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Market Gardeners’ Seed Co’s
1926
Seed Annual
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Seeds - Plants
Bulbs - Etc
Court, Bowen and Central Parkway Cincinnati, Ohio
OUR MODEST BEGINNING
1907-1926
THIS is our nineteenth year in business. Our beginning was indeed quite modest, both from the standpoint of capital invested and the space occu- pied in the little store that measured twelve by thirty feet when we first hung out our sign.
The ever-increasing patronage of our satisfied customers made it necessary for us to gradually expand our facilities, and today we invite you to inspect our very complete establishment that occupies a space of about 50,000 square feet.
We are giving the same close personal attention to all departments of our business that in the past has insured good seed, good service, and good crops.
Our catalogue lists all of the old reliable varieties and many of the new kinds that have proved worth while, it tells you when and how to plant and offers many sug- gestions as to the best modes of culture and will, we hope, prove helpful in your gardening problems.
Make up your orders early and come in and see us — we are well equipped to take care of your needs.
The Market Gardeners’ Seed Company
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THE MARKET GARDENERS’ SEED COMPANY
VER-E-BEST SEEDS
E have chosen the above slogan to designate the BRAND seeds. Our reputation has been built up on quality of the various brands we handle. When you consider the cost of sufficient seed to plant your garden, or if you’are a market grower, the necessary quantity for an acre of ground, as compared to the value of your crop, the best seed you can buy is the most economical in the long run.
Prepare your ground properly, ascertain from information we can give you as to the best kinds of fertilizer to use for the various varieties, buy VER-E-BEST seeds and, if nature is willing, success will crown your efforts.
We extend to our old and wishes and desire to state that BEST Brand Seeds.
prospective customers our greeting and well we offer you, with every confidence, VER-E-
THE MARKET GARDENERS’ SEED CO.
IMPORTANT SUGGESTIONS
By carefully observing the following directions, mistakes and misunderstandings will be largely avoided.
ORDER EARLY
In order to induce early buying before our rush season is on, we will allow 10% discount on all orders received before March 15th for seeds in packets only at list prices.
All seeds ordered by the ounce, one-fourth pound, pound or more are net, no discount; and if to be sent Parcel Post add five cents for the first pound and one cent for each additional pound to cover postage, except where noted. If larger quantities are wanted than herein quoted, mail us a list of your wants for our low prices.
HOW TO SEND MONEY
Remittances may be made at our risk by the following methods, viz.: Postal Money Order, Express Company Money Order. When Money Orders can not be obtained, letters containing money should always be registered. Money in ordinary letters is unsafe.
SHIPPING ORDERS
When goods are to be sent by freight or express, be sure to state on your order the freight or express office where shipment should be made to, not your post office address, as sometimes this differs from railroad address. Also add for bags used in the shipping of goods as follows: One-half to two bushel burlaps, 10c each; one bushel cotton bags, 15c each; two bushel cotton bags, 50c each.
Non-Warranty
Sometimes, though not often, our seeds do not come up after planting. This may be due to one or more of several reasons, such as covering too deeply or not deply enough, too much or too little water, too col.d weather, or a baking sun which forms a crust too hard for the tender shoots to penetrate. Sometimes insects destroy plants at the surface before the:/ are seen by the gardener. We can not personally direct the use of our goods after they leave our hands; neither can we fully control anywhere or at any time the operation of natural law as it affects seeds; therefore, we give no warranty, express or implied, as to description, purity, productiveness, or any other matter of any seeds or bulbs we send out, and we will not be in any way responsible for the crop. If the purchaser does not accept the goods cn these terms they are at once to be returned.
the Production of Good Vegetables and Beautiful Flowers
A rich, sandy loam is the best, but a fair degree of success may be secured from any soil which can be made rich and friable. Vegetables of the best quality can not be grown on barren sand, a cold, hard, lumpy clay, nor in the shade of orchard or other trees.
A soil which does not need enriching in order to pro- duce the best results is rarely found and very often success is in proportion to the liberality with which fertil- izers have been used. Well decomposed stable manure where straw bedding has been used is the best; manure where sawdust has been used for bedding is not so good.
When good stable manure is not available, commercial fertilizers may be used. A mass or lump of any of the commercial fertilizers, even if it is but a quarter of an inch in diameter, is liable to kill any seed or young plant which comes in contact with it, so it is very important if such fertilizers be used that they be thoroughly pulverized and mixed with the soil.
Rich soil and liberal manuring will avail little without thorough preparation. The soil must be made friable by thorough and judicious working; if this is well done all that follows will be easy; if it is neglected, only partial success is possible and that at the cost of a great deal of hard work.
The garden should be well plowed or dug to a good depth, taking care, if it is a clay soil, that the work is not done when it is too wet. If a handful from the furrow moulds with slight pressure into a ball which can not be easily crumbled into fine earth again, the soil is too wet and if stirred then will be hard to work all summer. The surface should be made as fine and smooth as possible with the harrow or rake. It is generally desirable to plow the whole garden at once and to do this in time for the earliest crops, but the part which is not planted for some weeks should be kept mellow by frequent cultivation.
Not only should every weed be removed as soon as it appears, but the crust which forms after a rain should be broken up and the ground stirred as soon as it is dry enough to permit it. The more frequently and deeply the soil is stirred while the plants are young, the better, but as they develop and the roots occupy the ground, cultiva- tion should be shallower until it becomes a mere stirring of the surface. The yield and quality of vegetables have often been decidedly lowered by injudiciously deep and close cultivation after the roots of the plants had fully occupied the ground. A very small garden, well cultivated and cared for, will give larger returns and be in every way more satisfactory than a much larger one poorly prepared and neglected.
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ILLUSTRATED AND DESCRIPTIVE LIST
OF
VEGETABLE SEEDS
WITH GENERAL DIRECTIONS FOR CULTIVATION
The varieties in each class (for example, Wax Podded Beans) are usually arranged in their order of earli- ness. The descriptions of the varieties offered by us are based upon our very careful observations of the types as understood by us after many years of experience in the seed business. Nevertheless it should always be remembered that many vegetables are much affected in their habit of growth of plant and size, form, and quality of the fruits by conditions of soil, climate, location, and mode of culture which are often beyond our control, and our descriptions are for what may be expected under conditions that are approximately normal and favorable for good development.
The cultural directions in this catalogue are necessarily limited but they are as complete as space permits.
Artichoke
Asparagus
This is one of the earliest and most delicious of spring vegetables. We strongly urge all those having enough available space to put in a bed for their own use, following carefully the cultural directions given below.
Beds are usually formed by setting roots which can be procured of us. If you wish to grow plants from the seed yourself, pour warm water on the seed and allow it to stand until cool; pour it off and repeat two or three times with fresh warm water. Sow in spring in drills about eighteen inches apart and two inches deep in light, rich soil, planting fifteen to twenty seeds to each foot of row. When the plants are well up, thin to about one inch apart and give frequent and thorough culti- vation during the summer. If this has been well done, the plants will be fit to set the next spring.
The permanent beds should be prepared by deep plowing or spading and thoroughly enriching the ground with stable manure or other ferti- lizer; a moist, sandy soil is best. If the subsoil is not naturally loose and friable, it should be made so by thoroughly stirring with a subsoil plow or spade. Set the plants about four inches deep and one to two feet apart in rows four to six feet apart. After the plants are well started, give frequent and thorough cultivation. Early the next spring spade in a heavy dressing of manure and about one quart of salt and double the quantity of fresh wood ashes to each square rod and cultivate well as long as the size of plants will permit, or until they begin to die down. The next season the bed may be cut over two or three times, but if this is done, all the shoots, no matter how small, should be cut. After the final cutting, give a good dressing of manure, ashes, and salt. Cultivate frequently until the plants meet in the rows.
In autumn after the tops are fully ripe and yellow, they should be cut and burned. A bed fifteen by fifty feet, requiring about one hundred plants, if well cultivated and manured, should give the following season an abundant supply for an ordinary family and continue productive for eight or ten years.
PaltriAffrt ^ very early maturing and prolific variety, producing IT aimcllO an abundance of very large, deep green shoots of the best quality. Seed, Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c; *4 Lb. 35c. Roots, Postpaid;
$1.50 per 100; $10.00 per 1000.
Columbian Mammoth White nShVYhJ'o'u c7 «ceV>u?£
ally large size and of superior tenderness and flavor. The color is clear white until four to six inches above the surface. A large proportion of the seeds will produce white shoots and the green ones can be rejected when setting out the permanent bed. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c; ^ Lb. 30c. Roots, Postpaid; $1.50 per 100; $10.00 per 1000.
P* i A ircmnhiil This sort is the largest and most extensively VSlalll m gcnlllll used green variety. Shoots bright green tinged with purple at the top, very tender and of the best quality. This variety is recommended as the best for Market Gardeners. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c; *4 Lb. 35c. Roots, Postpaid; $1.50 per 100; $10.00 per 1000.
Giant Argentuil
The seed. we offer is that of the true artichoke which is an extensively used vegetable in Europe. In it the edible portion is the thickest scales at the base of the flower-heads or buds. The plant is very different from what is known in America as Artichoke or Jerusalem Artichoke, in which the edible portion is the tuber.
In February or March sow and transplant in hotbed so as to give plenty of room until danger of frost is over. Then set in very rich, well drained soil in rows four feet apart and two feet apart in the row. The plants can be raised in seed beds out of doors, but in that case will not be likely to produce heads the first year. Late in the fall cut off the old tops and thoroughly protect the crowns with leaves or straw to prevent severe freezing.
The second year thin the starting shoots to three of the best, which will commence to form heads about July 1st. The plants may also be blanched like cardoons. This is done by cutting back the stems close to the ground in July, the rapidly growing shoots which then start up may be tied and blanched like celery. As artichoke plants do not yield satis- factorily after three or four years, it is best to start a new plantation as often as once in three years.
p„pPn T* Inkp, The plant of this variety is of medium height with VJiCCll VJiUUc rather deep green leaves. The buds or flower-heads are green, nearly round or somewhat elongated. The scales are rather narrow and spiny, and are moderately fleshy at the base. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. $1.00; *4 Lb. $2.75.
Asparagus Roots ready in quantity in March.
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BEANS
No crop responds more readily than Beans to good soil and cultivation. A light, rich, well-drained loam which was manured for the previous crop is the most desirable. If too rank manure is used it is apt to make the plant run too much to vine.
Beans are very sensitive to both cold and wet and it is useless to plant them before the ground has become dry and warm. The large returns will result from planting in drills from two to three feet apart. Cover the seed one and one-half to two inches deep and thin the young plants three to six inches apart in the row. If planted in hills, make the hills about two feet apart each way. For suc- cession, plant at intervals of two weeks till midsummer. The plants up to the time of blossoming should have fre- quent shallow cultivation, but any mutilation of the roots by cultivation after the plants come into bloom is likely to cause the blossoms to blast and so cut off the crop. Culti-
vation should be very shallow and it is useless to expect a crop from a field so poorly prepared as to need deep stir- ring after planting.
Our growers give careful attention to selecting and Im- proving the different varieties and keeping them pure, and we invite the most critical comparison of our stocks with those of any other seedsmen.
The varieties of garden beans we offer have been sepa- rated for convenience into five groups: Wax Podded Dwarf or Bush sorts, Green Podded Dwarf or Bush sorts. Dwarf Limas, Pole or Running sorts, and Pole Limas. Nearly all of these sorts, except the Limas, are suitable when young for use as snaps. The low growing sorts are called Bunch beans in some sections. In northern latitudes the term “butter beans” is often applied to low growing wax podded sorts. In the south, however, by “butter beans” is usually meant limas.
Notice— If beans are ordered sent Parcel Post, add 5c for the first lb.; lc for each additional lb.
DWARF OR BUSH— WAX PODDED SORTS
This is one of the earliest and best dwarf sorts for the home market and private gardens. The plants are erect, compact, and very productive. The pods are of medium length, four and one-half to five inches, nearly straight, broad, flat, golden yellow, very fleshy and wax-like. The variety cooks quickly as snaps, shelling well when green, and is of superior quality used in either way. Seed medium sized, oval, white, more or less covered with two shades of purplish red. The amount and shade of color on this and all parti- colored beans will be af- fected greatly by condi- tions of soil and ripening. We are convinced that none of the so-called improved strains is equal to the seed we offer of this standard variety.
Lb. 35c; 5 Lbs. $1.60.
M, G. Seed Co’s. Golden Wax
Challenge Dwarf Black Wax
erect, . bearing pods well up about four and one-fourth inches long, roundish oval, considerably curved, fleshy, crisp, tender, and string- less. Seed jet black. We consider this the best early wax bean for the home or market garden.
Continued experience has satisfied us of the great merit of this variety as an early wax podded bean. The plants although small, are compact and from the ground. The pods are an attractive medium yellow in color, medium-sized,
Lb. 35c; 5 Lbs. $1.60.
Round Pod Wax
IVL G. Seed Co’s. Round Pod Wax.
A very handsome midseason variety, especially desir- able for snaps for the home garden. The plants are of strong growth, spreading 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. Seed long, cylindrical, medium sized, nearly white with a little dark marking about the eye. Lb. 40c; 5 Lbs. $1.75.
Pencil Pod Wra'X This very handsome black wax
sort is medium early, fairly hardy and productive. It is one of the very best sorts for home use and for near market where highest quality is desired. The plants are strong growing with roughened leaves. The pods are long, five and one-half to six inches, straight, round, fleshy and of a bright yellow color. They are tender, absolutely stringless and are produced through a long season. Seed long, round, medium sized, solid black. Lb. 35c; 5 Lbs. $1.60.
Inoculate your beans witb bacteria and note tbe increased yield,
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BEANS — DWARF OR BUSH
GREEN PODDED SORTS
The green podded dwarf sorts are perhaps the most Im- portant class of garden beans and are probably more ex- tensively used for snaps than the wax podded varieties, although the latter are considered by many as the more attractive in appearance. The green podded sorts are as a rule the more productive, being less sensitive to unfavor- able conditions of soil and climate and of late years have been less susceptible to bean diseases.
Extra Early Refugee ^1(Srem/„'ryt “8SJ53
round, fleshy, light green pods which are slightly curved, of medium size, about five inches long and of fine quality. The plants are a little smaller, more upright, and the leaves a little larger than those of the late Refugee, and the seed much the same in shape and color. Our stock Is uniform, the vines ripening pods well together and long be- fore those of the Refugee or Thousand to One. Seed long, cylindrical, rounded at ends, drab, nearly covered with dark purple blotches. This is an excellent snap bean for early markets and stands shipment well. Lb. 35c; 5 Lbs. $1.60,
Early Yellow Kidney s^S\r£lf.
C* \AA»«klrc flat* han<isome* rather light green and OIX YV CCKS when young are of good quality for snaps. Seed medium sized, long, kidney shaped, light yellow with small brownish circle about the eye. This is early matur- ing and a fine shipper. It is much used for the home gar- den and market. Lb. 35c; 5 Lbs. $1.60.
RAimtifiil This excellent dwarf, green podded sort is DOUniimi similar in appearance to Early Yellow Kid- ney Six Weeks but is of much better quality. The vines are vigorous and productive. The pods are very long, six to seven inches, straight, broad, flat, of handsome appear- ance and absolutely stringless for snaps. They are tender and brittle much longer than most sorts. The pods are longer, broader, and have longer tips than those of Long Yellow Six Weeks. Seed medium sized, slender, light yel- low with brownish circle about eye. Bountiful is a most desirable early sort for snaps for the home garden. Lb. 35c; 5 Lbs. $1.60.
Extra Early Round Pod Red Valentine
For snaps there is nothing superior to this variety among the dwarf green pod- ded sorts both for the home
and market garden and many prefer it to the wax varie- ties. The plants are of medium size, erect, with dark green leaves. The pods are of medium length, about four and one-half inches, medium green color, curved, cylindrical, with crease in back, very fleshy, crisp, and tender. Where the young plants have to contend with adverse conditions, no other dwarf bean is more certain than the Valentines are to set pods. Seed long, of medium size and unsym- metrical in shape, purplish pink splashed with pale buff. Lack of symmetry in the seed of this variety is an indi- cation of superior fleshiness and good quality in the pods. We know of no stock of Red Valentine which can be com- pared with that we offer in uniformly high quality of pod. Our strain combines in high degree all the good qualities of the sort. Lb. 35c; 5 Lbs. $1.60.
MC C00J This new and excellent dwarf
« Occu LU green podded sort is similar to
Stringless White Valentine Rheed wvaie”t°S2I
quality and productiveness just as good, and having the advantage of a white seed so long sought after. The vines are vigorous, very productive, pods six to seven inches long, round, brittle and of excellent quality. This sort has this decided advantage if the market is overstocked with green podded beans; let them ripen and you have an unequaled, pure white shell bean for baking. Lb. 35c; 5 Lbs. $1.60.
Stringless Green Pod greev„eryPoaaeIaasnapd"ort
for the home garden and largely grown for the market. The plants are large, spreading and productive. The pods are medium green, five to six inches long, cylindrical, larger than those of Red Valentine but are quite as fleshy, of equally high quality and remain crisp and tender longer. They mature a little later. Seed of medium size and length, yellowish brown. Lb. 35c; 5 Lbs. $1.60.
Giant Stringless Green Pod prn0ducuCveedlnand
very handsome sort. The plants are large, vigorous, and spreading. The pods are large and nearly round, and of medium green color. They mature a few days later than those of Stringless Green Pod, average about one-fourth inch longer and more nearly straight. The quality is very good for snaps for home use. The variety is suitable also for the market. Seed is long, slender, yellow. Lb. 35c; 5 Lbs. $1.60.
Dwarf Horticultural
home garden and market and can be used early as a green podded snap bean. The plants are very productive, com-
Bountiful
pact and upright, with large leaves. The mature pods are about five to five and one-half inches in length, broad and thick, curved, with splashes of bright red on a yel- lowish ground. They become fit for use as green shelled beans early and in this condition the beans are very large, easily shelled and are about equal to the Lima in quality. Seed large, oval, plump, pale buff, splashed with deep red.. Lb. 35c; 5 Lbs. $1.60.
M. Go Seed Go’s, Perfection Stringless
A very hardy and productive- green podded sort with strong,, vigorous vines. The pods are round, more fleshy, very handsome, much longer, straighter than Red Valen- tine, the plant a little more spreading, and in season a little later, 6 to 7 inches long. Seed long, large, kidney shaped, variegated drab, purple, and brown. We consider this variety one of the very best for home use or market. See Novelties and Specialties. Lb. 40c; 5 Lbs. $1.90.
Notice — Try some of M. G. Seed Co’s. Perfection Beans, unequaled by any.
THE MARKET GARDENERS’ SEED COMPANY
BEANS — DWARF OR BUSH
GREEN PODDED SORTS— Continued
Refugee or Thousand to One very productive
sort, highly esteemed for late planting for snaps and very extensively used for shipping, canning, and picking. The plants are very large, spreading, exceedingly hardy, with many small, smooth light green leaves. The mature pods are about five and one-fourth inches long, cylindrical, slightly curved, medium green when in condition for use as snaps but as they mature become light yellow, some- times splashed with purple. Seed long, cylindrical, light drab, thickly dotted and splashed with purple. Lb. 30c; 5 Lbs. $1.40.
The following three Dwarf or Busli sorts are also exten- sively planted as field beans.
Early Marrow Pea or Dwarf White Navy
The p
This sort is a sure cropper and not only more prolific than the common white bean but is also of better quality, ius are large and spreading, with small, thin leaves
and occasional runners, ripening their crop comparatively early. The pods are light green, straight, short, about three and three-fourths inches, but usually containing six beans. The beans are small, oval, white, handsome, and of superior, quality for use as dry beans. Lb. 25c; 5 Lbs. $1.00.
I \A/kit,» The Plants of this very Prolific sort
Large W niie are large, slender, spreading, with
Marrow or Mountain leaves. The pods are
broad, about five and one-half inches long, medium green, changing to yellow. Seed large, ovoid, clear white, cook- ing very dry and mealy. Lb. 30c; 5 Lbs. $1.40.
Royal Dwarf Kidney Sety,plaaiBo° called
Kidney, are upright, very large, branching, with large, broad leaves. The pods are coarse, dark green and about six inches long. Seed large, white, kidney shaped, slightly flattened and of excellent quality, green or dry. Lb. 30c; 5 Lbs. $1.40.
Fordhook Bush Lima
DWARF LIMAS
The dwarf lima class can not be recommended too highly. The beans can be grown and gathered much more easily than the pole limas as the vines require no support. They can also be grown closer together than those of any pole variety. Dwarf limas are fully equal in quality to pole limas and as a rule are earlier maturing.
Limas require a longer season for maturing than other garden beans.
Do nor plant till the ground is dry, weather warm, and danger of frost is over. If possible select rich, light soil. Plant in drills two to three feet apart, dropping the beans three to four inches apart and covering | one and one-half to two inches deep. If planted in hills, make the hills two to three feet apart one way and two to two and one-half feet the other and plant four to six beans in a hill. Hoe often but only when the leaves are dry.
Ruck I Dwarf (Henderson’s) A dwarf form of
°usn Lima or uwarr oieva the Small White Lima, valu- able on that account, and because of its extreme earliness, hardiness, and productiveness. The plants are without runners but continue to grow and set pods until stopped by frost. The pods are medium dark green, short, about two and three-fourths inches, flat and contain two to four beans which are of excellent quality either green-shelled or dry. This is much used by canners, as well as for home and market garden use. Seed small, flat, and white with slight tinge of yellow. Lb. 35c; 5 Lbs. $1.60.
Burpee’s Improved Bush Lima ™?uJ?n* “*“• “
seedel limas. The plants are vigorous and productive. The pods are medium green, very large, about five inches long, thick, and usually con- tain four beans, which are unusually thick, of largest size and of excel- lent quality. Seed very large, thick, and usually shows a greenish white tinge which is generally considered an indication of superior quality.
One of the best and most extensively used bush limas for the market as well as home garden. Lb. 45c; 5 Lbs. $2.00.
Dwarf Large White Lima
quality. The plants are uniformly dwarf but very productive. The pods are medium green, are as broad and very nearly as long as those of the pole variety of Large White Lima and are a little more curved. They contain from three to five very large,, flat beans of very good quality for home garden "','1 c I _ large, flat, white with slight greenish tinge. o Lbs. $1.85.
ET JL 1 D ,L I An improved dwarf lima of the Kumerle
r OrCtnOOK ousn Lima type> It is sometimes called Potato Bush Lima. The plants are vigorous and erect, bearing well above the ground. The pods, which are produced in large clusters, are green, about four and three-fourths inches long and each contains three to five large beans of exceptionally fine quality. It is much more productive than Kumerle and matures earlier. Seed large, irregularly oval in shape, very thick, with greenish tinge. This sort is popular for home and market use. Lb. 50c; 5 Lbs. $2.25.
NOTICE
Plan for double crops this year-late crops to follow when the early stuff comes off. Winter cabbage can be put into ground that has borne early peas. Parsnips can be sown up to mid- July. Turnips are a crop for July planting, and there is always a demand for them when the season indicates that other vegetables will be short. Beets, carrots, and kale are suited to meet summer planting.
We have a special strain of Fordhook Bush Limas. Try them,
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BEANS — POLE OR RUNNING
Although pole beans require considerable care and labor, they are when properly grown usually of longer bearing period than the dwarf sorts and are generally more pro- ductive.
Pole beans are even more sensitive to cold and wet, as well as to drought and hot winds, than the dwarf varieties, but are of superior quality and productiveness. After set- tled warm weather, set poles four to eight feet long in rows four feet apart and extending north and south, the poles being three feet apart in the row. Let the poles slant slightly toward the north. Set in this way the vines climb better, and the pods are straighter and more easily seen. Around each stake plant five to eight beans one and one- half to two inches deep. When well started thin to four plants, and see that they all climb around the pole in the
same way, for they will not grow if tied up in the opposite direction.
Another plan is to plant in rows thickly enough so that there will be one plant to eight or ten inches. Set posts five feet high firmly at each end of the rows and drive stakes made of two by two lumber at intervals of about sixteen feet along the rows. Stretch a wire, size number 10 or 12, between the posts along each row, and fasten it to the tops of the stakes with wire staples. Run a lighter wire or twine along the bottom about six inches from the ground and fasten to t-he posts and stakes with wire staples Between these two stretch a wire or twine wherever there is a plant. The vines will run up these until they reach the top wire, when they will care for themselves. Another way is to omit the bottom wire and stick small stakes two to six inches in the soil and fasten to top wire.
Brown Kentucky Wonder sVesaa.kl "weVifevffhifvarT-
ety is the most practically useful of the green podded pole beans suitable for use as snaps. It is an edrly, very prolific sor.t, with showy pods which are of most excellent quality. The vines are vigorous, climbing well and very productive, bearing pods in large clusters. The pods are medium light green, very long, often reach- ing nine or ten inches, curved and twisted, round, and very crisp when young, becoming very irregular as the beans ripen. Seed long, oval, slightly flattened, dun colored. One of the very best pole snap beans for the home garden or market; The quality of our stock is unsurpassed. Lb. 35c; 5 Lbs. $1.60.
Mr An early maturing, green podded, white
* VJ® eJCCU seeded pole sort desirable for snaps and
White Kentucky Wonder “rnese„rpassheii ln b‘eanSolass™e
vines are vigorous and very productive. The pods are round, very long, often eight to nine inches, irregular in shape and quite string- less. The beans when shelled green are large, very tender, and white, a very desirable feature when comparison is made with the colored beans of other varieties of this class. Seed medium long, oval, or well rounded, solid white. Many gardeners consider this bean the most desirable pole sort. Lb. 40c; 5 Lbs. $1.85.
Black Kentucky Wonder
We believe this variety is the most practically useful of all the green podded pole beans suitable for use as snaps. Ppds in tremendous clusters which are medium green, very long, often ten inches in length, curved and twisted nearly round and very crisp. Seed jet black. Lb. 35c; 5 Lbs. $1.60.
London Horticultural or cultural ™iS °L
rrankpvrv Purpose late green shell bean for home J|JcUycU kyldllUclTy or market. The vines are moderately vigorous with large, light colored leaves. The pods are medium length, four and one-half to five and one-half inches, pale green when young, becoming as they mature yellowish green striped or splashed with red. The beans are large, ovate, flesh colored, splashed and spotted with wine-red and of the highest quality, either green or dry. Many like this sort better than limas. This well-known horticultural pole bean is sold also as Wren’s Egg. Lb. 35c; 5 Lbs. $1.60.
Lazy Wife
One of the best of the later green podded pole beans snaps for green shell use. The medium green pods, borne in large clusters, are five and one-half to six and one- half inches long, broad, thick, fleshy, and entirely stringless. When young they have a rich, buttery flavor which is retained until they are nearly ripe. The dry beans are excellent for winter use. Seed white, medium size, slightly oval, or nearly round. Lb. 35c; 5 Lbs. $1.60.
Put rvv fnrn Hill A very P°Pular variety in Central
onon Or V^orn nill and Southern States for planting among corn. Vines not as heavy as the Kentucky Wonder, vigorous, with dark colored leaves. Pods three to three and one-half inches long, straight, flat, fleshy and of good quality. Seeds small, round; light gray, splashed with purplish brown. Lb. 35c; 5 Lbs. $1.60.
Early Golden Cluster Wax veryWeattkra0cTi?e eSn. an
is one of the best wax-podded snap pole beans. The vines are large, strong growing, vigorous, and hardy, with large light green, crimped leaves. The pods are six to eight inches long, borne in abundant clus- ters, each containing from three to six pods varying in color from golden yellow to creamy white. The pods are very broad, thick, and fleshy. They are of very good quality and stay in condition for use a long time. Seed medium sized, flattened, oval, dull white. Lb. 40c; 5 Lbs. $1.85.
Market Gardeners’ White Kentucky Wonder
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Gigantic Pole Lima
POLE LIMAS
Of all the pole beans, limas are considered to have the greatest eco- nomic value. The culture is the same as for other pole beans except that being more tender, the seed is usually planted one to two weeks later. In firm soils it will be found of advantage to place the beans on edge with the eye down as when planted in this manner they germinate and come up more readily.
M. G. Seed Co’s. Early Lima
In earliness, ease of shelling, size, beauty, and quality of the green beans, this variety leads all other early limas for either the home garden or market. The vines are vigorous and remarkably productive. The pods are medium green, large, flat, about five inches long, moderately curved. The green shell beans are very large, very tender, and of finest quality. Seed ovoid, flat with slight greenish tinge. Lb. 40c; 5 Lbs. $1.90.
M. Go Seed Co’s. Early Leviathan °f ®u*)1erior quality- Won-
*' derfully productive. The
ideal Pole Lima. Earliness is often obtained at the sacrifice of other valu- able features, but in this variety we claim superiority, not only in this re- spect, but in size of Bean and pod and enormous productiveness. Lb. 40c; 5 Lbs. $1.90.
King of the Garden Lima
The vines of this standard pole lima are very vigorous and productive. The pods are medium dark green, very large, five to six inches long, broad, flat, filled with four or five very large beans of finest quality. On account of its large pods it is a favorite with market gardeners. It will come into bearing earlier and make larger pods if not more than two vines are left to grow on a pole. Seed very large, ovoid, flat, with slight greenish tinge. Lb. 40c; 5 Lbs. $1.90.
Carpinteria Lima
A most desirable pole lima for the home and mar- ket garden. The vines are strong growing and vigorous, producing an abundance of fine, large, medium green pods, five to six inches long, usually closely filled with four beans of largest size, much thicker than the average pole lima. The color is distinctive in having a decided greenish tint, an indication of very finest quality. When cooked the beans are very thin skinned, extremely tender, and of finest flavor. Seed very large, exceptionally thick, retaining the distinctly green tinge. Lb. 40c; 5 Lbs. $1.90.
Gigantic Lima
This new variety first offered by us last year is the largest podded variety of any lima yet introduced. The Gigantic Pods are eight to twelve inches long, broad, dark green color and contain from six to eight beans of the best quality. Vines vigorous, strong growing, exceptionally productive and come into bearing medium early. Seed large, rather flat, medium green. Consider this the most pro- ductive and best sort for market or home use. Lb. 50c; 5 Lbs. $2.25.
NOTICE to MARKET GARDENERS and TRUCKERS
We have here an illustration and a meager description of the celebrated Felins Vegetable Tying Machine, which is in a class by itself. It is without a doubt the only perfect Vegetable Tying Ma- chine ever constructed and we have on file many testimonials verify- ing anything we can say in its favor.
It is an absolute labor-saving device for Market Growers doing about five hours of tedious labor in one hour’s time.
It will tie any size bunch of any variety of Vegetable usually tied, whether bunch be one-fourth or five inches in diameter and tie as tight as any one can by hand without readjustment.
It adjusts itself automatically, and is so simple any child can operate it.
If interested in the greatest labor-saving device ever constructed for Market Gardeners and Truckers write for full particulars, or, better still, a demonstration.
Have you heard about our Gigantic Pole Limas illustrated and described above.
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BEET
The best results are obtained on a deep, rich, sandy loam. If wanted very early, sow such sorts as Crosby’s Egyptian and Detroit Dark Red in hotbeds and transplant, cutting off the outer leaves. For general crop sow in freshly pre- pared soil as soon as the ground will permit, in rows eighteen inches apart covering about an inch deep and pressing the soil firmly over the seed. When the plants are well established thin out to six inches apart in the row.
For winter use the turnip varieties may be sown in June or July so as to mature late in the season. The roots are stored in a cellar and covered with sand or sandy soil to prevent wilting, or they may be kept outdooi’S in pits such as are for apples and potatoes.
NOTICE — Prices on beet seed include Postage anywhere in the United States
Extra Early Egyptian Blood Turnip ?chrU facing! 1? iv.ar!'«
excellent for first early crop outdoors, being very early, with small tops. The leaves are dark green, shaded and veined with dark red. The roots are very- dark red, moderately thick, a little rounded on top, distinctly flat on the bot- tom, and about two inches in diameter when mature. The flesh is dark pur- plish red, zoned lighter shade; firm, crisp and tender. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c; XA Lb. 30c.
Crosby’s Egyptian S
This very desirable table beet does not closely 'esemble the original Egyptian except in its ex- treme earliness. The tops are small. The roots are flattened globe shaped and very smooth. The exterior color of root is bright red. The flesh of our strain is bright vermillion-red, zoned with a lighter shade, very sweet, tender, and of excellent quality. This is one of the best for early planting outdoors and is much used for bunching. It becomes fit for use earlier than any other variety but it is not so well suited as Extra Early Egyptian Blood Turnip for forcing in hotbeds or for transplanting. Our stock is exceptionally uniform in shape and color, and is earlier than the older strains which are similar in shape but show the purplish red color. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c; XA Lb. 35c.
