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SEEDS AND PLANTS

Novelties and Specialties of Unusual Merit

Everything offered in this list -will be delivered by Parcel Post to any address. We aim
to sell Satisfaction as -well as Seeds, and you may expect prompt service by return mail,

so distance is no objection or barrier. Please favor us with a trial order,
have been grown for us on the Pacific Coast.

Most of these

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BEANS— POLE ■

Great Northern Pole Lima — The hardiest Lima bean ever grown;: ^10

White Seeded Kentucky Wonder — Early, hardy and^ocMct'ive...!:.-'!;.-..!:..'.....™...."

BEANS— BUSH

Ventur.a Wonder Wax — Long flat pods; very prol|fic..^. li.i.i....

■j»F.re:^h ^een — Superb, either green or shelled |

-Very early, productive and hardy, fifeli
(5rreat No'^ltQ^h Baking — Most delicious baking bjban know
Fordhook Bush^Lima — Most popular bean of its ~

A BEETS — (Per Pound, $1.50)

Crosby’s Improved Egyptian — Best barly beet for home use 10

Detroit Dark rAi — AiX ideal beet for all purposes 10

New Giant Poultry Dffeli — Hardy; productive; long keeper 10

RainboV Swiss Chard — Leaf stalks cook like asparagus 10

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A hardy winter cauliflower; sure header 10

f CABBAGE — (All, per pound, $4.00)

Early Jersey Wakefield — Standard' every where ; very early 10

Charleston Wakefield — Larger and later than the above 10

Copenhagen Market — The most_^pular eaVly cabbage known 10

Early Winnigstadt — Very hard confe shaped; hea4^-, 10

Barly Flat Dutch— Very hardy aTi'd-rel^able } 10

Premium Flat Dutch — Standard everywhere for Winter use 10

Danish Ballhead — The best for long distance shipping 10

CARROTS — (Per pound, $1.50)

Early gem — Finest for early forcing; sweet and tender 10

Chanteney — The best variety for general family use 10

Giant Gibralter — Great for rabbits, goats and horses 10

White Mastodon — Largest and heaviest yielding variety 10

. CAULIFLOWER

Henderson’s Early Snc/'-rball — Most dependable early variety 20

California Wonder — Most reliable large, late variety 20

CELERY

Paris Golden Yellow — Most popular self -blanching variety 10

Silver Plume — Self -blanching; brittle, crisp and tender 10

Livingston’s Snow White — Finest quality; never stringy 15

CORN — Sweet or Sugar

New Golden Dawn — ^An extra early strain of Golden Bantam 10

New Golden Giant — Larger and later than Golden Bantam 10

Oregon Evergreen — Very popular (per pound, 60 cents) 10

CORN — Field Varieties (per pound, $1.00.)

Marvel Maize or World Wonder — Marvelously productive 10

Pioneer White Dent — Ripens in North Dakota and Canada 10

Assinibone Indian Squaw — Great variety of colors 10

White Mandan Flour Corn — Grinds fine and white as wheat 10

Drought Proof Early Yellow Dent — Finest type of pedigreed yellow corn 10

CORN— Pop

Burbank’s Sorghum Pop — A curious hybrid of fine quality 10

Japanese Hulless— Of exceptionally fine quality 10

New Golden Bantam Cross — A hybrid of exquisite flavor 10

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CUCUMBER Pkt. Oz.

Davis’ Perfect — Very handsome; fine for table use 10 .20

Japanese Climbing — Very productive and of finest quality 10 .20

KALE

Hardy Jersey — Most extensively grown for chickens 10 .15

New Giant Marrow — Makes immense thick, nutritious stalks 10 .60

LETTUCE

New “Crispette” — Unsurpassed for home use at all seasons 10 .60

“Delicious” — An extra early head lettuce of fine flavor 10 .60

Perfected Hanson — The very best of the old standard sorts 10 .30

Iceberg — Most popular for winter use on Pacific Coast 10 .30

Los Angeles Market, or “Wonderful” — Very large heads 10 .60

Hogan’s Hardy Chicken Lettuce — Very large and hardy 10 .60

MUSK MELON ^

Burrell’s Gem — Finest of the Rocky Ford type of melons 10 .30

Tip Top — ^^^ery attractive; sweet, juicy and delicious 10 .30

Honey Dew — A hybrid Casaba of exquisite flavor 10 .40

WATER MELON

Klondike — Very prolific; distinct flavor; small seeds 10 .30

New Angeleno — Distinct in type; unexcelled in flavor 10 .30

“Sweet-as-Honey” — Unequalled for home use in the north 10 .40

Winter Luxury — Longest keeper; good when thoroughly ripe 10 .40

ONION

Red Bermuda — ^A very large and popular variety 10 .30

"White Australian — Very handsome; mild flavor; long keeper 10 .30

Oregon Long Keeper — Finest of all the yellow globes 10 .30

PARSNIP

Palo Alto — A new highly improved strain from Holland 10 .30

PARSLEY

Champion Moss Curled — Most beautiful for garnishing 10 .30

PEAS — (All $1.00 per pound)

