 50 1 25 1 25 1 25 1 25 1 50 1 25 1 25 1 50 1 25 1 25

1 25

2 00 1 25

1 25

2 00 2 00 1 60 1 25 1 25 1 60 1 25

1 25 1 60

2 50 2 50

1 25

2 50 1 50 1 50 1 50 1 50 1 50 1 50 1 50 1 50 1 50 1 50 1 50

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TURNIP.

Extra Early White Milan

Extra Early Purple Top Milan

Early Snowball

« Early White Flat Dutch, Strap Leaved

Early Purple Top, Strap Leaved

Purple Top White Globe. . . .

Cow Horn or Long White. . .

Large White Norfolk

Large Red Top Norfolk

White Egg

Pomeranean White Globe. . .

Sweet German

Seven Top for Turnip Greens

Southern Prize'

Golden Ball

Purple Top Yellow Aberdeen

Amber Globe

Orange Jelly

Green Top Yellow Aberdeen

Yellow Stone

Yellow Globe

Can put Turnip Seed up in ^-Ib., ^-Ib. or 1-lb. Packages if desired.

Write for Special Price for 100-lb. lots.

Per

	Per	100
	Lb.	Lbs.
Tel. Cipher.	Per Lb.
Toper	, .$0 35	$0 30
Tibing	. 35	30
Thumb	.. 20	18
.Thrum .....	.. 20	18
.Thugord . . . ,	.. 20	18
.Tirode .....	.. 20	18
.Throne ....	.. 35	30
•Tonnage	.. 20	18
.Tillage	.. 20	18
.Token	.. 25	20
.Tinkole	. . 20	18
.Togated . . .	20	18
. Titmouse . .	25	20
.Toadle ....	.. 25	20
. Tidiness . .	. . 20	18
.Tiresome . .	. . 20	18
.Thrice	. . 20	18
.Tinkol	.. 20	18
.Tidily	.. 20	18
.Topean	20	18
.Topaz	.. 20	18

RUTABAGA.

Improved American Purple Top Torpor

English Purple Top Tossing

Laing’s Improved Torrid

Skirvings Towards

Carter's Imperial Purple Top Topmore ....

White Rutabaga Traitor

Monarch or Tankard Toupet

Budlong^'s White Rock Topknot

BIRD SEEDS— Net Cash.

Canary Whecker . . . .

Hemp Whief

Lettuce Whieftan ....

Maw Whigoe

Millet Whildish

Rape. German Bird Whirp

Mixed Bird Seed Whoral

Sunflower Whough

30

15

10

25

20

10

20

15

23

25

25*

23

12

03

20

15

05

15

10

SEE PAGE 32 FOR PRICES OF

Descriptions of Vegetable Varieties with directions for their planting begin on page 33.

Mixed Flowering Sweet Peas should be included in each order and are priced on page 29.

Mixed Nasturtiums are priced on page 15.

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CHOICE FLOWER SEEDS

In Bulk

We do not sell less than 1 oz. of sorts priced at 20 cts. or under, but we will put up Y2 oz. of seeds priced at 25 cts. per oz. and over 14 of seeds priced at 75 cts. per oz. and over; Yq 02. of seeds priced at $2.00 per oz. or over.

Oz. Lb.

Abronia Umbellata, lilac ’ $0 25

Abutilon, mixed per Ys oz., $0.30 2 00

Acroclinum, Alba White 10 1 00

Roseum 10 1 00

Mixed 10 90

Adonis, aestivalis 15 60

Ageratum, Blue Perfection, dwarf 30

Imperial Dwarf, White 30 2 60

Mixed, White 15 1 50

Agrostemma, mixed 20

Ailanthus or Tree of Heaven 25 1 00

Alyssum maritimum Sweet Alyssum 15 1 50

Little Gem, white, very dwarf 40 4 00

Saxatile compactum, hardy, spring blooming 25 2 50

Amaranthus caudatus. Love Lies Bleeding 10 40

Tricolor, Joseph’s Coat 15 1 25

Mixed 10 40

Ampelopsis Veitchii Boston or Japanese Ivy 15 2 00

Anemone Coronarian 30 3 50

Antirrhinum, tall mixed, snap dragons 20 2 20

Yellow 30 3 50

Queen Victoria 30 3 50

Delila 30 3 50

Giant Flowering Brilliant 50 4 00

Aquilegia or Columbine, double finest mixed colors 25 2 60

Single mixed 25 2 50

Arctotis Grandis 25 2 25

Asparagus, plumosus nanus, 1,000 seeds. 4 50

Sprengeri, trailing, 1,000 seeds 75

Asperula 15

ASTERS.

Perfection Paeony Flowered, dark blue 1 25

Brilliant Rose 1 25

White, pure 1 25

Azure, Blue 1 25

Queen’s scarlet, fiery scarlet 1 25

Surprise 1 25

Finest mixed 90 12 00

Giant Comet, crimson 1 25

Snow White 1 25

Lavender 1 25

Deep Blue 1 25

Bright Rose 1 25

Mixed 90 12 00

Late Flowering, Branching (Semple’s Branching), white 40 5 00

Crimson 40 5 00

Lavender 40 5 00

Purple 45 5 50

Shell pink 45 5 50

Mixed colors 40 4 50

Vick’s Branching, pure white 75 9 00

Vick’s Branching, mixed 75 9 00

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ASTERS — Continued. * Oz. Lb.

Queen of the Market, white $0 45 $5 00.

Dark blue 45 5 00

Scarlet 45 5 00

Pink 45 5 00

Mixed 35 4 00

Daybreak, soft pink (Vicks) 1 00 12 00

Purity, pure white (Vicks) 1 00 10 00

Vick’s Branching, Carmine 1 25

Crimson 1 25

Lavender 1 25

Purple 1 25

Rose 1 25

Deep Violet 1 25

White 1 25

Fine Mixed 1 00

Victoria, finest mixed colors 1 00 14 00

Scarlet 1 60 14 00

White, pure 1 60 14 00

Purple 1 60 14 00

Peach blossom pink 1 60 14 00

Sky blue. . .* 1 60 14 00

The Carlson Aster, white 1 00

Pink 1 00

Lavender 1 00

Blue ! 1 00

Daybreak pink 1 00

Mixed 1 00

Dwarf, Mixed, many classes and colors 50 6 50

Tall, mixed, many classes and colors 40 4 00

Bachelor’s Button, see Centaurea Cyanus 15 75

Balsam Apple (momordica balsamina) 15

Balsam Pear (momordica charantia) 15

Balsam, premium mixed. Camellia 40

Camellia, flowered crimson 50

Lavender 50

Lilac 50

Purple 50

Scarlet 50

White 50

Mixed 50

Double rose flowered, mixed 30 3 50

Carnation-striped, finest mixed 20 2 20

Balloon Vine 10 65

Bartonia aurea 20 2 00

Browallia (elata), mixed 30 3 50

Beilis, perennis, double daisies, mixed colors 1 50

Double Giant rose, Longfellow 1 50

Double Giant snowball, white 1 50

Brachycome Iberidifolia, mixed, Swan River Daisy 30 3 50

Cacalia, mixed 15 1 80

Calendula, Meteor, double yellow, striped orange 10 60

Calliopsis. Golden Wave. Drummondi 10 70

Campanula (Canterbury Bell) finest mixed single 20 2 00

Double mixed 65 7 00

Canary Bird Flower 20 1 35

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Oz. Lb.

Candytuft. Empress, Giant Hyacinth Flowered, white spike $0 40 $4 DO

White rocket, long spikes of white flowers. 15 1 50

Dwarf Hybrids 25 3 00

Umbellata Crimson 15 2 00

Lilac 15 2 00

White Hyacinth flowered 15 2 00

Mixed colors 10 60

Canna, crozy sorts 10 1 25

Large Flowering, mixed varieties 25 2 80

Carnation, choice double mixed, extra fine strain 1 50 15 00

Chabaud 3 OO

Giant Margaret, extra choice mixed 1 00 10 00

Margaret, mixed colors 60 6 00

Celosia, Dwarf, mixed 1 25 16 00

Dwarf, Glasgow Prize 1 25 16 00

Centaurea, New Margaret, large, white Sultan 40 4 25

Giant Imperialis, mixed colors 40 4 00

Cyanus, blue (Ragged Sailor or Corn flowers) 10 1 00

Emperor William 10 1 00

Candidissima 50

Gymnocarpa 30 3 50

Chrysanthemum Coronarlum, mixed 10 1 00

Double, white 10 1 00

Cineraria, Hybrida, fine mixture 1-32 oz., $1 50

Clarkla, single, mixed 10 1 00

Double, mixed 20 2 40

Cobaea, scandens, blue, beautiful tender climber, white, grows 20 to 30 ft 40 4 00

Coix Lachrymae, Job’s Tears 10 50

Columbine (aequilegia) single, mixed 25 2 60

Double, mixed 25 2 60

Coleus, choice mixed 1 50

Large leaved hybrids, finest mixed 1-16 oz., $0 75

Convolvulus Major. See morning glory

Convolvulus Minor. See morning glory .'

Coreopsis, lanceolata, grandiflora 25 2 80

Cosmos, large flowering, mixed colors 10 1 00

Dwarf early, mixed colors 20 2 00

Early Flowering Crimson 50

Pink 50

White 50

Mammoth Flowering Crimson 60

Pink 60

White 60

Lady Lennox 75

Cyclamen, Persicum, finest mixed 5 00

Grganteum mixed 6 00

Cypress Vine, mixed colors 15 1 50

Daisy. See Beilis

Daisy, New Shasta 1 00

Dahlia, double mixed 50

Single mixed 25

Delphinium, Blue 50 6 00

Hybridum single mixed 25 3 00

Hybridum double mixed 1 00 10 00

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Dianthus Heddewigi, single, mixed

Double, mixed

Diadematus fl. pi

Lacinatus, single mixed

Lacinatus, double Snowball

Hybridus, double Fireball

Digitalis or Fox Glove, mixed

Dolichos (Hyacinth Bean) mixed

Echinocystis, iobata. Wild Cucumber

Eschscholtzia Yellow California Poppy

Golden West

Mixed T

Mandarin

Bush Eschscholtzia

Euphorbia variegata, Snow on Mountain

Heterophylla, Mexican Fire Plant

Forget-Me-Not. See myosotis

Four O’clock. (Marvel of Peru), mixed

Foxglove. See digitalis

Fuchsia, single and double mixed

Gailiardia, mixed, single annual varieties

Grandiff, Hardy Perennial, splendid cut flower,....

Lorenziana, double mixed, annual

Geranium Zonale, large, single, mixed

Gilia, mixed

.Globe Amaranth, mixed, fine everlasting

Godetia, mixed r

Gourds, Dish Cloth

Dipper

Japanese Nest Egg

Sugar T rough

Hercules Club

Bottle

Mock Orange ■

Apple shaped

Calabash

Pear shaped

Many sorts, mixed

Gypsophiia paniculata, fine cut flower

Helianthus. See sunflower

Helichrysum, double mixed

Heliotrope, finest mixed, dark sorts

Finest mixed, light sorts

Hibiscus, sunset, yellow

Crimson eye

Hollyhocks, double white

Finest double German mixed

Annual mixed

Allegheny, double fringed

Single, mixed

Humulus, japonicus, Japanese annual hop

Japonicus, variegated, mottled foliage

Ice Plant (mesembryanthemum)

Impatiens Sultani

Ipomoea setosa, Brazilian Morning Glory

Grandiflora, moon flower vine, white

Heavenly blue, light blue, yellow throat

Japanese Imperial Morning Glories, mixed colors, choice

Oz.

$0 30

40

30

60

1 00

40

15

10

15

10

15

40

20

- 35

30

..: 10

40

1,000 seeds, $2 50

20

25

15

10

20

15

10

20

.10

10

25

70

50

25

1 00

85

45

50

30

25

15

1-16 oz., $0 75

35

40

30

15

Lb. $3 00 4 00

4 00

3 00 6 50

10 00

5 00

1 25 1 25 1 60 90

1 50

4 50

2 00

4 00 3.00

75

5 00

50 1 50 1 50 1 50 1 00 1 00 1 00 1 20

1 25 1 00 1 00

2 00 1 00 1 00 3 00

2 80 8 50 8 50 6 00 2 50

2 50

2 50 1 50

3 50

4 00 3 50 1 50

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Oz. Lb.

Job’s Tears $0 10 $0 50

Kochia, Tricophylla — Summer Cypress is becoming very popular ' 10 1 00

Lantana, finest mixed 15 1 50

Larkspur, Double Dwf. German Rocket 15 1 25

Emperor, fine mixed 15 1 80

Lathyrus latifolius (everlasting pea) 10

Linaria Cymballaria (Kenilworth Ivy) 1 00

Linum (Flowering Flax), scarlet 10

Blue 10

^ White . . .' 10

Mixed 10

Lobelia, Crystal Palace 1 00 14 00

Emperor William 65 8 00

Gracilis light blue, trailing 30 3 00

Mathiola, bicornis 20

Matricaria Capensis fl, pi. — double white Feverfew 20 2 00

Marigold African double mixed 20 2 00

Legion of Honor 15 1 60

Dwarf French mixed 15 1 60

Eldorado 20 2 50

Mignonette, Grandiflora, mixed 10 60

Machet 30 3 00

Golden Machet 35 4 00

Parsons white 15 1 60

Maurandia Vine, mixed 85 12 00

Mimosa pudica. Sensitive Plant 15 1 80

Mimulus, tigrinus, spotted mixed. Monkey Flowers 70

Moschatus, Musk Plant.. 85

Mirabilis. See four o’clock 10 75

Moon Flower. See Ipomea Grandiflora 40 4 00

Morning Glory, All colors mixed 05 40

Dwarf mixed 05 60

Japanese. See Ipomea 15 1 50

Myosotis, alpestris, blue (Forget Me Not) 30 3 00

Alpestris, white 30 3 50

Alpestris, Victoria blue. 65 7 00

Palustris, semperflorens 1 00

Nasturtium, Dwarf — New Chameleon, mixed 65

Aurora, deep yellow, blotched carmine &5

Beauty, scarlet, splashed canary 65

Bronze 65

Crystal Palace Gem, sulphur, spotted maroon 65

Deep scarlet 65

Empress of India, deep crimson, dark leaved 65

Golden King, rich color 66

King Theodore, rich red, bluish foliage 65

Lady Bird 66

Pearl, whitish 65

Prince Henry, yellow, marbled with scarlet 65

Rose 65

Ruby King, blue, tinted red ... 65

Spotted King 66

Vesuvius 65

Lilliput Flowers, small rich colors 65

Finest mixture 60

Leonard’s Oak Park, choicest bedding mixture 10 60

LEONARD SEED CO., CHICAGO. WHOLESALE PRICE LIST ^

Oz. Lb,

Nasturtium, Tall or Climbing — Butterfly $0 65

Fashion 65

Jupiter 65

Salmon Queen 6S

King Theodore, darkest red..^ 65

Mixed, all colors 60

Nasturtium, Lobb's — Asa Grey, yellowish white 65

s

Brilliant, dark scarlet 65

Lucifer, very dark scarlet 65

Firefly, dark orange, spotted red, dark foliage 65

Madam Gunther, mixed ' 65

Roi des Noirs, king of blacks 65

Mixed sorts 60

Nicotiana Sanderae •. $0 30 3 00

Affinis 15 2 00

NIgella Damascena

Hippanica

Mixed

Pansy, Giant, Trimardeau, mixed, finest strains

Meteor

Leonard’s Fancy Mixture, the finest mixture of Pansy offered, large

flowers of brilliant colors and fine texture

French, large flowering, finest mixed

Odier, OP five bfotched, choice

Striped and mottled

Bugnot’s superb blotched, extra choice...

.English mixed, very fine

Named sorts, mixed

Good Mixture

Fire King, very fine

Emperor William, blue

Faust, king of the blacks

Gold margined

Havana brown

Masterpiece

Azure blue

Lord Beaconsfield, purple shading to white

Mahogany color

Giant Peacock, blue, claret and white

Violet margined with white

Snow Queen, pure white

Victoria, wine red, very fine

White, black center, showy

Yellow, black center, showy

Yellow Gem, pure yellow

Perilla, nankanensis

Petunia, hybrida inimitable, dwarf

Hybrida, striped and blotched

Hybrida, finest mixed, first quality

Double, large flowered, extra fine mixed..

Single. fringed, very fine

Double fringed, very fine

Giants of California

Ruffled Giants, mixed

Phlox Drummondi, finest mixed, all sorts

Grandiflora, white

Grandiflora, finest mixed

Decussata perennial varieties, mixsd

2 00

10

80

60

1-32 oz., $5 00 1-16 oz., 1 50 1-32 oz., 6 00 1-16 oz., 2 00 1-16 oz., 3 50

1 00

1 50

1 00 6 00

10 00 10 00 10 00

1 50

1 00 1 00 1 00 1 00 1 00 75 1 00 50

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Phlox Drummondi — Continued

Semi-double, white

Semi-double scarlet

Star of Quedlinburg

Poppy — American Flag

Carnation Flowered

Glaucum (Tulip Poppy)

Shirley (Improved)

Peony fl. scarlet

White

Yellow

Double mixed

Single, finest mixed

Portulaca, single, large flowering, mixed

Double, large flowering, mixed

Primula, Chinese Fringed — Choicest mixed, very fine

Veris (Cowslip), mixed

Japonica, fine mixed

Pyrethrum aureum (Golden Feather)

Selaginoides ^

Single, large flowering, mixed

Double, large flowering, mixed

Rodanthe, mixed, excellent market plants

RIcinus, Borboniensis

Sanguineus

Zanzibariensis

Gibsoni

Rudbeckia, Newmanni

Salpigiossis, grandiflora, finest mixed

Salvia splendens, scarlet sage

Splendens, Bonfire

Splendens, Burning Bush

Salvia splendens. New Silver pot

Scabiosa, dwarf double, finest mixed

Large flowered, double, white

Large flowered, double, finest mixed

Schizanthus, fine mixed

Smilax, new crop

Silene armerla (catchfly)

Sunflower, multiflores double

Globosus Fistulosus

Californicus double

Nanus, double dwarf

Miniature flowered

Stocks, large flowering, German

White

Crimson

Canary Yellow

Light blue

Dark blue

Good mixed

Finest mixed

Oz.	Lb.
$0 90
90
90
15	$1 00
15	1 10
30
25
20
20
20
20
20
25	2 50
1 25	18 00
> 1 00
2 00
15	1 90
30
1 00
30	3 50
10	50
05	50
10	80
10	60
30	3 60
1 00	15 00
1 50	20 00
2 00
2 00
15	2 00
20	2 00
25	3 00
10	1 00
20	2 00
10	75
15	1 80
10	1 50
10	1 50
10	1 50
10	1 50
50
50
50
50
50
50
30
40

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MIXED SWEET PEAS— Continued.

Lb.

Choice Mixed. A very good mixture of all the standard sorts $0 45

Eckford Mixed. A very fine mixture of the standard Grandifiora sorts 50

Leonard's Fancy Mixed. This mixture contains the cream of the standard sorts, including

the L'Uwin and Spencer varieties. It is the best mixture to be had 60

Leonard's Florists' Mixture. This mixture contains the varieties suitable for cut fiower trade 80 Leonard's Named Sorts Mixed. A complete mixture of the Grandifiora and Unwin types

blended in proper proportions 80

Spencer Varieties Mixed 1 00

Bush Varieties Mixed 1 00

Christmas Flowering Mixed 85

SWEET PEAS— SPENCER VARIETIES.

Apple Blossom Spencer, bright rose '

Asta Ohn, lavender tinted with mauve 8 25

Aurora Spencer '.....

Blanche Ferry Spencer ;

Captain of the Blues, Spencer

Constance Oliver

Countess Spencer

Dainty Spencer

Elfrida* Pearson

Florence Morse Spencer, delicate pink 2 00

George Herbert, rosy magenta, shading to carmine 2 25

Helen Lewis, orange, shading to buff 2 50

John Ingman, rosy magenta 2 25

King Edward Spencer

King White

Le Marquis Spencer, violet, shading to navy blue 2 50

Loyalty Spencer

Margaret Madison

Mont Blanc, pure white 1 00

Mrs. Routzahn, apricot, shading to pink 3 50

Othello Spencer, deep maroon 3 00

Primrose Spencer, true primroce 3 00

Stirling Stent

Thomas Stevenson

Vermilion Brilliant

White Spencer, pure white 4 00

White wonder 1 00

CHRISTMAS OR WINTER FLOWERING.

Christmas White, pure white

Christmas Pink, pink and white

' \ . j

Earliest of All, pink and white

Earliest White, pure white

UNWIN AND GRANDIFLORA TYPES.

f.

Admiration, rosy lavender

Agnes Eckford, light pink

America, blood red striped white. . . Aurora, orange rose, striped white

Blanche Ferry, pink and white

Black Knight, dark maroon

75

65

75

70

65

75

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SWEET PEAS — Unwin and Grandiflora Types — Continued. Oz. Lb.

Captivation, rosy purple, large $0 70

California Sunbeams, cream color, fine 70

Coquette, primrose yellow, shaded lavender 75

Countess of Cadogan, reddish mauve, wings blue 75

Dorothy Tennant, rosy mauve 70

Dorothy Eckford, one of the best whites 60

Duke of Westminster, deep rose maroon 75

Earliest of All, pink and white .* 85

Earl Cromer, claret magenta 85

Emily Eckford, reddish mauve 70

Emily Henderson, pure white 85

Evelyn Byatt, fine orange salmon 75

Extra Early Blanche Ferry, pink and white 75

E. J. Castle, rich carmine shaded salmon 75

Gorgeous,, bright orange salmon 60

Henry Eckford, of extraordinary orange color 1 00

Janet Scott, fine pink 75

Jeanie Gordon, bright rose, shaded cream 75

Katherine Tracy, fine soft pink 60

King Edward VII, bright scarlet, large flower 60

Lady Mary Currie, orange pink, shaded lilac 75

Lady Nina Balfour, delicate mauve 75

Lottie Eckford, white, suffused lavender 60

Lovely, soft shell pink 1 00

Maid of Honor, white edged lavender 75

Miss Willmot, richest orange pink 70

Mrs. Alex^ Wallace, delicate lavender 75

Mrs. Collier, primrose, delicate shades : 75

Mrs. Joseph Chamberlain, white, flaked rose 65

Mrs. E. Kenyon, primrose 60

Navy Blue, deep blue. 75

New Countess, delicate lavender 75

Othello, dark maroon 65

Prima Donna, pure pink ' 60

Prince of Wales, bright rose, self color 75

Queen Alexandra, bright scarlet red. 75

Royal J?ose, rosy pink 60

Sadie Burpee, large, pure white 75

Senator, chocolate, striped white 75

Shasta, pure white 75

Stella Morse, rich primrose, flushed pink 65

Sunbeams, delicate cream 70

Sybil Eckford, creamy buff 85

Triumph, standard rose, wings veined with scarlet 1 00

Venus, salmon buff 85

Sweet Violet, semper florens blue $0 80

Sweet William, single, mixed 10 1 50

Double, mixed 75 9 00

Thunbergia, mixed 40 4 50

Verbena, hybrida. Defiance, scarlet 75 9 00

Mammoth purple 60

Pink 60

White 65

Hybrida, finest quality, mixed 50

Form 81-10M-2-16

BULK SEED NEWS

VALUABLE INFORMATION INSIDE

Hang this up for ready reference, as it contains

PLANTING TABLES, LEGAL WEIGHTS AND MEASURES, MATURITY TABLES, ETC., ETC.

LEONARD SEED CO.

CHICAGO

This firm is well known to the canners and packers of the United States, as well as to the market eardenera and amateur planters. The business was established by S. F. Leonard in 1884 and incorporated in 1901 It is the largest seed growing firm of the central west, where a very large part of the seeds used by planters are produced Its growing points are variously located. Beans in different parts of Michigan and Wisconsin where the soil oro- duces the bright sample and high germinating quality; peas in selected parts of Northern Wisconsin and Michigan where freedom from bugs and full maturity is assured; vine seeds and sweqt corn in several states where the con- ditions are most suited to their growth; garden seeds of all kinds at the points safely adapted to their best develoD- nient. The acreage in each section being large enough to counterbalance part failures that may occur at othem gives it even in what are termed the poor yielding years, a sufficiently good working stock to meet the demands of its large and constantly increasing trade. The fact that it fills orders is one reason why its business continues to increase. Another drawing card is the quality of the stock it grows. Its original idea was that quality is the es- sential element in seeds and among market gardeners, the class of planters whose trade this firm first put forth its efforts to reach, no garden seeds are classed higher than the Leonard brand. The same care that was exercised in the year of small things prevail today in the exceedingly large operations of this firm in seed growing Both as to quantity and quality it meets the demands of its trade — Extract from March 30, 1905, issue of the Canner and Dried Fruit Packer.

Kitchen Garden Seeding Table

N. B. — For last planting of beans, sweet corn, kohl- rabi, peas and radishes, or even tomatoes, take the earliest varieties just the same as are used for first planting.

Kitchen Garden Planting Table

Name of Vegetables	Seeds Required for	Distance for Plants	Ready for use from seed in about
100 ft. Row	One Acre	In Rows	Rows Apart
Artichoke	1 oz.	6 oz.	2 ft.	3 to 4 ft.	8 mos.
Asparagus	oz.	4 lbs.	1 to 2 ft.	3 to 4 ft.	3 to 4 yrs.
Beans, Bush	1 qt.	li bush.	6 in.	2 ft.	45 to 65 days
“ Pole	1 qt.	10 to 12 qts.	3 ft.	4 ft.	65 to 90
Beet, Table	2 oz.	5 lbs.	4 in.	1 to li ft.	60 to 75
“ Mangel	1 oz.	5 lbs.	8 in	2 to 2\| ft.	150
Broccoli	i oz.	2 oz.	2 ft.	2i ft.	120
Brussels Sprouts	i oz.	2 oz.	2 ft.	2 ft.	100 to 120
Cabbage, early	i oz.	6 oz.	18 in.	2i ft.	100 to 120
“ late	i oz.	6 oz.	ft.	3 ft.	125 to 180
Carrot	1 oz.	3 to 4 lbs.	4 in.	li to 2 ft.	75 to 120
Cauliflower	i oz.	i lb.	2 ft.	2i ft.	100 to 135
Celery	i oz.	2 oz.	6 in.	3 to 4 ft.	125 to 150
Corn, Salad	3 oz.		4 in.	12 to 18 in.	65	if
“ Sweet	i pt. 100 hnis.	8 qts.	3 ft.	4 ft.	65 to 100	if
Cress	i oz.	2 to 3 lbs.	1 in.	1 ft.	30	if
Cucumber	1 oz.	2 lbs.	4 ft.	4 ft.	60 to 85	if
Egg Plant	i oz.	4 oz.	2i ft.	3 ft.	150 to 160	if
Endive	1 oz.	4 lbs.	1 ft.	li ft.	50 to 75
Kale	i oz.	2 oz.	2 ft.	2i ft.	100 to 120	if
Kohlrabi	i oz.	4 lbs.	6 in.	li ft.	75	if
Leek	1 oz.	4 lbs.	6 in.	li ft.	120 to 160
Lettuce	1 oz.	3 lbs.	1 ft.	li ft.	65 to 100
Melons, Musk :	i oz.	2 to 3 lbs.	4 ft.	5 ft.	115 to 140	if
“ Water	1 oz.	4 lbs.	8 ft.	8 ft.	120 to 140	if
Okra	2 oz.	10 lbs.	li ft.	2 ft.	90 to 125
Onion	1 oz.	5 to 6 lbs.	3 in.	1 ft.	135 to 150	if
Parsley	i oz.	3 to 5 lbs.	4 in.	li ft.	100
Parsnip	i oz.	3 to 5 lbs.	6 in.	li ft.	125 to 150	if
Peas	1 to 2 pts.	2 bu.	2 in.	2 to 4 ft.	50 to 75
Pepper	i oz.	i lb.	2 ft.	2 ft.	140 to 150	if
Potato, cut		7 to 10 bu.	1 ft.	2i ft;	80 to 140	if
Pumpkin	1 pkt.	4 lbs.	8 ft.	8 ft.	100 to 120	if
Radish	1 oz.	8 to 10 lbs.	2 to 4 in.	li ft.	20 to 50	if
Salsify	1 oz.	8 lbs.	6 in.	li ft.	125 to 150	if
Spinach	1 oz.	10 lbs.	4 in.	15 in.	30 to 60	“
Squash, Bush		4 lbs.	3 ft.	4 ft.	60 to 75
“ Late		4 lbs.	7 ft.	8 ft.	100 to 125
Tomato		2 to 4 oz.	4 ft.	4 ft.	100 to 125
Turnip	i oz.	2 lbs.	6 in.	1 ft.	60 to 75

Late sowings of salsify are intended to remain undis- turbed over winter. Roots from these sowings will, the next year, attain a size double that usually seen.

IF YOU WANT ANY SPECIAL SEED THAT YOUR DEALER DOES NOT CARRY, HE WILL GET IT FOR YOU.

Our other Seed Warehouses:

Columbus, Wis. Antigo, Wis. Marshall, Wis.

Onion Set Warehouses:

Chicago, 111. Avondale, 111. Jefferson Park, IlL

Table Showing Amount of Seed Necessary for an Acre and No> of Pounds to Bushel.

No. lbs. to bu. No. lbs. to Acre

Alfalfa	60	15	to	20
Red Clover	60	12	to	15
White Clover	60	6	to	8
Red Top Grass	14	15	to	20
Orchard Grass	14	15	to	25
Blue Grass for Pasture.	14	20	to	50

Blue Grass for Lawn. . . 1 lb. for 15x20 ft. sq, Lawn Grass 1 lb. for 20x25 ft. sq.

Timothy	45	12	to	15
German Millet	50	25	to	35
Common Millet	50	25	to	35
Hungarian Grass	48	25	to	35
Bermuda Grass		2	to	3
Mixture for Pasture . . .	14	30	to	50
Spring Wheat -	60	H	to	2 bu
Winter Wheat	60	H	to	2
Buckwheat	52	1	to	U
Seed Barley	48	2	to	2i
Seed Oats	32	2i	to	4
Seed Rye	56	U	to	2
Seed Com	56	4	to	6 qt.
Broom Corn Seed ....	48	4	to	6
Cane Seed for Sugar . . .	50	4	to	81b.
Cane Seed for Fodder .	50	25	to	50
Field Beans	60	n	to	2 bu.
Field Peas	60	u	to	2
Flax Seed	56	1	to	u
Cow or Southern Peas .	60	1	to
Beans, Dwarf Garden..	60	1	to	n
Peas, Garden		1	to	li
Potatoes, Irish	60	10	to	12
Onion Sets		10	to	12

Average Time Required for Garden Seeds to Germinate

	DAYS
Bean	. . . 5 to 10
Beet	. . . 7 to 10
Cabbage	. . . 5 to 10
Carrot	. . .12 to 18
Cauliflower . .	. . . 5 to 10
Celery	.. .10 to 20
Corn	. . . 5 to 8
Cucumber . . .	. . . 6 to 10
Endive	. . . 5 to 10
Lettuce	. . . 6 to 8
Onion	. . . 7 to 10
Pea	. . . 6 to 10
Parsnip	.. .10 to 20
Pepper	. . . 9 to 14
Radish	... 3 to 6
Salsify	... 7 to 12
Tomato	... 6 to 12
Turnip

DIRECTIONS FOR MAKING A HOTBED

In this vicinity, from the first to the latter part of March is quite early enough to make a hotbed. The time must vary according to the latitude. Provide a quantity of fresh horse-manure from the stables, and add to this, if they can be had, one-third to one-half of its bulk of leaves. Mix them thoroughly, tramping down the mass in successive layers, and form into a large pile, so that fermentation will proceed, even in severely cold weather. In two or three days fermentation will be apparent by the escape of steam from the heap. Now, turn again, and allow the heap to remain two or three days longer, or until the second fermentation com- mences. Make an excavation or pit 2J feet deep, and of a size suited to the number of plants required. The pit will be better if built up of brick. It should be made in some dry, sheltered spot, facing the south or east, if possible. Hotbed sashes are usually 3x6 feet, and one or two sashes will give early plants enough for a small family. The frame for sashes should be 18 inches high at the back and 12 inches in front, which w'ill give the proper slope to catch the sunlight. Cross-pieces should be placed for the sashes to slide on, to facilitate opening and shutting the frames. When everything is ready, the manure is placed in the pit and trodden down firmly in layers to the required depth 2 to 2J feet. Then put on the sashes, and keep the pit closed until the heat arises. At first it will probably be 100 degrees or more, which is too hot to sow the seed in; but in two or three days it will subside to 90 degrees or a little less, when the soil may be put on to the depth of 6 to 8 inches. The heat may be readily ascertained by plunging a thermometer into the manure* The soil should be of well-rotted sod (or common garden soil will do), mixed with about a third of fine old manure; and in this the seeds may be sown thinly in drills 2 to 3 inches apart, and afterward (as soon as out of the seed-leaf), either thinned out or else transplanted to another frame. Air must be given every mild day by raising the sashes at the back- water with tepid water whenever necessary, and during cold nights and snow-storms keep covered with mats or board shutters. Tomatoes, Peppers and Egg-plants should be sown in a separate frame from Cabbage, Cauliflower and Lettuce, as they require more heat. The same directions may apply to hotbeds made on the surface of the ground, except that the manure should be at least a foot wider on all sides than the frame.

Legal Weights and Measures

POUNDS PEa BUSHEL

ARTICLES		Iowa	Wis.	Mich.	Ind.	d S	N. Y.	Ohio
Apples, dried	24	24	28	22	25	24	22	22
Apples, green	50		57

Bran	20	20	20	20		20	20	20
Barley	48	48	48	48	48	48	48	48
Beans, white	60	60	60	60	60	60	62	60
Beans, Castor	46	46	46	46	46	46	46	46
Buckwheat	52	52	50	48	50	52	48	50
Broom Ctom Seed ....	46	46	46	46	46	46	46	30
Beets	60		50					56
Carrots	55		50			50		50
Charcoal	22	22	22	22	22	22	22
Coal, Stone	80	80				80		80
Coke	40	88						40
Corn, shelled	56	56	56	56	56	56	56	56
Corn, ear	70	70	70	70	68	70	70	68
Corn, Meal	48	48	48	50	50	50	50	50
Cranberries	33			40	33
Dried Peaches	23	23	28	28	33	33	32	33
Flax Seed	56	56	56	56	56	56	55	56
Grass Seed, Blue	14	14	14	14	14	14	15	10
“ Clover	60	60	60	60	60	60	60	60
“ Hungarian	48	48	48	50		48	48	50
“ Mfllet	50	48	50	50	50	50		50
“ Orchard	14	14		14	14	14	i4	14
“ Red Top	14	14	i4	14	14	14	14	14
“ Timothy	45	45	45	45	45	45	44	45
German Lupins	60
Hemp Seed*.	44	44	44	44	44	44	44	44
Hickory Nuts	50
Malt, Barley	38	36	34	38	38	38	34	34
Mineral, Coal	40				70
Middlings, fine	40				40
“ " coarse	30				30
Oats	32	32	32	32	32	32	32	32
Onions	57	57	57	54	48	57	57	50
Onions, Tops	28	28	28	28	28	28	28	25
Onion Set.s	32
O.sa.ge, Orange	33
Parmips	55				55	44
Potatoes	60	60	60	60	60	60	60	60
Potatoes, Sweet	50	46	551	56	55	56	55	50
Peas, dried	60	60	60	60	60	60	60	60
Peas in Pods	32
Pop Corn	70				70
Quick Lime	80	80	80	80	80	80	80
Rye	56	56	56	56	56	56	56	56
Salt, coarse	50	50	50	50	50	50	50	50
Salt, fine	55	50	55	56	50	50	56	50
Turnips, Rut’b’ga . . . .	55	55	56	58	55	50	55	60
Turnips, white			42			42
Wheat	60	60	60	60	60	60	60	60

TO PREPARE A COLD FRAME

The cold frame is simply a frame set on the ground, no bottom heat being applied. It is banked up on the outside during the winter with marsh hay, straw or coarse litter. The soil is prepared by forking in and thoroughly mixing to the depth of 10 or 12 inches a liberal quantity of old, well-rotted manure. The manure of an old hotbed is good for the purpose. The frame is prepared in the fall, and young Cabbage, Cauliflower and Lettuce plants are set out in it in time to get well established before very cold weather. Cauliflower and Cabbage should be set down to the first leaf, and the soil made firm around the plants. The seed is usually sown, in this vicinity, from the 15th to the 20th of September. The young plants will be ready to transplant in about 25 to 3() days. During cold nights and stormy days the beds should be closely covered with the sashes, and these further protected by straw mats or shutters. Cauliflower needs more and closer protection than Cabbage, and it is rather more tender. During mild days admit air freely, the object being to keep the plants in a dormant state, without actual freezing, so that when spring comes, they are in a forward state for setting out early crops. Seeds of Cabbage, Cauliflower, Lettuce and Radish may be sown in a cold frame in the spring from the last week in February to the first week in March. The frame should stand in a warm and sheltered spot, and be kept from freezing by mats or a thick covering of straw durl^ cold nights.