Crosby’s Egyptian Blood Turn!©
Detroit Dark Red
We believe this is the best for the market and home garden, and on account of its uni- formly deep rich color the most desirable for canning. The tops are sniall and upright in
growth. The leaves are dark green, shaded with red. The roots are medium sized, globular or nearly round, very
smooth and of dark blood red color. The flesh is deep vermillion-red, zoned with a lighter shade of the same color.
The variety is very desirable for bunching. Careful comparisons with all prominent varieties on the market prove
that Detroit Dark Red is the most uniform in shape and size and the most attractive in color. It is unsurpassed in quality. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c; *4 Lb. 35c.
Tnrnirt (Improved) An extra selected stock of Blood iLcaiiy l Ui (lip Turnip, having larger, coarser tops and root than
Detroit Dark Red and requiring a longer time to mature. The roots are dark red and nearly round or slightly flattened. The flesh is deep red, zoned with lighter shade, sweet, crisp, and tender. This is an excellent market and home garden sort for summer and autumn use. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c; XA Lb. 35c.
Edmund’s Early Blood Turnip
garden. Tops short, rather spreading; ribs and leaf stalks dark red; blade of leaf bright green, often with wavy edge, roots nearly round or slightly flat- tened. Exterior color dark red, interior purplish red with little zoning, crisp, tender, sweet, and an excellent keeper. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c; XA Lb. 30c.
Crimson Globe Beet
This splendid variety has now been grown quite extensively in many sections of the country and
the many good reports received from old customers indicate that it gives most thorough satisfaction. The root is of medium size generally about three inches in diameter, very handsome in shape, being a little deeper than round, with a remarkably smooth surface. It has a very small tap-root. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c; % Lb. 35c.
Early Turnip Bassano or Sugar ™ng15°Ser “ a,Ueet"iawt™aer“
It is excellent for the table, being especially adapted for use as greens. The tops are large. The roots attain a large size, are light red in color and flat- tened turnip-shaped with rather heavy tap. The flesh is pink, zoned with creamy white. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c; XA Lb. 30c.
Cw!_„ pLai.J (See Kale or Spinach Beet) This kind of beet is grown tJWISS ^Odru exclusively for the numerous, fleshy, tender leaves and leaf stalks, which are superior to those of other beets for use as greens. Later in the season the wax-like leaf stems are cooked like asparagus or are pickled. This variety we offer has large, broad, undulated leaves of attractive yellowish green color, and remarkably large, broad white stalks and midribs or chards. It is well worthy of a place in the home garden as well as for market use. .^vviss Chard is sometimes called Leaf Beet and Silver Beet. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c; XA Lb. 50c.
Detroit Dark Red
Mf A Standard late variety of very
• VJL JccU good quality which keeps well
I af-f* through the winter. The roots are smooth,
DIOUU with few or no side roots but a good tap root. The exterior color of the roots is very dark purple, almost black. Flesh is dark red, tender, and sweet. It is an excellent sort for pickles and holds its top well in the hottest weather. Best late sort for market gardeners. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c; XA Lb. 40c.
M. G. Seed Go’s. Sugar bright turnip shaped
beet of very good quality for market and home garden use. The tops are medium sized, with bright green leaves. The roots are thick and slightly top shaped with a medium sized tap. The flesh is light pink, zoned almost white; crisp and tender. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c; *4 Lb. 40c.
NOTICE — Cooking Recipe for Swiss Chard
PLAIN BOILED CHARD— Wash and cut the stalks 1 Inch wide; put in sauce-pan and cover with boiling water; boil 30 minutes, or until tender; drain; dust with salt, 1 teaspoon to the quart of chard; garnish with hard-boiled egg. Serve with either lemon juice or vinegar. May also be boiled with smoked bacon.
CREAMED CHARD — Strip the green from the ribs; boil the green alone; drain and cream same as spinach. Cut the ribs in 3-inch pieces; put in sauce-pan; cover with boiling water and boil 35 minutes, or until tender; drain; dust with salt; pile in center of shallow dish and pour the creamed green around. Garnish with 1 hard-boiled egg chopped fine.
If fond of greens, try Swiss Chard.
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SUGAR BEET
FOR SUGAR MAKING
The Sugar Beets are desirable not only for sugar making but are valuable for stock feeding and when small may be used for the table. The best soil is a rich, friable sandy, or clayey loam. Rich, mucky soils will often given an immense yield of roots which, though excellent for feed, are of little value for sugar making.
Plant early in spring in drills two to two and one-half feet apart, and about one Inch apart in the row, covering with about one and one-half inches of fine soil, firmly pressed down. Cultivate frequently. When about three inches high begin thinning and continue at intervals until the roots stand about ten inches apart.
Vilmorin’s Improved
One of the richest sorts in sugar content. It will do better on new lands than any other, suffers less from an excess of nitrogen and will keep the best. The tops are of medium size, with smooth, bright green leaves. The roots are of medium size, white flesh, and often yield from ten to sixteen tons per acre. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c; *4 Lb. 25c.
K ] pin \A/» rs'zl^KiPn The roots are a little larger than Vilmorin’s Improved VV alUlcUcll and a little hardier and easier grown. The tops are rather large and the leaves slightly waved. This sort often yields under careful culture from twelve to eighteen tons per acre. It is probably the best sort for the experimenter to use. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c; *4 Lb. 25c.
MANGEL WURZEL
The culture of the Mangel Wurzel, also called Mangel, Cattle Beet and Field Beet, is much the same as for Sugar Beets. The Mangels may be grown in almost any soil, but deep loams are necessary for heavy yields of the long varieties.
M. G. Seed Co’s. Improved Mammoth Long Red
The roots are very large, uniformly straight and well formed and compara- tively thicker than the common sort. The flesh is white tinged with rose. This strain under care- ful culture is enormously productive. Our stock will produce the largest and finest roots which can be grown for feeding stock and is vastly superior to many strains offered under other names, such as Norbitan Giant, Colossal, Monarch, etc. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c; y4 Lb. 25c.
(p TsnL-rtrr] The tops are comparatively small, with the leaf stalks
1 an(j veins distinctly tinged with yellow. The neck is
small. The roots are large, ovoid, but with bottom usually of larger diameter than top, light gray above ground, deep orange below. The flesh is yellow, zoned with white. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c; *4 Lb. 25c.
Rrnrroli The ^ea^s resemble somewhat a coarse cauliflower and the culture OlOCCOIl is the same in all essentials as for that vegetable. Broccoli is well adapted only to those sections where the season is long, cool, and rather moist. One of the most valuable features is that it withstands greater extremes of tem- perature than cauliflower.
Improved Mammoth Long Red Mangel Wurzel
Early Large White French
orous, and easily grown. The heads are white, compact, hard, and of good
This is considered the best sort for most sections. '• he plants are very hardy, vig- quality. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 60c; % Lb. $2.00.
Rfiicc^lc This vegetable is used in the fall
UI U99C19 jpruutb and early winter and by some considered more tender and delicious than any cabbage. The plant resembles the cabbage, the edible part being the numerous very small heads or sprouts an inch or two in diameter formed on the stalk at each leaf joint. The culture is the same in all essentials as for cabbage, except the leaves should be broken down in the fall to give the little heads more room to grow.
Improved Half Dwarf ™%ortVOStePrrbabiymtahr;
most useful variety; The plants are half dwarf, growing about one and one-half to two and one-half feet high. They are very hardy and produce compact, rounded, gray- ish green sprouts of good size and fine quality. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 40c; % Lb. $1.40.
CABBAGE!
For many years cabbage seed has been a leading spe- cialty with us. Our cabbage seeds are all grown from approved stock seeds. We believe, there is no seed that is more reliable, nor any that can be more implicitly de- pended uppn ro give planters uniformly satisfactory results.
The requisites for complete success with cabbage are: First, good seed. In this crop the quality of the seed used is of great importance. No satisfactory results can possibly be obtained when poor seed is planted. Second, rich, well prepared ground. A heavy, moist, and rich loam is most suitable. Third, frequent and thorough cultivation. The ground should bo highly manured and worked deep. Cab- bage is grown ail over the country and specific directions regarding the time and methods of planting applicable to all localities can not be given. In general, north of the tilth parallel the early sorts should be sown very early in hotbeds, hardened off by gradually exposing them to the night air and transplanted as early as the ground is in
good condition, setting eighteen to thirty-six inches apart, according to size of variety. South of the 40th parallel sow about the middle of September, or later according to latitude, transplanting into cold-frames if necessary to keep through winter and setting in open ground as early as possible in the spring.
The late autumn and winter varieties may be sown from the middle to the last of spring and transplanted when four to six inches high. If the weather and soil are dry the late sowings should be shaded and watered in order to hasten germination, but it is important that the plants should not be shaded or crowded in the seed-bed, or they will run up weak and slender and will not endure trans- planting well. . Cabbage should be hoed every week and the ground stirred as they advance In growth, drawing up a little earth to the plants each time until they begin to head, when they should be thoroughly cultivated and left to mature. Loosening the roots will sometimes retard the bursting of full grown heads.
NOTICE — Prices on Cabbage Seed include Postage.
Don’t fail to grow some Mangel Wurzel for your Poultry. They relish them.
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Henderson's Early Summer tnt,eXs!t
ond early, somewhat flattened cabbage, valuable for the home garden and takes well on the market. It is also well adapted for kraut. The plants are vig- orous and strong growing but compact, with numer- ous but not large, rather spreading outer leaves! which are somewhat frilled; stem rather short. The heads are of medium size, round, somewhat flat- tened and keep longer without bursting than most early sorts. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 30c; % Lb. $1.00.
All Favlv This excellent second early
riu * *c»*'«* wOi ly market sort produces heads that are very large for so early a cabbage and of very good quality. It is desirable not only for gen- eral spring planting but by planting late it can be used as a fall and early winter cabbage. The va- riety is well adapted for kraut. The plants are compact, with few outer leaves which are compara- tively smooth and rather thick; stem short. The heads are solid and flat but very deep. Our strain is of special value. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 30c; % Lb. $1.00.
Charleston or Large Wakefield
CABBAGE— Continued
To preserve cabbages during the winter, pull them on a dry day and turn them over on the heads a few hours to drain. Set them out in a cool cellar, or bury them in long trenches in a dry situation, covering.
A great many of the varieties of cabbages are simply strains rather than distinct sorts and are really the same as some older and better known kinds. We are confident that every good quality can be found in a greater degree in the varieties we offer than in any other kinds.
Early Dwarf Flat Dutch tTi.p,“Sabie
second early sort are short stemmed, compact and upright with comparatively few and short leaves. The heads are large for size of plant, are nearly round or somewhat flattened, close, firm, and very solid. They mature a little earlier than Early Sum- mer. This variety is extensively used for home gar- den and market. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 30c; Lb. $1.00.
All A- very desirable large cabbage of in-
i-\li ucasUIla termediate season, adapted for autumn as well as late summer use, and considered one of the most desirable for kraut. The plants are very vigorous and sure heading, with few outer leaves which are large and fairly smooth or slightly waved. The heads are nearly round or somewhat flattened, very solid and of excellent quality. It is remarkable for its ability to stand the hot sun and dry weather, remaining an exceptionally long time in condition for use. Sometimes sold as Vandergaw. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 30c; % Lb. $1.00.
Early Jersey Wakefield ^
surest heading of first early cabbages for the market and home garden. Most gardeners depend upon it for the bulk of their extra early crop. The plants are exceedingly hardy, not only in resisting cold but other unfavorable conditions. They are compact and erect or very slightly spreading, with few outer leaves, which are smooth, thick, nearly oval, and deep green. The stem is short. The heads are of medium size, very solid, uniformly pointed and of excellent quality. Our stock, grown and selected with great care, is of first quality. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 35c; % Lb. $1.25.
Charleston or Large Wakefield
A strain in which the plant is larger and a little later than Early Jersey Wakefield, the head being fully as solid but less pointed and considerably larger. The leaves are rather large, smooth, and comparatively thick. Its exceeding hardiness, earli- ness, and size of head have made it with market gardeners and shippers a popular sort to follow Jersey Wakefield. The plants are medium sized, very vigorous, slightly spreading. The heads are blunt-pointed but very broad at the base. Our stock can be depended upon to produce uni- formly fine, marketable heads. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 30c; M t Lb. $1.25.
Copenhagen Market
duced. The heads are exceptionally large for so early a variety, very solid and of most excellent quality. The plants are vigorous but compact, with short stem and few outer leaves which are of rather upright growth. The leaves are medium light green, nearly round, comparatively thick and smooth. This is a most excellent sort, both for the home garden and market gardening trade. Our strain produces the characteristic large, round heads that tor solidity and excellent quality make this variety so valu- able. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 40c; % Lb. $1.40.
Glorv r>£ Fnkliiii7Pn This second early variety is
VAii/ry Ul Cilliuiuizen very sure heading and of excellent quality. The plants are of vigorous growth, with large, rather spreading outer leaves, which are noticeably curved and frilled. The heads are globular or very nearly round, very solid, and of large size for so early a variety. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 30c; % Lb. $1.00.
One of the most reliable main crop or late oureneaa cabbages for northern latitudes, being very hardy and exceptionally sure heading. In some sections this is used largely as a late home market cabbage and for shipping. The plants are rather upright, with many outer leaves which are waved, thin edged, crimped, and distinctly frilled; stem rather short. The heads are large and broad, thick, somewhat flattened, compact, very solid, and of excellent quality. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 30c; *4 Lb. $1.00.
M. G. Seed Co's. Premium result of much
P| ■ care on our part to develop and main-
F lttl LJ Ul€n tain the good qualities which have made this sort so popular. The plants are very hardy, compara- tively slow growing but very sure heading; stem rather short. The plants are exceptionally vigorous, with very large, broad, spreading outer leaves which are moderately smooth or very slightly waved and slightly blistered. The heads are uniformly large, often very large, flat but deep, distinctly flattened on the top, solid, and of excellent qual- ity. This is considered by many as the standard, very large late cabbage for home garden and market. It is an excellent keeper. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 30c; *4 Lb. $1.00.
Market Gardeners’ Copenhagen Market
Copenhagen Market, most profitable Cabbage for market gardeners.
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* CABBAGE — Continued
M. G. Seed Co’s. Premium 1' sJrr~ 2
I kets that require a very large and
l^alc L/rumneaa deep head. It is also much used as a main crop or late sort for the home garden. The plants are large, fairly compact but distinctly vigorous, with me- dium length stem and large outer leaves, which are up- right in growth and moderately waved. The heads are uniformly large, very large when grown in good, rich soil, are flattened on top but very deep, compact, and of ex- cellent quality. The heads can be kept in good condition until late in spring. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 30c; % Lb. $1.00.
Early Dwarf Ulm Savoy &.• ^
and most excellent flavor. The plants are rather small but vigorous. The outer leaves are medium sized, much crumpled, thick, fleshy, deep green. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 30c; % Lb. $1.00.
Improved American Savoy ma!nbeciopf and
late Savoys for home use or markets. The plants are vigorous, of medium size, with rather short stem, and are very sure heading. The outer leaves are medium large, thick, fleshy, and densely and uniformly crumpled. The heads are large, nearly round, fairly solid, sweet, and tender. The quality is superior to sorts that have been offered as Perfection Green Globe or Drumhead Savoy. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 30c; % Lb. $100.
Mammoth Rock Red
The largest and surest heading red cabbage, much better than stock offered as Rea Drumhead. The plants are large and vigorous with medium length stem and spreading outer leaves which are dark green with red veining. The heads are late maturing, large, round, very solid and of very attractive deep red color. The variety is much used for cold slaw and pickling. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 35c; % Lb. $1.00.
Chines Cabbage (rE‘TSAI> The improved strain V^lliilCsC GaUUa^C we 0f£er resembles when well
grown Cos Lettuce rather than Cabbage. It is often called Celery Cabbage on the market. The leaves of the plant when young are crimped at the edges, of light green color and appear like smooth leaved mustard but with much broader and heavier midribs. The plant as it matures be- comes more upright and forms heads much like Cos Let- tuce. The inner leaves blanch an attractive light yellow or' creamy white with very white midribs. It is of dis- tinctive flavor, very mild and pleasant. It is served as a salad like lettuce or cooked like asparagus. The early plantings of Pe-Tsai run quickly to seed in hot weather. Sow in drills fourteen to twenty inches apart and thin seedlings Two or three times; or if grown for the market start in boxes and transplant like cabbage. Giant Pkt. 10c: Oz. 30c; %. Lb. $1.00.
CARROT
Chantenay
The carrot is one of the most wholesome and nutritious of our garden vegetables and it should be planted in every garden as well as among the field crops. For horses and as winter feed for milch cows, the carrot cannot be surpassed and it should be more largely grown by farmers for this purpose.
While a sandy loam made rich by mannr ing the previous year is the best soil for the carrot, any good land thoroughly' and deeply worked will produce satisfactory crops. It is advisable to sow as early in the spring as the ground is fit to work, though good crops may be grown from late sowings. For table use sow the smaller kinds early in rows sixteen to eighteen inches apart. For field culture sow in drills eighteen to twenty-four inches apart, using from one and one-half to three pounds of seed to the acre. Cover one-half to one inch deep and see to it that the soil is pressed firmly above the seed. As soon as the plants appear, use the cultivator or wheel hoe. Thin two to six inches apart in the row, according to the size of the variety. Notice — Prices on carrot seeds include Postage.
The tops of this early half IVldifclGl v_X di Ucllcra long frame sort are very small Frwrmcr and seed may be sown very thickly as the l UlLlIlg variety is well adapted for forcing. The roots are of medium size, slender, cylindrical with re- markably small neck, handsome deep orangq color, tender throughout and of the best quality. They are usually four and one-half to five inches in length, but sometimes grow considerably' longer. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 20c; *4 Lb. 75c.
Half Long Scarlet Nantes
Qtinmn variety has small tops and is excel-
O l LirOp I\OOtcU ent for the market or home garden. The roots are cylindrical, smooth and of a bright orange color. The flesh is orange, becoming yellow in center but very tender throughout. ’ This variety7 is of the finest quality and is one of the most symmetrical -and handsome of the medium sized sorts. The mature roots are usually five to six inches long. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c; % Lb. 50c.
A most excellent, medium early, half V^nanienay long variety. -It is one of the best in quality for the market and home garden, while its great productiveness and the ease with which it can be har- vested make it desirable as a field sort. The tops are medium sized with small neck. The mature roots are thick, five to -five and one-half to six inches in length, uni- formly half long or stump rooted but tapering slightly, smooth, deep orange-red in color. The flesh is very crisp and tender. Although a medium early sort the roots are suitable for use nearly as early as any. -The variety is extensively7 used for bunching. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 20c; ^4 Lb. 60c.
Guerande or Ox Heart
„ . .. Market Gardeners’ Forcing
Especially desirable for soil so bard and stiff that longer rooted sorts yvould not thrive in it. The tops are comparatively small. The mature roots are four and one-half to five inches long, very thick, ending abruptly in a small tap root. The flesh is bright orange, fine grained and sweet. When young the roots are desirable for table use as a medium early carrot and when mature they are equally good for stock feeding. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c; % Lb. 50c.
Dpnvavfi A half ]onS orange carrot, grown largely on account of its great productive- l/aJVvfS ness and adaptability to all classes of soil. It is a desirable second early car- rot for the home garden and is also suitable for field culture. The tops are medium size. The mature roots are of medium length, six To eight inches long, tapering uniformly to a blunt point. The flesh is deep orange, tender, and of good quality. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c; % Lb. 50c.
Carrots, dear reader, are mighty wholesome and nutritious,
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CAULIFLOWER
Cauliflower, although one of the most deli- cious vegetables, is but tittle grown except by professional gardeners because of the erroneous notion that it is so dif- ficult to grow that only skilled gardeners can produce it. Any one will be reasonably sure of success with this most desirable vegetable if the cultural directions given below are care- fully followed.
Sow in March or early in April in hotbed and transplant to cold-frame when sufficiently large to handle. As soon as dan- ger of hard freezing is over set in the open ground in rows two and one-half feet apart and eighteen inches apart in the row. The plants will endure a light frost. The soil for cauliflower should be like that for cabbage, but it is better if made richer than is ordinarily used for that crop. Plenty of good manure must be well in- corporated with soil and the latter be brought in- to the highest state of tilth. No application, however, can be more necessary or more use- ful than that of cultiva- tor and hoe.
All the cauliflower seed we offer is pro- duced by the most ex- perienced growers in Europe, in such locali- ties as are best suited to its proper development and the greatest care is taken to save seed from perfectly developed plants only.
Erfurt Cauliflower
Notice — Prices on Cauliflower Seeds include Postage.
IVSflrlfPt narflpnpre’ Unquestionably the earliest IViarKei VAdraenerS maturing Strain of the true
Greenhouse or Forcing banrt tyPTeof llVn-
flower. It is admirably adapted for forcing or wintering over for early crop and is the most popular sort for these purposes, also one of the best sorts for late summer and fall crop. A most desirable sort for the home garden. The plants are compact, with few short, outside leaves and are well suited for close planting. The heads are of medium to large size, solid, compact, round, very white, and curd- like and are developed earlier than those of any other sort. We are in position to supply the most critical trade with seed which can be depended upon as the very best. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. $3.50.
f?av*lvr An extremely early variety produc-
Ei&riy jnOWDml ing magnificent white heads of finest quality. For market gardeners’ use it is one of the most profitable. Excellent for family use. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. $2.50.
Farlxr Fllwavf FVfn%-t A remarkably sure heading l^ciriy LJ W Ctrl H,riun early Cauliflower. It is of dwarf habit with short outside leaves and is similar in all respects to Early Snowball, and nearly as early. The heads when ready for market are of medium to large size. The curd is white, exceptionally deep and of finest quality. It will give excellent results either in the home garden or for market use and is superior to most seed sold at higher prices. Where extreme earliness is not the greatest con- sideration we recommend this strain after having proven it far superior to most stocks offered as Snowball. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. $2.50.
V eitch’s Autumn Giant able 1 “‘“‘variety vw!"h
long stems and dark green leaves. The heads are very large, white, firm, and compact and being well protected by foliage, remain a long time fit for use. The plants should be started and transplanted early in the season to insure their full development. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. $1.25.
CELERY
Sow the seed (which is slow to germinate) from about February 20 to April 20 in shallow boxes indoors or sow in a finely prepared seed bed out of doors in April in straight rows so that the small plants may be kept free from weeds. See to it that the seed is not covered too deep and that the bed is kept moist, almost wet, until the seeds germinate, as plenty of moisture is essential to get a satisfactory growth. The seed will not germinate well* if planted in a hotbed or where subjected to a temperature above 60° F. When the plants are onte to two inches high, thin out and transplant so that they may stand two or three inches apart each way. When they are four inches high, cut off the tops, which will cause the plants to grow stocky. Plants are usually set out when about five inches high. It is well to cut off the lower half of the roots before transplanting.
The crop is usually made to succeed some earlier one, but in order to grow good celery the soil must be made as rich as possible, the essentials to success being very rich soil and plenty of water. If good plants are used they may be set out as late as the middle of August, but the best results are usually obtained from setting about the middle of June or first of July. The most desirable time will depend upon local climate and is that which will bring the plants to maturity during cool, moist weather. In setting, prepare broad trenches about six inches deep and four to six-feet apart, in which the plants should be set six inches apart, cutting off the outer leaves and press- ing the soil firmly about the roots. The compacting of the soil excludes the air from the roots until new rootlets are started. The only care now necessary for about six weeks is to keep the plants free from weeds by frequent culti- vation.
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CELERY —Continued
When the plants are nearly full grown they should be "handled,” which is done by gathering the leaves together while the earth is drawn about the plant to one-third its height, taking care that none of it falls between the leaves, as it would be likely to cause them to rust or rot. After a few days draw more earth about them and repeat the process every few days until only the tops of the leaves are visible. Or it may be blanched by pressing the leaves together with two wide boards held in place by stakes or by wire hooks at the top. This is the method commonly used by market gardeners and the rows need to be only about three feet apart, but celery so blanched is not so good in quality and is more likely to become pithy than that blanched with earth. Care should be taken that the plants are not disturbed while they are wet or the ground is damp; to do so increases the liability to injury from rust.
A part of the crop may be simply "handled” and then at the approach of severe freezing weather taken up and set out compactly in a dark cellar or an unusued cold- frame, where the temperature can be kept just above the freezing point and it will then gradually blanch so that it may be used throughout the winter. Should the plants begin to wilt, water the roots without wetting the stalks or leaves and they will revive again.
Celery is sometimes grown by what is termed the new process which consists in making a spot as rich as pos- ible and there setting the plants six to eight inches apart each way. If the soil is very rich and there is an abund- ance of water, the plants will blanch each other and the product will be very white and handsome, but we think It is inferior in quality to that grown by the old method.
Notice — Prices on Celery Seed include Postage.
M. G. Seed Co’s. Golden Y ellow Self -Blanching “riy i„ln,he°fnan“a0sn any
and we have yet to find a strain better in quality and appearance than our stock of Golden Yellow Self-Blanch- ing. Critical gardeners generally depend upon our stock to produce their finest celery. It is excellent for the home garden. The plants are of medium size, compact and stocky, with yellowish green foliage. As they mature the inner stems and leaves turn beautiful golden yellow so that blanching is effected at a minimum expenditure of time and labor. Its handsome color, crispness, tender- ness, freedom from stringiness, and fine nutty flavor have established it as a superior early sort. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 90c; *4 Lb. $3.00.
White Plume
A handsome, very early variety. The leaves are light, bright green at base, shading nearly white at tips. As the plants ma- ture, the inner stems and leaves turn white and require to be earthed up but a short time before they are in con- dition for use. Although very attractive, we do not think that it compares favorably with the Golden Yellow Self- Blanching either in flavor or solidity, or that it will remain in condition for use as long. White Plume has been much in demand as a market sort on account of its very at- tractive appearance and requiring a very short time for blanching. It is suitable also for the home garden. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 35c; % Lb. $1.00.
Facv RlanrVuntr This is a &reen leaved variety IL.<U>y Oianinmg developed from the Gold Yellow Self-Blanching and we recommend it as being of the very best quality for fall and early winter use for the home garden and market. It blanches to a beautiful yellowish- white color, is very solid and crisp, and of a fine nutty flavor. The stalks are of medium height, very thick, the upper portion nearly round but broadening and flattening toward the base. With high culture this variety will give splendid satisfaction as a growing sort for fall and winter use. In the south it is prized more than almost any other kind. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 90c; *4 Lb. $3.00.
M. G. Seed Go’s. Golden Yellow Self-Blanching
Winter Reliance
This is considered the most attractive in color and the best in quality of any of the late keeping sorts. The plants are moderately dwarf, compact, with solid heart and habit of growth very well adapted for late keep- ing. When ready for the late market the color is a very attractive light creamy yellow. The quality is unsurpassed by any variety of its class and is decidedly superior to most of the older, long keeping sorts. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 35c; Lb. $1.00.
PFT FRIAr* OK turnip rooted celery.
vLiLLIvlrt^ jn this kind of celery, the roots have been developed by cultivation and not the leaf- stalks. The roots, which are the edible portion, keep well for winter use and are excellent for soups and stews. They are also cooked and sliced as a salad.
Sow seed at the same season and give the same treat- ment as common celery. Transplant to moist, rich soil, in rows two feet apart and six inches apart in row. Give thorough culture. It is not necessary to earth up or "handle” the plants. After the roots have attained a diameter of two inches, they are fit for use. To keep through winter pack in damp earth or sand and put in the cellar or leave out of doors, covering with earth and straw like beets and carrots.
Large Smooth Prague ’™sy p^aucef iarg.
roots of nearly globular shape and comparatively smooth surface. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 25c; *4 Lb. 75c.
Chervil
A hardy annual with aromatic leaves resembling parsley and by many considered superior to it in flavor. The young leaves are used in soups and salads and for flavoring and garnishing meats and vegetables.
Sow in early spring in rich, well prepared soil. The seed is slow to germinate, sometimes remaining in the earth four to five weeks before the plants appear. When the plants are about two inches high, transplant or thin to about one foot apart. They are ready for use in six to ten weeks from sowing.
Cllflpfl This sort is greatly superior to the old, plain V-'UIieu variety, being earlier, handsomer and hav- ing fully as fine fragrance and flavor. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 25c; % Lb. 75c.
Plant seeds that you possibly overlooked last season.
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CORN —SWEET OR TABLE VARIETIES
A rich, warm, alluvial soil is the best, but excellent sweet corn can be raised on any good, ordinary soil, if it is deeply and thoroughly worked before planting. In the North sweet corn should be planted as early as can be done without risking great loss from frosts or from rotting of the seed in the soil.
If planted in rows, make the rows three to four feet apart, according to the vigor of growth of the variety, and place the seed twelve to sixteen inches apart in the row, covering one inch deep with fine soil firmly pressed down If planted in hills, make the hills for the early varieties three feet apart each way and plant six kernels to the hill. For the later sorts the hills should be not less than four feet apart each way. Hoe frequently, and when six inches high thin so as to leave three to four plants in the hill. Give frequent and thorough but shallow cultivation until the tassels appear. Notice — If Corn is wanted sent Parcel Post add 5c for the first pound and lc for each additional pound.
r Unnatr Pi A New Golden Grain variety that has ears
viuIUcIl noney JL/6W^ about seven inches long which resembles Golden Bantam in color. Stalks about five feet high, usually twelve rowed and when ready for use is golden yellow in color. Grains longer than Golden Bantam, very sweet and tender and remains fit for table use longer than any yellow variety. Once you try this variety it will become your favorite Sugar Corn. Lb. 40c; 5 Lbs. $1.75.
(T'1 Rnnlam This is an early sweet corn with golden yellow
LlOiacIl Dalllalll grain, very tender and of excellent quality. The ears are eight rowed, six to seven inches long and of the medium size found most suitable for the table. The flavor is exceptionally rich and delicious. The stalks are four to five feet high. Our stock of this splendid home gar- den and market variety has been very carefully selected and is decidedly superior to much that is offered. Lb. 30c; 5 Lbs. $1.10.
M. G. Seed Co’s. Money Maker Sracoearaiyr <£,* ‘for bfho
market and home garden. The ears are very large for so early a variety. The stalks are about four feet high, each generally bearing two large, finely shaped ears which become fit for use as early as those of any variety. They are twelve rowed, six to seven inches long, very symmetrical and handsome, seldom with any opening between the rows at the base. The grain Is large, broad, very white, and of remarkably good quality for such an early sort. The size and beauty of this variety give it ready sale even when the market is overstocked. Lb. 40c; 5 Lbs. $1.75.
C„J., P * „i Remarkably large in ear for a second early IvcllUcl S JC.ariy VJ.lo.ni sort and extensively grown in some locali- ties for the market. The stalks are about five and one-half feet high. The ears are about eight to nine inches long, twelve rowed. The grain is rather
broad and shallow, and the quality very good. Lb. 30c; 5 Lbs. $1.10.
Mammoth Blue Bantam
This corn, when very young, cooks re- markably white, but the ripe grain is bluish black. For home use we consider it the best second early sort where tenderness and sweetness are the qualities most desired. It does especially well as a second early variety in the South. The stalks are about six and one-half feet high. The ears are about eight inches long and are usually eight rowed. Lb. 40c; 5 Lbs. $1.75.
M. G. Seed Co.’s Golden Country Gentleman
This new Yellow or Golden grained variety is a cross between the Golden Bantam and Country Gentleman varieties and has all the good qualities of both. Stalks about 6 ft. high, maturing the delicious golden grained 6 to 7 inch ears, medium early, and we predict this variety will prove a winner. Lb. 50c; 5 Lbs. $2.25.
StowelPs Evergreen
The standard main crop variety, much used for the home garden, market, and canning. It is hardy and productive, very tender and sugary, remaining a long time in condition suitable for boiling. Our stock has been carefully grown and selected to avoid the tendency to a shorter grain and deterioration in the evergreen character of this best known of all late sorts. The ears about seven to eight inches long, fourteen to twenty rowed. The stalks are about seven and one-half feet high. Lb. 30c; 5 Lbs. $1.10.
rmmtrv r.onflowian This variety has a small, white cob, densely VUUIIiry uenueman covered with irregular rows of very long, slender, white grains of excellent quality. The ears are seven to nine inches long. The stalks are from six and one-half to seven feet high. It is well adapted for canning as well as the home garden and market, and many consider it as the best of the late varieties. Lb. 30c; 5 Lbs. $1.10.
Tio- 70 tr Firornvoon This fine new strain possesses *^15 *d5 LVCrgreen the distinct characteristics which have made Stowell’s Evergreen so deservedly the favorite for main crop, but produces ears fit to use from one week to ten days earlier. Rows irregular. Lb. 30c; 5 Lbs. $1.10.