Little Marvel — ^Produces largest peas on the smallest vines 10 .10

Prosperity — The best extra early pea; medium height 10 .10

Prize Winner — Very large second early wrinkled; 3 feet 10 .10

Quite Content — ^A giant podded late wrinkled marrowfat 10 .10

PEPPER

Pimento — Very thick meat; sweet; fine flavor 10 .60

Anaheim Chili — Agreeable pungent flavor; very productive 10 .60

Burbank’s Monster — The largest pepper known; not pungent 10 .60

PUMPKIN

Small Sugar, or Sweet Pie — Best for home use and canning 10 .15

Winter Luxiu-y — ^IMedium size; very productive; long keeper - 10 .15

California Mammoth Field — ^Most productive for stock ($1.00 per poimd) 10 .10

RADISH

Early Bird — The SAveetest and quickest forcing radish known 10 .15

"i^Tiite Icicle — One of the most popular in all sections i 10 .15

Chartier — Long bright scarlet, white tipped; ne\^er pithy f.'. 10 .15

Long Brightest Scarlet — Matches the Icicle except in color 10 .15

SPINACH

Mammoth Victoria — Very long standing; thick fleshy leaves 10 .15

New Zealand — A rampant growing vine; very distinct 10 .40

SQUASH

Delicata — Finest quality of all early summer varieties 10 .40

Abysinnian — Banana shaped; 30 inches long; makes fine pies 10 .40

Burbank’s New Sweet Hubbard — ^As fine as the old original 10 .40

SUNFLOWER

Burbank’s Giant White Seeded — One large head on short stalk 10 .40

TOMATO

Burbank — Not only earliest, but best early tomato known 15

Matchless — Finest of all old standard varieties 10 .50

Livingston’s Stone — Most popular of all for shipping 10 .50

San Jose Canner — Most extensively grown for canneries 10 .50

TTJRNIP — (Per pound, $1.50)

Snowball — The finest early white turnip for family use 10 .20

Golden Ball — Similar to above, except in color 10 .20

RUTA BAGA

King-of- Swedes — Rich, hard yellow flesh of finest quality GO .20

Novelties and Specialties in Flower Seeds

Price, 15 cents per packet, 2 for a “quarter" or 10 for $1.00.

Asters — A superb mixture of all most modern types for cut flowers.

Calandula — Burbank’s new double; of easy culture; long continuance in bloom.
California Poppy— Burbank’s Improved. Many rare and beautiful flowers.

Carnation, Marguerite— Pearly flowering annual; double fragrant flowers.

Cosmos, “Midsummer" — Early flowering; profuse and long continued bloom.

Dahlia — Seeds sown in early Spring will bloom freely in September.

Dahlia “Imperialis” — The Lily Dahlia. Very distinct and beautiful.

Heliotrope — A hardy perennial; blooms freely the first season.

Hollyhock — Showy biennials, blooming freely first season. Single and double.
Larkspur — Tall mixed, very bright and beautiful colors.

Mirabilis, or Marvel of Peru — Two feet spreading vine; flowers in great variety.
Morning Glory — Japanese; a rampant climbing vine producing largest flowers.
Nasturtium — Well known profuse bloomers. Tall, and Dwarf, separately.

Pansy — Steele’s Mastodon. Unexcelled for variety of colorings.

Petunias — Giants of California. Large single flowers, curiously frilled and ruffled.
Phlox Drummondi — Most brilliant and profuse blooming bedding plants. ■

Placelia tanacetifolia — Bright, dainty flowers, very rich in honey.

Poppy, “Fayal” — Most dainty and beautiful of all dwarf poppies.

Bose “Polyantha Plena” — The little midget, or baby rose ; blooms first season.

Sweet Peas, Burbank’s “All Summer” — Remarkable for long continued bloom.

Sweet Peas, Hardy Perennial — Spring up early and bloom all summer. ,

Verbena, Burbank’s “Mayflower” — Largest flowers ; ' wonderfully bright.

Wild Garden — Greatest variety of both native and foreign annuals.

Zinnia — Largest Dahlia -flowered, mixed.

