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garden , as well as the healthful excercise , should be an induce-
ment to plan one for this year .

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IT IS surprising how small a piece of ground is needed to supply a family of
average size with fresh vegetables through the whole season. A piece of ground, say,
thirty feet by forty feet, will do it. In these days of high prices there are many sorts
of vegetables that it more than pays to grow at home. In comparison with the
ridiculously small cost, the return surely does warrant the effort.

CL How can it be done? The preparation of the plat is the first consideration.
The ground must be well worked up, all sticks, stones and large lumps removed,
and in most instances it will be necessary to turn under a goodly amount of stable
manure or humus. Commercial fertilizer may also be applied sparingly at time of
planting in the rows, or beside the rows of plants later on.

PlCK a well drained spot in the yard where the sun shines all day long and
there are no shade trees, for vegetables as well as flowers need plenty of sunshine plus
lots of cultivation and then some more cultivation.

CL Next , the seed. Be sure of your seed, as it is most discouraging to find after
you have planted and worked all summer that you have nothing worth while to show
for your pains.

PLANTING Lettuce, Radish, Carrots, Beets, Early Onions and Turnips re-
quires very little room and can be grown between those sorts that require more space.
Put Corn and tall kinds where they will not shade in any way the more dwarf kinds.

CL How shall I plant or lay out the bed? Why not try it this way: Half a pint of
Wax Beans planted, say, in two rows, followed by half a pint of green podded kinds.
One row of Early Cabbage (use plants). One or two quarts of Peas — early and late
in two rows. One row of Early Beets. Follow Peas and Beets with a planting of
Late Cabbage (use plants of your own growing). Half a row of Radish, Early Round.
Half a row of Long White or Red. One-half row Lettuce, curled leaf, half row Head
Lettuce. One row of Onion Sets. Follow Onion, Radish and Lettuce with Egg Plant,
Pepper, Turnip and Rutabaga. One row of Cucumber, Early and Late. One row of
Tomato. Four rows of Sweet Corn, early and late, Squash, Pumpkins, etc.

CL Man Y other sorts may be added to this list which are well worth the time and
effort of producing.

DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF SEEDS

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ARTICHOKE

The Globe Artichoke is cultivated for its flower-
heads, which are cooked like asparagus. Plants set
in any good soil, with slight coverings in winter, will
remain in bearing several years.

Large Green Globe. The standard variety.

PALMETTO

ASPARAGUS

Sow one ounce for sixty feet of drill. Sow in March
or April, in rows one foot apart. When' two years old,
transplant into permanent beds, which should be well
and deeply manured, and trenched to the depth of two
feet. Set the plants (in rows) from three to four feet
apart, and two feet in the rows, spreading out the roots
and covering from six to eight inches. On the approach
of winter cover with manure or compost; fork the beds
early in spring, and apply a dressing of salt. Cut for
use the second year after planting in permanent bed.

Columbian Mammoth White.. A new and entirely
distinct variety that produces shoots that are white
and remain white as long as fit to use.

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

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

Washington. A vigorous growing and very produc-
tive variety which has been bred to resist the disease
known as “Asparagus Rust.” The shoots are thick and
heavy. They are long and straight, with closely folded
tips. The color is rich dark green, tinted darker at
the tips.

BRUSSELS SPROUTS

One Ounce of Seeds to 100 Yards of Row

A variety of the cabbage family, possessing the
peculiarity of bearing upon its stem or stalk from 50
to 100 buds resembling miniature cabbage heads. The
leaves composing these heads resemble Savoy Cabbage
in their crumpled texture and also in their color. The
heads or buds, from one to two inches in diameter,
form one of the most delicious garden vegetables, only
equaled by the cauliflower. Treat same as cabbage.
Autumn grown sprouts, drilled in May and trans-
planted in July, generally do best, as the plants are
quite hardy and the buds mellow under frost.

Dwarf Improved. A variety producing compact
sprouts of excellent quality.

BUSH BEANS, Green Pod

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. Hand cultivated beans can be drilled in poor
soil as close as 18 inches, but in rich soil, with horse
cultivation, 30 inches is required. Drill six beans to
the foot and cover one
inch deep, or plant four
beans to the hill, 18
by 24 inches apart.

Two pounds of seed
should plant 200 feet
and 60 pounds an acre.

Plant every third week
for a succession up
until August 1 in the
latitude of Chicago.

Shallow cultivation
only should be given
at all times and do
not cultivate when the
plant is in bloom as
the plant will drop its
blossoms; never culti-
vate when wet, as it
causes rust. Pick beans
before the bulge of
seed appears and pick
them clean to continue
the plants bearing.

Early Improved Red
Valentine. For snaps
there is nothing supe-
rior to this variety
among the dwarf green
podded sorts both for
the home and market
garden and many pre-
fer it to the wax va-
rieties. Vines medium
to large, erect, with
dark green leaves. Pods
medium length, curved,
cylindrical, with crease
in back, very fleshy,
crisp and tender.

Black Valentine. A

very hardy and pro-
ductive green podded
sort, with strong, vig-
orous vines. Pods
rather flat, but very
handsome, much long-
er, straighter, less
fleshy than the Red
Valentine, the plant a
little more spreading,
and in season a little
later.

Long1 Yellow Six
Weeks. The vine is
large, vigorous, branch-
ing 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.

Bountiful. This new
green podded Bush
Bean is a heavy crop-
per and very early, of
fine shape, stringless
and good quality.

BLACK VALENTINE

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DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF SEIJDS

BUSH BEANS, Green Pod

Continued

Extra Early Refugee. Very much earlier than the
Old Style Refugee or 1000 to 1. More dwarf and com-
pact in growth.

Longfellow. This new bean has long green pods,
is exceedingly prolific, always 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..

Refugee or 1000 to 1. The vines are large, spread-
ing, exceedingly hardy, with small smooth leaves, very
late, and bear long, cylindrical green pods of excellent
quality. Highly esteemed for late planting.

Giant Stringless Green Pod. A very hardy, stocky
vine, pods long, round and green in color, of excep-
tionally fine quality and stringless throughout its
entire growth.

Burpee’s Stringless Green Pod. A very desirable
green podded snap sort for the home garden and largely
grown for the market. The vine is vigorous, spreading
and productive. The pods are larger than those of the
Red Valentine, but are quite as fleshy, of equally high
quality and remain crisp and tender longer.

Tennessee 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.

Dwarf Horticultural. Vines very productive, com-
pact, upright, with large leaves. Pods medium length,
cylindrical, curved, with splashes of bright red on a
yellowish ground.

Prench Bush Horticultural. One of the most attrac-
tive of the Horticultural family. Vine very erect,
straight and compact, with a tendency to throw out
short runners. Pods prolific, seven to eight inches
long, broad, stringy and fibrous, and distinctly marked
with a very vivid crimson.

Pleasant Eye. A valuable new green podded variety.
Vines hardy, sturdy, well leafed. Pods long, meaty,
stringless and of excellent quality.

Low’s Champion. Large, green, flat, stringless pods.

Red Kidney Navy

Improved White Kidney Boston Pea Bean

Goddard or Boston Pavorite Large White Marrow

DWARF LIMA VARIETIES

As limas require even more heat than other beans, a
failure will follow a too early planting. The beans
when favorably planted throw 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 leaves
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. How-
ever, the crop can be secured though with a lesser
per cent of germination by dropping the bean in any
position.

Bush 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 hundred twenty-five to one hundred
fifty feet.

Treat pole limas like other pole beans, using one
quart to one hundred hills.

Burpee’s Bush Lima. Plants eighteen to twenty
inches high, very productive. Pods four to four and
one-half inches long, containing three to four beans,
which are as large as the pole sorts. Bean flat and
white.

Henderson’s. This is a bush form of the small Seiva
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.

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 heavy 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.

Jackson Wonder or Calico Lima. Most prolific of all
bush lima, of Georgia type, a perfect bush butter bean
growing ten inches high to two feet, good for summer
use or winter shell beans.

BUSH BEANS, Wax Pod

Davis White 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.

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

Detroit Wax. A distinct variety of recent introduc-
tion, which is worthy of a place in every garden. The
waxy, yellow pods are produced in great abundance
and the quality is extra fine.

Prolific Black Wax. The old standard Black Wax
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.

Pencil Pod Black Wax. Pencil Pod Black Wax grows
a taller, stronger and more . vigorous bush than the
Improved Prolific Black Wax, which is one of its
parents. The other parent is the Round Pod Refugee
or Thousand to One, and from this latter source the
Pencil Pod Black Wax gets much of its vigor, hardiness
and productiveness, and its long, slender, straight, hand-
some pod, shaped very much like a pencil.

Webber Wax. Unquestionably one of the best^wax
podded beans eVer introduced. It is a market garden-
er’s bean, having been originated in one of the best
market gardening sections of the West. It produces
a deep golden colored pod of good length; shape semi-
round, thick meated, stringless and of exceptional
quality. Vines strong, holding the pods well up, with
good leaf covering and bearing in profusion.

Michigan White Wax. This splendid variety may be
briefly described as a white seeded Golden Wax. It is
one of the earliest of the dwarf, snap beans. The
vines are very vigorous and unusually productive. The
pods are golden yellow, fully as attractive as the well-
known Golden Wax and of the same exceptionally fine
quality. The seed is white, a most valuable feature
heretofore unattained in a bush bean of highest quality.

IMPROVED GOLDEN WAX

DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF SEEDS

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BUSH BEANS, Wax Pod

Continued

Currie’s Bust Proof Wax. An excellent Wax Bean
in every respect. Rust proof, tender, thick flat pods
of very good quality. Very little string in early stages,
developing a little when nearing maturity. Fit for
table use 47 days after planting.

Round Pod Kidney Wax. A very handsome mid-
season variety, especially desirable for snaps for the
home garden. The plants are of strong growth, spread-
ing and very productive. The leaves are large, broad
and roughened. The pods are long and round, five and
one-half to six inches, slightly curved, light yellow,
wax-like, stringless and of the very best quality.

Hodson Wax. The creamy-white flat pods are six to
seven inches long, by three-eighths of an inch wide.
The pods are late in maturing and are unusually free
from blight or rust.

Wardwell’s Kidney Wax. Hardy and productive, 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.

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.

Sure Crop Wax. A vigorous growing, very produc-
tive variety, similar in general appearance of plant
and seed to Currie’s Rust Proof Wax; the pods, how-
ever, are more fleshy, of decidedly better quality and
are stringless at practically all stages of growth. Pods
about six inches long, nearly round, attractive in color
and remain a long time in condition for snaps. A
decided improvement over Currie’s Wax.

POLE BEANS

The pole bean climbs, sometimes needing a little
training over any support given to it, be that support
the growing cornstalk, rough stakes from the wood
lot, bamboo or painted stakes, chicken wire or a con-
venient fence, supported wires or strings, or some
porch or trellis. 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. Some time after bunch
beans are planted, six or eight beans are planted one
inch deep near the base of each stake and later thinned
to three or four plants to the pole. One-half bushel
of pole beans generously plants an acre, and one pint
plants one hundred 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 this 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.

White Creaseback. An extremely early Pole Bean.
Vine small to medium and wonderfully productive.
Bearing pods in clusters of from four to twelve, and
medium in length. An excellent shipper.

Dutch Case Knife. Vines moderately vigorous, climb-
ing 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.

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

Tennessee Wonder. Somewhat similar in habit to
Kentucky Wonder, but with immensely larger,
straighter, smoother and more creasebacked, green
pods. More suitable as a shell rather than snap bean.

Striped Creaseback or Scotia. A very hardy and
productive cornfield bean. Pods six and one-half to
seven inches long, round, straight and creasebacked;
slightly stringy, very fleshy, fine grained, attractive
and good quality; color dark green.

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

Kentucky Wonder White Seeded or Burger’s String-
less. A very early, white seeded variety. Pods six
to seven inches long, round, slender and straight; very
tender, fleshy and stringless; of high quality; color
dark green.

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.

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, oval and splashed with red.
Used either green or in the dry state.

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

Kentucky Wonder Wax. One of the earliest of the
pole wax sorts. Pods eight to nine inches long, thick,
decidedly creasebacked, very fleshy, brittle but stringy,
attractive and fair quality; color light yellow.

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

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

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

Carolina Small White Lima or Seiva. 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.

Florida Butter or Speckled Lima. Will make an
abundant crop under weather conditions that cause
other varieties to fail. Seed of Seiva size speckled
white and brownish red.

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

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DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF SEEDS

TABLE BEETS

CRIMSON GLOBE

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
varieties should be marketable June 1st, or the crop
•may be advanced several weeks by starting under
glass and transplanting 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.

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

Early Eclipse. A very early maturing beet, especially
desirable for the home garden. Top of medium size.
Root nearly globular, with a small tap root and small
collar. Flesh bright red, zoned with white; very
sweet, crisp and tender, especially when young.

Crosby’s Egyptian. The name of this variety is mis-
leading, as it resembles the Egyptian only in its ex-
treme earliness. They are also more spherical than
the Extra Early Egyptian and, we think, of better
quality. One of the best for early planting out of doors.

Early Wonder. A selection from Crosby’s Egyptian
though not so early as our strain of that variety.
Roots very uniform, nearly globe shaped with small
top and tap root; skin dark red, flesh deep blood red,
with little zoning. Popular with market gardeners for
early or late planting.

Early Model. Extremely early, of perfect globe form
and finest quality. The foliage is very small. The
beets are always smooth and of the deepest blood-red
color, while they quickly attain a good size.

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.

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.

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

Detroit Dark Bed Turnip. Quality good; sweet and
tender; color deep red; roots are turnip shaped, with
small tap roots. - ? .

Improved Blood Turnip. An improved variety of
Early Blood turnip of deePj blood-red color; fine form
and flavor. An excellent market sort.

Bong Smooth Blood. The standard long, late sort.

Very dark, blood-red flesh, quality fine.

Swiss Chard, Silver. 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, Bucullus. An improved type of Chard.
Of more upright growth than the Silver variety; leaves
yellowish-green, much crumpled and curled, mid-rib
and veins white; stalks thick, broad and flat and as
large as rhubarb.

MANGEL WURZELS

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 the soil for it deeply,
and in May or June plant six Mangel seed to the foot
in two to three foot rows, la,ter 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, store in pits or
cellars, and the mangels are soon ready for feeding.

Improved Mammoth Bong Bed. A large, long variety
grown for stock feeding. It stands up well above the
surface; color, light red, flesh white and rose colored.

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

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

Yellow Globe. Globular shaped roots. More produc-
tive than Long Red in shallow soil. Very nutritious
and a good keeper.

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

SUGAR BEETS

The Sugar Beet, grown for the manufacture of sugar
and frequently used for stock feeding, is a yellowish
white beet, smaller than the mangel, but containing a
much greater per cent 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 de-
sirable beet for the factory is the one containing the
largest percentage of sugar. In this variety we have
one of the richest beets in cultivation.