SOME REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD BUY LEONARD’S GARDEN SEED IN BULK

. - Because you get more seed for your money.

Because you get fresh seed instead of seed which may have been in packages for several years and sent back and forth over the country.

Because Leonard’s Bulk seeds are carefully tested before they are sent out to be sold.

Because over 5000 Market Gardeners around the city of Chicago use Leonard’s Bulk seed every year and prefer them to all other kinds.

Because you get better varieties in Bulk seeds and they will produce larger crops.

Because your home merchant is progressive and up-to-date when he keeps Bulk seed for you instead of old, mouldy, fly specked packages.

There are many other reasons, but the above should be enough to show you that if you want the best and the largest amount for your money when you buy seed you should buy where you can get Leonard’s Bulk Garden Seed, the Best on the market for good gardeners.

Our Trial Grounds, where field tests are made of the various seeds, are a very interesting: sight. We have devoted 10 acres for this purpose, and in consequence are fissured of Purity of Types.

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VALUABLE FORMULAS FOR SPRAYING MIXTURES

PREPARED AT THE AGRICULTURAL STATION, CORNELL UNIVERSITY

Bordeaux Mixture

Copper Sulphate 6 pounds

Quicklime 4 pounds

Water 40 gallons

Dissolve the copper sulphate by putting it in a bag of coarse cloth and hanging this in a vessel holding at least 4 gallons, so that it is just covered by the water. Use an earthen or wooden vessel. Slake the lime in an equal amount of water. Then mix the two and add enough water to make 40 gallons. It is then ready for immediate use. For rots, moulds, mildews, and all fungous diseases.

Hellebore

Fresh White Hellebore 1 ounce

Water 3 gallons

Apply when thoroughly mixed. For insects which chew.

Paris Green

Paris Green i pound

250 gallons

If this mixture is to be used upon peach trees, 1 pound quicklime should be added. Repeated appli- cations wall injure most foliage unless lime is added. Pans Green and Bordeaux can be applied together with perfect safety. The action of neither is weakened, and the Paris Green loses all caustic properties. For insects which chew.

Kerosene Emulsion

Hard Soap i pound

Boiling Water i gallon

Kerosene 2 gallons

Dissolve the soap in the water, add the kerosene, and churn with a pump for 5-10 minutes. Dilute 10 to 15 times ^ before applying. For insects which suck, i cabbage worms, and all insects which have soft bodies.

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Vinca, rosea, very fine

Rosea, white, rose center

Fine mixed

Wallflower, single mixed

Double mixed

New. annual red

Wild Cucumber

Wild Flower Garden Mixture

Zinnia, double Giants Crimson

Flesh color. . . .

Purple

Scarlet

Sulpher Yellow

Mixed

Semi-Dwarf, finest mixed

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Our position as MARKET GARDENERS’ SEEDMEN is well and favorably known both at home and throughout the country. Our pre-eminent standing in this line of the Seed Business has been long established. The Mar- ket Gardener, when he plants LEONARD’S SEEDS, may therefore feel reasonably sure that he is planting the best seed obtainable.

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All Bird, Farm, Field, Tree and Grass Seeds are Net Cash and subject to draft. Prices are variable, and open orders are invoiced at market price on day of shipment.

Seed Barley Soja Beans Broom Corn Seed Seed Buckwheat Flax

Kaffir Corn

Millet

Oats

Canada Field Peas

SUBJECT TO THE CHANGES OF THE MARKET.

, Cow Peas

Peanuts Seed Rye Wild Rice Sugar Cane Russian Sunflower Vetches Seed Wheat All Clover Seeds

LAWN GRASS SEED— Net Cash.

Tel. Cipher.

Leonard’s Chicago Park Mixture, in packages .Wasual ...

Leonard’s Chicago Park Mixture, in bulk Wathol ...

Shady Nook Mixture Wharfpier

Terrace Mixture Wharfup .

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,$0 20 18 20 25

GOLF MIXTURE— Net Cash.

Leonard’s Putting Green Wharfer

Leonard’s Fair Green Wharf.

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RAPE.

Dwarf Essex Market Price

English or Sowing ** **

GARDEN TOOLS.

PERFECTION GARDEN CULTIVATOR— see page 106 $2 50 Net

Special Discount on all Kinds Illustrated in Descriptive List in back of book.

WRITE FOR PRICES.

FERTILIZERS— Net Cash.

It is unnecessary to tell our customers that Chicago is recognized as headquarters for com- mercial fertilizer. For varieties, see descriptive list in back of book. Market Price.

PULVERIZED SHEEP MANURE.

Best for Lawns and Gardens. 5-lb. pkgs., 25c; 100-lb. bags, $1.25.

INSECTICIDES AND FUNGICIDES.

Bug Death. 1-lb. pkg., 12c; 3-lb. pkg., 30c; 5-lb. pkg., 40c; 12|/^-lb. pkg., 85c; 100-lb. keg, $6.56 in ^ bulk. ^

Slug Shot, 5-lb. pkg., 25c; 100 lbs., $4.50, in, bulk.

Tobacco Dust ..Prices on Application {

Tobacco Stems “

SEED BAGS.

Printing, 75c per 1,000 and Upward Extra.

VEGETABLE— GUMMED. Per 1,000 ^

No. 1, Oblong, Manila, 4 x2j/2 $0 75 ’

No. 2, Oblong, Manila, 4%x3 85

No. 3, Oblong, Manila, 5^x3[4- • • • 95

ARTICHOKE

GREEN GLOBE ARTICHOKE

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ARTICHOKE JERUSALEM

ARGENTEinii

The Globe Artichoke is grown for the use of its unexpanded flower heads that are cooked like asparagus. If started in a hot bed and handled like a tomato it matures the first year. Oftenest it is treated like a perennial, that is, given slight covering in winter it remains in bearing several years. Give the plant two to three feet space in three-foot rows and cut all flower buds .before opening to continue to plants blooming. Large Green Globe, standard variety.

The Jerusalem Artichoke, distinct from the Globe, 'is grown from the tubers for its tubers, as are potatoes. Its value is as a stock food, be- cause of its fattening prop- erties.

ASPARAGUS

Complete cultural direc- tions furnished on request.

As some cutting may be be- gun only in the third year from planting the seed the use of roots or plants prove an expediency.

ASPARAGUS SEED

Columbian Mammoth White. A new and entirely distinct variety that produces

shoots that are white, and remain white as long as flt for use.

Conover’s Colossal. The standard variety; of large size, tender and of excellent quality.

Barr’s Mammoth. The stalks are very large, frequently one inch in diameter, with few scales; the stalks retain their thickness com- pletely up to the top of the shoots, and have close, round heads.

Palmetto. It is of very large size, even and regular in growth and appearance. It is a very early sort, and immensely productive and of the best quality.

Giant Argenteuil. Is a selection from imported French Argenteuil stock. An improvement upon the original. In the south it is regarded as distinctly superior to Palmetto. One experienced grower says that Argenteuil is as much larger than Palmetto as Palmetto is larger than Conover.

Bonvallet’s Giant. Becoming very popular with large growers. Preferred by many over all other kinds.

ASPARAGUS PLANTS

Asparagus Roots can be supplied from November 1st to May 1st, but the best time for planting in the North is in the early spring. Columbian Mammoth White. 2 -year- old roots.

Conover’s Colossal. 2-year-old roots.

Barr’s Mammoth. 2-year-old roots.

Palmetto. 2 -year-old roots.

Giant Argenteuil. 2-year- old roots.

Bonvallet’s GiantT 2-year-old roots.

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BUSH BEANS GREEN POD VARIETIES

Culture. Beans are easily frost killed, so plant them at corn planting time on light dry land. Cold wet weather will rot the seed in the ground and ' fresh manure causes a rank growth of vine with a lack of pods. If hand oultivated beans can be drilled in poor soil as close as eighteen inches, but in rich soil with horse cultivation thirty inches is required. Drill six beans to the foot and cover one inch deep; or plant four beans to the hill eighteen by twenty-four inches apart. One quart of seed should plant 200 feet and five pecks plant an acre. Plant every third week for a succession up till Aug. 1st in the latitude of Chicago. Pick beans before the bulge of seed appears and pick .beans clean to continue the plants bear- ing. Give beans shallow cultivation and do not till the soil when the plant is in bloom or the plant in self defence will drop its blossoms. To cultivate when wet is to invite rust.

Extra Early Red Valentine. Hardy, pod light green, and semi-transparent, round and slightly curved. Succulent, prolific, and quite free from strings, continuing long in an edible condition; 46 days from planting to first picking.

Burpee’s Stringless Green Pod. This new bean produces a vine similar to Red Valen- tine, but develops pods to an edible condition in 42 days, about four days earlier than Valen- tine. The pods are green, not quite so round as Valentine and less curved. The pods are string- less, absolutely so, this quality at once plac- ing the variety at the top of the list among table beans, while the early maturity is of great merit. This stringless quality is Of particular value, the pods breaking as short and free as pipe stems.

Giant Stringless. A very hardy, stocky vine, pods long, round and green in color, of exceptionally fine quality and stringless throughout its entire growth. About a week earlier than Red Valentine and much more prolific.

Tennes.see Green Pod. This dwarf snap bean, although new to the Seed Trade, has for several years been grown in the South, and wherever known is freely spoken of in terms of highest praise. Vine prolific, foliage dark green with leaves large and crumpled. Pods long, flat, irregular in shape, bright green and of most excellent quality. Seed medium size, oval, flat, yellowish brown in color.

Leonard’s Pheasant Eye. Is a valuable new green podded variety. Vines hardy, sturdy, well leafed. Pods long, meaty, string- less and of excellent quality. Originated from plants found in Bountiful; it retains all the good points of that variety, with added sym- metry of pod. Seed white, splashed more or less at eye side with yellowish brown, which coloring also surrounds eye.

Bountiful Beans. This new, green podded Bush Bean is a heavy cropper and very early, of fine shape, stringless, and good quality. Its hardiness and great productiveness make it one of the very best Bush Beans.

Dwarf Horticultural. Vines very produc- tive, compact, upright, with large leaves. Pods medium length, cylindrical, cur\’’ed, with splashes of bright red on a yellowish ground. Seed large, oval, plump and nearly covered with splashes of bright red.

Long Yellow Six Wee^s. The vine is large, vigorous, branching and productive, with large leaves. Pods long, straight, thick, flat in shape, green in color, of good quality when young and fair as they near maturity. Is ready for picking 45 days from planting.

Round Yellow Six Weeks. Very similar to Long Yellow Six Weeks as to vine, with pods shorter and much more thick and fleshy, about one week later, being ready for table 57 days from planting. Seed round, yellowish drab with a slightly darker marking about the eye.

IN THE FRONT OF THIS BOOK ARE THE PRICES OF ALL VARIETIES DESCRIBED HERE WITH OTHER LESS FRE- QUENTLY REQUIRED KINDS. THESE PRICES ARE AS REA- SONABLE AS GOOD SEED CAN BE SOLD.

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LONGFELLOW BEAN

BUSH BEANS — Green Pods — Continued

Longfellow. This new bean has long green pods, is exceedingly prolific, al- ways solid, a delicious flavor, is tender and remarkably early. It matures its crop very regularly and withstands adverse conditions well. A good bean for market or home use.

Black Valentine. This excellent variety is a great improvement over the old standard early Red Valentine, being one-third longer than that variety, with pods perfectly round and straight and of excellent quality. It also has the additional advantage of being suitable for both early and late planting and is extremely hardy. It will withstand early and late frost, is an excellent shipper, a large yielder, and of very handsome appearance.

Extra Early Refugee. Very much earlier than the Old Style Refugee, or 1000 to 1, being fit to eat in 48 days from plant- ing. More dwarf and compact in growth, while the pods are round, solid, tender, and of excellent quality, suitable for table use, canning or pickling.

Refugee, or 1000 to 1. The vines large, spreading, exceed- ingly hardy, with small, smooth leaves, very late and bear long, cylindrical green pods of excellent quality. Highly esteemed for late planting and for use as pickles.

Early Mohawk. One of the oldest and best known sorts.

The pod is green, thick, flat in shape, of fair quality, developing a slight string as it matures. Is ready to pick 48 days from planting, and will resist a slight degree of frost very successfully.

Best of All. The hardy, vigorous vine produces an abun- dance of very straight, handsome pods which when fit for use as snaps, are very brittle and of a peculiar deep green color.

Improved Tree or Dwarf White Navy. A variety developed In western New York. Is a sure cropper, and not only more prolific than the common white bean, but also of better quality.

Large White Marrow or Mountain. Vines are large, slender, spreading, with short runners and small leaves; very prolific; pods medium, broad, green, changing to yellow; beans large, clear white, ovoid, cooking very dry and mealy.

Red Kidney. Well known shell bean.

WTiite Kidney. A slender white bean of superior quality; used shelled, green or mature.

Broad Windsor; The standard English horse bean.

THE SEED SHORTAGE

So urgent has become the European demand for food due to the war that very frequently the seed crops have had to give way to the growing of such crops as may be utilized for food. In many cases, the majority of employes of the best foreign seed growers have been called to the war, leaving behind only those who are either too young or too old for war service to look after the growing and harvesting of seed crops. This will of necessity mean a lessened production and perhaps a production of some inferior seed. In America adverse weather conditions from planting until harvest time, early frost, anthracnose in beans, etc., joined with the unusual foreign situation to make the seed production for this year much less than normal. Therefore we advise the early buying of seed before some of the varieties wanted are exhausted.

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BUSH BEANS— Wax Pod Varieties

Leonard’s Webber Wax. A new Wax Bean of distinct character. This bean has been in the hands of a few Chicago gardeners for some years back. Several years ago we secured a small lot which we have nursed along and this year we have enough seed to offer it in limited quantities to our customers. The vine is strong, holding the pods well up. The pods are of an exceedingly bright yellow color, handsomer in this respect than any other wax bean; in shape they resemble Wardwell’s wax but are rounder and more meaty. The color of the seed is yellow.

BaAds WTiite Wax. This bean is adapted alike for the canner, market gardener, shipper or amateur. The dry bean is large, kidney shaped, and white in color, making it one of the best for cooking in a dry state. Pods are long, meaty, flat in shape, and of a beautiful yellow color and fair quality.

Currie’s Rust Proof Wax. An excellent Wax Bean in every respect. Rust proof, tender, thick, flat pods of very good quality. Very lit- tle string in early stages, developing a little when nearing maturity. Fit for table use 4 7 days from planting.

REFUGEE WAX

Improved Golden Wax. Rust proof, an im- provement on the old style Golden Wax. Pod is semi-round, yellow, of good quality and has no string. Ready for picking 47 days from plant- ing.

W’^ardwell’s Kidney Wax. Hardy and pro- ductive, pods long, broad, thick, flat, and of a delicate waxy yellow, of excellent quality and with no string in the early growth, ready for table 48 days from planting.

Pencil Pod Black Wax. Pencil Pod Black Wax grows a taller, stronger and more vigor-

ous bush than the Improved Prolific Black Wax, long, slender, straight, handsome pods,

shaped very much like a pencil.

Prolific Black Wax. The old stand- ard Black Wax Bush Bean. It is so good that it is worthy of special notice. The pods are round, brittle, of handsome golden yellow color, and of buttery flavor when cooked.

Detroit Wax. A distinct variety of recent introduction, which is worthy of a p’ace in every garden. The waxy, yellow pods are produced in grea.t abun- dance and the quality is extra fine.

Flageolet Wax. A large bush wax variety; seed large, purplish red; excel- lent as a snap bean, and in great favor as a dry shell bean.

Refugee Wax. A perfect Refugee with wax pods. Pods, long, round, and of a golden yellow color. One of the earliest, quality excellent and is fit for picking 57 days from planting. A very fine canning bean.

Hodson Wax. An excellent sort, later than some of the others, but hav- ing many superior points.

Round Podded Kidney Wax. A round podded variety of great merit.

White Wax. The old standard white seeded wax bean, very prolific.

PENCIL POD BLACK WAX

GOOD SEED CANNOT BE SOLD MORE REASONABLY THAN WE ARE SELLING SEED. THE PRICES FOR THESE VARIE- TIES ALONG WITH VARIETIES LESS FREQUENTLY RE- QUIRED IS FOUND IN THE FRONT OF THIS BOOK.

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DWARF LIMA VARIETIES

Culture. As the lima requires even more heat than other beans, a failure will follow a too early planting. The bean when favorably planted throws out from what we term the bean’s eye , a stout root; this root in turn lifts the bean above the ground. The bean then opens its halves or false leaves, or cotyledons, and the true leav^es soon follow. If in planting the bean is thrust into the soil eye down, and just below the surface, the bean is in a favorable position to begin its growth. However, the crop can be secured though with a lesser percent of germination by dropping the bean in any position.

Bush or Dwarf Limas are earlier than pole limas and are planted in twenty-four to forty inch drills, three to six inches apart in the row, according to varieties. One quart plants one hun- dred and twenty-five to one hundred and fifty feet. —

Burpee’s. The only bush form of the true, luscious, large lima. It is pronounced by all good judges as unquestionably the real Bush Lima. 'The bushes grow eighteen to twenty inches high, of stout growth and always erect. It is an immense yielder.

Dreer’s. The true bush form of the chubby Dreer’s or Potato Lima. The pods are heavy and thick. It is quite productive and of excellent quality.

Fordhook Bush Lima. Vines strong, erect and true Bush Lima growth. Foliage hea\w and very dark green in color. The stalks that produce, the blossoms are thrown out from the lateral and main stalks. The pods resemble Dreer’s Bush Lima, but average more than double the size and contain from 3 to 5 beans to the pod.

Henderson’s. This is a bush form of the small Sieva pole bean. It is the original bush form of the pole beans. It is the most productive of any, and on the whole is a vegetable of great merit.

New Wonder. This gives the largest and best returns — a big crop from a small space — and is a decided improvement on the original type of Burpee’s Bush Lima. The beans are of flat shape and fully equal in flavor to the famous Dreer’s Bush. Lima, so well and favorably known.

POLE BEANS

Culture. The pole bean climbs, sometimes needing a little training over any support given it. A good practice is to set firmly in the ground every three or four feet each way, poles that are, when set, about six feet high. Some time after bunch beans are planted, six or eight pole beans are planted one inch deep near the base of each stake and latter thinned to three or four plants to the pole. One half bushel of pole beans generously plants an acre and one pint plants one hundre.d hills. The pole bean bears over’a longer period than the bunch bean and is generally considered of superior quality, but it requires more labor, longer time to mature, and is more sensitive to adverse climatic and soil conditions. Note that the vine turns only one way around its support.

When too old for use as a green snap bean, use any bean shelled, or still later, when it is hard and dry, it remains equally serviceable.

Kentucky Wonder. Vines vigorous, climbing well, and very productive, bearing its pods in large clusters; blossoms white; pods green, very long, often reaching 9 to 10 inches. Nearly round when young and very crisp, although as they reach maturity they become irregular and spongy. Dry Beans long, oval, dun-colored.

Lazy Wife. One of the most productive and easily gathered of the Pole Beans, hence its very discourteous name. A most excellent bean for the home garden.

Scarlet Runner. Height, 10 feet, with dazzling scarlet flowers from July to October; both, ornamental and useful. It is used either as a string or shelled bean.

London Horticultural, or Speckled Cranberry. Vines moderately vigorous, bearing short, broad, pale green pods, becoming streaked with bright red as they near maturity. Beans large, ovate and splashed with red. Used either green or in the dry state.

Red Speckled Cut Short (or Corn Hill). This is the best sort of plant in hills of corn. A great cropper.

Duteh Ca^e Knife. Vines moderately vigorous, climbing well and excellent for a corn hill bean; leaves large, crumpled, and pods very long, flat, green in color, becoming creamy white later. Beans broad kidney shaped, flat, and white in color.

Early Golden Cluster Wax. One of the very finest pole beans. Very early, being only a week later than Golden Wax.

White Creasehack. An extremely early Pole Bean. Vines small to medium and wonderfully productive. Bearing pods in clusters of from 4 to 12, and medium in length. An excellent shipper. ^

Early Jersey Lima. 10 days earlier than any other Lima. Recommended as a most profit- able Lima Bean.

Dreer’s Improved or Challenger Lima. This is a bean of rather peculiar shape, being thick and plump, rather than flat and oval.

King of the Garden Lima. The old standard market and family sort. The vine begins to produce pods at the foot of the pole, and the bearing season continues until frost. Pods large, and well filled with beans of mammoth size.

Large White Lima. The large Lima is a general favorite wherever it can be cultivated, on account of its excellent flavor and productiveness.

Small White Lima, Carolina or Sieva. Vines vigorous with many short branches, so that they are sometimes grown without poles; very early and productive, bearing short pods, which are thin and curved.

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TABLE BEETS

CROSBY’S EGYPTIAN

Cultm*e. As soon as the soil can be worked in spring, sow beet seed in twelve to eighteen-inch drills for hand hoeing or eighteen to thirty-inch drills for horse cultivation, dropping twelve seed to the foot. Cover the beet seed, which is really a beet fruit containing one or more seeds, one- half inch deep. Later, thin the beets to stand five to the foot. Planted April 1st the early vari- eties should be marketable June 1st or the crop may be advanced several weeks by starting under glass and transplating to the open, first giving the beet tops a severe pruning. Use one ounce of seed to one hundred feet of row and five or six pounds to the acre. Beets sown in early July should be ready to store in pits or in sand in the cellar when freezing weather begins.

Leonard’s Egyptian. This is the earliest and best bunching beet for market gardeners. It has been grown for many years by the gardeners of Chicago, and now they prefer it above all others.

Crosby’s Egyptian. This variety resembles the Egyptian only in its extreme earliness. The stock we offer is of a distinct vermilion color, which is very attractive not only in the beets as pulled, but after they have been cooked. They are also more spherical than the Extra Early Egyptian and we think of better quality.

Early Turnip Bassano. Tops large; leaf stems light red; leaves light green; roots large, flesh pink, zoned with white.

Crimson Globe. This is one of the finest beets yet introduced. Roots are not large, but very handsome. Round, and a clean, smooth surface. Leaves very small, with slender stems.

Detroit Dark Red Tmuiip. Quality good, sweet and tender; color deep red; roots are turnip shaped, with small tap roots.

Dewing’s Early Blood Timnip. A good variety for main crop. Keeps well. Like Edmand’s, but lighter color.

Edmand’s Early Blood Turnip. The best sort for general crop. In quality one of the finest, exceedingly dark, shape globular, having only one tap root. Very popular with market men.

ImproA'ed Blood Turnip. An improved variety of the Early Blood turnip of deep, blood-red color; fine form and flavor. An excellent market sort.

Bastians. An extra early variety, much esteemed by market men East and South. Color light.

Ruby Dulcet. Globe-shaped; in every respect a handsome market sort; small top, small tap- root; skin and flesh deep, rich, purplish crimson.

Half Long Blood. One of the best for winter use. The roots are only half as long as the Long Blood, but weigh as much on account of their thickness.

Long Smooth Blood. The standard long late sort. Very dark, blood-red flesh; quality fine.

Electric. A fine early beet. The - color is dark crimson, with rings of a lighter red.

Shape, round and smooth; leaves, small and compact.

Columbia. Round and smooth, with deep red flesh; early and very tender.

Arlington Improved. Early; deep round form; medium size; color, dark bTood red; does not become stringy.

Early Egyptian. The well-known early variety. Color, extra dark; shape, flat; qual- ity, excellent.

Early Eclipse. A choice early variety; well known and popular. Shape, globular; quality, good; color, light.

Lentz Extra Early Blood Tm*nip. A fav- orite market-gardeners’ beet around Phila- delphia. Very early and sweet; ringed red and white.

Swiss, Chard, or SiRer. This robust growing variety is often referred to as the Spinach Beet and is grown for its leaf, not for its root. The thick rib may be stripped from the leaf and used as in Asparagus while the rest of the leaf is served as “greens.” SWISS chard

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MANGEL WURZELS

BROCCOLI

BRUSSELS SPROUTS

Nearly allied to the cauliflower, but more hardy. The seed should be sown in this district in the early part of May, and transplanted in June; further south the sowing should be delayed until June or July, and the transplanting accordingly from August to October. In parts of the country where the thermometer does not fall below 20 or 25 degrees broccoli may be had in perfection from November until March. It succeeds best in a moist and rather cold atmosphere.

White Cape. Heads medium size, close, compact and of creamy white color. One of the most certain to head.

Purple Cape. Differs only in color.

This is one of the best vegetables for winter use, producing from the axils of the leaves an abundance of sprouts, resembling small cab- bages, of excellent, mild flavor.

Tall French. Very fine.

Dwarf Improved. A variety producing com*- pact sprouts of excellent quality

BRUSSELS SPROUTS

Mangel Wurzel, called also stock beet or cow beet, is a very large beet growing mostly above the ground and all stock eats it greedily. Plow deep for this crop and in May or June plant six Mangel seed to the foot in two or three foot rows, later thinning to a ten inch stand. One ounce sows generously one hundred feet of row and an acre requires five to six pounds.

When a light frost has occurred, lift the roots and store in pits or cellars.

Leonard’s Improved Mammoth Long Red. The largest and most productive vari- ety. Immense crops can be grown from it.

Norbiton Giant Long Red. Very large, excellent variety for feeding stock.

Yellow Globe. Globular shaped roots.

More productive than Long Red in shallow soil. Very nutritious and a good keeper.

Golden Tankard. Shape cylindrical, color deep rich yellow, flesh yellow circled with white. Unequaled for feeding stock.

Orange Globe. We think this one of the best varieties of mangel wurzel.

SUGAR BEETS

The Sugar Beet, grown for the manufac- ture of sugar and frequently used for stock feeding, is a yellowish-white beet smaller than the mangel but containing a much greater percent of sugar. In growing the sugar beet is treated like the mangel except that only six or eight inches of space is given each beet in the row.

Vilmorin’s Improved Sugar. In general, the most desirable beet for the factory is the one containing the largest percentage of sugar.

Klein Wanzleben. A little larger than Vilmorin’s Improved, yielding from twelve to eighteen tons per acre, and containing about the same amount of sugar.

It grows below the surface, and the green leaves are rather large and spreading.

Lane’s Imperial Sugar. Good for making sugar, also stock feeding. A hardy and productive sort.

Yields fourteen to sixteen tons per acre, and contains about 16 per cent of sugar.

Giant Half-Sugar. This unites the large size of the mangel with the greater feeding value of the sugar beet. The roots average ten to twelve inches, and the outline is that of a broad thick wedge. The upper portion is of a soft bright pink, shading lighter toward the bottom where the lower portion for about one-third the length is white.

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CABBAGE

Culture. Cabbage grows successfully on a wide variety of soils and experience points to liming, deep plowing and heavy manuring as successful practices.

Cabbage plants when properly hardened by gradually being brought to a low temperature and the quantity of water in them diminished, will stand any frost and some considerable freezing. Yet, a cabbage plant raised at a high temperature and full of w’ater will be killed by even a light frost. Cabbage can be grown by planting the seed heavily where the crop is to grow and thinning the plants, but a better practice is to raise the plants, without crowd- ing, in a seed bed, whiph is not richer than the field to which the plants go. Transplant if possible on a cloudy day, w’atering the plants if the soil is dry. South of the Ohio seed is frequently planted out of doors in September and wintered in cold frames or in very Southern localities the plant is Fall set on a shady side of the furrow to avoid as much as possible the deadly freeze and thaw. For early cabbage north of the Ohio, sow seed in hot beds in February, transplant to cold frames in March, and set outside in April, or sow seed out of doors as soon as the soil can be worked in spring, covering the seed one-third inch deep. All vegetable plants are best when grown without check, so let as much soil adhere to the roots of the plant in transplanting as will hold, and set up to the first leaf. At this time the plant should have four or five pairs of leaves and be four to six inches high.

Set small varieties to be worked by hand as close as eighteen inches each way, while large late varieties, horse cultivated, need thirty or more inches each way.

Nitrate of soda will hurry the crop and if- heads are so early as to begin bursting, push the head to one side far enough to tear off the roots on one side.

When club root appears, lime the soil heavily and do not plant brassica, that is, turnips, caulifiower and kindred crops upon this sick soil for two or three years. ''

Fight cabbage worms with Paris Green, Hellebore, or other good stomach poison.

For cabbage maggots, pour kerosene emulsion about the roots or cut tarred paper in three- inch squares, split the square to the center, and place this collar on the ground about the plant when the plant is set. For plant lice cr aphis use tobacco tea or kerosene emulsion.

Early Jersey Wakefield Cabbage. We have exercised great care in the growing of this very important variety. Its uniform excellence is con- tinually a source of gratifica- tion to us.

Large or Charleston Wake- field. This is a selection from the best early Jersey Wake- field which will average about 50 per cent larger.

Early York. Heads small, heart - shaped, firm and ten- der. Can be planted 15 to 18 inches apart.

Early Win- ningstadt. An early variety of excellent qual- ity, not as early as the Wake- field.

EARLY

JERSEY

WAKEFIELD

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Extra Early Express. An extra early sort, in which the plants are compact, with round thick leaves that form an oval head, which is astonishingly large for the size of the plants.

Early Spring Cabbage. The earliest fiat head, as early as Jersey Wakefield. Yields one- third more than the early pointed heads. Solid, uniform and finely grained heads. Stem is short and extends but little into the head.

All Head Early. One of the finest early flathead cabbages.

Early Dwarf Flat Dutch. An early cabbage of good size. Heads are flat and very solid.

The Lupton. The Lupton Cabbage is the result of an effort to combine in one variety the best qualities of the second-early and the late sorts. It is a little earlier than any one of the various strains of Flat Dutch and Drumhead.

Henderson’s Early Summer. A standard summer variety. We have the true stock.

Henderson’s Succession. A good summer cabbage; also makes a good cabbage to suc- ceed itself.

Fottler’s Early Brunswick. An early fall variety, well known and popular.

Fottler’s ImproA'ed Brunswick. An excellent shipping sort, as it does not burst or rot. Well thought of by all gardeners of Chicago.

All Seasons. A fine variety for any season, of good shape and size.

Vandergaw or Chicago Market. The Vandergaw is a very good second early cabbage. It is popular with many, of the Chicago market gardeners. It comes in with the Succession and All Seasons, and forms a nice solid head.

Louisville Drumhead. This fine cabbage is very popular with the kraut makers. It is a medium late variety, forming a large solid head, which seldom bursts. It is used largely by shippers in the vicinity of Chicago who ship cabbages south.

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CABBAGE

COPENHAGEN MARKET

A new early variety, popular with market g'ardeners. It is one of the finest early round- headed cabbages in cultivation. It is desirable on account of the remarkable characteristic of rna- turing the heads all at the same time, enabling the grower to gather his crop with less expense and permitting the cleaning of the land at the first cutting. The heads average about ten pounds each in weight, are hard and solid with small core. The quality is extra fine and sweet.

It is a short stemmed variety, the heads nearly resting on the ground. The leaves are light green, rather small, saucer-shaped and tightly folded, making it possible to set them close together in the field.

Volga. One of the earliest main crop cab- bages of superior quality. Very desirable where a large, uniformly round head with short stem and compact growth is wanted. Matures very early for a variety furnishing such large heads of excellent shape. Very hardy, good keeper.

Early Drumhead. A second early, sure heading cabbage of good quality. Plant of com- pact growth. Head large, thick, flattened on the top, solid, crisp and tender.

Premium Flat Dutch. This variety of late cabbage is a standard in all sections for winter use. It makes a large solid head which keeps COPENHAGEN MARKET

long without bursting, and is adapted to a more varied climate than probably any other variety we grow.

Leonard’s Luxemherg. This cabbage will retain its fine green color until late in the spring, and is often sold for new cabbage after being covered all winter.

Leonard’s Improved Bridgeport Drumhead. This is a standard winter variety on the Chi- cago markets, and is used largely for shipping south.

Sure Head. A fine variety for main crop. A good shipper and sure header.

LEONARD’S FAULTLESS

IS NOW AND FOR YEARS HAS BEEN THE FAVORITE SECOND EARLY CABBAGE AT CHICAGO

The product of this seed outsells any other second early cabbage two to one on the homo market. It can be marketed in the early summer, during midsummer, in the fall and early winter, making it the best all purpose variety ever introduced. It is popular alike with the grocer, kraut maker and shipper. It is possessed of earliness, large size, compactness and will produce more salable heads to the acre than any other stock we know of. It is of the succes- sion type, but is earlier, head is rounder, sets out of the under leaves higher, has a darker color of leaf and can be planted closer.

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CABBAGE

GLORY OF ENKHUIZEN

This is an excellent mid-summer variety. It comes in about a week earlier than All Seasons, makes a nice large head, has few outer leaves and can be planted close. Our tests show it to be worthy of a place among the new varieties of merit and we

can r e c o m - mend it as a good addition to the list.

Stonemason Drumhead. A late large heading va- riety; but not as fine grained as others.

3Iarblehead Mammoth. A large late va- riety of fairly good quality.

Large Late Drumhead. A late variety of large size.

Danish Bailhead Cab- bage. Fora winter cabbage for early spring

sales some of our local gardeners consider this variety excel- lent. It has been selected and perfected for more than fifty years by the Danish gardeners, who prize it so highly that they grow it almost exclusively for winter cabbage, and annually export large quantities of it. It is hard heading, and long keeping cabbage. Heads round as a ball, solid, fine grained, has few outer leaves, tender, crisp and of unex- celled fiavor.

LEONARD’S WINTER

DANISH BAULHEAD

EAST PRAIRIE SPECIAL

This new cabbage originated in that part of the Xiles Center trucking region known as the East Prairie, which is one of the best cabbage growing sections of Chicago.

It is a direct cross of the Leonard Luxemberg and the Leonard Strain of Holland and combines the good points of both. It has the shorter stem and more lasting color of the Luxemberg with the rounder head of the Holland. The combination gives a cabbage that is superior to either. Three years ago we obtained from one of our best growers enough se- lected heads to give us stock seed, and from this stock we raised, during the past year, a good crop of seed.

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Improved American Sa- voy. Closely approaching the cauliflower in delicacy and d e 1 i cious flavor. The best of all the Savoys for general mar- ket or home use. It has a short stump, grows to a large size, is compact and solid, and is a sure header.

M a mmoth Rock Red. The largest heading of any red sort. Heads are hard, of deep- r e d c o lo r , quality excel- lent.

Red Driim- head. The standard pick- ling variety. A good keeper.

LEONARD’S HOLLAND CABBAGE head ever introduced.

For shipping or for storing for the late spring market, this cabbage is unsurpassed. The popularity and paying qualities of this cabbage itself when it is true are points long ago de- cided. True Holland seed is produced at a few points only and seed grown elsewhere fails to show the proper characteristics. Since 189'6 we have been fortunate in selling the seed crop of one grower of this cabbage and it has met the requirements of exacting cabbage growers of Chicago, Racine and other Holland cabbage shipping points. We do not hesitate to say that Leonard’s strain of Holland cabbage is the best seed purchasable.

HOLLAND CABBAGE, SHORT STEM STRAIN

This strain of Holland Cabbage dif- fers from the original Leon- ard Strain in the height of the stem only. In all other respects it is the same. It has been bred up to meet the require- ments of the grower who works heavy, rich land. The long stem of the original strain in extra . heavy soil has been thought to be some- thing of a fault and the grow- ers have been calling for a stock that would retain all the good points of the original with the additional advantage of dwarfer habit.