MP prt’c This late or main-crop variety
• vl* vli a, is a strain of Zig-zag, producing
Double Nose or Club SJKn.t'SwSK.
productiveness, similar fine quality, and irregular "shoe- peg” arrangement of the crowded, slender, deep grains.
The ears, being so much larger than those of the original type, are more desirable in our locality as a market
variety. Lb. 30c; 5 Lbs. $1.25.
Early Adams or Burlington e"ny x field 1
rlety and often used for table, particularly in the South. The ears are about eight inches long, twelve or fourteen rowed. The kernels are white, rounded, somewhat deeper than broad and indented at the outer end which is whiter and less transparent than the inner. The stalks are about six feet high. Lb. 25c; 5 Lbs. $1.00,
Look for list of Field Corn for feeding or ensilage on page 75.
Ihl. mmntll This variety, also called Late Mammoth, produces the iTlClIllIIlULII largest ears of any sweet corn. It is noted for the im- mense size of the ears, which are often twelve inches long, but are sweet, tender and delicious. They are sixteen or eighteen rowed. The stalks are
very large, about eight feet high. Lb. 30c; 5 Lbs. $1.10.
Zig-zag
We urge all to try our Golden Country Gentleman Corn. You will never regret it.
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CUCUMBER
This is one of the vegetables that can be grown to perfection by any one who can control a few square yards of reasonably good soil that is fully exposed to the sun. Every family should be supplied from its own garden, since the fruit is so much better when gathered fresh from the vines as desired for use than it is in the more or less wilted
condition in which it is found on the market.
In order to obtain the largest yield of cucumbers, the soil should be well enriched with well-rotted manure, but an abundance of good fruit can be raised on any rich garden soil. Plant the seed not over an inch deep in hills four to six feet apart each way, dropping fifteen to twenty seeds in a hill. After the plants begin to crowd and danger from the striped beetle is pretty well over, thin to three plants to the hill. Give frequent but shallow cultivation until the plants make runners so long that this is impracticable.
In field culture, plow furrows four feet apart and similar one at right angles to the first. At each intersection drop a shovelful or more of well-rotted manure which should be well mixed with the soil, forming a broad, flat hill four to six inches above the surface. Many growers omit every fourth row, thus forming paths for the distribution of manure and gathering the fruit.
In many sections, where earliness is very important, market gardeners start plants in boxes made like the ordinarj' berry box, but without the raised bottom.
The boxes are set in hotbeds or cold-frames, filled with rich, friable soil and the seed planted. When danger of frost is over, the plants are set in the open ground, the boxes being cut away so that the roots are not disturbed at all.
Pick the fruit as soon as it is large enough and before it begins to ripen, as the vines will cease setting fruit as soon as any seed begins to mature. In gathering for pickles, cut the stem instead of pulling the fruit off and be careful not to mar the fruit in any way, for if the skin be broken the pickles will not keep so well.
NOTICE — Prices quoted on Cucumber, Cress and Corn Salad Seed include Postage.
C* 1 f'',j a An early and very productive variety. The vines are hardy
CioTty V^IUSici and very vigorous, bearing fruits in clusters of two or three.
The fruits are short, thick, bright green, shading lighter at blossom end, crisp and tender. This sort is planted in many sections for the home garden. It is exten- sively used for a pickling cucumber as well as for slicing. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c;
*4 Eb. 40c.
Piflrliner This is a very productive variety that is extensively grown DOSiOIl I Ithling for pickles. The vines are vigorous. The fruits are bright green, of medium size, very smooth and symmetrical. The flesh is crisp and tender. Our seed is decidedly superior to much that is offered. Giant Pkt. 10c;
Oz. 15c; % lb. 40c.
(®’or Pickles) This is a very small, oval, prickly fruited OOla.II unemin sort quite distinct from all others and grown exclusively for pickles. It is the smallest of all the varieties and should always be picked when young and tender. The seed is distinctly smaller than that of other cucum- bers and is slow to germinate, requiring usually from two to three weeks. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c; *4 Eb. 50c.
I C' v The stock we offer under this name is in a class
improVcU EUIlg 'JlCcIl by itself. The vines are very vigorous and pro- ductive. The fruits are very long, often twelve to fifteen inches when mature, and are sometimes longer. They are uniformly slender and of beautiful dark green color. The large warts and spines are well distributed over the surface instead of being clustered at one end as in inferior stocks. The variety furnishes some fruits early but matures the bulk of its crop rather late. It is a standard sort for slicing and is very largely used for pickles. The fruits are often used for making sweet pickles. This is probably the most extensively used cucumber for the home garden and market. The stock we offer has no equal. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 20c; *4 Eb. 60c.
Pirb-lincr This variety is between the Long and the Short Green,
E IbtVllllg forming a long, slender, cylindrical pickle which is very crisp and tender. The vines are very vigorous and productive. The mature fruits are about eight to nine inches in length and are sometimes longer. This sort is desirable for slicing as well as for pickling. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c; % Eb. 40c.
Fnrlv XA/inifipi °ne of the best sorts for table use. The vines are
LiaJiy VV llilC opiilc vigorous, fruiting early and abundantly. The fruits are uniformly straight, light bright green, fairly well covered with white spines and when mature are often about seven inches in length and are sometimes longer.
The flesh is crisp, tender, and of excellent quality. The variety is much used for the home garden and market. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c; % Eb. 40c.
tCInnrlilrf* ^ medium early, white spined cucumber of handsome, very dark lYlUnOlRC green color and of excellent quality for slicing. The vines are very hardy and productive. The mature fruits when grown under favorable conditions are often about eight inches in length, and are uniform in size and shape. The color is very dark green, slightly striped at the ends. The dark green color is re- tained much longer and is affected less by the hot sun than any other sort with which we are familiar. Its uniform size and shape and splendid color are making this variety very popular as a shipping sort. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c; ^4 Eb. 40c.
Fvt | nr The fruits of this desirable table variety
ELiXira Lung or V cryiccll are ]ong, cylindrical, dark green, with very white, crisp, and tender flesh. The vines are vigorous and VV Illie upinc productive and come into full bearing somewhat later than Early White Spine. The mature fruits are about eight to nine inches in length and are sometimes longer. This variety is adapted also for forcing. Giant Pkt. 10c;
Oz. 15c; ^4 Eb. 50c. Extra Long or Evergreen White spine
CRESS
As early in spring as the ground can be worked sow the seed in lion, well prepared soil, in shallow drills about six- teen. inches apart, covering with about one-half inch of fine soil firmly pressed down. When the young plants are well started thm four to six inches apart in the row. For succession plant every two weeks, thinning out as required for use. Keep off insects by dusting with Pyrethrum powder.
Curled or Pepper Grass Sin l£u£ ale Sel
for garnishing. It is also desirable with lettuce, to the flavor of which its warm, pungent taste makes a most agreeable addition. The plant is of rapid growth, about one foot high. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c; *4 Eb. 35c.
True Water
This is a distinct variety of cress with small, oval leaves and thrives best when
Its roots and stems are submerged in water. A fair growth may be obtained in soil which is kept wet but does best when along moist banks or in tubs in water-covered soil. It is one of the most delicious of small salads and should be planted wherever a suitable place can be found. The
seed is usually sown and lightly covered in gravelly, mucky lands along the borders of small, rapid streams. The plants will need no subsequent culture, as under favorable conditions they increase very rapidly by self- sown seed and extension of the roots. When gathered for the market the shoots should be cut, not broken off. In summer it is best to cut them closely, the oftener the better. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 40c.
CORN SALAD ESS'LL™.
This is a small, quick growing salad plant for late fall, winter, and spring use. The leaves are used as a sub- stitute for lettuce and spinach.
: During August and September sow the seed in shallow drills about one foot apart, covering with about one-fourth inch of fine soil firmly pressed down. On the approach of severe cold weather, cover with straw or coarse litter. The plants will also do well if the seed is sown very early in spring and like most salad plants are greatly improved if sown on very rich soil. The seed we offer is extra cleaned. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c; Eb. 40c.
Try our Evergreen White Spine Cucumber. None better.
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CHICORY—
The dried and prepared roots are much used as a substitute for coffee,
Large Rooted or Coffee “dy thbe ySse<f
spring salad. Our stock is the improved type, with very much larger, smoother, whiter, and proportionately shorter roots than the old kind.
Sow seed as early in spring as the ground can be pre- pared, in rather light, moderately rich soil, in drills two to two and one-half feet apart for either garden or field culture. When the plants are sufficiently large, thin to six inches apart in the row. Cultivate well. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 20c; *4 Lb. 55c.
£ (French Endive.) The leaves and leaf stems W lUOOr 0f this variety are blanched and used as a salad like Endive or Cos Lettuce. The top will attain the proper size in from four to six weeks. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 30c; *4 Lb. 90c.
n nVF Q_ onion-like plant used as a salad and
L'OI V WLtbJ f0r flavoring soups. It also makes an
Allium Schoenoprasum gSnt be^Sfg
which may frequently be cut, a new growth of leaves appearing soon after each cutting. The plants grow about ten inches high. One sowing will answer for about three years. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. $1.00.
pAI I ARDQ This is a tall, loose leaved cabbage- like or kale-like plant grown through- out the South and known in different sections as “Cole,” “Colewort,” or simply “Greens.” It is extensively used for the table as well as for stock feeding in the South where it continues in growth and is usable throughout the entire winter. Collards usually succeed in locations where cabbage can not be grown to perfection.
Sow the seed thickly in drills, in rich ground, trans- planting when about four inches high; or sow in drills where the plants are to remain and when well started thin to two or three feet apart in the row. In the South, seed may be sown from January to May and from August to October.
Georgia, Southern or Creole white or green
stemmed variety, growing two to three feet high and forming a large, loose, open head or cluster of leaves with a rather long stem. A frost, if not too severe, will improve rather than injure the quality of the leaves. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c; % Lb. 40c.
Market Gardeners’ Seed Co’s. Black Beauty
Dandelion
Sow early in spring, in very warm, rich soil, in drills eighteen inches apart; thin to five inches apart and culti- vate well; they will be fit for cutting the next spring. When grown for the roots, sow in September and cultivate well during the fall and the following summer; the roots will be fit to dig in October.
Cultivated or French Common p re0civeed
ment on the wild dandelion. It is very early and vigorous.
Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 25c; % Lb. 75c.
Egg Plant
Seed germinates slowly and should be started in hotbed, for in this, as in all semi-tropical plants, it is important to secure a rapid and continuous growth from the first, the plants never recovering from a check received when young. When plants have two rough leaves transplant three or four inches apart. When the ground is warm and all danger not only from frosts but from cold nights is past, harden off by gradual exposure to the sun and air and decreasing the supply of water, then carefully transplant to open ground, setting two and one-half feet apart. It is desirable to shade the young plants from very hot sun and to protect them from the potato bug which otherwise often destroys them. Some seasons egg plants will fail to set fruit or will not be- gin bearing until too late to mature, no matter how faith- fully they may have been cared for. This is especially likely to happen if the summer is cool and rather moist. We know of no certain remedy for it, although it is a good prac- tice to pinch off the ends of the branches after the plants begin to bloom, so that only two or three fruits will set.
IVL G. Seed Co’s.
This variety is a general favor- ite both for market and home
Improved Large Purple fpf„deei”-ss. ThiLJeanl„d
spreading with light green foliage. It usually produces four to six large, oval fruits of a splendid dark purple color. The vigor and productiveness of the plants and the large size, earliness and fine quality of its fruits make it a most profitable variety for market gardeners. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 50c; V* Lb. $1.75.
Rlarf'L- Rich dark Purple, large, and sym-
L>iaLli UCaUiy metrical, maturing a little earlier than our Improved Large Purple but usually not quite as large. Very desirable for the market as the fruit holds its color a long time. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 50c; *4 Lb. $1.75.
Endive
One of the best salads for fall and winter use. Endive is not only much used for salads and garnishing but is also desirable for greens and for flavoring soups and stews. Plants may be grown at any season of the year but are more generally used late in the fall. For early use sow about April 15th; for later supply sow in June or July in drills fourteen to twenty inches apart and when well started thin the plants to one foot apart. When nearly full grown tie the outer leaves together over the center in order to blanch the heart of the plant. By covering fresh plants every few days a succession may be kept up.
Market Gardeners’ Seed Co’s. Yellow Curled
M. G. Seed Co’s. Yellow Curled
This beautiful variety does not need blanching to prepare it for use, the midribs being naturally a golden yellow finely cut witli curled leaves. Highly esteemed by Market Gardeners. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 40c; % Lb. $1.50.
NOTICE — All prices quoted on this page include postage.
Plant some French Endive or Witloof. Yon will like it.
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ENDIVE— Continued
NOTICE — All prices quoted on this page include Postage except where noted.
f arop Purler! A hardy’ vigorous growing
JL.arge ureen juried endive with bright deep green leaves. The midrios of the outer leaves are usually tinged with rose. The dense mass of deeply divided leaves formed in the center blanches very readily to rich creamy white. This sort is highly esteemed for the market and home garden and is much used for salads. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c; *4 Eb. 50c.
Broad Leaved Batavian h^rf&af'nro’EJ'S
less twisted and waved bright deep green leaves with thick, nearly white midribs. The inner leaves form a fairly solid, clustering head which blanches beautiful deep creamy white and is crisp, tender, and of fine flavor. This sort is unsurpassed for salads and is much used for the home garden and market. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c; *4 Eb. 50c.
Z''* A pi |/^* A bulbous rooted plant of the onion family vlrtlVLiV/ with a strong, penetrating odor but much esteemed by some for flavoring soups, stews, etc. We fre- quently receive orders for garlic seed but we can supply bulbs only. Prepare ground the same as for onions, plant bulbs in drills eight inches apart and four inches apart in row covering two inches deep. When the leaves turn yel- low take up the bulbs, dry in shade and lay them up in a dry loft as you would onions. BULBS, *4 Eb. 20c; Lb. 60c.
ll/'\pC|7 P Ani^sH Horse Radish rarely produces nUi\J£) IVril/ljn seed but is grown from pieces of the roots. Mark off the rows two and one-half feet apart in rich, moist, well prepared ground and set the pieces of roots eighteen inches apart in the rows verti- cally, the small end down and the top one to three inches below the surface. Cultivate thoroughly until the tops cover the ground, when their shade will keep down the weeds. SMALL ROOTS — 3 for 10c; 35c per dozen, postpaid. By freight or express at purchaser’s expense, $1.75 per 100.
HERBS used for flowering purposes
Anise (Pimpinella anisum) Balm (Melissa officinalis) Basil, Sweet (Ocimum bas- ilicum)
Borage (Borago officinalis) Caraway (Carum carui) Coriander (Coriandrum sati- vum)
Dill (Anethum graveolens) Fennel, Sweet (Foeniculum officinale)
Horehound (Marrubium vul- gare)
Hyssop (Hyssopus offici- nalis)
Uavender (Lavendula spica) Marjoram, Sweet (Origa- num marjorana) Rosemary (Rosmarinus offi- cinalis)
Rue (Ruta graveolens) Saffron (Carthamus tinctor- ius)
Sage (Salvia officinalis) Savory, Summer (Satureia
hortensis)
Thyme (Thymus vulgaris) W ormwood (Artemisia ab- sinthium)
Giant Pkt. 10c.
Early White Vienna
AlarKet tiarueners Seed Co s. Curled Winter
M. G. Seed Co’s. Curled Winter
A very vigorous growing va- riety of spreading habit, its green foliage having a distinctive bluish tinge or bloom. The leaves are very large, cut and frilled at the edges. The variety is very hardy, a favorite for greens and in some sections is extensively grown for forage. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c; *4 Ub. 40c.
KOHI RARF The edible Part is the turnip-shaped bulb formed above wa iJ-i nnui ground. It is tender and excellent when used before fully grown, combining somewhat the flavors of cabbage and turnip. In some sec- tions of this country the Kohl Rabi is also called Turnip-rooted Cabbage. In Europe the name Turnip-rooted Cabbage has been applied to the Ruta Baga, Swedish-Turnip, or Swede.
Seed should be sown in light, rich soil as early in spring as possible in rows one and one-half feet apart and when well established thin to six inches apart in the row. Plantings at intervals of ten days will give a succession of good young Kohl Rabis. Plantings may be made the latter part of July for fall use.
Earlv WKifp Vienna (Extra for forcing) This variety is extremely ail y TT llUC ICiIilo, early with distinctly small tops. The bulbs are of medium size, very light green or nearly white, and are of best quality for the table if used when about two inches in diameter. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 25c; *4 Eb. 80c.
I REFC This belongs to the onion family. The leaves are flat, and the stems l_, IV are very large, cylindrical, and bulbous. Sow early in spring in drills twelve to fifteen inches apart, covering one-half inch deep. Thin plants to six inches apart in row and draw the earth about them when cultivating. If one desires very white and tender leeks transplant when about six inches high, setting four inches apart in trenches about two feet apart and gradually earth up like celery.
T a**cTf* American Flarr A desirable strong growing, broad leaved leek, lUttll Flag hardy and productive. It is a favorite with many market gardeners and is also extensively used for the home garden. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 25c; % Eb. 80c.
The largest variety, when well grown often three inches in diameter, white and tender. It is an exceptionally hardy garden sort. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 25c; *4 Lb. 80c.
Kale or Borecole
This is extensively grown, especially in the South during the fall, winter, and spring. The leaves are used principally for greens. A favorite way is to cook them with bacon. The leaves are also used for garnishing.
Where climate permits seed may be sown any time from August to October, broadcast or preferably in drills eighteen inches apart so that the plants when small may be cultivated. The quality is improved rather than injured by frosts if not too heavy. Farther north sow in April or May in rich light soil in rows two to three feet apart and where plants of the largest size are desired thin to two feet apart in row. It is better not to cut or handle the plants while frozen, but if this is unavoidable, thaw them out in cold water. The young shoots which start up in the spring from the old stumps are very tender and make excellent greens.
Tall Green Curled Scotch tThIs vPia ?i e t°y
grows to three or four feet high, bearing long, plume- like, light green leaves which are deeply cut, also finely curled at edges. Very ornamental and so hardy that a moderately heavy frost improves rather than injures its quality. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c; % Eb. 50c.
Dwarf Curled Scotch sApre’ 55$, or German Greens ^
greens. This sort, sometimes called Norfolk, is grown extensively in the South for shipment and is planted largely for the home garden. The leaves are long and attractive bright green.
This sort is often used for S a r n ishing. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c; rA Eb. 50c.
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LETTUCE
For early outdoor culture In the latitude of Cincinnati and southward the seed may be planted in the fall, pro* tecting the young plants from severe freezing either with frames or coarse litter which may be removed as soon as danger of severe freezing is over. Lettuce in ground out of doors will stand some freezing but Is killed by prolonged frost or frequent freezing and thawing. North of Cincin- nati an early crop may be secured by starting under glass from January to March and hardening off well before set- ting in ground, which should be done as soon as weather will permit.
Lettuce to be at its best should be grown as rapidly as possible, hence the soil should be made as rich and pliable as possible by liberal manuring and thorough prepara- tion. For winter, sow under glass from November to
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February and thin out as early in the spring as the ground can be worked, in drills eighteen inches apart and thin the young plants to four inches apart in the row. As the plants begin to crowd thin them out and use as required. In this way a much longer succession of cuttings may b® had from the same ground. For the cabbage or heading varieties where large heads are desired, the plants should be thinned ten to twelve inches apart in the row.
Varieties marked A are particularly adapted for culture under glass and for early spring use. Those marked B are sometimes grown under glass, but are especially desirable for outdoor, summer culture. Big Boston, Brown Butch, and California Cream Butter are very hardy and suited for winter outdoor culture in the South.
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CABBAGE OR HEADING VARIETIES
Farlv Tpnnic Rail A- (Seed black> °ne of the ILany i ennis £>ail best heading lettuces, espe- cially desirable for early planting outdoors and also suit- able for forcing. The plants are large, with thick, bright green leaves. They form very solid heads, the inner leaves blanching to a rich, creamy white, and are crisp, tender and buttery. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 20c; *4 Bb. 70c.
/''*•»_ fr*** This very large heading lettuce is de-
\*TISp ttS ICc sirable not only as a garden variety for summer use, but is much used as a fall and winter market sort. It is the variety largely grown in California and shipped to eastern markets. The plant is very large but compact and tight heading; outer leaves attractive deep green, broad, frilled at edges. The inner leaves form a large head, very sweet and tender when in condition for use. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 30c; XA Lb. $1.00.
Mammoth Black fo Seeded Butter
A smooth leaved lettuce forming very large, compact, cabbage-like heads of thick, yellow- ish green leaves, the inner ones
beautifully blanched, very crisp, tender, and buttery. It is one of the most largely grown sorts, suitable for the home garden as well as market. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 20c; XA Lb. 70c.
(Seed white) This is an excellent sum- L/caCOn mer variety. The head is of large size, is very firm and remains in condition for use a long time. The plant is very compact, with few outer leaves which are usually very smooth, thick, and of light green color. The inner leaves blanch to a bright, rich yellow and are crisp, buttery, and very well flavored. Pkt. 5c; Oz. 20c; XA Lb. 70c.
Rrnurn (Seed black) Outer leaves large,
DiOWu L/Ultn thick, green tinged with brown and covering a solid head which is beautifully blanched, sweet, tender, and well flavored. The variety is desirable be- cause of its hardiness and is well adapted for planting in the south as a winter lettuce. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 20c; XA Lb. 70c.
A. (Seed white) This is a handsome, may IVHlg extremely early, compact, cabbage or heading variety for the home garden and market, forming very firm heads of medium size and excellent quality. The color is light yellowish green, tinged with reddish brown when mature. The inner leaves blanch rich golden yellow, very tender and buttery. The plant is very compact for so large a head. The variety is exceptionally early outdoors, attaining a size suitable for use before other sorts and is also very satisfactory for forcing. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 20c; XA Bb. 70c.
May King
Big Boston
Mr C^J fo5,. A. (Seed white) This variety
• >JuCU Vo 9* js popular for outdoor culture
Dj Rncfrvrt and is also much in demand as a com-
Olg .DOSIOXI pact, large heading, forcing sort for cold-
frames. The plants are large, very hardy, and vigorous. The leaves are broad, comparatively smooth but wavy at the edge, thin, very hard and crisp. In color they are bright light green, the head slightly tinged with reddish brown. The inner leaves blanch to an attractive greenish white, tinged with light yellow. It usually heads up under cold weather conditions better than any other variety, and is grown extensively in the South for shipment North in the winter. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 25c; XA Lb. 85c.
California Cream Butter ?ery(?e nab leading or Royal Summer Cabbage deep green leaves,
the outer ones slightly spotted or splashed with brown. The inner leaves form a large, very solid head, rich light yellow in color, very thick, tender, and buttery. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 20c; *4 Lb. 70c.
H-iru'/vn B- (Seed white) One of the most desirable nanson later summer lettuces. The plant is compact and forms a large, cabbage-like head which remains in condition longer than most heading sorts. The outer leaves are bright yellowish green, broad, somewhat crum- pled and frilled at edge and with distinctive midrib. The inner leaves are white, very crisp, and sweet. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 20c; XA Lb. 70c.
COS LETTUCE
(Romaine) This kind of let- tuce is distinguished by its long, narrow, spoon-shaped leaves, folding into loose, sugar-loaf shaped heads which blanch better by having the outer leaves drawn about them and tied. The quality is distinct from that of the Cabbage Lettuce and by many is considered very superior. Sow seed early in spring in rich, well prepared soil, in rows eighteen inches apart, cov- ering one-half inch deep. When plants have two or three leaves thin to three or four inches apart. As the plants begin to crowd thin and use as required. If large heads are desired plants should be thinned ten to twelve inches apart. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 20c; *4 Bb. 70c.
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LETTUCE CURLED OR LOOSE LEAVED VARIETIES— Continued
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p„an J Panirla A. (Seed black) As a lettuce for greenhouse forcing this variety undoubtedly stands at the head VJrallU rvapiU? of the list, being of quick growth, little liable to rot, and remaining in condition several days after being fit to cut. The plant is upright and forms a loose cluster of large, thin, bright green leaves savoyed, finely crimped at edges. The leaves do not wilt quickly after cutting so that the variety will stand shipping long distances better than most sorts. It is a very attractive variety and is desirable for garnishing. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 25c; *4 kb. 90c.
Grand Rapids
25c; % Lb. 85c.
Black Seeded Simpson best °fo? %w\ng
outdoors where an exceedingly tender leaf is de- sired and for those markets which demand a very large loose clustering sort. The color is an at- tractive light yellowish green. It is used also for growing under glass or in frames. The leaves are ruffled and blistered and even the large outer ones are very tender. The sort is especially adapted for sowing thickly and cutting when the plants are young. Giant rkt. 10c; Oz. 20c; x/± Lb. 70c.
Simpson’s Early Curled ySyd Txten-
sively used early loose leaved, or clustering variety. The leaves are light green in color, slightly frilled and much blistered, crisp, sweet, and tender. The sort is especially adapted for sowing thickly and cutting when the plants are young. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 20c; *4 Lb. 10c.
Farlv Hoad B (Seed "llite) A
L.ariy r rize neau large, clustering, non- heading lettuce, most excellent for the home garden and undoubtedly the most easily grown variety in cultivation. It is too tender, however, to stand shipping or handling on the market. The leaves are finely curled and crumpled, bright green tinged with brownish red, and are very crisp, tender, and sweet. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 20c; % Lb. 70c.
Iceberg, known as Ice Head Lettuce
Large, handsome head of fine flavor. The light 'een, curly outside leaves have slightly reddish edges. The inside leaves are strongly arched, mak- ing a solid well blanched head. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz.
MUSK MELON
After danger of frost is passed, the ground being warm and in good condition, plant in rich soil, preferably sandy loam, in hills about four to six feet apart according to the vigor of the variety. Put ten or twelve seeds in a hill, covering with about an inch of fine soil firmly pressed down. When the plants begin to crowd and the striped beetles are pretty well gone thin to four of the most vigor- ous plants in a hill. Give frequent but shallow cultivation, until the plants make runners so long that this is im- practicable. Rich earth for the young plants is far better
than manure, but if the latter must be used, see that it is Well rotted and thoroughly mixed with the soil.
The quality of melons of all varieties is largely de- pendent upon conditions of growth and ripening. Un- healthy vines or unfavorable weather produces fruit of comparatively poor flavor.
After the plants have four to six leaves it is considered a safeguard against blight to spray with Bordeaux Mix- ture at intervals of about ten days, adding either Paris green or arsenate of lead for the eating insects.
GREEN FLESHED VARIETIES
Extra Early Hackensack
|7Yfra Farit/ This early green fleshed Li A Hi a variety is popular in many
secti°ns as. a market l la.Ln.Cildc&'LK melon and is also exten- sively used as a home garden sort. The fruits are nearly twro 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 yel- low as the fruits mature. The flesh is green, a little coarse, but juicy and sweet. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 20c; *4 Lb. 60c.
Netted Gem or Rocky Ford
This has become one of the most popular of small or crate melons and is shipped in large quantities from Colorado and Arizona. It is a desirable medium early sort for the home and market garden. The vines are vigorous and productive. The fruits are oval, slightly ribbed, densely covered with fine netting. The flesh is green, very sweet, and highly flavored. We offer an exceptionally fine stock of this early sort, the fruit being very uniform in shape and quality and of the even size that is so desirable in a shipping melon. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 20c; % Lb. 60c.
Baltimore or Acme ™m-sLsol‘
green fleshed sort are medium sized, oval or long oval, slightly pointed at stem, slightly ribbed, and are covered when ripe with coarse netting. The flesh is thick, green, well flav- ored, and sweet. This variety is a very pro- ductive, sure cropper of good quality. It is extensively grown in some sections for the market, also as a home garden melon. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 20c; % Lb. 60c.
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MUSK MELON
(Continued)
Orange Fleshed Varieties
’T’* ’T' A well-known
1 ip 1 Op very productive market sort in some sections. The fruits are large, nearly round, slightly ribbed and fairly well covered with shallow net- ting. The skin is light yellow when the fruit is mature. The flesh is deep yellow, rich, and highly flavored. Giant Pitt. 10c; Oz. 20c; % Fb. 60c.
Petoskey or t,’,,' V.,! Paul Rose r.,f 1
for the home and market. The vines are vigorous and produc- tive. The fruits are oval, slightly ribbed and densely net- ted. In general appearance they are much like Netted Gem but larger. The flesh is orange- yellow, very thick, firm, sweet, and highly flavored. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 20c; % Fb. 60c.
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M. G. Seed Co's. Defender
Admiral Togo or Orange melon with the very Fleshed Rocky Ford fp!ce^idoraqnuSaeiityflesohf athde
Defender and possessing the characteristic netting, shape, size, and shipping quality of Netted Gem or Rocky Ford. Combining all the good qualities of these two fine varieties we believe the Admiral Togo is an ideal table melon. This is a desirable medium early sort for the home and market garden. Our stock is carefully bred in size and shape. It is densely netted. The flesh is very thick, ripening clear to the skin. We believe the seed we offer will meet the demands of the most discriminating buyers. We consider it the best small shipping melon yet intro- duced. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 20c; *4 Fb. 60c.
M. G. Seed Co’s. Defender yellow fleshed
melons. It is excellent for shipping and is a desirable, intermediate sort for the home garden. The fruits are medium sized, oval, slightly ribbed, covered with gray net- ting. The flesh is firm, fine grained, and of highest flavor. The color is rich, deep orange-yellow. The flesh extends to the rind and retains its color and quality quite to the outer shell which, though thin, is very hard and firm so that one can remove the edible portion with a spoon, leav- ing a rind no thicker than that of an orange. The vines are very vigorous and productive. The fruit, because of the hard, firm rind, keeps and bears shipment remarkably well. This splendid variety was originated and introduced in 1901. We believe it is identical with the melon intro- duced in 1907 and sold largely as Burrell’s Gem. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 20c; XA Fb. 60c.
Honey Dew Melon round or slightly oval, five to
six inches in diameter and weigh about six pounds each. The skin is smooth with an occasional net and when fruits are ripe is creamy yellow in color. Flesh light emerald green, fine grained and of very sweet, sugary flavor. Rind
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Harris’ Earliest
thin but very firm and the fruits stand shipping remarkably well. If picked shortly before fully mature the fruits will keep for several weeks. Matures about two weeks later than Rocky Ford. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 20c; XA Fb. 60c.
Water Melon
To make certain of raising good Water Melons, it is essential that the plants have a good start and to this end it is important to prepare hills about eight feet apart, by thoroughly working into the soil an abundance of well rotted manure — hen manure, guano, or other forms rich in nitrogen, being most desirable. Over this highly ma- nured soil put an inch or more of fresh earth and plant the seed on this, covering them about an inch deep.
It is important that the seed should not be planted before the ground becomes warm and dry, as the young plants are very sensitive to cold and wet. Put ten or twelve seeds in a hill. When the plants have formed the first pair of rough leaves, they should be thinned so as to leave two or three of the strongest and best to each hill.
Frequent watering of the plants with liquid manure will hasten the growth, thus diminishing the danger from in- sect pests. If the striped beetle appears use tobacco dust freely. The best protection against bligfit and insect pests is to maintain a vigorous and continuous growth. It is desirable to change the location as often as practicable.
Harris’ Earliest
An extra early melon of excellent quality. The fruits are excep- tionally large for so early a variety, slightly oval with irregular mottled broad stripes of light and dark green. The flesh is bright red, sweet, and tender. Seed black. The vines are vigorous and productive. One of the best varie- ties for northern latitudes. We have carefully observed this splendid variety for several seasons and are con- vinced that it is the very best first early melon for the home garden. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c; *4 Fb. 30c.
O . Sometimes sold as Ice Cream. One of the S ccnSSS best early sorts for the home garden and for market gardeners who deliver direct to consumers. The vines are moderately vigorous, hardy, and productive. The fruits are medium sized, oval, but somewhat uneven in shape, bright green, finely veined with a darker shade. The rind is thin. The flesh is bright scarlet, solid, crisp, and very sweet. Seed white. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c; XA Fb. 30c.
Monte Cristo or
This most excellent variety is un- surpassed for home use or near markets. The vines are vigor- Rleckley S Sweets ous and productive. The fruits are medium to large, oblong, tapering slightly towards the stem end, dark green, often showing fine russeting. The flesh is very bright, rich red, and is exceedingly sweet. The variety is so crisp and tender that it will not stand shipping, the fruit bursting open if subjected to even a slight jar, or when the rind is penetrated with a knife. Seed white. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c; *4 Fb. 35c.
Tbis variety, introduced in 1894, i® dWccl IlCS&ri much used for shipping as well as for the home garden. The vines are vigorous and very- productive, ripening their fruit evenly. The fruits are of largest size, oval, and very heavy. The rind is thin but firm. The color is very light green, very slightly veined! with a little darker shade. The flesh is bright red, firm but very tender and sweet. The fruit remains in good con- dition a long time after ripening. Seed black. Our stock: will be found very uniform in shape, size, and color. Giant Pkt. 10c ; Oz. 15c; XA Fb. 30c.