Klein Wanzleben. A little larger than Vilmorin’s Im-
proved, 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, with wavy edges.

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.

EARBY IMPROVED BBOOD TURNIP

DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF SEEDS

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CABBAGE

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. Yes, a cabbage plant raised at.
a high temperature and full of water 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 crowding in a seed bed which
is not richer than the field to which the plants go, and
transplant, if possible, on a cloudy day, watering the
plants if the soil is dry. South of the Ohio seed
is frequently planted out of doors in September and
wintered in coldframes, 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 coldframes 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 transplating as will hold,
and set up to the first leaf. At this time the plant
should have four to 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 wray, while large late varieties,
horse cultivated, need thirty or more inches each way.
A convenient setting for Wakefield Cabbage is eighteen
inches apart in thirty-inch rows. Seven out of eight
heads can be counted upon to mature, and if yourself or
the market is cabbage, hungry, cut when the hearts are
solid. Germination occurs in four to ten days, and
cutting of well-grown early cabbage begins frequently
in sixty days from transplating. One ounce of seed
will readily give three thousand plants and one-fourth
pound is sufficient for an acre.

For home use, plant for a succession and study the

market’s demands; don’t grow big sauerkraut factory"
heads if your market asks for small cabbage for home
use.

Late varieties are frequently ill-timed in planting.
Nitrate of Soda will hurry the crop if too late, 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, cabbage, turnips, cauli-
flower 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 or aphis, use tobacco tea or kerosene
emulsion, and remember, these poisons kill by contact
and do not do their work long after spraying, like a
stomach poison.

Early Jersey Wakefield. The most
popular of the pointed head varieties.
Is exceedingly early, a good cropper,
heads of good size, solid and uniform.

Large or Charleston Wakefield.

This is a selection from the best
early Jersey Wakefield which will
average about 50 per cent larger.

Early Spring. The earliest flat
head, nearly as early as Jersey
Wakefield. Yields more than the
early pointed heads. Solid, uniform
and finely grained heads.

Henderson’s Early Summer. A

standard summer variety. Heads
large and solid.

All Head Early. One of the finest
early flat head cabbages.

Faultless Cabbage. The favorite
second early cabbage. The product
of this seed outsells any other second
early cabbage. It can be marketed
in the early summer, during mid-
summer, in the fall and early winter,
making it the best all-purpose
variety.

All Seasons. A fine variety for
any season; a good shape and size.

Henderson’s Succession. A good
summer cabbage; also makes a good
cabbage to succeed itself.

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

Early Winnigstadt. An early
pointed head variety of excellent
quality, not as early as the Wakefield,
but larger.

Glory of Enkhuizen. This is an excellent midsummer
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 recommend it as a good addition to the list.

Stein’s Early Flat Dutch. An early and excellent
type of Early Flat Dutch, with a medium, stem; heads
round, flat and solid.

Early Drumhead. This popular variety follows the
Faultless in heading and is one of the most valuable
varieties grown.

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

Louisville Drumhead. This fine cabbage is very
popular with the kraut makers. It is a medium late
variety.

Premium Late Flat Dutch. This variety of late cab-
bage is a standard in all sections for winter use. It
makes a large solid head, which keeps long without
bursting, and is adapted to a more varied climate than
probably any other variety we grow.

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

Large Late Drumhead. A late variety of large size.

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DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF SEEDS

Copenhagen Market. One of the

finest early round-headed cab-
bages in cultivation. It is desira-
ble on account of the remarkable
characteristic of maturing the
heads all at the same time, en-
abling the grower to gather his
crop with less expense and per-
mitting 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.

Wisconsin No. 8. A yellow re-
sistant strain of cabbage of the
Holland type.

CABBAGE, Continued

COPENHAGEN MARKET

Improved American Savoy. Closely approaching the
cauliflower in delicacy and delicious flavor. The best
of all the Savoys for general market or home use.
It has a short stump, grows to a large size, is com-
pact and solid, and is a sure header.

Drumhead Savoy. The best winter keeper of the
Savoys; heads late, round, compact and solid; leaves
numerous, deep green and coarsely crimped.

Large Red Drumhead. The standard pickling variety.
A good keeper.

Red Stonehead. Heads perfectly round and extremely
solid; large in size; deep purplish red, showing but
slight traces of white.

Mammoth Rock Red. The largest heading of any red
sort. Heads are hard, of deep red color, quality ex-
cellent.

Chinese Cabbage or Pe Tsai; sometimes called Celery
Cabbage, resembles Cos Lettuce as much as cabbage,
though with a decided cabbage flavor.

Danish Ballhead Cabbage. For a winter cabbage for
early spring sales some gardeners consider this variety
excellent. 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 a hard heading, and long keeping cabbage.
Heads round as a ball, solid, fine grained, has few
outer leaves, tender, crisp and of unexcelled flavor.

Holland. The favorite winter cabbage with market
gardeners. It is as hard as a rock, and a small head
will weigh as much as a large head of any other
variety. The leaves lap over and make a head in which
there is no waste.

Buy Cabbage Seed carefully. Select the
best variety for the purpose wanted and
know that you have the best seed to be
obtained.

HOLLAND WINTER CABBAGE

DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF SEEDS

7

CARROTS

Danvers. Grown largely on account of its great
productiveness and adaptability to all classes of soil.
Tops medium sized, 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. This is a popular
field variety, and although the roots are shorter, they
produce as large a bulk as the longer field sorts and
are more easily harvested.

St. Valery. A good late variety. Grows long, shape
uniform, tapering from a wide shoulder to a point.

Improved Long Orange. The most popular of the
older sorts for farm use on mellow soil. An improve-
ment obtained by years of careful selections of the
best formed and deepest colored roots of the old Long
Orange. Roots comparatively shorter than the Long
Orange, and smoother, but so uniform and true that
the bulk of crop will be greater.

Large Orange Belgian. Quite similar to White Bel-
gian except in color. Roots 20 inches long, broad and
pointed; light orange below the surface, green above.

Large White Belgian. Grows one-third out of the
ground. Root pure white, green above ground, with
small top. Flesh rather coarse. The roots on light,
rich ground, grow to- a large size and are extensively
grown for stock feeding. .

Improved Short White or Mastodon. One of the

heaviest cropping carrots grown, yielding more tons
to the acre than most any other sort. Flesh white,
crisp and solid, very sweet in flavor. Quite an improve-
ment on the White and Green Belgian sorts. * Roots
short and very heavy at the shoulder, rendering them
easy to harvest. Roots frequently measure fifteen to
twenty inches in circumference.

CAULIFLOWER

Cauliflower, while it resembles cabbage and requires
very much the same treatment as outlined under and for
cabbage, is not so hardy as cabbage, needs more water,
needs more cultivation and requires generally treatment
superior to cabbage. Cauliflower cannot be expected to
mature satisfactorily in hot, dry weather, and as it re-
quires 110 to 150 days for different varieties to mature,
its planting should be correctly timed. Start cauliflower
under glass or where cabbage plants can be wintered,
winter cauliflower. One ounce gives 2,500 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
wooden 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.

Early Snowball. The leading cauliflower in all sec-
tions and unquestionably the purest strain of cauli-
flower seed to be had. Heads uniform, of desirable
market size and of snowy whiteness. After seven
years’ competitive tests it is pronounced by expert
cauliflower growers to be the best for both early and
late planting.

Danish Dry Weather. We take pleasure in introduc-
ing 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 all weathers.

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

CARDOON

Large Solid. Grown for the mid ribs of the leaves
which are blanched and used in the same manner as
celery. The main root is also used and when cooked
in a proper way is excellent. Thorough blanching is
necessary in order to bring out the delicacy of flavor
possessed by the Cardoon.

CHERVIL

A hardy annual, worthy of more general use for
flavoring and garnishing.

Sow in early spring in rich, well prepared soil, and
when plants are well established transplant to about
one foot apart.

Curled. Greatly superior to the old, plain variety,
being earlier, more handsome, and having fully as fine
perfume and flavor.

Chantenay.

Tops medium
size; necks
small ; roots ta-
pering slightly,
but uniformly
stump rooted
and smooth;
color deep
orange red;
flesh very crisp
and tender. Al-
though this is
a medium early
sort, it fur-
nishes roots of
usable size as
early as any, is
a heavy cropper
and is undoubt-
edly one of the
best for both
the market and
private garden,
while its great
pro ductiveness
makes it very
desirable as a
field sort.

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 other vegetable catalogued. Plant carrots, in
the latitude of Chicago, from the time the soil can
be worked in Spring till July 1, in one to two-foot
rows for hand cultivation, or in 30-inch rows where
a horsedrawn tool is used. Use one ounce of seed to
one hundred feet of row, three qr four pounds to the
acre, covering one-half inch deeq, and later thin to a
four-inch stand. To cultivate the rows at an early
date, sow radish seed, which germinate quickly, with
carrot seed, which germinate slowly. Do not overlook
the value of this crop as a stock food.

Early Scarlet or Short Horn. A fine early variety,

good for home
use. Eastern
market garden-
use this sort
for bunching.

Guerande, or
Ox Heart. Tops
small for the
size of the
roots, which
are compara-
tively short,
but often reach
a diameter of 7
inches, termi-
nating abruptly
in a small tap
root. Flesh
bright orange,
fine grained and
sweet. This is
a desirable va-
riety for soil
so hard and
stiff that longer
growing sorts
would not
thrive in it.
When young,
excellent for
table use, and
when mature
equally good
for stock.

CHANTENAY

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DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF SEEDS

CELERY

GOLDEN SELF-BLANCHING

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

Perfection Heart-well. A finely flavored, good keeping
sort, hardy and solid.

Dwarf White Kalamazoo. This is the variety used
by the celebrated celery growers of Kalamazoo, Mich.,
and is of great merit.

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 qf all celeriac.

Press celery seed into the ground;
do not try to cover' it; and when
seed is kept wet and not above 60° F.,
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 ma-
ture, 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
outlined above. Given sufficient
water, celery can be grown 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 rows
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 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.

When freezing begins, lift plant with some soil and
store in a cave, coldframe or cellar, temperature close
to freezing point preferred. Use slats to keep celery in
long six-inch wide spaces, for if too deeply packed it
may heat and spoil. If plants wilt, water the roots,
not the stalks. •

Celery matures best in cool, moist weather, so the
grower farther south may delay his planting calendar

to fit his own market and convenience.

Golden Self-Blanching. The best self-blanching sort.
It acquires a handsome golden color without having
to be hilled up, which makes it a valuable market sort.

Henderson’s Easy Blanching. Excels in the quali-
ties that gives Self-Blanching Celeries their value. It
bleaches earlier and quicker than any of this class;
it is the longest-keeping variety grown (if put away
green) excelling in this respect every other sort.

White Plume. A good self-blanching sort, good for
fall use, but does not keep well.

Boston Market. For many years one of the most
popular sorts in the markets of Boston.

Giant Pascal. This is the best keeper of all of the
late sorts; v-ery solid and crisp. This variety is unsur-
passed for market garden.

CHICORY

Witloof or French Endive. The prin-
cipal merit of this variety consists in
the width of its leaves and the large
size of their ribs. When blanched, it
forms the vegetable -which the Belgians
call Witloof. When properly grown and
blanched it resembles a head of Cos
Lettuce.

Large-rooted, or Coffee. Our stock is
the Improved type, with very much
larger, smoother, whiter and propor-
tionately shorter roots than the old
kind. The dried and prepared roots
are used quite extensively as a substi-
tute or adulterant for coffee.

COLLARDS

Georgia, Southern or Creole. A vari-
ety of cabbage known in different sec-
tions as “Cole,” “Colewort,” or simply
“greens.” It is extensively used in the
South, where it continues in luxuriant
growth all winter.

WITLOOF

CHICORY

DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF SEEDS

9

SWEET CORN

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 to 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 heavy 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 gen-
erally plants 250 hills, and one peck is necessary to
the acre. Sixty-five days is a short time to maturity.
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. A v.ery 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 flavor is exceptionally rich and delicious. Our
stock has been very carefully selected. Height about
four feet.

Bantam Evergreen. Even sweeter than the “Famous
Golden Bantam.’’ It is a cross between Stowell’s
Evergreen and Golden Bantam and a most successful
one from all standpoints. For example — some critics
regard Golden Bantam as “just a bit” too small and
Stowell’s Evergreen too large. To such “Bantam
Evergreen” divides the difference and exactly fills the
bill and besides at last affords the market gardener
a “Bantam” of remarkable size.

De Eue’s Golden Giant. The originator claims that
this variety is fully as early as the Golden Bantam,
but is of better quality and double the yield.

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

Peep O Day. A very early variety, producing ears
five inches long, eight to ten rows to the ear.

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,
white cobbed, and covered with very large white grains
of good quality.

Mayflower. One of the whitest and sweetest of the
early varieties; an exceptionally good yielder and one
that deserves to be planted to come in ahead of
Golden Bantam; ears average eight inches with deep
kernels.

White Mexican. 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 four
feet; ear about six and one-half inches long. Quality
good.

Premo. A “sixty-day” sweet corn, and is thus
described by the originators: “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. Premo can be planted fully as early as the
Adams for the young plants withstand slight frosts.”

Howling Mob. One of the finest second early, large
eared sorts; very productive, white and of excellent
quality. Ears 7 to 9 inches long, 12 to 14 rows.

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

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

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

Kendall Early Giant. A valuable 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.

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.

Early Mammoth. Closely resembles the Late Mam-
moth, but is a little smaller and about two weeks
earlier. Of good si*e and quality.

Potter’s Excelsior or Squantum. Fine, large ears
and deep grain; one of the sweetest varieties.

Country Gentleman. We

have a stock of this excellent
sweet corn that is exception-
ally good. There is no sweet
corn that compares with the
Country Gentleman for sweet-
ness. 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 pro-
ductive. The fact that it is
a favorite variety with can-
ners proves its merit.

Old Colony. This variety
is two weeks earlier than
the Evergreen and almost as
large. It is considered the
best and sweetest by can-
ning factories. A fine paying
variety for market.

Early Evergreen. The ears
of this corn grow eight
inches long, are mostly four-
teen to eighteen rows. This
is a. magnificent kind for
market gardeners and for
main crop in every home
garden. It ripens ten to
twelve days in advance of
Stowell’s Evergreen and is
equally as good for all pur-
poses. The kernels are very
sweet and tender, and whs.»
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 productive-
ness. It is more popular
than any other for canning,
for marketing and for the
home garden. Great care has
to be exercised in the se-
lection of stock to grow seed
from, as this variety has a
tendency to deterioration and
a shorter grain, which makes
it less sugary and desirable.

Mammoth Sugar. A large
late variety having ears of
mammoth size, 14 to 20 rows.

Black Mexican. This crop when in condition for
the table, cooks remarkably white; but the ripe grain
is black or bluish-black.