CABBAGE

IMPROVED AMERICAN SAVOY

LEONARD’S STRAIN OF HOLLAND The Heaviest Cabbage for the Size of Head Ever Found

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CARROTS

Oxheart Carrot

Culture. — The carrot, whether used raw, fried, boiled or stewed, used alone or combined with other vegetables or meat is not surpassed in nutritious healthfulness by any vegetable catalogued. Plant carrots in the latitude of Chicago from the time the soil can be worked in spring till July, in one to two foot rows for hand cultivation or in thirty inch j.Q-^g "w^jiere a horse drawn tool is used. Cse one ounce of seed to one hundred feet of row, three to four pounds to the acre, covering one-half inch deep and later thin to a four inch stand. To cultivate the rows at an early date, sow radish seed which germinates quickly with carrot seed, which germinates slowly. Do not overlook the value of this crop as a stock food.

Early Frencli Forcing. The earliest variety in cul- tivation and the best suited for forcing. Tops small, finely divided. The reddish-orange colored roots are nearly round. When fully matured they are about 2 inches in diameter, but should be used before they are

full grown and while young and tender.

Half Fong Nantes. Tops of medium size; roots cylin- drical, smooth, bright orange; flesh orange, becoming yellow in center, but with no distinct core. Of the finest quality and one of the most symmetrical and handsome of the medium sized sorts; excellent for the market or home garden.

Early Short Horn. Excellent for early planting out of doors. Tops small, coarsely divided; roots top-shaped, but tapering abruptly to a small tap; skin orange-red.

Coreless. A fine half-long early carrot. Medium sized, even shaped and productive. Blunt base and small tap root. Small fine tops and a nice smooth skin. The flesh is a rich orange red, finely grained and very free from the woody yellow heart or core usually found in most red fleshed carrots.

Guerande, or Ox Heart. Tops small for the size of the roots which are comparatively short but often reach a diam- eter of 5 inches, terminating abruptly in a small tap root. Flesh bright orange, fine grained and sweet. This variety is especially desirable for soil so hard and stiff that longer rooted sorts would not thrive in it. When young excellent for table use, and when mature equally good for stock.

Chantenay. Tops medium sized; necks small; roots taper- ing slightly but uniformly stump rooted and smooth; color deep orange-red; flesh very crisp and tender. Although this is a medium early sort, it furnishes roots of usable size as early as any, is a heavy cropper and is undoubtedly one of the best for both the market and private garden, while its great productiveness makes it very desirable as a field sort.

Danvers. Grown largely on account of its great pro- ductiveness and adaptability to all classes of soil. Tops of medium size, coarsely divided. The smooth and handsome roots are deep orange, of medium length, tapering uniformly to a blunt point; flesh sweet, crisp, tender and of a deep orange color. Although the roots of this variety are short, they produce as large a bulk as the longer field sorts and are more easily harvested.

James Intermediate. A variety intermediate between the Danvers and Long Orange. It tapers to a point not so blunt as the Danvers and is more symmetrical and not so long as the Long Orange.

Long Orange. The most popular of the older sorts for farm use on mellow soil. An improvement obtained by years of careful selection of the best formed and deepest colored

roots.

St. Valery. A good late variety. It grows long, shape uniform, taper- ing from a wide shoulder to a point.

COKELESS CARROT

White Belgian. Grows one-third out of the ground. Root white, green above ground, with small top. Flesh rather coarse. The roots are of large size and the variety is extensively grown for stock feeding. . ...

Improved Short White. We think this distinct variety is destined to take first rank as a field car- rot, owing to its enormous productiveness and the ease with which it can be harvested.

Price List of all Varieties in Front Pages of Catalogue.

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CAULIFLOWER

Culture. Cauliflower, while it resembles cab- bage and requires very much the same treatment as outlined under and for cabbage, is not so hardy as cabbage, needs more water, needs more culti- vation and requires generally treatment superior to cabbage. Cauliflower cannot be expected to mature satisfactorily in hot, dry weather, and as it requires one hundred ten to one hundred fifty days for different varieties to mature, its planting should be correctly timed. Start cauliflower un- der glass or where cabbage plants can be wintered, winter cauliflower. One ounce gives two thousand five hundred plants and one-fourth to one-half pound of seed plants an acre. When the head or heart of cauliflower, as you may think or feel of it, called the “curd,” appears, tie the outer leaves over the head or pin these leaves with wood pins or beef skewers so the leaves will shade and blanch the curd and then cut the curd before it starts to branch. Remember that all the enemies of cabbage emphatically attack cauliflower and are to be combated in a like manner.

Danish Dry Weather. We take pleasure in introducing this Cauliflower to our customers. It is from one of the best growers in Denmark and we recommend it highly to market gardeners for trial. It is claimed to be a splendid strain for a dry season and equally good in allweathers. From the reports we have regarding this stock from gardeners who have tried it we consider it a valuable addition to the list and a worthy companion to Our Famous Snowball.

Leonard’s Earliest Erfurt. A variety that has given excellent satisfaction to our home gar- deners. It is snow white and a sure header. Gardeners will be amply repaid by giving this va- riety a fair trial.

Extra Early Paris. This is a good early sort, and in a good season does well. Not as sure a header as the higher priced varieties.

Autumn Giant. A late sort of fairly good quality. Will do well under favorable conditions.

LEONARD’S SNOWBALL

The leading Cauliflower at Chicago and unquestionably the purest strain of “Snowball” Cauliflower seed to be had. Heads uniform; of desirable market size and of snowy whiteness.

After many years’ competitive tests it is pronounced by expert cauliflower growers to be the best for both early and late planting. Successful frame growers of cauliflower say that under glass culture our Snowball outclasses any strain of cauliflower seed known to them. There are many expert cauliflower growers at Chicago, none better anywhere that we are aware of. Other strains of snowball seed are well known to them and this strain of ours is their favorite for early, for late and for forcing. Strong recommendations surely.

DANISH DRY WEATHER CAULIFLOWER

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CELERY

Pres^ celery seed into the ground, do not try to cover it, and when seed is kept wet and not above 60“ P. germination occurs in ten to twenty days. Celery needs four to five months from seed to use. so very early celery should be started in hotbeds after January, and when two inches high transplanted or thinned to a space of two inches. Later trim the tops to produce stocky plants and when five inches high set where plants are to mature, first trimming off one-third of the roots and leaves. Celery seed may be planted out of doors north of the Ohio in April and treated as outaned above. Given sufficient water, celery can be growm on any good garden soil and one ounce of seed gives about 6,000 plants.

When almost grown, celery must be blanched; that is, the light is excluded from the edible stock by the use of boards, earth, paper or other covering. If boards are used rows can be set as close as thirty inches, if earth blanched forty- eight inches or more is better. Set the plants six inches apart in the row and press the soil firmly about the roots. Again celery is set in solid beds eight inches each way, and the shade of the crowded bed does the blanching. With a few stalks in a garden a tile set over the plant or a wrapping of paper answers the purpose. If earth is used in blanching it should be drawn about the plant to one-third its height and repeated twice a few days apart till leaves only are exposed. Do not cultivate, hill or disturb celery when damp or rust may occur. In this hilling with earth called handling place a peg at end of row with string to it and pass string about each plant so as to prevent earth from falling into the heart during the work. To store, celery should be only partly blanched.

Celery matures best in cool moist wj-eather, so the grower farther south may delay this plant- ing calendar to fit his own market and convenience.

Golden Self Blanching. The best of all early self- blanching varieties. First introduced in America in 1884, this is decidedly better in quality than the White Plume. It is ready for use nearly as early, blanches as easily, and is larger in size as w^ell as finer in quality.

It is of dwarf compact habit, with thick, solid, heavily ribbed stalks which blanch easily to a clear waxen yellow.

White Plume. This is the earliest and most easily blanched, but does not keep well taken from the trenches. The plants grow rapidly and blanch easily during the summer months. Later in the fall the cen- tral stalks and leaves are of pure snowy whiteness even without earthing up.

Crawford’s Half Dwarf. When blanched is of rather yellowish-white color, and is quite solid and well flavored.

Evans’ Triumph. One of the best of late sorts.

This variety has a very strong and vigorous plant with large, very white, crisp, brittle, tender and fine flavored stalks. It is late and requires the whole season to develop, but will keep well for a very long time.

Boston Market. For many years one of the most popular sorts in the markets of Boston. Instead of a single large heart it forms a number of smaller ones, which are very white, and remarkably tender and crisp.

The best variety for light soils.

Winter Queen Celery. This is, without doubt, the most valuable variety of celery for winter and spring use ever introduced, even excelling the celebrated Per- fection Heartwell as a late winter keeper. It is also much stouter, thicker and heavier, with double the amount of heart of any known celery.

Giant Pascal. This is a green leaved variety developed from the Golden Yellow Self Blanching, and is an excellent sort for fall and winter use. It blanches to a beautiful yellowish- white color, is very solid and crisp and of a fine nutty flavor.

Perfection Heartwell. A fine flavored, crisp and tender variety. The plants are a little taller than Crawford’s Half Dwarf and a little later in maturing. The stalks are of medium size, round, very solid, crisp, tender, white and of exceedingly fine and nutty flavor. This has long been a standard variety and is yet one of the favorite sorts.

Dwarf Golden Heart. A variety of sturdy, dwarf habit. It is solid, an excellent keeper, and of fine, nutty flavor.

Dwarf WTiite Kalamazoo. Dwarf, white; stiff close habit; solid, crisp.

Giant Golden Heart. This varietj’^ attains a large size, but still remains crisp and tender. It is a fine keeper and is a favorite on the Chicago market.

Soup or Cutting Celery. This variety is adapted to sowing thick in rows and cutting when three or four inches high, to use for soup flavoring.

GERMAN CELERY OR CELERIAC

Large Smooth Prague. Has a large smooth root, and is the finest of all celeriac.

Apple Shaped. Not as smooth as the above, but of good form.

Tm-nip Rooted. This is the ordinarv and well- CELEKIAC, large smooth PRAGUE known variety.

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CUCUMBER

Culture. Not before corn planting- time plant cucumbers out of doors in drills or hills one-half inch deep. The crop may be advanced two weeks by starting in the hot bed or green- house on inverted four-inch sods covered with leaf mold. The plant will appear in four to eleven days and in three weeks from seeding, when the plant has two to four leaves it is ready to transplant outside.

Mark the field up and down hill, then furrow across its face in a four-foot check and at each intersection drop manure or fertilizer or, better, both. Throw earth to this intersection to form an elongated hill four inches high. Plant the seed like a short drill, not haphazard; then later two strokes of the hoe cleans this short drill.

Be generous. Use a dozen seed to a hill, and after the striped beetle has his toll, thin to

three plants to a hill. To check the beetle, use on foliage, but not too heavily, road dust, ashes, soot, air slaked lime, bone fiour, tobacco dust or arsenate of lead; pull earth about the stem or cover the hill with net- ting.

Cultivate as long as possible. Cut the cu- cumbers. Do not pull or bruise them and to keep the plants bearing, cucumbers must not be permitted to ripen.

Chicago or Wester- field Pickling. A variety esteemed and grown ex- tensively for the large pickling establishments, distinct from all others.

EVERGREEN WHITE SPINE CUCUMBER

West India Gherkin. A very small, oval, prickly sort.

Early Russian. Solid, with few seeds.

Early Cluster. Vines vigorous, producing the bulk of the crop near the root and in clusters.

Japanese Climbing. While all cucumbers are running vines, yet this variety is much more creeping or climbing in its habit.

Improved Long Green. Fruit long and slim, not surpassed in quality by any variety.

Evergreen White Spine. An improved strain of the well known White Spine, and a favorite with market gardeners, both for forcing and outdoor culture.

Green Prolific or Boston Pickling. A favorite with pickle growers and commercial garden- ers, and good for table use.

Nichol’s Medium Green. A valuable and

handsome variety, in shape between White Spine and Long Green.

Early Frame or Short Green. An excel- lent sort for table use and for pickling. Fruit straight, handsome, smaller at each end, bright green; fiesh ten- der and crisp and makes > fine pickles.

Jersey Pickle. Sixty days to make pickles. It is produc- tive, and is said to “green” better than any other variety, and to “hold color.”

Da^ds Perfect. In color, a dark glossy green; shape slim and symmetrical, with an average length of 10 to 12 inches.

DAVIS PERFECT CUCUMBER

Thorburn’s Everbearing. Small size, very early and enormously productive, and valuable as a green pickle. It continues to flower and produce fruit until killed by frost.

Leonard’s Greenhouse. This is a stock of cucumber upon which we have spent much time. The seed we offer is of our own growing and the selection is from the finest types only. The value of it to market gardeners and greenhouse men who desire a uniform, deep green, extra long cucumber, will be appreciated as soon as tried.

The Emerald. It is strictly an evergreen.

Fordhook Famous. Of the true White Spine type. Vines produce an enormous crop, being of unusually vigorous growth.

- Early White Spine. One of the best sorts for table use. Vines vigorous, fruiting early and abundantly.

Arlington. A selection from the White Spine, being more pointed at each end.

Giant Pera. _ An exceedingly large growing sort, of excellent quality.

Cool and Crisp. A strain of White Spine somewhat like the Arlington, but larger and less symmetrical.

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SWEET CORN

Culture. Plant corn every two weeks for a continuous supply and north of the Ohio from late April to late July. Plant corn in three or four foot drills, dropping a grain every eight or sixteen inches, or plant in hills three or four feet each way, giving six grains to the hill and later thinning to three stalks. Corn should be planted about one inch deep, planted deeper in sand than in hea\’y clay, planted deeper later in the year when the soil is warm; dwarf varieties closer together than the larger ones and a given quantity of seed of a small grained variety plants a larger area than does a like quantity of the large grained. One quart generally plants two hundred fifty hills and one peck is necessarj' to the acre. Plow deeply for corn, cultivate shallow and pick corn before it is too old. If the goodness of new corn tempts a too early planting, do not blame the resulting failure on your seedsman.

Golden Bantam Sweet Corn. A very early sweet corn with golden yellow grain, very tender and of excellent quality. The ears are six to seven inches long and of the medium size found most suitable for the table. The fiavor is exceptionally rich and delicious. Our stock has been very carefully selected. Height about four feet.

White Cob Cory. This is an improvement over the Early Cory, as the cob is white, which gives it a finer appearance. It is as early as the Early Cory and of excellent quality.

Mammoth White Cory. The ears are twelve rowed, much larger than the old Cory, white cobbed, and covered "with very large white grains of good quality.

,J Early Cory Red Cob. This variety is the favorite for first early, and no other variety has proved earlier.

Chicago Market or Ballard. This is the largest and best early corn in existence, twelve rowed, white cobbed and of exceedingly fine qualitv.

Premo. It is a “sixty-day” sweet corn. It not only combines all the merits of the leading early varieties, but it is also really superior to them all in size, quality and yield.

Extra Early Adams. This is an extra early field variety, but it is much used as an early market variety, being sweet and juicy.

Peep o’ -Day Sweet Corn. This new variety is claimed to be the Earliest Sweet Corn. It is of Minnesota origin and has been offered in the Minneapolis market from five to seven days earlier than any other well-known kind in the trade. Ears five inches long.

Early Evergreen. The ears of this new corn ^ow 8 inches long, are mostly 14 to 18 rows. This is a magnificent kind for market gar- deners and for main crop in every home garden. It ripens 10 to 12 days in advance of Stowell’s Evergreen and is equally as good for all purposes. The kernels are very sweet and tender, and when eaten from the cob break off free from husky tips so common to some otherwise fine table corns.

Stowell’s Evergreen. This standard main crop variety excels all other late sorts in sweetness and productiveness. It is more popular than any J other for canning, for marketing and for the home garden. Great care has to be exercised in the selection ofstock to grow seed from, as this va- riety has a tendency to deterioration and a shorter grain, which makes it less sugary and desirable.

•jB Hickox Hybrid. Earlier than Stowell’s Evergreen, and makes a i large, attractive ear of white and handsome grain. It is one of the best varieties for canners’ use. By planting it at the same time as Stowell’s Evergreen the season will be lengthened considerably, as the Hickox will ^ he about through by the time Stowell’s Evergreen comes in. Very pro- lific; ordinarily every stalk will have two large, fully developed ears. The GOLDEN BANTAM best sort for drying.

31etropolitan. A new early sort. The ears are about 9 inches in length, 10 to 12 rowed, well filled to the tip with large, deep kernels, which are very sweet and tender. It is an ex- cellent variety for market gardeners.

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Malakoff Sweet Corn. The earliest real Sweet Corn in exis- tence; habits simple like Peep o’ Day, with much -better quality.

The plant is very dwarf and usually produces three ears to every stalk; ears are short, three and one-half to four inches; eight rowed.

Early Iowa Sweet Corn. This is a very early Sweet Corn, almost as early as Malakoff and of much larger size. -The stalks grow three feet high and usually bear two or more ears. Early Iowa is a week ahead of the Early Cory and bears ears nearly as large.

Early Minnesota. One of the standard early sorts Ready for market two weeks later than Cory or Chicago Market.

Perry’s Hybrid. An early variety of splendid quality. Ker- nels tinged with pink when ripe, with white cob.

New Champion. This corn is unsurpassed for market use, owing to its large size and fine appearance. It is medium early, coming in at the same time as Perry’s Hybrid. It is fourteen rowed and a splendid cropper.

Moore’s Early Concord. A well known variety of large size, twelve, rowed and of excellent quality. This makes a fine market corn.

Kendall’s Early Giant. A valuable new early sweet corn.

The ears grow to a tremendous size, measuring eight to ten inches long, and having ten to eighteen rows on each cob, the majority having twelve rows; kernels pure white, sweet, tender.

Crosby’s Early. An early corn of large size and choice qual- ity. It has long been a standard variety.

' Old Colony. This variety is two weeks earlier than the Ever- green, and almost as large. It is considered the best and sweetest by canning factories. A fine paying variety for market.

Country Gentleman. We have a stock of this excellent sweet corn that is exceptionally good. There is no sweet corn that com- pares with the Country Gentleman for sweetness. It is the variety par excellence where quality is desired. Market gardeners who make a specialty of growing for hotels and high class restaurant •trade use this as a main crop variety in preference to any other.

For home use it will be found superior and it is very productive.

The fact that it is a favorite variety with canners proves its merit.

Egyptian or Washington Market. A standard variety, in sea- son between Evergreen and Mammoth Sugar. Very sweet and well adapted for canning.

Mammoth Sugar. A large late variety having ears of mam- moth size, 14 to 20 rows. Quality excellent, not exceeded by any variety. A good canners’ variety, being white grained and very uniform. A week later than Stowell’s Evergreen.

Black Mexican. This corn, when in condition for the table, cooks remarkably white; but the ripe grain is black or bluish- black. It is surpassed by none in tenderness. For family use it is considered by many the most desirable of the medium late sorts. It does especially well for second early in the South.

Zig-zag Evergreen. This fine new strain possesses the dis- tinct characteristics which have made Stowell’s Evergreen so deservedly the favorite for main crop, but produces ears fit to use from one week to ten days earlier.

White Evergreen. This is a high-bred white type Stowell’s

Evergreen. It has been developed by careful work only the

finest white-eared product being saved and selected each sea- STOWELL-’S EVERGREEN son. The stalks are of strong, vigorous growth, six to seven feet high.

White Mexican Sweet Corn. White Mexican is a heavy yielding, early maturing Sweet Corn. It ranks in a class with White Cob Cory and is a better yielder. Height 4 feet; ear about six and one-half inches long. Quality good.

Early Mammoth. Closely resembles the Late Mammoth, but is a little smaller, and about two weeks earlier. Of good size and quality. '

Leonard’s Sweet Corn, Narrow Grain. See pages 50 and 51.

DOES GARDENING PAY?

How many dollars will you spend this year for vegetables?

How many hours can you spend this year in the garden?

If labor is what you sell, why not sell it to yourself?

Get your pencil. Suppose you begin gardening April fifteenth and spend thirty minutes every work day in your garden till August fifteenth. On August fifteenth your gardening efforts would be over except the joy of a continual harvest and you would have spent about fifty hours at this work. At three dollars a day for your labor the garden has cost fifteen dollars. The seed to plant the garden would not cost more than you would have had to pay to have the weeds cut if you had not gardened. Vegetables can be placed upon your table from this garden every work day and Sunday too from June first till Christmas, — two hundred days. If you use eight cents worth a day from the garden for yourself and family during that time, you have received sixteen dollars. That’s thirty cents an hour for your labor and the gift of a dollar. If your gar- den is 44x100 feet you are growing vegetables on one-tenth of an acre and making land pay at one hundred and sixty dollars an acre. As many gardeners do very much better than these figures you have during a part of each day better than a three dollar a day job in your garden.

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SWEET CORN

SIDE VIEW OF ONE OF OUR DRYING SHEDS, 200,000 EARS

LEONARD’S SWEET CORN, NARROW GRAIN

This New Type of Sweet Corn is a stock worked up by S. P. Leonard after several years of experimenting. In it we feel that we have something vastly superior to the old wide grain Ever- green. The ear is as large as the Stowell’s Evergreen and averages more rows to the ear. The cob is small in comparison to the size of the ear, and the kernels are very long, narrow and remarkably free from starch. The rows are uniformly straight and the ear holds its evenness from butt to tip more uniformly than any other type of Evergreen.

FRONT VIEW OF ONE OF OUR DRYING SHEDS

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SWEET CORN

LEONARD’S SWEET CORN, NARROW GRAIN.

Top Row— KKKNELS OF LEONARD’S SWEET CORN, NARROW GRAIN — Natural Size

Bottom Row — KERNELS OF STOWELL’S EVERGREEN — 'Natural Size

As will be seen in the comparative view, the kernels of this Leonard’s Sweet Corn of the Narrow Grain Type are much longer and narrower than the kernels of Stowell’s Evergreen. The natural size of the kernels of each are sho wn in the picture, and a section of the cars of both kinds are shown in the view given below. The comparison is the best method we can think of to show the difference between the two stocks. The ears shown are the average run. The Stowell’s Evergreen has 14 rows and the Leonard Sweet Corn has 24 rows.

This Corn has proved itself ideal for canners’ purposes in place of Country Gentleman, as it packs over a longer period than the Country Gentleman, makes better quality and is more easily contracted with the farmer growing for the factory on account of the size of stalk, which equals Stowell’s in height. Mr. Leonard started selecting and working on this Corn some years ago, having in mind the type he wanted to attain. Each succeeding crop has been selected and worked upon with this end in view. In this way, the desired type was established. In the last three years canning factories throughout the country have in com- petitive tests of Corn found Leonard’s Sweet Corn incomparable for their purposes. These tests have not been in a small w’ay, but vast fields have been grown for superior packing from Maine to Iowa. The canner who ordered, re-ordered — that’s the final test. What you might take at first glance to be a novelty has become for these people a necessity. Leon- ard’s Sweet Cam has become a standard variety.

The demand for this Corn has been so great that our supply for 1916, though large, has practically been exhausted. The man who buys seed early has with him quite a few advantages.

The canner giving much thought to varieties was the first to recognize the superiority of Leonard’s Sweet Corn, narrow grain. It is also equally serviceable for the trucker or the amateur.

STOWELL’S EVERGREEN Natural Size

I.EONARD’S SWEET CORN, NARROW GRAIN Natural Size

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CARDOON

Smooth, Solid Cardoon. Grown for the mid-ribs of the leaves which possess an unusual delicacy of flavor when thoroughly blanched and used in the same manner as celery. The root is also excellent when properly cooked.

CHERVIL

A hardy annual worthy of more general use for flavoring and garnishing. The curled variety is even more beautiful than parsley.

Curled. Greatly superior- to the old plain variety, being earlier, more hand- some, and having fully as flne perfume and flavor.

CHICORY

Witloof Chicory or French Endive. Grown for its use as a salad, the blanched head resembling Cos Lettuce in appearance. The seed planted in late spring give parsnip like roots by late autumn. The roots are then placed in earth where there is some heat, as in the green house boiler room, or a warm cellar. The root then throws out the blanched salad head.

Large-rooted, or Coffee. Our stock is the improved type, with very much larger, smoother, whiter and proportionately shorter roots than the old kind. The dried and prepared roots are used quite extensively as a substitute or adul- terant for coffee and the leaves used as a salad.

CORN SALAD

WITLOOF

Fetticus, or Lamb’s Lettuce. This small salad is used during the winter and spring months as a substitute for let- tuce, and is also cooked and used like Spinach. In warm weather the plants w'ill mature in four to six weeks. Sow the seed in shallow drills about one foot apart. If the soil is dry it should be firmly pressed over the seed in order to secure prompt germination. On the approach of severe cold weather, cover with straw or coarse litter. Like most salad plants, greatly improved if sown on very rich soil; indeed, tho ground can scarcely be made too rich for them.

COLLARDS

A form of cabbage or kale much grown throiighout the south. It produces large leaves and at times a modified head on a tall stout stem. Freezing does not injure but rather im- proves the quality.

Georgia, Southern or Creole. We offer the true white or green stemmed sort.

CRESS

Culture. True Water Cress can be easily grown by sowing the seed broadcast on garden soil and keeping the soil very wet till the plants are big enough to transplant to shallow indenta- tions about five inches deep here and there along the sides of a clean flowing stream. There it will continue to spread by the lengthening of its roots, also by reseeding and requires no further care. The crop can be grown to maturity in wet garden soil, or the seed can be sown directly to the mud along the stream, but with lesser measures of success. April or September is a good time to plant these minute seeds, and this aquatic prefers to stand with its roots and most of its stems submerged. Cutting can begin in about sixty days, and a little later frequent cut- ting, using a sharp knife, will stimulate plant growth.

True Water Cress.

Curled or Pepper Grass. A pungent, quick- growing plant that poorly parodies the water cress flavor, can be grown in any garden soil as soon as the ground can be one-half inch deep in one foot rows, thinning the plants to four inches.

worked.

Plant

DANDELION

Cultivated or French Common. This is considered the best by many and is not at all the same as our wild dandelion, being greatly improved by careful selection.

Improved Thick Leaved. One of the e^-rliest and best greens in cultivation.

It is well known that LEONARD’S SEEDS, both Vegetable and Flower, are standard goods. We have the largest Market Garden trade of any of the Seed Houses. The market gardener is the most critical of all seed buyers and the Seed House that commands the trade of this class of buyers is in the best possible position to suit the requirements of all others.

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EGG PLANT

Cultiu*e. Treat the Eg-g Plant like a. tender tomato that required even a longer period to mature. After cabbage plants are out of the hot-bed or greenhouse, which is April north of the Ohio, sow egg plant, keeping even the night temperature above seventy degrees. One ounce of seed gives two thousand plants, and four pounds plants an acre. Transplant later to pots or to a three or four-inch stand, and when corn is shoe high, put egg plant outside on rich, well drained land. Set the plants two feet apart in four foot rows, shading or water- ing the plants if it is sunny or dry.

Leonard’s Im- proved New York Purple ( Spine- less.) Very large and smooth, fine dark color. Ours is the spineless plant, most pre- ferred by our market garden- ers, both east and west; We have made the most careful se- lection possible of our stock plants, and know it to be unsur- passed for the market.

Black Pekin.

A fine variety, bearing large, round deep purple fruits, fine grained, and of

superior quality. LEONARD’S IMPROVED NEW YORK PURPLE EGG PLANT

Earlyliong

Purple. Early hardy and productive; excellent for the table.

ENDIVE

Cultm*e. Endive, or winter lettuce, used as a salaa, as greens or garnishing, is usually planted one-fourth inch deep in a seed bed in mid-summer, and when convenient after a month transplanted to stand one foot apart in eighteen-inch rows. When almost grown and about two weeks before ready to use, it is blanched by tying the leaves together with soft cord, or the blanching is by turning a flower pot or tile over each plant, or by blanching with earth, like celery. The blanching removes the green plant’s acrid taste. The plant may be, but seldom is, used as an early spring crop. Three to five pounds of seed' plants an acre.

Green Curled. Beautifully curled, tender and crisp.

Moss Curled. More finely curled, and a heavier and more dense plant than Green Curled.

YVhite Curled. Very tender when cut young; blanches readily.

Broad-Leaved Batavian. (Escarrole.) This variety is chiefly used in soups and stews; re- quires to be tied up in blanching.

U^TYC'C* D A Horse radish produces no seed, but is grown from pieces

HUKotli KAUlOtl of the roots.

^ Aoj 1^ A member of the onion family with a strong penetrating odor; not

propagated by seed, but by dividing the bulb.

MEDICINAL, AROMATIC AND POT HERBS

In borders and irregular parts of the garden it will prove profitable and pleasurable to grow a few herbs. Their use gives new and unusual flavors, pleasing aromas and perfumes, and some medicines that are as serviceable as can be purchased. Exact cultural directions suited to them all is impossible. Give them generally the care given vegetables or flowers. Where the foliage is to be used cut the young stems on a dry day, wilt in the sun, dry in the shade and either hang up in bunches or store in air-tight glass jars.

Anise. A hardy annual used for medicinal purposes and for seasoning and flavoring.

Balm. A perennial used for a medicinal tea, and a beverage of lemon-like flavor.

Basil, Sweet. An annual used for seasoning sauces, soups and meats.

Borage. A hardy annual grown for bee pasture; also used as a flavoring.

Caraway. In its second year this biennial produces seed for flavoring pastry, etc.

Coriander. An annual grown for the use of its seed in confectionery and liquors.

Dill. The seed and foliage of this annual is used for flavoring, as in “dill pickles.”

Fennel, Sweet or Common. Foliage used as a salad and the seed for flavoring.

Fennel, Florence. An annual grown for the blanched base of its stem, which when cooked has a sweet taste, a delicate odor and somewhat resembles celery.

Horehound. The leaves of this perennial are used in medicines for coughs and colds.

Hyssop. A perennial grown for the use of its foliage in medicine.

Lavender. A hardy perennial grown for its fragrance.

Sweet Marjoram. 'Treated as an annual and the younger foliage used for seasoning.

Rosemary. A fragrant perennial used for seasoning and medicinal purposes.

Rue. A hardy perennial to be used with caution medicinally.

Saffron. An annual used for seasoning, coloring and making cosmetics.

Sage. The well known hardy perennial used for seasoning.

Savory, Summer. The foliage and flowers of this annual used for flavoring and seasoning.

Thyme. The leaves of this perennial are used for seasoning and medicinally.

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KALE OR BORECOLE

Culture. In Virginia, kale planted in late August has some of its plants thinned out and sent to market within sixty days and the cut- ting then continues until the field is clean in April. Further north, kale is treated like the cabbage; that is, planted early in spring in hot beds or out of doors, and it is used in the fall when light frosts have improved it.

Kale is sown in two to three-foot drills and then thinned to six to twenty-four inches, ac- cording to varieties. One ounce sows gen- erously one hundred yards and four pounds plants an acre.

Tall Green Curled Scotch. This is very hardy and is not injured by a moderate frost.

About 30 inches tall, with an abundance of dark green leaves which are densely curled and cut, forming a very beautiful plant. It stands the winters in the Middle States with- out any protection.

Dwarf Curled Scotch. Plant low and compact, but with large, bright, deep green leaves, curled, cut and crimped until the whole plant resembles a bunch of moss. One

of the best sorts for use, and when well grown and cooked is one of the most palatable of vegetables.

Siberian. Sometimes called Sprouts and German Greens. In this variety the very large, green leaves are comparatively plain in the center but coarsely cut and frilled on the edge. The plant is low but spreading and very hardy.

German Dwarf Purple. Similar to the Dwarf Curled Scotch, but of a rich purple color.

KOHL-RABI

Culture. This relative of the cabbage, that looks like a turnip that grew above the ground, can be treated very much as either cabbage or turnips. One ounce sows one hundred yards and four pounds plants the acre. Sow in eighteen to twenty-four-inch rows, thin to four inches apart and use for the table when small. Like the turnip, we can- not expect good kohl-rabi in the summer heat, but a planting made about August first north of the Ohio will give a crop for winter storage. Do not overlook the value of this plant as a stock food.

Earliest Erfurt. A white, tender variety, with a smooth root and very short top; the best variety for outdoor culture.

Early Wbite Vienna. The finest for market. Flesh white and tender.

Early Pm*ple Vienna. Bluish purple; similar to the above, except in color.

Large Green. Hardy, quite late, and used for feeding stock. Bulbs large, weighing 8 to 10 pounds, whitish green in color; leaves large and numerous.

LEEK

Culture. This mild member of the onion family is used in soups and salads. Sow one ounce to one hundred feet of row or four or five pounds to the acre, one-half inch deep, as early as the soil can be worked in spring. Thin the plants to a stand of four to six inches in the twelve to eighteen-inch

EAKLY WHITE VIENNA rows. It is advisable to throw earth to the plant to blanch

KOHL-RABI it, very much as celery is blanched.

London Flag. This is the variety generally cultivated in this country. It is hardy and of good quality.

Large American Flag. A variety which has become very popular with some market garden- ers on account of its being larger than the London Flag.

Large Rouen. Stem very large but comparatively short; the leaf is very broad, covered with whitish bloom. Stands a long time in condition for use.

Musselburg. The largest variety, often 3 inches in diameter and becoming very white and tender. A hardy and desirable sort.

DWARFED CURLED SCOTCH KALE

PRICES OF ALL SEEDS ARE LISTED ALPHABETICALLY IN THE FRONT OF CATALOGUE

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LETTUCE

Culture. As lettuce will stand considerable freezing, it may be seeded or transplanted out- of-doors as soon as the soil can be worked in spring. For a succession, replant every three weeks till within sixty days of freezing weather. The soil cannot be made too rich and this crop must be grown quickly and unchecked to be of superior quality. North of the Ohio lettuce is frequently started under glass like cabbage in hot beds; in February transplanted to cold frames and hardened to be set out-of-doors in early April. In more southern or milder winter climates, lettuce may be sown in autumn, protected with sash or coarse litter and in late winter trans- planted, or thinned and matured where planted. When the crop is matured under glass it re- quires much ventilation and little heat, and beware of too much water in cloudy weather. In the summer’s heat canvas or a slatted half shade and plenty of water is of value. One ounce of seed gives two thousand plants and three pounds plants an acre. In the seed bed drop twenty-five seed to the foot, and gently rake it in; failure may result from too deep a covering. Mature let- tuce in twelv'e to eighteen inch rows, giving the loose leaf varieties three to eight inches in the row and head lettuce six to twelve inches.

Black Seeded Simpson.

We have a fine strain of this lettuce carefully se- lected. This is the most popular loose-leaved sort.

Early Curled Simpson White Seed. Forms a close, compact mass of curly yel- lowish green leaves.

Earlier than the head va- rieties.

Grand Rapids Forcing.

Preferred by a great many to the Black Seeded Simp- son, on account of being a tougher leaved lettuce.

Early Curled Silesia. A very early tender sort, wfith fine curled leaves. ^

Boston Curled. Curled leaves of good quality, a popular variety among eastern growers.

The Morse. A careful selection from the Black Seeded Simpson. Seed white.

Tilton’s White Star. A good early lettuce.

May King. Plant this lettuce for the first early head lettuce. It is equhlly good for out- door planting or forcing. The outer leaves have a slightly brownish tinge, while the heart is a beautiful yellow, very crisp and tender.

Defiance. Of a light green color, with the outer edge of the leaf slightly curled. Makes a large head.

Hubbard Market. A large heading variety good for either forcing or sowing in open ground.

St. Louis Head. The most popular and satisfactory head lettuce. It forms a fine head, is tender and crisp, and is very slow to run to seed.

Silver Ball. A good hard heading variety, and withstands the summer heat well.

Mammoth Black Seeded Butter. Resembles the old Black Seeded Butter very closely, but is much larger, forming an enormous head, every part of which is tender, crisp and sweet. It is a good sort for all seasons.

Iceberg. A beautiful lettuce. Large, curly leaves of bright, light green, with a very slight reddish tinge at the edges.

Salamander. This will stand the summer heat better than any other variety.

Boston Market. Also called White Seeded Tennis Ball. The best of the head varieties for forcing.

All the Year. A good sort for early or late planting, and withstands the summer heat well.

Brown Dutch. This variety is a good variety. Makes a round head tinged with red.

The Deacon. A magnificent butter head lettuce.

Prize Head. A good header. Solid and large.

California Cream Butter. A grand, good butter lettuce.

Buttercup. A head lettuce of fine quality. Inside of head is waxy, crisp and delicious.

New York. Is of unusual size and solidity of head.

Chartier, It makes a very large, firm head, almost as hard as a cabbage, is very tender and crisp.