MARVEL MAIZE, OR WORLD’S WONDER CORN

“BLOOD WILL TELL”

Suppose our dairymen had selected their cows only in breeding, and left
a dozen scrub bulls running at large, how long before the present record of
milk production would have been reached?

Well, that is Just what our corn breeders have been doing, selected the
best ears for seed, but paid no attention to the stalkp wliich supplied the
pollen, the male parentage. Edward Frazee found a “sport” stalk of corn on
which was four fairly good ears. Taking this as his foundation he has
planted and selected for many years, carefully removing the tassels from all
sta.^s which did not show a tendency to great productiveness, and saving
for seed only such as bore five or more ears. In this way he has “fixed” a
type A large White Dent Field Corn which actually produces from four to
nine ears on each stalk. We are now offering a limited amount of this'
thoroughbred stock seed at 10 cents per ounce, or $1.00 per pound, prepaid
to any address.

CORY’S

IMORNLESS MAMMOTH BLACKBERRY

An entirely new variety of Blackberry, of mammoth size and deli-
cious flavor, the canes of which are as free from thorns as a grape vine.
Up to this time it has been impossible to supply the demand for this
wonderful new fruit, but we now have contracts for several thousand
plants to be supplied from the original Cory plantation, and are booking
orders to be filled from January to April as desired.

Price 35c each; 3 for $i.oo; $3.00 per 10; $25.00 per 100.

THE BURBANK TOMATO

Luther Burbank’s Marvelous
New Creation

BY FAR THE EARLIEST AND BEST TOMATO
EVER GROWN

Packet of 100 Seeds 15 Cents.

Here we have the VERY BEST EARLY and VERY EARLIEST GOOD TOMATO yet
known. Like most other good tilings, this conies as a matter of evolution. !Mr. Cnrhank
states that he has spent more than a dozen years in. “evolving” this new “creation” through
careful selective plant breeding, striving to see how many desirable, and ho\y few undesirable
features he could succeed in combining in one fruit.

The Burbank Tomato

Excels All Other Early Varieties on the Following Counts:

1. PRECOCITY — Not only a few specimens, but the entire crop ripens up far in advance
of all others. This season it yielded from 60 to 80 ripe fruits, average 15 pounds per plant,
at one picking.

2. SOLIDITY — Has no open cavities, and seeds are few and small. Slices solid as a
beef steak.

3. PRODUCTIVENESS— The entire plot yielded an average of one-fourth bushel per
plant.

4. QUALITY — Flavor unsurpassed for eating raw. In size averages two to t^ree inches
in diameter. Ripens up perfectly without crack, spot, or blemish. Color bright red, same
as “Stone.”

5. BLIGHT PROOF — Mr. A. B. Haven, the well knovui Tomato Seed GroAver, vmi^s :
“Mr. Burbank’s claim for this variety that it is more resistant to blight, and other to#!fll5^
diseases, than any other varieties, is confirmed by our experience this season, inr.fsmuch as
several other Aarieties growing near it haA'e shoAAm much more disease, in the AAmy of blight,
and dying earlier, than has the Burbank.”

The following is Mr. Burbank’s personal introductory claims:

THE EARLIEST TOMATO IN THE WORLD— THE “BURBANK”

“By far the earliest, smoothiest, solidest, most productive, and best of all early tomatoes ;
resists Avilt and other tomato diseases better than most others. The ‘Jiirbank’ is so much
earlier than other tomatoes that from the seed of the tomatoes whic^ ripened here in June,
a second crop has been again and again groAvn and ripened the same season, something
probably never before knoAvn. This extreme earliness means millions of dollars to American
tomato groAA'ers, as one-half the tomatoes groAAm in the United States, even in Cailfornia, are
taken by frost instead of by the groAver.

“Fruit, bright crimson; thick, solid, heaA*y, smooth, firm, medium to large in size, superior
quality, unusually lieaAw and continuous bearer throughout the season; best keeper and
shipper. The ‘Burbank’ has one other unique and most remarkable quality AAdiich Avill be
appreciated by those Avho like fresh sliced tomatoes for the table. Unlike other tomatoes,
the skin peels freely from the rich, firm flesh.”

Price: The “Burbank” Tomato can be offered only in packets of loo seeds each this

season. Per pkt., 15c; 2 pkts., 25c; 10 pkts., $1.00.

BISHOP’S CHOICE TOMATO — For seven years we have been improving this tomato by selection of
seed from the best, healthiest, and most productive vines. It is now nearly blight-proof, and is a smooth,
mild, and large tomato for an early variety. We have had plants three years old and they were heavily
loaded all winter. Plants for sale, 40c dozen. Seed 20c package; 75c ounce.

BISHOP’S NURSERIES

Highland,

California