Leonard’s Narrow Grain Evergreen. This type of
sweet corn is a stock worked up by S. F. Leonard after
several years of experimenting. In it we feel that
we have something vastly superior to the old wide
grain Evergreen. 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 uni-
formly than any other type of Evergreen.

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DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF SEEDS

CORN SALAD

DAND

Black Pekin. A fine variety,
bearing large, round, deep
purple fruits, fine grained, and
of superior quality.

Early Long Purple. Early,

hardy and productive; excel-
lent for the table.

IMPROVED NEW YORK PURPLE EGG PLANT

Florida High Bush. The

fruits of this variety are
borne higher off the ground
than other varieties, which is
advantageous in keeping out
“rot” and “blight.” The plants
are strong and stand unfavor-
able weather conditions re-
markably well. The fruits
are of uniform dark purple
color.

Fetticus, or
Lamb’s Lettuce.

This small salad
is used during the
winter and spring
months as a sub-
stitute for lettuce,
and is also cooked
and used like spin-
ach. In warm
weather the plants
will mature in
four to six weeks.
Sow the seed in
•shallow drills

ro-R-NT CSAT ATI about one foot

CORN SALAD 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, the ground can scarcely
be made too rich for them.

CRESS

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 trans-
plant to shallow indentations 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 cutting,
using a sharp knife, will stimulate plant growth.

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 worked. Plant one-half inch deep in one-foot
rows, thinning the plants to four inches.

Cultivated or French v . ~_aon. This considered
the best by many and is not at all the ■ )me as our
wild dandelion, being greatly improved by careful
selection.

Improved Thick Leaved. One of the earliest and best
greens cultivated.

TRUE WATER CRESS

EGG PLANT

Treat the egg plant like a tender tomato that required
even a longer period to mature. After cabbage plants
are out of the hotbed or greenhouse, which is April
north of the Ofiio, sow egg plant, keeping even the
night temperature above seventy degrees. One ounce
of seed gives two thousand plants, and one pound 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 watering
the plants if it’s sunny or dry. Use any good stomach
poison for the potato bug when he attacks the egg
plant.

Improved New York Purple
Spineless. Very large and
smooth, fine dark color. Ours
is the spineless plant, most
preferred by our market gar-
deners, both east and west.

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11

CUCUMBER

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 hotbed
or greenhouse 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 hap-
hazard; 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, air slaked lime, bone
flour, tobacco dust, or arsenate of lead; pull earth
around the stem or cover the hill with netting.

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

Early Improved White Spine. One of the best sorts
for table use. Vines are vigorous, fruiting early and
abundantly; fruit uniformly straight and handsome,
dark green, with a few white spines; flesh tender and
of excellent flavor.

Evergreen White Spine. Is the most profitable
cucumber for the market gardener. Best for the
greenhouse, hot bed or for outdoor culture.

Davis Perfect. In color, a dark, glossy green; shape
slim and symmetrical, with an average length of ten
to twelve inches. They hold their color until nearly
ripe, when they turn white.

Xlondyke. A medium early, very good strain of
white spine; fruits attractive, full, uniform, rather
thick, short and blocky, tapering abruptly at both
ends; color very dark green which it holds well.

Early Fortune. The finest market cucumber of the
White Spine type. The fruits measure nine inches long
and are slightly tapering. The thick flesh is pure white,
firm, and unusually crisp, with very few seeds. The
fruits are of a rich, dark green color which does not
fade when shipped to distant markets.

Early Cluster. Vines vigorous, producing the bulk of
the crop near the root and in clusters. Fruit short,
uniformly thick end, dark green, but paler at blossom
end. A very productive sort.

Green Prolific or Boston Pickling. A favorite with
pickle growers and commercial gardeners, and good
for table use. Quite productive. Fruit small, uniform
in size.

Early Frame or Short Green. An excellent sort both
for table use and for pickling. Fruit straight, hand-
some, smaller at each end, bright green; flesh tender
and crisp, and makes fine pickles.

Chicago or Westerfield Pickling. A variety esteemed
above all others by Chicago market gardeners and
extensively grown for the large pickling establishments
in this vicinity. Fruit medium length, pointed at each
end, with large and prominent spines. Color a deep
green. It combines all the good qualities of an early
cucumber.

Improved Long Green. Not so abundant a bearer as
the preceding sorts, though recommended to all who
put up their own pickles. Fruit long and slim, not
surpassed in quality by any variety.

White Wonder. Fruit produced in clusters. Color
ivory white from time of forming until maturity.

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

CHICAGO PICKLING

ENDIV

Endive, or winter lettuce, used as a salad, as greens
or garnishing, is usually planted one-fourth inch deep
in a seed bed in midsummer, 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 for use, it is blanched by
tying the leaves together with soft cord, or the blanch-
ing is done by turning a flower pot or tile over each
plant, or by blanching with earth, like celery. 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.

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

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

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DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF SEEDS

AROMATIC, MEDICINAL
AND POT HERBS

Most of the varieties thrive best on rich, sandy soil,
which should be carefuly prepared and well cultivated,
as the young plants are for the most part delicate and
easily choked out by weeds. Sow as early as the ground
can be made ready, in drills sixteen to eighteen inches
apart., taking pains that the soil is fine and pressed
firmly over the seed; or they may be planted as a
second crop, the seeds sown in beds in April, and the
plants set out in June. Most of them should be cut
when in bloom, wilted in the sun and thoroughly dried
in the shade.

Anise Horehound

Balm Hyssop

Basil, Sweet Lavender

Borage Sweet Marjoram

Caraway Rosemary

Catnip Rue

Coriander Saffron

Dill

Siberian Kale, or Winter Sprouts. This is also called

German Greens and is sometimes sold for Dwarf Green
Curled Kale, but it is not as curly as the Dwarf Curled
Kale and is different from it in color. The leaves are
smooth in the center, having a fringed edge. Color has
a bluish tint, not the deep green of the Dwarf Curled
Kale.

Tall Green Curled Scotch. This is very hardy and is
not injured by a moderate frost. About thirty 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 without any
protection.

KOHL-RABI

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 plant an acre. Sow in

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Fennel, Sweet or Savory. Summer
Common Thyme

Fennel, Florence Wormwood

KALE OR
BORECOLE

In Virginia, kale planted in late
August has some of its plants thinned
out and sent to market within sixty S# J|j

days and the cutting then continues
until the field is clean in April. Further » *’>j

north, kale is treated like the cabbage; - ■!

that is, planted early in spring in hot- '■ ' 1

beds or out of doors, and it is used % A J

in the fall when light frosts have im- f||jSp|8;
proved it. Kale is sown in two or three A'
foot drills and thinned to six to twenty-
four inches, according to varieties. One -

ounce sows generously one hundred
yards and four pounds plants an acne. /, JLjki

Dwarf Curled Scotch. Leaves bright
green, curled, very tender and fine
flavored; an excellent sort for private
gardens.

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DWARF CURLED SCOTCH

eighteen to twenty-four-inch rows, thin to four inches
apart and use for the table when small. Like the turnip,
we cannot expect good kohl-rabi in the summer heat,
but a planting made about August 1st north of the
Ohio will give a crop for winter storage. Do not over-
look the value of this plant as a stock food.

Early White Vienna Forcing, The finest for market.
Flesh white and tender.

Early Purple Vienna Forcing. Bluish purple; similar
to above, except in color.

EARLY WHITE VIENNA KOHL-RABI

LEEK

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 the spring.
Thin the plants to a stand of four to six inches in the
twelve to eighteen-inch rows. It is advisable to throw
earth to the plant to blanch it, very much as celery
is blanched.

Large American Flag. Large, hardy and excellent
quality.

Monstrpus Carentan. The favorite market variety,
large, thick stem, of mild flavor and attractive ap-
pearance.

Large Musselburgh. Grows to a very large size, with
broad leaves, spreading like a fan; hardy, of excellent
quality.

London Flag. An old and popular sort; one of the
hardiest and best for winter use.

DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF SEEDS

13

BIG BOSTON

LETTUCE

As lettuce will stand considerable freez-
ing. 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 hotbeds; 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 transplanted; or

thinned and matured where planted. When
the crop is matured under glass it requires
much ventilation and little heat, and be-
ware 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 lettuce in twelve 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. This is the most popular early
sort on the market. Forms large, loose heads. Leaves
thin and exceedingly tender, of light green to golden
yellow. Best sort for forcing or outdoor early planting.

Early Curled Silesia. A very tender sort, with fine
curled leaves.

Grand Rapids Forcing. Preferred by a great many
to the Black Seeded Simpson, on account of being a
tougher leaved lettuce. This makes it a fine sort for
shipping, as it does not break so easily and stands
longer without wilting.

IMPROVED HANSON

The Deacon. A magnificent butter head
lettuce. It stands the hot weather without
becoming bitter or running to seed, and
bears fine, large heads of superb quality.
Light green outside, and within a beautiful
cream yellow of delicious rich, buttery
flavor. Highly recommended for home, or
market use.

New York or Wonderful. The large
white heads resemble cabbage in their
solidity, and frequently weigh two and
three pounds each. The quality is superb,
being crisp, rich and tender. It withstands
the heat well, making a fine variety for all
seasons.

May King. Plant this lettuce for the
first early head lettuce. It is equally good
for outdoor planting or forcing. The outer
leaves have a slightly brownish tinge,
while the heart is a beautiful yellow, very
crisp and tender. Salamander. This will
stand the summer heat better than any
other variety.

California Cream Butter. A grand, good
butter lettuce. The heads are of good size,
round and solid; outside, medium green;
within the leaves are a rich cream yellow
color. Rich and buttery in taste.

Paris White Cos. The Cos lettuce differs
entirely in shape from the other varieties,
the head being elongated and of conical
form, eight or nine inches in height, and
five or six inches in diameter. To be had
in perfection it requires to be tied up to
insure blanching.

BLACK SEEDED SIMPSON

Early Curled Simpson White Seed. Forms a close,
compact, mass of curly yellowish green leaves. Good
for cold frames or early planting for outdoors.

Prize Head. The leaves are very large, crimped,
bright green tinged with brownish-red and are exceed-
ingly tender, crisp and sweet, forming a large, loose
head.

Improved Hanson. Heads large, hearts quickly and
stands the summer well; quality excellent.

Early Tennis Ball, White Seed. A good early sort
and used largely by eastern gardeners for forcing.

Early Tennis Ball, Black Seed. A good lettuce for
early use. The heads are small, but very crisp and
solid.

St. Louis Butter. The most popular and satisfactory
head lettuce with market gardeners. It forms a fine
head, is tender and crisp, and is .very slow to run to
seed. Outer leaves are light green, and the inner
ones are bright, creamy yellow, of a very fine flavor.
Altogether, we recommend it as being the best head
lettuce for general use.

All Seasons. One of the best head lettuces, standing
the hot sun better than any other sort. Slow to seed.

The Leonard Lettuce — Cabbage head — is the head
lettuce for early and late summer planting. Produces a
very fine early large solid head, color a fine light green,
free from spots. Small ribbed leaves that are 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. It is about one week
later in maturing but its solidity and greater size of
head will make it a most valuable sort. A most desira-
ble variety, either for forcing in cold frames or open
ground planting.

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DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OP SEEDS

MUSK MELON

Banana. A long salmon fleshed variety of good
flavor, growing about fifteen inches long.

Musk melon, watermelon, 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 some-
times required between 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 the 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.

Casaba Melon. The Casabas are primarily for winter
use. They require a long season for maturing but
the fruits are exceptionally good keepers. The skin
of the fruits is usually furrowed and they possess
little or none of the common musk melon odor.

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

Emerald Gem. A very early, yellow fleshed melon
of small to medium size. One of the very best for the
home garden.

Rocky Pord. This has be-
come one of the most popular
of small or crate melons and
is shipped in large quantities
from Colorado 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.

Rocky Pord — Pollock 10-25.

This melon is identical in size
with the Rocky Ford; the flesh
is salmon tinted instead of all
green. It is rapidly taking the
place of the old green fleshed
Rocky Ford.

Jenny Iiind. Vines rather
small but vigorous and pro-
ductive. Fruits small, some-
what flattened, deeply ribbed
and well netted. Flesh green
and exceedingly sweet.

Netted Gem. The best early
melon known. Shipped to every
market of note in great quan-
tities every year. Medium
size, but of excellent flavor.

Extra 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.

Hoodoo or Hearts of Gold. An orange fleshed melon
of medium size — fine for the home garden as a mid-
season sort, also ideal as a shipping melon, as the rind,
although thin, is very firm and is covered with dense
fine netting. Vines are vigorous and resist blight well.
Fruits are uniform, medium in size, nearly round. The
flesh is thick, firm, highly colored and delicious.

Honey Dew. The fruits are round or slightly
oval, six to eight inches in diameter and
weigh about six to eight pounds ;^the skin is
smooth and when ripe is creamy yellow in
color; flesh light emerald green, fine grained
and of very sweet sugary flavor. Rind thin

but very firm and the fruits stand shipping HOODOO

remarkably well. OR HEARTS OP GOLD

Large Hackensack or Turks Cap. A very large, green
fleshed melon. The vines are hardy, vigorous and pro-
ductive. The fruits are nearly round, usually somewhat
flattened; ribs large and of irregular width, densely
covered with coarse netting.

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

Osage or Miller’s Cream. Is of medium size, oval
in form, dark green in color, somewhat netted and
slightly ribbed. The flesh is extremely and uniformly
thick, of firm texture, rich salmon in color; highly
flavored and delicious to the rind. Cavity very small.
It is a remarkable keeper and a good shipping melon.

Burrel Gem. This is an orange fleshed netted Gem or
Rocky Ford.

Tip Top. This very productive melon is of
medium to large size, nearly round, slightly
ribbed and fairly well covered with shallow
netting. The flesh is deep yellow in color.
The universal testimony 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, finest flavor, firm, but
not hard-fleshed, eatable to the very coating.

Delicious Gold Lined. A new melon of fine
uniform shape and without ribs; slightly oval;
meat thick, green and light gold towards
center.

DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF SEEDS

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WATER MELON

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.

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

Long Light Icing. The skin is of an attractive
mottled very light cream color, the flesh is deep red
in color and of very fine quality.

Dark Icing. One of the most delicious fruits of
round or shortened oval form with dark green skin,
flesh deep pink, very sweet and melting.

Tom Watson. A large
melon similar in shape and
splendid quality to Monte
Cristo, but averaging larger
in size and with tougher rind,
making it especially adapted
for shipping. The rind is
dark green with distinct fine
veining; flesh is rich red,
sweet and tender. Undoubt-
edly the best shipping melon.

Cole’s Early. Very hardy,
a sure cropper and extremely
delicate in texture of flesh,
which is of dark red color;
rind is thin and extremely
brittle, hence not desirable
for shipping purposes, but
possessing all the other most
desirable features. We highly
recommend it for home use.