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WATER MELON— Continued
T. _ A large, long melon similar in shape,
I Oil! W aison color, and splendid quality to Monte Cristo but averaging larger in size and with a tougher rind, making it especially adapted for shipping to distant markets. The vines are vigorous and productive. The flesh is rich red, sweet, and tender. Seed white, more or less marked with brown. Wherever grown in the South it has become very popular as a shipping sort. There has been an increasing demand of late for a better quality of ship- ping melon and this demand has been met in most excep- tional degree by the Tom Watson. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c; >4 Lb. 30c.
The fruits are medium sized, uniformly round dirOn and are USed only for preserves or pickles. The color is dark green, distinctly striped, and marbled with light green. The flesh is white and solid but not at all suitable for eating raw. Seed red. The fruits mature late in the fall and in this condition can be kept a long time. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c. *4 Lb. 30c.
I cr rntr°duced in 1902. In general shape, size, iceuerg and appearance this is similar to Kolb’s Gem, but Is distinctly darker and the skin where the melon rests on the ground is rich yellow instead of white. It has a very firm, hard rind and is as good a shipper as Kolb’s Gem but the flesh Is deeper colored, extends nearer to the rind and is more tender and sweet. Sometimes sold as Blue Gem. Seed black. The best dark colored round shipping melon. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c; *4 Lb. 30c.
PaeeaKa lUj J_n The cassabas are primarily for LASSaUtt melon 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.
Seed may be planted in April or May. Cultivate same as other musk melons but do not water too freely after first setting of fruit is fully grown. The fruits may be picked when the light streaks have become quite yellow. Store the fruits so they do not touch each other, in a cool dark place. When the rind becomes slightly softened and moist, they are ready to cut.
R^anfxr °ne of the best cassabas. It is ViUlUCU Ucauiy a variety grown extensively for shipment from Southern California. The fruits are nearly globular, bright yellow with golden tint, with wrinkled skin, six to eight inches in diameter. The flesh is white, very thick, juicy and sweet. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 20c; *4 Lb. 70c.
ONION
Although onions are often raised from sets and from division, by far the best and cheapest mode of production is from seed. The facility with which seed is sown and the superior bulbs it produces, recommend it for general use.
As early in spring as ground can be worked, sow in rich soil, thoroughly pulverized and leveled, in rows fifteen inches apart, covering one-half inch deep. When the plants are well up cultivate, thin out as desired and keep free from weeds. When grown for bunching the rows need to be only about one foot apart and the plants thinned about one inch apart in the row. For very early crop in northern latitudes sow seed in cold-frame in February and transplant when large enough to handle readily. The same location may be used for a succession of years If the
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M. G. Seed Go’s. Ohio Yellow Globe
ground is kept rich by applications of well rotted manure or other suitable fertilizer and is thoroughly worked at proper intervals. Where climate permits seed may be sown early in winter.
Y^llnw Hanvprc A Productive and very exten- * cuu w as au vcio sively used early or main crop variety of medium size. The skin is light coppery yellow in color. The flesh is creamy white, mild, and of excellent flavor. The bulbs are flattened yet quite thick with small necks, ripen down quickly and very evenly and keep very well. This Is still a standard, general crop, yellow onion for the home garden and market where a strictly globe shaped bulb is not demanded. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 40c; 14 Lb. $1.40.
Pnrtiicral This ls a medium sized onion
W nue r or lUgai or of mild flavor and with beau-
American Silverskin yir'kTts Ihtievorue' Ji?S
many for use when young as a salad or bunching onion and for pickles. It usually matures about ten days earlier than White Globe and is fine for fall and early winter use. It is an excellent medium early sort for gardeners who do not care to plant more than one variety. The bulbs are nearly round when of bunching size, somewhat flattened when mature. This is the best flattened white onion for north- ern latitudes. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 40c; *4 Lb. $1.40.
Large Red Wethersfield Jehd%l?iet5eandaadfld
vorite onion in the east, where immense crops are grown for shipment. It is very extensively grown for home gar- den use as well as the market. The bulbs are large and are flattened yet quite thick. The skin is deep purplish red. The flesh is light purplish white, moderately fine grained, rather strong but of pleasant flavor. The variety is very productive, one of the best keepers and very popular for general cultivation. This medium early or main crop va- riety does best on rich, moderately dry soil, but on low muck land it is more apt to form large necks than the Danvers. There is no better sort for poor and dry soils. Giant Pkt. 10c: Oz. 30c; % Lb. $1.00.
Mammoth Yellow Spanish lateveorry mahf^p
PeiTolalroi* of the lar&est size and nearly globular Or A riZeiaKer ln form, usually with shoulder and base slightly sloping. The skin is yellowish brown or light yellow with slight tinge of brown. The flesh is creamy white, very mild, tender, and of excellent flavor. The va- riety keeps well if thoroughly ripened and is very desirable for shipping for fall and early winter use. It is one of the best of the large European sorts that has become thoroughly acclimated in America and is exceptionally productive under proper conditions. If started very early in hotbed it will produce a mammoth onion the first sea- son. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 40c; ^ Lb. $1.40.
M( C„D J The heaviest yield of onions ls
• VJ. OccU vU a. always obtained from rich,
Ohio Yellow Globe SSS
shaped onion with a somewhat flattened base gives the largest returns and to meet the demands of the professional onion growers located on such lands, we have developed this variety. The bulbs are large, uniformly globe shaped, with small neck; shoulder usually slightly sloping, base often distinctly flattened, the largest diameter below the center of the bulb. The color is rich yellow with tinge of orange. The flesh is creamy white, mild, and of very fine quality. This main crop sort ripens down evenly, keeps very well and is excellent for shipping. No onion grower can afford to plant inferior seed when such as this can be procured. Giant Pkt. 10c ; Oz. 40c ; *4 Lb. $1.40.
A most desirable medium early or main crop variety for the
Oliin nirkK** home garden. The variety
V-miO vvniie \JiQDe yields abundantly, producing medium to large, handsome, and finely shaped, clear white bulbs. The flesh is firm, fine grained, quite mild in flavor and is more attractive than the colored sorts when cooked. The bulbs are globe-shaped, full at the shoulder, rounded at the base, keep well and are desirable for shipping. To produce the beautifully white onions so much sought in every market, one must first of all have good seed; second, grow them well on rich lands; third, exercise great care in harvesting and curing the crop. “Cord” up the onions in long rows, the bulbs on the inside and cover with boards, so that the bulbs in the open air are well pro- tected from rain or dew which would be sure to discolor them. Giant Pkt, 10c; Oz. 40c; % Lb. $1.40.
M. G. Seed Co’s.
ONION SETS
To raise onion sets from seed, use good ground prepared as for large onions and sow the seed very thick in broad drills, using forty to sixty pounds per acre. If the seed is sown thin, the bulbs will not only be too large for sets but will not be of the right shape and if sown thick on poor land they will be necky or bottle shaped.
RED BOTTOM SETS. Treated precisely as top onions are, setting them out in the spring instead of sowing seed. Mkt. Price.
YELLOW BOTTOM SETS. Like the preceding except in color and used in the same manner. Mkt. Price. WHITE BOTTOM SETS. These do not keep as well as the red or yellow, but produce beautiful white onions early in the season. Mkt. Price.
Our Yellow and White Ohio Globe Onions grow enormous crops from seed. Try Them,
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ll/ll KHROniW The Mushroom Is an edible fungus lYlUJflfxUV/lVl of which there are numerous varie- ties. We handle the ordinary commercial variety of a creamy white color with loose gills which underneath are of pinkish-red, changing to liver color. The mushroom produces “seed” or spores and there Is developed a white, fibrous substance in broken threads, called spawn, which is developed and preserved in horse manure, pressed in the form of bricks. Mushrooms can be grown in cellars, in sheds, in hotbeds, or sometimes in the open air, the great essential being a uniform degree of temperature and mois- ture. Our space is too limited here to give the necessary cultural directions, but these are published in book or pam- phlet form.
PUKE CULTURE MUSHROOM SPAWN. By a newly discovered process of selection and grafting the spawn Is scientifically propagated so that large, vigorous, and finely flavored mushrooms are reproduced. The sort we offer is earlier, more productive and a marked improvement on wild spawn, either French or English. Brick (about 1% lbs.), postpaid, 35c; 5 bricks, not postpaid, $1.25.
every few weeks till autumn. Water freely. In the South the seed may be sown in autumn and the plants used early in the spring as a salad and for greens.
Southern Giant Curled
The leaves are large, light green with ting©
of yellow, much crimped and frilled at edges. The plant is upright or slightly spreading in growth. This variety is highly esteemed in the South for the market as well as the home garden on account of its vigorous growth, hardi- ness and good quality. Seed small, reddish brown to nearly black. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c; XA Lb. 40c.
OKRA OR GUMBO ™ a JTSyri.JSS’S
sups, etc. Highly esteemed in the South. After danger of frost is past, the ground being warm and in good con- dition, plant in rows about two and one-half feet apart, covering with about an inch of fine soil firmly pressed down. When about three inches high, thin to about on® foot apart in the row. Cultivate and keep free from weeds. The pods are in best condition for use when from one to three inches long.
JVII T^TARD Mustard is not only used as a condiment but the green leaves are used as a salad or cut and boiled like spinach. Sow as early in the spring as the ground will permit, in drills about eighteen Inches apart, covering one-half inch deep. For succession, sow
I'"'8 The Plants are about three and one-
L/Wail vliccn half feet high and very productiv®. The pods are of medium length, greenish, quite thick, slightly corrugated, tender, and of good quality. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c; XA Lb. 40c.
This well-known vegetable Is very useful for flavoring soups and stews and for garnishing. The green leaves are used for flavoring or they may be dried crisp, rubbed to powder and kept in bottles until needed.
Parsley succeeds the best on rich, mellow soil. The seed is even slower than parsnip in germinat- ing and should be sown as early as possible in the spring, in drills one to two feet apart, covering not more than one-half inch with fine soil firmly pressed down. When the plants are well up chin eight to twelve inches apart in the row. When the plants of the curled varieties are about three inches high cut off all the leaves; the plant will then start a new growth of leaves which will be brighter and better curled and later, if these turn dull or brown they can be cut in the same way; every cutting will result in improvement.
Plaits The ’eaves of this variety are flat, deeply A lalll cut but not curled. Very desirable for flavoring soups and stews and for drying. It is a favorite on account of its very dark green leaves as well as its hardiness of plant. The curled sorts are more extensively used for garnishing. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c; % Lb. 40c.
Champion Moss Curled o^fcompift
growing variety, excellent for garnishing and flavoring, and a handsome decorative plant. The leaves are very finely cut and so closely crisped or curled as to resemble bunches of moss. Owing to its uniformly fine deep green color and very attractive foliage, this is one of the most popular sorts for both the market and home gar- den. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c; XA Lb. 40c.
¥T 1 The root is the edible por-
tiamburg or JrvOOtCCl tion of this variety and re- sembles a small parsnip both in color and shape. The flesh is white, a little dry and in flavor is similar to celeriac. The foliage is practically the same as that of plain Parsley. The roots can be dug late in the fall and stored in sand for winter use. They are extensively used for flavoring soups and stews. This variety is sometimes called Turnip Rooted. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c; % Lb. 40c.
Champion Moss Curled
PUMPKIN
Pumpkins are less sensitive than melons or cucumbers t© unfavorable conditions of soil and climate but are cultivated the same, though on a larger scale. They are raised be- tween hills of corn or in fields by themselves, but more properly belong to the farm than the garden as they readily mix with and injure the quality of the finer squash. After danger of frost is over plant the seed in hills eight to ten feet apart each way, dropping about a dozen seeds in a hill. The soil should be made as rich as possible. If planted with corn two or three seeds a rod apart each way will be sufficient. When danger from bugs is past, thin to three plants to a hill.
PARSLEY
PARSNIP
The value of the Parsnip as a culinary vegetable is well known but is not generally appreciated at its full value for stock feeding. On favorable soil it yields an immense crop of roots, more nutritious than turnips and very valuable for dairy stock.
Parsnips are usually grown on deep, rich, sandy soil, but will make good roots on any soil which is deep, mellow, and moderately rich. Fresh manure is apt to make the roots coarse and ill shaped. As the seed is sometimes slow and uneven in growth, it should be sown as early as possible in drills two and one-half feet apart; cover one-half inch deep and press the soil firmly over the seed. Give frequent cul- tivation and thin the plants to six inches apart in the row.
Large YelSow
The pumpkin most extensively used for feeding stock; also used for mak- ing pies. It grows to a large size and varies in shape from nearly round or slightly flattened to quite long. Flesh deep, rich yellow, fine grained, and highly flavored. This variety is often planted with corn. It is known also as Field Pumpkin. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c; XA Lb. 40c.
Sweet Cheese or Kentucky Field af fat- tened, with the diameter usually about twice the length. The skin is mottled light green and yellow, changing to creamy yellow when mature. The flesh is yellow, tender, and of excellent quality. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c; XA Lb. 40^.
Hollow Crown or Guernsey AStyXcefornt the
table. The roots are long, with smooth white skin, uni- form in shape, tender, and of the best quality. The variety is easily distinguished by the leaves growing from the depression on top of crown of the root. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c; XA Lb. 45c.
Sugar or New England Pie mo«
excellent quality for pies. The fruits are deep orange, eight to ten inches in diameter, round or somewhat flat- tened and slightly ribbed. The flesh is rich deep yellow, fine-grained and very sweet. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c; XA Lb. 50c.
Mustard Greens are highly prized for salads in the South. Good also in the Horth,
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PEAS
For early peas the soil should be light and warm, but for general crop a moderately heavy soil is better. Fresh manure and very rich or wet mucky soil should be avoided as they cause a rank growth of vine at the cost of the quality of the peas, furthermore such soil is often the cause of early sorts maturing unevenly.
Sow as early as possible a few of some early variety in warm, quick soil, prepared the fall before, planting in double rows six to eight inches apart and two and one- half to four feet between the double rows. The general crop can be delayed until later, but we have met with better success from sowing all the varieties comparatively early, depending for succession upon selecting sorts that follow each other in maturity.
The peas will give quicker returns if covered only one inch deep and where earliness is most important they may
be treated in that way. Larger pods and more of them will be produced if the seed be planted in trenches three to six inches deep and covered with only one to two inches of soil. When the plants are five or six inches high fill the trench level with the surface. This will secure deep rooting, prevent mildew and prolong the bearing season. If the peas be covered to the full depth at first, or if water be allowed to stand in the trenches they will not germinate or grow well.
The wrinkled varieties are more sensitive to cold, wet weather than the smooth seeded sorts but are of superior quality. All varieties growing more than one and one- half feet do better if staked up or bushed when four to six inches high. This support is usually given by sharp- ened branches of trees set between the double rows. The crop should be gathered as fast as it is fit for use. If even a few pods begin to ripen, not only will new pods cease to form, but those partly advanced will stop growing.
Notice — If Peas and Peanuts are wanted sent Parcel Post, add 5c for first pound, lc for each additional pound.
First and Best
Earliest of All or Alaska
Thomas Laxton
This is the earliest and most even strain of white, extra early peas, maturing so well together that sometimes a single picking will secure the entire crop. The vines are vigorous and hardy, of medium height, about two and one-half to three feet, bearing three to seven straight pods of good size, about two and one-half to two and three-fourths inches long, each containing five to seven medium sized, smooth peas of fair quality. Seed small, smooth, yellowish white. The stock we offer is much superior to most on the market and more even than similar strains sold as Extra Early, Rural New Yorker, and Improved Early Daniel O’Rourke. Lb. 35c; 5 Lbs. $1.60.
We have a stock of this smooth blue pea of un- equaled evenness in growth of vine and early maturity of pods which are filled with medium sized, bright green peas of good flavor. The vines are of medium height, about two and one-half to three feet and of distinctive light color. The pods are of good size, about two and one-half to two and three-fourths inches long. Seed small, smooth, and bluish green in color. This sort matures all of its crop at once and is an invaluable variety for markeet gardeners and canners. Lb. 35c; 5 Lbs. $1.60.
A very early wrinkled variety of great merit. The vines are vigorous, of me- dium height, about three feet, similar to those of Gradus, but darker in color, hardier, and more productive. The pods are large, often four inches long, with square ends, similar to but larger, longer, and darker than those of Champion of England and as uniformly well filled. The green peas are very large, of fine deep color and unsurpassed in quality. One of the very best sorts for the market and home garden. Lb. 35c; 5 Lbs. $1.60. p J A very early, wrinkled pea. The vines are similar
urauUS in appearance to Telephone but of medium height, only about three to three and one-half feet. The pods are very large, about four and one-fourth inches long, very nearly as large as those of Telephone, uniformly well shaped, pointed, handsome, and more attractive than those of the first earlies. The peas are very large, of splendid quality, and beautifully light green color which they retain after cooking. Practically the same as Prosperity. Lb. 35c; 5 Lbs. $1.60.
The earliest of the dwarf, wrinkled varieties. The vines are about nine to twelve inches high and produce a good crop of well filled pods of medium size, about two and five-eighths to two and three-fourths inches long, containing five to eight large peas which are exceedingly sweet, tender, and well flavored. Seed medium sized, generally flattened, wrinkled, and pale green. Lb. 35c; 5 Lbs. $1.60.
The best very early, dwarf pea. It combines the good qualities of Ameri- can Wonder and Premium Gem peas. The vines are larger and more productive than American Wonder and earlier than Prem- ium Gem and average about twelve inches high. The pods are medium sized, about two and three-fourths inches long. The peas, in sweetness and quality, are unsurpassed. Seed medium sized, wrinkled, green and somewhat flattened. A most desir- able early sort for the market gardener and unsurpassed for the home garden. Lb. 35c; 5 Lbs. $1.60.
American Wonder
Nott’s Excelsior
Alaska
T itfl» Ma j.Vp] An excellent dwarf sort for the mar- i-jillic marvel Jjet and home garden. The pods aver- age a little longer than those of Premium Gem, are more attractive in shape and color and the peas are of superior quality. The vines are sturdy, nearly eighteen inches high, heavily set with straight, deep green pods, square ended at the bottom and nearly three inches in length. Its season is about the same as Premium Gem. Seed large, green, wrinkled. Lb. 40c; 5 Lbs. $1.75.
I avinninn This very handsome wrinkled pea is the largest podded of the dwarf varieties on our list. The beautiful dark green pods are similar to Gradus in shape and splendid quality, are very nearly as large in size and often mature a little earlier. The vines are vigorous and productive, averaging fifteen to eighteen inches high; foliage dark green; pods about four inches in length. Seed light green, large, wrinkled, flattened, irreg- ular in shape. Lb. 40c; 5 Lbs. $1.75.
Premium Gem
(Improved Little Gem) A desir- able early green wrinkled dwarf variety similar to but better than McLean’s Little Gem. The vines are very productive, fifteen to eighteen inches high. The pods are of medium size, about two and three-
fourths inches long, crowded with six to eight large peas of fine quality. Seed green, large, wrinkled, often flat- tened. Lb. 35c; 5 Lbs. $1.60.
DAlirinilQ is a favorite for a general crop on account L/t^IlClUUd 0f strong vines, large peas and pods.
A heavy cropper. Vines are strong, vigorous, covered with large pods. Peas wrinkled, vines very branching, about two and one-half feet tall, often twenty pods to a vine; quality is excellent. Our stock has been carefully selected and will run remarkably true. One of the best. Lb. 50c;
5 Lbs. $2.00.
Ppff*r Pan This new’ larse podded, early wrinkled
6 CLCl L all pea iS in great favor with market garden- ers in all sections. The handsome large pods, which are well filled with big peas of delicious flavor, make it a good seller on the market stall. The vines are extremely vigor- ous, growing only fifteen to eighteen inches high, with dark green foliage, and produce a wonderful crop of pods. Peter Pan is one of the earliest wrinkled peas, bearing its dark green pods about the same time as Prosperity or Gradus, but a much heavier cropper and of quality equally as good. Lb. 40c; 5 Lbs. $1.75.
Treat yourself to the best ever, Delicious Peas.
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PEAS — Continued
A This is in many respects
Aioerman the very best early main crop variety of the valuable Tele- phone type. The vines are tall grow- ing, about four and one-half to five feet high, dark green, vigorous, and exceedingly productive. The pods are of largest size, often five to five and one-half inches long, dark green, simi- lar to but a little larger and a shade darker in color than those of Duke of Albany and about the same in season. The peas are of largest size and un- surpassed in quality. Market garden- ers are demanding the large podded, dark colored sorts which retain their fine appearance even after shipping a long distance. The Alderman answers these requirements and we recommend it unreservedly. Lb. 35c; 5 Lbs. $1.60.
Duke of Albany trivia
similar to Telephone in growth and season but darker in color of foliage and pods. The vines are tall, about four and one-half to five feet high, vigorous, and strong growing. The pods are of largest size, often four and one-half to five inches long, straight, and thick, borne in great profusion and when in condition for picking, of a deep green color. In many localities this variety is sold as an improved strain of Telephone. Its productive- ness and fine color make it a very profitable sort for market gardeners while its splendid quality should give it a place in the home garden. Lb. 35c; 5 Lbs. $1.60.
This has become the leading pea with 1 market gardeners whose trade appreciates
fine appearance and high quality. The vines are tall and vigorous, growing about four feet high, with large, coarse, light colored leaves and produces an abundance of pointed pods of largest size, often four and one-half to five inches long, attractive bright green, filled with very large peas which are tender, sweet, and of excellent flavor. It comes into use soon after the Premium Gem and is one of the best sorts for either home or market. Lb. 35c; 5 Lbs. $1.60.
Milliner (Edible pods) We consider this
1, Idling hJUgdX the best of the edible-podded sorts in which the pods are used when half grown and are cooked in the same way as snap beans. The pods of Melt- ing Sugar are very large, four to four and one-half inches long, broad, often curved or twisted, and when young, stringless, very tender, and finely flavored. The variety we offer, sometimes called Mammoth Melting Sugar, is rather late maturing, very prolific, strong growing, about four to five feet high, with large light colored foliage. Seed medium to large, smooth, round, light yellowish white in color. Lb. 40c; 5 Lbs. $1.75.
can raised with but little expense, and 1 eanuis are an exceedingly productive and paying crop. They are planted in much the same manner as po- tatoes, and require but little care beyond hilling up the young plants.
Spanish. This variety is smaller and sweeter than the common, or Virginia. Plants grow upright and strong, and are easily harvested. Lb. 30c.
Virginia. This is the common peanut grown in the South.
Lb. 30c.
PEPPER
NOTICE — Prices quoted on Pepper Seed include Postage.
Peppers are most largely used for seasoning meat and vegetable dishes as well as for salads and mangoes. They are used also for making chow chow and chili sauce.
The culture is the same as for egg plant and the plants need quite as much heat to perfect them. Sow seed early in hotbed, or about middle of spring in open seed bed, the soil being light and warm. When three inches high transplant in rows about two and one-half feet apart, and two feet apart in the row. Cultivate and keep free from weeds. Guano, hen dung, or any other bird manure hoed into the surface soil when the plants are about six inches high, will undoubtedly increase the product.
0_J A late variety- The pods are bright, rich red, about
1VCU two inches long, one-third to one-half inch in diameter
at the base, tapering to a sharp point and exceedingly pungent when ripe. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 35c; XA Lb. $1.25.
I one Po/4 Pa \7onirtia A well-known medium early variety I\CU \-,ay enne having a slender, twisted, and pointed pod about four inches long. The color is deep green when fruit is young, bright red when ripe. The flesh is extremely strong and pun- gent. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 40c; XA Lb. $1.25.
IRulw fCiritr An imProved American variety, very large and at- IX 11 Uy KVlllg tractive. The plants are about two and one-half feet high, vigorous, compact, and productive. The fruits are often four to four and one-half inches long and of deep green color when young, bright red when ripe. The flesh is thick and mild flavored. One of the best varieties for mangoes, or stuffed peppers. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 40c; % Lb. $1.25.
Rlrwsil An imProve<! variety of the Ruby King type with the deep IXtjyal ridges eliminated, exceptionally smooth and glossy. Fruits good size often four inches long, deep green color when young, bright red when ripe, thick flesh and mild. The best Mango yet introduced. Warranted the best, most profitable market sort. Giant Pkt, 10c; Oz. 50c; % Lb. $1.75.
PitYipnfn The fruits of this very productive sort are exceptionally 1 imeniu smooth and glossy, of good size, medium length and attractive color. The flesh is very thick and solid, mild, and of very fine flavor. Desirable not only for salads and stuffed peppers but it is also the sort used largely by canners. The plants are vigorous and up- right, about two to two and one-half feet high, with short, broad, dark green leaves. The fruits are deep green when young becoming deep red as they mature. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 40c; XA Lb. $1.40.
Giant Crimson
M. G. Seed Go’s. Royal
The fruits of this very desirable sort are of the largest size, ripen earlier than any of the other very large sorts and average heavier, as the flesh is exceptionally thick. The plants are vigorous and upright, about two and one-half to three feet high, larger than those of Chinese Giant and more pro- ductive. The color is deep green when fruit is young, deep crimson when matured. The flavor is mild, very best sorts for salads and large mangoes. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 50c; *4 Lb. $1.90.
One of the
Large Sweet Spanish
A late maturing and attractive, red, sweet pepper. The plants are about two and one- half feet high, upright, very compact, vigorous, and productive. The fruits are very large and long, frequently seven inches in length and about two inches in diameter, with very thick, mild flesh of excellent Quality. The color is deep green when fruit is young, rich red when ripe. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 40c; XA Lb. $1.40.
King of Mangoes, The M. G. Seed Co’s. Royal.
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RADISH
For forcing, sow in hotbed or under glass in rich, sandy soil made perfectly level. Scatter evenly over the surface from fifty to one hundred seeds to the square foot and cover with one-half inch of soil sifted on. Careful watering to keep soil moist, even, moderate temperature, and good ventilation are re- quired for rapid and best root development. If the bed is a good one the whole crop can be marketed in twenty-one to forty days after planting.
For open ground culture, sow in rich, sandy soil as soon in the spring as it Is fit to work, in drills twelve to eighteen inches apart and thin out the plants to prevent crowding. A good dressing of nitrate of soda will greatly stimulate growth and insure tender, brittle roots. Successional sowing from one week to ten days apart will keep up a supply. After the hot weather of summer begins, it is better to sow the summer and winter varieties as they do not become tough and stringy nor pithy so quickly as the early sorts.
We have been very careful to secure the very best seed possible and there Is none sold under other names which is better than that of the varieties we offer.
NOTICE — All prices quoted on this page in- clude Postage.
The smallest reliable forcing radish. The tops are distinctly small. The roots are round or
M, G. Seed Co’s.
13 J O slightly flattened, very deep red in color and of the best
Ivea VilOuc quality. It remains in condition for use the longest of any of the first early forcing sorts and is a favorite where a very small, deep red radish is desired. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c; *4 Lb. 40c.
Early Scarlet Turnip White Tipped, Forcing
A beautiful variety, rose-scarlet, with white tip, has small tops and may be planted closely. It is most attractive in appear- _ ance and can not fail to give satisfac- tion as a forcing radish. This is very popular as a market sort. It is sold sometimes as Rosy Gem and Rapid Forcing. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c; % Lb. 40c.
Farlx/ The roots of this variety are slightly olive
J-iC&l ty Jtaricl VjIUUc shaped and are a rich, bright scarlet in color. The* flesh is white and tender. We especially recommend this to gar- deners, as a large, first early forcing radish. It is also desirable for first early planting outdoors for the home garden and market. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c; % Lb. 40c.
Farlxr Wkito T,n.«m This is an early white radish, a little more J-.ariy VV line 1 urnip flattened than Early Scarlet Turnip, and as offered by us, of smaller size and sometimes a little earlier maturing. While used mostly for early outdoor planting, its very small tops and quick growth make it suitable for forcing. The roots are about one inch in diameter when mature. The flesh is pure white, crisp, and tender. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c; *4 Lb. 40c.
rVJmcrm flinnf Tni*rn« A round radish of exceptionally large crimson Oiani 1 urnip size for so early a variety. The roots are nearly globe-shaped, of beautiful crimson-carmine color and most ex- cellent quality, often growing one and three-fourths inches in diameter be- fore becoming pithy. It is a desirable variety for general outdoor planting, and also suitable for forcing where a very large round radish is wanted. It remains in condition a remarkably long time for so early a radish. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c; % Lb. 40c.
„ a • ]l/f o vLrc»f A desirable market variety with roots similar Cincinnati IViarKcl to Early Long Scarlet Forcing, but averaging longer, deeper red in color and remaining a little longer in condition for use. The roots are slender and before becoming pithy are often six to seven inches long by about five-eighths of an inch in diameter at the shoulder. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c; Y± Lb. 40c.
CaJir Chariot Turnin °ne of the best early radishes for the home Hi any Oi-allCl 1 UIllip garden and a great favorite In large mar- Tinrmrl kets for early planting outdoors. It is but little W mte I ippea later than Early Scarlet Turnip, White Tipped, Forcing and will give entire satisfaction where extreme earliness and small tops are not the chief consideration. The roots are nearly round, slightly flattened on the underside. The color is very bright, deep rose-carmine
scarlet with a distinctly white tip. The flesh is white and of the best quality. The stock we offer is exceptionally attractive in its splendid coloring. The scarlet is unusually deep and affords a distinct contrast with the large, clear white tip. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c; *4 Lb. 40c.
Early Scarlet Turnip, White Tipped
Early Long Scarlet, Forcing Stent' Lrt'^ekt,"1; ?£
home garden or the market. The tops are short and comparatively small. The roots are smooth, slender, uniform in shape and a very attractive bright carmine red in color. They grow about one-third out of the ground and con- tinue crisp and tender until fully matured, when they are about six inches long. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c; *4 Lb. 40c.
Cincinnati Market
Icicle
|*1 a very attractive, pure white radish, the earliest of the long, white IC1C16 summer sorts and of most excellent quality. The roots when ma- ture are five to six inches long by about one-half to five-eighths of an inch in diameter. One of the most desirable varieties for outdoor summer plant- ing for the home garden and market. It is also adapted for forcing. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c; % Lb. 40c.
Our Radish Seeds are all grown from selected bulbs carefully transplanted insuring the best strains.
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Scarlet China
Early
RADISH — Continued
NOTICE — Prices quoted on this page include Postage except when noted.
U/Kitp Rtracknfrt Even when comparatively small tv line iJuadUUrg this variety is in good condition for use and continues crisp until matured when the roots are four to six inches long by one and one-half to two inches in diameter. The roots are rather thick at the shoulder and are usually somewhat tapering. They remain in condition for use much longer than the early varieties. This is one of the best large, white later summer sorts for home garden and market. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c; % Lb. 40c.
Early White Giant Stuttgart Sk™0" .VJ
four inches in diameter, white, and are usually top shaped. The flesh is white and crisp, and keeps remarkably well, so that those not used in the summer or fall can be stored for early winter use. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c; *4 Lb. 40c.
WINTER VARIETIES
Seed for winter radishes should be sown about the first of August in rich, warm, sandy loam, in rows about twenty inches apart, covering half an inch deep. When well up thin to three inches apart in the row and give frequent cultivation. For winter use, the roots should be pulled and packed in damp sand and stored in a cool cellar.
This is an extensively grown variety for fall and winter use. It is known also as Chinese Rose. Their roots are cylindrical, or largest near the bottom, stump rooted, or blunt at both ends. The skin is smooth and of a bright deep rose color. The flesh is white, firm, crisp, and pungent. The tops ar© moderately large with leaves distinctly cut and divided; leaf-stems tinged with rose. The roots are usually four to five inches long by about one and one-half to two inches In diameter when fully mature, sometimes growing consider- ably thicker. It is a desirable late maturing garden sort. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c; % Lb. 40c.
Round Black Spanish Sometimes3 sSehtiyr0"Sfp
shaped, three or four inches in diameter. The skin is almost black. The flesh is white, very compact, decidedly pungent, but well flavored. The variety keeps well through the winter. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c; *4 Lb. 40c.
California Mammoth ™|e rwHte°Vn“r so”
grow nine to twelve inches long, by three to four inches or more in diam- eter just below the shoulder, tapering regularly to the tip. The flesh is firm, crisp, decidedly pungent but well flavored, keeping well through the winter. The variety matures later than Celestial and the roots are not as mild, but they attain a larger size under favorable conditions. For table use they are pulled before fully grown. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c; *4 Lb. 40c.