Big Boston. This variety is identical in color, shape and general appearance with the famous Boston Market lettuce, but is double the size.

Hanson. Heads very large, from two to three pound.? each; hearts quickly and stands the summer well; quality excellent.

Oak Leaved. Leaves light green, oak shaped, slightly curled, set close, having no coarse stems; of fine flavor and extreme tenderness.

All Seasons. One of the best all head lettuces.

Denver Market. This is a fine crisp, crimpled head variety.

Paris White Cos. The Cos lettuce differs entirely in shape from the other varieties, the head being elongated and of conical form.

Winter Lettuce. A compact, solid, hardy lettuce for late winter or early spring use.

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MUSK MELONS — Green Fleshed

Cultui’e. Musk melon, water melon, cucumbers, gourds and squash are known as cucurbits. For musk melon follow our cultural directions for cucumber except that where a robust growing variety of musk melon is grown, a space of as much as six by six feet is sometimes required be- tween hills. One ounce of seed plants fifty hills, and three pounds plants an acre. The crop, or the last planting for a succession, should be in by June, north of the Ohio. While not necessary, it is advisable to pinch off the branches of musk melon if a quicker matured or a larger or a better fruit is required. Pick the melon when it parts from the stem without difficulty and store a few days in a cool room.

Early Hackensack. The fruits are nearly two weeks earlier than Hackensack, medium to large sized, nearly round or somewhat flattened, evenly and deeply ribbed and with very coarse netting. The skin is green, slightly tinged with yellow as the fruits mature. The flesh is green, a little coarse but juicy and sweet.

Hackensack, or Tui*k’s Cap. A very large, green fleshed melon. The vines are hardy, vigorous and productive. The fruits are nearly round, usually somewhat flat- tened: ribs large and of irregular width, densely covered with coarse netting.

Champion Market. The fruits are large, round or slightly oval, slightly ribbed and covered with dense netting. The flesh is green, very thick and sweet.

Bay View. Fruits are of largest size, long, distinctly ribbed and covered with coarse netting. The skin is green, becom- ing slightly yellow as fruits ripen. The flesh is green, thick and of fine flavor.

Montreal Market. The very largest of all nutmeg sorts. The fruits are round, flattened at the ends and have very broad ribs. Flesh is green, fine quality.

Rocky Ford. This has become one of the most popular of small or crate melons and is shipped in large quantities from Colo- rado and Arizona. The vines are vigorous and productive. The fruits are oval, slightly ribbed, densely covered with fine netting. Flesh green, very sweet and highly flavored.

Extra Early Citron. A small, round melon, valuable on account of its extreme earliness, hardiness and great productiveness.

Jenny Lind. Vines rather small but vigorous and productive. Fruits small, somewhat flattened, deeply ribbed and well netted. Flesh green and exceedingly sweet.

Skillman’s Netted. An excellent early melon with fine, tender flesh.

Netted Gem. The best early melon known. Shipped to every market of note, in great quantities, everj' year. Medium size, but of excellent flavor.

EAKLY HACKENSACK

CHICAGO MARKET 3IUSK MELON

Baltimore, or Acme. The fruits are medium sized, oval or long oval, slightly pointed at stem end, slightly ribbed, and are covered when ripe with coarse netting. The flesh is thick, green, well flavored and sweet. This variety is a very productive, sure cropper of good quality.

Chicago Market. This we consider the best Nutmeg for earliness of maturity, large and uni- form size, thickly netted skin, small seed cavity, deep green flesh, juicy delicious flavor and free- dom from rot. A favorite wtih all who prefer a green flesh sort.

Garden Lemon. An excellent fruit for pre- serving. Has a decided acid flavor.

Vine Peach. Very similar to Garden Lemon, and used for preserving.

Ornamental Pomegranate. A very interest- ing and handsome fruited vegetable. Fruit simi- lar to Vine Peach in size, color mottled and having a rich perfume.

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MUSK MELONS— Yellow Fleshed

BURRELL, GEM

Ordway. Under the name of Ordway a golden meated Rocky Ford has been shipped into the Chicago market hy the Colorado melon growers. It does not differ materially from the Burrell Gem.

Burrell Gem. The originator says: “The

new Rocky Ford Melon with Golden meat.” This describes the melon fully, as in the outside appearance it looks just as the best types of green fleshed Gems, or Rocky Fords do, but has orange flesh inside.

Admiral Togo. This is an orange fleshed netted Gem or Rocky Ford.

The Princess. This melon is one of the best for the home garden. In shape it is nearly round, with heavy netted dark green skin. The flesh is salmon color, thick, sweet and luscious.

The Osage. Is of medium size, oval in form, dark green in color, somewhat netted and slightly ribbed. The flesh is extremely and uni-

Emerald Gem. A very early, yellow fleshed melon of small to medium size. One of the very best for the home garden. Vines vigorous and productive. Fruits globular or slightly flattened, somewhat irregularly ribbed and very slightly netted.

Sm*prise. Vines hardy and productive; fruit medium to large size, oval, distinctly ribbed, covered with slight patches of netting; skin light yellow when mature. Flesh deep salmon color and of excellent quality.

Petoskey, or Paul Rose. A yellow fleshed sort of suitable size for a crate melon and of excellent quality. Vines vig- orous and productive. Fruits oval, slightly ribbed and densely netted.

Defender. This is one of the best yel- low fleshed sorts and in some respects is far superior to any of this class. The fruit is medium sized, oval in shape, slightly ribbed, covered with gray netting. The flesh is Arm, flne grained, rich, deep yel- low, darker than that of the Osage and of higher flavor.

HOODOO MELON

TIP TOP MUSK MELON

formly thick, of Arm texture, rich sal- mon in color; highly flavored and de- licious to the rind. Cavity very small. It is a remarkable keeper and a good shipping melon.

Hoodoo. A new orange fleshed va- riety, ideal as a shipping melon and of the very flnest quality. Vine vigorous, remarkably blight resisting and very productive. Fruits uniformly of me- dium size. Netting exceptionally flne and dense, extending practically over the entire surface.

TIP TOP 3IUSK MELON

The illustration shows a specimen of our strain of this popular melon. This very productive melon is of me- dium to large size, nearly round, slightly ribbed and fairly well covered with shallow netting. The flesh is deep yellow in color. The universal testi- mony of every one using Tip Top is that every fruit produced, whether big or little, early or late in the season, is a good one — sweet, juicy, flnest flavor. Arm, but not hard-fleshed, eatable to the very coating.

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WATER MELON

KOLB’S GEM WATER MELON

Culture. For water melon, follow our cultural directions for cucumbers, except that it is necessary to give the water melon a space of eight to ten feet between hills, and thin the plants to two to the hill. One ounce plants twenty-five hills and three pounds of seed plants an acre.

Kolb’s Gem. Vines of medium size, but re- markably vigorous and healthy. Leaves of me- dium size, deeply cut with a peculia'r frilled edge. Fruit of the larg- est size, round or slight- ly oval, marked with ir- regular mottled stripes of dark and light green. Outer rind or shell ex- ceedingly hard and firm, making it a good sort for shipping long dis- tances. Flesh bright red, solid, a little coarse but sweet and tender.

A'ick’s Early. This variety is prized for its earliness. It is oblong in shape, smooth with a very dark skin, rather small in size; fiesh bright pink, solid and sweet.

Harris Earliest Water Melon. The best of the extra early sorts. Fruit slightly oval with irregular mottled stripes of light and dark green. Flesh bright red, sweet and tender. A desirable

variety where the season is short. It is hardy, productive and the largest of the early kinds.

Phinney’s Early. Few, if any, of the early sorts of recent introduction surpass this old fa- vorite. It is first to ripen, of good size and productive.

Cole’s Early. Very hardy, a sure cropper, and extremely delicate in texture of fiesh, which is of a dark red color, possessing all the desirable features. Medium size, nearly round; rind green, striped with lighter shades.

Peerless. The old but extremely popular home market melon, more handsome melon grown.

Mountain Sweet. A large oval variety.

Pride of Georgia. Round, large, crisp; bright red fiesh.

Jumbo. Immense in size. The common weight of this melon is 60 to 80 pounds, it is nearly round; color solid dark green.

Halbert Honey. Equal to the Kleckley Sweet, of 20 inches oblong form, almost equally round at each end. Rind dark green. Profitable locally, but not a good shipper.

Bradford. Shape long, color dark, with darker wavy bands, fiesh melting and excellent.

Triumph Water Melon. It is a cross between Duke Jones and Kolb’s Gem. It has the handsome appearance and dark green color of the former and the shipping qualities of the Gem; medium season, very prolific, deliciously sweet and of onormous size.

Seminole. An exceedingly productive variety, large size. Fruit oblong in shape; fiesh solid, ripening clear up to the rind.

Black Diamond. A cross between Kolb’s Gem and Hoosier King.

Tom Watson Water Melon.

Originated near Augusta,

Ga., a fewyears ago; very pro- lific — six car- loads on ten acres often made; shape, long; color, dark, deep green, no stripes; large — often times 50 to 60 lbs.; two melons to the vine; no ends, no necks to rot; better shipper than Rattlesn a k e j tougher rind; flesh deep red; seeds white, smeared wjth yellow, '

There is none better, nor a

In shape

TOM WATSON WATER MELON

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WATER MELON

Eden. This melon by shippers is thought to be better than Kolb’s Gem. Bluish cast melon and elongated.

Success Water Melon. A southern variety which has become very popular with shippers. The fruit is uniformly large, nearly round, dark green, sometimes indistinctly striped with a lighter shade and has a thin and firm rind which makes it an excellent shipper; flesh bright red and of good quality.

Iceberg Water Melon. One of the most popular market and shipping varieties. Grown very extensively in the South for Northern markets.

Sweet Heart. This melon is early, large, handsome, heavy and productive. The shape is oval, and color mottled light to very light green.

Black Spanish. Large, roundish, nearly black; dark red flesh; early.

Florida Favorite. A very large, long melon, mottled dark green, with stripes of lighter shade. v.

Mclver’s Wonderful Sugar. Without a single exception this is the sweetest water inelon of all.

Monte Cristo or Kleckley Sweets. A splendid sort. Vine vigorous and productive; fruit of medium size; oval; color dark, mottled green in two shades, forming indistinct stripes.

Cuban Queen. Fruit medium size to large, globular or oval; skin striped light and dark green in sharp contrast.

Dixie. A popular market sort. Vine vigorous, large growing and hardy; fruit medium sized to large, about one-third longer than thick. Color of skin dark green, striped with a lighter shade.

Gypsy, or Georgia Rattlesnake. One of the largest varieties, and stands shipment long dis- tances. Fruit cylindrical, square at the ends, smooth, distinctly striped and mottled light and dark green.

GYPSY, OR GEORGIA RATTLESNAKE

IF AND THE GARDEN

If you are so rich that deferential servants quietly anticipate your wish, your table is seri- ously lacking when vegetables come other than dew bejeweled from your garden. ,

If you should come to be so poor that the wolf came to the door, remember the vegetable garden is the best barricade ever erected between that animal and yourself.

If to you the world’s best music is the laughter of your child, your garden is that child’s best kindergarten as possibly it was the kindergarten of the race.

If you love colors, the fleeting rainbow is permanently outrivaled in these things that grow and change.

If you are tired of the crowd, make your garden a little park for the thoughtful or quiet hour.

If just now it is little practical things that interest you, remember that a garden it is well to own when the unexpected guest comes at meal time.

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MUSTARD

GIANT SOUTHERN CURLED

Culture. Mustard is grown for its seed which is used for flavoring or medicinal purposes or grown for its leaf which is used in salad or cooked like spinach. Sow mustard as soon as the soil can be worked in spring and every three weeks for a succes- sion, or in the south it may be sown in the fall for early spring greens. Cover the seed lightly in twelve to eighteen-inch drills. Cut the leaf when not over four inches high and expect this cutting in fifty days from the seeding.

Giant Southern CuiTed. The favorite in the South.

Fordliook Fancy, or Ostrich Plume. Same as above.

Chinese or Large Leaved Mustard. The large leaves which often measure 14 inches are ready for use in about six weeks after sowing. Plants will continue to yield until frosty weather. Leaves are eaten boiled, like spinach.

Bloomsdale, Large Leaved. Same as the Chinese Mustard described above.

White. Best for general use.

Brown. Stronger than above.

MUSHROOM SPAWN

There is a mistaken idea that mushroom growing is difficult. They will do well al- most anywhere that a fairly uniform tem- perature of forty- eight to fifty-five degrees can be main- tained. For the pur- pose one may use sheds, caves, cellars or space under the greenhouse benches. A more uncertain method, but one which gives us sur- prise crops is to in- sert from time to time pieces of spawn in the lawn or in old pastures. Full cul- ture directions for mushroom growing

One pound of spawn is sufficient for a bed two by six feet.

We receive fresh spawn several times a year from the best makers.

English Mill Track Spawn.

French Mushroom Spawn. Put up in boxes of 2 pounds each.

American, Pure Cidture, Spawn. Produced by the new grafting process, from selected and most prolific varieties, has never failed to run.

OKRA

NASTURTIUM

Tall Mixed Garden. Grown not only for ornament but the beau- tiful orange colored flowers and foliage are used for garnishing and the young leaves or shoots are excellent for salads. The green seed pods are greatly esteemed by many for use in mixed pickles.

Dw’arf Mixed Garden. Same as above except that it grows in dwarf form.

OKRA, OR GUMBO

Cidture. The pods of this plant are used in a great number of ways throughout the Southern States, and the plant should be more frequently grown in the north. Plant at corn planting time in rich land, sowing the seed thickly in two to three foot drills, and thin- ning to an eight to twelve-inch stand, according to varieties. A generous planting is two ounces to one hundred feet and ten pounds to the acre. Okra seed may be planted six seed to the hill, two to three feet apart and thinned to two plants to the hill.

White Velvet. Produces pods larger than any other.

Dwarf Green. Grows low but stocky and is very productive.

Long Green. Taller than above, pods similar.

Perkins Mammoth Long Pod. The pods are produced in great abundance and average longer than other sorts.

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LEONARD’S ONION SETS

RED WHITE YELLOW

Leonard’s Onion Sets are the Chicago Standard. We are the pioneers in set growing here. The Chicago onion set has that fine bright color which is so much desired, and being grown from the same kind of seed that produces our best large onion it produces a bulb far superior to the Southern or Southeastern product. We claim a superiority for our onion sets which comes from superior knowledge in planting, harvesting, storing and shipping as a result of long continued experience and large operations. We are now and for many years have been the leading Onion Set growers.

Culture. Onion Sets should be planted as early in the spring as convenient to obtain early green onions but they may be set at any time up to June first. Set in rows a foot apart and two to four inches between them in the row. When grown in quantities superior cultivation is given in order to forward the crop for an early market. Those not used in green condition will ripen early in July. Potato and Top onion are grown from bulbs only. These clusters are separated and kept for seed.

There is no crop which pays better than the first load or so of green onions in the market. Onion sets make this crop for you. They will give the largest returns for the money invested if the product is sold or give excellent green onions for home use at a time when fresh green vegetables are needed.

Yellow Onion Sets. The yellow sets are grown from seed of Strasburg, Yellow Danvers, Yel- low Globe Danvers and Southport Yellow Globe, either of which we can furnish. Yellow is the standard color for onions in many of the largest markets.

Red Onion Sets. These sets are grown from the Red Wethersfield variety and will produce marketable onions several weeks earlier than seeds. For green onions they are also very desirable.

White Onion Sets. We have sets grown fro m the White Globe seed or from the White Portu- gal seed and can furnish either kind. White sets produce the finest early green onions, and no garden should be without them.

Prizetaker Sets. These sets are grown from seed of the Prizetaker onion. The most suc- cessful growers of Prizetaker say that this onion cannot be grown to its fullest perfection unless seedlings are transplanted or the onions grown from sets.

*White Pearl Sets. This is the early waxy, silvery white Onion, the genuine White Pearl Set. It is for sale in September and October and can not be kept in storage for a much longer period. It produces an Onion that in mildness of flavor is probably not surpassed.

*Bermuda Sets. We use the Teneriffe seedj. a product of the Canary Islands, and these Sets produce the pale red, slightly flattened Oni on with white flesh, at times slightly suffused with pink. With good care these Sets readily give an Onion of three to four-inch diameter. Exactly the Onion that gave Texas its Onion growing reputation.

^Crystal White Wax. This set is also prod uced from Teneriffe grown Onion seed and is very popular through the Southern States and Texas. It gives a large, pure white, flattened Onion of mild flavor.

Shallots or Multipliers. These are very popular at the South. They are grown largely for flavoring. The clumps are divided and they multiply very abundantly.

White Multiplier Onions. Owing to the white color this is considered an improvement on the yellow multiplier onion, which it resembles in habit of growth.

Yellow Potato Onions. The old original English multipliers, the genuine potato onion.

Winter Tops (Perennial Tree Onions). These are very hardy; they need no protection during the Winter, and will continue for many years to yield an abundant supply of green onions with- out replanting.

Genuine Top Onions. This is the old-fashioned top onion. The small clumps when separated are planted and each small bulb produces a large, solid, marketable onion of the finest keeping qualities. This onion, when planted, produces again on the top of a stalk which shoots up from it the small clumps, just as ordinary onions throw up a ball of seed.

* These varieties for Fall shipment only.

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Leonard’s Globe Onions

LEONARD’S THREE GLOBES.

liConard’s Tliree Globes bring mor^ money to the onion gro\^er and sell quicker tban any

~ other varieties. Our Yellow Globe is the

Standard Yellow, our Red Globe is the Standard Red and our White Globe is the Stand-

ard White.

Leonard’s Yellow Globe

This Onion is our prize yellow market variety. It is the most uniform as to size, the most productive, the best keeping and the handsomest j’^ellow- skinned Globe variety we have ever known. It has taken years of patient ef- fort to bring it to its pres- ent perfection, and to keep up the standard of excel- 1 e n c e requires extreme care in the selection of bulbs to set out for seed- ing when the time for that event occurs each year. This onion has the call on the Chicago mar- ket, and our home sales for seed of it are very large. Last season our supply became exhausted long before the planting season was over.

Good gi'owers of onions seldom allow a difference in price to keep them from bujung good seed if they feel sure that it is good. To such we would say: The seed here offered is worthy of investigation if a good thing is wanted.

ONTON—LEONARD’S YELLOW GLOBE.

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Leonard’s Globe Onions

ONION— LEONARD’S RED GLOBE.

fection than red or yellow, but many large grow- ers score big returns from a crop of “whites. This strain of White Globe is uniform in size and shape with our Yellow and Red Globe.

Our position as MARKET GARDENERS’ SEEDMEN is well and favorably known, both at home and throughout the country. Our pre-eminent standing in this line of the Seed Business has been long established. The Mai*- ket Gardener, when he plants LEONARD’S SEEDS, may therefore feel reasonably sure that he is planting the best seed obtainable.

During the past twenty- seven years, in addition to the vast quantity we sell, we have each year planted and handled the product of thousands of pounds of onion seed. We plant the same kinds of seed that we sell, and sell the same kinds that we plant.

We are growers of onions, as well as sellers of the seed. We would not sell any seed that we would not be satisfied to plant ourselves. \\^e know w^hat omons should be and we know-^ the value of good seed, **

ONION — LEONARD’S WHITE GLOBE.

The deep dark red color of our Red Globe is one of its superior points, while in shape and size it is a counterpart of our Popular Yellow Globe.

In the Michigan, Indiana and Ohio onion sec- tions, as w'^ell as in Illinois and Iowa this strain of Red Globe produces the prize- winning red onions.

Where competition is keen it wull pay large returns for the ad- ditional cost of the seed.

Superior stocks are neces- sary to the prosperity of the market planter. The inferior article may be more attrac- tive at the beginning, because it costs less, but the superior seed gives the more valuable product. You cannot afford to do without the best.

The Onion Seed Specialties here offered are worth many times their cost to any mar- ket grower, and the satisfac- tion they will give to the consumer will increase the profits of the gardener who grows them.

Leonard’s Red Globe

Leonard’s White Globe

White skinned onions when successfully grown are by all means the handsomest and will usually bring more money per bushel than either of the other colors. It is

^harder to grow them to per-

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ONION SEED

Culture.— -Study the demands of your market to know what onion that market requires.

As soon as the soil can be worked in spring, and not after May 1st, sow onion seed in twelve to fifteen inch rows, leaving out every tenth row as a weed alley if preferred. One ounce of seed plants one hundred fifty feet and five to six pounds plants the acre. The black, slow-germinating seed should be covered firmly one-fourth inch deep. Quantities of manure had best be applied in the year before the planting, and much commercia'l fertilizer, high in potash, harrowed in im- mediately before seeding.

Begin cultivation as soon as the plant can be seen; cultivate frequently and when convenient thin to a stand of two to four inches.

In the so-called -new onion culture the onions are started in hot beds and easily trans- planted when the size of slate pencils to the required stand in the field.

Prizetaker. Grows to an immense size and for fall marketing is unexcelled. Although of such great size, it is very hardy and a fair Winter keeper, as it ripens up hard and firm;, very fine grained, and of mild, delicate fiavor. The outside skin is rich yellow while the flesh is whfte. To get the best results from this onion the seed is sown in beds and transplanted. It will, however, make a good crop if sown in the ordinary way.

Leonard’s Yellow Cracker. The earliest, handsomest, and best flat onion in the list. Be- sides being early it is one of the best keepers.

Yellow Globe Danvers. This fine onion is of large size. An early and abundant cropper. Bulbs very thick, fiat or slightly convex bottoms, full oval top with small neck and rich brownish yellow skin.

Early Flat Yellow Danvers. A good variety, but not as round or quite as early as the Yel- low Globe Danvers.

Yellow Strasburg, or Dutch. One of the oldest varieties. Bulbs quite flat of good size, skin yellow, flesh white, of mild flavor and keeps well. This is the variety used very extensively for growing yellow onion sets.

Southport Yellow Globe. A large, perfectly shaped Globe onion and an excellent onion for keeping throughout the winter. A very heavy cropper, handsome in appearance and a good dark yellow color.

Michigan Yellow Globe. The bulbs are large and uniformly spherical with very small necks and the largest diameter below the center of the bulbs of a rich orange color.

Ohio Yellow Globe. An early Globe onion, small neck and very uniform in size and color. Very popular in the marsh onion sections of Ohio and Indiana.

Giant Yellow Rocca. Of all the magnificent Italian onions now in cultivation none are more popular than the Giant Rocca.

Australian Browvi Onion. Is of medium size, wonderfully hard and solid and most attrac- tive for market, both as to form and appearance. The color of the skin is a clear amber brown.

Giant Red Rocca. This magnificent variety is of beautiful globe shape, skin red, flesh white, of mild, pleasant flavor.

Large Red Wethersfield. We have a very fine and select strain of this sort. Color is deep purplish red, flesh white moderately grained and very firm. Yields an enormous amount per acre, and is one of the best winter keeping onions.

Extra Early Flat Red. This variety matures from ten days to two weeks earlier than the Red Wethersfield. The color is a deep rich red, fine grain and close.

Southport Red Globe. This is a fine keeper. Large size and considered one of the best red onions. Flesh is fine grained, very mild and tender.

Copper King. This variety is the largest red onion grown. It is fine and mild in taste. With the two varieties above mentioned a combination is formed which wins prizes at all fairs for all colors.

Bermuda Red. A very early pale red onion, grown extensively in the Bermudas and southern part of the United States for early shipping to northern markets.

Bermuda WTiite. Mild flavored; yellowish in color; otherwise same as red.

Crystal White Wax. This variety is popular at the south where the transplanting method of culture is practiced. A large, beautiful, silvery white skinned variety, of handsome flat shape, of very fine flavor and quality.

White Portugal. American Silver Skin. This is the best, sort to sow — for onion sets or for pickling. When sown thickly for either it makes a small, round, hard bulb.

Philadelphia Silver Skin. Very desirable for family use. Flavor mild and pleasant.

UTiite Victoria. A beautiful, large, round variety with silver white skin, but sometimes of a delicate light rose color; flesh juicy, sweet, and milky white. A good keeper.

Southport White Globe. This grows to a very large size and is a perfectly globe-shaped onion. Color is a clear pure white. This variety is used by the Chicago market gardeners for bunching.

Spanish Iting. One of the handsomest onions grown. Specimens weighing nearly four pounds are often harvested.

Silver King. This is a grand onion. It is a mammoth growler, of beautiful pearly white color, almost transparent in appearance. To match Spanish King at fairs and exhibitions it is just what is needed.

Neopolitan Marzajola. A large, beautiful, silvery white skinned variety, of handsome flat shape, of very fine flavor and quality.

Extra Early Pearl. A very fine, Italian variety that grows quickly to a good marketable size. Very popular, particularly in the south. The bulbs are round, flattened, with a delicate pure white skin. •

New White Queen is a fine early silver skinned variety, of beautiful form and rapid growth, and possessing fine keeping qualities.

Wliite Barletta. When matured the tops die down, leaving beautiful and perfect little bulbs. The color is pure white, flavor mild and delicate, perfectly adapted for pickling and table use.

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PEAS

Culture. All varieties of peas, regardless of height, may be grown successfully without a trellis or support. As peas vary in height from six inches to six feet, it follows that the distances in the row and apart in the row should vary. Dwarf or half dwarf varieties are best planted in double or companion rows six inches apart to support and shade each other in their growth; then leave a space of eighteen to thirty inches, according to height of the variety, and repeat the double row. The tall varieties that may be given support are planted in single rows, the space between the rows somewhat less than the height of the variety., Drop ten to twenty dwarf peas to the double row or six to ten tall peas to the foot of row, using one quart to one hun- dred feet and three bushels to the acre.

Plant all peas about five inches deep in soil that has been deeply plowed. This deep plant- ing is the grower’s attempt to give the peas the cool, damp climate they prefer. Lightly harrow or rake the soil when the peas should be breaking through, and continue to cultivate until the vine stops the work.

All peas stand some frost and may be planted as soon as the soil may be worked in spring. Peas should be planted frequently for a succession all north of the Ohio. The early varieties are planted in August for a late autumn crop.

For quality’s sake, pick peas before they crowd the pod and pick all pods as rapidly as produced to somewhat extend the plants bearing.

As all varieties of peas lose their characteristics when left without that selection given by expert seedsmen, it is necessary to go to a reliable source for seed peas.

Notice. Wherever the number of days from planting to first picking for table use is given, the time is taken from our trial ground records made during the season of 1909 in Wisconsin. Weather conditions, variations in soil and cultivation, as well as difference in latitude, will make either a longer or shorter period of growth.

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SMOOTH SEED, 60 LB. TO BU. WRINKLED SEED, 56 LB. TO BU.

As Jto a superiority between smooth and wrinkled peas, it is all a matter of individual taste, but the preponderance of taste is in favor of the wrinkled varieties.

SMOOTH SEED

Alaska. Well known and extensively used, especially by canners. Very early and when carefully grown, uniform in ripening. Vine is strong and vigorous, 2 to 2 % feet high, of a peculiar light green color; pods 2% to 2% inches long, straight and blunt at the end, and light in color. Is ready for picking 49 to 50 days from planting. Seed round, blue, slightly pitted.

Ameer. Resembling the Alaska in appearance, 3 to 3% feet in height. Pale green foliage. Pods 2 inches in length, pointed, dark green in color. Seed blue, dented, medium pitted.

« Bountiful. Resembling the Alaska in general habit of growth. Vine 36 inches, foliage gray green; pods 3^ inches in length, pointed, gray green in color. Fit for table use 55 to 57 days from planting. Seed blue, medium pitted.

Blue Imperial. The height is 3 feet, foliage is medium green in color, vines bearing pods large in size, blunt and medium green in color. They are fit for use about 60 to 65 days from planting. The seed is blue, round, smooth and large size.

Blue Beauty. The height is 1% feet. The vines are medium green in color. The pods are small, round and blunt at the end. They are pale green in color and are fit to pick about 52 to 55 days from planting. The seed is blue, smooth and small in size.

Black Eyed Marrowfat. Strong and vigorous vines bearing pods near the top of the vine. Peas of a poor quality. Height 50 to 60 inches, light color foliage, pods 3 inches long, blunt, light green. Ready to pick 69 days from planting. Seed large, smooth, white with a black eye.

Claudlt. In general habit and height of vine resembling Alaska, ripening almost at the same time, but with much longer, broader pods. Pods 3 inches in length, straight, handsomely shaped and well filled at the point. Seed round, light green, dented, height 2 feet.

D’Anonay Amelior. Height about 12 inches, vines exceedingly uniform in growth, bushy and compact. Pods borne at top of vine in great profusion. Foliage light green in color, pods 2% to 2% inches in length, round, blunt, pale green in color, maturing with the first earlies. Seed yellow mixed with pale green, medium sized and round.

Extra Early. Early, productive and hardy, with a strong, vigorous vine, which is light in color and uniform in growth, 2% to 3 feet in height and bearing straight pods 2% to 2% inches l)Ong, round, light in color and blunt at the ends. Is fit for table use 50 to 52 days from planting. Seed round, rather small, and white in color. - , ,j-

■ Early May Improved. This pea is one of the best of the “White” eaylies and is superior to First and Best or ProlificiEarly Market. Vines are strqpg growing for this class of pea, about 30 inches in height, foliage pale green. Pods are pale cojpred, straight, round and blunt. Aver- age 2% inches in length. Pit for use 56 days from planting. Seed small to medium sized, white and smooth.

Early Morn. An English variety of the Gradus type with many desirable qualities. Bearing large, handsome pods in profusion. The peas are large, closely packed in the pod, and the fla- vor is sweet and delicious. Those who know the good qualities of Gradus will not be disap- pointed in their trial of this variety. The seed should not be sown until the soil is in a fit state to receive it early in April, as it is a rapid grower. The pods are very large and well filled, and are often ready to pick during June. Height about 3 feet.

Essex Stor. Vine 3% feet in height. Medium green foliage, pods 3 inches in length, pointed, dark green in color. Fit for table use 50 to 55 days from planting. Seed medium size, dented, mixed green in color.

First and Best. Early^ productive and hardy, with a strong, vigorous vine, which is light in color and uniform growth, 2% to 3 feet in height and bearing straight pods 214 to 2% inches long, round, light in color and bllint at the ends. Is fit for table use 50 to 52 days from planting. Seed round, rather small, and white in color.

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PEAS — Smooth Seed — Continued

French Canner. This is the small French Pea used for can- ning. Very prolific. Long, slim pods containing from 7 to 10 peas.

Fillbasket. Hardy, upright and prolific in growth. Dark green foliage, 3 feet in height, pods medium curved, dark green in color. Seed blue green, medium sized, very sn Fit for table use about 70 days from planting.

Giant Lightning, Carter’s. Vines 4 feet in height, with pale green foliage. Pods large, blunt, pale green.

Fit for table use 57 to 60 days from planting. Seed large, white and smooth.

Giant Express, Carter’s. A large type of Alaska Pea, vines 4 feet in height, with pale green foliage bearing large, broad, blunt pods pale green in color. Is fit for table use 65 days from planting. Seed is large, smooth and blue.

Improved Sugar Marrow. Much better than the old White Marrowfat. Pods larger, well filled and of the true marrow flavor.

Long Island Mammoth. Very popular with market gar- deners who want a large, handsome pod of a dark green color. I

Melting Sugar. Large edible pod. Height, 42 to 48 j inches. Pods, 4 to 4% inches long and 1% inches broad. Fit for table use 80 days from planting.

Mamutania. Vines 24 to 28 inches in height. Foliage light green, pods 21% inches in length, blunt, light green in color. Matures in 46 days from planting to first picking. |

Seed small, white, smooth. This pea resembles First and Best in general habit, and is a vast improvement over First and ^

Best. \

Maud S. A very fine extra early sort, hardy, productive and of good flavor.

Pride of the Market. Of fine growth and general ap- pearance, both vine and pod, and closely resembles the Strata- gem except that the vine is not quite so long and the pods are deeper green in color. The vine is 20 inches high, foliage dark green color. Pods are 3% inches long, broad and dark in color. Fit for table use 61 days from planting.

Seed blue, slightly dented, large.

ProUfic Early Market. Said to be an improvement over the First and Best. This pea is early, hardy and productive.

Vines are strong and vigorous, pale green color. Height 2% to 3% feet. Pods are round, blunt, light green colored and average 2 % to 2 % inches in length. Is fit for table use in 52 days from planting. Seed medium sized, yellow and smooth.

Primo. A good early broad podded pea of recent intro- duction. Vines grow to a height of 3 feet, are light green in color and strong growing. Pods are of good size, light green in color and are slightly curved and pointed at end. Are fit for table use in 58 days from planting. Seed is large, white, PILOT

smooth and flattened.

Peter Pan. A new English variety of merit. It may be classed among the early sorts. Height of vine 16 to 20 inches, color medium dark green, bearing dark to medium dark pods which are round, curved and pointed. Pods average 3% to 3% inches in length. Fit for table use in 60 days from planting. Seed large sized and yellowish white in color and smooth.

Pilot, The. A new pea of English origin very similar to Gradus as to earliness, color of vine and pod as well as quality. Vines grow to a height of 3 to 4 feet with foliage medium to dark green color. Pods are large, pointed at end and broad. Dark green in color. Is fit for table use 6 0 days from planting. Seed yellow and green mixed, medium sized and nearly smooth.

Saxonia. The originator of this new Pea describes it as follows: With rare unanimity

has my new Pea, which I introduced last year, been accepted in all pea growing countries as denoting an important progress in the development of our first early round sorts.

It is a well known fact that the one decided shortcoming of our first early round peas has always been their short yield as compared to that of later sorts. This blemish has been com- pletely remedied by my new Pea “Saxonia,” for it yields as abundantly as the favorite later sorts, and it cannot be surpassed in earliness by any pea.

The pods are of double the size of the Extra Early or First and Best, they appear mostly in pairs and are filled with large, pure white peas. The plant has the convenient height of 2 feet.

Telegraph. Closely resembling Telephone in all respects, except that the pods are a deeper shade of green, and the peas are of only fair quality, although the pods are of very fine ap- pearance. Pods 4 to 4% inches long, medium dark green, pointed. Fit to pick 65 days from planting. Seed large, blue and round dented.

Velocity. Height 2 feet, medium pale green foliage. Of the same type as Alaska. Pods small, straight, blunt, medium green in color, well filled with Peas of excellent flavor. Matures to first picking in 44 days from planting. Seed blue, small, pitted.

White Marrowfat. Vines hardy, strong, vigorous and bearing broad, thick leathery pods near the top of the vine, and containing peas of a poor quality. Height 45 to 50 inches, foliage light green in color, pods 3 inches long, blunt and light green. Ready to pick 69 days from planting. Seed large, smooth, white.

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American Wonder. Vigorous, productive vines, with a luxuriant foliage, and producing the leaves on one side of the stalk, growing from 9 to 12 inches high. On account of its dwarf habit of growth it is very desirable for private garden use. Pods are light colored, straight, round, about 2% inches long and blunt at the end. Fit for picking 55 days from planting. Seed is wrinkled, green, medium in size and square at the ends.

Advancer. Vines upright and vigorous in growth, hardy and productive. Height 30 inches, foliage dark green, pods 2 % to 2 % inches long, round, dark colored and blunt, fit for picking 61 days from planting. Seed green, wrinkled, medium in size. A very fine pea for canners’

use.

Admiral. A long vine, medium season pea, bearing pods in profusion. About the same size and shape as First and Best, but . of much better flavor. The small size and fine flavor of the pea, with its great hardiness, make it a most desirable sort for canners who wish a sweet wrinkled pea of small size. Vines 48 inches high, with medium green foliage. Pods 2% inches long, medium light in color and blunt. Pit for picking 68 days from planting. Seed small, wrinkled, white.

Abundance. Vigorous in growth and productive, bearing pods in great abundance, al- though of medium size, and of excellent quality. Very similar in every respect to Horsford’s Market Garden, except that it is about a week later, being fit for picking 71 days from plant- ing. Pods are dark green, and blunt. Seed green, wrinkled, medium in/ size.

Autocrat. Height 3% feet. Foliage dark green; pods large, blunt and dark green in color. Fit for table use 85 to 90 days from picking.