Gypsy, or Georgia Rattle-
snake. One of the largest
varieties and stands shipment
long distances. Fruit cylin-
drical, square at the ends, ,

smooth, distinctly striped and mottled light and dark
green. Flesh bright scarlet and very sweet.

Peerless or Ice Cream. Medium sized with very
sweet, scarlet flesh. A good variety for main crop.

Sweetheart Water Melon. This melon is early, large,
handsome, heavy and productive. The shape is oval and
the color mottled light to a very light green. Flesh
bright red, solid, but tender and very sweet..

Ploricla Favorite. A very large, long melon mottled
dark green with stripes of lighter shade. Rind thin
but firm; flesh very bright, deep red, very sweet, tender
and excellent.

TOM WATSON WATERMELON

Wonderful or White Seeded Kleckley’s Sweets. A

very valuable melon, wonderfully productive, long,
thick, uniform; color of rind, dark bluish green; flesh,
sparkling red, sweet and entirely free from hard centers.

Kleckley’s Sweets or Monte Cristo. A splendid sort.
Vine vigorous and productive. Fruit of medium size;
oval, dark, mottled green in two shades, forming indis-
tinct stripes.

Halbert Honey. A variety somewhat similar to
Kleckley Sweets but of much darker color. The vines
are very prolific and usually bear four or five very
uniform melons. Quality the highest.

Green Seeded Citron. Colorado Preserving.

Kolb’s Gem. Vines of medium size, but remarkably
vigorous and healthy.

Phinney’s Early. Few, if any, of the early sorts (?f
recent introduction surpass this old favorite. It is
the first to ripen, of good size and productive.

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

Red Seed Citron. For preserving.

MUSHROOM SPAWN

For the money invested, no more profitable crop.
Once started, it is easy to continue. The supply never
equals the demand, so that a market is easily secured.

Pure Culture, in Bricks

Irish Gray. The size is uniform and large. Color
of rind yellowish gray and almost as tough as that
of the Citron. Ripens earlier than Watson and will
keep in good condition for a long time after picking.
Very prolific and a good shipper.

Alabama Sweet. The melons are large, of oblong
form and have a firm dark slightly striped rind. The
flesh is bright red and of delicious flavor. Seeds are
white, one of the very best of the long melons for
shipping purposes.

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

MUSTARD

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 succession, 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 Curled. The favorite of the
south. ,

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.

White. Best for general use.

Brown. Stronger than above.

NASTURTIUM

Tall Mixed Garden. Grown not only for orna-
ment but the beautiful 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.

Dwarf Mixed Garden. Same as above, except
that it grows in dwarf form.

KLECKLEY’S SWEETS

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DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF SEEDS

SPECIAL GLOBE ONIONS

RED GLOBE WHITE GLOBE YELLOW GLOBE

Our Three Globes bring more money to the onion
grower and sell quicker than any other varieties. Our
Yellow Globe is the Standard Yellow, our Red Globe is
the Standard Red, and our White Globe is the Standard
White.

These stocks are quite superior to the ordinary run
of Southport Globes.

Red Globe. A fine, large globe-shaped onion, of mild
flavor. It is a good keeper, excellent for main crop.

White Globe. A very handsome onion, of splendid
quality. Keeps well. It has a good, strong flavor. The
best sort for early green onions from seed.

Yellow Globe. This is a large, handsome yellow
variety. Shape, perfectly globular; quality fine. A
splendid keeper.

ONION SEED, Standard Sorts

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 com-
mercial fertilizer, high in potash, harrowed in imme-
diately 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 transplanted when the
size of slate pencils to the required stand in the field.

Early Plat Yellow Danvers. A good variety, but not
as round or quite as early as the Yellow Globe Danvers.

Yellow Strasburg, or Dutch. One of the oldest varie-
ties. Bulbs quite flat, of good size.

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

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

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.

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

Prizetaker. Grows to an immense size- and for fall
marketing 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, deli-
cate flavor. The outside skin is rich yellow while the
flesh is white. 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

White Bermuda. A straw colored onion, mild flavored;
yellow in color, otherwise same as red.

Crystal White Wax. This variety is popular in the
south where the transplanting method of culture is
practiced.

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

Onion Sets — See inside back cover.

DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF SEEDS

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OKRA OR GUMBO

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 or three foot drills, and thinning 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.

stuffed and prepared with cabbage, tomatoes or meat.
The pods of peppers are green till in ripening they
turn red or yellow, according to the variety.

Start pepper in hotbeds 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.

Large Bell, or Bull Nose. A very large sort of
inverted bell shape, suitable for filling or for mixed

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.

Plain or Single. Plain leaves, excel-
lent flavor; very extensively grown for
bunching into soup bunches.

Double Curled. The standard sort
outdoor culture, also highly prized
market gardeners for the greenhouse.

Champion Moss Curled. A

curled variety. One of the
for garnishing purposes. The
ingly curled leaves make it desirable.

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

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

Long Green. Taller than above, pods similar.

White Velvet. The pods are perfectly round, smooth
and of an attractive white velvet appearance; of supe-
rior flavor and tenderness.

Hamburg Rooted. The standard
sort. The leaves are used for soup
greens, and the roots, when sliced, are
much esteemed.

CHAMPION MOSS CURLED PARSLEY

PARSNIP

Plant 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 hundred feet and
three to five pounds plants an acre. This crop requires

the entire season to
mature, and as frost
improves the roots,
they may be left in
the ground all winter.
Both as to quantities
and its feeding val-
ues, the parsnip is a
valuable stock feed.

Improved Hollo<w
Crown. Roots com-
paratively short, with
a very smooth, clean
skin. The variety is
easily distinguished
by the leaves arising
from a depression on
the top or crown of
the root.

Guernsey Improved.

The best sort for
heavy, black soils.
Where the soil is ex-
ceedingly rich this is
the variety needed, as
it makes a fine shaped
root which does not
grow too long.

PEPPERS

The pods of the
pepper are used in
sauces, salads, soups
or as a seasoning,
and the large mild
varieties called man-
goes are eaten from
the hand or variously

pickle. Flesh thick, hard and less pungent than most
other sorts.

Sweet Mountain. Plants very vigorous and produc-
tive, growing upright, with moderately large leaves.
Fruit very large, long, often eight inches or more in
length, by two in diameter.

Royal King. A very smooth, sweet pepper, larger
than Sweet Mountain, just right for stuffing and
pickling.

Ruby King. An improved American sort, reaching
the largest size, yet retaining the symmetrical shape of
the smaller sorts.

Ruby Giant. An improvement over Ruby King. It
is larger, smoother, finer grained and sweeter. An ex-
cellent pepper.

Chinese Giant. Without doubt one of the very best
and largest Mango Peppers ever introduced. Its mam-
moth size, splendid shape, beautiful, rich, glossy-red
flesh and mild flavor, all lead us to speak of it in words
of commendation.

World Beater. One of the very best of the large
peppers, being a cross between Chinese Giant and
Ruby King, having the longer form and earliness of the
latter with the size of the former. Fruits four lobed,
five inches long by three and one-half inches in diame-
ter; flesh very thick and mild, exceeding productive and
a good shipper.

Pimento. A very thick flesh, heart-shaped, smooth,
mild, crimson variety, much used for salads; fruit
pendent.

Golden Dawn. In shape it resembles the popular
Bell or Bull Nose Pepper. It is of a most beautiful
golden yellow color.

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 Cherry. Plant tall, bearing a profusion of bright
red, round fruit which is very pungent when ripe.

RUBY KING

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DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OP SEEDS

PEAS

As to a superiority between smooth and wrinkled
peas it is all a matter of individual taste, but the pre-
ponderance of taste is in favor of the wrinkled varieties.

ALL VARIETIES OP PEAS, REGARDLESS OP
HEIGHT, MAY BE GROWN SUCCESSFULLY WITH-
OUT 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 hundred feet
and three bushels to the acre.

Plant all peas at least five inches deep in soil that
has been deeply plowed. This deep planting 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 till 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 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.

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 y2 feet high, of a peculiar light green color;
pods 2% to 2% inches long, straight and blunt at the
end, and light in color.

First and Best. Early, productive and hardy, with a
strong, vigorous vine, which is light in color and
uniform in growth, 2 y2 to 3 feet in height and bearing
straight pods 2y2 to 2% inches long, round, light in
color, and blunt at the ends.

Philadelphia Extra Early. This pea is one of the

‘White” earlies and is superior to First and Best or
Prolific Early Market. Vines are strong growing for
this class of pea, about 30 inches in height, foliage pale
green. Pods are pale colored, straight, round and blunt.
Average 21/4 inches in length. Fit for use 56 days from
planting. Seed small to medium sized, white and
smooth.

Pride of the Market. Of fine growth and general
appearance, both vine and pod, and closely resembles
the Stratagem 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 y2 inches long, broad and dark in color. Fit for table
use 61 days from planting. Seed blue, slightly dented,
large.

Mammoth Melting Sugar. Large edible pod. Height,
42 to 48 inches. Pods, 4 to 4 y2 inches long and 1 y8
inches broad. Fit for table use 80 days from planting.

White Marrowfat. Vines hardy, strong, and bearing
broad, thick, leathery pods.

Black-Eyed Marrowfat. Strong and vigorous vines
bearing pods near the top of the vine.

WRINKLED SEED

American Wonder. Vigorous, productive vines, with
a luxuriant foliage and producing the leaves on one
side of the stalk, and 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 col-
ored, straight, round, about 2 y2 inches long, and blunt
at the end.

Nott’s Excelsior. Resembling Gems in habit, but
more dwarf and uniform in growth; height, 12 to 17
inches, with rather light foliage.

Little G-em. Strong and vigorous in growth, produc-
ing vines from 18 to 24 inches in height, dark foliage,
bearing pods singly on both sides of the stalk, begin-
ning near the ground. Pods are almost straight, 2 y2
to 2% inches long, light in color and blunt at the ends.

Horsford’s Market Garden. Strongly resembling
Premium Gem in habit of growth, but about one-third
taller, vines growing 26 to 30 inches high.

Advancer. Vines upright and vigorous in growth,
hardy and productive. Height, 30 inches, foliage dark
green. Pods 2 y2 to 2% inches long, round, dark colored
and blunt.

Little Marvel. Height of vine 18 inches, with dark
green foliage. Small blunt dark green pods. Fit for
table use 53 to 55 days from planting. Seed blue green,
small sized, 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.
Ready for picking from 62 to 65 days from planting.
Seed pale green, large, much wrinkled.

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 y2 inches long,
light in color and blunt at the ends.

Gradus. A large, wrinkled, early pea, with a pod
nearly as large as Telephone, filled 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. Seed large, cream
colored, wrinkled.

Thomas Laxton. Closely resembling Gradus in habit,
rapidity of growth, earliness and foliage. Twenty-six
to 30 inches high and much hardier in every respect
than Gradus.

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LAXTONIAN

PEAS

WRINKLED SEED, Continued

Laxtonian. This
handsome wrink-
led pea is the
largest podded of
the dwarf varie-
ties. The dark
green pods are
similar to Gradus
in shape and splen-
did quality, are
nearly as large in
size and often ma-
ture a little earlier.
Vines vigorous
and productive,
averaging 15 to 18
inches high; foli-
age dark green ;
pods about four
inches in length.
Seed light green
large wrinkled,
flattened, irregular
in shape. The ear-
liness in combina-
tion with the very
large, handsome,
dark green pods,
makes this the
ideal pea for the
market grower or
planter for profit.

Potlatch. Strong,
vigorous vines of
even growth, 20 to
24 inches in height,
with luxuriant
dark foliage, bear-
ing pods medium
green in color, 3 y2
to 4 inches in
length. Broad and
pointed at the
ends. No variety
known will produce
more pods, and no
pods could possi-
bly shell out bet-
ter. The Potlatch is a variety from which anyone
may expect great things. Fit for table use 61 days
from planting. Seed green, wrinkled, large in size.

Sutton’s Dwarf Defiance. The vines, vigorous and
hardy, about 2 feet in height, with coarse, dark green
foliage, bearing long, broad pointed pods, dark green
in color. Fit for picking 61 days after planting. Seed
large, green, wrinkled.

Stratagem. A vigorous, hardy and luxuriant vine,
bearing large pods containing peas of excellent quality.
A heavy cropper, although it has a tendency to sport.
Vines 20 inches. Foliage, dark green. Pods 3V2 inches
long, straight, broad, pointed, gray green in color.
Fit for table use 56 days from planting. Seed very
large, green, wrinkled.

Dwarf Gray Sugar. The old

variety of the edible podded sort,
and is used in no other way. Grows
about two feet high and is remarka-
ble for its earliness. Pods are broad,
flat and crooked and contain five to
six peas. Seed is brown and
wrinkled.

Admiral Dewey. One of the largest
podded peas yet introduced. Height,

3 y2 feet; pods a rich, dark green
color, frequently 6 inches long, beau-
tifully shaped. Peas large, tender
and of first class flavor.

Telephone. Vines and leaves large
and coarse. Foliage light green in
color. Height, 40 to 50 inches; pods,

±y2 inches long, broad pointed,
medium green in color. Fit to pick
62 to 65 days from planting. Seed
large, green, wrinkled.

Alderman. A large podded pea of
the Telephone type, very robust and
vigorous as to vine, foliage, mixed,

Duke of Albany. Resembling the Telephone in ap-
pearance. Vine and foliage medium green in color.
Height, 50 inches.

Everbearing. Vigorous and branching in habit of
growth. Height 2 y2 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.

Champion of England. Strong and vigorous in growth,
42 to 50 inches in height.

Yorkshire Hero. Hardy, productive and upright in
growth, bearing near the top of stalk, broad pointed
pods with peas of a good quality. Foliage dark 'green,
23 to 28 inches in height. Pods, 2y2 to 3 inches long,
blunt, light green in color.

PUMPKIN

The finer varieties of pumpkins are used for pies
and the coarser ones for stock feeding. While the
pumpkin may be grown very much as cucumbers are
grown in a garden, they are more frequently planted
in the field with corn, where several seed are dropped
in each fourth hill. Planted 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 requires as much time as corn to mature, the
planting cannot be too long delayed.

Small Sugar. This variety is very small, but of
most excellent quality for pies.

Japanese Pie. Shaped somewhat like the -Cushaws
and grows to a large size; skin deep green with dark
stripes; flesh deep yellow and of high quality; seeds
sculptured like Chinese letters.

Large Cheese or Kentucky Field. One of the best for
table use, and very productive. Shape fiat; flesh yellow,
thick and tender.

Connecticut Field. The hardiest of all pumpkins;
cultivated mainly for stock-feeding, producing enor-
mous crops.

Mammoth Potiron. The flesh and skins are of a
bright golden yellow color. Flesh fine grained and of
excellent quality. This enormous variety has been
grown to weigh 200 pounds.