Half Long Grey Winter ™aiatearintyShaPr
tween the Round and the Long Black Spanish, and seems to combine the good qualities of both. The roots have grayish black skin and crisp, pungent but well flavored white flesh. They are four to five inches long and one and one-half to two inches in diameter, sometimes approaching stump-rooted form at maturity. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c; % Lb. 40c.
Market Gardeners’ Large White Globe Radish
Golden Yellow Oval Thls sort mature”
quickly, has small tops and resists the summer heat better than the early scarlet or white kinds. The roots are oval, tapering at the base, and are about one and one-half inches long by about one inch in diameter when mature. The color is bright light yellow, often russeted. The flesh is white, slightly pungent, crisp, and tender. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c; 14 Lb. 40c.
r.AUpn This variety is of quick growth,
OUlUCll VlUJUC affording crisp and tender radishes even in a very hot climate and is extensively grown in the South. The roots are uniformly globe-shaped, with skin of golden yellow color. They are about two Inches long by two and one-fourth inches in diameter when mature. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c; Lb. 40c.
1V/I c A desirable large turnip shaped
o. summer variety. The roots are I srcrif* WVlitia fUrkk** round, smooth, white, and nue VJlODe attractive and are two to three inches in diameter when mature. The flesh is crisp, firm, and rather pungent. Market gardeners use this variety largely for forcing under glass because of its small tops. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c; % Lb. 40c.
White China
RHUBARB or PIE PLANT
Rhubarb, also known as Pie Plant, or Wine Plant, is the earliest spring vegetable and is grown for its leaf stalks which are extensively used for pies and sauce.
Rhubarb succeeds best in deep, somewhat retentive soil, and the richer this is and the deeper it is stirred, the bet- ter. Sow in drills an inch deep and thin out the plants to six inches apart. In the fall transplant 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. When a blossom stalk appears, it should be cut back well into the ground and the plant never allowed to exhaust itself by running to seed. Our seed is saved from selected plants of the Linnseus, Victorie, Giant, and other improved sorts, but like the seeds of fruit trees, rhu- barb seed can not be relied upon to reproduce the same varieties. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 20c; *4 Lb. 60c.
ROOTS, by mail, prepaid, 15c. each; by express, not pre- paid, $1.00 per dozen.
SALSIFY or VEGETABLE OYSTER
One of the most desirable winter vegetables. The roots when cooked are very palatable and nutritious and are served in a variety of ways. The flavor is similar to oysters. Salsify succeeds best in a light, well enriched soil, which should be stirred to a good depth. Coarse and fresh manure should be avoided, as it will surely cause the roots to grow uneven and ill-shaped. Sow early and quite deep, giving the general culture recommended for parsnip. The roots are perfectly hardy and may remain out all winter, but should be dug early in spring, as they deteri- orate rapidly after growth commences. Frost does not Injure the roots, but before the ground freezes a quantity for winter use may be stored in a pit or in a very cool cellar.
Mammoth Sandwich Island Sge and^tronl
growing with long, smooth, white, tapering roots, and is less liable to branch than the other sorts. The tops are grassy. It is invaluable for market gardeners’ use. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 25c; % Lb. 85c.
C|^\OD|7| The improved varieties of Sorrel when well ILiLa grown and cooked like spinach make a palatable dish. Sow in drills early in spring and thin the seedlings to six or eight inches apart in the row. One may commence cutting in about two months and the plants will continue in full bearing from three to four years.
Large Leaved French
leaves of fine quality. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 20c; 34 Lb. 60c.
Don’t overlook Him barb or Pie Plant.
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Spinach Seed as grown for us by one of the largest growers of spinach in the world.
Spinach
No plant makes more palatable and nutritious greens than spinach when properly prepared. Seed should be planted in very rich ground, the richer the better. Sow in drills sixteen to twenty inches apart and thin to about six inches apart when the leaves are an inch wide. All should be cut before hot weather, while young and tender. For early spring use, sow early in autumn and protect the plants with a light covering of leaves or straw, or plant as soon as the land can be worked in the spring. Under favorable condi- tions, the leaves may be large enough for eating in eight weeks. South of Cincinnati spinach can be grown through the winter with very little or no covering.
Savoy Leaved
This sort is known also as Blooms- dale and as Norfolk Savoy Leaved. It is a very early variety and one of the best to plant in autumn for early spring use. The plant is of upright growth, with thick, glossy, dark green leaves of medium size, broad and crumpled or blistered like those of Savoy cabbage. It is hardy and grows rapidly to a suitable size for use, but runs to seed quickly in warm weather. Seed round. This spinach is suitable for the home garden and is much used by truckers. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 10c; ■*4 Lb. 20c: Lb. 50c.
Late Bloomsdale
Stubborn Seeder
An improved type of Blooms- dale, growing compact; deep green in color, as early maturing as the old-fashioned Bloomsdale, remaining in good condition quite a time after the other has gone to seed. A very valuable sort for spring sowing. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c; *4 Lb. 30c; Lb. $1.00.
This remarkable new spinach is far superior to any other sort, two weeks after all other sorts have gone to seed, hence especially for spring sowing, remaining in good condition the name Stubborn Seeder. Grows about as rapidly as the Bloomsdale, the thick crumpled or blistered leaves holding up well after cutting. We think this variety will in a few years be one of the leading sorts. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c; % Lb. 50c; Lb. $1.25.
Npw Zpslanrl (Tetragonia ex-
l^ew Ltaiana pansa) Unlike true spinach in type and in that it thrives during hot weather and in any soil, rich or poor. The tender shoots are of good quality and may be cut throughout the summer. The plant becomes very large and spreading. The leaves are com- paratively small, broad, and pointed. Plant three or four seeds in hills two feet apart each way. Germination of the seed can be hastened by soaking in warm water twenty-four hours. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c; Lb. 40c.
Haarlem Giant Sew vS^'s
an improved strain of Stubborn Seeder. The plant is very large at maturity, vigorous and hardy. Its broad, thick, deep green, crumpled or blistered leaves are very crisp and tender and of deli- cious flavor. Good variety for fall sow- ing, also the best for spring, maturing a little later than Bloomsdale. A won- derful heat resister and free from yel- low under leaves, remaining in good condition long after all other sorts have gone to seed. In Europe this is con- sidered the spinach par excellence.
This is the first season this spinach is being offered for sale in this coun- try, our firm being one of the intro- ducers. We conscientiously predict that this variety will become the leading sort in the next few seasons.
Remember this New Spinach is for sale only by The Market Gardeners’ Seed Company in this community. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 25c; % Lb. 75c;
Lb. $1.50.
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Squash
A most nutritious and valuable garden vegetable. The summer varieties come to the table early in the
season, while the fall and winter sorts can be had from August until the following spring. The winter
varieties are very well adapted for stock feeding and we heartily recommend them for that purpose. Squash plants are very tender and sensitive to cold and so planting must be delayed until settled warm weather. General methods of culture are the same as for cucumbers and melons, but the squash is less sensitive to unfavorable conditions of soil. Summer varieties should be planted four to six feet apart each way and winter sorts eight to ten.
Three plants are sufficient for a hill, in gathering the winter sorts care should be taken not to bruise or break the stem
from the squash, as the slightest injury will increase the liability to decay. Winter squashes should be stored in a moderately warm, dry place and the temperature kept as even as possible. For those who desire very early squashes, seed can be planted in boxes, and transplanted.
MammnlK XA/Llte, Ruck Q<r>ollsMrk An early maturing, somewhat flattened, scalloped bush squash, of largest i¥£ailIJlIlMJLIl ¥¥ USLaall sjze and the handsomest of the summer varieties for home garden and
market. The fruits are uniformly warted and a beautiful, clear waxy white, instead of the yellowish white so often seen in the old Early White Bush Scallop. The stock we offer of this variety is exceptionally true to type. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c; XA Lb. 45c.
ra5,L. YoIIaw Ruck QcoIIaa A flattened, scalloped bush squash of largest size. The skin is deep Ldriy * CHOW OUSii ocauop orange. The flesh is pale yellow and of very good flavor. We have devel- oped a strain of the old Yellow Bush Scallop which is fully as productive but uniformly larger and flatter than the old stock and has a very small seed cavity. This sort is extensively used for the home garden and market where a very large yellow scalloped squash is wanted. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c; XA Lb. 45c.
!\yfarv>»irs/>.tk Qnmmav The largest and one of the earliest of the crooked-neck summer squashes.
lvid.IIlIIMJi.Ii summer V/iOOKIIcCK The vines are of bush habit, large, and more vigorous than Summer Crook- neck. The fruits when mature are very large, often one and one-half to two feet long, with exceedingly warted sur- face. The color is deep yellow. Its large size and attractive color make this variety a favorite with market gardeners as well as for home garden use. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c; *4 Lb. 45c.
Boston Marrow
This is a very
productive fall and winter variety of medium to large size, oval shape, and thin skin.
It is much used for canning and making pies. The fruits when ripe are bright orange with a shading of light cream color. The flesh is of rich sal- mon-yellow color, fine grained and of excellent flavor, but not as dry as the Hubbard.
Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c; *4 Lb. 45c.
Hubbard otne t°he ‘"wiStlf
squashes. The vines are vig- orous and very productive. The fruits are large, heavy, and moderately warted, with a very hard shell. The skin is uni- formly dark bronze green. The flesh is bright orange-yellow, fine grained, thick, dry, and richly flavored. This squash can be kept in good condition until spring. It is esteemed by many to be as good baked as the sweet potato. Giant Pkt. 10c;
Oz. 15c; ^4 Lb. 45c.
Tfalian (Cocozella di Na- & Lallan poll) The vines are
Vegetable b”hw3,“.t
ya»mw large, much elon- IVlarrOW gated fruits dark green at first, but as they ma- ture, becoming marbled with yellow and lighter green in stripes. The fruits are in best condition for the table when six to eight inches long, but can be used when much larger. The young fruits when sliced and fried in oil constitute a vegetable delicacy that is very ten- der and marrowy. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c; XA Lb. 45c.
This is a fall and winter variety of medium size. Although not very thick the shell is rather hard and strong. Usually dark green but sometimes lighter in color and mottled. The flesh is thick, very fine grained and bright yellow in color. It is considered by many to be the best for markets where quality is appreciated as well as very desirable for the home garden. We have by continued and careful selec- tion made a marked improvement in uniformity of type and we believe the seed we offer is equal to the best obtainable. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 20c; XA Lb. 60c.
Mammoth White Bush Scallop and Mammoth Summer Crooknecb
TOBACCO
Delicious
The seed should be sown as early as possible after danger of frost is over. It is customary to burn a quantity of brush and rubbish in the spring on the ground intended for the seed bed, then dig and pulverize the earth and mix with the ashes, after which the seed may be sown and covered very lightly. When the plants are about six inches high, transplant into rows four or five feet each way. Cultivate thoroughly with plow and hoe.
WHITE BURLEY. A favorite for plug fillers and wrap- pers. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 40c; XA Lb. $1.40. CONNECTICUT SEED LEAF. A hardy cigar variety, well adapted to growing in the middle and northern States. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 40c; *4 Lb. $1.40. HAVANA. The leaf is very thin and is of fine texture. The vari'etv is much used for cigar wrappers. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 40c; XA Lb. $1.40.
NOTICE
On the preceding page we have illustrated and described a new variety of Spinach, Haarlem Giant, a variety of exceptional merit which we recommend to all our friends and customers. Also remember, we are one of the first introducers of this variety in this country and the first in our locality.
Our sales of Spinach Seed is several tons annually. Why? Quality,
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Tomato
Tomatoes do best on light, warm, not over-rich soil, and success depends largely upon securing a rapid, vigor- ous, and unchecked growth during the early part of the season. Sow in hotbed or in shallow boxes in the house from six to eight weeks before they can be set out doors, which is when danger from frost is past; when the plants have four leaves transplant into shallow boxes or cold- frames, setting them four or five inches apart; give plenty of air and endeavor to secure a vigorous but steady and healthy growth, so that at the time of setting in the open ground they will be strong and stocky. Even a slight check while the plants are small will materially diminish their productiveness.
Set out doors as soon as danger from frost is over, but before doing so harden off the plants by gradually exposing them to the night air and by the withdrawal of water until the wood becomes hard and the leaves thick and of a dark green color. Transplant carefully and cultivate well as long as the vines will permit. If to be grown without train- ing, plants are usually set about three to four feet apart each way according to the vigor of growth of the variety.
To insure best results in respect to early ripening as well as the amount and perfection of fruit, it is advisable to
train up and trim the vines, especially if the patch Is rather small. When the plants have been properly started and are six to ten inches high they will begin to throw out branches. Select the largest and most vigorous of these and pinch off all others except this one and the main stem. Care must be exercised not to pinch off the fruiting branches which, as they appear, can be distinguished by the buds that are formed very early. In a short time these two remaining branches will become equally vigorous and as ordinary varieties will grow four to six feet high during the season, they should be securely tied at inter- vals of about ten inches to a long stake, preferably two inches square, which has been securely set in near the root of the vine.
Fruit will set to almost any height desired if all side branches are kept trimmed off at intervals of a week. By such a method of training and trimming the fruits are kept clear from the ground and with free access of sun- light they ripen much earlier; the vitality, otherwise ex- hausted in superfluous branches and leaves, is utilized in forming fruits of largest size, greatest perfection of shape and best quality. All our Tomato seeds are from seed stocks carefully selected. We challenge comparison of our stocks with any offered.
Farlinna Our stra*n this first early sort is earlier Eai liana an(j decidedly superior to much that is sold as Sparks’ Earliana, and the extreme earliness of its large, smooth fruits makes it a very profitable tomato for market gardeners, as well as desirable for the home garden. The vines are small, but vigorous and productive. The fruits are bright deep scarlet, medium to large, nearly round, and exceptionally smooth for so early a variety. The fruits are borne in clusters near the base of the plant and the bulk of the crop ripens very early. Purplish tomato. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 35c; *4 Lb. $1.00.
Market Gardeners’ New Success
is the earliest good large purple tomato yet introduced.
Plants exceptionally robust, blight resisting, which increases the possibilities of a perfect stand, if weather conditions are unfavorable.
Extensive experiments have proven Market Garden- ers’ New Success Tomato to be in a class by itself, out- yielding any known variety.
The fruits which are a rich purple, globe shaped, ripens their clusters uniformly, and are free from cracks and blemishes around the blossom end and almost seedless.
We predict that this variety will prove the best in its class as to quality and money making as it ripens its great clusters of purple fruit evenly, yielding more marketable fruit than any known variety.
Don’t hesitate about trying Market Gardeners’ New Success Tomato this year, because we can verify all we say about them. Giant Pkt. 10c; Price $1.00 per ounce, postpaid.
Market Gardeners’ Early Michigan Tomato
/■* C'rt9*. This splendid variety, introduced in 1909, is the largest and best of the early purple tomatoes.
IY1* VJ. mCCU vU 5»« The vines are vigorous and very productive. The fruits are very smooth, uniform in size, Parlv Micliioan nearly globe-shaped, firm, and of excellent quality. One of the most valuable shipping toma- i^any miUllgan toes yet produced. It is also desirable for the home garden and near markets. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 50c; % Db. $1.75.
Trucker’s Favorite
Dwarf Champion
Tomato.” It is a second early, purplish pink variety, especially desirable where garden space is limited. The vines are about two feet high, vigorous, upright, and compact growing. The fruits are medium sized, exceptionally smooth and of very good qual- ity. Our stock is a very superior strain with more even, smoother fruit than the original Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz, 40c; *4 Lb. $1.40.
Trucker’s Favorite S-ge-^uapm--
pie Tomato. Most regular in form and size, thick-meated and very solid, this is one of the largest smooth tomatoes grown. Of a beautiful purplish color, well ripened throughout, the smooth fleshy fruits always bring the highest prices on our markets where their fine flavor is especially esteemed. The vines are of strong growth, not subject to rust or blight, and bear enormous crops until killed by frost. The fruits continue of large size to the very last and are unexcelled for slicing or cooking. It is a main-crop variety. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 40c; *4 Lb. $1.40.
Sfnnp One of the largest and most solid, lUHC main crop or late, bright red va- rieties. It is unsurpassed for slicing and canning. The vines are large, vigorous, and very productive. The fruits are bright deep scarlet, nearly round or slightly flattened, exceptionally smooth and uniform in size. Our stock is distinctly superior to most of that offered under this name, being larger, smoother, more uniform, and better colored. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 35c; % Lb. $1.25.
Ponderosa or Beefsteak
considered of very good quality, especially by those who prefer a tomato quite free from acid. The variety ripens about midseason. It is very desirable for slicing. Giant Pkt, 10c; Oz. 50c; *4 Lb. $1.75.
A purplish pink tomato of the largest size. The vines are vigorous and very pro- ductive. The fruits are very solid, with exceptionally few seeds, fairly smooth and
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NOTICE — Prices quoted on this page include Postage.
D D c| The fruits of this desirable early sort
OOnny Deal ^re most attractive in shape and color. The crop ripens more uniformly than any other early scar- let fruited sort, and is of superior solidity and interior color. The vines are vigorous and produce a good crop of exceptionally round and deep fruits, bright deep scarlet in color and of very good quality. One of the best for gardeners whose trade demands fruits of beautiful shape and color. A very good variety for early market and home garden. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 40c; *4 Lb. $1.25.
| _ „ Daot. extra early scarlet fruited variety of
Ollli Daci superior merit. The vines are very hardy and exceptionally productive. The fruits are the largest of the extra early sorts and are also most attractive in color. They are nearly round, smooth, firm and of excellent qual- ity. It is one of the very earliest to ripen its first fruits and it continues to furnish marketable fruits much longer than other very early varieties. It is an invaluable sort for market gardeners, shippers and canners. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 40c; % Lb. $1.25.
O a. . The vines are large, vigorous, and very pro- JDGSlliy ductive. The fruits are large, purplish pink, exceptionally smooth and uniform in size, very solid and of excellent quality. This -is one of the best second early or midseason purplish pink sorts for table use. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 40c; % Lb. $1.00.
A tt/vv, paJ.r This new extra early scarlet fruited AVOu E<«riy variety is the result of several years of caieful selection. The fruits are large for so early a variety, round or slightly flattened, deep scarlet red color, smooth, free from cracks and of fine quality. It produces ripe fruit as early as Earliana and continues
to yield marketable fruit for a longer period that the other first early varieties. The vines are vigorous and very productive. We consider this a valuable addition to the list of early tomatoes for the market or home garden. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 50c; *4 Lb. $1.75.
PKprrv Fruits small, about five-eighths of an IvCU vSIClI j inch in diameter, perfectly round and smooth. Fine for pickles and preserves. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 50c; % Lb. $1.75.
This variety differs from Red m. CUUW V^IlCiry Cherry in color only. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 50c; % Lb. $1.75.
Y Dpnw Fruits similar to the red Pear, but of 1 w 1 rich, clear, yellow color and quite dis-
tinct from the variety sometimes sold under this name. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 40c; *4 Lb. $1.00.
Yellow Plum Fruits plum shaped, of clear, deep cllu" * yellow color; flesh yellow and finely
flavored. Much esteemed for preserves. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 40c; % Lb. $1.00.
Ypilnw Hiiclr ov Very sweet, mild flavor; used for i do tv ui preserves. Vines low and spread - Pkovi-Tr ing. Fruits small, about one-half VMUU11U X-'IiCi ry inch in diameter, enclosed in a loose husk. The seed we offer is that of the true Yellow Ground Cherry, not the purple fruited sort which is scarcely edible. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 40c; *4 Lb. $1.00.
Oimon The fruits are large and smooth, vxsjiucil 'Iccll 0f bright golden yellow color, some- times with a slight blush of red. They are as smooth and well shaped as the best of the red varieties and are of superior flavor. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 35c; *4 Lb. 90c.
Turnip
The value of Turnips and Ruta Bagas for feeding stock in fall and winter is not fully appreciated, as they are much liked by all kinds of stock and serve to keep them in good condition. They should not be fed, however, in large quantities to milch cows, or the flavor of the milk will be disagreeably affected. We earnestly recommend that farmers in- crease their sowings largely, for we are sure the crop will prove remunerative for stock feeding as well as for table use when the roots are comparatively small.
Both of these wholesome vegetables are very easily affected in their form and flavor, by soil, climate, and mode of culture. The Turnip plant is distinguished from the Ruta Baga by its rougher leaves; the root usually matures earlier and is smoother and more symmetrical. There are a great many varieties, but our list com- prises the best for the garden and farm.
For summer use sow early in spring in light, rich, or new soil, in drills one and one-half to two feet apart according to the size of the variety and cover one-half inch deep, or sow broadcast, but in either case be sure to have the ground rich and freshly stirred. Thin early and keep free from weeds so that the young plants will not be checked in growth. Any overcrowding will result in rough and poorly flavored roots. It is important to get the spring and summer crop started very early so that the turnips may have time to grow to sufficient size before hot weather causes them to become tough and bitter.
In the middle and western States sow for fall and main crop from the middle of June to the first of August and in the manner given for spring sowing. In the field, turnips are often sown broadcast, though in most cases better results are obtained by drill culture; good results from broadcast sowing are often obtained on new and burned over land where the weeds are not likely to be troublesome.
Similar to Extra Early white ex- cept that the roots are a little flatter and an attractive purple-red on the upper portion. Well adapted for forcing. All in all, the Milan turnips leave nothing more to be desired in the way of an extra early garden turnip. Giant Pkt.
10c; Oz. 15c; i/4 Lb. 40c.
Early Purple Top, Strap Leaved £a”F variety, sier?
extensively used for the table. The leaves are few, entire, upright in growth. The roots are flat, of medium size, purple, or dark red above ground, white below. The flesh is white, fine grained, and tender. Roots when in best condition for table use are about two and one-half inches in diameter, but can be grown much larger for stock feeding. This sort is. also known as Early Red Top, Strap Leaved. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c; *4 Lb. 30c.
Extra Early Purple Top
Purple Top White Globe
Purple Top White Globe
variety is globular in shape, of good size and very attractive appearance. The roots are large, purple, or dark red above ground, white below. The flesh is white, fine grained, and tender. The roots when in best condition for the table are about three inches in diameter, but can be grown much larger for stock feeding. This sort keeps well for so early a variety and is one of the best for market use. It is also known as Red Top White Globe. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c; *4 Lb. 30c.
Cow Horn or Long White ™sr wfftrj,etexcept
a little shade of green at the top of the root, which is long and carrot-like in form, cylindrical but usually ending in a point, and slightly crooked. The roots are often twelve to fifteen inches long by about two and one-half inches in diameter and grow about three inches out of the ground. The flesh is fine grained and well flavored, and for table use is in best condition when roots are about two inches in diameter. Desirable for stock feeding and has obtained considerable favor as a market sort. The variety is of very rapid growth and well adapted for fall and early winter use. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c; % Lb. 30c.
C ______ •T*_1_ This sort is cultivated extensively in the
JcVcll A Op South for the tops which are used for greens. In many sections it is a favorite green feed for stock and its use like Rape for a pasture crop is quite gen- eral. This sort is very hardy and the growth usually con- tinues throughout the winter. The variety is not generally depended on for the root since the tops are produced so abundantly. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c; *4 Lb. 40c.
Large Amber Globe fleShed°vartieLsb|rtowr"^
ally for stock feeding. The roots are of large size and of globular shape. The skin is clear yellow except the top which is tinged with green. The flesh is light yellow, fine gi-ained, and sweet. The variety keeps well and is a good cropper. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c; *4 Lb. 30c.
O Kacra A straln of Purple Top Yellow ruta
l\ula Daga Gf American origin, selected to a smaller
American Purple Top or n°ckanthaTiSh Improved Long Island hm"' “more6 *£££
lar, grow to a large size and are of the finest quality. Excellent for table use and stock feeding. We consider this one of the most desirable sorts. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c; Lb. 30c.
StisiiTJplanT makes a wonder garden,
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• O 1 Pi ■ ■ The necessity for changing seed often is universally admitted
1T^ 01*1 /M* t iHPQ by a11 well-posted growers, especially when the best seed can
tkJULJd lUI tJCtU 1 ULCliU^O be had at so little additional outlay. Owing to perishable nature of seed potatoes and market fluctuations, ask for firm prices when interested. We make a specialty of Genuine Seed Potatoes and handle annually more than any Seed Establishment in our City, thereby are in position to give quality and lowest price.
rj TT nri Tpi7 Any good soil will produce Potatoes, but U L 1 UI\L a sandy loam is best. Make furrows of good depth, 3 feet apart, drop the cut-seed pieces about 8 or 10 inches apart. If grown in hills, one or two pieces of potatoes, containing one or more eyes in each piece, are placed in each hill, which are made 3 feet apart each way. Cover the seed four inches, but not so deep in wet, cold land. When the sprouts appear, cultivate and hoe to keep the soil free and clear of weeds. As the vines increase, draw earth around them, forming a slight ridge. Just as soon as the bugs appear use Paris green. One peck will
plant about 100 feet of row, or 100 hills. Ten bushels are required to plant an acre.
By planting Our Northern Grown Seed you are assured of Early Maturity, Increased Yield and a Vigorous Growth. To produce healthy stock we use first-class potato land, nothing but pure, well-matured, good-sized seed. The seed potatoes are very carefully handled when digging and bar- reling, that they may not be bruised or otherwise injured. Our seed potato stocks should not be compared with pota- toes picked up oh the market, named at a guess, and sold for seed.
M. G. Seed Co's.
rv r, i. Early Ohio is UaKOla fully two weeks ahead of the Early Rose, and is a general favorite with potato growers and marketmen alike, and is the most profitable Potato they can possibly grow. The sprouts are very strong, the vines grow erect and are easy to cultivate. Matur- ing early, it brings the highest prices, and the land can be used for another crop after it; does well on any soil suitable for Pota- toes. The tubers grow com- pact in the hill, are easily dug — nearly every Potato is of marketable size; has few eyes, which are even with the surface. With heavy manuring, close planting, and good culture, a very large and profitable crop can be expected. Cooks dry and mealy.
Farlv ** *s fr°m seven dt to ten days ear- than the and
that often means a differ- ence of many dollars in the crop. The Potato is good size. Skin is red, flesh is very white and firm. It is productive.
Form oval and round; skin lightly
Cnhhlpr netted- creamy '-'uuulcr white and hav- ing few eyes, which are quite shallow — some even with the surface. Flesh pure white and of the finest quality — not ex- ceeded by any early variety. Keeps perfect until spring, when it starts large, strong, and vigorous sprouts. Its strong growth, earliness, uniformity, large yield, fine qual- ity, and very handsome appearance have brought the Extra Early Cobbler right to the front as a profitable variety for market or home use.
Irish Cobbler
* tu ic n KXCLya
Triumph o" - ^
Irish
Early unio
True Early Rose
Six Weeks
The Early Rose is the old stand- ard early potato; rosy blush skin, white flesh; productive, and of excellent flavor; a fine keeper.
One of the best of the extra-early varie- ties and is very popular with the large potato growers on Long Island. The tubers in shape are “round-oblong”; skin white and smooth; shallow eyes; the flavor is excellent and the flesh is always dry and mealy.
Beauty of Hebron ^er,rarr^„InJnaa, I
Early Rose, which it resembles but frequently exceeds in productiveness and excellence for table use, either baked or boiled.
Size medium to large; thick and sfightly flattened, a good tuber, be- ing nearly five inches long, three and a half inches broad, and one and a half inches in thickness; color of skin very pale, nearly white; eyes few.
Enormously prolific, averaging nearly a pound apiece; very uniform in shape, white skinned, few and shallow eyes; flesh snow- white and of exceptionally fine cooking qualities.
A medium early variety of fine quality and appearance; large, oblong, uniform sized tubers, remarkably productive.
Hoosier Boy
The vines are wonderfully vigorous, nearly blight and insect proof, quite stiffly erect, and the tubers lie closely together in the hill. Abundant deep green foliage, capable of withstanding heat and drought. The tubers are handsome, oblong, thick, and round in form, holding thickness well out to the ends; few and shallow eyes; skin pure white, quite thin, but firm and tough, readily pared with a minimum of waste, while the table quality is of the choicest, the flesh being pure white, dry and floury.
Selected Seed Potatoes in the above list of standard va- rieties, to be shipped by express or freight at purchaser’s expense.
SEED SWEET POTATOES
Carman No. 1
Carman No. 3
White Star
New Jersey Grown — Care- fully dug, handled and stored over winter for us, expressly for sprouting purposes. The seed stocks are selected from the most perfect and prolific hills at the time of digging. We have been selling this stock, and find the potatoes much dryer and sweeter than those grown from Ohio or Western grown seed. We repack before shipping, but we wish it distinctly understood that customers take all risks after we deliver in good condition to express or railroad company here. We book orders at any time, but do not ship until about planting time. Hampers, 1 bu. Order early.
Yellow and Red Jersey, Red Bermuda and Southern Queen, also Nancy Hall. Write for prices. Ready fo» shipment about April 1st.
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A DESCRIPTIVE LIST OF CHOICE
WITH GENERAL DIRECTIONS FOR CULTIVATION
MOST flowering plants will live in almost any soil, but to give them a fair chance to develop, some care should be taken to make the ground suited to their needs. The soil best adapted for flowering plants generally is a light, friable loam, containing a sufficient amount of sand to render it porous. Many flowers are better if produced on plants of vigorous growth, hence a portion of the garden should be prepared by deep digging, thorough pulverization and liberal enriching with large quanti- ties of well-rotted manure. Since some other varie- ties produce the largest and finest colored flowers when grown on rather light, poor soil, a portion of the garden should not be enriched.
Cultural directions are given on the packets, and we urge purchasers to study them carefully. While some seeds need special treatment, the following
general rules ' will apply to all. Make the surface of the soil as fine, smooth, and level as possible; do not plant when the ground is wet; cover each lot of seeds to a uniform depth, which should not be more than four to six times the diameter of the seed; press the soil firmly over the seed; plant in rows so that the starting plants can be seen easily; thin out the young plants to prevent crowding, and keep entirely free from weeds.
Plants are usually divided into three classes, Annuals, Biennials, and Perennials. Annuals are plants which normally live but a single season. Biennials are plants living two years; particularly those which do not bear flowers and fruit until the second season. Perennials tend to live from year to year.
ALL FLOWER SEEDS IN PACKETS SENT POSTPAID ON RECEIPT OF PRICE.
ACROCLINIUM
A very pretty, hardy annual producing white and »*ose colored, double daisy-like flowers, about one and one-half inches in diameter. These are “Immortelles” bo desirable for wreaths and winter bouquets.
Album. Pure White Roseum. Light Rose Mixed
Giant Pkt. 10c. Giant Pkt. 10c. Giant Pkt. 10c.
A r* 170 ATI TIWI A beautiful, hardy annual of neat /AVJLilIXrt i 1“1 bushy habit. The attractive feathery flowers borne in dense clusters are very useful for bouquets. Very desirable for outdoor bedding and borders, being cov- ered with bloom nearly all summer.
Mexicanum. Light blue; about two feet high. Giant Pkt. 10c. Imperial Dwarf White. Height ten inches. .Giant Pkt. 10c. Tom Thumb Dwarf Blue. For edging. ..... Giant Pkt. 10c,
Mixed. Seeds of the above varieties mixed. Giant Pkt. 10c.
A I YQQI Tft/f The annual varieties can be grown very AL I JJ U 1V1 readily either outdoors or in the house and by cutting back the plants properly an almost constant succession of bloom may be had. Seed can be sown in open ground very early in spring, or may also be sown outdoors in fall.
Sweet. (Maritmum) Usually not over eight inches high,
but spreading Giant Pkt. 10c.
Little Gem. (Maritmum Com pactum, Carpet of Snow) The plants grow about six inches high. Hardy annual. Giant Pkt. 10c.
AMARANTHUS
These plants afford brilliant contrasts of color, being useful for tall borders, groups, and foliage effects. The leaves and stems are of different shades of red, blended usually with green; two to three feet high.
Melaneholicus ruber. Deep coppery red foliage; very hardy
annual .Giant Pkt. 10c.
Tricolor. Known as “Joseph’s Coat.” Especially brilliant if grown in rather poor soil ....Giant Pkt. 10c.
Coronaria (Wind Flower) Among the rAJ lllilVlwlx E- earliest of spring flowers. They are about two inches across, with blue stamens, resemble the single poppy in shape and come in several shades of color. The foliage" is deeply cut.
Single Mixed. Hardy perennial; outdoors about six Inches high Giant Pkt. 10c.
APARIC Among the earliest blooming plants. Very /HvrVDlihJ useful for rock work, edgings, etc. Hardy procumbent perennial.
Alpina. This sort has small, pure white; cruciform flowers. Leaves rather slender, somewhat clasping, small-toothed and pebescent Giant Pkt. 10c.
AQPARATI TC The ornamental varieties of aspara- r\D!r/\lVr\Vi gus are highly valued for their
finely cut foliage. Both the climbing and trailing sorts are exceptionally attractive.