Alderman. A large podded pea of the Telephone type, very robust and vigorous as to vine. Foliage mixed, medium green. Height, 50 inches, pods 5 inches long, broad, pointed, medium green in color. Seed green, wrinkled, large. '

Admiral Dewey. One of the largest podded pea yet introduced. Height, 3% feet; pods a rich, dark green color, frequently six inches long, beautifully shaped. Peas large, tender R.nd of first c1r«ss Ar-voi*

Boston Unrivaled. Height 3% feet, foliage medium green in color. Pods large, pointed, pale green in color. Pit for table use 65 to 70 days from planting. Seed large, blue, green, wrinkled. Very similar to Duke of Albany and Alderman in habit.

Buttercup. Vine 2 feet in height. Foliage, medium to light green. Pods 4 inches in length pointed light green in color. Fit for table use 61 days from planting. Seed blue wrinkled medium size. ^ rj. .

Leonard’s Clatawa. “Clatawa” is Chinook Indian for get up andget. It describes in a word the main characteristic of this wonderful new pea.

The Clatawa is as early as American Wonder and bears pods f

like the Telephone, which certainly proves it to be a

Champion of England. Strong and vigorous in growth.

42 to 50 inches in height. Foliage medium green. Pods 2% to 3 inches long, blunt, medium dark green in color.

Ready to pick 68 to 73 days from planting. Seed large

Chelsea Gem. Height of vine 1 foot with dark green ® foliage. Pods small curved, medium green in color. Fit . 'jjSjB ■ . (% '

for table use 60 days from planting. Seed small, white,

Duke of Albany. Resembling the Telephone in appear- ance. Vine and foliage medium green in color. Height 50 f<.‘

inches, pods 5 inches long, broad, pointed, dark green. Seed /j;- '

Duke of York. A pea of the same class as the Tele- Vi- ^ ^

phone, but earlier and more dwarf. The peas are sweet / WJ ‘

Duchess. Height of vine 4 feet. Medium green foliage, pods large, pointed, dark colored. Fit for table use 56 days from planting. Seed, dark, blue, large, wrinkled. jm

Dwarf Gray Sugar. The old variety of the edible- podded sort, and is used in no other way. Grows about 2 feet high and is remarkable for its earliness. Pods are K.

broad, flat and crooked and contain 5 to 6 peas. Seed is

Carter’s Dauby Stratagem Improved. Vines 3 V2 feet in height, coarse dark green foliage. Pods are large, pointed, dark green in color, maturing in about 65 to 70 days to first picking. Seed large, blue green, wrinkled.

Dwarf Telephone. Vines 18 to 20 inches high, with rather coarse foliage, medium light green, bearing pods, ”

broad, straight and about 4 inches long. Pale green in color and well filled with peas of excellent flavor. Steady

for picking from 62 to 65 days from planting. Seed pale ^

green, large, much wrinkled.

Dwarf Defiance, Suttons. The vines, vigorous and hardy, about two feet in height, with coarse dark green foliage, bearing long, broad pointed pods, dark green in ^

color. Fit for picking 61 days from planting. Seed large, L.AXTONIAN

green, wrinkled. This pea is much more uniform in growth than the Stratagem, which it very closely resembles, and has the advantage of remaining fixed in its type, and showing practically no sports or runners.

English Wonder. Vines vigorous in habit, 12 to 18 inches in height. Medium green in color. Pods 3 inches long, slightly pointed, dark green in color. Pit for table use 67 to 69 days from planting. Seed blue green, wrinkled, medium size.

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PJxonian. About 3 feet in height with pale green foliage, bearing small round blunt pods, medium green in color, about ten days later than Alaska. Seed green, wrinkled, small in size.

Everbearing. Vigorous and branching in habit of growth. Height, 2 % to 3 feet. Pods, 2 % to 3 inches long. Broad, light colored and blunt. Fit to pick 70 days from planting. Seed green, wrinkled, large in size.

Forty Fold. One of the best of the tall late varieties for general use. Height 5 feet. An abundant cropper with peas of good flavor. Seed medium sized, wrinkled.

Gems, Premium. Strong and vigorous, pro- ducing vines from 18 to 24 inches in height, dark foliage, bearing pods singly on both sides of the stalk beginning near the ground. Pods are al- most straight 2 % to 2 % inches long, light in color and blunt at the ends. Ready to pick 59 to 61 days from planting. Seed is green, wrinkled and medium in size.

Gems, McLean’s Little. Strong and vigorous in growth, producing vines from 18 to 24 inches in height, dark foliage, bearing pods singly on both sides of the stalk beginning near the ground. Pods are almost straight, 2 % to 2 % inches long, light in color and blunt at the ends. Ready to pick 59 to 61 days from planting. Seed is green, v'rinkled, and medium in size.

Gradus. A large wrinkled, early pea with a pod nearly as large as Telephone, fllled with large peas, tender and of good quality and flavor. Very quick to germinate and mature with the early sorts. This pea will not stand adverse conditions, however, as well as some of the other sorts, and seed must be planted after all danger of early frost has passed. Height of vine 2 6 to 30 inches, with large luxuriant foliage pale green in color. Pods dark green, 4 to 4 % inches in length and pointed. Fit for table use 52 days from planting. Seed large, cream colored, wrinkled.

Green Gem. Height of vine 12 to 15 inches, with very dark green foliage. Pods 3% inches in length, pointed very dark green in color. Ready for table use 54 days after planting. Seed dark green, wrinkled, medium sized.

Gladstone. Vine 3% feet in height. Dark green foliage with large pods curved dark green in color. Fit for table use 80 days

from planting. Seed blue green, wrinkled, large size.

Golden King. Vine 4% feet in height, pale green foliage. Pods 4 to 4^ inches in length, straight, Golden yellow in color. Ready to pick for table use 77 days from planting. Seed large, green, wrinkled.

Hoi'sford’s Market Garden. Strongly resembling Premium Gem in habit of growth, but about one-third taller. Vines growing 26 to 30 inches high, foliage dark green, pods light colored, straight, about 2^ inches long and blunt. Fit for picking 68 days from planting. Seed greenj wrinkled, medium-in size. A very popular pea with the canners and market gardeners on account of its excelle^ quality.

Heroine. Vines are ^trong and vigorous and produce an abundance of fine, large, we^l filled pods.

King Edward Seventh. Vine 1% feet in height with dark green foliage. Pods dark green, curved and pointed at the ends. Ready for table use 60 days from planting. Seed blue green, medium sized, wrinkled.

Laxtonlan. Vine 1% feet in height with dark green foliage. Large curved dark green pods, pointed at the ends. Seed green, wrinkled, large sized.

Little Marvel. Height of vine 18 inches with dark green foliage. Small blunt dark green pods. Pit for table use 53 to 55 days from planting. Seed blue green, small sized, wrinkled.

The Lincoln. 1% to 2 feet in height, foliage medium green. Pods medium sized, curved and pointed and dark green in color. Seed blue green, mixed with yellow, small sized and wrinkled.

NotPs Excelsior. Resembling Gems in habit, but more dwarf and uniform in growth, height 12 to 17 inches, with rather light foliage. Pods are light in color, round, about 2% inches long, blunt at the ends. Fit for picking 56 days from planting. Seed green, wrinkled, medium in size and square at the ends.

Prince of Wales. Vines 3 feet in height, foliage pale green, pods medium sized, blunt, pale green in color. Fit for table use about 65 days from planting, Seed white, large, wrinkled.

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L/eonard’s Potlatch. Strong-, vigorous vines of even growth, 20 to 24 inches in height, with luxuriant dark foliage, bearing pods medium green in color 3 % to 4 inches in length. Broad and pointed at the ends. No variety known will produce more pods, and no pods could possibly shell out better. The Potlatch is a variety from which anyone may expect great things. Pit for table use 61 days from planting. Seed green, wrinkled, large in size. We consider ourselves very fortunate in having secured and introduced this pea.

Richard Seddon. 1 6 to 20 inches. Richard Seddon, introduced a few years ago, has already es- tablished itself. The largest canning factory in New Zealand is now using it in preference to all others for canning its famous green peas. The haulms and pods are deep green, the latter crowded with 7 to 9 large peas of the very best color and flavor; it is as early as American Won- der, but a far more abun- dant bearer. We test all the new and standard varieties each season, and we can say with con- fldence that there is no better all-round early va- riety than this. Seed green, wrinkled and small in size.

Surprise. R e s e m - bling in vine, size and shape of pod Alaska and First and Best, but with the tender quality and delicate flavor of the best of the wrinkled sorts.

Very much used by can- plant OF LEONARD’S POTLATCH, SHOWING ITS GREAT PRODUCTIVENESS ners who wish an early

pea with a sweet and delicate flavor. Vines 2yz to 3 feet high, light foliage bearing pods 2 V2 to 3 inches long, light in color and blunt at the ends. Can be picked 43 to 47 days from planting.

Sutton’s Excelsior. Similar in habit of growth, to Nott’s Excelsior, but bearing very large, broad pods, well filled with large peas. Very tender, and of the most delicious flavor. Vines about 18 to 20 inches high, medium light in color with pods 3% to 3% inches long, light in color and blunt at the ends. Is ready to pick 52 days from planting. Seed green, wrinkled, medium in size.

Sutton’s A-1. Resembling somewhat Advancer in habit of growth, 24 to 28 inches high, fo- liage light green. Pods 3 to 3^/4 inches long. Round, light colored and blunt. Pit for table use 65 days from planting. Seed medium sized, green, wrinkled.

Sutton’s Peerless. Vines 3 to 3 % feet in height, dark green foliage. Pods large, pointed and dark green in color. Fit for table use 75 to 78 days from planting. Seed large, blue, wrinkled.

Sutton’s Pioneer. A first-early Pea, which has won great popularity for its many fine quali- ties. The plant is unusually robust in habit, and carries a heavy crop of long, pointed pods of a dark green color, which are well filled with rich-flavored peas. So numerous are the pods that the plants present a most striking appearance while growing. We regard this as one of the best varieties in the dwarf section of the early class. Height about 20 inches.

Shropshire Hero. Strong, vigorous vines 42 inches in height. Pods 3 to 2V2 inches long, blunt, light green in color. Fit for table use 68 to 73 days from planting. Seed large, green, wrinkled.

Stratagem. A vigorous, hardy and luxuriant vine, bearing large pods containing peas of ex- cellent quality. A heavy cropper, although it has a tendency to sport. Vines 20 inches. Fo- liage dark green. Pods 3^/4 inches long, straight, broad, pointed, gray green in color. Fit for table use 5 6 days from planting. Seed very large, green, wrinkled.

Sharp’s Queen. Hardy and vigorous in growth. 36 inches in height with dark green foli- age. Pods ZV2 inches long, curved, pointed, gray green in color. Fit for table use 62 days from planting. Seed green, medium sized, wrinkled.

The Sherwood. Vines 1 % feet high, foliage dark green. Pods medium to large in size, straight and blunt, dark green in color. Fit for picking 70 days from planting. Seed blue green, medium sized, wrinkled.

Senator. Vines 36 inches in height, foliage dark green. Pods 4 inches long, curved and pointed, and dark green in color. Fit to pick 61 days from planting. Seed medium size, green, wrinkled.

Stanley. Vines strong, growing about 1 ^ feet in height, with medium green foliage and bearing pods pale green in color, curved and slightly pointed. This pea may be classed among the earlies. Seed is medium sized, green and wrinkled.

Thomas Laxton. Closely resembling Gradus in habit, rapidity of growth, earliness and fo- liage, 26 to 30 inches high, and much hardier in every respect than Gradus. Pods 4 to 4% inches long, round, well filled with peas, blunt at the end. Fit to pick 52 days from planting, Seed large, cream colored, wrinkled.

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PEAS. Wrinkled Seed — Continued.

Telephone. Vines and leaves large and coarse. Foliage light green in color. Height 40 to 50 inches, pods 4% inches long, broad, pointed, medium green in color. Fit to pick 62 to 65 days from planting. Seed large, green, wrinkled.

Witham Wonder. Vigorous, uniform in growth. Height 18 inches with larger, broader pods than American Wonder and well filled with peas of extra fine flavor. Pods 3 inches long, round, a trifle curved and slightly pointed. Seed medium sized, green, wrinkled.

William Hurst. Resembling American Wonder in habit, but more straggling and uneven in growth. Height 16 to 18 inches, foliage dark, vigorous and productive, bearing in pro- fusion. Curved pods, medium green in color, about 3 inches in length, fit to pick 57 days from planting. Seed green, wrinkled, medium in size.

World’s Record (Sutton’s). This is an English Pea introduced in 1907. The introducer says of it: “The haulm is not so tall as Sutton’s Early Giant, and the pods are scarcely so

large, but it is no exaggeration to say that the World’s Record is the earliest large podded marrowfat pea in cultivation.” In our trial grounds it has proved to be a very fine large

podded early pea. Height of vine about 3 feet. Strong and vigorous. Very prolific. Pods

green in color and containing peas of very superior flavor.

Yorkshire Hero. Hardy, productive, and upright in growth, bearing near the top of the stalk broad, pointed pods with peas of good quality. Foliage dark green, 23 to 28 inches in

height. Pods 2% to 3 inches long, blunt, light green in color. Fit to pick 68 to 73 days from

planting. Seed large, green, wrinkled.

PARSLEY

Parsley used for garnishing and for seasoning can be planted as soon as the soil can be worked in spring. Cover the slow germinating seed one-fourth inch deep in twelve to eighteen-inch rows, later thinning to a six-inch stand. One-fourth ounce sows one hundred feet and three to five pounds plants an acre. To improve the appearance of the crop, trim the plants with a sickle two or three times during its growing season and at the approach of winter transplant to cold frames or a sunny window. Parsley may be mulched with coarse litter and wintered for spring use till the new crop begins.

Double Curled. The standard sort for outdoor culture, also highly prized by market gardeners for the greenhouse.

Champion Moss Curled. A very fine curled va- riety. One of the handsomest for garnishing pur- poses. The exceedingly curved leaves make it de- sirable.

Fern Leaved. This sort has a peculiar, fern shaped leaf. It is not so desirable as the more curled sorts.

Triple Curled or Myatt’s Garnishing. Very finely curled variety of dark green color. One of the best varieties for all purposes.

Plain. Leaves flat, deeply cut but not curled; often preferred on account of the very dark green

color as well as the hardiness of the plant and its superi- ority for flavoring. The curled sorts are more extensively used for garnishing.

Hambm'g Rooted. The standard rooted sort. The leaves are used for soup greens, and the roots when sliced are very much esteemed.

CHAMPION MOSS CURLED PARSLEY

PARSNIP

Culture. Plant one-year-old parsnip seed as early as the soil can be worked in spring and do not cover this slow germinating seed deeper than one-fourth inch. Use eighteen to twenty-four-inch rows, thinning the plants to a four-inch stand. One-half ounce of seed sows one hun- dred feet and three to five pounds plants an acre. This crop requires the entire season to mature, and as frost im- proves the roots, they may be left in the ground all winter. Both as to quantities and its feeding values, the parsnip is a valuable stock feed.

Hollow Crown. Roots long, white, smooth, tender, sugary and of most excellent flavor. Very hardy, and will keep through winter without protection.

Guernsey. Root white, very tender, with a smooth, clean skin. The variety is easily distinguished by the leaves growing from depression on top or crowm of the root.

Long White Dutch, or Sugar. Root very long, white, smooth, tender and of most excellent flavor. Very hardy and will keep well through the winter without protection.

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PEPPERS

Culture. The pods of the pepper are used in sauces, salads, soups or as a seasoning-, and the large mild varieties called mangoes are eaten from the hand or variously stuffed and pre- pared with cabbage, tomatoes or meat. The pods of peppers are green until in ripening they turn red or yellow, according to the variety.

Start pepper in hot-beds and in other ways treat like a tomato.

Set out of doors after frosts in thirty-inch rows, giving each plant eighteen inches in the row. One ounce of seed gives, according to the handling, from one to two thousand plants and one pound plants an acre.

Long Red Cayenne. A long, slim, pointed pod, and when ripe, of a bright red color. Extremely strong and pungent.

Red Chili. Used in the manufacture of pepper sauce.

Red Cluster. A new type of Chili, with upright, bright red fruits.

Celestial. A Chinese variety bearing roundish upright pods.

Coral Gem. This variety grows in the form of a bouquet; pods bright red.

Large Bell or Bull Nose. A very large sort of inverted bell shape, suitable for filling or for a mixed pickle. Flesh thick, hard and less pungent than most other sorts.

Sweet Mountain. Plants very vigorous and productive, grow- ing upright, with moderately large leaves. Fruit very large, long, often 8 inches or more in length, by 2 inches in diameter.

Ruby King. An improved American sort, reaching the largest size, yet retaining the symmetrical shape of the smaller sorts.

Chinese Giant Pepper. Without doubt one of the very best and largest Mango Peppers ever introduced. Its mammoth size, splendid shape, beautiful, rich, glossy-red flesh and mild flavor, all lead us to speak of it in words of commendation. '

^ Golden Upright. The fruits are large and of a beautiful rich golden yellow, tinged with blush red. The peppers are mild and as pleasant to the taste as Ruby King.

Golden Dawn. In shape it resembles the popular Bell or Bull Nose pepper. It is of a most beautiful golden yellow color, making a very handsome appearance, both in growth and upon the table.

Red Cherry. Plant tall, bearing a profusion of bright red, round fruit which is, very pungent when ripe. The plant is very handsome and an ornament to the ’garden.

Golden Queen Mammoth. V ery large fruits; rich golden yellow color; early.

Tabasco. Of tall, bush-like growth, three to four feet in height, producing an immense number of small, slender, fiery fruits one inch in length and vivid scarlet in coloring. This is the true variety, from which the famous Tabasco Sauce is made.

Procopp’s Giant. Very large, usu- ally 8 to 9 inches long and 3 inches thick. Brilliant scarlet color, flesh thick, of pleasant flavor.

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PUMPKIN

CHEESE, OB KENTUCKY FIELD One of the best for table use, and very productive. Shape flat; flesh yellow, thick

Culture. — The finer varieties of pumpkins are used for pies and the coarser ones for Istock "feeding. While the pumpkin may be grown very much as cucumbers are grown in a garden, they are more frequently plant- ed in the field with corn, where several seed are dropped in each fourth hill. Plant- ed alone, six to ten seeds are covered one inch deep in hills eight to ten feet apart and thinned to two to four plants to the hill. One ounce plants twenty- five hills and two to four pounds of seed generously plants an acre. As this crop re- quires as much time as corn to mature, the planting cannot be too long delayed.

Cheese, or Ken- tucky Field, and tender. ,

Connecticut Field. The hardiest of all pumpkins; cultivated mainly for stock-feeding, pro- ducing enormous crops.

Large Tours, or 3Ianunoth. Grows to an immense size, often weighing over 100 pounds.

Mammoth Potiron. The fiesh and skin are of a bright golden yellow color. Flesh fine

grained and of excellent quality. This enormous variety has been grown to weigh 200 lbs.

Cushaw, or Crookneck. A favorite sort of excellent quality.

Winter Queen. This is an improve- ment of the old, well-liked sugar pump- kin. Its size is uniformly about nine to ten inches in diameter. In color, a beauti- ful deep orange yellow, with a very close netting, almost as russeted as a potato.

Golden Oblong. A productive variety, oblong in shape. Skin golden orange, flesh, yellow, dry and sweet; excellent.

Sugar or Pie. A rather small, but handsome variety. Shape, round; skin deep orange colored; flesh fine grained, sweet-flavored; superior for pies.

Calhoun. Round, flattened, skin brown; flesh salmon-yellow, thick and fine grained.

Tennessee Sweet Potato. Hardy, pro- ductive, sweet and delicious, and one of the best for cooking purposes ever intro- duced.

CONNECTICUT FIELD PUMPKIN

RHUBARB

(PIE PLANT)

Cultm*e. Rhubarb succeeds best in deep, somewhat retentive soil. The richer its condition and the deeper it is stirred, the better. Sow in drills an inch deep, and thin out the plants to six inches apart. In the fall transplant the young plants into very highly manured and deeply stirred soil, setting them four to six feet apart each way, and give a dressing of coarse manure every spring. The stalks should not be plucked until the second year, and the plant never al- lowed to exhaust itself by running to seed. Our seed is saved from selected plants of the Lin- naeus, Victoria, Giant and other improved sorts, but like the seeds of fruit trees, rhubarb seed cannot be relied upon to reproduce the same varieties.

Rhubarb Seed. Rhubarb Roots.

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RADISH

Culture. Plant radishes on a light soil if a choice is possible, and every second week for a suc- cession from the time the soil can be worked in spring till the first light frost. Plant in two to eighteen-inch rows, cover the seeds one-half inch deep and permit four to ten radishes to grow to the foot; use eight to twelve pounds of seed to the acre.

Radish seed, which germinates quickly, may be sown with some slow-germinating seed that the cultiva- tion of that crop may begin the earlier, or the quicker-growing radish,, may be grown between rows of some slow-growing crop that later requires con- siderable spaoe.

The Winter Radish is sown at late turnip plant- ing time and used in the autumn or stored for winter like the turnip.

Leonard’s Three Leaf Radish. So named on ac- count of its extreme earliness and the fact that when there are three leaves formed besides the seed leaf it is large enough to eat. It is an improved form of the well known Scarlet Olive.

Non Plus Ultra. This is one of the finest forcing radishes. The roots are round, with a deep scarlet colored skin, the flesh white, very crisp and tender.

OUve Shaped Bright Red Leafless Forcing. The extra early forcing radishes lately introduced are remarkable for the small size of their leaves. They develop their roots in so short a time that the latter are practically in advance of the leaves.

Rosy Gem. One of the very earliest in cultiva- tion. Shape a perfect globe. Deep scarlet top, blending into pure "white at bottom. SCARLrET GhOBE BADISH

Early Scarlet Tm*nip. The standard early turnip radish. Fine flavored and mild.

Scarlet Tm*nip, White Tipped Forcing. An early strain of the White Tipped variety having a short leaf and suitable to plant in the green house.

Scarlet Tm*nip, WThdite Tipped. One of the handsomest of the turnip radishes and a great favorite in many large markets for early planting outdoors. It is but little later than the White Tipped Forcing, and will give entire satisfaction where extreme earliness is not the primary object. Roots slightly flattened on the under side, color very deep scarlet with a white tip; flesh white and of the best quality.

Scarlet Olive. Very tender and a beautiful color. Early.

Early Scarlet Globe. A desirable sort of hotbed forcing and outdoors, very early; flavor mild; crisp, juicy and tender; top small; will stand heat without becoming pithy.

New Deep Scarlet Turnip. This is a very bright colored Scarlet Turnip radish, very early and short leaf, well adapted to forcing under glass. Matures in fourteen to twenty-one days, and its appearance will sell it in any market.

Early White Turnip Rooted. A little flatter than the Scarlet Turnip, and pure white in color.

Half Long Deep Scarlet. A variety half the length of Long Scarlet and of same form.

French Breakfast. Olive shaped, scarlet, with white tip; crisp and tender.

Large White Summer Turnip. A very large turnip shaped variety; white, very crisp and mild.

Large Yellow Summer Turnip. Like the above ex- cept in color.

Gray Summer Turnip. Popular for mid-summer. White Strashurg, or Summer Hospital. Large, showy, half long, "white sort. Grows with great rapidity, sometimes producing a crop in six weeks.

Giant Stuttgart. A summer variety. Grows to an immense size.' White flesh, very crisp and tender. Of good flavor, and a good keeper.

Golden Globe. This variety is of quick growth, af- fording crisp and tender radishes even in the hottest climate and is extensively grown in the south.

Long Brightest Scarlet, White Tipped. This is the brightest and handsomest colored scarlet radish known, and a decided improvement in earliness and color over other varieties of this class. It makes roots fit for use in about twenty-five days from time of planting.

Chartier. Decidedly distinct in appearance. The color at the top being crimson, running into pink about the middle and from thence downward it is a pure "waxy white.

Early Long Scarlet, Short Top. This bright scarlet, small topped sort is about six inches long, is uniformly straight, smooth, brittle and crisp, and is a standard and excellent sort for private gardens or market use.

The Cincinnati Market. The tops of this new radish are very small and may stand much closer in rows than Wood’s Early Frame or Long Scarlet, without danger of SCARLET TURNIP WHITE TIPPED running to seed.

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RADISH— Continued

Crimson Giant Turnip, Foi*cing^ A variety extraordinary in that, while growing to an unusually large size, it is always tender, crisp and of mild flavor. It remains in perfect condition a remarkably long time, and unlike other forcing varieties, does not become pithy even when twice their size in diameter.

White Icicle. This handsome white variety is becoming very popular. It is similar to White Vienna but is not so long, is earlier and has a shorter leaf. We recommend it as a profitable, early variety where a long white sort is desired.

Wood’s Early Frame. Shorter and thicker than the Long Scarlet Short Top, one of the very best sorts for first crop out of doors.

Small Early Yellow Turnip. Ver>* early yellow sort.

Long White Pearl. Similar to White Icicle.

Large White Spanish. A large rooted winter variety.

Long White Vienna, or Lady Finger. A very excellent white variety with long, very smooth white roots, which are crisp and tender.

It comes into use shortly after Wood’s Frame and is one of the most desirable of the white summer sorts.

Rose or Scarlet China. Roots cylindrical, or largest at the bot- tom, tapering abruptly to a small tap. Skin very smooth and of a bright rose color; flesh Arm, crisp, tender and quite pungent.

Round Black Spanish. Roots round, sometimes top-shaped, three or four inches in diameter; skin black, flesh white, ver>' compact and highly flavored. An excellent sort for winter, as the roots keep a long time.

Long Black Spanish. One of the latest as well as hardiest of the radishes; an excellent sort for winter use.

Cahfornia Mammoth. First introduced into this country by the Chinese in California. It is pure white, about one foot long, and two or three inches through, tapering regularly to the tip. The flesh is tender and crisp, keeping well through the winter.

White China or Celestial. A comparatively new variety which is popular wherever known. The root is long, cylindrical, with beautiful white skin and flesh so white as to attract attention, even among the

The flesh is very tender and of excellent quality.

SALSIFY OR VEGETABLE OYSTER

The long, white tapering root of salsify re- sembles a small parsnip, and when cooked is a good substitute for oysters, having a ^'ery similar flavor.

Cultui’c. It succeeds best in a light well-enriched soil, which should be stirred to a good depth. Coarse and fresh manure should be avoided, as it will surely cause the roots to grow uneven and ill-shaped. Sow early and quite deep, giving the general culture recommended for parsnip. The roots are perfectly hardy, and many remain out all winter. Store a quantity for winter use in a pit or cellar in damp earth or sand.

Large Mliite. The common variety, roots medium sized, smooth; flesh white.

Manmioth Sandwich Island. This is in every way superior to the Large White, being larger, stronger growing, and less liable to branch. Invaluable to market gardeners.

SORREL

Large Leaved French. The Standard Variety.

SPINACH

Culture. Spinach a delicious green, resembling in growth a non- heading lettuce, is happily the best of tonics. As early as the soil can be worked, sow it one-half inch deep in fourteen-inch rows, using one ounce of seed to one hundred feet, and in the second week will appear a tiny plant with two very narrow leaves that do not resemble the true leaves that follow. Cutting should begin forty-flve days from sowing. It is impossible to put spinach on too rich a soil, and nitrate of soda is used on it with profit.

South of the Ohio, spinach winters without protection. North, it very often winter kills with good drainage and the best of straw covering. All spinach quickly runs to seed in the heat of summer.

Victoria. An excellent sort, which forms a very large, exceedingly thick, dark green leaf, somewhat curled in the center.

Savoy Leaved, The earliest variety and one of the best to plant in autumn for early spring use. Plant of upright growth, with narrow, pointed leaves which are curled like those of Savoy cabbage.

Round Summer Broad Leaved. This variety is generally preferred in the North for early spring sowing, and is the most popular with our market gardeners.

Improved Thick Leaved. A variety which grows very rapidly, forming a cluster of large, very thick, slightly wrinkled leaves, recommended for market gardeners.

Long Standing. An improved, round seeded strain of excellent merit, having all the good qualities of other sorts and continuing in condition for use much longer.

Prickly Winter. A very hardy variety, and will withstand the severest weather with only a slight protection of leaves or straw.

other white varieties.

LARGE WHITE SALSIFY

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MAMMOTH WHITE BUSH

STRAIGHT-NECK

SUMMER

SQUASH

Culture. The directions for the planting of cucumbers can be fol- lowed with slight modifications for squash or cymling. Plant the sum- mer squash in hills four feet apart and use before mature. Plant the winter squash in hills six or eight feet apart; handle without bruising and store in a dry, moderately warm place for winter. Plant the seed generously and thin to two or three plants to a hill. One ounce of seed plants twenty-five hills and two to four pounds plants an acre. The squash is to be recommended either for the table or the feed lot.

Early White Bush or Patty-Pan. Is earlier than any other variety of dwarf habit and very productive. Summer Squashes should always be used when young and tender, which can be determined by an impression of the nail.

Mammoth White Bush. This variety is a selection made from the Early White Bush; the improvement consists in size of the squashes it produces.

Early Yellow Bush Scallop or Golden Custard. A very early, flat, scalloped variety of largest size; color, yellow; flesh pale yellow and well flavored.

Fordhook. The vines are of strong, vigorous .growth and wonderfully productive. Fruits oblong in form, eight to ten inches in length, slightly rigid; smooth, thin, yellowish skin; flesh very thick and of a light straw yellow.

Giant Crook-Neck. This strain is a great improvement on the old variety of Crook-Neck. It is larger and better in every way.

The Hubbard cannot be too highly extolled as a Winter Squash; it boils smooth and dry, is of very rich quality, and keeps as solid as a rock. It is more popular with private growers than any other variety.

Leonard’s Warty Hubbard. This is the best strain of Hubbard Squash. By its rough, hard, warty shell and its dark olive green color, it can be distinguished from any other strain either in the fleld or on the market. It was introduced by us in 1894, and since that time un- der different names at different places, it has been given out to all who have called for the best stock of Hubbard Squash. We have maintained its purity and offer headquarters’ seed. For keeping over winter this strain is superior to all others. It is the best shipping variety and the best seller.

Golden Hubbard. This is a very distinct sort, of the shape and general character of the Hubbard, but a little smaller; of rich orange red color, instead of the dark olive green.

Boston Marrow. Is the favorite Winter Squash of the Eastern States; it is of flne flavor, and a good keeper.

Hard Shelled Marrow.

The best sort for canning and drying. The fruit is very large, oval, of deep orange-red color and though quite smooth, has as^ hard a shell as the Hubbard. The flesh is very thick, of rich orange-red color withotit a tinge of green.

Delicious. This is one of the best Winter varie- ties. Its cblor is almost uniform of a green shade, with occasionally a blue specimen, it being just about as pure in this re- spect as was the original Hubbard. In size it also closely follows the original Hubbard, which weighed between 5 and 10 pounds.

In thickness of flesh it sur- passes nearly every vari- ety, the color being a dark orange. XHE HUBBARD

Orange Marrow,^ This is the earliest of all Winter varieties. Its distinctive feature and the one which will give it the greatest and most wide-spread popularity, is its earliness; it is at least ten days earlier than any other long-keeping sort. It grows as long as the Hubbard, and 18 of as good quality.

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TOMATO

Cultiu*e. The tomato requires one hundred days or more to mature from seed. As to- matoes are killed by other than light frost, early tomatoes should be started in hot beds two months before they may be transplanted out of doors. Three weeks later these plants may be potted or given a space of four by four inches in the hot-beds. Before setting in the field, which is May north of the Ohio, the plants should be 'gradually exposed to the outside condi- tions and the quantity of water given them decreased. Transplant on a cloudy day if pos- sible, and water freely. Nitrate of soda may be given each plant at this time with profit.

A space of four by four feet should be given each plant in the field or more for robust varieties, except that where they are carefully pruned and trained, which is unnecessary, they may be planted as close as two by t-wo feet. One ounce of seed gives two thousand plants.

Leonard’s Early Market. A very prolific early red variety.

Atlantic Prize. Small, irregular, bright red; extremely early.

Early Michigan. One of the best second early sorts. Fruit crimson-scarlet.

Royal Red. One of the best red main crop sorts.

Optimus. One of the best table tomatoes in quality. Fruit me- dium sized and of bright crimson-scarlet color.

Dwarf Aristocrat.

Upright growth; bright red fruits.

Dwarf Stone. As its name implies this is a dwarf variety bear- ing fruits similar to that popular canners’ sort, the Stone.

A^olnnteer.

Livingston’s Per- fection. In our opinion identical with Paragon.

Stone. Large, smooth, solid, scarlet, highly recommended.

Chalk’s Early Jewel. We consider this one of the very best early tomatoes yet in- troduced. Vine vigo- rous and very produc- tive. Fruit deep scarlet- red.

Crines June Pink

A fine new variety. It is highly recommended to gardeners whose trade demands the

purplish pink sorts. It is the earliest of this class of tomatoes and fills the place in them that Earliana does in the bright red sorts.

Earliana. Vine similar in growth, maturing bulk of crop as early as Atlantic Prize, but the deep scarlet fruit is larger, distinctly smoother, solid and of very good quality. Early, smooth and of a large size it is a particularly profitable tojmato for market gardeners.

Red Rock. An extraordinarily solid, smooth, very red tomato; a very heavy producer, of excellent shape and very su- perior texture and fiavor. An excellent variety for truckers and canning factories on account of its shape, quality and pro- ductiveness. This tomato is very free from cracks, has a very shallow stem attach- ment and is practically smooth. Fruits will probably average from 8 to 9 ounces.

Borne in clusters of from 4 to 7 fruits, and ripens in 110 days from sowing of seed.

Ignotum. A very good red fruited variety.

Paragon. The well-known standard bright red tomato.

Trophy. Very large, solid, and gener- ally smooth; bright red.

Honor Bright. First white, then bril- liant scarlet; extremely solid.

Acme. The well-known popular standard bright pink tomato.

Livingston’s Beauty. Large, solid, smooth; purplish pink.

Livingston’s Favorite. Bright red, smooth, of good size.

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Livingston’s Globe. Another new variety of exceptional merit. It is of beautiful globe shape, with quite a percentage of elongated (stem to blossom) fruits, which permits a greater number of slices being taken than with flat fruited sorts.

Color a beautiful glossy rose, tinged purple.

Dwarf Champion. A purplish pink variety forming a strong, erect, bushy plant two feet high.

Often sold as tree tomato. Fruit smooth, medium sized, fairly solid and of good flavor.

Ponderosa. A purplish pink tomato of largest size. Vine vigorous and very productive. Fruit very solid, fairly smooth and considered of very good quality, especially by those who prefer a tomato quite free from acid.

Dwarf Giant. A very large fruited Dwarf Champion.

Greater Baltimore. A splendid variety for canning, similar to Stone.

Tenderloin. Similar to Ponderosa.

Tiu*ner Hybrid or Mikado. Large-fruited purple; potato leaf.

Imperial. Large purple-fruited, early.

Essex Early Hybrid. Similar to the Acme, fruit purplish pink, always smooth and handsome; in quality is classed with the best.

Buckeye State. One of the best purplish pink varieties. Vine exceptionally strong growing and vigorous and growers in some sections of the south

claim that it is blight proof. It should be given more room than most, smooth and Arm. An excellent shipper.

Magnus. A variety with potato leaved foliage, producing purplish pink fruit of the largest size; much smoother than most of the large fruited sorts and matui’es earlier.

Crimson Cushion. A large fruited variety; smooth on the top but inclined to curve at the ends making an indenture at the stem. Color a glossy crimson tinged pink. Fruit ripens evenly, except toward the stem where it ripens somewhat slowly. A very solid heavy tomato.

New Coreless. This variety has less indenture than any other of the red varieties. It has no corrugations at stem end, and absolutely no green core; for these reasons it is a model variety for canning and catsup.

Model Tomato. A new variety. Foliage is very large, broad, very deep, dark green, and is heavily blistered. The fruit is first-class in size, smooth, very neat, and of best quality. Color, deep, brilliant scarlet.

Yellow Cherry. The small yellow fruits, borne in clusters, average half an inch in diameter.

Red Cherry. Little fruits of a bright scarlet color.

Strawberry or Husk Tomato. Plants of low-spreading growth and immensely productive. The small yellow fruits are each enclosed in a husk. Of very sweet flavor, highly esteemed for preserving or making pies.

Golden Queen. Fruit large and smooth; color a beautiful golden yellow, sometimes with a slight blush of red, as smooth and well shaped as the best of the red varieties and of superior flavor.