Green Striped Cushaw. Fruits very large, with
crooked neck. Color creamy white, irregularly striped
or traced with green. Flesh light yellow, very thick,
rather course, but sweet. This sort is very productive
and popular in some sections.

Winter Queen. This is an improvement of the old
well-liked sugar pumpkin. Its size is uniformly about
nine to ten inches in diameter, color a beautiful deep
orange yellow, with a close netting, almost as rus-
seted as a potato.

Pie. Fruit of medium size, nearly round; skin light
yellow, smooth and covered with a fine gray netting.
Flesh light yellow, very thick, sweet and finely fla-
vored. Makes very delicious pies.

Tennessee Sweet Potato. Hardy, productive, sweet
and- delicious, and one of the best for cooking purposes
ever introduced.

medium green.

LARGE CHEESE, OR KENTUCKY FIELD

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DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF SEEDS

SCARLET GLOBE RADISH

and, unlike other forcing varieties, does not become
pithy even when twice their size in diameter.

Long Scarlet, Short Top. This bright scarlet, small
topped sort is about six inches long.

Cincinnati Market. The tops of this new radish are
very small and may stand much closer in rows than
Woods’ Early Frame or Long Scarlet, without danger
of running to seed.

White Icicle. This handsome white variety is becom-
ing 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.

Early Scarlet Turnip. The standard early turnip
radish. Fine flavored and mild.

Scarlet Turnip, White Tipped. One of the hand-
somest of the turnip radishes and a great favorite
in many large markets for early planting outdoors.

Sparkler White Tipped. A new and distant globe-
shaped radish. The roots, even when fully developed,
are solid, crisp and sweet, remaining fit for use
longer than most of the other globe-shaped sorts. The
colors are more vivid and attractive. The upper part
is a rich carmine scarlet, with a large tip of the purest
white, which is quite distinct from any other variety.
An excellent forcing sort for either greenhouse or
frames or for growing in the open ground.

Trench Breakfast. Olive shaped, scarlet, with white
tip; crisp and tender.

Early White Turnip or White Box. A little flatter
than the Scarlet Turnip, and pure white in color.

Long Brightest Scarlet, White Tipped. This is the
brightest and handsomest colored scarlet radish known.

Improved Chartier. Decidedly distinct in appearance
from any radish in cultivation.

Long White Vienna, or Lady Pinger. A very excel-
lent white variety with long, very smooth white roots.

WHITE ICICLE
The Best Long White Sort

White Strasburg, or Summer Hospital. Large, showy,
half long, white sort.

White Summer Turnip. A very large turnip-shaped
variety; white, very crisp and mild.

Yellow Summer Turnip. A very large turnip-shaped
variety; yellow, very crisp and mild.

White Stuttgart. A summer variety. Grows to a
large size. White flesh, very crisp and tender. Of
good flavor and a good keeper.

RADISH— WINTER VARIETIES

Rose or Scarlet China. Roots cylindrical, or largest
at the botom, tapering abruptly to a small tap. Skin,
very smooth and of a bright rose color.

White China or Celestial. A comparatively new vari-
ety which is popular wherever known. The root is
long, cylindrical, with beautiful white skin.

California Mammoth. First introduced into this
country by the Chinese in California. It is- pure
White. The flesh is tender and crisp, keeping well
through the winter.

Large White Spanish. A large-rooted winter variety.

Round Black Spanish. Roots round, sometimes top-
shaped, 3 to 4 inches in diameter; skin black, flesh
white.

Long Black Spanish. One of the latest as well as
hardiest of the radishes; an excellent sort for winter
use.

RADISH

SCARLET TURNIP WHITE TIPPED

Plant radishes on a light soil if a choice is possible,
and every second week for a succession from the time
the soil can be worked in spring till the first light
frost. Plant in ten to eighteen-inch rows, cover the
seeds one-half inch deep and permit four to ten rad-
ishes to grow to the foot of row, according to variety.
Use one ounce of seed to one hundred feet of row and
eight to twelve pounds to the acre. Radish seed, which
germinate quickly, may be sown with some slow-ger-
minating seed that the cultivation of that crop may
begin the earlier, or the quick-growing radish may
be grown between rows of some slow-growing crop
that later requires considerable space. The Winter
Radish is sown at late turnip planting time and used
in the autumn or stored for winter like the turnip.

Early Scarlet Globe. A desirable sort for hotbed
forcing and outdoors; very early; flavor mild, crisp,
juicy and tender; top small; will stand heat without
becoming pithy. One of the best selling and most
attractive radishes on account of its bright scarlet
color and handsome shape. Is ready in twenty-eight
days.

Crimson Giant Turnip, Porcing. A variety extraor-
dinary 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

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RHUBARB

Rhubarb, familiarly known as Pie Plant, or Wine
Plant, is cultivated in gardens for its leaf stalks,
which are used for pies and tarts. Immense quanti-
ties are now annually sold in all the larger markets.
No private garden should be without it.

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 trans-
plant 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 allowed to exhaust
itself by running to seed. Our seed is saved from
selected plants of the Linnaeus, Victoria, Giant and
other improved sorts, but like the seeds of fruit trees,
rhubarb seed cannot be relied upon to reproduce the
same varieties.

Large Leaved Viroflay, or Thick Leaf. A variety
which grows very rapidly, forming a cluster of large,
very thick, slightly wrinkled leaves of fine color and
quality when cooked. Especially recommended for
market gardeners.

Round Leaved. This variety is generally preferred
in the North for early spring sowing, and is the favor-
ite with our market gardeners. The leaves are large,
thick and fleshy. Though not quite as hardy as the
Prickly Winter, it stands the winter very well.

Fill Basket. The largest early spinach, its broad,
thick, dark green leaves are very tender and of deli-
cious flavor. Withstands hot weather well.

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. The leaves are smooth and very dark, rich
green. Very popular with market gardeners.

Broad Flanders. An early and vigorous-growing
round-seeded variety. The leaves are bright green,
broad and thick with long petiole, usually broad
arrow-shaped but sometimes rounded.

SAVOY LEAVED BLOOMSDALE

Rhubarb Seed.

Rhubarb Roots.

SALSIFY

(VEGETABLE OYSTER)

The long, white tapering root of salsify resembles
a small parsnip, and when cooked is a good substitute
for oysters, having a very similar flavor.

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 unevenly and ill-shaped. Sow early and
quite deep, giving the general culture recommended for
parsnip. The roots are perfectly hardy, and may
remain out all winter, but should be dug early in
spring, as they deteriorate rapidly after growth
commences. Store a' quantity for winter use in a
pit or cellar in damp earth or sand.

Mammoth 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. Sow in drills as soon as the
soil can be worked in spring and three to six inches
apart in the row. Cutting begins in sixty days and
continues for several years. Used as cooked “greens”
or as salad.

SPINACH

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. Cut-
ting should begin forty-five 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 protec-
tion. 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.

Savoy Leaved Bloomsdale. 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 the Savoy cab-
bage. It grows quickly to a suitable size for use,
but soon runs to seed.

Victoria. An excellent sort, which forms a very large,
exceedingly thick, dark green leaf somewhat curled,
in the center. It becomes fit for use nearly as early as
any, remaining so much longer than most kinds, and
cannot fail to please, whether grown for the market
or in the private garden.

King of Denmark. The best long-season Spinach,
remaining two weeks longer than others before bolt-
ing to seed. Plant vigorous and spreading; leaves
large, rounded, crumpled and blistered, deep green
in color.

Prickly Winter. A very hardy variety and will with-
stand the severest weather with only a slight pro-
tection of leaves or straw. The seed is prickly, leaves
triangular, oblong or arrow shaped. It is used for
fall sowing, which in this latitude is about the first
of September.

New Zealand. (Tetragonia expansia.) This branch-
ing plant, a spinach in its use and not in its growth,
frost kills, but grows luxuriantly in the summer heat.
Plant these large seeds three in a hill, three by two
feet apart or start the plants under glass and trans-
plant.

Prices of Seeds Vary. We quote Market Values upon request and always give our custom-
ers the benefit of the lowest price that the market conditions will warrant. Special prices on
a general list will be given upon application LET US HEAR FROM YOU.

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DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF SEEDS

SQUASH

The directions for the planting of
cucumbers can be followed with slight
modifications for squash or cymling.
Plant the summer 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.

Straight-Neck Summer Squash. Market
gardeners who ship early squash to dis-
tant markets know the difficulty of packing
the crook-necked variety in boxes to good
advantage. In our straight-neck the bad
feature of the crook has been overcome,
and by continued selection the size has
been increased more uniformly in shape
and improved quality.

G-iant Crook-Neck. This strain is a
great improvement on the old variety of
Crook-Neck. It is larger and better in
every way.

MAMMOTH WHITE BUSH

Summer Crook-
Neck. A standard,
early and produc-
tive summer sort,
fruits about a foot
long, moderately
warted and of a
bright yellow color.

Mammoth White
Bush. This has
been obtained by
years of careful
selection. Although
we have sold this
squash for a num-
ber of years, we
again call special
attention to it.

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.

Italian Marrow (Cocozella di Napoli). A distinct
variety of squash of bush form. Fruit grows to a
length of about twenty or more inches, with a diam-
eter of three to four inches; skin smooth, of a dark
green color, marbled with yellow or with paler green.
All through Italy, where this squash is grown, the
fruit is eaten when quite young, sometimes even before
the flower has opened. The plants which are thus
deprived of their undeveloped fruit continue to flower
for several months and produce a great number of
young squashes.

Warty Hubbard. This is the best strain of Hub-
bard Squash. By its rough, hard, warty shell and its
dark olive green color it can be distinguished from
any other strain, either in the field or on the market.
It was introduced in 1894 and since that time under
different names at different places it has been given
out to all who have called for the best stock of Hub-
bard Squash. We have maintained its purity by con-
tinued selection and offer headquarters seed.

Hubbard. A general favorite and more largely
grown as a late sort than any other; it is of large
size, often weighing from nine to ten pounds. Color
bluish green, occasionally marked with brownish
orange or yellow. Flesh fine grained, dry, and excel-
lent flavor. It can be had in use from September to
May.

SUMMER CROOKNECK

Boston Marrow. Second early, coming in about ten
days after the bush and crook-neck sorts. Skin yel-
lowish, very thin; the flesh dry and fine grained, and
of unsurpassed flavor.

Essex Hybrid. This is not only one of the richest
flavored, finest grain and sweetest of all squashes,
but it is also one of the very best keepers that we
know of. Short .cylindrical shape, having on the blos-
som end a small cap shaped enlargement. The flesh
is dry, sweet and thick, and of a bright orange color.

Mammoth Chili. The largest of all squashes, grow-
ing to an immense size, often weighing over 200
pounds, while its rich fine-flavored flesh insures its
value for all purposes.

Pordhook. 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.

Delicious. This is one of the best winter varieties.
Its color is almost uniform, of a green shade, with
occasionally a blue specimen, it being just about as
pure in this respect as was the original Hubbard. In
size closely follows the original Hubbard, which
weighed between five and ten pounds. In thickness of
flesh it surpasses nearly every variety, the color being
a dark orange.

Delicata. Early and very prolific; of oblong shape.
Ground color ornage yellow, splashed and striped with
very dark green. Although of small size, the squashes
are very solid and heavy, while the quality is rich and
dry.

Blue Hubbard. This excellent squash of the Hub-
bard type is light blue in color, with hard shell and
thick, fine-grained flesh, which is very tender and by
far the best flavored of the winter squash. This vari-
ety is very popular in the East and brings a higher
price than any other. We have the true stock.

Red or Golden Hubbard. This is a very distinct
sort, of the shape and general character of the Hub-
bard, but a little smaller; of rich orange red color
instead of the dark olive green.

WARTY HUBBARD

TOBACCO

Connecticut Seed Deaf. The best sort for cigar wrap-
pers. Try it.

Havana. This is the genuine article and is first class.
Whits Burley, A favorite for plug fillers and wrappers,

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TOMATO

EARLIANA

The tomato requires one hundred days or more to
mature from seed. As tomatoes 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 conditions and the quantity of
water given them decreased. Transplant on a cloudy
day if possible, 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 feet by two feet. One ounce of seed gives
two thousand plants.

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 tomato for market gardeners.

Red Head (New Early). This exceptionally fine,
large, bright red variety is as early as the Chalk’s
Early Jewel, nearly as large as New Stone and very
productive. Fruit almost globe shaped, very solid.
An excellent variety for the market gardener.

Chalk’s Early Jewel. The largest, smoothest and
finest flavored early tomato in cultivation. Within a
week to ten days as early as the famous Spark’s
Earliana. Fruit rich deep scarlet.

John Baer. An early, productive, red tomato on the
order of Chalk’s Early Jewel.

Bonny Best. Vines strong and vigorous, fruit deep
scarlet, ripening to stem. Flesh firm. A productive
and very desirable early and main crop variety.

Gulf State Market. The best of the early, purple-
fruited varieties. In season with Early Detroit, while
fruit is larger, smoother, more globe shaped; very
solid, free from cracking and productive.

Early Detroit. A very fine, early, large-fruited purple
variety; little larger than Beauty and somewhat
earlier; fruits globe shaped, smooth and hard.

Crines June Pink. A fine variety. It is highly rec-
ommended to gardeners whose trade demands the pur-
plish pink sort.

Acme. One of the best standard sorts. Of a fine
crimson purplish color. Shape is smooth, size large
and uniform. For the market or home garden no sort
is better.

Beauty. A decided favorite for either home market
or shipping purposes’, being early, hardy, a strong
grower, productive, large size, always smooth, perfect
in shape, and excellent in quality. The color is a very
glossy crimson with a tinge of purple. It grows in
clusters of four to six large fruit, retaining its large
size late in the season. It ripens with Acme and Per-
fection, and is entirely free from ribbed and elongated
fruit.

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.

Favorite. A well-known red variety, smooth and
solid.

Perfection. A splendid red variety, hardy, productive
and a good bearer.

Paragon. The well-known standard bright red
tomato.

Matchless. A good canning and all purpose tomato,
splendid for kitchen.

New Stone. A fine red variety, very solid and smooth;
a splendid main crop sort.

Greater Baltimore. Leonard’s wilt-resistant strain.
One of the best second early and main crop varieties.
It is a red tomato, vigorous and very productive. Pre-
ferred by many canners on account of its heavy yield.

Red Rock. An extraordinarily solid, smooth, very
red tomato; a very heavy producer, of excellent shape
and very superior texture and flavor. An excellent
variety for truckers and canning factories on account
of its shape, quality and productiveness. This tomato
is very free from cracks, has a very shallow stem
attachment and is practically smooth. Fruits will
probably average from eight to nine ounces. Borne
in clusters of from four to seven fruits, and ripens in
110 days from sowing of seed.