Sprengeri. (Emerald Feather) A most graceful house plant; valuable for hanging baskets. Sprays three to four feet long; light green ..Giant Pkt. 10c.
Our Flower Seed list is a most complete one.
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ASTER
The Aster, in its many double varieties, is unsurpassed for bedding and cutting, and is not only one of the most profitable annuals for the professional florist but also one of the most satisfactory for the home gar- den. The great diversity of size, color, form, and season of bloom- ing makes it one of the most suitable plants for supplying cut flowers. The plants are usually of vigorous growth and so hardy that they endure a slight frost without serious injury. By plant- ing the different strains and at different times, one may have in the latitude of Detroit a constant succession of bloom from the last of July till the middle of October without the aid of a greenhouse or even a hotbed.
Queen of the Market
Very desirable on account of ex- treme earliness as well as pro- fuse blooming and wide range of colors. The plants are of somewhat compact but branch- ing habit, about sixteen to eigh- teen inches high, bearing on long stems from ten to fifteen finely formed double flowers of medium size. Fine for cutting and used extensively for grow- ing under glass. This class is known as Queen of the Earlies.
White. Distinctly early, double,
fine form Giant Pkt. 10c.
Lavender. Light lavender-blue
Giant Pkt. 10c.
Rose. A fine, very early red
Giant Pkt. 10c.
Light Blue. A very pleasing
shade Giant Pkt. 10c.
Deep Blue. An early and re- liable deep blue aster
Giant Pkt. 10c.
Mixed. Many pleasing shades and colors including white, pink, rose, deep red, crimson, lavender, light blue, and dark blue; early blooming and very floriferous Giant Pkt. 10c.
Express Extra Early
Acttfifc Early flowering Asters c\o ICIa 0f great merit, not
only for garden purposes but of Aster, Giant Ostrich heather
even more value for early cut
flowers; come into bloom in the open ground with us by the middle of July. They are the largest early Asters of which we know, flower 3% to 4 inches across, of double Comet type; splendid substance and long stems; plants healthy and sturdy, branching habit; 18 inches high; free bloomers.
Dark Blue Giant Pkt. 10c.
Rose Giant Pkt. 10c.
Einest Mixed. All colors. % Oz. 30c Giant Pkt. 10c.
White Giant Pkt. 10c.
Light Blue Giant Pkt. 10c.
U f7_. „ aL The finest type of the Giant VJaintll r earner Comet, or Ostrich Feather Asters. Much larger than the Giant Comet, the pedals longer, more curled and twisted, and produced in greater abundance. Borne on long stem.
Crimson Light Blue
Pink
Rose ......
Dark Blue White
Giant Pkt. 10c. Giant Pkt. 10c. Giant Pkt. 10c. Giant Pkt. 10c. Giant Pkt. 10c. Giant Pkt. 10c.
A Plants 2 to 3 feet high, branch-
American Beauty ing habit, blooming early in
September and lasting until killed by the frost. Flowers borne on large stems 18 to 24 inches, making them one of the most desirable sorts. r
C - ,.-,1 - > A class of very strong grow-
oempie S oranCllin§ ing asters usually not com- ing into bloom until the latter part of August, but producing on very long stems the full petalled, exception- ally large double blossoms of fine form. The plants are distinctly branching in habit of growth and are about two feet high. For many years this class with us has been almost entirely free from the aster blight.
White. Pure white,, very attractive Giant Pkt. 10c.
Mary Semple. Flesh pink. A very light and charming
shade Giant Pkt. 10c.
Light Pink. A beautiful light, pink, slightly tinged with
rose Giant Pkt. 10c.
Tyrian Rose. Flowers are very attractive deep purplish
rose Giant Pkt. 10c.
Lavender. Bright lavender; very large flowers of fine
form Giant Pkt. 10c.
Light Blue. Flowers light bright blue; very large and
attractive Giant Pkt. 10c.
Crimson. Flowers bright deep crimson, tinged with car- mine Giant Pkt. 10c.
Purple. Flowers are very deep purplish blue: rich and
pleasing shades Giant Pkt. 10c.
Semple’s Mixed. A superb mixture of all the shades and
colors, found in the Semple’s class of late branching asters Giant Pkt. 10c.
Red, White, Blue, Pink, Mixed Giant Pkt. 10c.
Actorc Mamm°th Flowering Branching Comets. Plants Ida 2 to 3 feet high, bearing a large quantity of fine comet flowers, extra large, double. We consider this the leading late sort.
Aster, Finest Mixed sAtraST„ae color,. S?S
can be made more attractive by pulling up the early plants as soon as they are out of bloom ... Giant Pkt. 10c. Bachelor’s Button — (See CENTAUREA).
Red, White, Blue, Pink, Mixed
Giant Pkt. 10c. Baby’s Breath — (See GYPSOPHLLA).
No Flower Garden complete without a few Asters.
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Rallnrm (Cardiospermum halieacabum) A favorite with
uaiiiUUH V 1AIC children, being remarkable for its inflated mem- branous capsules containing the seed. It is sometimes called “Love- in-a-Puff.” A rapid and graceful climber. Flowers small, white. The round, black seed is marked with a white, heart-shaped spot.
Tender annual; six feet high.. Giant Pkt. 10c.
| J 1 (Iinpaiiens Balsamina) Known also as Lady
OaISamKliPPer- The brilliantly colored, double rose-like flowers of this well-known border and bedding annual are thickly set along the branches of the erect, bushy plants. The dainty individual flowers, often two inches across, are borne on very short stems and when cut they show to best advantage floating in a. dish of water. The colors range from white to dark purple, and are either self-colored or spotted and striped.
Hardy annual; one to two feet high.
Double Camelia, extra fine mixed. As double as a camelia, which this variety resembles; white blotched with various colors.......
.Giant Pkt. 10c.
Tall Double Mixed. About two feet high ....Giant Pkt. 10c.
Dwarf Double Mixed. About one foot high Giant Pkt. 10c.
P • Very desirable for pot culture or for bedding out
in partially shaded locations. Suitable also for window boxes. Some varieties are grown for their foliage, but most sorts, when given proper care, produce abun- dantly large clusters of brilliantly beautiful wax-like flowers of fine form and substance.
Tender perennial, blooming the first year if started early, one foot high.
Robusta Perfecta. Plants are of robust, campact habit; dark green
foliage and brilliant, double, cinnabar-scarlet flowers
Giant Pkt. 15c.
Single Mixed. The seed we offer will produce the finest single flowers in various shades ranging from white to deep red.. Giant Pkt. 10c. Double Mixed. The largest and best double flowers, including shades
of pink, red, scarlet, and light yellow ....Giant Pkt. 15c.
Vernon (Semperflorens atropurpurea) . Flowers brilliant, rich red, set off perfectly by the abundant, glossy green leaves, which are broadly margined with bronze and purple. Hardy and floriferous;
the best of the semperflorens class.. .....Giant Pkt. 15c.
Semperflorens alba. A very useful variety; well adapted for house or outdoor culture. Plants of compact dwarf habit, and under proper treatment almost continuous bloomers. Easily grown; flowers very
attractive blush white .Giant Pkt. 15c.
Semperflorens rosea. Like Semperflorens alba, except flowers are
rose colored .....Giant Pkt. 15c.
Rex. Ornamental leaved varieties. Leaves very large, and are either a rich crimson tinted bronze, or emerald hued, having the upper surface zoned or spotted with silvery white. Finest mixed......
Giant Pkt. 25c
For Begonia Bulbs, see BULBS and ROOTS, page 58.
Beilis— (See DAISY).
BIGNONIA RADICANS &2T5 '
Trumpet
Balsam mxniviun Vine) One of the most showy,
certainly one of the best hardy, deciduous flowering climbers for covering verandas, arbors, trunks of trees, old walls, etc. Vines should be moderately pruned and well trained so as to afford a good circulation of air, thus insuring a more and bet- ter bloom. The flowers produced in clusters are trumpet shaped, two to three inches long, and of orange-red color. The foliage is very attractive and unusually free from insects. It not only is one of the best climbers, but planted on the lawn makes a pretty bush of dropping habit, if the tops are cut back. Hardy perennial, often growing thirty feet Giant Pkt. lOe.
Butterfly Flowers— (See SCHIZANTHUS).
PA! pCAf ARIA A much admired genus distin- V.iiLiV/EiwLi/\I\lri guished by its abundance of large, showy, sac-shaped or slipper-like flowers which are creamy white and various shades of yellow, often splashed, spotted, or blotched with dark reddish-brown, two plants rarely having flowers marked exactly alike. Leaves large, felty, close-growing. Under proper conditions can be grown indoors to perfection, making an exceedingly deco- rative plant. Herbaceous , annuals or shrubby evergreen perennials.
Hybrida Grandiflora. Large self-colored flowers.
Giant Pkt. 25c.
Hybrida Tigrina. Flowers beautiful spotted . Giant Pkt. 25c. Finest Hybrids Mixed. Seeds saved from only the most
perfect flowers; all desirable ....Giant Pkt. 25c.
California Poppy— (See ESCHSCHOLTZIA) .
Calendula— (Se© MARIGOLD).
CALLIOPSIS or COREOPSIS
bedding or borders, producing in great profusion for a long time, flowers which are bright yellow and rich brown, self-colored or with these, colors and red contrasted.
Coreopsis Tinctoria. A very hardy and easily grown annual, producing an abundance of brilliantly colored single ray flowers with dark center. The
flowers, which are about one and one-half inches across, vary from clear yellow to deep rich brown, the two colors often being beautifully contrasted in the same blossom. Long, graceful stems and very desirable for decorative purposes. The tall, slender habit of growth makes neat staking desir- able for best results. Height of plants, two to three feet. Fine mixed.... ...Giant Pkt. 10c.
Golden Ray. This dwarf variety forms compact plants covered with singularly attractive flowers of rich maroon edged with golden yellow. The petals are rather narrow and are often twisted, giving the flowers a star-like appearance. Hardy annual, six to eight inches high, well adapted for edg- ings Giant Pkt. 10c.
Laneeolata Grandiflora. A very hardy perennial bloom- ing the first year and producing on long stems a succession of rich bright yellow flowers two to three inches across. Very valuable for cutting. About two feet high..... Giant Pkt. 10c.
Campanula— (See CANTERBURY BELL).
Canary Bird Flower £1Z<T"
small, curiously shaped, canary colored blossoms and at- tractive palmate leaves. Tender annual; height, ten to
twenty feet Giant Pkt. 10c.
Remember our Flower Seed list is one of the most complete,
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Cannas.
1 - (Iveris) Showy, branching plants
| Tlfl Villi 1* twelve to fifteen inches high and *V1. Jf v bearing- in profusion terminal
clusters of beautiful single cruciform flowers in a wide range of colors. Considered indispensable for cutting and very effective in beds, masses or rockeries. Hardy annual.
Tender annual in the open ground, or tender perennial in the greenhouse.
Finest Large Flowering Mixed. Plants comparatively
dwarf, about three feet high Giant Pkt. 10c.
Lilac. Shading to light purple Giant Pkt. 10c.
White Giant Pkt. 10c.
Giant Hyacinth. Extra white trusses; much better
than the common white variety Giant Pkt. 10c.
Fragrant. Flowers white, fragrant; foliage finely
cut Giant Pkt. 10c.
Purple. A rich dark shade.. Giant Pkt. 10c.
Rose Carmine. Compact habit Giant Pkt. 10c.
Fine Mixed Giant Pkt. 10c.
Panna Stately, very ornamental plants of semi-tropi- x-'dlJIld cai appearance, very desirable for groups and in masses. Plants branching from the roots, with very large, broad leaves, producing clusters of large flowers of varied and brilliant colors from August until cut down by frost.
Carnations
B 1 11 (Campanula medium)
Canterbury Bell
plants of stately branching growth and profuse bloom for beds and backgrounds. They produce long racemes of strikingly effective bell-shaped or saucer-shaped flowers of rich color. Leaves sessile, lanceolate. Usually grown as a hardy biennial, but if seed is sown very early indoors it may be treated as a tender annual.
Double White Giant Pkt. 10c.
Double Blue. Shades of blue and purple. . .Giant Pkt. 10c.
Double Mixed Giant Pkt. 10c.
Single Mixed. Colors white, and various shades of
violet, rose, lilac, and blue Giant Pkt. 10c.
Calycanthema Mixed. Large single flowers, white, lilac, rose, and purple. Known as “Cup and Saucer” plant, the calyx forming a cup round the base of the bell Giant Pkt. 10c.
Carpet of Snow — (See ALYSSUM).
Carnation
(Dianthus Caryophyllus) “Carna- tion,” “Pink,” “Clove Pink,” “Florists’ Pink,” are names ap- plied by different people to the same or fo different plants of several species as well as to hybrids between them. They are easily grown from seed and very free blooming, the flow'ers being bright colored and with most delicious clove- like fragrance.
Some varieties are best adapted for pot culture and make fine house plants; others do best in beds in the open ground. The improved varieties we offer are suitable also for cutting. They produce very double, semi-circular blooms with thick wax-like petals and long pod-like calyx. The plants are branching but compact and erect, with slender, blush green foliage. The bursting of the calyx may be prevented by using ashes or some form of potash. Where size and quality of flowers are desired, rather than profusion of bloom, all except the terminal buds should be removed. This is the method employed by florists to obtain the larger longer-stemmed beauties. Half hardy perennial, usually treated as a biennial.
Large Flowering Carnations Best Suited For Pot Culture
The choicest varieties sold by florists are propagated from cuttings, but very beautiful double flowers just as good in form and more fragrant, although not as large, can be produced from the seed we offer.
Double Perpetual Flowered Mixed. An exceedingly beautiful variety producing very double flowers of various shades and colors. Plants closely branched and very symmetrical. Seed saved from choicest
double flowers Giant Pkt. 15c.
Marguerite Finest Mixed. The plants of this wonder- fully fine strain may be made to bloom in four months. Flowers large, double, deeply fringed, very fragrant and appear in very attractive shades of color. Plants semi-dwarf. One of the best car- nations in cultivation. Especially desirable for bedding as an annual and for cutting. .Giant Pkt. 10c.
Order a few named Gladiolus bulbs also.
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Castor Bean
(Rieinus) Tall majestic plants for lawns or drive- ways; with broad, beauti- fully lobed, palm-like leaves of glossy green, brown, or bronzed metallic hue and long spikes of scarlet, or of green, prickly seed pods. Makes rapid, vigorous growth In rich soil. Seed beautiful striped or mottled. Tender annual; six to fifteen feet high.
Zanzibariensis. Wonderfully vigorous, from ten to fifteen feet high. Leaves have a brilliant luster, measuring about thirty inches across, ranging in color from bright green to deep bronze. Seed very large, oval. Mixed varieties Giant Pkt. 10c
Sanguineus. . (Tricolor) Blood red stalks with red ve- nation in leaves; height about six feet... Giant Pkt. 10c Castor Bean, Mixed. A desirable mixture of all the named varieties .Giant Pkt. 10c
Celosia
An odd and picturesque class of plants having colored foliage and in which the innumerable small flower and seed ves- sels together with their supports form a very brilliant colored mass, sometimes gracefully arranged like plumes and sometimes more dense, being corrugated and frilled at the edge like a cock’s comb. They form the gayest possible decoration in beds and borders, retaining their brilliant coloring, often from midsummer until frost. The red Cristata sorts are sometimes cut before fully ripe and dried in the house for winter bouquets.
Half hardy annuals.
Pyramid Alis Plumosa, Mixed. Plants pyramidal, branch- ing. two or more feet high, covered with long, bril- liantly colored and gracefully formed plumes in red, yellow, or violet. An excellent mixture of plumosa or feathered celosias Giant Pkt. 10c.
Variegated. A cristata strain between the plumosa and the dwarf cockscomb types. The plumes are broadened at the top, variegated and striped in red and yellow. Height one and one-half to two feet. .. .Giant Pkt. 10c.
Giant Empress. This beautiful dwarf plant has bronze leaves and forms very large crimson combs. Height about one foot Giant Pkt. 10c.
Centaurea
Centaureas embrace some foliage plants but are more generally known for their hardy flowering annuals which include some of our most graceful and showy garden flowers that have long been favorites for cutting. The tall slender straight or slightly branching plants with narrow leaves thrive well in common garden soil. They produce bright colored single and double heads of flowers on long graceful stems and some sorts are fra- grant.
Annual Varieties Cultivated for Their Flowers
Cyanus. (Single Mixed.) (Corn Flower) A well-known hardy border plant, also called “blue bottle” and “rag- ged sailor,” which does best in carefully prepared grav- elly soil. Hardy annual; plant one to two feet high. Mixed Giant Pkt. 10c.
Cyanus. (Double Mixed.) (Bachelor’s Button) Produces larger, more globular flower-heads than the common variety Giant Pkt. 10c.
Odorata. (Sweet Sultan) An old-fashioned hardy annual about eighteen inches high, with long-stemmed, sweet scented, light purple flowers Giant Pkt. 10c.
Marguerite. A most desirable, sweet scented Centaurea, producing on long stems finely laciniated white flowers, about as large as a carnation, and which remain fresh and beautiful for a long time after cutting. Hardy an- nual; about eighteen inches high Giant Pkt. 10c.
fmperialis Mixed. An excellent sweet scented variety, also called Sweet Sultan. The flowers are finely laciniated and are about the size of a carnation. They have long stems and keep well after cutting. Colors range through
white, rose, lilac, purple, and yellow. Hardy annual; about eighteen inches high Giant Pkt. 10c.
Perennial Varieties Cultivated for Foliage
Gymnocrapa. This is also called Dusty Miller. Valuable because of its finely cut silver gray foliage and graceful drooping habit of growth. Half hardy perennial; one and one-half to two feet high Giant Pkt. 10c.
/""'ll - 1 These outdoor
Chrysanthemum —£• cTr;
showy and effective for bedding or borders in the garden and desirable for cut flowers. Plants become more bushy and shapely if pinched back in early growth and the prac- tice of disbudding will result in much larger flowers. These annuals are not the winter flowering sorts sold by the florists and which are propagated only by division of roots.
Height one and one-half to two feet.
Mixed. The choicest Carinatum and Coronarium varieties,
both single and double Giant Pkt. 10c.
Cheiranthus Cheiri— (See WALLFLOWER).
Cheiranthus Maritimus— (See VIRGINIAN STOCK).
Cineraria
Cinerarias are easily grown from seed in the greenhouse. The large heads of brilliant daisy-like flow- ers of many colors, usually sharply margined and with dark eye, are very desirable in pots. The plants are often as broad as high and the velvety leaves are shaded on the under side.
Perennial, usually one to two feet high.
Maritima Candidissima. (Dusty Miller) Cultivated for its handsome, silvery white foliage; very ornamental as a decorative pot plant, or for bedding. Half hardy, peren- nial, one to two feet high Giant Pkt. 10c.
Hybrida, very dwarf, mixed. Large flowered, eight inches high. Blooms profusely; many colors. .. .Giant Pkt. 25c.
PI ARKTA Beautiful, hardy annuals with rose col- ored, white and purple flowers, in delicate but very brilliant shades. The plants are about one and one-half to two feet high and are profuse bloomers. Double Mixed Giant Pkt. 10c.
pi FIV/fATI^i Well-known beautiful climbers, much ^LLlVlrt i IC admired for their gracefulness and at- tractive flowers. They are splendid for covering arbors, verandas, etc., as they cling readily.
Mixed. Extra choice, large flowering varieties with beauti- ful clusters of purple and white flowers. .Giant Pkt. 10c.
COBAEA SCANDENS climber with hand- some dark green foliage and bearing on graceful stems large, bell-shaped flowers, green at first but rapidly chang- ing to a beautiful deep violet-blue. A wire-netting trellis or support for the green profusion of tendrils to fasten upon is preferable to cords or smooth wire. A well estab- lished plant, will run about thirty feet in a season, cover- ing a large veranda.
Tender perennial Giant Pkt. 5c.
Cockscomb — (See CELOSIA).
Coix Lachryma — (See JOB’S TEARS).
Centaurea Cyanus (Bachelor’s Button)
In selecting your list of Flowers, include some Chinese Woolflowers,
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Giant Early Flowering Cosmos
Coleus
Magnificent ornamental foliage plants for house or garden culture. The leaves are of many shapes, and the shades and colors are of remarkable beauty. Tender perennial; plants about one to two feet high.
Finest Hybrids Mixed. Extra choice. .Giant Pkt. 25c.
Columbine
(Aquilegia) Very desirable, easily grown, old-fashioned perennials for borders, forming large, permanent clumps. Blooms profusely early in the season and remains in bloom for a con- siderable period. The peculiar pendant flowers are exquisitely formed, in various colors, often with long spurs. The leaves are usually smooth, ternately com- pound, with roundish, obtusely lobed leaflets.
Hardy herbaceous perennials; two or three feet high.
Califomica hybrida. Hardy, free blooming, with single
orange, red and yellow flowers Giant Pkt. 10c.
Double Mixed. Best and finest colors, including white, shades of blue and brownish purple. Giant Pkt. 10c.
Convolvulus Major— (See MORNING GLORY).
CONVOLVULUS MINOR J,®
Glory) Dwarf plants of trailing, branching habit, each covering a space about two feet in diameter. At mid- day they are completely covered with a mass of pure white and variously colored funnel-shaped blossoms which remain open in clear weather until evening.
Half hardy annual; abotit one foot high.
Mixed Giant Pkt. 10c.
Cosmos
Very effective for autumn flowering in broad masses or back-grounds. A hardy and rapid growing annual, forming bush-like plants with feathery green foliage four to six feet high, covered with large flowers somewhat resembling the single dahlia. They are gracefully poised on long stems and very useful for decorative purposes.
Double Cosmos. At last we have succeeded in obtaining a double flowering cosmos in the extra early^type. They grow to the height of about five feet, forming a perfect bush masked with blooom, bearing beautiful double flowers of good size on long stems. They bloom in seventy days from the day seed is sown and come about seventy-five per cent, double. Blooming until cut down by frost.
Colors, Red, White, Pink and Mixed Giant Pkt. 25c.
Early Flowering Cosmos
These early flowering strains are about four feet high and bloom profusely four to six weeks earlier than the giant sorts. . The flowers are of good size; well adapted to northern latitudes.
Early Flowering Red, Pink and White Giant Pkt. 10c.
Early Flowering Mixed. Includes white, bright red, and rose colored flowers Giant Pkt. 10c.
Giant Flowering Sorts
Hybrida, Giant White Giant Pkt. 10c.
Hybrida, Giant Pink and Red Giant Pkt. 10c.
Hybrida, Giant Mixed. Flowers white and in shades of
pink, rose and maroon Giant Pkt. 10c.
Cucurbita — (See GOURD).
Cyclamen
Well-known and universally ad- mired tuberous rooted pot plants producing exceedingly handsome red and white flowers for indoor winter or spring blooming In green houses or window garden. The gracefully richly colored single flowers are of distinctive shape and are borne on stems of good length for a long blooming season well above the beautiful foliage. The glossy ovate or nearly round leaves are usually marbled or variegated with white. Tender perennial, one foot high.
Persicum giganteum, mixed. Beautiful foliage and pro- fuse bloom; each flower is two to two and one-half Inches long. Very choice Giant Pkt. 25c.
\7IMF (Impomoea quamoclit) A most U 1 1 l\LtjJ V beautiful rapid growing climber
tvith delicate dark green, feathery foliage and many bright star-shaped, scarlet or white, blossoms which contrast most effectively with the graceful foliage. Planted by the side of veranda, tree or stakes, and trained properly, there is no handsomer climber.
Tender annual; about fifteen feet high.
Red, White and Mixed Giant Pkt. 10c.
1"X 11* A favorite for autumn flowering, blooming
JIq nllS the first season from seed if started early.
The flowers are s0 symmetrical and perfect and the range of colors so wide and varied that they will always be popular where display is wanted. Tender herba- ceous perennial, three to four feet high. The finest flowers imaginable for first year from seed.
Finest Double Mixed. Seeds saved from choicest double flowers, including shades of red, pink, dark maroon, yellow, white, etc Giant Pkt. 10c.
Finest Single Mixed. Will produce brilliant flowers run- ning through a wide range of striking colors,
Giant Pkt. 10c.
For Dahlia Roots, see BULBS AND ROOTS, pages 54-55.
T\ • (Beilis perennis) Charming little plants for
llaiCy edgings and borders, also used for low beds *** J and rock work. The flowers of the im-
proved varieties we offer are borne above the low clusters of leaves on stiff flower stalks, making them suitable for bouquets. With careful cultivation nearly seventy-five per cent, are double. Leaves spatulate or obovate. Half hardy perennial, about six inches high.
Double Rose. (Longfellow) Finest strain. .Giant Pkt. 10c. Double White. Very double, clear white ... Giant Pkt. 10c. Double Mixed. Shades of rose and white. . .Giant Pkt. 10c.
FI ATI IRA Large branching plants producing very c\ 1 large, handsome, double, or single, trum-
pet-shaped blossoms of exquisite fragrance. Excellent for late summer and autumn flowering. Tender annual; three feet high.
Wrighti. Pure white at the center shaded into lilac and blue magnificent large single flowers. In warm latitudes
can be continued as a perennial Giant Pkt. 10c.
Chlorantha, fl. pi. (Humilis flava) Large, usually double
yellow, richly scented * Giant Pkt. 10c.
Mixed. The above varieties Giant Pkt. 10c.
Delphinium — (See LARKSPUR).
Dianthus— (See PINKS).
Dianthus Barbatus — (See SWEET WILLIAM). Dianthus Caryophyllus — (See CARNATION). Digitalis— (See FOXGLOVE).
One of the latest. Double Flowering Cosmos.
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Forget-Me-Not
(Myosotis) This is a favorite old - fashioned flower, bearing in profusion, especially in fall and spring, clusters of dainty blue five-petaled blossoms, it thrives well in the shade or open border but flourishes best in a moist, shady situation.
Hardy perennial but usually does better If given some protection during winter.
Alpestris. Plants of compact, bushy habit with finely cut foliage, growing six to eight inches high. Flowers blue with a very small yellowish eye, Giant Pkt. 10c.
FOUR O’CLOCK
(Marvel of Peru, Mira- bilis Jalapa) Large and beautiful, old-fashioned plants of erect bushy habit which produce in profusion a succession of brilliantly colored tube-shaped flowers, that open about four o’clock in the afternoon, remaining open all night and usually are closed before noon the next day. The flowers are red, white, yellow, or are striped and blotched in shades of these colors. Very desirable for borders, along a wire fence, or as the background of a flower garden, blooming during the late summer and autumn.
Hardy annual, about two feet high.
Mixed. An exceptionally attractive mixture,
Giant Pkt. 10c.
New Dwarf. Extra fine mixed.
Giant Pkt. 10c.
Eschscholtzia, Bush (Purple Glow)
Diimnrnhrif-pra AliranHara This showy annual with bright orange- L/imOl pnoieca /Aurantiaca yellow flowers, is sometimes called
African “Golden-Orange” Daisy. Plants somewhat spreading, with finely cut foliage, producing abundantly on stems of good length, glossy, single daisy- like blossoms about two and one-half inches across. The brilliant orange color- ing of the petals contracts strikingly with the black center which is sur- rounded by a dark colored disc. Well adapted for summer flowering in beds or borders.
Hardy annual, about one foot high
Emerald Feather— (See ASPARAGUS SPRENGERI). Dolichos— (See HYACINTH BEAN).
.Giant Pkt. 10c.
P rT7\ A (California Poppy) The State flower of Cali- 1 1 fornia. It is fully as valuable as the common
Poppy for garden ornamentation since it blooms through a much longer season. A bed in full bloom of these large saucer-shaped flowers in various shades of yellow with orange center gives a brilliant color effect. The foliage is finely cut and has a bluish tinge or bloom, delicate and very attractive.
Hardy annual, low spreading; about one to one and one-half feet high.
Purple Glow. Undoubtedly the greatest advance that has been made in the Eschscholtzias, is a bright reddish purple and the darkest shade that has been obtained so far Giant Pkt. 10c.
Geisha. The fluted petals inside brilliant gold, outside petals, intense orange crimson. Undoubtedly one of the best Eschscholtzias Giant Pkt. 10c.
Scarlet Beauty. This is one of the brightest colors in the Eschscholtzia, it being a deep scarlet, plants erect and when in bloom has the appearance of a vivid scarlet tulip Giant Pkt. 10c.
Evening Glory — (See IPOMOCA BONA NOX).
Perennial flowerless plants, too well known to need description, r The see(i spores are very small and of slow germination but the
exceeding grace and beauty of the plants usually well repay all the care neces- sary to start them properly in the green house or some place indoors where they will keep moist. The young ferns may be placed in a window-box without much sun, or can be set outdoors in summer in some moist and shady place.
Fine Mixed Giant Pkt. 20c.
Feverfew— (See MATRICARIA AND PYRETHRUM).
Foxglove
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FOXGLOVE
(Digitalis) Stately old-fashioned border plants, affording dense spikes of large brilliantly colored flowers which are terminal and half as long as the height of the plant. The flowers are very distinct and showy, being thimble-like or long bell-shaped, and the colors include white, lavender and *use, many being spotted or blotched. It is often used as a background, and does especially well in cool, shady locations in front of shrubbery. The leaves are wrinkled and somewhat downy.
Hardy biennial or perennial, three to five feet high.
usually blooming the season;
Fine Mixed. Many shades and markings Giant Pkt. 10c.
Mammoth Foxglove. (Digitalis Monstrosa) Remarkably odd; each flower spike surmounted with a very large bell-shaped flower. Mixed colors Giant Pkt. 15c.
Fr^nrll Hnnpvcnrlflp (Hedysarum) Very handsome, rrencn noney&UtKie branching free flowering plants,
producing racemes of beautiful small fragrant pea-shaped flowers; well adapted for borders or rock work.
Hardy perennial; often growing four feet.
Coronarium, Scarlet .Giant Pkt. 10c.
Coronarium, Album, white Giant Pkt. 10c.
FI TPH^IA Known also as “Lady's Eardrops” from the * vvflJlri bright colored pendulous double flowers with four parted, funnel shaped calyx. Plants with very beautiful blossoms may be grown from seed with proper care. Results are usually most satisfactory when grown indoors in pots in firm rich soil, but if seed is started early under glass It often suc- ceeds well in an outdoor window-box, or a shady situation in the garden. Tender perennial; one to two and one-half feet high.
Double Finest Mixed. Seed from finest named sorts,
Giant Pkt. 25c.
GAILLARDIA
Showy bedding and border plants, re- markable for the profusion, size, and brilliancy of their flowers, blooming the first year and among the gayest ornaments of the garden in summer and autumn. Combinations of yellow and red predominate in the highly colored single and double flower-heads, two inches or more across, which are borne singly well above the foliage on long, simple, and more or less toothed.
Gaillardia, Picta Lorenziana slender stems, suitable for cutting. Leaves alternate,
Plants one to one and one-half feet high.
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Grandiflora. Flowers scarlet and orange, single, often three inches across, with flat petals Excellent for cutting Hardy perennial, blooming the first year Giant Pkt. 10c
CFRANHIfVf (Pelar&onium) When properly grown,
VJLilXrtlilU iTl the constant succession of bloom un- til frost comes, the brilliant colors of the flowers and the exquisite zone or horseshoe markings of the leaves of some of the varieties, render the Geranium very desirable for pot culture as well as for bedding out of doors and for growing in window boxes. Half hardy perennial; about two feet high.
Scarlet Mixed. (Zonale) The seed we offer will produce a large percentage of double flowers in many beautiful shades of scarlet and red Giant Pkt. 25c.
Gilliflower— (See STOCK).
p I AniOl I TC These magnificent plants for bed- \jLr\L/lVyLU C ding and cutting with their long spikes of tubular lily-form flowers can be raised from seed in nearly every conceivable color and shade, some being most beautifully striped and blotched. Tender perennial; about two and one-half feet high.
Finest Mixed. Finest named sorts mixed.. Giant Pkt. 15c. For Gladiolus Bulbs, see BULBS AND ROOTS, page 56.
pi ORF AMARANTH <Gomphrena Globosa)
OL.VJ'DL in A desirable everlasting,
valued for its handsome, small, globular flower heads, which, if cut when well matured will retain their beauty through the winter. Tender annual; twelve to eighteen inches high.
Mixed Giant Pkt. 10c.
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A Greenhouse perennial plants producing soft, velvety green leaves and rich, beautifully colored trumpet-shaped flowers. Gloxinias thrive best in an equal mixture of leaf mold, loam and sand. If started in February will usually bloom the latter part of summer.
Hj brid Mixed. A strain of the richest color and variety of markings. Plants ten to twelve inches high.
Giant Pkt. 25c.