LIVINGSTON’S GLOBE

Fruit very large, round.

Red Pear-Shaped. This is a leading favorite for preserves and also to make “tomato figs.” The fruit is bright red, of true pear shape, and of rich distinct flavor.

Red Currant. Small sort growing in clusters. Red Peach. Shaped like a peach and has the peach appearance.

Yellow Peach. Same as the red peach except color.

Yellow Pear. Pear shaped; yellow.

Yellow Plum. Plum shaped; yellow.

Trucker’s Favorite. The finest large-fruited purple tomato. The fruits continue of large size to the very last and are always unexcelled for slicing or cooking.

Success. The vines are of strong, vigorous growth with abundant foliage. The fruits, set in clusters, average 3 inches in diameter and 2 to 2 % inches through from stem to blossom end. Color brightest scarlet; perfectly smooth; very meaty, of fine flavor.

Matchless. The best large-fruited bright red tomato. Matchless is well worthy of its name; beauty and symmetry of form it is indeed with- out a fault.

MATCHLESS

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TURNIP

Culture. While the main crop of turnips is planted in July north of the Ohio, more turnips should be grown in early spring. Seed may be broadcast on the few soils freed of weeds, but it is more advisable to sow in one or two-foot drills, cover less than one-half inch and thin to stand six inches apart in the row. Use one-half ounce of seed to one hundred feet of row and two pounds to the acre. The turnip requires one-half more seed when broadcast than in drills and the salad turnip requires one-half more seed than the turnip sown for a root crop.

Extra Early White Milan Turnip. The Purple Top Milan is one of the most popular tur- nips for spring sowing, but in this new sort we have a splendid extra early turnip in which the extreme earliness, small top and tap root of the Purple Top Milan is united with clear white skin and flesh.

Pomeranian White Globe. This is one of the most productive kinds, and in good, rich

soil roots will frequently grow to twelve pounds in weight. It is of perfect globe shape; skin

white and smooth; leaves large and dark green.

Purple Top White Globe. An early variety. Globe shaped; heavy cropper. In other re- spects similar to the Red Top Strap Leaf. A handsome looking bulb, and is rapidly taking the lead of all other varieties of early turnips for market garden purposes.

Extra Early Purple Top Milan. The earliest in cultivation, two weeks earlier than Purple Top Strap Leaf. The bulb is flat, of medium size, quite smooth with a purple top.

Cow Horn. This variety is pure white except a little shade of green at the top, and is

carrot-like in form, growing nearly half out of the ground, and slightly crooked.

Early Snowball. A perfectly globe shaped, white skinned turnip. It is exceedingly pro- ductive. The flesh is fine grained, firm and of very delicate flavor.

Early White Flat Dutch. An excellent garden variety. The best for spring sowing.

WTiite Egg. Belongs to the class of quick growing fall turnips, and for this purpose should be sown, in this latitude, between August 10 and 25.

Large WThlte Norfolk. The standard variety for fleld culture for feeding stock. Very large size.

Sweet German. This variety is very popular in many sections, notably so in the New England states.

Seven Top. Cultivated extensively in the South for the tops, which are used for greens. It is very hardy and will grow all winter.

Purple Top Munich. The earliest variety after the Red Top Milan.

Purple Top Strap Leaf. Rapid grower and mild flavor, the most popular variety for early use, either for the table or stock.

PURPLE TOP GLOBE

EARLY SNOWBALL

YELLOW ABERDEEN

LARGE WHITE NORFOLK

YELLOW FLESH SORTS'

Yellow Aberdeen. Very hardy and productive, a good keeper; globe shaped. Color pale yellow, with pur- ple top. Very firm in texture, and closely resembling the Rutabaga in good keeping qualities. Good either for table or stock.

Large Amber Globe. One of the best varieties for a field crop for stock. Flesh yellow, fine grained and sweet; color of skin yellow; top green. Hardy, keeps well, a good cropper. Very popular in the South.

Yellow Stone. A very desirable sort. The roots are of medium sizg, uniformly globular and perfect in shape, smooth skinned and of pale yellow color. The flesh is crisp, tender and of fine quality.

Yellow Globe. Very similar to the Yellow Stone and a very attractive sort.

Orange Jelly, or Golden Ball. Undoubtedly among the most delicate and sweetest yellow fleshed turnips yet introduced. Not of a large size, but firm, hard and of most excellent flavor. Keeps well and is superior as a table variety. It is extensively used.

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RUTABAGAS

Culture. Rutabagas, or Swedish Turnips, with their superior keeping qualities, had best be drilled a month earlier than other turnips, given eighteen to thirty-inch rows and thinned to stand six to twelve inches apart in the row.

Improved American.

The best yellow fleshed, purple top variety grown for stock or table.

B u d 1 o n g’s White Rock. Though some- times called a turnip this is more like a ruta- baga, The root is large, both skin and flesh very white, and is one of the best varieties we have for table use. An excellent keeper and a desirable sort for mar- ket gardeners.

Bangholm. A very superior variety, both in form and quality, and held in high esti- mation in many parts of England. Of large size, small neck, few or no side roots, and yields well. Flesh yel- low, sweet and solid; skin yellow with purple

IMPROVED AMERICAN RUTABAGA

White Rutabaga. This variety is now very extensively cultivated, and preferred in many sections for its white flesh. It is very hardy and productive, keeps well until late in the spring, and is highly esteemed for its sweet, delicate flavor.

Sweet German. A superior variety for table or stock. Flesh Arm, sweet and juicy.

Laing’s Improved. One of the earliest of the rutabagas. Forms a handsome bulb of good quality. Keeps well; good for table use.

Long White French. A very delicate flavored variety. An excellent keeper and fine for table.

Skirting’s Purple Top. A very heavy cropper. One of the best for field culture.

Carter’s Imperial Hardy. An English variety resembling the preceding. Very productive and of fine quality.

Monarch or Tankard. This is a yellow fleshed sort having very large tankard shaped roots, with relatively small necks .and tops. Color purplish crimson above ground, yellow be- low; flesh very solid, fine grained and of the best flavor. This very popular variety is also sold as Hurst’s Monarch and Carter’s Elephant.

Drummond’s. An improved strain of purple top Swede, excelling in uniformity of shape, color and quality. Considered by many an excellent table sort.

A GARDENING NOTE

While it is in a way true that anyone can garden, intelligence tells more quickly in agri- culture, possibly, than in any other line of endeavor. Yet so many and varied are the ways of reaching a result in agriculture that no two experienced and successful growers would agree entirely upon the treatment of a crop or a piece of land. It does not follow that either grower is right or wrong. We would rather say that in th€ agricultural sea there are many good pilots with well charted courses and bid them “bon \oyage.”

See each plant in the garden as an individual. Give to each plant the space and perfect condition that it as a plant alone would succeed best with. Beyond this idea that there exists only individuals, we do not see how it is possible for a gardener, a seed firm or a government to pass. With this conception it is easy to begin gardening. Begin your work leisurely with a few seeds and a few plants. As the work progresses speed in planting and cultivating will quickly be acquired. Do not think of gardening as difficult either physically or mentally. It is the one work that may be made as simple or as complex, as easy or as strenuous, as anyone may require.

Those unacquainted with gardening frequently think of the sowing as in the spring and the harvest in the autumn. In few investments are returns so quickly possible. Edible radishes are frequently pulled in a month from planting. Nor is it necessary or advisable to wait till a late date to begin the planting of seed. Spinach planted the first of April north of the Ohio should go to the table May 15th or earlier. Lettuce also planted on All Fool’s Day can all be used by June 1st. Peas planted at this same early date give for the effort that great delicacy June Peas.

Long after Winter cold seals the garden there may be in the cellar or in pits out of doors radishes, turnips, carrots, parsnips, beets, cabbage, celery, witloof-chicory, kohl-rabi, onions, pumpkins, squash, salsify, rutabaga and potatoes. Many vegetables are possible till vegetables grow again upon the earth. Only the gardener need never go hungry.

If one is so unfortunate as to be delayed in securing a garden till in midsummer in the North even then the garden may be compelled to give much. The planting should be hurried and where the time till frost is very short for the variety the early quick maturing kinds are the ones to be used. On the 20th of July we can still expect radishes, beets, turnips, kohl-rabi, lettuce, spinach, beans, peas from seed and endive from plants.

BURT CALHOUN.

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Hotbeds. While early in the year plants may be started in a sunny window, it is of profit and advisable to use hotbeds and cold frames for even a small garden. From the first to the latter part of March is quite early enough to make a hotbed. The time must vary according to the latitude. Provide a quantity of of fresh horse-manure from the stables, arid add to this, if they can be had, one-third to one-half of its bulk of leaves. Mix them thoroughly, tramping down the mass in successive layers, and form into a large pile, so that fermentation will proceed, even in severely cold weather. In two or three days fermentation will be apparent by the escape of steam from the heap. Now turn again, and allow the heap to remain two or three days longer, or until the second fermentation commences. !Make an excavation or pit 2 % feet deep, and of a size suited to the number of plants required. The pit will be better if built up of brick. It should be made in some dry, sheltered spot, facing the south or east, if possible. Hotbed sashes are usually 3x6 feet, and one or two sashes will give early plants enough for a small family. The frame for sashes should be 18 inches high at the back and 12 inches in front, v-’hich will give the proper slope to catch the sunlight. Cross-pieces should be placed for the sashes to slide on, to facilitate opening and shutting the frames. When everything is ready, the manure is placed in the pit and trodden down firmly in layers to the required depth, 2 to 2% feet. Then put on the sashes, and keep the pit closed until the heat arises. At first it will probably be 100 degrees or more, which is too hot to sow the seed in; but in two or three days it will subside to 90 degrees or a little less, when the soil may be put on to the depth of 6 to 8 inches. The heat may be readily ascertained by plunging a thermometer into the manure. The soil should be of well- rotted sod (or common garden soil will do), mixed with about a third of fine old manure; and in this the seeds may be sown thinly in drills 2 to 3 inches apart, and afterward (as soon as out of the seed-leaf), either thinned out or else transplanted to another frame. Air must be given every mild day by raising the sashes at the back. Water with tepid water whenever necessarj% aaid during cold nights and snow-storms keep covered with mats or board shutters. Tomatoes, Peppers and Eggplants should be sown in a separate frame from Cabbage, Cauliflower and Lettuce, as they require more heat. The same directions may apply to hotbeds made on the surface of the ground, except that the manure should be at least a foot wider on all sides than the frame.

Cold Frames are simply frames with tops of glass or cloth set on the ground, no bottom heat being applied. It is banked up on the outside during the winter with marsh hay, straw or coarse litter. The soil is prepared by forking in and thoroughly mixing to the depth of 10 or 12 inches a liberal quantity of old, well-rotted manure. The manure of an old hotbed is good for the purpose. The frame is prepared in the fall, and young Cabbage, Cauliflower and Lettuce plants are set out in it in time to get well established before very cold weather. Cauliflower and Cabbage should be set down to the first leaf, and the soil made firm around the plants. The seed is usually sown, in this vicinity, from the 15th to the 20th of September. The young plants will be ready to transplant in about 25 to 30 days. During cold nights and stormy days the beds should be closely covered with the sashes, and these further protected by straw mats or shutters. Cauli- flower needs more and closer protection than Cabbage, and it is rather more tender. During mild days admit air freely, the object being to keep the plants in a dormant state, without actual freezing, so that when spring comes, they are in a forward state for setting out. Seeds of Cab- bage, Cauliflower, Lettuce and Radish may be sown in a cold frame in the spring from the last week in February to the first week in March. The frame should stand in a warm and sheltered spot, and be kept from freezing by mats or a thick covering of straw during cold nights.

Even before the hotbeds are made or the first seed purchased the garden should be planned on paper.

If the garden has not been drained, preferably by tile, and there are very few pieces of ground that do not need drainage, an effort should be made to get rid of the surplus water so that the soil may warm up rapidly and bacterial life so necessary to plant life begin.

Frequently the application of lime or lime stone is more necessary than the application of commercial fertilizer and this question, too, must be answered early.

Stones and stumps, along with trees of no value, should be removed from the garden, and every effort possible made to get ready for the rush that comes with spring planting. There are easy ways as against the difficult wkys of gardening, and from time to time the work should be carefully thought over with the idea of saving every effort possible. First of all, the vege- tables should be planted in long rows so with a wheeled tool like the Perfection Garden Culti- vator one can quickly culthate the garden without stooping. It is also possible now to set plants while walking in an upright position and avoid the back-aches of other years by using a Mas- ters Rapid Plant Setter. Tools- like these should be secured before the day they are needed.

MASTERS RAPID PLANT SETTER

ri4P' rfcPFP AXIOM of OUI' Plant Setter is very simple. You mark off your land both ways, 1 parrels of water (about two barrels to the acre

is usually enough) , place these barrels on the headlands and have a few thousand plants all ready pulled, and place a good box full on the headland at the water barrels.

■nJE* IVyi A M who is going to do the setting simply i itlli IVlAfN needs a common grape or peach bas- ket with the handle cut off entirely, then pass a leather strap or stout cord through one side of the basket and fasten same around your waist; take the Planter in your right hand and have it nearly full of water and start down the row, putting in a plant at every mark clear across the field; fill up your basket with plants at the end of every row, also your planter with water, and thus keep going back and forth across the field all day, and in ten hours any ordinary farm hand can set 10,000 to 12,000 plants and when a man gets well used to the Planter and has his land in the best condition possible he can set 15,000 plants per day without special effort.

Makes transplanting EASY, PLEASANT WORK and wall produce a perfect stand of plants and^yi a better quality crop. PRICE, retail ^ w

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MISCELLANEOUS GRAINS AND FARM SEEDS

SEED BARLEY

Six Rowed Barley. An early variety with a plump head on stiff straw.

Highland Chief. This popular two rowed barley is one of the best of the standard sorts.

Manshury. A long headed, six rowed variety that is well and favorably known.

Oderbrucker. A six rowed, heavy yielding barley that is high in protein.

SOJA BEAN, OR COFFEE BERRY

This valuable forage plant is one of the most nutritious of all vegetable products. It will produce a crop of 20 to 30 bushels per acre, and is as easily grown as other beans. For pastur- ing or feeding as green fodder it is very valuable, and nearly equal ^o clover for fertilizing. The Soja Bean, if used green and hulled as the Lima Bean is used, resembles the Lima very closely and it is probable it will be used extensively here as a vegetable as it has been long used in the Orient.

BROOM CORN

Tennessee Evergreen. More largely grown in the Western states than any other. The brush is noted for its fine quality, good length and handsome appearance. Cut before the seed is ripe, it is a beautiful pea green color.

Missouri Evergreen. Has coarser brush than the Tennessee and is therefore desirable for making heavy brooms.

FLAX

Russian. We have some very choice seeds of this, much superior in every way to common flax. It will increase the yield and add to the value of the product. Most of the flax of the country is badly run out. It will pay you well to secure some new seed.

KAFFIR CORN

Kaffir Corn. One of the best forage plants. If the crop is wanted mainly for fodder, it is recommended to JAPANESE BUCKWHEAT down the whole stalk when the first seed heads come

into bloom. The second growth springing at once from the roots will still mature (in climates similar to Central Kansas) a full crop of grain and a sec- ond full crop of forage before the middle of October. Sow in rows 3 feet apart, 3 to 6 pounds of seed to the acre.

SEED BUCKWHEAT

Japanese. The kernels are at least twice the size of those of any other variety, and of a shape peculiar and distinct from all others. The color of the kernels is also most distinct, being a rich, dark shade of brown. The straw is heaviei!*, very branchy, and does not need to be sown as thickly as other kinds. The quality is excellent and the yield is enormous. It is about a week earlier in ripening than the Silver Hull.

Silver Hull. This improved variety is much better than the old sort. It is in bloom longer, matures sooner, and yields double the quantity per acre. The husk'ris thinner, the corners less prominent, and the grain of a beautiful light gray color. The flour is said to be better and more nutritious.

MILLET SEED

Siberian. A new and wonderfully productive forage plant from Russia, which has given ex- cellent results in the United States.

Pearl. (Penicillaria Spicata.) A valuable fodder plant for the South; is enormously pro- ductive. Sow in drills eighteen inches apart, and 8 to 10 pounds to the acre.

Hog. Known also as Broom Corn Millet. Quite unlike the German and common millet in habit of growth as well as the appearance of the seed, which is much larger. The name. Hog Millet, has been employed to emphasize the use to which it is now being put as an eco- nomical and valuable food for hogs.

Japanese Barnyard. (Panicum Crus Galli.) This wonderful and valuable new forage plant was introduced into this country by Prof. Brooks, of the Massachusetts agricultural experi- ment station.

Common. (Panicum Miliaceum.) Requires a dry, light, rich soil, and grows two and one- half to four feet high, with fine bulk of stock and leaves, and is excellent for forage. Sow broadcast from May 1 to June 20, if for seed, or until the last of July, if for hay.

German or Golden. This variety is not so early as the Common millet, but yields a much larger crop.

Hungarian Grass. (Danicum Germanicum.) A valuable forage plant. Succeeds well on dry, light soil. Withstands the drought remarkably.

OATS

Extra Select White. The choicest of white oats that reach Chicago markets. Northern White Swedish. A pure white, plump grain with stiff straw. Black Tartarian. Probably the most widely used of the Black Oats.

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MISCELLANEOUS GRAINS AND FARM SEEDS

ONE OF THE B.ARNYARDS ON OUK EA GRANGE FARM

CANADA FIELD PEAS

“Peas could be made to bring more nitrogen to the soils of this country every year than is now purchased annually by the farmers at a cost of millions of dollars.” — Year-book of the U. S. Department of Agriculture.

For the Northern States there is no crop of greater value than Field Peas and none is more neglected, which can only be attributed to a lack of knowledge as to its merits. Whether for fodder, in mixture with oats, sown at the rate of two bushels each per acre, or the peas sown alone at the rate of three bushels per acre for plowing under, there is no crop that we can so strongly recommend for more extended culture.

WLite Canada. More used than any other.

Blue or Green. Like above except that color is a bluish-green.

COW PEAS

Black Eye. Seed large, round, oblong, creamy white, with a large black eye.

Whip-Poor-Will. The seeds are large, speckled brown in color.

PEANUTS

If you garden for profit or garden for pleasure, few things will outrank the peanut. Unlike many things grown in gardens, every part of the plant is useful and new uses for it are rapidly being found. While it thrives best on a sandy loam, it grows well in many soils, also ranking high as a soil improver. The quantity of vine is freqeuntly two tons to the acre and the vines have a superior feeding value.

Three pecks of unshelled peanuts should be used per acre, later giving level and thorough cultivation.

Virginia. The common easily grown peanut of the South. The nuts are of good size and the kernels large. Plant the nuts two inches deep and eight inches apart in three-foot rows.

Jumbo. Though not so early as some, it is the most profitable kind to grow. The plant has a more erect habit than others and the nuts are very large. On account of its luxu- riant growth, plant it in rows four feet apart.

SEED RYE

Fall or Winter. The time for sowing is from the middle of August to the last of Septem- ber. One plowing is given and the seed sown broadcast at the rate of one and one-half bushels per acre and dragged in. Harrowing and rolling in the spring are recommended.

Spring. Although this grain is often planted by farmers, especially for the paper makers, who prefer it to any other, its principal value is. as a “catch” crop, to sow where winter grain has failed.

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MISCELLANEOUS GRAINS AND FARM SEEDS DWARF ESSEX RAPE

A forage plant of great merit, easily grown in any p^,rt of the United States, on any land that will raise turnips or corn, and will furnish abundant supplies of succulent, rich, nutritious pasture, at a season when it is most needed. It is of great value for sheep and lambs, and when turned bn it, to use a common expression, “they soon weigh like lead.” It is also of value for pasturing cattle. One acre of rape is sufficient to pasture ten to fifteen lambs for two or two and one-half months. It is often sown broadcast, about five pounds to the acre, but will yield much better if drihed about two pounds to the acre, in rows twenty- two inches apart, and cultivated until plants are too large. Seed may be sown in May, but we do not advise sowing until June or July. Can, however, be sown with grain in the spring, and is said not to interfere with the grain crop.

WILD RICE (Zizania Aquatica)

The only one of our native plants furnishing food for wild fowl, ducks, geese, etc., which has been made an article of commerce. This seed can be sown on the borders of lakes, ponds and along small streams to great ad- vantage, attracting all of these wild birds from September on.

SUGAR CANE

Early Amber. Its early maturity adapts it almost to every section. It has given entil-e satisfaction wherever introduced as a profitable crop for fodder as well as for sugar-making.

Orange. Later than Amber, but of very heavy growth and used for stock feeding.

RUSSIAN SUNFLOWER

This is highly prized by poultry raisers and farmers as a cheap fpod for fowls. It is immensely productive and can be raised cheaper than corn, as any waste piece of ground will suffice. It is the best egg producing food known.

TOBACCO

Pennsylvania Seed Leaf. This is the variety mostly grown for cigars, and is of fine quality and excellent flavor.

Persian Rose. A fine brand for cigars. Sells well.

Yellow Pryor. A fine yellow sort, and succeeds well where others fail.

Blue Pryor. This is the genuine article and a good sort.

General Grant. Very early, and a good yielder.

Connecticut Seed Leaf. The best sort for cigar wrappers. Try it.

Havana. This is the genuine article, and is first-class.

Ohio. White leaved. A large yielder.

VETCHES

Sand, AVinter or Hairy. (Vicia Villosa.) This variety thrives on poor, arid, sandy soils. It is sown either in fall or in spring, and generally mixed with rye, which serves as a support to the plants. It grows to a height of from 3 to 4 feet, and can be cut twice for fod- der, first as soon as the bloom appears, and then it can be again cut for the seed. The plant is perfectly hardy, and the produce is recommended as most nutritious. The seed is black and perfectly round, and should be sown at the rate of one and one-half bushels to the acre.

SEED WHEAT

WINTER OR SAND A’ETCH

Velvet Chaff Blue Stem. This is a very superior milling wheat. It is the most popu- lar in many of the spring wheat growing sec- tions.

Saskatchewan Fife. This well - known standard variety has been widely grown for many years, and it is still as popular as ever.

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GRASS SEEDS

Caiuidian Blue Grass. A very hardy peren- nial grass that grows six to twenty-four inches high. Used on hard clay or other poor soils for pasture and dairy purposes.

Creeping Bent. (Agrostis Stolonifera.) An excellent variety for lawns and pastures; suc- ceeds well in damp soils.

English Rye Grass. (Lolium Perenne.) A very nutritious, rapid growing variety, valuable for meadows and pastures. 24-pound bushel.

Hard Fescue. (Festuca Duriuscula.) Simi- lar to Sheep’s Fescue, but not so dense, and growing somewhat taller.

Meadow Fescue, or English Blue Grass. (Festuca Pratensis. ) A perennial grass from 2 to 4 feet high, with flat, broad leaves. This is one of the standard European grasses. It needs rich ground, and succeeds well on prairie soil.

Sheep’s Fescue. (Festuca Ovina.) A small, tufted, hardy grass, forming a cluster of narrow, cylindrical leaves, of value in mixture for lawns or dry soils and under shade.

Tall Fescue. (Festuca Elatior.) A valuable perennial grass, very productive and nutritious.

Italian Rye Grass. (Lolium Italicum.) A valuable European variety, adapted to any cli- mate, and produces large and nutritive crops. 18-pound bushel.

Kentucky Blue Grass. (Poa Pratensis.) It is the best pasture for our climate and soil, suc- ceeding finely on hill lands and producing the most nourishing food for cattle. Fancy clean seed.

Orchard Grass, or Rough Cocksfoot. (Dactylis Glomorata. ) This is one of the most valu- able and widely known of all pasture grasses, coming earlier in the spring and remaining later in the autumn than any other.

Red Top. (Agrostis Vulgaris.) A valuable grass for moist soils and low lands. It is a good, permanent grass.

Soudan Grass. A late introduced annual grass that is probably a wild form of the Surghum. It may be broadcast, drilled or cultivated in rows. Five to twenty pounds of seed will be required per acre, according to method of cultivation and under the various conditions will grow three to seven feet high. This drouth-resisting plant yields at two or three cuttings two to four tons of easily cured, dry hay of high feeding value.

Timothy. (Phleum Pratense.) This is decidedly the best grass for hay, making a large re- turn on strong, rich clay, of medium state of moisture.

CLOVER SEEDS

ITALIAN RYE GRASS

Whether you cultivate a large or small area, do not neglect the use of clover. With a quarter of the garden in clover each year, the profits of that garden will not be lessened, but increased.

Alfalfa or Lucerne. (Medicago Sative.) The value of this perennial clover- like plant can hardly be overestimated. It is the most nutritious of all forage crops and sinks its stout tap root four to twenty feet deep in quest of water and fertility. Its deep rooting, coupled with its great ability as a nitrogen-gatherer, makes it the very best of soil improvers. The plant grows one foot to four feet high and over a period of twenty-five years. This hay is equal in feed- ing value to wheat bran. For the growing of alfalfa, twenty pounds of seed may be drilled or broadcast per acre. The grower should remember that alfalfa will not live on wet, sour soil, and a firm, weedless seed bed is required. The young alfalfa plant is as weak as the mature plant is robust and strong.

Medium Red or June. (Trifolium Pratense.) This is by far the best known and now the most important of all varieties of clover for the practical purposes of agriculture. Sow at the rate of ten to twelve pounds per acre.

Mammoth or Large Red. (Trifolium Pratense Perenne.) Called also Pea Vine or Sapling Clover. Similar to Red Clover but taller, coarser and more hardy. It will grow on poor, thin soils where other clovers would fail, and is the best for reclaiming exhausted lands.

Alsike or Swedish. (Trifolium Hybridum.) A small seeded perennial clover that has been rightly advertised as “the best for cold wet land,” but is likewise a great drouth-resisting plant. While it does not grow tall, it is finer than Red Clover, so that horses and cattle prefer it. The blossoms furnish the best of bee pasture.

Crunson or Scarlet Clover. (Trifolium Incarnatum.) An erect growing annual, with long scarlet blossoms. It can be seeded at any time from June to October at the rate of fifteen to twenty pounds per acre.

MTiite Dutch. (Trifolium Ripens.) A small creeping, spreading perennial variety, with a fragrant white blossom. It adapts itself to a wide variety of soils and climate and is valuable for lawns and pasture.

Bokhara or \VTiite Blossom Sweet Clover. (Melilotus Alba.) “No other agricultural plant is capable of maintaining itself under such great range of climatic conditions.” This stiff stemmed biennial, with fragrant, small, white flowers, grows six feet high. It has long grown wild in many places, and until recently was considered a troublesome weed. Lately its worth has been under- stood and we rank it high as a soil improver, as a cleaning crop and for hay. One of the best uses of this plant is as a crop to prepare the soil for alfalfa, as the bacteria that live upon the two plants are the same.

Yellow Blossom Sweet Clover. (Melilotus Officinalis.) An earlier and not so robust a va- riety as the White Sweet Clover. Has no value.

We recommend the White Blossom Sweet Clover, and warn our patronage that there is a yellow annual variety that has no value. This annual we do not handle.

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LEONARD’S LAWN MIXTURES

CHICAGO PARKS PAWN GRASS

Your outdoor carpet should be of an even colored grass that grows so close that weeds can- not get through. Think of your lawn as a number of plants, not “just grass.” These .lawn plants ask what other plants require: good drainage, a soil of a fit quality, the addition of \ lime where soil is sour, deep preparation by spading or plowing, the addition of fertilizers before plant- ing and from time to time afterwards as the plants continue to feed, and good seed. Where ma- nure is used at any time it should be thoroughly decomposed and free from weed seed and a complete fertilizer at the rate of 500 pounds to the acre is advantageous.

Seeding had best be done in the spring or fall. Be careful to have the entire surface as near alike as possible that the grass may be even in its growth and finish by using a fine rake and a heavy roller. Seed heavily. Use seventy- five pounds of the best lawn mixture to the acre, or one pound to three hundred square feet. Sow the seed carefully on a calm, dry day and rake lightly.

Cut the lawn frequently, setting the machine to cut as high as possible, and as weeds grow where grass seed is not sown, weeds will grow in your lawn and some of them it may be nec- essary to dig out with a knife.

In very dry weather a thorough wetting should be given about once a week, a little water on a dry surface doing more harm than good.

Each spring after the winter heaving of the lawn by frost is over, the lawn should be re- rolled while the soil is wet.

Leonard’s Chicago Park Lawn Grass Seed. This is positively the highest grade mixture that can be prepared. It is composed of the seed of the finest English and American grasses with White Clover so that with even ordinary care it cannot fail to make a beautiful lawn. For quickly producing a permanent thick and velvety sward this brand cannot be excelled.

Shady Nook Lawn Grass. Usually it is quite difficult to obtain a satisfactory growth of grass under trees and in shady places. For sowing in such places we recommend the use of this special mixture. It will quickly pro- duce an abundant and even growth of beauti- ful green grass.

Terrace Lawn Grass. This is a special blend for Terrace and Embankments.

GOLF LINK MIXTURES

There is no use to which a grass mixture is put that is so exacting as that used for pleasure grounds, golf links, etc. No other turf is required to stand such wear and rough usage. Hence the necessity of sowing such grasses as will produce a thick and healthy growth, and withstand the tramping of many feet.

Leonard’s Putting Green. Prepared for this one purpose only of fine bladed grasses which do not form clumps.

Leonard’s Fair Green. This mixture con- tains the seed of permanent hardy grasses which will not winter kill and will stand great wear.

TERRACE LAWN GRASS

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FIELD CORN

AVERAGE EARS BIG WHISKEY FIELD CORN

Big Whiskey Yellow Dent. A splendid new variety, large ear, deep grain, small cob; very prolific, 100 days.

Extra Early Hm*on Dent. One of the earliest of the yellow dent varieties, 90 days.

Pride of the North. This famous corn still retains its popularity; an exceedingly early and prolific variety, always maturing in ninety days; often shelling sixty-two pounds of grain from seventy pounds of ears. Kernels closely set, large, of deep orange color; cob very small and red; stalks about seven feet in height. This is, probably, the best Dent corn for general culti- vation in the north.

Iowa Gold Mine. A splendid yellow corn. Everyone who has tried it is enthusiastic in the praise of this splendid variety which was introduced in 1892. It has everywhere received the most cordial endorsement as one of the best and most profitable varieties ever grown.

loAva Silver Mine. The Iowa Silver Mine is a splendid white corn. In 1894, the poor corn year, it yielded at the rate of ninety-seven and one-third bushels to the acre. It has no barren stalks. The ears are very even in size, being but little smaller at the tip than at the butt, and corn is well filled out over the tip.

Reid’s Yellow Dent. This variety has won more prizes at corn shows than any other corn. It matures a ten-inch ear of eighteen to twenty-four rows in one hundred fifteen days.

Improved Learning. The Improved Learning Corn is a medium early yellow variety; large, slightly tapering ears, deep grain, and medium sized red cob. In favorable years there is much uniformity of both kernels and ears. Its numerous broad leaves not only encourage a healthy development but make it a valuable variety for feeding.

Champion White Pearl. Originated in Illinois, and is enormously productive; a strong grower; matures in about 100 days. The stalk is stout and thick, with large ears set low.

King Philip Flint. A red grained flint variety, ripens in 80 to 85 days.

Longfellow Flint. This is an eight-rowed Y ellow Flint variety, the result of careful selec- tion. The ears are from ten to fifteen inches long, one and one-half to one and three-fourths inches in diameter, are well filled out to the extreme end of cob.

Canada Eight-Rowed Flint. This standard Flint corn is the earliest of all. It is a safe corn to plant where the season is short. It will mature in eighty-five days of good corn weather.

ENSILAGE CORN

Large or Southern Horse Tooth. A very leafy and robust growing corn that succeeds over a wide area.

Red Cob Ensilage. A corn of fair height, slender, short jointed, leafy, sweet, juicy, that is now in great demand in the North.

Evergreen Sweet Fodder. Superior for summer and fall green feeding.

POP CORN FOR SEED

The corn listed here is carefully grown for seed purposes and must not be confused with the pop corn which we offer for other than seed purposes. With the increased demand for pop corn brought about by the use of sanitary corn popping machinery, it is well to give this crop consideration. It brings a price above other corn, and matures quickly and, though it lacks in height, it may be planted closely and the fodder is equal to any.

White Rice. The most popular of the varieties with the pop corn men.

White Pearl. A very handsome, smooth grained variety.

Golden Queen. A fine yellow grained sort.

Pop Corn for Popping. This corn we run through our drier to put it in perfect shape for commercial purposes and must not be confused with what we offer above for seed purposes.

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In our lists are flowers and plants for many purposes and uses. Flowers are as necessary as are pictures, and to their beauty is often added such stimulating- and pleasing perfumes as can not be bought in bottles. Some vines or tall plants may be grown to hide or make more sightly some fence or pile of stone, or stump or building. Some plants can be grown in a partial shade where grass does not grow, and others are serviceable in hanging baskets, vases or veranda boxes. Some plants used for cuttings bring the sunshine to those that must live indoors, while others are useful for cemetery lots, a tribute to those that precede us. Borders, beds and masses of flow- ers may appeal to us most as “the bouquets that live.”

Most flowers are as easy to grow as vegetables. The same practices that promote the growth of grains and vegetables and fruit apply to flowers. The same fertilizer it is well to use gener- ously. Practically all flowers stand transplanting. Window boxes or hot-beds are good places in which to cradle the baby plants. The stored energy of seed is often somewhat in proportion to the seeds’ thickness, not its size. Cover the seed four times its least diameter. Drained, moist, warm, mellow soil should be the flowers’ home; not soil that is wet or soil that bakes. True, there are plants that are difficult to grow, but these plants are few and respond to what we know to be ideal conditions for plants.

Flowers fall readily into three classes:

Annuals bloom, mature, seed and die the first year.

Biennials bloom and die in their second year; some of them give us bloom in the first year. Perennials flower for several years and some of them may bloom in the first year of their ex- istence.

ACROCLINIUM

Mixed. Beautiful everlasting flowers. Cut when they begin to expand.

ADONIS

Hardy plants with delicate foliage, flowering freely and of easy cultivation.

Adonis Vernalis. A charming hardy variety with large yellow flowers, blooming early in

spring.

AGERATUM

Choice Mixed. Suitable for pot culture or bedding, bearing in profusion clusters of feathery flowers. This mixture of colors contains the beautifuramethyst blue.

AtYSSUM

Ornamental foliage plants. They are most bril- liant on poor soil.

Amaranthus Tricolor Splendens. Very brilliant.

Amaranthus Salicifolius. The leaves change in color from a bronzy green to a brilliant scarlet as the plant attains age.

AURICULA

Tender perennials. Also called French Cowslips. An old garden favorite.

Alpine. Most hardy.

Free flowering plants for beds, edging, etc. Use- ful for bouquets because of their delicate fragrance.-

Alyssum Sweet, Liittle Gem. Dwarf and com- pact, with plants a mass of white from spring until frost.

Alyssum, Sweet. White.

Alyssum Saxatile. (Hardy Alyssum.) Beauti- ful spring-blooming variety, with flowers of a deep pure yellow.

AMARANTHUS

ALYSSUM— LITTLE GEM

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ASPARAGUS

ASTER VICTORIA

Tall Finest Mixed. Dwarf Finest Mixed.

ASTERS

GIANT COMET ASTER

Daybreak. Large, very double flowers of a beautiful shell pink color. 2 % feet. «

Purity. Large, very double flowers. Pure white.

2% feet.

Queen of the Market. Prized for its ea.rliness, large flowers and free blooming. Is of branching habit.

General Jacqueminot. Color very rich crimson, flow- ers large, very double.

Snowball, or Princess. When a white aster is desired this is very popular, being of good size and a profuse bloomer.

Aster, Christmas Tree. On account of its branching habit, this Aster is the most striking among the many va- rieties. The branches are horizontal; the plants attain a height of 20 inches and measure 24 to 28 inches in diam- eter at the base. Early and very profuse flowering. This effective aster is beautiful as a single plant, in beds or for pot culture.

Dwarf, Finest Mixed. The dwarf varieties are becoming more popular, as the flowers are nearly as large as the tall growing varieties and equally as good form. 1 foot.

Perfection Mixture. In this we have endeavored to make as perfect a selection for vari- ety as possible, including all the finest varieties of the large flowering asters. The colors in- clude every shade known to asters.