Livingston’s Globe. Is of beautiful globe shape,
with quite a percentage of elongated fruits which per-
mit of a greater number of slices being taken than with
flat fruited sorts.

Dwarf Champion. This is a purple fruited variety,
which forms very strong plants about two feet high.
The branches are short, making a bushy plant that
stands quite erect without stakes. This sort is often
sold as Tree Tomato. Fruit smooth, medium sized,
color purplish pink, fairly solid, but has no hard core,
and is of good flavor. About as early as any purple
fruited tomato, and is quite popular in some localities,
both for market and home use.

Dwarf Stone. As its name implies, this is a dwarf
variety bearing fruits similar to that popular canners’
sort, the Stone.

Brimmer. This is the largest and finest market
tomato ever produced. Similar to Ponderosa but
larger; single specimen often weighs 3 lbs. Fruit is
solid and meaty, massive in size, delicious flavor, rich
dark red color and almost seedless.

Ponderosa. This variety, when conditions are fa-
vorable, grows to an immense size and makes the
heaviest fruit of any in the list. Our stock is from
the original strain. None better.

Crimson Cushion. A large fruited variety; smooth
on 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.

Yellow Pear. Pear shaped; yellow.

Yellow Plum. Plum shaped; yellow.

Yellow Peach. Same as the red peach except color.

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.

Husk, or Ground Cherry. This is a small sized fruit
grown within a husk. It is valuable for preserving
and making into pies, or for eating from the hand.

BEAUTY

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DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF SEEDS

TURNIP

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
free of weeds, but it is more advi-sable 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. One of our most popular
turnips for spring sowing, 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.

Extra Early Purple Top Milan. The earliest in cul-
tivation, two weeks earlier than Purple Top Strap
Leaf. The bulb is flat, of medium size, quite smooth,
with a purple top. Flesh white, hard and of finest
quality. It is an extra good keeper.

Early Snowball. A perfectly globe-shaped, white-
skinned turnip. It is exceedingly productive. The
flesh is fine grained, firm and of very delicate flavor.
It is one of the best keeping of the white-fleshed sorts.
Very early and particularly adapted for family or
market use.

Early White Flat Dutch. An excellent garden vari-
ety. The best for spring sowing.

Purple Top Strap Deaf. Rapid grower and mild
flavor. The most popular variety for early use, either
for the table or stock.

Purple Top White G-lobe. An early variety. Globe
shaped; heavy cropper. In other respects 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.

Cow Horn or Dong White. 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. It is delicate and well flavored,
of very rapid growth, and has obtained considerable
favor as a market sort for fall and,, early winter use.

Darge White Norfolk. The standard variety for field
culture for feeding stock. Very large size.

White Egg. Belongs to the class of quick-growing
fall turnips. Its shape is nearly oval or egg, as its
name would indicate-

IMPROVED AMERICAN
PTJRFDE TOP

Pomeranean White Globe. This is one of the most
productive kinds, and in good, rich soil roots will fre-
quently grow to twelve pounds in weight. It is of
perfect globe shape; skin white and smooth; leaves
large and dark green.

Seven Top. Cultivated extensively in the South for
the tops, which are used for greens. It is very hardy
and will grow all winter, but does not produce a good
root, and is only recommended for the tops.

Golden Ball or Orange Jelly. 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.

Purple Top Yellow Aberdeen. Very hardy and pro-
ductive; a good keeper; globe shaped. Color pale yel-
low with purple top. Very firm in texture, and closely
resembling the rutabaga in good keeping qualities.
Good either for table or stock.

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.

RUTABAGA

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 Purple Top. The best yellow
fleshed, purple top variety grown for stock or table.

Darge Yellow. A very heavy cropper similar to
Improved American Purple Top, except that it has
a green top. A good variety which is becoming more
popular each year.

White Rutabaga. This variety now extensively cul-
tivated, and preferred in many sections for its white
flesh. It is very hardy and productive, keeps wTell
until late in the spring, and is highly esteemed for
its sweet, delicate flavor.

Monarch or Tankard. This is a yellow fleshed sort
having very large tankard shaped roots, with rela-
tively small necks and tops. Color purplish crimson
above ground, yellow below; flesh very solid, fine
grained and of the best flavor.

Budlong’s White Rock. Though sometimes called a
turnip, this is more like a rutabaga. The root is large,
both skin and flesh very white. An excellent keeper
and a desirable sort for market gardeners.

Sweet German. A superior variety for table or
stock. Flesh firm, sweet and juicy.

Bangholm. A very superior variety, both in form
and quality, and held in high estimation in many parts
of England. Of large size, small neck, few or no
side roots, and yields well. Flesh yellow, sweet and
solid; skin yellow with purple top.

DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF SEEDS

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CHOICE FLOWER SEEDS

Most flowers are as easily grown as vegetables. In
the select list that follows will be found flowers and
plants for many uses. 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. Some plants can be grown in a
partial shade, where grass does not grow, and others

ALYSSUM— LITTLE GEM

are serviceable in hanging baskets or veranda boxes.
Some vines or tall plants may be grown to hide or make
more sightly some fence or pile of stone or stump or
building. Flowers are just as necessary as are pictures
and to their beauty is often added such stimulating and
pleasing perfumes as cannot be bought in bottles.

Flowers fall readily into three classes: Annuals
bloom, seed and die the first year. Biennials bloom and
die in their second year, but they may bloom also in
their first year. Perennials flower for several years and
some of them may bloom in the first year of their
existence.

Acroclinium (a Strawflower), Double Mixed. Beauti-
ful everlasting flowers. Cut when they begin to expand.

Ageratum Mexicanum, Mixed. Suitable for pot cul-
ture or bedding, bearing in profusion clusters of
feathery flowers. This mixture of colors contains the
beautiful amethyst blue.

Alyssum, Maritimum Sweet. Free flowering plants
for beds, edging, etc. Useful for bouquets because of
their delicate fragrance.

Amaranthus, Salicifolius (Willow-leaved). The leaves
change in color from a bronzy green to a brilliant scar-
let, when the plant attains age.

Antirrhinum (Snapdragon). Tall, finest mixed. An
old garden favorite of the easiest culture; very showy,
flowering the first season from seed, yielding an abun-
dance of fine flowers for cutting.

Arctotis G-randis (The African Lilac Daisy). Hand-
some, bushy annual two feet high, flowering abun-
dantly from early summer until late autumn. The beau-
tiful daisy-like flowers, 2 inches across, are white,
shaded with pale lilac and zoned with yellow.

ASTERS

Of the general beauty of these flowers it is unneces-
sary to speak; the immense world-wide demand for
them shows their adaptability for any climate; and,
coming' into bloom, as they do, when most other flowers
are fading away, enhances their value. For the best
results the ground for the cultivation of asters cannot
be too richly prepared, although they will give satisfac-
tory returns on any ordinary garden soil.

Aster, Queen of the Market. These well-known, early-
flowering Asters are of a branching habit, about 18
inches high, and one of the most useful types for early
market purposes.

Aster, Giant Comet or Crego. Plants robust, about
two feet high. Flowers large, double and well formed,
making a fine variety for all purposes.

Aster, American Branching. Plants 2% to 3 feet
high, branching and robust habit. Flower large and
double, throwing no single flowers.

Balsams (Lady Slippers). Beautiful half-hardy annu-
als, from one and one-half to two feet in height. Sow
the seed early in frames and transplant to a well-
enriched border.

Beilis, or Double Daisy. Choice mixed. Charming
plants for edging and dwarf beds, blooming the first
year from seed. Thrive well in shady places.

Calendula, Double Orange King. The seed should be
started early indoors in pots or may be sown in shallow
drills in the flower bed early in spring when the trees
are starting out in leaf. Calendulas are excellent for
borders or beds and last a long time in water as cut
flowers.

Calliopsis or Coreopsis. One of the most showy of all
annuals, the colors being so striking as seldom to be
passed without a remark.

Campanula, Medium (Canterbury Bells). Single
Mixed. Very ornamental, growing about two feet high,
producing beautiful, large, bell-shaped flowers, which
make a glorious display when planted in large beds.

Candytuft. Showy, hardy annuals. Very useful for
edgings and masses, excellent for cutting; continuous
bloom from July to October.

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.

Celosia, Cristata (Coxcomb). Finest Mixed. Dwarf.
Very popular annuals of easy culture, producing large,
ornamental, comblike heads, resembling ruffled chenille.
They are prized for summer flower beds and make fine
pot plants.

Centaurea, Cyanus, Finest Mixed. (Bachelor Button).

A showy, hardy annual succeeding well in any soil and
bearing a profusion of flowers in shades of pink, blue
and purple.

Chrysanthemums. Handsome hardy annuals produc-
ing quantities of large flowers of striking colors,
making a brilliant display.

Cosmos. A very effective autumn flowering plant,
with beautiful foliage, growing from six to eight 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.

Cypress Vine. Most beautiful and popular tender
climber with very delicate fern-like foliage and numer-
ous flowers.

Dahlias. Sow the seeds early in pots or under glass
and transplant to strong, deep, rich soil, and plants
will bloom the first season.

Daisy, Shasta, Alaska. Is perfectly hardy, grows
anywhere and blooms more abundantly each season.
The flowers are very large, a foot or more in circum-
ference, growing on large stems with two rows of
broad, pure white petals and a yellowish center.

Delphinium (Perennial Larkspur). Flowers remark-
able for their great beauty, diversity of shades and
striking appearance. Desirable for mixed borders. If
sown early will bloom first year from seed.

Dianthus 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.

Escholtzia. (California Poppy.) A very showy plant,
about one foot high, blooming from June until Septem-
ber. Produces a brilliant effect at a distance when
grown in a mass. Hardy.

Euphorbia. (Snow-on-the-Mountain.) Leaves edged
with pure white.

Fox Glove. (Digitalis.) Finest mixed. Very orna-
mental amongst shrubbery, producing tall spikes of
showy flowers of purple, rose, white and yellow.

Gaillardia. One of the most showy and brilliant of
garden flowers, fine for bedding and cutting, producing
large flowers of rich shades throughout the summer.

Geranium. Good mixed. Saved from some of the
finest collections; many choice and entirely new varieties
may be expected.

Gourds. Mixed varieties. Rapid growing, interesting
annual climbers, with ornamental foliage and singular
shaped fruit, 15 to 20 feet.

Gypsophila, Elegans Alba. (Baby’s Breath.) Pretty,
free flowering, elegant plants, succeeding in any garden
soil. Their misty white panicles of bloom are largely
used for mixing with other cut flowers.

Balloon Vine. Ornamental climbing plant, remarkable
for an inflated membranuous capsule from which it
derives its name.

Helichrysum, Monstrosum. (Strawflower.) Finest
mixed. Ornamental in the garden and desirable for
winter bouquets.

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DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF SEEDS

CHOICE FLOWER SEEDS, Continued

Hollyhocks. Seeds should be sown in 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.

Ipomoea. (Japanese Morning G-lory.) Imperialis
mixed. The flowers of this variety are of largest size,
often three inches or more across; some are brilliant
red or rich blue, others are equally brilliant, with broad
margins of clear white; some are striped or dotted with
blue or red on white or lemon yellow ground, others are
clouded with blue or red. The foliage in some plants
comes plain green, in others it is mottled with white
and shades of yellow or yellowish green. Seed black,
larger than other varieties of Morning Glory.

Ipomoea. Moonflower, White Seeded. At night and
during dull days the plants are covered with an abun-
dance of large, pure white, fragrant flowers, 5 to 6
inches in diameter. It grows very rapidly and will
cover a large surface.

Job’s Tears. (Coix Lachrymae.) The seeds are strung
up in the same way as beads. A strong grower with
large, deep green leaves, growing 3 feet tall. Seeds
very freely.

Kochia Childsii. (Summer Cypress.) Burning Bush.

The plants are always 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 fire. Very showy when
planted singly to show the round ball-like form.

Larkspur. Very beautiful hardy annuals, producing
dense spikes of flowers which are very decorative.

Linum, G-randiflorum Rubrum. (Scarlet Flax.) This
is a very pretty dwarf annual. The rich crimson flowers
last only a day but they are borne continuously until
frost. Makes a splendid subject for massing or may
be planted as edging for borders or lawn.

Lobelia. Mixed. The annual Lobelias are plants of
dwarf growth, 4 to 6 inches in height, covered with
numerous small, star-like flowers. The compact varie-
ties are very pretty when grown as an edging for
flower beds or in formal beds. The seed should be
sown in boxes filled with fine soil and placed in a warm,
sunny window, or in shallow drills outdoors when the
trees are starting out in leaf, barely covering the seed
from view. The plants will bloom continuously from
June until frost.

Marigold. The African and French Marigolds are old
favorite free-flowering annuals of easy culture; both
are extremely effective. The former have uniformly
large yellow or orange-colored flowers; are well adapted
for large beds or mixed borders. The latter are dwarfer
in growth, with beautifully striped flowers and better
suited for bedding purposes or for pot culture. They
succeed best in a light soil, with full exposure to the
sun.

Marvel of Peru. (Four o’Clock.) All colors mixed.
A well known, handsome, free flowering garden favorite;
does well anywhere. Give each plant 12 to 18 inches of
room.

Mignonette. A general favorite on account of its
delightful fragrance. Blooms throughout the season.
Sow from middle of April to middle of June.

Morning G-lory. (Convolvulus Major.) Mixed. Climb-
ing plants; unequaled for rapidity of growth and pro-
fusion of bloom, annuals attaining height of 30 to 50
feet.

Myosotis. (Forget-Me-Not.) A very pretty, little
hardy perennial, about six inches high. Will thrive best
in a cool, moist situation and is well adapted for bedding
or rock-work.

doors in March and the plants set out in May, when
the weather has become warm. The stately plants bloom
from midsummer on.

Nigella, Hispanica. (Love-in-a-Mist.) Choice mixed.
A curious plant about one foot high, with finely cut
leaves and single flowers.

PANSIES

Pansy. Seed may be sown indoors very early in
spring, or a little later in the open ground, and trans-
planted when an inch high. Such plants will commence
to bloom in June. If sown in July, the plants will
bloom in the fall, or if sown in September, the following
spring. Well pulverized soil should be used and the
seeds covered with one-eighth to one-fourth inch deep
with fine soil firmly pressed down. The largest and best
flowers are produced by young plants which have been
grown rather slowly in a partially shaded situation
and in a very rich soil; coolness and moisture are neces-
sary. A situation sheltered from high winds and
exposed to the morning sun is most favorable and fre-
quent sprinklings are advantageous. Grown indoors,
pansies make a good winter blooming pot plant. Hardy
perennial but usually grown as an annual or biennial.
Four to six inches high.

Pansy, Trimardeau Giant. The blossoms are simply
enormous, perfect in form and run through all the
varieties of colors, from the lightest shade to the
darkest purple. Marked with three large blotches.

Pansy. Good mixed. A very good strain in a great
variety of colors.