AT „ J (Cucurbita) A very extensive genus of Cl trailing annuals with curiously shaped yellow fruit, commonly known as Orna- mental Gourds. The vines are of easy culture and make a rapid growth, so are much used for covering old fences, trellises, stumps, etc. The foliage is ornamental, and the markings of some of the fruit extraordinary.
Tender annual; ten to twenty feet high.
Apple Shaped. Fruits are nearly round, yellow, sometimes
striPed Giant Pkt. 10c.
Dish Cloth. Long, green, corrugated fruit, the inside fibrous mass of which, when shell and seeds are removed,
makes an excellent sponge Giant Pkt. 10c!
Hercules’ Club. Distinctly club-shaped, the longest of all
the varieties Giant Pkt. 10c.
Japanese Nest Egg. Used as nest eggs; fruits are white, do not crack; not injured by heat or cold. Giant Pkt. 10c.
Orange. Also known as Mock Orange. Nearly round orange colored Pkt# 10c’
Gaillardia, a profuse bloomer and hardy.
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I’ear Shaped, Ringed. Green and yellow, beautiful bicolored fruit, upper half yellow, lower half green Giant Pkt. 10c.
I’ear Shaped, Striped. Fruits green, with cream colored striping, sometimes changing to yel- low Giant Pkt. 10c.
Siphon or Dipper. Useful for dippers; fruits long, bottle-shaped with straight or slightly crooked neck .Giant Pkt. 10c.
Mixed Giant Pkt. 10c.
GYPSOPHILA
Delicate, free-flowering plants, covered with star- shaped flowers, valuable for mist-like effects and as trimming in bouquets, also for hanging baskets or edgings. Sometimes called Baby’s Breath. Will thrive in almost any well prepared ground, but does best on a limestone soil. Make handsome specimens dried.
Elegans Barge Flowering Pure White. An im- proved large-flowering strain, superior to the common Elegans not only in size of flowers, but also in color. A very charming sort for com- bining in bouquets with Sweet Peas or other cut flowers Giant Pkt. 10c.
Panuculata Alba (Perennial) Giant Pkt. 10c.
Hedy sarum— (See FRENCH HONEYSUCKLE).
Helianthus— (See SUNFLOWER).
HELICHRYSUM IKS
Flower. Large, full, double daisy-like flower heads with prominent centers and stiff overlapping scales, produced in various shades of bright yellow and scarlet on stems of good length. Desirable as dried specimens and for use in making winter bouquets. For this purpose the flowers should be gathered when on the point of expanding.
Gypsophila, Elegans Large Flowering Pure White
Hardy annual; two to two and one-half feet high.
Fire Ball Giant Pkt. 10c.
Gold Ball Giant Pkt. 10c.
Silver Ball Giant Pkt. 10c.
Violet Giant Pkt. 10c.
Monstrosum, fl. pi. mixed. Largest double flowers,
Giant Pkt. 10c.
UCI inTDOPF Well-known and much admired OI-.JL.lw * IvUr L border and bedding plants, highly valued for the blue color and fragrance of their branching clusters of small salver-shaped flowers as well as the dura- tion of their bloom.
Dark Varieties Mixed. Very choice Giant Pkt. 10c.
tlesperis Matronalis — (See ROCKET).
HiKicoiic Afrirannc A vigorous branching plant. OI DISCUS /Yiricanus of easy culture, with pretty foliage and large, light yellow or cream-colored blossoms, dark purple in the center. The flowers are exceedingly showy, saucer-shaped, often two or three inches across; not of very long duration, but continue to bloom from early summer till October. Hardy annuals; about two feet high Giant Pkt. 10c.
Double Salmon. Rich salmon color, suffused with pink.
Giant Pkt. 10c.
Double Pure White. Our special improved strain.
Giant Pkt. 10c.
Double Mixed. Giant Pkt. 10c.
Humulus Japonicus nual climber ^ fifteen to
twenty feet high with rough lobed leaves of variegated colors, very rough leaf stems and small flowers. Desirable for covering unsightly objects or shading verandas.
Giant Pkt. 10c.
I_|_r_ _• I.L (Dolichos Lablab) A fine climber
nyaCinin Dean With clusters of purple or white flowers followed by ornamental seed pods. Tender annual; from ten to fifteen feet high.
Alba. White Giant Pkt. 10c.
Purpurea. Purple Giant Pkt. 10c.
Mixed. The above mixed Giant Pkt. 10c.
Iberis— (See CANDYTUFT).
I „ . Plant" (Mesembryanthemum Crystallinum) A
1 lalll curious plant for hanging baskets, rock- work, vases and edgings; leaves and stems succulent, ap- pearing as though covered with ice crystals. Tender an- nular trailer; six inches high ...Giant Pkt. 10c.
Immortelles— (See ACROCLINIUM, GLOBE AMARANTH, HELICHRYSUM, RHODANT11E).
Hollyhock
(Althaea rosea) For a back- ground to a flower garden noth- ing is better than the improved strains we offer of this tall old-fashioned garden perennial. The large, richly colored blossoms, about three inches across, ranging from deep yellow and red to pure white, are set as rosettes around the strong growing flower stalks. All double varieties are hardy perennials; five feet high.
Early Flowering. Blooms readily as an annual the first year from seed sown in spring. A wide range of colors in large single or semi-double flowers ... Giant Pkt. 15c.
Chater’s Finest Mixed. Double perfection. .Giant Pkt. 15c.
Double Blood Red. Giant Pkt. 10c.
Double Lemon Yellow Giant Pkt. 10c.
Double Deep Rose Giant Pkt. 10c.
Double Pink Giant Pkt. 10c.
Impatiens — (See BALSAM).
f A Beautiful annual outdoor climber ol II WlYIw-Ceim luxuriant growth for covering verandas and arbors, or for screening unsightly objects. Tender annual; 10 to 15 feet high.
Setosa. (Brazilian Morning Glory) Very vigorous rapid growing vine with large, three lobed leaves and stems covered with brown hair. Flowers open in morning, sal- ver formed, delicate blue or reddish purple with pink star in center and produced in clusters. Seed black, a little
larger than Limbata .....Giant Pkt. 10c.
Noctiflora. White seeded Noctiflora hire... Giant Pkt. 10c. Early Flowering Sky Blue. (Ipomoea grandiflora rubro ccerulae) A most desirable early, free flowering sort, with glossy dark foliage and very large flowers that open a tinge of carmine-rose and when mature are bright light blue Giant Pkt. 10c.
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Ipomcea Grandiflora — (See MOON FLOWER).
Ipomcea Quamoclit — (See CYPRESS VINE).
Ipomoea Purpurea — (See MORNING GLORY).
Japanese Hop— (See HUM ULUS JAPON1CUS).
Joseph’s Coat— (See AMARANTHIS TRICOLOR).
f l 9 T (Coix Lachryma) Curious ornamental grass with broad,
JOD S i earS corn-like leaves and lustrous slate-colored seeds used for beads. Valuable for winter bouquets with everlasting flowers. Hardy an- nual; three feet high Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c.
If L* (Mexican Fire Bush, or Summer Cypress)
IVOCnia 1 rlCnopiiy lid A quick growing foliage or hedge plant, very symmetrical and attractive in summer and fall. The foliage is as fine as moss and of clean bright green color. Early in the fall innumerable little flowers appear and the bush takes on a deep red tinge. Hardy annual; about two and one-half feet high Giant Pkt. 10c.
I ANTANA The Plants form small shrubs, producing in late summer I /Al and autumn an abundance of heliotrope-like clusters of
single, fragrant flowers that change color. Succeeded by green berries that turn to a deep blue. Tender perennial; about two feet high.
Finest French Hybrids Mixed Giant Pkt. 10c.
Larkspur
(Delphinium) The Larkspur, with its long clustered spikes of beautiful irregular flowers, often with long spurs, is especially valuable for its shades of blue. The annual forms are very desirable for bedding and the perennials are strikingly effective as a background, for borders, and for planting among shrubbery. Seed of annual varieties may be sown outdoors early in spring. The perennial sorts are sown in fail or early in spring.
Annual Varieties
Double Dwarf Rocket Mixed. Beautiful spikes of double flowers in many shades. Hardy annual; one foot high Giant Pkt. 10c.
Tall Stock Flowered Mixed. (Consolida fl. pi.) Flowers double, borne on spikes about fifteen inches long. Colors rose, white, and shades of blue. Hardy annual; two feet high Giant Pkt. 10c.
Tall Exquisite. Tall growing strong stems, stock flowered, the best of the annuals. Giant Pkt. 10c.
Perennial Varieties
Elatum. (Bee Larkspur) Flowers blue with hairy petals in the center giving them a fancied resemblance to a bee. Hardy perennial; three to five feet high Giant Pkt. 10c.
Formosum. Flowers large, deep blue shaded indigo, small white center. Hardy perennial; three to five feet high; long blooming season. Some- times called Mexican Larkspur Giant Pkt. 10c.
Belledona. Light blue Giant Pkt. 10c.
Gold Medal Hybrids Giant Pkt. 10c.
Lathyrus Odoratus— (See SWEET PEAS).
Latliyrus Latifolius— (See PEAS, EVERLASTING).
Larkspur, Formosum
I INI JM Grandifloruni Rubrum. (Scarlet Flax) An
attractive free-flowering bedding plant with slender foliage and bearing on delicate stems clusters of glossy bright red single flowers, saucer-shaped, with black center. Hardy annual; about one and one-half feet high, Giant Pkt. 10c.
Kochia (Mexican Fire Bush)
Lobelia
Are charming plants, well adapted for bedding, pots or rockeries. They make a neat edging for beds of white flowers and are very effective in masses, being completely cov- ered with flowers for a long time. The flowers are usually blue with lighter center and are borne in neat clusters, each irregularly lobed flower being about five-eighths inch across.
Half hardy annual; usually about six inches high.
Emperor William. A very fine, erect and compact variety with clear intensely blue flowers Giant Pkt. 10c.
Crystal Palace. A compact, exceptionally graceful sort, very desirable for edgings, having bright deep blue flowers; very dark green foliage Giant Pkt. 10c.
Gracilis. The flowers are bright blue with small white centers, fine for baskets and vases, trailing gracefully and blooming profusely. Plants slender, six inches high.
Giant Pkt. 10c.
LOVE-IN-A-MIST
(Nigella) Also known as i-iYhikj * Lady-in-the-Green and as Devil-in-a-Bush, because the blossoms are partly con- cealed by the finely cut foliage. The large oddly shaped flowers are surrounded by a very dense fringe or wreath of mossy fibres. Both plant and flower are handsome and require but little care. Hardy annual.
Damascena, fl. pi. Double blue flowers; one and one-half to two feet high Giant Pkt. 10c.
I l TPIN A very attractive free-flowering plant with long graceful terminal spikes of fragrant pea- shaped blossoms. Blooms early in the season and is de- sirable for cutting. Hardy annual; about three feet high.
Cruikshanki. Blossoms white, shaded with yellow, blue and purple.. Giant Pkt. 10c.
Malcomia Maritima — (See VIRGINIAN STOCK).
The most luxuriant climber, Moon Flower.
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Marigold, El Dorado
Tt H • 11 No flower garden seems complete
j V 1 Sk f*l 0*0 1 0 without this fine old-fashioned gar- *0'“r*V* den plant with its brilliant displays of yellow and orange, both tall and dwarf sorts, and with finely cut or entire bright green foliage. The African (Tagete Serecta) varieties are tall, usually one and one- half to three feet, and are well adapted for large beds, backgrounds, or mixed borders, while the French (Tagetes Patula) are more dwarf and are often used for borders and pot culture as well as bedding. All of these varieties have finely cut foliage, while the Pot Marigold (Calendula Officinalis) has entire leaves, somewhat clasping the rather hardy stems. Hardy annuals; in bloom till frost comes.
African Double Dwarf, Lemon Colored. Very early and a profuse bloomer of very compact habit. One of the best of this class. Comes true from seed; about eighteen inches high. Desirable for shrubbery or mixed border. Giant Pkt. 10c.
African Orange Quilled. A double variety with quilled pet- als; flowers showy, bloom very early and are used for cutting. Plants rather dwarf, about fifteen inches high. Giant Pkt. 10c.
African El Dorado, Double. Flowers about three inches in diameter, imbricated, extremely double and in tints of primrose, orange, and gold. Two to three feet high.
Giant Pkt. 10c.
African Double Mixed. A tall mixture well adapted for large beds. About two feet high ..Giant Pkt. 5c.
French, Double Dwarf, Gold Striped. Brown and golden yellow; very double. Valuable for bedding; one foot
high Giant Pkt. 10c.
French Legion of Honor. (Little Brownie) A single, dwarf, bushy variety, very desirable for borders. The plants bear rich golden yellow flowers with garnet blotches in the center of each petal and are about 1 foot high. Giant Pkt. 10c.
Tagetes Signata Pumila. A dwarf French sort with small, bright orange-yellow flowers; excellent for borders or massing. About twelve inches high ... .Giant Pkt. 10c.
Prince of Orange. (Calandula Officinalis fl. pi.) This very distinct variety has large double, golden yellow flowers, the petals striped or shaded dark orange; produced in great abundance. Height of plant about 1 foot
Giant Pkt. 10c.
Meteor. (Calendula Officinalis fl. pi.) Large beautiful im- bricated, double flowers; petals yellow, striped, or edged with orange. Desirable for beds, bonders, and back- grounds. Two feet high .Giant Pkt. 10c.
Marvel of Peru — (See FOUR O’CLOCK).
Mathiola— (See STOCK).
Maieicaria Eximia Grandiflora, fl. pi. (Double Fe- Ivlallltaila verfew) Beautiful email white button- like double flower-heads. Plants of bushy growth, with very finely cut dark green foliage; desjrable for bedding. Half hardy perennial, about two feet high. Giant Pkt. 10c.
IVfsviiranrlia Graceful slender climber with glossy ivy- IViaUiallUla shaped ieaves. It produces an abundance of showy, irregular trumpet-shaped flowers, one and one- half inches long, usually purplish blue, white, or rose colored with lighter throat. Suitable for greenhouse and hanging baskets in the winter, and very satisfactory out- doors especially if a small trellis is given as support.
Tender perennial, blooming the first season; six to ten feet high.
Fine Mixed ....Giant Pkt. 10c.
Mexican Fire Bush — (See KOCHI A).
Mignonette
(Reseda) A well-known hardy annual producing dense cone- shaped flower-spikes, made up of thickly set flowerets of modern colors. It is often used for cutting to combine in bouquets with other more pre- tentious flowers lacking its delicate and pleasing fragrance.
Hardy annual; one foot high.
Machet. Of dwarf and vigorous growth, with numerous stout flower stalks, terminated by large spikes of red flowers. This is one of the very best for pot culture. Giant Pkt. 10c.
Reseda Odorata Grandiflora. (Sweet) Large flowered, very sweet; light yellowish white ....Giant Pkt. 10c.
D„J‘ . (Sensitive Plant) A curious plant iViiniOSa 1 UQlCoL with globular heads of small pink flowers, chiefly valued because of the extreme irritability of its leaves which close and droop at the slightest touch, also in cloudy, damp weather and at nighL Tender an- nual; height one and one-half feet .Giant Pkt. 10c.
Mignonette
No Flower Garden complete without Marigolds,
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IV/niVAT TI I TQ Strikingly handsome flowers of easy 1Y111V1 w J-i UJ O cultivation. Perennial in the green- house, annual in the open air.
shaped flowers, widely extended, often four inches across. Leaves large, frequently four to five inches across. Known as Ipomoea Noctiflora; tender annual Giant Pkt. 10c.
Moschatue. (Musk Plant) An attractive trailer with bright green foliage and many small yellow flowers of musky odor. Desirable for hanging baskets and window gar- dens Giant Pkt. 10c,
Cardinals Grandiflorus. Dark red Giant Pkt. 10c.
Punctatus. OMonkey Flower) Large curiously shaped yel- low flowers, spotted with shades of red and rich maroon. An effective pot plant about eight inches high; blooms first year Giant Pkt. 10c.
Mirabilis — (See FOUR O’CLOCK).
WnMnDDir1 A Gracefully climbing vines with IVlUiVIVjixL'iV^rv small yellow blossoms, followed by fruits of curious shape. Foliage gracefully cut and al- though tender annuals, the vines run ten feet or more during the season. The seed is very hard and germination will be hastened if a notch is carefully cut through the shell before planting.
Balsam Pear. (Charantia) The fruit is pear-shaped, green changing to bright red and has a warty skin; when ripe it bursts open and shows a brilliant interior of large carmine seeds ...Giant Pkt. 10c.
Balsam Apple. (Balsamina) Like Balsam Pear but foliage smaller; fruit much smaller and nearly round, green striped, when young, becoming scarlet. . . .Giant Pkt. 10c.
MORNING GLORY
(Convolvulus major, Ipo- moea purpurea) A hand-
some showy climber of easy culture and suitable for cov- ering arbors, windows, trellises, old stumps, etc., if sup- port be given the vines. The flowers are most brilliant in the morning. Hardy annual.
Mixed. Many shades from white to dark blue, red and striped Giant Pkt. 10c.
Giant Japanese Mixed. (Imperial) The flowers of this va- riety 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 and 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 Giant Pkt. 10c.
MOURNING BRIDE
(Scabiosa or Sweet Sca- bious) An old-fashioned but most attractive flower. Its great abundance and long succession of richly colored, fragrant blossoms . on long stems make it one of the most useful decorative plants of the garden. Desirable for cutting as well as for beds and borders. Flower heads about two inches across; flowerets double, surrounding the thimble-shaped cone, and giving a fancied resemblance to a pin cushion.
Hardy annual; about two to two and one-half feet high.
MnnN FI nWFR (Ipomcea Grandiflora Albo)
IV1V/W1Y r LU YV ILI\ One of the most vigorous summer climbers and will grow under favorable conditions thirty to forty feet in a single season and be covered evenings and cloudy days with very large, white trumpet-
Double 3Iixed. Colors include deep and light purple, scar- let, pure white and a dark mulberry red; some of the darker shades are tipped with white Giant Pkt. 10c.
Myrsiphyllum — (See SMILAX).
Nasturtiums
Nasturtium
Few plants are more easily grown or remain longer in bloom than the Tropoeolum, with its large shield-shaped leaves and beautifully irregu- lar flowers having long spurs and brilliantly colored petals. In favorable soil flowers are produced in abundance throughout the season. Much used for window boxes.
(Tropoeolum minor) Sometimes L/wari V aneues called Tom-Thumb sorts. The flowers are brilliant and attractive. The plants are evenly dwarf and are often used for a border. When about two inches high, thin so as to give each plant about one foot of room. Hardy annual; about one foot high.
Mixed. All the desirable shades and colors. -Giant Pkt. 10c.
T railincr VariptlPS (Tropoeolum Lobbian.) The
1 railing V arieues Lobbianum differs from the
common tall, climbing or running nasturtium in being a little- smaller in leaf, more compact in growth, more floriferous and having richer, more varied colored flowers. When about two inches high thin to six inches apart. Give some support to the vines as soon as they begin to run and they will usually grow six to eight feet during the season. The trailing sorts are much used for covering arbors and trellises. Half hardy annual ... Giant Pkt. 10c.
Mixed. All the desirable shades and colors. .Giant Pkt. 10c.
Nasturtiums — profuse bloomers with little care.
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MIPOTIANA Handsome bedding plants of the to- * 1 IrtlXrt bacco family, valuable for long and free blooming. The flowers are salver-shaped, with long tubular corollas. Half hardy annuals; about three feet high.
Affinis. Flowers large, white and fully expanded only in evening or cloudy days. Very fragrant ... Giant Pkt. 10c. Nigella— (See LOVE-IN-A-MIST).
Oenothera — (See PRIMROSE).
AV AI IQ Very pretty, spreading herbaceous plg.nts- V with clover-like leaves and richly colored
blossoms. They are especially desirable for house culture as hanging basket or window plants and are cultivated also in borders and rockeries.
Half hardy perennial; six to nine inches high.
Rosea. Rose colored or light purple flowers, star-shaped, borne in large clusters on long stems. . .Giant Pkt. 10c.
Pansies
Pansies are now produced in an almost infinite variety of colors and markings. Their brilliancy of shading, extended season of blooming and long keeping characteristics make them general favor- ites. The strains now offered are far superior to the old Heart’s Ease or Viola Tricolor and the esteem in which they were held by older genera- tions has been heightened by the greater variety and more brilliant colors of the improved sorts. We have been interested in the bringing forward of advanced types of very large varieties in this country as well as in Europe, and our stocks are the very best obtainable. We spare neither pains nor expense to satify the most ' critical trade. While the variations in shades of color and mark- ings appear almost limitless, our list includes the very best strains the world produces.
Hardy perennial ; four to six inches high.
Superbissima Blotched. Very large flowers of ex- ceptionally fine form and substance, usually ruf- fled and beautifully veined and blotched in all the finer and deeper shades and colors found in pansies. Plants very vigorous and floriferous. Superior to rather than simply different from old strains. Flowers of Mammoth size. Borne on stout stems, making them invaluable for cuts. The most desirable sort for Florist’s use. Giant Pkt. 25c.
Giant Flowering Parisian Mixed. The flowers of this splendid mixture are of largest size, very fine form and range of colors, often in the lighter shades. Each petal is usually beautifully blotched Giant Pkt. 10c.
Giant Triinardeau Mixed. Our stock of this variety produces the largest pansies grown. Flowers of richest, most varied shades; generally marked with three large blotches. Plants very hardy and vigorous. We recommend this mixture as one sure to give general satisfaction where con- ditions are at all suitable for pansy growth. Giant Pkt. 10c.
Extra Choice Mixed. From best named flowers of very large size. An extra fine Trimardeau mix- ture, very superior in size, form, coloring, and substance . Giant Pkt. 10c.
PEAS, EVERLASTING
folius) An eas- ily grown, hardy perennial climber with smaller flowers lacking the fragrance of Sweet Peas, but producing for many weeks a succession of blossoms in clusters of eight to ten each. Only a few flow- ers can be expected the second season but in the third and fourth, the plants then being well estab- lished, an abundance of foliage and blossoms is af- forded. The plants die down late in the fall and start again in the spring.
The perennial sorts are suitable - for covering stumps and fences, and on a trellis will often grow five to six feet.
Superbissima Mixed
Include white and various shades of red and purplish red striped with white.
Mixed. Includes white, rose, and purple flowers..
Giant Pkt. 10c.
Pelargonium — (See GERANIUM).
Pontd-oinnti Handsome, : half hardy, herbaceous T CliLSLcITlOll perennials, about two feet high and very desirable for bedding and borders. They usually bloom the first year, especially - if started early. The flowers are bell-shaped or- tubular, an inch and a half long, and are borne in racemes or spikes. The colors
Mixed Giant Pkt. 10c.
Pp/'VIVT'Y' (Pseonia herbacea Chinensis) Well-known FLUli I herbaceous perennial plants, with very double flowers and abundant dark green foliage, which, may be grown either from seed or roots.
Double Mixed Giant Pkt. 25c.
Plants are three feet high.
Double Mixed Giant Pkt. 25c.
Periwinkle — (See VINCA).
About April 15th, weather permitting, we carry a full line of Potted Plants including all varieties of annuals ; also perennials for bedding out. Get our prices before buying else- where, as we have connection with the largest and most reliable growers of these varieties, assuring you best prices possible.
Pansies — angel faces that seem to speak.
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PETUNIA
Petunias are unsurpassed for massing in beds. They also ■are used along walks and driveways and are often grown in window boxes. Their richness of color, duration of bloom and easy culture will always make them popular. They endure drought exceptionally well. The full, double petunias do not produce seeds. To procure double flowers one must use the seeds saved from single flowers which have been fertilized by hand with pollen from the double ■ones. The seed we offer is the result of careful hybridiza- tion and can be depended upon to give as large a propor- tion of double flowers as any.
In some strains the flowers are very large, measuring four to five inches across; in others, they are deeply fringed; still others have star-like markings radiating -from the throat and extending nearly or quite to the outer margin of the blossom; again, others have full, double flowers. The colors range from white to deep red- purple and are variously striped and blotched. Tender perennial blooming the first year; about one-half foot high.
Inimitable. Finest blotched and striped .. Giant Pkt. 20c. Howard’s Star. All shades with distinct star in the
center Giant Pkt. 10c.
Balcony. Red, rose and white Giant Pkt. 10c.
Compacta Snowball. Pure white Giant Pkt. 10c.
Compacta, Rosy Morn. Extra fine pink. .. .Giant Pkt. 10c.
California Giants. The very finest strain, mixed........
Giant Pkt. 20c.
Double Giants. Fringed, none finer to be had
Giant Pkt. 25c.
Ilybrida. Mixed Giant Pkt. 10c.
PHLOX DRUMMONDI
(Large Flowering) Unequalled in the magnificent display of their many and brilliantly colored flowers. The plants are hardy bush-like annuals with many broad flat-topped clusters ■of nearly round and star-shaped flow- firs. They are of easiest culture and bloom profusely through a long sea- son. Especially attractive in masses or ribbon beds of contrasted colors; useful as window-garden plants and very desirable for combining In mixed bouquets.
Hardy annual; one foot high.
Grandiflora —
Crimson Giant Pkt. 10c.
Flesh Giant Pkt. 10c.
Lilac Giant Pkt. 10c.
Primrose Giant Pkt. 10c.
White Giant Pkt. 10c.
Extra Choice Mixed. Best large flow- ered varieties. Our mixture is un- excelled for profusion of bloom and
wide range of brilliant colors
Giant Pkt. 10c.
Pinks
(Dianthus) The Dianthus family furnishes many of the most beautiful and profitable flowers, including the Carnation, Sweet William, Chinese and Japanese Pinks, in all their varie- ties. The Pinks are old-fashioned favorites and as a class are more varied in color than the Carnations but lack their fragrance. Both the single and double Pinks are well adapted for bedding and borders, and are suitable also for cutting, as the stems are of good length and the bril- liantly colored flowers, often one and one-half to two inches across, con- trast vividly with the rather narrow bright light green leaves.
Double Petunias
Royal Pinks. (Heddewigi nobilis) These very large, sin- gle flowers afford a wide range of colors. Petals deeply cut and fringed and flowers in splendid shades from blood-red to carmine, pink, and even white. Plants dwarf and very free flowering Giant Pkt. 10c.
Double China Mixed. (Chinensis) White and dark crim- son selves, also white tipped light purple and shades of
red and dark blotchings. A mixture of double pinks unsurpassed in variety of brilliant coloring and marking. Giant Pkt. 10c.
Heddewig’s Single Mixed. A splendid mixture of single flowers of the best shades and beautifully marked. Plants dwarf; very free flowering Giant Pkt. 10c.
Set aside a little space for a few Chinese Pinks.
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POPPY
(Papaver) These well-known hardy annuals and perennials flower in great profusion throughout the summer. Both the single and double varieties are very desirable for bedding and borders. The flowers are remarkable for their large size, delicacy of tissue and wide range of bright dazzling colors.
Annual Varieties
Shirley. A magnificent variety, producing through a long season large single flowers of charmingly deli- cate colors, ranging from pure white through shades of pink and rose to brightest scarlet and carmine-red. Some petals are of silky texture, others like tissue paper, some are plain, some crimped, and some wavy. If cut before the blooms are fully expanded, they will keep fresh in water for several days. Hardy annual, about twenty inches high .... Giant Pkt. 10c. Tulip Flowered. Single bright scarlet tulip-shaped flowers, a black spot appearing at the base of each
petal. Hardy annual, about one foot high....
Giant Pkt. 10c.
Cardinal. Flowers very large and very double, each petal being so finely cut as to give the blossom the appearance of a large ball of brilliant cardinal colored silk. One of the finest poppies in cultivation. Hardy
annual, two feet high Giant Pkt. 10c.
Double White Fringed. The finest double white poppy. Plant upright growing and fioriferous. Flowers three to four inches across, perfectly double, finely fringed.
Hardy annual, two feet high Giant Pkt. 10c.
Double Carnation Mixed. Large showy double fringed flowers of various colors; hardy annual, about two
feet high Giant Pkt. 10c.
Double Choice Mixed. Very large, double poppies in a variety of colors. Some petals quite broad, others finely fringed. About two feet high.. Giant Pkt. 10c.
Perennial Varieties
Perennial poppies do best in rows one and one-half feet apart and one foot apart in the row. The plants have stout, leafy flower-stalks; leaves rough, pinnately parted; lobes oblong-lanceolate, toothed. Seed may be sown outdoors either in spring or fall. Bracteatum. Flowers very large, single, brilliant
orange-crimson; base of petals bluish black. A garden perennial of most striking appearance; about two feet high. ....Giant Pkt. 10c.
Single Pinks
Orientale. Very large single gorgeous scarlet blossoms; base of petals bluish black. One of the most showy gar- den perennials; about two feet high ..... Giant Pkt. 10c.
The Carnation Poppy is an improved double form of the single Papaver Somniferum, used for the extraction of opium. We do not furnish seed of the opium poppy.
Double Pinks
PORTULACA
Sometimes called Rose Moss. Few flowers make such a dazzling display of color in the bright sunshine as a bed of portulacas. The glossy cup-shaped single- flowers and rose-like double flowers, about one inch across, range through many shades of red, white, pink, orange, yel- low, striped, etc. Plants low growing or- creeping with thick fleshy stems tinged? with red and small quill-shaped leaves- Desirable also for edgings. They are in? bloom through a long season.
Tender annual; about nine inches high.. Fine Mixed. A wide range of colors- Giant Pkt. 10c„
Double Fine
The seed we offer can be depended upon for a large proportion of fine, very double flowers and the few that come- single can be pulled out if desired.
Double Mixed. Many beautiful shades, Giant Pkt. 10c..
Poor Man’s Orchid (See SCHIZANTHUS) ..
Primrose, Evening
(Oenothera) Large, showy saucer- shaped blossoms, usually fully expanded) only towards and during evening. The- blossoms are yellow:, pr.white and are very freely produced ....Giant Pkt. 10c..
PRIMULA SINENSIS beautiful winter bloom- ing pot plant is especially valuable in that its brightly colored and finely formed flowers and prettily cut foliage may be had in perfection from November until late in spring. The splendid salver-formed flowers are produced in large clusters.
Greenhouse perennial; six to ten inches high.
Single Fringed, Choicest Mixed... .Giant Pkt. 25c„.
Double Fringed Mixed. Very choice; shades of red, rose,, white, etc. The seed we offer can be depended on to pro- duce a very large proportion of double flowers ...
Giant Pkt. 25c..
Phlox. Colors brilliant, unequaled.
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Salvia
Cardinal Poppy
Fine Mixed. Hybrids. Easily grown large, long-stemmed
flowers, in many beautiful shades and markings
Giant Pkt. 10c.
Large Flowering Mixed. A mixture of improved dwarf, very large flowering sorts, more compact than ordinary varieties and with much larger, more richly colored
flowers Giant Pkt. 10c.
lowering Sage) Among the most bril- liantly colored of garden flowers and ex- tremely useful for bedding; also valuable for pot culture and cutting. Blooms are borne in long spikes well above the foliage and are of fiery red, crimson, or blue, continuing in flower a long time. The densely filled flower spikes are often eight to ten inches long and includes thirty or more tube-like florets, one to two inches in length.
Tender perennial, but blooms the first season; height one and one-half to three feet.
Splendens. Sold also as “Splendens Bonfire.” The large, brilliant scarlet flowers are in very striking contrast with the rich, dark green background of dense foliage. This variety is most generally used in parks and on extensive lawns, as it is more vigorous than the dwarf varieties. One of the most distinct and effective bedding plants. Two and one-half to three feet high .... Giant Pkt. 10c. Patens. One of the finest blue flowers known; not as well suited for bedding as the other varieties of salvia, but very attractive in the mixed border or in the greenhouse. Height of plant, about one and one-half
or two feet Giant Pkt. 10c.
Fireball. Many strains of Salvia Splendens have been offered under different names claiming they are larger flowered or more floriferous than the old type. We have found none more valuable than this strain in which the plant is more uniformly dwarf, and comes into bloom earlier than most sorts and remains covered with bril- liant red flower spikes a remarkably long time. About
two feet high Giant Pkt. 10c.
Scabiosa— (See MOURNING BRIDE).
Scarlet Flax— (See LINUM).
Q/’Kl'ranikne Retusus trimaeulatus. Also known as ocmzanmus Butterfly Flower or Poor Man’s Orchid. Dainty compact branching plants with finely cut foliage, covered when in bloom with clusters or spikes of bril- liantly colored butterfly-like flowers. Valuable for garden decoration or pot culture. Petals bright yellow with mar- gins and tube of carmine or purple-rose, shading from lighter to darker shades.
Hardy annual; about twenty inches high. Giant Pkt. 15c. Sensitive Plant — (See MIMOSA PUDICA).
Pyrethrum
Very ornamental, both foliage and flowers. Well adapted for bedding and borders. (See also
Matricaria.)