GIANT COMET, Snow White. Grand; pure white, flowers of immense size and wonderful perfection.

GIANT COMET, Mixed Colors. A superb mixture which includes all the best colors and shades in this class.

Peony Flowered Perfection. Excellent for exhibition and very popular for both florists and private use. The best type of all incurved Asters; usually measures 4 inches across.

Aster. Chinese Single. These are exceedingly showy and excellent in cutting for vase deco- rations. The large, • brilliant, daisy-like flowers with yellow centers are produced in profusion. Hardy perennial.

Hohenzollern. One of the newest va- rieties, of branching habit, with enormous flowers on long stems. The waxy petals are long, curled, of graceful form; excellent for cutting.

Semple’s Giant Finest Mixed Colors. All shades and colors.

Semple’s Giant Lavender.

Semple’s Giant Royal Purple.

Semple’s Giant Pure White.

Semple’s Giant Crimson.

Semple’s Giant Shell Pink.

VICTORIA ASTERS

Of all the large flowered asters none surpass this truly magniflcent class. The plants themselves are strong growers, and produce profusely the most beautiful im- bricated flowers. The stems being long and Strong, none are finer for cut flowers.

Victoria Asters, Mixed Colors — Very fine. Separate Colors — Crimson. Carmine Ro(se, Dark Blue, Light Blue, Pure White.

Dwarf Victoria Asters. Perfect flowers of large size, produced profusely. 10 inches high. Effective in beds and borders. Choice mixed.

ANTIRRHINUM

(SNAP DRAGON)

Are extensively grown under glass for cutting during the winter. The pure white and yellow varieties are mostly used.

Sprengeri. Drooping variety, invaluable for suspended baskets or table decoration. The fronds frequently meas- uring 3 to 4 feet in length.

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AQUILEGIA

(COLUMBINE)

One of the most popular perennials, easiest of cultivation. Blooms profusely from May to August; very desirable for herbaceous borders and groups among shrubs. Moist soil preferable. Hardy perennial.

Finest Mixed.

ARISTOLOCHIA BALLOON VINE BRACHYCOME.

(Dutchman’s Pipe.) A beautiful hardy climber. Leaves large and

• luxuriant; flowers brownish yellow, in shape resembling a pipe. Ornamental climbing plant, remarkable for an inflated membranous

• capsule from which it derives its name.

(Swan River Daisy.) Produce an abundance of daisy-like flowers, about 1 foot high. Fine for edgings, beds or rustic baskets.

BALSAMS

Dwarf Spotted, Finest Mixed.

Double, Very Fine. Mixed.

CENTAUREA

Bachelor’s Button or Centaurea Cyanis. A showy, hardy annual succeeding well in any soil, and bearing a pro- fusion of flowers in shades of pink, blue and purple.

Centaurea Marga- ret. Large, fragrant flowers; produced on long stiff stems. They are fine for cutting and MARGARET CARNATION

decoration.

Centam*ea, New Giant Imperial. The best yet introduced. Grows 4 feet high, of enormous dimensions, covered with large, very fragrant flowers of an infinite variety of color.

Beautiful h a 1 f - hardy annuals, from 1% to 2 feet in height. Sow the seed early in frames and transplant to a well enriched bor- der.

Improved Camelia- flowered. Finest mixed. Flowers very large and extra double.

Improved Camelia- flowered White Perfec- tion. Pure white, with large, very finely formed double flowers. The plant ‘ with its stems thickly crowded with snow-w’hite blossom.s, produces a magnificent effect.

(LADY SLIPPERS)

CARNATION

Margaret Mixed. These carnations have created a universal sensation, not only on account of their beautiful colors, but, unlike all others, they bloom in about four months from sowing the seed. Bloom until checked by frost.

Choice Double Mixed. Producing many double flowers of all shades and colors.

CANDYTUFT

Showy, hardy annuals, very useful for edgings and masses, excellent for cutting; continu- ous bloom from July to October.

Finest Mixed. 1 foot.

CANTERBURY BELLS

Very ornamental, growing about 2 feet high, producing beautiful, large, bell-shaped flow- ers, which make a glorious display when planted in large beds.

Canterbury Bells. Single, blue and white mixed.

Canterbury Bells, Double mixed.

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Fine A^arieties. >Ilxed. Gorgeous colored plants with variegated foliage.

A Qf A Beautiful free flowering plants for greenhouse and window garden. Finest mixed varieties.

A Ul^TA Single Mixed. Pretty hardy annual, about 18 inches high, blooming from June to September.

CHRYSANTHEMUMS

Handsome hardy annuals producing quantities of large flowers of striking colors, making a brilliant display.

Single or “Painted Daisy” Varieties Mixed.

Single or Double Yellow. Flowers very double, globe-shaped, extremely double.

Single or Double Fringed. Mixed. Flowers very double, with exquisitely fringed petals, in great diversity of colors, from white and yellow to blood-red purple.

COCKSCOMB

Dwarf Fiery Scarlet. A minia- ture plant, with enormous combs of intense fiery red.

Dwarf White.

Dwarf Crim- son.

Mixed. Extra large combs.

Japan Crim- son. Huge combs, much cut and be- beruffled.

Glasgow Prize. Dark leaves and crimson combs; 1 foot.

Dwarf Yellow.

CALUOPSIS

OR

COREOPSIS

One of the most show^^ of all annuals, the colors being so striking as seldom to be passed without a remark.

Core o p s i s . Drummond’s, Yel- low flowers, crim- son center.

Core o p s i s . Golden Wave. Very bushy and com- pact. A mass of bright, golden col- or from July to Oc- tober. Flowers two CALLIOPSIS OR COREOPSIS inches across, with

^ • small dark centers.

Coreopsis. Mixed A^arieties. Yellow and brown and velvety brown.

Coreopsis Fanceolata. The perpetual Golden Coreopsis. Very free blooming and lasting in its golden glory throughout the summer and fall. Unequaled for cutting.

COSMOS

A very effective autumn flowering plant, with beautiful foliage, growing from 6 to 8 feet high, literally covered with very large, single daisy-like flowers, in shades of rose, purple and white. For cutting, this is one of the finest flowers grown. Sow in April in pots or in the hot bed, and transplant one foot apart.

Cosmos. The Bride. Pure AA^hite. The White Cosmos is the most fragrant.

Cosmos, Mammoth. New Fancy A'arieties. In this splendid mixture are monster pink and white flowers, beautiful crimson shade, delicate white and mauve, daintily tinted and clouded with pink and mauve. Some large, white blossoms have broad plaited petals and pinked edges.

Early Cosmos. Mixed. Extra early, bldoming in July.

CYPRESS VINE

Most beautiful and popular tender climber with very delicate, fern-like foliage and numer- ous flowers.

Cypress Vine. Scarlet. Very brilliant.

Cypress Vine. AATiite.

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SHASTA DAISY

This is one of the creations of Mr. Luther Burbank. It is per- fectly hardy, grows anywhere and blooms more abundantly each Season. The flowers are very large, a foot or more in circumfer- ence, growing on long stems, with two rows of broad, pure white petals and a yellow center.

DOUBLE DAISY

(Beilis Perennis)

Charming plants for edging and dwarf beds, blooming the first year from seed. Thrive well in shady places.

Daisy, Snowball. Large flowered, pure white, and extremely double, with very long stems, making them valuable for cutting.

Daisy, “Longfel- low.” Flowers of un- usual size, a dark rose color.

Daisy, Double. Mixed.

DAHLIA

Sow the seeds early in pots or under glass, and transplant to strong, deep, rich soil, and plants will bloom the first season.

Dahlia. Single Varieties. Splendid used for cutting.

Dahlia Single. Perfection or Giant.

SHASTA DAISY

mixture. Handsome bedding plants, and extensively

A splendid strain. The seed being gathered from the broadest petaled flowers only, reproduces them in variety of the most splendid colors, among which are many striped sorts.

Dahlia. Double Mixed. Seeds saved from fine named sorts.

Dahha, Juarezi. (Cactus Dahlia.) Splendid varieties mixed. e

Dahlia, Double Gloria. Perfectly new race in a great diversity of forms. One plant pro- duces its flowers as a double Scabiosa, another as a double Gaillardis, a third as a peony-flow- ered Aster, the next as a perennial Pyrethrum, another as a double Zinnia, and still another as a rosy red Giant Daisy. Their colors are as rich and varied as in all other classes.

DATURA

(Trumpet Flower)

Showy plants, producing very large, sweet scented, trumpet- shaped flowers. Roots should be removed to cellar in autumn.

Datura. Wright’s. White, bor- dered with lilac.

Datura, Golden Queen. Beau- tiful, double, yellow flowers, frag- rant. If seed is sown indoors in March, plants will bloom in July. Prom that time on they will be covered with their large and showy flowers.

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DELPHINIUM

(Perennicil Larkspur)

Flowers remarkable for their great beauty, diversity of shades, and striking appearnce. De- sirable for mixed borders. If sown early will bloom nrst year from seed.

Delphinium Formosum. Our flowers were two inches in diameter by actual measurement, brilliant, azure blue in color. Spikes 8 to 10 inches in length.

Delphinium Elatum. (Bee Earkspur.) Blue, 2 foot.

Delphinium Hybridum. Fine mixed, splendid.

EUPHORBIA

Euphorbia Heterophylla. “Mexican Fire Plant.” Large, bushy plants growing about 3 feet high. Sow early in pots or hotbed, and transplant to open ground in May.

Euphorbia Variegata. “Snow on the Mountains.” Leaves edged with pure white.

ESCHSCHOLTZIA

(California Poppy)

A very snowy plant, about 1 foot high, blooming from June until September. Produces a brilliant effect at a distance when growm in a mass. Hardy.

Eschscholtzia. Finest mixed.

Eschscholtzia. Double Mandarian. Large double flowers.

FEVERFEW

(Matricaria)

A beautiful half hardy perennial, w’ell adapted for beds.

Feverfew, Double Dwarf. Flowers large, creamy-colored and very double.

FOXGLOVE

Large Flowering. Spotted and mixed. Very ornamental amongst shrubbery, producing tall spikes of showy flowers of purple, rose, white and yellow.

FUCHSIA

Elegant flow*ering plants, of easy culture in pots for parlor decoration or in the garden, the garden they require a slightly shaded situation. Soil should be rich.

Fuchsia. Finest varieties. Mixed.

GAILURDIA

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GERANIUM ZONAXE

One of the most showy and brilliant of garden flowers, flne for bedding and cutting, producing large flow'ers of rich shades through- out the sumrher.

Gaillardia. Single Grandiflora. Splendid, mixed.

FORGET-ME-NOT

(Myosotis)

A very pretty, little hardy perennial, about 6 inches high. Will thrive best in a cool, moist situation, and is w'ell adapted for bed- ding or rock-work.

Forget - Me - Xot. Blue. The standard va- riety.

GERANIUM

Giant Flowering Hybrids. A strain of seed saved from fine new improved Hybrids. The colors are ail shades of scarlet, crim- son, rose, pink, salmon, cream, veined pink, blush, pure snow'y w'hite.

Geranium. Zonale Varieties. Saved from some of the finest col- lections; many choice and entirely new vari- eties may be expected.

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HELIOTROPE

IPOMOEA.

ICE PLANT.

GLOBE AMARANTH,

annuals about 2 feet high.

GODETIA. Very attractive, hardy

GOURDS

Hen’s Egg. For nest eggs. Hercules’ Club.

Sugar Trough. For holding liquids. Towel Gourd, or Tuff a.

Useful, Fancy and Ornamental.

Well-known, deliciously fra- grant plants, excellent for bedding pur- poses or pot culture.

HELICHRYSUM.

den and desirable for winter bouquets. O/^T f Seeds should

iiLILL b© sown m June or July to have flowering plants the next summer; or, if sown in the house early in the spring they will bloom the first year.

Very beautiful and popular climbers.

HELIOTROPE.

A singular-looking, tender annual, with thick fleshy leaves that have the appearance of being covered with, crystals of ice.

LINUM (FLOWERING FLAX)

liinum Grandiflorum Coccineiun. One of the handsomest annuals ever introduced.

I ADI^CDf TP Very beautiful; hardy annuals, producing dense spikes of flowers, which w K* are very decorative.

MARVEL OF PERU. .

(Mirabilis.) The old and well- , l h,

known Four o’Clock. Fine plants, flowers various colors, making a fine summer hedge, set 1 foot apart.

MARIGOLD.

showy, 1 to 2 feet high, well adapted to garden culture, blooming pro- fusely through the season.

MIGNONETTE. LfS:

vorite on account of its delightful fragrance. Blooms throughout the season. Sow from middle of April to middle of June.

MORNING GLORY

Climbing plants; unequaled for rapidity of growth and profusion of bloom, annuals attaining height of 30 to 50 feet.

Giant Imperial Japanese. The flowers of these morning glories are double the size of the ordinary morning glory.

Tall. (Convolvulus Major.)

The well known tall annual climber.

Dwarf. (Convolvulus Minor.)

A fine bushy plant one foot high.

T ORFT TA Strikingly pretty,

L‘vyDEjJ-ilr\* profuse blossom- ing plants.

LOVE-IN-A-MIST.

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la.) A curious plant abdut 1 foot high, with finely cut leaves and single flowers.

Mixed. Showy hardy plants from 2 to 3 feet high, producing spikes of at- tractive flowers.

LUPINS.

GIANT IMPERIAL JAPANESE MORNING GLORIES

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NASTURTIUM

There is no plant that in so short a time at so little expense will give such an abundance of bloom, continue that blooming over so long a period and giv'e such variety and brilliancy of color as the Nasturtium. On a rich soil this plant gives us a more robust growth and fewer flowers, so the thin- ner soil is to be used if there is a choice. When the frost is no more to be feared, sow the seed one inch deep where the plant is to grow and remember to pick the seed balls as they form, to continue the plant’s blooming. This sweet scented plant lasts long as a cut flower but is most frequently used as a tape.stry to blanket some unsightly fence or pile of stone.

LEONARD’S OAK PARK BEDDING

DWARF OR TOM THUMB VARIETIES

The illustration is a photograph of a spray of flowers grown from this exquisite blend of bedding nasturtiums. It is well adapted for ribbon beds or borders, and is strikingly effective in masses.

King of Tom Thumbs. Crimson.

King Theodore. Deep chocolate crimson, dark foliage.

1/ady Bird. Ground color is a rich golden yel- low, each petal barred with ruby crimson.

nasturtium — OAK PARK COLLECTION

Beauty. Golden orange, flamed scarlet.

Bronze Color. Of a burnished coppery bronze.

Cloth of Gold. Golden yellow foliage, flowers scarlet.

Crystal Palace Gem. Sulphur yellow, spotted maroon.

Golden King. Grand flowers three inches across; deep golden yellow, maroon blotches. Empress of India. Brilliant crimson, dar k foliage.

TALL OR CLIMBING NASTURTIUMS

Dark Crimson. Rich and velvety.

Edward Otto. Flowers brownish lilac with a yellow spur.

Hemisphaericum. Very showy, lemon yellow, with crimson blotches.

King Theodore. Velvety dark brown.

Nankeen. Yellow.

Leonard’s Special Mixture of Tall Nasturtiums.

LOBB’S CLIMBING NASTURTIUMS

(TROPEOLUM LOBBIANUM)

They are as easily grown as the common Tall Nasturtium, which they far surpass. Brilliant. Deep scarlet.

Crystal Palace. Very bright, orange, salmon, flowers.

Spitfire. Bright, flery scarlet.

Choice Mixed.

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PANSIES

The dainty upturned face of the pansy makes an appeal to us all. It is one of the plants we can easily have in bloom at any time we wish. Expect the flower 80 days from the seed- ing. The seed sown out of doors early in Lhe spring and transplanted furnishes bloom from late June till winter. This plant then mulched will furnish pansies early and till the next summer’s heat.

Seeds sown in July will yet bloom in the fall. Seeds sown in August and win- tered or seeds started in hot-beds or window boxes will furnish the spring flowering pansy. The seed planted very shallow and kept continually moist, germinates in eight to fourteen days.

Eight inches of space should be given each plant in a rich, moist, loamy soil.

A northern exposure or a spot that is shaded at noon is best suited to the plant but, contrary to a prevailing opin- ion, very much shade is to be avoided.

Leonard’s Special Strain of Giant Five-Spotted Pansy. Enormous size Pansies of rich, velvety texture.

Giant Red. Bright coppery shades.

Giant Uncle Tom. Finest black, deep jet; very velvety and large.

Giant Lord Beaconsfleld. Flowers deep purple violet, shading to white at the upper petals.

Masterpiece. This strain comes nearer to the Dou- ble Pansies than anything ever introduced under that name.

Aurora. Flowers large. Color pure white without blotches.

Giant Mahogany. A velvety, reddish-brown.

Mad. Perrett. Edge of petal is frilled. The col- ors are of dark wine, pink and red, beautifully veined and all with a white margin.

Gassier. This is a very fine mixture of pansies marked with three or five blotches on rich backgrounds.

Peacock. Very striking. Form and substance per- fect. Upper petals beautiful ultramarine blue, resem- bling in shade the peacock feather. Lateral and lower petals are of a deep claret, margined white.

Bugnot’s Large Stained Parisian. Mixed Colors. This splendid new class produces flowers of immense size and of the most varied and attractive markings and colors.

PAN S Y — ^Masterpiece

Giant Fancy Striped. An inflnite vari- ety of beautiful colors, curiously striped and flamed. Our stock is very select. The plants are vigorous and compact in growth. Im- mense flowers of fine form and texture, rich and velvety.

Trimardeau Giant. The blossoms are simply enormous, perfect in form and run through all the varieties of colors, fro*m the lightest shade to the darkest purple. Marked with three large blotches.

Giant Odier. Handsome blossoms; be- ing very large and perfect in form with dark, deep velvety blotches, margined with an endless variety of colors; extra large and fine.

Giant Emperor William. Large, hand- some flowers, borne in great profusion well above foliage. Brilliant ultramarine blue, with a purple violet eye.

Fine Mixed. A very good strain in a great variety of colors.

GIANT FANCY STRIPED PANSY

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NICOTIANA

A handsome grenns of garden plants of the tobacco family, which are noted for the free- dom and fragrance of their bloom. Half hardy annuals, 3 ft. high. Flowers white, salver shaped, having long, tubular corollas, and are of exquisite fragrance. Deserves a place in every garden.

Affinis. Sanderac.

PASSIFLORA

(PASSION FLOWERS)

Passiflora Coerulea. The most beautiful and remarkable variety grown, producing rich, green foliage and sky blue flowers, followed in the autumn by a profusion of golden fruit.

(ISankinensis Atropurpurea Laciniata.) Ornamental foliage plants similar to Coleus. Fine for bedding with silver-leaved plants. Foliage metallic bronze; same culture as for Coleus. Half hardy annual.

PERILLA.

LARGE

FLOWERING

DOUBLE

PETUNIA

PHLOX

NEW STAR PHLOX

(CUSPIDATA)

For outdoor decoration or house culture, few plants are equal to this class. They com- mence to bloom early, and continue to flower through the summer. Give them a rich soil and a sunny place.

Double 3Iixed, Large Flowering. Flowers twice the size of the ordinary strain, and the most beautiful colors. Produce a larger per cent of double than most strains.

Single Large Flowering. ' Mixed, all colors.

Large Flowering, Fidnged.

Petunia, Fine Mixed.

Petunia, Giants of California. Remark- ably fine. Flowers very large, in every con- ceivable shade of crimson, white, violet, lav- ender, etc.

In its great variety of rich colors, probably the most bril- liant of all annuals. Fine for bedding, making a dazzling show throughout the entire season.

Phlox Driuninondii. Mixed Colors.

The flowers with their long pointed petals and broad white margins, having a beautiful, star-like appearance. Many and wonderfully brilliant colors.^

HARDY PHLOX

(Phlox Decussata)

These rank among the finest her- baceous plants for beds and borders.

Magnificent, large, waxy flowers of lovely shades of color. Strong bushes, two or three feet high.

DWARF VARIETIES

FirebaH. Very brilliant.

Snowball. Fine white.

Heynholdi. Mixed. Fine for pot culture.

Fimbriata. Petals toothed, beau- tifully fringed and, j margined with white. Mixed.

LARGE FLOWERING VARIETIES

Magnificent class. Flowers as large as those of the perennial phloxes.

White.

Deep Purple.

Large Flowering Mixed.

Yellow.

Bright Scarlet.

PORTULACA

Sow early, in warm, light soil, and thin plants to 4 inches.

Portulaca Single. Mixed.

Portulaca. Large flowered.'

LARGE FLOWERING PHLOX

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ANNUAL PINKS

These flowers are without a superior among annual garden plants. Bloom continually all summer long, and are most beautiful and lasting cut flowers. Of easy culture and bloom the first year from seed. Very fragrant.

Double Chinese Pinks. Flowers large and double. This beautiful variety does well any- where. ~

Double Heddewegii. Large flowers, beautiful rich colors, finely marked.

Double Diadem Pink. Of dwarf, compact habit, of various tints of rose, maroon and purple.

Double Japan Pinks. This is a strain superior to any we have previously had.

Double Imperial Pink. Mixed.

Eastern Queen. Beautifully marbled; the broad bands of rich mauve upon the paler surface of the petals are very striking and pretty.

Crimson Belle. Rich, vivid crimson-like color; flowers of extraordinary size and sub- stance, evenly and finely laciniated.

Snow Queen Pink. This is an extra fine selection of the large flowering double White Ja- pan Pink, the very best strain we have ever seen.

PRIMULA

Beautiful low-growing spring-flowering plants, for borders or pot culture. Primula Sinensis. (Chinese Prhnrose.) Splendid mixed.

Primula Vulgaris. (English Primrose.) The old favorite yellow Primrose.

POPPIES

Showy, large, brilliant colored flowers, growing freely in any garden soil. Produce a fine effect in clumps or beds.

Finest Mixed. All colors and varieties.

Snow Drift. A grand variety. The large pure white flowers are perfectly round and double.

Shirley. The absence of black gives them their wonderful light, bright tissue-paper-like appearance. The colors range from purest white, through pinks of all shades, to glowing scarlet, but a scarlet without black.

The Mikado. Of pure white and brilliant crimson scarlet. Large double flowers of quaint, artistic beauty, with petals deeply cut and fringed.

Fairy Blush. The immense globular flowers are perfectly double, and measures from ten to thirteen inches in circumference. The petals are elegantly fringed and pure white, ex- cept at the tips, where they .are distinctively colored with rosy cream.

Poppy Carnation Flowered. Very fine, double fringed fiowers, all colors.

TQ (Castor Oil Plant.) A highly ornamental, half-hardy annual, growing from 4 to 6 feet high, presenting quite a tropical appearance; select warm, dry soil and

plant 6 feet apart.

^ A A (Zanzibar Castor Bean.) Very showy, with gigantic leaves which

range from brilliant coppery-bronze to light and dark green; the ribs also are bright colors, making a beautiful contrast with the leaves.

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RODANTHE

A beautiful and charming everlasting flower. The flowers when gathered as soon as opened are very desirable for winter bouquets, retaining their brilliancy for months.

Roflanthe Maculata. Single mixed.

C AI DI/^I nCQTQ ANniPT OP A Flowers 2 to 3 inches in diameter, vividly

pALi IvjLiUDoIO OKAlNJJlrLLFlvA. marked, spotted and striped on ground

colors of deep blue, rose, violet, yellow, reddish bronze, purple, etc. In rich coloring they vie with Orchids in mixed colors.

QA1\I\/I*TAI I a Beautiful dwarf-growing plants densely covered with perfectly double V 1 1 golden flowers.

A (Poor Plan’s Orchid.) Dwarf, large-flowering plants, grow about 12

I OUO* inches in height, literally covered with large beautiful orchid-like

flowers.

QIV/IIT AY climbing plant surpasses this in beauty and grace of foliage. Extensively

OlVllJLrVA.# used for bouquet and floral decorations.

STOKESIA CYANEA. (Cornflower Aster.) A rare and beautiful hardy perennial.

SILENE. (Catchfly.) Hardy plants flowering in great profusion throughout the summer.

C'T'^^l^O Half-hardy annuals, producing splendid spikes of very rich and beautiful flowers ^ ^ Qf delightful fragrance. For early flowering sow early in spring in pots or in

hotbed, and transplant one foot apart. Bloom from June until November.

SWEET WILLIAM

Well-known, beautiful, hardy perennials, about 1 foot high, making a most splendid ap- pearance in May and June.

Sweet William, Single.

Sweet William, Double.

TMIV/TP P lochia Scoparia. Burning Bush. The plants are always

^ ^ A IvEjOO of globe-like form, branching freely,- the stems being covered with delicate light green foliage. Early in the fall the ends of the shoots are thickly set with small bright scarlet flowers, the bushy plants resembling balls of Are. Very showy when planted singly to show the round ball-like form.

SUNFLOWER

Double Chrysanthemum Flowered. A tall plant, growing seven feet high and blooming profusely all summer. Flowers are double, large, round, golden yellow, and resemble chry- santhemums.

Glohosus Fistulosus. Produces very large, exceedingly double flowers of bright yellow color. Plants about flve feet high.

Barge Russian. A strong growing, single variety, about six feet high. The stalks are some- times used for fuel.

SALVIA

Very ornamental plants, 2 feet high, pro- ducing tall spikes of gay flowers. Sow early in hotbed, or in pots in the house, and trans- plant 2 feet apart. Half hardy.

Salvia Coccinea. Splendid scarlet.

Salvia Bonfire. Fine for bedding; grows about 2% feet high, forming handsome globular bushes pro- ducing long spikes of brilliant, dazzling scar- let flowers.

Mixed. All colors.

Salvia Splendeno.

Salvia Drooping Spikes.

Salvia Clara Bed- man.

A BORDER OF SALVIA

FOR OTHER VARIETIES NOT FOUND HERE SEE FLOWER SEED PRICE LIST IN FRONT OF BOOK

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TREE OF HEAVEN, OR AILANTHUS

TREE OF HEAVEN OR AILANTHUS

This splendid ornamental tree is a native of China, where it is called the Tree of Heaven, from its great beauty. It is very hardy, and thrives in any soil, no " matter how poor, and grows from 6 to 10 feet high from seed the first summer. The leaves, from 5 to 6 feet in length, give it a grand appearance. Nothing outside the tropics can rival it for lawn deco- ration. Large panicles of bloom, followed in season by great clusters of colored seed pods, make the tree a continual thing of beauty.

VERBENA

Mammoth Verbena. Obtained by selec- tion of the largest and most striking flowers. Our strain is very fine. All colors mixed.

Mammoth Wliite. Large, very fine.

Scarlet. Very brilliant.

Striped Varieties.

Blue Varieties.

Red Varieties.

Defiance. Very brilliant scarlet. Very fine bedding variety.

Fine Mixed. All colors.

VIOLET

(VIOLA ODORATA)

Well known early spring blooming, fragrant flowers. Single Blue. Very sweet scented blue flowers.

WALLFLOWER

Well-known half hardy perennials, blooming early in the spring and much prized for the delicious fragrance of their flowers. Should be protected in winter.

Wallfloner, Smgle, Mixed.

Wallflower, Double, Mixed.

MIXED FLOWER SEEDS FOR WILD GARDENS

A splendid mixture of beautiful, free-blooming, hardy flowers, which can be offered at a much less price than when sold in separate packages. Those who cannot give the constant care nec- essary for finely arranged flower beds, will find the “Wild Garden” a delight- ful substitute, with its constant and ever- varying bloom. Such a flower bed is a continual surprise and pleasure, as new varieties and the old garden favorites flower successively throughout the sea- ,son. Thin out where plants are crowded and keep clear of weeds.

ZINNIA

(YOUTH AND OLD AGE)

Splendid hardy annuals; succeeding" well in any soil, and making a brilliant show. The same flowers will retain their beauty for weeks and a profusion will be produced until frost. ,

Zinnia. Elegans Grandiflora. Ex- tremely double, globe-shaped flowers, 5 inches in diameter, of striking and bril- liant colors.

Zinnia. Mixed.

Zinnia. Tall. Finest varieties dou- ble mixed.

Zinnia. Dwarf. Finest varieties mixed.

ZINNIA GRANDIFEORuV

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SWEET PEAS

MIXED SWEET PEAS

Leonard’s Fancy Mixed. The best blending of the choicest named varieties. No better mixture can be had.

Leonard’s Florist’s Mixed. A blend of the sorts best suited for the cut flower trade.

Leonard’s Named Sorts Mixed. Blended from the named sorts of the Unwin and Grandiflora types.

Eckford Mixed. A very choice mixture of the Grandiflora types.

Spencer Varieties Mixed.

Bush Varieties IVIixed. Cupid or Dwarf Sweet Peas Mixed. Grow six inches high, giving a carpet of just such blooms as the tall varieties produce and resist more successfully the summer drouth.

Christmas or Winter Flowering Mixed. Used for forcing in the greenhouse but in the out- door garden it gives the earliest though a somewhat smaller flower than some other sweet peas.

Choice Mixed. A studied and carefully made good mixture of all the standard sorts, not a haphazard throwing together of whatever may be found. A statement we feel we should repeat for you is this, that for the price there are no sweet peas sold that compare with our choice mixed

In few lines of endeavor has the advancement been so marked or so rapid as in the development of sweet peas. The public has shown its appreciation of this flower and its im- provement by buying more heavily of this flower seed than any other. So abundant is the bloom from even a small expen- diture for this seed that it is a flower within the reach of all. But humble as it is in price, no more beautiful flower could be found to grace a palace or a queenly corsage. If what you want is a robust growth to hide some ugliness, if what you ask is colors and artistic shades, or if_the only possible appeal to you is dollars made from sales, plant sweet peas.

If possible, for sweet peas spade deeply a well drained soil in the fall and add any good compost, including some wood ashes or lime. As early as the ground can be worked in spring plant the peas in a trench flve inches deep and cover with one inch of sand or fine soil. When the peas are well above the ground fill the trench and thin the peas to stand two to three inches apart in the row. When planted, or very soon afterward, set some four to five foot supports. Mulch with, lawn trimmings, water thoroughly once a week and cut fre- quently to keep the plant flowering.

sweet peas.

SPENCER

VARIETIES

Asta Ohn, lavender tinted with mauve.

Florence Morse Spencer, delicate pink.

George Herbert, rosy magenta, shading to carmine.

Helen Lewis, orange, shading to buff.

John Ingman, rosy magenta.

Le Marquis Spen- cer, violet, shading to navy blue.

Mont Blanc, pure white.

Mrs. Rootzahn, apricot, shading to pink.

Othello Spencer, deep maroon.

Primrose Spencer, true primrose.

White Spencer, pure white.

White Wonder.

CHRISTMAS OR WINTER FLOWERING

Christmas White, pure white. Christmas Pink, pink and white. Earliest of All, pink and white. Earliest White, pure white.

WHITE SPENCER

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SWEET PEAS

UNWIN AND GRANDI- FLORA TYPES

SPENCER

TYPE

King Edward VII, bright scarlet, large flower.

Lady Mary Currie, orange pink, shaded

lilac.

Lady Nina Balfour, delicate mauve. Lottie Eckford, white, suffused laven- der.

Lovely, soft shell pink.

Maid of Honor, white edged lavender. Miss Wilhnot, richest orange pink.

Mrs. Alex. Wallace, delicate lavender, Mrs. Collier, primi*ose, deUcate shades. Mrs. Joseph Chamberlain, white, flaked rose.

Mrs. E. Kenyon, primrose.

Navy Blue, deep blue.

New Countess, dehcate lavender, Othello, dark maroon.

Prima Donna, pure pink.

Prince of Wales, bright rose, self color. Queen Alexandra, bright scarlet red. Royal Rose, rosy pink.

Sadie Bm*pee, large, pure white. Senator, chocolate, striped white. Shasta, pure white.

Stella Morse, rich primrose, flushed pink.

Sunbeams, delicate cream.

Sybil Eckford, creamy buff.

Triumph, standard rose, wings veined with scarlet.

Venus, salmon buff.

GRANDIFLOBA

TYPE

Admiration, rosy lavender.

Agnes Eckford, Ught pink.

America, blood red striped white. Aurora, orange rose, striiied white. Blanche Ferry, pink and wliite.

Black Knight, dark maroon. Captivation, rosy purple, large. Cahfornia Sunbeams, cream color, fine. Coquette, primrose yellow, shaded lav- ender.

Countess of Cadogan, reddish mauve, wings blue.

Dorothy Tennant, rosy mauve.

Dorothy Eckford, one of the best whites. Dulie of Westminster, deep rose ma- roon.

' Earliest of All, pink and white.

Earl Cromer, claret magenta.

Emily Eckford, reddish mauve.

Emily Henderson, pure white.

Evelyn Byatt, fine orange salmon.

Extra Early Blanche Ferry, pink and white.

Gorgeous, bright orange sahnon.

Henry Eckford, of extraordinary orange color.

Janet Scott, fine pink.

Jeanie Gordon, bright rose, shaded cream.

Katherine Tracy, fine soft pink.

In the front of the book is the price of all the described and many other varieties of flowers.

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SUMMER FLOWERING BULBS

HARDY LILIES

LILY BULB

Lllium Auratum. The glorious gold banded Lily of Japan and one of the grandest plants in cultivation.

Lilium Longiflorum. The pure white flowers resemble the well known Bermuda Easter Lily »and are very fragrant.

Lilium Speciosum Album. Pure white flowers, with a greenish band through the center of each petal.

Lilium Speciosum Kubrum. No words can overstate the bril- liant beauty of these famous Japan Lilies.

Lilimn Tigrinum, Flore Pleno. (Double Tiger Lily.) This mag- nificent lily is of stately habit, bearing clusters of very large double flowers on tall, strong stems; color, bright orange red, spotted with

Lilium Tigrinum, Splendens. (Improved Single Tiger Lily.) Has very large flowers of excellent form; color, orange salmon with dark spots.

CALADIUM ESCULENTUM .

LARGE FLOWERING GANNAS

Best Standard Sorts.

GLADIOULUS

These desirable bulbs should be planted in every gar- den. Claimed by many to be “the flower of all flowers.” They contain every shade of color from the most brilliant and gorgeous to the softest and most delicate. The im- mense spikes of bloom develop in the greatest perfection; if cut when the first four flowers open, and placed in water, they will last ten days.

Mixed, Large Flowering Bulbs. This mixture is com- posed of every color — white, pink, yellow, rose, scarlet, crimson, dark maroon, etc., beautifully marked and varie- . gated.

Red Mixed. All shades.

White and Light Colors.

Pink Shades.

Yellow Mixed.

MADEIRA VINE

Tuberous rooted climber with glossy green leaves and delightfully fragrant white blossoms. Sometimes called Mignonette Vine.

CINNAMON VINE

A very pretty vine to train around the window or on a trellis. In mid-summer the plant is covered with a brilliant, glossy foliage and an abundance of fragrant flowers. It is also an exceedingly quick grower.

CALLA LILIES

Richardia Ethiopica is the well known Egyptian Lily, or Lily of the Nile, with large white flowers, broad foliage, and it will prosper under very adverse circumstances if given plenty of water.

Known as Elephant’s Ears. One of the finest tropical plants which can be grown in the open air in the north. It can be made to produce three to ten leaves, three to four feet long and nearly as wide, on stalks four to six feet high.

TUBEROSES

Tall, Double. Three to five feet high, strong and free blooming.

Pearl. Larger, better and more flowers produced by this sort than the old variety. Stems short; from two to three feet high.

Excelsior Pearl. An improvement on the ordinary pearl; produces very heavy spikes of large double flowers.

DAHLIA

The dahlia has always been a favorite for autumn flowering. The flowers are so symmetrical and perfect, and the range of colors so large and varied that they will Always be popular where display is wanted.

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SEEDERS

Tools are very necessary to win success in this most peaceful of all pursuits. Not so many tools are necessary as a few good ones. .The mechanism and use of these should be carefully studied and then the tools be well cared for. Care of tools means that they be kept clean and dry, and some- tools oiled frequently with the proper oil or kept sharp or kept well adjusted. To’ be a good gardener or farmer be a good farm engineer if for only one reason — it pays.