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 give 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 thinner 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 tapestry to blanket some unsightly fence or pile
of stone.

Tall Mixed Garden. Grown not only for ornament but
the beautiful 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.

Dwarf Mixed Garden. Same as above except that it
grows in dwarf form.

Nicotiana, Affinis, Hybrids. Choice mixed. Fine for
bedding or for planting as a background in borders for
lower growing plants. The seed should be started in-

Petunia. For outdoor decoration or house culture,
few plants are equal to this class. They commence to
bloom early and continue to flower through the summer.
Give them a rich soil and a sunny place.

Phlox. In its great variety of rich colors, probably
the most brilliant of all annuals. Fine for bedding,
making a dazzling show throughout the entire season.

Poppy. Showy, large, brilliant colored flowers, grow-
ing freely in any garden soil. Produce a fine effect in
clumps or beds.

Poppy, Shirley. The absence of black gives them
their wonderful light, bright, tissue-paper-like appear-
ance. The colors range from purest white, through
pinks of all shades, to glowing scarlet, but a scarlet
without black.

Portulaca, Single. Fine mixed. Brilliant garden
annuals, 6 inches high, luxuriating in warm, dry, sunny
situations and blooming profusely from early summer
to autumn. For low beds and masses of color, from
spring until frost, they are indispensable; colors range
through innumerable shades of red, yellow, pink, striped,
white, etc.

Ricinus. (Castor Oil Plant.) A highly ornamental,
half-hardy annual, growing from four to six feet high,
presenting quite a tropical appearance; select warm,-
dry soil and plant six feet apart.

DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF SEEDS

CHOICE FLOWER SEED, Continued

PANSY — Masterpiece

Salpiglossis. (Variabilis G-randiflora.) Finest mixed.
Flowers two to three inches in diameter. vividly
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.

Salvia Splendens. (Scarlet Sage.) Very ornamental
plants, two feet high, producing tall spikes of gay
flowers. Sow early in hotbed, or in pots in the house
and transplant two feet apart. Half hardy.

Scabiosa. (Mourning Bride.) Large flowering, tall
double. A class of beautiful hardy annuals, from 1 to 2
feet high; valuable for cutting, as they remain a long
time in bloom and do not droop easily.

Stocks. Half hardy annuals, producing splendid
spikes of very rich and beautiful flowers of delightful
fragrance. For early flowering sow early in spring,
in pots or in hotbed and transplant one foot apart.
Bloom from June until November.

Sunflower. (Helianthus.) Dwarf Chrysanthemum
flowered. Magnificent flowers 6 to 8 inches in diameter,
densely double, the petal long and fringed; color, rich
orange. The plants, 6 to 7 feet high, carry many of
these noble flowers.

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 five
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. With a select list
of varieties we list several excellent mixtures.

GEANDIPLORA VARIETIES

America. Crimson scarlet, striped on white.

Aurora. Orange rose, striped on white.

Black Knight. A very deep maroon.

Blanche Ferry. Standard bright carmine rose, wings
white tinged with pink.

Countess of Radnor. Light mauve standard, lavender
wings.

Dorothy Eckford. Pure white.

Hele^ Fierce. Pure white, veined, mottled and mar-
bled with bright blue.

Hon. Mrs. E. Kenyon. Light primrose.

Janet Scott. Deep pink.

Katherine Tracy. Standard soft pink, wings a trifle
lighter tone.

King Edward VII. Bright red or crimson scarlet.

Lady G-risel Hamilton. Standard light mauve, wings
lavender.

Lord Nelson. Rich deep navy blue.

Miss Wilmott. Orange pink.

Mrs. Walter Wright. Rose purple.

Othello. Deep maroon.

Queen Alexandra. Deep scarlet.

Frima Donna. Pure pink self.

SFENCER VARIETIES

Apple Blossom. Bright rose standard, wings very
light primose, flushed or tinted carmine.

Asta Ohn. Pinkish lavender.

Bridesmaid. Large cream pink.

Countess. Bright, clear pink on white ground.

Constance Hinton. Flowers open blush but change
to pure white.

Fiery Cross. A brilliant orange cerise.

George Herbert. A bright rose-crimson.

Illuminator. Bright glowing scarlet tinged with
orange.

King Edward. Bright crimson-scarlet.

King White. Best white Spencer introduced.

Maroon Frince. Rich, deep glowing, reddish maroon.

Royal Furple. Rich royal purple.

Senator. A large and fine , striped; seal-brown and
claret flakes on white.

Wedgwood. Bright silvery blue.

MIXED SWEET FEAS

Choice Mixed. The best blending of the choicest
named varieties. No better mixture can be had.

Eckford Mixed. A very choice mixture of the Grandi-
flora types.

Spencer Varieties Mixed.

Sweet William. Well known, beautiful, hardy peren-
nials, about one foot high, making a most splendid
appearance in May and June.

Verbena. Mammoth, choice mixed. They thrive in
almost any situation and in all good garden soils. They
make attractive borders and beds, blooming profusely
from June until October. Fine for pot culture. Sow
the seed during March or April indoors and set out
during May.

Wild Cucumber. One of the quickest growing climb-
ers. It will grow 30 feet in one season, with a wide
spread of beautiful green foliage, which is thickly
dotted over with pretty white flowers, which, in turn,
yield an abundance of small, ornamental and prickly
fruit, giving it an attractive appearance throughout the
season. Once planted, it will seed itself and come up
every year.

Zinnias. This old garden favorite has been much im-
proved and the fine strain of giant-flowered varieties
and other remarkable new forms are taking place in our
flower gardens. Zinnias grow well and bloom freely
even under the most adverse circumstances of location
and weather and may be counted upon for a continuous
show of blooms from July until frost. Sow the seed
outdoors as soon as the nights are quite warm. To
secure early flowers, sow the seed indoors the middle
of March and transplant into the garden early in May.
The giant varieties grow two to three feet tall and
bear a profusion of mammoth size flowers measuring
four and even five inches in diameter.

ZINNIA DAHLIA FLOWERED

DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF SEEDS

LAWN GRASS

Your outdoor carpet should be of an even colored
grass that grows so close that weeds cannot get through.
Think of your lawn as a number of plants, not “just
grass.” These lawn plants ask what other plants re-
quire: 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 planting
and from time to time afterwards as the plants continue
to feed, and good seed. Where manure is used at any
time it should be thoroughly decomposed and free from
weed seed and a complete, fertilizer at the rate of five
hundred 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 pos-
sible 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 mix-
ture 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 now sown, weeds will grow in your lawn and some of
them it may be necessary to dig out with a knife.

In very dry weather a thorough wetting should be
give 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.

Park Lawn Grass Mixture. For quickly producing a
permanent, thick and velvety sward of grass, this brand
of lawn grass cannot be excelled. It is the best mixture
of grasses we sell for lawn making, and will give satis-
faction wherever sown.

Mixture for Shaded Spots. Usually it is quite difficult
to obtain a satisfactory growth of grass under trees and
in shady places; for sowing in such places we recom-
mend the use of this special mixture. It will quickly
produce an abundant and even growth of beautiful green
grass.

GRASS SEED

Blue Grg,ss. (Poa Compressa.) Commonly called Canada
Blue Grass. A very valuable grass for pasture and
lawns.

Blue Grass. (Poa Parensis.) Commonly called Ken-
tucky Blue Grass and known in some sections as “Green
Meadow Grass” and “June Grass.” It is the best pasture
for our climate and soil, succeeding finely on hill' lands
and producing the most nourishing food. Sow early in
the spring or during the months of October and Novem-
ber. Fancy clean seed.

Red Top. (Agrostis Vulgaris.) A valuable grass for
moist soils and low lands. It is a good, permanent
grass, standing our climate well.

English Rye Grass. (Lolium Perenne.) A very nutri-
tious rapid growing variety, valuable for meadows and
pastures. Twenty-four pound bushel.

Italian Rye Grass. (Lolium Italicum.) A valuable
European variety, adapted to any climate, and produces
large and nutritive crops. Eighteen-pound bushel.

Meadow Fescue or English Blue Grass. (Festuca
Pratensis.) Needs rich ground, and succeeds well on
prairie soil. Sow about twenty-five pounds per acre.

Tall Fescue. (Fcstuca Elatior.) A valuable perennial
grass, very productive and nutritious. If used alone,
sow forty pounds per acre.

Creeping Bent Grass. (Agrostis Stolonifera.) Particu-
larly valuable for lawns that are to be used as croquet
and tennis grounds.

Orchard Grass or Rough Cocksfoot. (Dactylis Glo-
morata.) This is one of the most valuable and widely
known of all pasture grasses. It is well adapted for
sowing under trees or orchards.

Timothy. (Phleum Fratense.) This is decidedly the
best grass for hay.

CLOVER SEED

Medium Red or June. (Trifolium Fratense.) Sow in

spring or fall, at the rate of eight or ten pounds per
acre.

Mammoth or Large Red. (Trifolium Fratense.) Sow

at the rate of about eight pounds per acre. Sixty pounds
per bushel.

White Dutch. (Trifolium Ripens.) A small, creeping,
spreading, perennial variety, valuable for pasture and
lawns.

Alfalfa or Lucerne. (Medicago Sativa.) Will bear
cutting three or four times during the season. For
bringing up poor land it is the best of the clovers.

Alsike or Swedish. (Trifolium Hybridum.) This valu-
able variety is fast gaining great popularity.

Crimson or Scarlet Clover. Can be seeded at any time
from June to October, at the rate of fifteen to twenty
pounds per acre.

MISCELLANEOUS GRAINS

FIELD PEAS

White Canada. Blue or Green.

COW PEAS

Black Eye. Whip-Poor-Will.

MILLET SEED

Japanese Barnyard. Common.

Siberian. German or Golden.

Hog. Hungarian.

SUGAR CANE

Early Amber. Early Orange.

BROOM CORN

Improved Evergreen. Early Japanese.

MISCELLANEOUS

Barley, Common.

Rye, Spring.

Rye, Winter.
Buckwheat, Silver Hull-
Buckwheat, Common.

BIRD

Canary.

Hemp.

Lettuce.

Millet.

Buckwheat, Japanese.
Spurry.

Vetch, Sand or Winter.
Vetch, Spring.

SEEDS

Bird Rape.

Sunflower.

Mixed Bird Seed.

PRICES VARY ON ALL FARM SEED

Write for Market Price

DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF SEEDS

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FIELD CORN

Prices Change. Ask for Market Price

Pride of the North. This famous
corn still retains its popularity;
an exceedingly early and politic
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 cultivation in the
North.

Reid’s Yellow Dent. This variety
has won more prizes at corn shows
than any other corn. It matures
a ten-inch of eighteen to twenty-
four rows in one hundred fifteen
days.

Improved Learning. The Im-
proved Learning Corn is a medium
early yellow variety; large, slightly
tapering ears, deep grain, and
medium sized red cob. In favora-
ble 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.

Minnesota No. 13 or Wisconsin

No. 8. A ninety-day variety pro-
ducing ears averaging eight inches
in length with sixteen to twenty
LEAMING- rows of bright, rich yellow,

smooth, wedge shaped kernels,
packed closely on the cob from tip to butt. The best
yellow Dent for northern planting.

Champion White Pearl. Originated in Illinois, and is
enormously productive; a strong grower; matures in
about one hundred days. The stalk is stout and thick,
with large ears set low.

Iowa G-old 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.

Iowa 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.

Longfellow PlintT This is an eight-rowed Yellow
Flint Variety, the result of careful selection. 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.

Kaffir Com. One of the best forage plants. If
the crop is wanted mainly for fodder, it is recommended
to cut down the whole stalk when the first seed heads
come into bloom.

Dwarf Essex Rape. A forage plant of great merit,
easily grown in any part 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.

Russian Sunflower. This is highly prized by poultry
raisers and farmers as a cheap food 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.

POP CORN FOR SEED

White Rice. The most popular of the varieties with
the popcorn men.

White Pearl. A very handsome, smooth grained va-
riety.

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.

PERFECTION GARDEN
CULTIVATOR

Different from Others — Superior to All.

The lightest garden tool on the market.

Easiest to adjust.

Strongest in workmanship.

Easiest to operate.

Is a complete machine within itself.

Needs no extra parts.

The only garden tool made that throws the soil to
or from the plants without extra attachments.

With four discs, on which 7 ^ -inch, 8^4 -inch or 8%-
inch knives may be used.

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BULBS, PLANTS, ETC.

Bulbs, Plants and Shrubs are in a class by
themselves. There are bulbs for spring planting
and bulbs for fall planting. Some shrubs do best
when planted i*n the spring, others when planted
in the fall. Roots of the perennial plants may
be planted in fall or spring. Plants of the small
fruits usually do best when planted in the spring.
When ready to order your supplies in this depart-
ment let us figure on your needs.

FERTILISERS

Fertilizer Values Vary. Write for Prices.

The valxie of Commercial Fertilizer is well
known. There are many different brands and
combinations — each of which has its value for
certain crops and conditions of soil. The ele-
ment that is lacking in th? soil is what the
special fertilizer supplies. "Write for our prices
and for information as to kinds.

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DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF SEEDS

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 accord-
ing 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 its bulk of leaves. Mix
them thoroughly, tramping down the mass in succes-
sive layers, and form into a large pile, so that fermen-
tation 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, which 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 y2 feet. Then put
on the sashes, and keep the pit closed until the heat
rises. At first it will probably be 100 degrees or more,
which is too hot to sow the seed ih; 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 ther-
mometer 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 snowstorms 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.

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 hot bed 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

LOCAL NAMES OP SEfiBS

We frequently have calls for seeds under names
that are not generally found in the catalogue.
In most cases of this kind there is a standard
catalogue name for the article and we usually
locate it easily from the description the*customer
gives ®f it. If you do not recognize the de-sired
ariicle from the catalogue names let us know and
we shall endeavor to locate it and get it for you
if we do not have it in stock.

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. 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. 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 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 limestone 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 ways 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 Cultivator one
can quickly cultivate the garden without stooping. It
is also possible now to set plants while walking in an
upright position and avoid the backaches and suffering
of other years by using a Masters’ Rapid Plant Setter.
Tools like these should be secured before the day they
are needed.

Pulverized Sheep Manure. Humanity builds the re-
sults of its learning into little sayings; of them one
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 con-
tains no weed seed and is in the most perfect condition
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 last-
ing. 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 gallons of
water was superior. It has no objectionable odor, nor
does it offend by its appearance. When heavily and
freshly applied to lawns it is barely discernible. A
heavy application is not be to feared but to be advised
for house plants, lawns, flower gardens, fruit or vege-
tables. Prices upon request.

SUNDRY REQUISITES AND SUPPLIES

There are many requisites and supplies that
we do not have room to list in our catalogue.
We aim to have all seasonable articles on hand
and can supply all of these at the time they are
required. There are tlififerent makes of tools,
different brands of requisites and different kinds
of supplies all having merit. When we know
what you prefer in any of these lines we can
meet your requirements.

DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF SEEDS

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A PAGE ON FUNGICIDES AND INSECTICIDES

The attempt to summarize the militant ways of man
in his battle with disease, fungi, and insects that attack
our plant world, would be, because of its brevity, some-
what imperfect. This quickly developed science that is
rapidly progressing fills volumes of space. In the
effort to be brief, which means we cannot be concise,
we might say of the plants’ enemies that they are:
first, fungous diseases; second, insects that eat or chew
the plant; third, insects that suck the plants’ juices;
fourth, insects that bore into the plant.

FIRST. The Fungous Diseases of plants may be
thought of as blight, mildew, spot, speck, dry rot, black
rot, rust, scab or mold. etc.

The remedies applied are called Fungicides. They
may be preventative or cures, or both. 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

The copper' carbonate is best dissolved in large bot-
tles, 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 must 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 ingredients. Frequently this prepared
article is superior 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 plant may be
bugs, caterpillars, worms or slugs. The poisons we
feed to this class of our enemies we call Stomach
Poisons, and some of them are:

Paris Green

Paris Green 1 pound

Water 250 gallons

If this mixture is to be used upon peach trees, 1
pound quicklime should be added. Repeated applica-
tions will injure most foliage unless lime is added.
Paris Green and Bordeaux 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 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 stands higher than this.
It adheres and does not injure the most tender foliage,
does not readily wash off, and as it iff white it shows
where it has been applied. It remains so well suspended
in solution as to give an even distribution.

THIRD. Insects that suck the juices of plants may
be plant lice, mealy bug, green and black fly, red spider,
scale, etc. The poisons we apply to this class of our
enemies kill by striking through the insect’s skin, and
are referred to as Contact Poisons. Some of them are:

Kerosene Emulsion

Hard Soap V2 pound

Boiling Water 1 gallon

Kerosene 2 gallons

Dissolve the soap in the water, add the kerosene, and
churn well with soap for 5 to 10 minutes. Dilute 10 to
15 times before applying.

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 Fungi-
cides and Insecticides may be made with advantage, as
Bordeaux with Arsenate of Lead, or Kerosene Emul-
sion with Paris Green. Again, in advertised articles
upon the market are found some very superior combina-
tions, one of which we list below.

Applying Corona Mixture

GARDEN PESTS AND THEIR CONTROL

The suburban dweller, the diversified farmer, and the owner
of the small country place have always been seriously handi-
capped in their efforts Jo combat insect pests, which so often
injure or destroy the foliage and fruit of the various plants
they attempt to grow.

Experts have realized for a long time that the only method
for the protection of the small fruit raiser and home gardener,
was a universal insect destroyer — some preparation which
would be exceedingly simple to handle, and which would control
as many as possible of the insects which infest all manner of
growing plants.

“CORONA DRY” SOLVES YOUR PROBLEM

This product is th'e result of many years experiment and
trial in all parts of the country. It solves the problem of con-
trolling almost all leaf-eating insects, in a particularly efficient
manner.

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DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF SEEDS

USEFUL INFORMATION

LEGAL WEIGHTS & MEASURES — Pounds per Bushel

ARTICLES

Apples, Dried

Apples, Green

Bran

Barley

Beans, White

Beans, Castor

Buckwheat

Broom Corn Seed

Beets

Carrots

Charcoal

Coal, Stone

Coke

Corn, Shelled

Corn, Ear

Corn Meal

Cranberries

Dried Peaches

Flax Seed

Grass Seed, Blue

Grass Seed, Clover ....
Grass Seed, Hungarian.

Grass Seed, Millet

Grass Seed, Orchard . . .
Grass Seed, Red Top . .
Grass Seed, Timothy. .

German Lupine

Hemp Seed

Hickory Nuts

Malt, Barley

Mineral Coal

Middlings, Fine

Middlings, Coarse

Oats

Onions

Onions, Tops

Onions, Sets

Osage Orange

Parsnips

Potatoes

Potatoes, Sweet

Peas, Dried

Peas, in Pods

Popcorn

Quicklime

Rye

Salt, Coarse

Salt, Fine

Turnips, Rutabaga. . . .

Turnips, White

Wheat

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24

24

28

22

25

24

22

22

50

57

20

20

20

20

20

20

20

48

48

48

48

48

48

48

48

60

60

60

60

60

60

62

60

46

46

46

46

46

46

46

46

52

52

50

48

50

52

48

50

46

46

46

46

46

46

46

30

60

50

56

50

50

50

22

22

22

22

22

22

22

80

80

80

80

40

38

40

56

56

56

56

56

56

56

70

70

70

70

68

70

70

68

48

48

48

50

50

50

50

50

33

40

33

23

23

28

28

33

33

32

33

56

56

56

56

56

56

56

14

14

14

14

14

14

15

10

80

60

60

60

60

60

60

60

48

48

48

50

48

48

50

48

50

50

50

50

50

14

14

14

14

14

i4

14

14

14

ii

14

14

14

14

14

45

45

45

45

45

45

44

45

60

44

44

44

44

44

44

44

44

50

36

34

38

38

38

34

34

40

70

40

40

30

30

32

32

32

32

32

32

32

32

57

57

57

54

48

57

57

50

28

28

28.

28

28

28

28

25

32

33

55

55

54

60

60

60

60

60

60

60

60

50

46

55

56

55

56

55

50

60

60

60

60

60

60

60

60

32

70

70

80

80

80

80

80

80

80

56

56

56

56

56

56

56

56

50

50

50

50

50

50

50

50

55

50

56

56

50

50

56

50

55

55

56

58

55

50

55

60

42

42

60

60

60

60

60

60

60

60

Dry Measure. 2 pints, 1 quart; 8 quarts, 1 peck; 4 pecks’
1 bushel; 36 bushels, 1 chaldron.

Liquid Measure. 4 gills, 1 pint; 2 pints, 1 quart; 4 quarts,
1 gallon; 31 gallons, 1 barrel; 2 barrels, 1 hogshead.

Measurements of an Acre. The following will be found
useful in arriving at accuracy in estimating the amount of land
in different pieces of ground under cultivation: 5 yards wide
by 968 yards long, contains one acre, as do also the following
measurements: 10 yards wide by 484 yards long; 20 yards
wide by 242 yards long; 40 yards wide by 121 yards long; 70
yards wide by 69 K yards long; 60 feet wide by 726 feet long;
ilO feet wide by 396 feet long; 120 feet wide by 363 feet long;
220 feet wide by 198 feet long; 240 feet wide by 181 feet long,
and 440 feet wide by 99 feet long.

Number of Plants or Trees to the Acre at Given
Distances

Dis. Apart No. Plants

12x 1 in 522,720

12x 3 in 174,240

12x12 in 43,560

16x 1 in 392,040

18x 1 in 348,480

18x 3 in 116,160

18x12 in 29,040

18x18 in 19,360

20x 1 in 313,635

20x20 in 15,681

24x lin 261,360,

24x18 in 15,520

24x24 in 10,890

3 Ox lin 209,088

30x 6 in 34,848

30x12 in 17,424

30x16 in 13,068

30x20 in 10,454

30x24 in 8,712

30x30 in 6,970

36x 3 in 58,080

36x12 in 14,520

36x18 in 9,680

36x24 in 7,260

Dis. Apart No. Plants

36x36 in 4,480

42x12 in 12,446

42x24 in 6,223

42x36 in 4,148

48x12 in 10,890

48x18 in 7,790

48x24 in 5,445

48x30 in 4,356

48x36 in 3,630

48x48 in 2,723

60x36 in 2,901

Q0x48 in 2,178

60x60 in 1,743

8x 1 ft 5,445

8x 3 ft 1,815

8x 8 ft 680

lOx 1ft 4,356

lOx 6 ft 726

10x10 ft .*... 435

12x 1ft 3,630

12x 5 ft 736

12x12 ft 302

16x 1 ft 2,722

16x16 ft.,., 170

REFERENCE TABLES

Quantity of Seeds Requisite to Produce a Given Number
of Plants and Sow an Acre

Quantity per Acre

Artichoke, 1 oz. to 500 plants 6 oz.

Asparagus, 1 oz. to 800 plants 1 lb.

Asparagus Roots 1000 to 7250

Barley 2>£ bu.

Beans, Dwarf, 1 pint to 100 ft. of drill 1 bu.

Beans, pole, 1 pint to 100 hills }/% bu.

Beet, Garden, 1 oz. to 100 ft. of drill 7 lbs.

Beet, Mangel, 1 oz. to 100 ft. of drill 5 lbs.

Broccoli, 1 oz. to 5,000 plants 2 oz.

Brussels Sprouts, 1 oz. to 5,000 plants 2 oz.

Buckwheat 34 bu.

Cabbage, 1 oz. to 3,000 plants 2 oz.

Carrot, 34 oz. to 100 ft. of drill 2 34 lbs.

Cauliflower, 1 oz. to 3,000 plants 234 oz.

Celery, 1 oz. to 15,000 plants 2 oz.

Chicory 4 lbs.

Clover, Alsike and White Dutch 6 lbs.

Clover, Lucerne 15 to 25 lbs.

Clover, Crimson Trefoil 10 to 15 lbs.

Clover, Large Red and Medium 8 to 12 lbs.

Collards, 1 oz. to 5,000 plants 2 oz.

Corn, Rice (Shelled) 2 qts.

Corn, Sweet, M pint to 100 hills 6 qts.

Cress, % oz. to 100 ft. of drill 12 lbs.

Cucumber, 1 oz. to 100 hills 1 to 3 lbs.

Egg Plant, 1 oz. to 2,000 plants 4 oz.

Endive, % oz. to 100 ft. of drill 434 lbs.

Flax, broadcast 34 bu.

Garlic, Bulbs, 1 lb. to 10 ft. of drill

Grass, Blue, Kentucky 2 bu.

Grass, Blue, English 1 bu.

Grass, Hungarian and Millet 34 bu.

Grass, Mixed Lawn 3 to 5 bu.

Grass, Red Top, Fancy, Clean 8 to 10 lbs.

Grass, Red Top, Chaff Seed 20 to 28 lbs.

Grass Timothy M bu.

Grass, Orchard, Perennial Rye, Fowl Meadow and

Wood Meadow 2 bu.

Hemp bu.

Horse-Radish Roots 10,000 to 15,000

Kale, 1 oz. to 5,000 plants 2 oz.

Kohl-rabi, 34 oz. to 100 ft. of drill 4 lbs.

Leek, J4 oz. to 100 ft. of drill 4 lbs.

Lettuce, oz. to 100 ft. of drill 3 lbs.

Martynia, 1 oz. to 100 ft. of drill 5 lbs.

Melon, Musk, 1 oz. to 100 hills 1 to 3 lbs.

Melon, Water, 4 oz. to 100 hills 134 to 4 lbs.

Nasturtium, 2 oz. to 100 ft. of drill 15 lbs.

Okra, 1 oz. to 100 ft. of drill 8 lbs.

Onion Seed, 34 oz. to 100 ft. of drill 4 to 5 lbs.

Onion Seed for sets .. 40 to 80 lbs.

Onion Sets, 1 quart to 40 ft. of drill 8 bu.

Parsnip, 3 4 oz. to 100 ft. of drill 3 lbs.

Parsley, 34 oz. to 100 ft. of drill. . 3 lbs.

Peas, Garden, 1 pint to 100 ft. of drill 1 to 3 bu.

Peas, Field 2 bu.

Pepper, 1 oz. to 1,500 plants 3 oz.

Pumpkin, 34 quart to 100 hills 3 to 4 lbs.

Radish, % oz. to 100 ft. of drill 10 to 12 lbs

Rye 1 34 bu.

Salsify, J3£ oz. to 100 ft. of drill 8 lbs.

Spinach, 34 oz. to 100 ft. of drill 8 lbs.

Summer Savory 341b.

Sunflower 8 lbs.

Squash, Summer, 4 oz. to 100 hills 2 lbs.

Squash, Winter, 8 oz. to 100 hills 2 lbs.

Tomato, 1 oz. to 4,500 plants 2 oz.

Tobacco, 1 oz. to 5,000 plants 2 oz.

Turnip, 1 oz. to 250 ft. of drill 1 to 3 lbs.

Vetches 2 bu.

Average Time Required for

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

Garden Seeds to Germinate

Days

Lettuce 6to 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 4 to 8

Time Required for Maturity of Different Garden Crops
Reckoned from the Day of Sowing the Seed

Days

Beans, String 45 to 65

Beans, Shell. 65 to 70

Beets, Turnip 65

Beets, Long Blood 150

Cabbage, Early 105

Cabbage, Late 150

Cauliflower 110

Corn 75

Eggplant 150 to 160

Lettuce 65

Days

Melon, Musk 120 to 140

Melon, Water 120 to 140

Onion 135 to 150

Pepper 140 to 150

Radish 30 to 45

Squash, Summer. ... 60 to 65

Squash, Winter 125

Tomato 150

Turnip 60 to 70

ONION SETS

RED WHITE YELLOW

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 1st. Set in rows a foot apart and three to four inches between them
in the row. Any good soil will suit them. When grown in quantity, high cultivation is given in order to
forward the crop for an early market. They are ready for use as soon as the bulbs begin to be of fair size.
Those not used in green condition will ripen early in July and make nice Onions. Potato and top onions are
grown from bulbs only, growing in clusters. These clusters are separated and the smaller ones kept for seed.
There is no crop which pays better than the first load or so of green onions in the market. Onion Sets will
make this crop for you. Why not grasp the opportunity offered. Out Sets are carefully grown and choice;
they will give the largest returns for the money invested if the product is sold, or excellent green onions for
home use at a time when a fresh green vegetable is needed.

A quart of Onion Sets will plant a 20-foot row. Several quarts planted as soon as the frost is out of the
ground will make green onions to eat much earlier than the seed and if they are not all eaten green, will grow
rapidly and can be used later as large onions. The right way to do is to plant plenty of Onion Sets early in
the Spring and plant a row each week for several weeks and you will have tender, crisp, young green Onions
to eat until quite late. You can also plant Onion Seed to make a good crop of Late Keeping Onions for
Fall and Winter use.

Onions require rich, loose ground, should be weeded and cultivated frequently and will yield very large
crops on good, well-manured ground and are very easy to grow and harvest. Any amateur gardener should
have good success growing Onions and they are also a very profitable crop to raise for the local market or to
sell your neighbors, either pulled and bunched early as green Onions or harvested later as large, dry Onions.

The varieties of Onion Sets are:

Yellow Bottom Sets
Red Bottom Sets
White Bottom Sets
Brown Bottom Sets

Yellow Multipliers
White Multipliers
Potato Onions
Pearl

Yellow Bermuda

Shallots

Winter Top Sets
Genuine Top Sets
Crystal White Wax

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