“VELVET- LAWN ” SEEDERS

not only drill the seed in the ground at the right depth and cover it, but they do the finest job of cultivation possible, leaving the ground in ex- cellent condition. Each and every feed on the Velvet Lawn Seeder sows an equal amount of seed, therefore all the seed furrows contain the same quantity. The feeds on the^ Velvet Lawn Seeder are force feeds and no matter how slow or fast the machine is made to go, the amount sown is always the same, until the gauge

is set to sow a different quantity.- All the

seed being planted at an even depth in the soil, the plants must all come up at one time and make uniform growth. Seed can be sown when the conditions are right — wind or no windi Because the seed is,jn the soil the^birds cannot eat the seed, rain cannot wash and wind cannot blow the -seed away. ’

-^The Velvet Lawn Seeder in addition to sowing grass seed and clover is admirably adapted

for drilling all small seeds, such as onion, radish, lettuce, carrot, etc.

Velvet Lawn Seeder will also sow dry ground sheep manure, dry bone meal dry screened

wood ashes and dry ground lime.

CAHOON SEEDER

THE cyclone;. SEEDER

PRICES ARE IN THE FRONT OF THE BOOK

The Cahoon. This well known broadcast seed sower is considered among the best. It is easily worked and sows timothy, clover, flax, wheat, oats, rye, bar- ley, all kinds of grass, and may be used by the gar- dener for spinach seed or any other kind he may wish to sow broadcast.

The Cyclone. A seeder which is becoming very popular. It is a cheaper machine and a good one.

Hand Coi*n Planters — The Eagle. This is a ro- tary planter- having three different sized plates, which can be put in or taken out as needed, in the easiest manner. It is the most popular planter of all.

EAGLE

FOR MASTERS PLANT SETTER SEE PAGE 80.

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PLANET JR. FARM AND GARDEN TOOLS

The few who do not like to garden, are either unacquainted with the beauty and utility of gardening or they have not used the proper tools to help them with the least effort to secure results.

Planet Jr. tools are used in practically all the great gardens because they are strong, accurate and fast. How fast? The Manufacturer says, “Capacity, 2 acres a day." In a case under our observation a farmer planted three acres of Soya beans in four hours and twenty-five minutes with a Planet Jr. hand drill.

No. 5 Planet Jr. Hill and Drill Seeder

16% inch steel wheel. Sheet steel hop- per holding 5 quarts. Weight, packed, 51 pounds.

Special size for market gardeners and farmers, for sugar beet and onion set grow- ers, etc. It is the great hand-power planter for both hills and drills, where the amount of sowing to be done is large. It runs light, and plants equally well with a full hopper or

with an ounce of seed, and up hill or down.

Planet Jr. No. 3 Hill and Drill Seeder

We recommend customers to buy separate seed drills and wheel hoes where they have enough work to warrant it, and this is the size that should be bought, except by the very largest market gar- deners and sugar beet growers, etc., to whom we recommend No. 5, which is similar but larger. It sows evenly in drills, and also drops in hills at 4, 6, 8, 12 or 24 inches apart. It is thrown out of gear instantly by moving a con- venient lever, or the fiow of seed is stopped by pushing down the feed rod. No time is lost, no seed is wasted. It is quickly set to sow the different kinds of seeds in the exact thickness required.

Planet Jr. No. 25 Combined Hill and Drill Seeder, Double and Single Wheel Hoe, Cultivator and Plow

This new combined machine is intended for

gardeners who have enough acreage for a double wheel hoe to be used and yet prefer not to buy seeders and wheel hoes separately; also for onion growers and for the large family garden where both a single and double wheel hoe can be used to advantage. The hopper holds four pounds of onion seed.

The change from Drill to Wheel Hoe takes but a moment, and the whole combination is one we can heartily recommend and guarantee satisfactorily.

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Planet Jr. No.

Combined Drill Seeder and Wheel Hoe

It is thoroughly well-made and offered at a price that makes it pay the smallest gar- dener! It will sow even a small packet of any garden seed any thickness desired with the greatest precision from % to 2 inches deep, in a narrow row. The index is 'most simple, easily set for every kind of seed. The fiow ©f seed is stopped simply by raising the han- dles, and the tool may be thrown in or out of gear in a moment. It holds one quart.

The seed drill attachment may be removed in a moment and be replaced as quickly by a tool standard to which are fitted all the various cultivating attachments.

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PLANET JR. FARM AND GARDEN TOOLS— Continued

THE HOE IS TOO SLOW IN 1916

More and better work can be done in one day with a wheel cultivator than in three days with a hand hoe. _

Planet Jr. catalogue, describing fifty-five tools, including seeders, wheel-hoes, harrows, orchard and beet cultivators, etc,, free upon request.

Planet Jr. goods are standard articles fully guaranteed and one cannot afford to farm or garden without some of these best of tools, A few of these cultivators we list on this page.

Planet Jr. No. 17

PLANET JK. NO. 18 SINGLE WHEEL HOE No. 18 Single Wheel Hoe is the No. 17 withhoes only.

Single Wheel Hoe; Cultivator

and Plow

For easy gar- dening, and at the same time clean and per- fect gardening, the kind that will make your garden the talk of the nighbor- hood and cause your face to glow with hon- est pride, noth- ing is quite the equal of this No.

17 Single Wheel Hoe. It is suited to all kinds of garden cultiva- tion and all gar- den crops. The No. 17 has a pair of 6-inch hoes, a plow and a set of culti- vator teeth, an outfit sufficient for most garden work. Other at- tachments can be added at any time and will be found to fit.

EQUIPMENT:

One pair of 6-inch hoes.

Three cultivator teeth.

One large garden plow.

All oil tempered.

One 7-inch rake.

One 4-inch rake.

One leaf guard.

Single wheel hoes are lighter than the double and do almost the same variety of work, but are used mostly between the rows, yet by attaching the wheel to the other side of the arm. Planet Jr. Single Wheel Hoes can be used to hoe both sides at once while the plants are small — the most important time.

Planet Jr. Twelve-Tooth Harrow, Cultivator and Pulverizer

This tool expands to 32 inches and con- tracts to 12. The expander works with ease, yet holds the tool thoroughly rigid. The teeth and pulverizer leave the ground in the finest condition, and the operator can set the tool exactly to any depth desired, making delicate work not only possible, but easy. Improved braces enable one to change the handles in height to suit boy or man, and also sidewise.

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CULTIVATOR^ AND WEEDERS

Perfection’ Garden Cultivator

Different From Others — Superior to All.

The Ughtest garden tool on the market.

Easiest to adjust.

Strongest in workmanship.

Easiest to operate.

Is a complete machine within itself. Xeeds no extra parts.

The only garden tool made that thi'ows the soil to or from the plants Avithout extra attachments.

Is made in tlu*ee sizes, viz:

Xo. 1. With tw^o discs, on which 6 inch or 7 inch knives maj’ be used.

Xo. 2. With four discs, on which 7 V2 inch, 8 inch or 8 % inch knives may be used.

Xo. 3. With four discs, on which 10 inch or 11 inch knives may be used.

The Xo. 1 will w'ork row^s 9 to 11 inches wide. No. 2 will work rows 11 to 14 inches wide. No. 3 will work rows 13 to 16 inches wide.

Mention w’hat size knives you wish w'hen ordering. The price is the same for any of the sizes.

This Perfection Garden Cultivator, a new disk and knife weeder, is an evolution in hand cultivators. It does the weed killing, cultivating, and mulching at one process, something no other cultivator accomplishes. It can be worked in gravel soil or in stony land, through sticks and coarse stubble, or in the softest loam. As a deeper mulch is required in dry weather than in moist weather, as a crop as it advances in age requires more shallow cultivation, as diilerent crops and soils require different treatment, this tool is adapted to them all. , Preferred by the successful professional gardener or the most exacting amateur home gardener, the tool is also so simple a child can work it. While built for the gardener who wants a tool stout enough for his most robust workman, it is so easy of operation as to meet with favor in the hands of the woman flower grower or the little housewife. .

The inventor of this tool is a practical onion grower and trucker. During his thirt5’’ years in truck farming and onion growing he has tried out all of the garden cultivators that have been made and recommended during that time. He knows the good points as well as the defects of each. From this knowledge he has perfected, after repeated efforts, this new tool, which in a simple form, does all the w'ork that can be done by the complicated attachments and combina- tions of the other tools.

One thumb screw is all that is operated in adjusting this tool. No attachments are neces- sary to make it do the work needed.

The tool is now in its third year. Onion grov/ers and truckers find that it works closer to the plant than any other, and save them half on cultivation and hand weeding.

The photograph shows the tool complete. It is durable, made of the best material, and within the reach of all in price.

Notice the Thumb Screw that Adjusts the Discs

The stiff wire leaf guards keep the tops of the plants away from the disgs.

LANG’S WEEDED EXCELSIOR WEEDER

The best hand weeder for all finger weed-

ing purposes.

McGEE CULTIVATOR

The best cultivator of all for straddling the row.

THE PHILLIP CULTIVATOR

A regular “old fashioned scrub.” Made in Chicago. 6-inch and 9-inch size.

PRICE OF ALL TOOLS IN FRONT OF BOOK

LEONARD SEED COMPANY, CHICAGO

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New Way Garden Barrow

Something Different

The sides detach as easily as those of the ordinary barrow but unlike the usual barrow do not fall out when the barrow is upset.

This barrow is framed of the best grade of seasoned hard wood carefully put to- gether, then primed, painted and varnished, high carbon steel axle. Box (when sides are up) is 26^ inches long, 19 V4, inches wide at front, 22^/4 inches wide at rear, 11% inches deep, and has a 20^ inch wheel. The handiest thing about the place for corn or any big crop.

Just four times the capacity of the barrow when sides are in natural position.

ORIGINAL MODEL GRINDING MILLS

HAND AND POWER

They grind all kinds of small grain without exception, shelled corn, wheat, oats, rye, split peas, hominy, as well as dry t/one, dry shells, fine table or butter salt, roots,, bark or any dry, friable substance. They make table meal good enough for anyone. They turn out a uniform grist, always.

Model Mills are adjusted by hand in a second to grind fine, me- dium or coarse. They do anything from coarsest cracking to finest grinding. No other mill has such range of usefulness.

The Burrs are made of Steel- Alloy Metal, the most durable grinding surfaces made.

WARRANTY. — These Mills are warranted to grind more rap- idly and outlast any Mills of this class on the market.

Legume inoculation is very practical. Think of Legumes as Peas, Beans, Alfalfa, Clover, Vetch, etc.

The knots or nodules found on the roots of these Legumes are the homes of vast numbers of tiny germs or bacteria. Air is four-fifths nitrogen. These germs draw nitrogen from the air and store it in the nodules on the roots. This nitrogen nourishes the plant and enriches the soil. the ^simplest safest' and surest system

Each legume has a separate strain of bacteria with of soiu inoculation for all legumes a few exceptions. Pure bred germs are put up in ventilated tin cans with a granular food/'and called NITRAGIN. There are other inferior ways of selling these bacteria, so protect yourself by remembering this name.

To use NITRAGIN simply add water, mix with the seed, let dry and plant as usual.

The bacteria in every package of “Nitragin” are guaranteed to retain their vitality and virulence for six months from date of shipment.

This “Nitragin” Pure Culture is sold by the acre — not by the pound. It is put up in three sizes.

Half-Acre or Garden Size (weighs alJout 6 ounces).

1-Acre Size (weighs about 12 ounces).

5-Acre Size (weighs about 4 pounds).

CONSIDER THE MANY GOOD REASONS FOR BUYING BULK VEGETABLE SEEDS

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FERTILIZERS

There is an axiom that “what grows one year will decay the next.” So among the economies practiced by the European and which must not be confused with that which is miserliness or stinginess is the use of a compost heap. This practice could well be copied here. Not only the individual American but our great cities throw away vast quantities of that which might be composted. The gardener had best select a spot removed from the residence and there save continually all weeds, grasses, leaves, poultry and stable manure, soot, hoof and horn parings, bones, unused vegetables and fruit and refuse from the table. Earth and phosphate can be added to this compost heap, and while the heap should be kept moist enough to decay, it should be protected by a roof from rain. Later this compost should be spread upon the soil and plowed or spaded in.

As man advances he asks more varied kinds of foods. Or should we say as man secures more varied kinds of food he advances? So for plants as for animals, they are best fed when given many kinds of food. This is one of the reasons why the compost heap is so valuable. It is very probable that our commercial fertilizer of the future will contain several elements we are making no effort to feed plants now. As we expect different foods from day to day for ourselves, now we are changing and rotating fertilizers. The plant’s dinner must not be the same on each bill of fare. We must not surfeit or sicken our plants by one food, good as that food may be.

Experience has taught, with few exceptions, that the same crop is not to be grown year after year on the same soil. The crops are to be rotated. In the gardens and flower beds as in the field this should be true. If cabbage were on the east side last year, then put something be- sides cabbage, or something in no way related to cabbage there this year. To think about gar- dening is to come to the conclusion that it is wise to rotate crops and equally wise to rotate or change fertilizer.

As nature makes an attempt to keep all soils busy and all bare spots covered up, so, when- ever possible, man should plant cover crops and plow or spade them under. Rye and vetch planted in the fall and in the spring spaded in is an excellent method of green manuring.

Fertilizer is a big word. Shade from trees or buildings is another lack of fertility. The poi- sonous fumes from factories kill plants, so plants do breathe. After all, much or most of our fertilizer is just sunlight or air. While most of the world’s fertility does not reach us as freight, some very good fertilizers that it is wise to use do come done up in bags.

Think of the organisms or bacteria that live in the soil as laborers living and working in their home, and that they need material with which to work. These tiny workmen, we say, make the plant food available. So not only are workmen necessary, but we must supply them with the raw material with which to work. Some of the things we may add to the garden may con- tain with new workmen, call them micro-organisms if you wish, one or several raw materials as well. Other materials we supply to our gardens may contain only these elements or materials which we class as phosphates, potash and nitrogen. We say a fertilizer is complete when it con- tains these last three named elements. The word fertilizer suggests one or more of these three elements put up in bags and known as commercial fertilizer. If the manufacturers of commer- cial fertilizer have had a weakness it has been in their lack of effort to teach that their product is not an antidote for the poison of poor farming or gardening. No one who can see and think can doubt its profitable and necessary use. Such a use must go hand in hand with other good practices, like soil draining, subsoiling, liming, deep plowing, stable and green manuring, the rotation of crops, the rotation of fertilizers, thorough cultivation and the use of good seed.

Pulverized Sheep Manure. Humanity builds the results of its learning into little sayings; one of them is, “The sheep's foot is gold.” Generations of farmers learned that where the sheep were kept or pastured later grew rich crops. So we are offering sheep manure that has been pulverized, screened and dried till it contains no weed seed and is in the most perfect con- dition for handling. Where the ant was found to follow the application of bone meal to lawns, the application of this Pulverized Sheep Manure was followed only by good results. Its effect is not only immediate but lasting. For a potting soil one part of this manure to six parts of the soil was found to be preferred. For the making of a liquid manure one pound to six gal- lons of water was superior. It does not offend by its appearance. When heavily and freshly applied to lawns it is barely discernible. A heavy application is not to be feared but to be ad- vised for house plants, lawns, flower gardens, fruit or vegetables. Prices In front of catalogue.

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FERTILIZERS

It is unnecessary to tell our customers that Chicago is recognized as headquarters for com- mercial fertilizer. Here is to he had material for the manufactm’ing of fertihzer in large quan- tities and of highest grade. We have made special arrangements with the factory by which we are able to offer this article at the lowest wholesale price, and solicit correspondence from par- ties wishing large quantities. We can save you money if you buy by the sack, ton or carload. Fertilizer prices vary. PURCHASER PAYS THE FREIGHT. Places subject to market changes.

FARMERS’ FAVORITE BRAND.

Guaranteed Analysis.

Per cent

Ammonia (Nitrogen 2.47) 3

Available Phosphoric Acid (Animal) 8

Potash (EI2 O) ■. 1

This is a high grade all around fertilizer, especially adapted to all field crops and is better for market gardeners’ use than nine-tenths of the “Onion Growers,” “Potato Growers,” etc., on the market. It is the best of brands on the market for fruit trees, vines and small fruit.

BIG HARVEST SPECIAL.

Guaranteed Analysis.

Per cent

Ammonia (Nitrogen 1.65) 2

Available Phosphoric Acid 12

Insoluble Phosphoric Acid (Animal) 2

Potash (K2 O) 1

This brand is especially for soils or crops that require a large amount of Phosphoric Acid. It contains enough Ammonia to give the plant a good start, also some of Potash. We consider this one of the best fertilizers we manufacture for grain crops.

Nitrate of Soda. Valuable solely for the nitrate it contains. It is chiefly a stimulant used in addition to other fertilizers. It is quick in action and hastens crops to maturity, being ex- tremely soluble; it is easily applied after the plants are above the ground. As a liquid, use one pound in fifteen gallons of water.

PURE GROUND BONE.

Guaranteed Analysis.

Per cent

Ammonia- (Nitrogen 1.85) 2.25

Total Phosphoric Acid _. 28.

This is a soft steamed bone and the staple article for Fall seeding. It is wholly animal mat- ter, is slower of action than complete goods, so is especially adapted for use on wheat, meadows, or any crop that remains in growth a year or more.

Blood and Bone. Manufactured of pure blood and bone. When this fertilizer is used in rows or in hills for such crops as celery, cabbage or early corn from 100 to 200 pounds per acre will be enough.

Hard Wood Ashes improves the texture of the soil and drives away insects and indispensable for all crops requiring potash. Very beneficial for garden and field crops, grass lands and lawns. Total potash, 6 per cent.

HIGH GRADE ACID PHOSPHATE.

Guaranteed Analysis.

Available Phosphoric Acid, 14 to 16 per cent. This brand was put on the market to supply the demand for a cheap fertilizer, running high in available Phosphoric Acid only.

We know from past experience, that crops need Nitrogen and Potash, as well as Phosphoric Acid, and farmers who have been induced to use fertilizer containing nothing but Phosphoric Acid invariably find that high grade goods are more economical, because better results are obtained.

no LEONARD SEED COMPANY, CHICAGO

A PAGE ON FUNGICIDl

The attempt to summarize the militant ways sects that attack our plant world would be, beci quickly developed science that is rapidly progres brief, which means we cannot be concise, we mig] fungous diseases; second, insects that eat or ch( juices; fourth, insects that bore into the plant.

FIRST. The Fungous Diseases of plants mj dry rot, black rot, rust, scab or mold, etc.

The remedies applied are called Fungicides. Some of them are as follows:

Bordeaux Mixture.

Copper Sulphate 6 pounds

Quicklime 4 pounds

Water 40 gallons

Dissolve the copper sulphate by putting it in a bag of coarse cloth and hanging this in a vessel holding at least 4 gallons, so that it is just covered by the water. Use an earthen or wooden vessel. Slake the lime in an equal amount of water. Then mix the two and add enough water to make 40 gallons. It is then

ready for immediate use.

Ammoniaca Copper Carbonate.

Copper Carbonate 1 ounce

Ammonia enough to dissolve the copper

Water 9 gallons

ES AND INSECTICIDES

of man in his battle with disease, fungi, and in- luse of its brevity, somewhat imperfect. This ssing fills volumes of space. In the effort to be tit say of the plants’ enemies that they are: first, 3W the plant; third, insects that suck the plants'

ly be thought of as blight, mildew, spot, speck.

They may be preventative or cures, or both.

The copper carbonate is best dissolved in. large bottles, where it will keep indefinitely, and it should be diluted with water as required.

Copper Sulphate Solution.

Copper Sulphate 1 pound

Water 15 gallons

Dissolve the copper sulphate in the water, when it is ready for use. This should never be applied to foliage, but mu.st be used before the buds break. For peaches and nectarines use 25 gallons of water.

Practically all insecticides and fungicides are now put up in concentrated form, saving the gardener the trouble of mixing the ingredi- ents. Frequently this prepared article is su- perior to that which could be mixed at home and often cheaper. In this buying one has a choice as between the fluid, paste or dry forms at times.

SECOND. Insects that chew or eat the pk The poisons we feed to this class of our enemies "v Paris Green.

Paris Green 1 pound

Wate^- 250 gallons

If this mixture is to be used upon peach trees, 1 pound quicklime should be added. Repeated applications will injure most foliage unless lime is added. Paris Green and Bor- deaux can be applied together with perfect safety. The action of neither is weakened, and the Paris Green loses all caustic properties. If applied as a powder it should be mixed with flour or plaster, 100 parts to 1 part Paris Green.

London Purple.

This is used in the same proportion as

mt may be bugs, caterpillars, worms or slugs, ve call Stomach Poisons and some of them are: Paris Green, but as it is more caustic it should be applied with lime, or with the Bordeaux mixture.

Hellebore.

Fresh White Hellebore 1 ounce

Water ' 3 gallons

Apply when thoroughly mixed.

Arsenate of Lead.

Among the insecticides none stand higher than this. It adheres and does not injure the most tender foliage, does not readily wash off and as it is white it shows where it has been applied. It remains so well suspended in solu- tion as to give an even distribution.

THIRD. Insects that suck the juices of pi black fly, red spider, scale, etc. The poisons we ing through the insect’s skin and are referred t< Kerosene Emulsion.

Hard Soap ^ pound

Boiling Water 1 gallon

Kerosene 2 gallons

Dissolve the soap in the water, add the kerosene, and churn well with soap for 5-10 minutes. Dilute 10 to 15 times before applying.

ants may be plant lice, mealy bug, green and apply to this class of our enemies kill by strik- 3 as Contact Poisons, some of them are: Tobacco Dust or Tea.

The aphis or plant louse is not apt to go where there is tobacco dust and a tea made from tobacco, just tobacco boiled in water till the water is dark, is an excellent remedy for this class of pest.

FOURTH. Insects that bore into the tree or plant are retarded or injured by having Tanglefoot put in their way or Fish-Oil Soap or Whale-Oil Soap smeared or washed upon the plant’s trunk.

Frequently some combinations of the above Fungicides and Insecticides may be made with advantage, as Bordeaux with Arsenate of Load, or Kerosene Emulsion with Paris Green. Again, in advertised articles upon the market are found some very superior combinations and preparations.

Slug Shot. This well known preparation has been in use for more than a quarter of a cen- tury and its popularity does not diminish. It can be used on all sorts of vegetables, in the flower garden, on fruit bushes, trees or wherever the insect pests appear. It is an impalpable powder, non-poisonous to human beings or stock.

Sulphate of Nicotine contains 40 per cent of Nicotine and is not surpassed for use against plant lice or aphis in orchards or truck crops. It may be combined with Arsenate of Lead or Lime Sulphur or both. Use % pint of Nicotine to 100 gallons of water.

Bug Death. This preparation we highly recommend. We have many testimonials at hand from large vegetables growers and we feel confident in offering it with our endorsement to any of our customers who want a quick-acting, non-poisonous bug killer. It can be used on all house plants, vegetable and fruit crops, with excellent results.

The application of remedies for fungus or poison for insects may be by dusting, using a powder gun, duster or bellows, and the liquids applied with a syringe, spray pump or vaporizing bellows.

To apply these remedies or poisons when fruit is in bloom may kill the bees and affect pollination.

Keep all poisonous properties under lock and key if possible, where poultry, stock and human beings are not apt to reach it by accident.

LEONARD SEED COMPANY, CHICAGO

III

THE “NEW MISTY”

A general purpose Sprayer, for farm, stable or garden uses. Handles fly-oils, bug poisons and disinfectants. Has large, powerful pump. Lock seamed can. Made of heavy tin. Tank 4x4 Yz in. Length over all, 21 in. Holds one quart.

THE “PERFECTION” SPRAYER

Highest Priced Sprayer in its Class — and Worth it.

For Spraying, Disinfecting or Whitewashing, on Plants. Bushes, Vines, etc. Made of heavier metal, with fewer parts, stronger in construction, more powerful in action. Pump has bronze ball valve, and is fastened to top of tank with heavy threads. Tank 7% -in. by 20-in., lock seamed with twenty-six rivets. Hose attached with clamps. All furnished with auto- matic shut-ofC nozzles which will handle whitewash and thin liquids without change of parts. Made of Galvanized Steel or all Brass.

CORONA DRY

CORONA DRY is a chemically pure Arsenate of Lead, which is put up in a patent powdered form containing one-third arsenic, the most effective known poison for leaf-eating insects. It mixes readily with water or it may be used dry in its powdered form. It is distinctive for quick poisoning — even application and great adhesiveness. Its purity and unusual chemical activeness give it the highest poisoning power.

Dry or Grain Measure 2 pints make
8 quarts make
4 pecks make
36 bushels make		, . 1 chaldron
Liquid or Wine Measure
4 gills make
2 pints make
4 quarts make
31% gallons make
2 barrels make		. 1 hogshead
Avoirdupois 27 11-32 grains make. . . .	Weight
16 drams make
16 ounces make
25 pounds make
4 quarters make
20 cwts. make
2,000 pounds make		.1 short ton
2,240 pounds make		. 1 long ton
14 pounds make
2 2 % stones make		1 pig
8 pigs make
100 pounds make
5,760 grains apothecaries	make. .
Troy or Jewelers’ Weight
24 grains make	1	pennyweight
20 pennyweights make...
12 ounces make
Apothecaries’ 20 grains make	Weight
3 scruples make
8 drachms make
12 ounces make
Long Measure 12 lines make
12 inches make
3 feet make
5% yards make
40 rods make
8 furlongs make
3 miles make
69 1-6 miles make. .....
6,075 4-5 feet make

Square- Measure

30% square yards make .1 square rod

40 square rods make 1 rood

4 roods make 1 acre

640 acres make 1 square mile

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Surveyors’ or Land Measure

7.92 inches make 1 link

2S links make 1 rod

4 rods make 1 chain

10 square chains make 1 acre

160 square rods make 1 acre

640 acres make 1 square mile

30 square miles make 1 township

Measurements of an Acre

10 rods by 8 rods by 5 rods by

4 rods by

5 yards by 10 yards by 20 yards by

16 rods.

2 0 rods.

32 rods.

40 rods.

96 8 yards. 484 yards. 242 yards.

40 yards bj 220 feet by 110 feet by 60 feet by 120 feet by 300 feet by 400 feet by

121 yards. 198 feet. 396 feet. 726 feet.

36 3 feet. 145.2 feet. 108.9 feet.

Number of Plants or Trees to the Acre at Given Distances

Dis. apart.	No. plants.	Dis. apart.	No. plants.
12x 1 in . . .	.... 522,720	36x36	in . .	.... 4 480
12x 3 “ . .	174,240	42x42		12;446
12x12 “ .	43,560	42x24	i (	6,223
16x 1 “ . .	392,040	42x36		4,148
18x 1 “ . .	348,480	48x12	“	10,890
18x 3 “ . .	116,160	48x18	“	7,790
18x12 “ ..	29,040	48x24		5,445
18x18 “ .	19,360	48x30		4,356
20x 1 “ . .	313,635	48x36	<<	3,630
20x20 “ ..	.... 15,681	48x48	( (	2,723
24x 1 “ . .	261,360	60x36		2,901
24x18 “ ..	15,520	60x48	“	2,178
24x24 “ .	10,890	60x60	“ ^	1,743
30x 1 “ . .	209,088	8x 1	ft. .	5,445
30x 6 “ . .	34,848	8x 3	< (	1,815
30x12 .	17,424	8x 8	**	630
30x16 “ .	13,068	lOx 1	(t	4,356
30x20 “ .	10,454	lOx 6	t f	726
30x24 “ .	8,712	10x10		435
30x30 “ .	6,970	12x 1	it	3,630
36x 3 “ . .	58,080	12x 5	it	736
36x12 “ ..	14,520	12x12	{{	302
36x18 “ .	9,680	16x 1		2,722
36x24 “ ..	7,260	16x16	i i	170

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Useful Information

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Seed Required Quantity per Acre.

Artichoke, 1 oz. to 500 plants 6 oz.

Asparagus, 1 oz. to 400 plants 1 lb.

Asparagus Roots 8,000 to 10,000

Barley 1 % to 2 ^ bu.

Beans, Dwarf, 1 pint to 100 ft. of drill 1% “

Beans, pole, 1 pint to 100 hills % “

Beans, Soya in drills %

Beets, garden, 1 oz. to 100 ft. of drill. 6 Beet, mangel, 1 oz. to 100 ft. of drill. 5

Broccoli, 1 oz. to 3,000 plants 4

Brussels Sprouts, 1 oz. to 2,500 plants 4

Buckwheat % to 1

Cabbage, 1 oz. to 2,500 plants 4

Carrot, % oz. to 100 feet of drill 3

Cauliflower, 1 oz. to 2,500 plants. ... 4

Celery, 1 oz. to 6,000 plants 4

Chicory 4

Clover, Alsike and White Dutch 6

Clover, Lucerne or Alfalfa 15 to 25

Clover, Crimson Trefoil 10 to 15

Clover, Large Red and Medium 8 to 12

Collards, 1 oz. to 3,000 plants 3

Corn, rice (shelled) 2

Corn, sweet, % pint to 100 hills 6

Corn, field 10 to 15

Cress, % oz. to 100 feet of- drill 12

Cucumber, 1 oz. to 60 hills 2 to 3

Egg Plant, 1 oz. to 1,500 plants. ...*.. 4 Endive, % oz. to 100 feet of drill. ... 4% lbs.

Flax, broadcast, for seed % to % bu.

Garlic, bulbs, 1 lb. to 100 feet of drill

Gourd, 2 oz. to 100 hills.

Grass, Blue, Kentucky 2 “

Grass, Blue, English 1 “

Grass, Hungarian and Millet.... % to 1%

Grass, Mixed Lawn 75

Grass, Red Top, Fancy, Clean. 8 to 10 Grass, Red Top, Chaff Seed... 20 to 28 “

Grass, Timothy to % bu.

Grass, Orchard, Perennial Rye, Fowl

Meadow and Wood Meadow 2 “

Hemp % to IVz “

Horse Radish Roots 10,000 to 15,000

Kale, drilled 4 lbs.

Kohl Rabi, 1-3 oz. to 100 feet of drill 4 “

Leek, 1-3 oz. to 100 feet of drill 4 “

Lettuce, % oz. to 100 feet of drill. ... 3 “

Martynia, 1 oz. to 100 feet of drill. . . 5 “

Melon, Musk, 1 oz. to 60 hills. . . . 2 to 3 “

Melon, Water, 4 oz. to 100 hills. . 2 to 4 “

Nasturtium, 2 oz. to 100 feet of drill. 15 “

Oats IVz to 2 % bu.

Okra, 1 oz. to 100 feet of drill 8 lbs.

Onion Seed, % oz. to 100 ft. drill. 5 to 6 “

Onion Seed for sets 40 to 80

Onion Sets, 1 quart to 40 feet of drill 16 Parsnip, % oz. to 100 ft. of drill. . 4 to 5

Parsley, % oz. to 100 ft. of drill 4

Peas, garden, 1 pt. to 100 ft. drill. 2 to 3

Peas, field 2

Pepper, 1 oz. to 1,500 plants. . . % to 1

Potatoes, Irish 8 to 12

Pumpkin, 1 oz. to 100 hills 3 to 4

Radish, 2-3 oz. to 100 ft. drill. 10 to 12

Rape, Dwarf Essex. 5 to 10

Rutabaga 1 to 2

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Salsify, % oz. to 100 feet of drill. ... 8 Spinach, 1 oz. to 100 ft. of drill. .8 to

Spurry 15

Summer Savory %

Sunflower 8

Squash, Summer, 4 oz. to 100 hills.*. . "3

Squash, Winter, 8 oz. to 100 hills 3

Tomato, 1 oz. to 2,000 plants 4

Tobacco, 1 oz. to 5,000 plants 2

Turnip, 1 oz. to 250 feet of drill. . 1 to 3

Vetches 1%

Wheat 1 %

Liegral Weights and Measures — ^Pounds Per Bushel.

Apples, dried . . . .	24	24	1 28	22	25	24	I 25	' 25
Apples, green . . .	50	48	1 44			48	! 48	1 48
Bran	20	20	1 20	20		20	I 20	1 20
Barley	48	48	48	48	48	48	1 48	1 48
Beans, white ....	60	60	60	60	60	60	60	60
Beans, Castor . . .	46			46	46	46	46	46
Buckwheat	52	48	50	48	50	52	48	48
Broom corn seed.	48	50	46	46	46	46	46	30
Beets	60	56	50	^ .		60		56
Carrots	50	50	50		.	50	50	50
Charcoal	20	20		22		22	22
Coal, stone	80	80		80	80	80	..	80
Coke	40	40						40
Corn, shelled ....	56	56	56	56	56	56	56	56
Corn, ear	70	70		70	68	70	..	68
Corn meal	48	48	50	50	50	50	50	50
Cranberries	33		35	40	33
Dried Peaches . . .	33	33	33	28	33	33	32	33
Flax Seed	56	56	56	56		56	55	55
Grass Seed, Blue.	14	14	14	14	14	14
“ Clover	60	60	60	60	60	60	60	60
“ Hungarian .	50	50	48	50		48	48	50
“ Millet	50	50	50	50	50	50		50
“ Orchard . . .	14	14		14	14	14	14	14
“ Red Top . .	14	14	14	14		14	14	14
“ Timothy . . .	45	45	45	45	45	45	45	45
German Lupine .	60
Hemp Seed	44	44	44	44	44	44	44	44
Hickory Nuts . . .	50	50	50
Malt, Barley ....	38		34	38		38	34	34
Middlings, fine . .	40				40
Middlings, coarse.	30				30
Oats	32	32	32	32	32	32	32	32
Onions	57	52	50	54	48	57	57	57
Onions, tops ....	30	28		28		28	28	25
Onions, sets	32	32	32
Osage Orange . . .	33	32		33
Parsnips	50	45	44		55	54		, ,
Potatoes	60	60	60	60	60	60	60	60
Potatoes, Sweet. .	50	50	54	56	55	56	54	54
Peas, dried	60	60	60	60		60 !	60	60
Peas, in pods. . . .	32	50					1
Pop Corn	70	70				1	. . 1
Quick Lime	80	80		80		80	80
Rve	56	56	56	56	56	56	56	56
Salt, coarse	55	80	70		50	50 !	50	70
Salt, flne	50	80	50	56	50	50	56	56
Turnips, Rut’b’ga.	55	55	56	58	55	50 1	55	60
Turnips, White...			42			42 1		, ,
Wheat	60	60	60	60	60	60 1	60	60

Average Time Required for Garden Seeds to Germinate.

		Days.		Days.
bu.	Bean		Lettuce . .	6 to 8
lbs.	Beet	. . 7 to 10	Onion . . .	7 to 10
	Cabbage . . . .	. /« 5 to 10	Pea	6 to 10
bu.	Carrot	. .12 to 18	Parsnip . .	10 to 20
	Cauliflower . .	. . 5 to 10	Pepper . .	9 to 14
lb.	Celery	. .10 to 20	Radish . . .	3 to 6
bu.	Corn		Salsify . . .	7 to 12
lbs.	Cucumber . . .	. . 6 to 10	Tomato . .	6 to 12
4t it	Endive	. . 5 to 10	Turnip . . .
ti bu.	Time Required	for Maturity of Different	Garden Crops
lbs.	Reckoned	from the Day of Sowing	the Seed.
4i		Days.		Days.
44	Beans, String.	. .45 to 65	Lettuce . . .	65
44	Beans, Shell. .	. .65 to 70	Melon, Water.120 to 140
44	Beets, Turnip	65	Melon, Musk. 120 to 140
	Beets, Long. .		Onion ....	. .135 to 150
	Blood	150	Pepper . .	. .140 to 150
OZ.	Cabbage, Early. 105	Radish . . .	. . 30 to 46
	Cabbage, Late.. 150	Squash, Sum’r 60 to 66
lbs.	Cauliflower . .	110	Squash, Wint’r 125
bu.	Corn •. .	75	Tomato . . .	150
	Eggplant . . . .	150 t* 160	Turnip . . . ,	. . 60 to 70

LEONARD SEED COMPANY, CHICAGO

OTHER VERY USEFUL INFORMATION

The VIEWS on this page are of the AVONDALE TEST GARDENS. The LEONARD SEED COMPANY have several of these gardens in which it is not experimenting' and not growing- seed. Enough seed is taken from each quantity that they sell to plant one of the rows pictured here; then they know what that seed should do for those who buy it and plant it. All seed is tested in seed testers for its germination before it is sent out. All records are complete and exact, so that the course of all seed is known from each field to the man who buys it, with the result of all tests given it. With the advantages that the grower has the LEONARD SEED COIMPANY knows as exactly what they are selling as seedsmen can possibly know.