Parthenifolium Aureum. (Golden Feather) Beautiful
dwarf gold leaved bedding plant. Flowers white. Half hardy perennial, often treated as an annual; height one
foot Giant Pkt. 10c.
Parthenifolium Aureum Selaginoides. Finely cut, fern-like
leaves of bright golden yellow color. Extra fine for
bedding. Half hardy perennial; twelve to fifteen inches high Giant Pkt. 10c.
RKnrianilio One of the most beautiful everlastings. IXilUUc&IllllC Sometimes called Straw Flower. The flower heads are somewhat bell-shaped, becoming when gracefully poised on slender stems. The mixture we offer includes rose with golden center and white with yellow disc. Blooms should be gathered before fully expanded and dried in the shade. The leaves are glaucous, clasping and are oval or elliptical in shape.
Tender annual; one and one-half to two feet high.
Mixed Giant Pkt. 5c.
Ricinus— (See CASTOR BEAN).
Rorlrpf (Hesperis matronalis) Produces
*JWCCL loose clusters of flowers very fra- grant during the evening and useful for cutting. Flowers cruciform, somewhat resembling the single Stock but smaller.
Hardy perennial.
Purple. Plants two and one-half to three feet high
Giant Pkt. 10c.
White. About two feet high Giant Pkt. 10c.
D/'ACp* Multiflora Dwarf Perpetual, Mixed. Plants I\v/ JE under good care will commence to flower when six inches high and about two months old, and continue to grow and bloom until they form compact bushes about sixteen inches high, well covered with single and double flowers.
Tender perennial; blooming the first year.Giant Pkt. 15c. Rose Moss— (See PORTULACA).
CA! Din O^^I^ Very showy bedding or border * VjLWJ J1J plants with richly colored, fun- nel-shaped flowers which are purple, scarlet, crimson, yel- low, buff, blue, or almost black, beautifully marbled and penciled.
Half hardy annual; about two feet high.
Salvia
For a dazzling display in a sunny place, don’t forget Portulaca.
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'QIWHI AY (Myrisiphyllum asparagoides) No twining plant in cultivation surpasses this in grace- ful beauty of foliage. Indispensable to florists for table -and house decoration. The hard texture of its small glossy green leaves permits the long delicate sprays of foliage to be kept without wilting several days after being cut.
Tender perennial climber, ten feet high.. Giant Pkt. 10c,
Snapdragon
(Antirrhinum) This well- known border and bedding _ plant of long blooming sea-
son is now one of the best perennials suitable for flowering as an annual. The long showy spikes of curiously shaped tubular flowers with irregular spreading lobes and finely •marked throats are fragrant as well as brilliantly colored. They are very desirable for cutting as the spikes of bloom •are borne well above the dark glossy leaves and keep fresh for a long time. Tender perennial, often treated as annual or biennial.
Semi-Dwarf Varieties
This class of plants grow about fifteen inches high And are splendid for mass effects in the garden. The stems, while not as long as those of the tall growing sorts, are very desirable as cut flowers for small vases.
Semi-Dwarf Maroon Pkt. 10c.
Semi-Dwarf Pink Pkt. 10c.
Semi-Dwarf Scarlet Pkt. 10c.
Semi-Dwarf White Pkt. 10c.
Semi-Dwarf Yellow. Pkt. 10c.
Semi-Dwarf Mixed. Pkt. 10c.
Tall Growing Varieties
Produces long, graceful spikes of flowers which are un-
surpassed for cutting. Plants about two and one-half feet high.
Tall Large Flowering, White Pkt. 10c.
Tall Large Flowering, Yellow Pkt. 10c.
Tall Large Flowering, Pink, White Tube Pkt. 10c.
Tall Large Flowering, Garnet Pkt. 10c.
Tall Large Flowering, Scarlet Pkt. 10c.
Tall Large Flowering, Fine Mixed. An extra fine mixture including all the best colors. Oz. 50c Pkt. 10c.
^ • An easily grown annual which is very
lirlTirP desirable for use in rock gardens or as K-f V,d- a border plant. The flowers are borne in racemes on long graceful stems and may be cut and dried like everlastings; for this purpose they should be dried in a cool and shady place hung up by the stems to keep their natural shape. Sow the seed indoors during March or April and transplant to open ground after dan- ger of frost is past. They prefer a sunny location and are rather susceptible to an excess of moisture. Height
of plants two to two and one-half feet Pkt. 10c.
Sinnuata Mixed. A choice mixture in shades of blue, pink, yellow and white Pkt. 10c.
Sunflower, Stella
Stock, Double German Ten Weeks
Stock
(Mathiola) Sometimes called Gilliflower. Considered almost indispensable where a fine display of flowers is wanted and par- ticularly valued for edgings, bedding, and pot culture. The improved varieties we offer of this favorite garden plant produce dense spikes of very fragrant and beau- tiful rosette-like double flowers in a wide range of at- tractive colors. They are suitable for cutting, being produced on stems of good length in pleasing contrast with the dark green foliage of the busy plants. Each of the four types is of long flowering period, and if the earlier ones are started indoors, a profusion of fragrant and pleasing flowers is afforded for the entire season.
Height of plants one to one and one-half feet.
Dwarf Large Flowering. Lilac, pink, yellow, purple, red, white and mixed .Giant Pkt. 10c.
Early Large Flowering. La France, Brilliant, Princess Alice, Crimson, Monte Blanc, Almond Blossom and mixed ..Giant Pkt. 10c.
Cut and Come Again. Lilac, pink, yellow, purple, red, white and mixed .Giant Pkt. 10c.
Mammoth Flowering. Lilac, pink, yellow, purple, red, white and mixed.. .Giant Pkt. 10c.
Sunflower
(Helianthus) These stately, old-fashioned flowers with the newer improved varieties are coming into special favor as a background for lawns and in front of high fences. Valuable also as a screen to hide unsightly places and sometimes used to mitigate the evil of adjacent swamp holes. Their very tall dense growth and bright yellow disc-like flowers of very large size and long blooming period make them one of the most deserving and useful of hardy annuals.
Red Sunflower. Plants erect, robust, about three feet high, flowers intense red Giant Pkt. 10c.
Double Chrysanthemum Flowered. The most attractive of the very double sunflowers. Plant tall, growing seven feet high and blooming profusely all summer. Flowers very large, often eight to ten inches across, very double, with long fringed petals and resemble chrysanthemums. The color is a splendid, rich, golden- yellow, free from any black center Giant Pkt. 10c.
Stella. The plant of this fine variety is spreading with many branches and attains a height of about three feet. The flowers are about three inches in diameter and are of an unusually pure golden yellow with black discs or centers, and are borne on long stems well above the foliage. Early blooming and produced in abundance throughout a long season ... Giant Pkt. 10c.
Straw Flower— (See HELICHRYSUM and RHODANTHE).
Sweet Rocket — (See ROCKET).
Snapdragons are one of the best Annuals,
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Market Gardeners’ Seed Co. Fancy Sweet Peas
(Lathyms adoratus) No garden is too small for a row of Sweet Peas and no estate, however extensive or magnifi- cent, should fail to include many varieties of this most popular flower. Its long blooming season usually extends from early summer until very hot, dry weather, and no other climber equals it for cutting, either for use in bouquets or for
table decoration.
Sweet Peas, White Spencer
Hundreds of varieties have been offered for sale by seedsmen, but owing to recent marked improvements many sorts are de- cidedly inferior and have been dropped from our list.
In describing varieties, by "standard,” is meant the wide petal at the top of the flower; the "wings” are the two petals below.
Extra Early Blanche Ferry and Earliest White, being the earliest known varieties are excellent for growing indoors.
For outdoor Planting there are two general classes. The more extensive is the Grandiflora or large flowering division. This class, owing to its general vigor of growth, its freedom of blooming and ex- tremely wide range of colors, is best suited for most conditions of growth and location.
The Spencers are of exceptionally large size, the standard and wings waved or frilled and the general effect remarkably graceful and attractive. A characteristic of the best Spencers is an "open keel.” The petal or envelope enclosing the pistil, stamens and anthers is called the keel. In a typical Spencer flower grown under favor- able conditions, the anthers and stigma are not clamped together and the envelope of the keel is large and baggy and open at the top. The plants of Spencer varie- ties are usually in bloom much longer than other sweet peas, as most of the blossoms fall off after maturity without setting pods. The Spencers are decidedly shy seeders, hence the price will doubtless always be higher than for the older types.
Culture. Early in spring make a trench three to four inches deep in rich, mellow soil, so arranged that no water can stand in it and plant the seed in the bottom, covering at first only one inch deep. Sweet Peas, particularly the white seeded sorts, are often a little difficult to start. If the soil is too dry they will remain a long time without germinating; if it is too wet and cold they will not sprout at all. In soils at all heavy, or composed largely of clay, put about one inch of sand in the bottom of the trench and sow the seed on this, covering with more sand. Cover the row with a board to shed the rain and protect the soil from the hot sun but remove this as soon as the young plants appear.
When the plants are two inches high, cultivate and as they grow gradually fill up the trench. When the plants are about five inches high it is desirable to furnish some support for the vines to run upon, preferably a wire netting firmly supported by stakes to prevent sagging, but strings or brush are often used with satisfactory results.
The roots should not be allowed to be- come too dry. Water applied thoroughly once or twice a week, preferably early in the morning or in the evening, is usually better than light sprinkling more fre- quently.
For the aphis or plant louse, spraying with solutions of some tobacco extract or whale-oil soap is usually effective; and for the Red Spider, which also causes trouble at times, spraying with pure water is usu- ally sufficient. A frequent change of loca- tion has also been found important.
A better growth of vine and earlier blooming often results from planting seed late in the fall instead of early in the spring.
The blooms should be picked before they form pods or the plants will soon stop flowering.
Plant seeds that you possibly overlooked last season.
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WRITE FOR SPECIAL PRICES ON LARGER QUANTITIES
SPENCER VARIETIES. This group includes the largest and most beautifully formed sweet peas. The Spencers have very large waxed flowers which are produced abundantly on long, strong stems, making the blos- soms most desirable for cutting.
APPLE BLOSSOM SPENCER. Bright rose standard with wings of very light primrose flushed or tinted rose-car- mine. Very large Spencer form. A free blooming sort of robust growth. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 35c.
ASTA OHN. Suffused lavender or tinted mauve sometimes with pinkish tinge. Spencer form, large and wavy. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 35c.
BLANCHE FERRY SPENCER. Rose-pink standard; wings white, suffused and tinted with light pink. It is a very pleasing bi-colored sweet pea and one of the most attractive varieties. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 40c. CAPTAIN OF THE BLUES SPENCER. Purple, with blue wings, beautifully waved; margin of petals marbled.
A very distinct and pleasing variety. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 35c.
COUNTESS SPENCER. Bright clear pink sometimes darker towards the edges; very large, open form; long stems. The first variety introduced of the Spencer type and still the best deep pink sweet pea. Giant Pkt. 5c; Oz. 30c.
GEORGE HERBERT. A bright, rose-crimson or rose-car- mine Spencer variety of large size suffused with magenta and showing veins in wings. Both standard and wings beautifully waved. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 30c.
LOYALTY SPENCER. Bright blue flaked and striped on white ground. Flowers of large Spencer form. The best blue striped sort yet introduced. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. $1.00.
OTHELLO SPENCER. A beautiful, deep, pure maroon of very large Spencer type. The most reliable of the ma- roon shades of Spencers. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 35c. PRIMROSE SPENCER. We consider this the best prim- rose, or cream and ivory sweet pea yet developed. Spen- cer type, large wavy petals, frilled at edges; clear, distinct color. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 35c.
STIRLING STENT. A rich, deep, metallic salmon, suf- fused with orange. A beautiful Spencer, especially in artificial light, requiring shading to show true color. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. $1.00.
WHITE SPENCER. Standard and wings of pure white, beautifully waved and fluted. One of the very best white sweet peas. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 75c.
GRANDIFLORA VARIETIES
The Grandifloras, sometimes called the Eckford class, are an older type than the Waved or Spencer sorts, and the flowers are not so large. They are not so long in bloom, but are decidedly cheaper and more easily grown. In addition to the classification by colors, there are two typical forms of grandifloras recognized, the “open form” and the “hooded form,” referring to the shape of the standard. ,, ,
A group of Early Flowering sorts, sometimes called the Christmas class, Includes as representative varieties. Extra Early Blanche Ferry, Earliest White, and Mont Blanc.
WHITE
EARLIEST WHITE. The earliest ^looming white sweet pea. Hooded form. Seed black. A most desirable va- riety for forcing. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c.
EMILY HENDERSON. A clear white of open form. Unwin type. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c.
PRIMROSE OR VERY LIGHT YELLOW
HON. MRS. E. KENYON. Clear primrose; large semi- hooded flower. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c.
MRS COLLIER. A lighter shade of primrose than Mrs. Kenyon. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c.
ROSE WITH WHITE WINGS
BLANCHE FERRY. Blooms very early and continues to produce abundantly through a long season. Standard medium sized, open form, bright rose-pink; wings large, rounded, nearly white. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c. EXTRA EARLY BLANCHE FERRY. The earliest known sweet pea. It will be found to be the first to furnish flowers either in greenhouse or out of doors and it will continue to furnish them in great abundance longer than most varieties. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c.
ORANGE PINK
MISS WILLMOTT. A fine orange-pink, showing veins of deeper tint. Flowers semi-hooded, good size, on long stems; plant very vigorous. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c.
ST. GEORGE. Flowers flame color. The brightest of the orange-pink; large, of open form, and slightly waved Unwin type. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c.
SHADES OF RED
KING EDWARD VII. Superior to Firefly. A bright crim- son-scarlet or pure red of largest grandiflora size. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c.
PRINCE OF WALES. Flowers large, shell shaped; pure rose-crimson. A very attractive sort. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c.
SALOPIAN. Rich, cardinal-red, deeper than King Edward VII; large, hooded form. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 20c.
PINK AND RED STRIPES
AMERICA. Carmine striped and splashed on white ground. Open form, good size. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c.
MRS. JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN. Large flowers, hooded form; white, striped with light purplish rose. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c.
LIGHT PINK
KATHERINE TRACY. Flowers soft but brilliant pink; open form. The plants are vigorous, and give a profusion of flowers which continue of good size until the end of the season. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c.
LOVELY. The flowers are large, abundantly produced and of attractive hooded form. Standard and wings both deep pink shading to very light pink at edges; white ground. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c.
LAVENDER AND LIGHT BLUE
COUNTESS OF RADNOR. A beautiful lavender of hooded form, nearly self-colored. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c.
LADY GRISEL HAMILTON. A large, soft lavender, tinted mauve; similar to Countess of Radnor, but nearer blue; hooded form. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c.
MAUVE AND PURPLE
MRS. WALTER WRIGHT. A large, hooded, rosy purple. Superior to Dorothy Tennant. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c.
ROMOLO PIAZANNI. Flowers rosy purple, changing to lilac and blue. Large size, hooded. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c.
BLUE AND PURPLE
FLORA NORTON. Flowers light clear blue; medium size, hooded form. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c.
LORD NELSON. (Brilliant Blue) Good size; semi- hooded. This is considered the best grandiflora dark blue. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c.
BLUE AND MAROON STRIPES
HESTER. Large, open grandiflora type; purplish blue, marbled and shaded on white ground. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c.
SENATOR. Purplish maroon and indigo heavily striped and splashed on light ground; medium size, hooded form. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c.
VIOLET AND MAROON
OTHELLO. A very dark maroon, practically self-colored with almost black veining. Large size, hooded form. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c.
STANLEY. A deep maroon, warmer than Boreatton; good size, open form. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c.
MIXTURES OF SWEET PEAS
Most people obtain more satisfaction from planting Sweet Peas in mixture than from growing named sorts, but to be successful it is necessary that the seed be of the best quality obtainable. Often what is offered as mixed seed is stock harvested from plants that have come up as volunteers on ground where Sweet Peas have been grown before, or a lot of seed which has been grown, saved, or handled so carelessly that it can not be sold as any distinct variety. The use of such seeds will not give satisfactory results. We assure our customers the Mixtures of Sweet Peas which we offer are the results of as great care in selecting as any stocks, and as fine flow- ers are obtained from them as from any seed that can be bought.
M. G. S. Co's. Superb Mixed JJfs iSSture X?
combining in carefully considered proportions twenty-one separate named varieties, each the very choicest of its class. This was done after first carefully considering the desirability of color, form, and freedom of blooming in our many trials of nearly two hundred different named sorts. Nowhere else can one procure a more magnificent mix- ture of finely formed and beautifully colored, large flower- ing Sweet Peas. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 15c.
M. G* S. Co’s. Superb Spencers Mixed
We make up this magnificent mixture by combining eighteen separate named Spencer varieties, each of which our trials have repeatedly shown to be the very best of its class. Unsurpassd as a mixture of this superb class and showing the most desirable range of colors and the finest forms. No better mixture in all the world than this. Giant Pkt. 10c; Oz. 50c.
Our Spencer Sweet Peas are the best ever,
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Sweet William
(Dianthus Barbatus)
A well-known, sweet- scented, old-fashioned perennial for bedding and borders, forming fine clumps in any good garden soil and under proper conditions, lasting for several seasons. It is one of the most desir- able for display in the garden. The plants are easily grown, hardy and free flowering. They produce a suc- cession of flower clusters, thus affording splendid bloom for several weeks. The florets are handsomely colored and marked, and are borne on stiff stems in great profusion, forming dense round topped heads or clusters, often three to four inches across. The colors are exceedingly varied, ranging from white through many shades of rose, lilac, red, carmine, crimson, and maroon to nearly black, usually two shades to each plant. The petals are barbed or bearded and the leaves are lanceolate in shape, and grow opposite or conduplicate.
Hardy perennial; one and one-half feet high.
Double Mixed. Double flowers in a great variety of colors
and shades Giant Pkt. 10c.
Single Mixed Giant Pkt. 10c.
‘fl/’ 11 £1 (Cheiranthus elieiri) This is a
YY aiinower favorite European garden
▼ Y UlliiV TTVl flower. The long, fragrant ter- minal spikes of the Wallflower when properly grown are very conspicuous in beds and borders and are very useful in making bouquets. Tender bushy biennial or perennial that will live through the winter in a mild climate; height of plants about one and one-half feet.
Double Mixed. Deliciously fragrant, perfectly double, and combine many shades of color, the orange, purple, and chocolate predominating Giant Pkt. 10c.
Wil/1 rurumkor (Echinoeystis lobata) This is a YT 11U WUtUUIUCI useful climber where a rapid and vigorous growth of vine is desired. To cover or to screen an unsightly building, there is perhaps no annual climber better adapted for the purpose. The vine has abundant foliage and is thickly covered with sprays of small white, fragrant flowers, followed by numerous prickly seed pods. Hardy annual Giant Pkt. 10c.
Wistaria Ckiin^nQiQ °ne of the most beautiful
yv isiaria, \»,ninensis and rapid growing of the
hardy perennial climbers. When well established in good soil it will often grow fifteen to twenty feet during the
Tagetes— (See MARIGOLD).
Tropaeolum Canariense —
(See CANARY BIRD FLOWER).
Tropaeolum Lobbianum —
(See NASTURTIUM, TRAILING).
Tropaeolum Minor —
(See NASTURTIUM, DWARF).
Tm-onio A fine annual with 1 OiCllla trumpet-shaped, sky- blue flowers, each F ournieri having three spots of dark indigo blue and a yellow stain in the center. Plants of bushy habit, about ten inches high. Ex- tremely handsome when grown in pots or out of doors in a shaded location.
Verbena
This well known annual of low growing decumbent habit of growth is very desirable for massing in beds on the lawn. It is suitable also for borders and window boxes.
Large clusters of showy flowers are borne in succession through a long season until frost. Each truss or cluster is about two to three Inches across, and includes a dozen or more single flowers about three- fourths of an inch across, tubular with five spreading lobes. The length of stem and texture of the flowers make them of value for bouquets and table decorations. There is a wide range of colors, shades and stripes usually running from pure white to deep purple.
Mammoth. Pink, purple, blue, white Giant Pkt. 10c.
Defiance. Scarlet, Firefly, scarlet, white eye Giant Pkt. 20c.
(Lucifer) Intense brilliant, the best of all reds... Giant Pkt. 20c.
Sweet William
Vinca
(Periwinkle) These very attractive bushy plants with glossy green foliage produce in abundance handsome round or salver shaped single flowers, suitable either for culture in pots or boxes or for summer bedding and borders. Tender perennial, blooming the first season, about fifteen inches high.
Pure White. Beautiful pure white Giant Pkt. 10c.
Rosea. Rose with crimson eye; flowers often two inches in diameter. A very desirable window plant,
Giant Pkt. 10c.
Mixed. The above named varieties mixed. .Giant Pkt. 10c.
Rosea Albo. White with crimson eye Giant Pkt. 10c.
Viola Tricolor — (See PANSY).
V5i.mM5a« Cirt„L (Cheiranthus maritimus, Mal- V irgmian OtOCK comia maritima) The plants are of more branching and decidedly more open in habit than the common Stock (Matliiola) and are very useful for border or edging. Hardy annual; about nine inches high.
Red and White Mixed. Clusters of beautiful single cruci- form flowers Giant Pkt. 10c.
season, and frequently blooms both in spring and fall. The flowers are very fragrant, single, pale blue, pea- shaped and are borne in long, drooping, grape-like clus- ters, often over a foot in length. Foliage light green, Pinnate - Giant Pkt. 20c.
Zinnia
Sometimes called Youth and Old Age. The well known bush-like plants of Zinnias produce a profusion of large, double imbricated flowers, usually about two inches across, borne on stiff stems. They are much used for bedding and are suitable for borders and for cutting.
There is much satisfaction in a bed of Zinnias with their twisted and recurved petaled flowers in many bright col- ors, and when nearly every other flower has been killed by frost, this plant is still in full bloom. Few flowers are more easily grown or bloom more abundantly throughout the season, and the wide range of color is not less remark- able than their unusual depth and richness.
Half hardy annual; tall growing, usually about one and one-half to two feet high.
Tall Giant Flower. Purple, pink, yellow, white, crimson,
salmon and mixed Giant Pkt. 10c.
Dwarf Giant Flower. Purple, pink, yellow, white, crimson,
salmon and mixed Giant Pkt. 10c.
Pickotee Mixed Giant Pkt. 10c.
Sweet Williams should have a place in every Flower Garden.
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Bulbs and Roots for Spring Planting
WHITE FOR SPECIAL PRICES ON ALL BULBS IE LARGER QUANTITIES ARE WANTED
Included in this class are some of our most showy gar- den flowers and their culture is very easy. In the spring, after danger from frost is over, plant in a rich, loamy soil, having a sunny position and flowers the same season are assured. All bulbs and roots will be sent by mail or express, charges prepaid, when ordered at single or dozen rates. At the 100 rate they will be sent by express or freight, the purchaser paying the charges unless otherwise stated. Not less than six of any one variety supplied at dozen rates and not less than 25 at the 100 rate. Orders with money should be sent to us as early as possible and they will be filled in rotation. Bulbs subject to injury by frost will not be sent until such danger is over.
YELLOW SHADES GREEN FOLIAGE
YELLOW KING HUMBERT. 4 feet. Like King Hum- bert in habit of growth and flowering, and produces golden yellow flowers, blotched red.. 10c Each; $1.00 Doz.
VARIEGATED FLOWERS WITH GREEN FOLIAGE
NIAGARA. 3 feet. Flowers deep crimson with wide ir- regular border of golden yellow 8c Each; 75c Doz.
PANAMA. 3 feet. Color rich orange-red with a border of golden yellow. Flowers of large size with enormous wide petals. ... .8c Each; 75c Doz.
• Tuberous Rooted. The tubers which onia we offer are of the very best quality and with proper care will give a beau- tiful display early in the summer. For growing in pots or boxes in the house, plant in rich, sandy soil, give good drainage and water freely after the leaves start but do not let the soil become sour or soggy from over-watering. If it is desired to have a bed outdoors, select a shady, moist situation making the bed rich with thoroughly rotted manure and leaf mold, if obtainable. Plant as soon as danger from frost is over. After the plants start into vigorous growth keep well watered.
Each Doz.
Single, pink 25c $2.50
Single, scarlet - 25c 2.50
Single, white 25c 2.50
Single, yellow 25c 2.50
Single, mixed 25c 2.50
Double, pink 25c 2.50
Double, scarlet 25c 2.50
Double, white 25c 2.50
Double, yellow . . .■ 25c 2.50
Double, mixed 25c 2.50
NOTICE — We carry in season a full line of Potted Plants, for bedding out, for decoration purposes.
CREAM AND WHITE SHADE WITH GREEN FOLIAGE
EUREKA. 4 feet. The best white Canna for all purposes The large substantial flowers are very freely produced on strong vigorous plants ....10c Each; $1.00 Doz.
BRONZE FOLIAGE VARIETIES
DAVID HARUM. 3 Vfc feet. Flowers intense vermillion- scarlet, very prolific ....8c Each; 75c Doz.
KING HUMBERT. 4 feet. This is the grandest Canna ever offered. The large heart-shaped leaves are purple- madder brown over bronze. The plants are crowned immense heads of orchid-like, velvety orange-scarlet, rose tinted and margined at the base. A combination of leaf and blossom incomparably beautiful.
.10c Each; $1.00 Doz.
RED SHADES WITH GREEN FOLIAGE
DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH. 4 feet. Deep crimson- maroon 8c Each; 75c Doz.
FIRE BIRD. 3 y2 feet. A pure glistening scarlet, with big broad petals of fine substance. .10c Each; $1.00 Doz.
Cannas
Select Large Flowering. They do well in all sec- tions of the country, and stand pre-eminently at the head of the list, succeeding in any sunny position in any kind of soil, but responding quickly to liberal treatment.
Cannas should be planted in good, rich garden soil, mixed with half of old rotten stable manure, by the end of May, when danger from frost is past. Water spar- ingly for first two weeks after planting. When growing freely, water liberally. Set the plants about 18 inches apart each way, and if more than one kind is used, be careful to plant the taller growing kinds in the center and the dwarf ones along the edge. This applies to planting in beds.
PINK WITH GREEN FOLIAGE
MORNING GLOW. 3% feet. A color contrast of more than usual picturesque- ness; foliage an olive green, striped and veined with bronze. Flowers exquisite, soft shell pink with orange red center 10c Each; $1.00 Doz.
ROSEA GIGANTEA. 3% feet. Rich soft rose pink flowers of gigantic size; a prolific bloomer. The large broad petals and the massive heads of bloom invariably create a sensation 15c Each; $1.50 Doz.
VENUS. 4 feet. A gay rosy-pink, with a well-defined border of creamy yellow 8c Each; 75c Doz.
YELLOW WITH GREEN FOLIAGE
GLADIATOR. 4% feet. A leader for years. Color is a bright yellow spotted with crimson. No other cannas in this color can surpass this sturdy robust grower. 8c Each; 75c Doz.
Cannas
OLYMPIC. 5 feet. Rich Oriental red, shading lighter toward the center and dappled carmine. The individual trusses and florets are very large. A very free bloomer.
10c Each ; $1.00 Doz.
THE PRESIDENT. 4 feet. This Canna is superior to any other' red variety in the quality and also the quantity of bloom. Color rich glowing scarlet and the immense firm flowers are produced on strong, erect stalks well above the large, rich green foliage. The foliage is en- tirely free from disease 15c Each; $1.50 Doz.
WINTZER’S COLOSSAL. 5 feet. Without a doubt the largest flowered Canna yet produced. Flowers of vivid scarlet sometimes measuring eight inches across. 15c Each; $1.50 Doz.
GOLDEN GATE. 4 feet. The flowers open almost pure gold but soon become richly rayed with orange-crimson and apricot centering to the throat.. 8c Each; 75c Doz.
RICHARD WALLACE. 4 feet. Canary yellow flowers. Very floriferous. One of the best yellows.
8c Each ; 75c Doz.
ROBUSTA PERFECTA. A distinct and handsome sort, makes a good screen; bearing immense leaves eleven to eighteen inches wide and three feet long, of a bright bronze-red color; the flowers are insignificant; six to seven feet high; with good cultivation grows 8 feet: used for a screen or background. 5c Each; 50c Doz.
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Caladium
(Esculentum) Known also as Ele- phant’s Ear. One of the finest tropical plants which can be grown In the open air in the north. It can be made to produce three to ten leaves three to four feet long and nearly as wide, on stalks four to six feet high.
The soil best suited to Caladiums is a mixture of fibrous loam, leaf mold, peat, and well rotted cow or sheep manure in equal parts, with a sprinkling of sand added. Bulbs may be planted outdoors, as soon as danger of frost Is over, covering about three inches deep; or for largest growth start early indoors in pots and set out when the weather is warm and settled. But little water must be given to the roots till active growth commences, when, as the plants develop, they require an abundance. Hu- midity and warmth are necessary for their best develop- ment.
Mammoth. 15 to 17 inches 75c Each
Large Size. 11 to 13 inches 50c Each
Medium Size. 7 to 9 inches 25c Each
double and of splendid form, the petals being cleft at the tips, adds to its graceful appearance; it is early and free and the flowers are held erect on good stiff stems; in color it is of a delicate blush deepening to a glowing but soft rose toward the center ... .Roots $1.00.
GEORGE WALTERS. (Cactus) A favorite very large flowered Californian, producing its flowers on long stiff stems very freely. These are of a pleasing salmon color with shrimp pink shadings, equally fine for garden decoration and cutting Roots $1.00
ATTRACTION. (Cactus) A beautiful Dahlia that is greatly admired. The flowers, which measure fully 6 inches in diameter, are composed of gracefully ar- ranged curled or twisted petals of a lively yet soft silvery mauve-rose, with white suffusion Roots 75c.
GALATHEA. (Cactus) A delicately colored very free flowering variety of medium size and perfect form; color a tender, delicate, soft pink, a pleasing tone.
Roots 50c.
Small Size. 5 to 7 inches 10c Each
r\ 1 1 • The “Decorative’' types are characterized | Jpl n ll/^ by gracefully formed flowers of large size A/uiiuu and broad petals being intermediate In form between the compact “Show” sorts which are nearly round and the “Cactus” varieties which have loosely formed blossoms with long twisted petals.
Dahlias. Various Varieties
The roots are tender and easily injured by frost. They should be set out three feet apart, after all danger of frost is oyer. The best ;blooms are sometimes obtained if plant- ing is deferred until about June 1. The soil should be deeply dug and well drained but only moderately enriched with thoroughly rotted barnyard manure. A stiff clay should be avoided. A sunny situation is desirable as well as plenty of space and air. Place the roots horizontally, covering two to three inches deep. Give thorough cultiva- tion and during dry weather water well once a week. Larger blossoms are usually obtained if most of the side shoots are removed. Dahlias usually do not require much fertilizer and fresh barnyard manure especially should not be used. The plants should be supported by tying to stakes. The roots should be placed during winter in a cool cellar but not allowed to freeze.
RHE1NKOENIG. (Cactus) An ideal white variety with flowers over five inches in diameter, of splendid form and borne on long stiff stems held well above the foli- age, of great substance, lasting well when cut. Roots 50c.
YVACHT AM RHEIN. (Cactus) Delicate rosy-pink or shell-pink with white suffusion. It is an early, free, and continuous bloomer, with flowers of good quality to the end of the season; these are of good size, held erect on stiff wiry stems, making it ideal for cutting, exhibi- tion or garden decoration Roots 50c.
EVANGELINE. (Cactus) A splendid free-flowering, 5 to 6 inches in diameter, pure white, with just a tinge of cream at the center, long stiff stems; one of the most desirable whites Roots $1.00
F. W. FELLOWS. (Cactus) One of the very best Cactus varieties ever raised, with flowers of unusual size for the long narrow petaled type of which this is one of the finest representatives. In color it is an intense coral-red with deeper suffusion at the center; no col- lection of Dahlias is complete without it.... Roots 75c.
GOLDEN GATE. (Cactus) A very large hybrid Cactus of a rich deep golden-yellow suffused and shaded fawn, lights up well under artificial light. Long stiff stems; very free Roots 50c.
MARGUERITE BOUCHON. (Cactus) One of the most beautiful Cactus Dahlias yet introduced; it is perfect in form, of good size; in color a charming shade of bril- liant yet soft rose, with a large white center and dis- tinctly defined white tips Roots $1.00
MISS WILLMOTT. (Cactus) Very free flowering, reddish apricot, shading to golden-yellow at the center.
Roots 50c.
PIERROT. (Cactus) A unique and striking novelty in color, and of unusual grace and refinement in form, being composed of very long, tubular narrow petals, which are of a deep amber color, usually showing white tips, but even when it comes a self color without these tips it possesses an individual refinement different from all other sorts. A wonderful exhibition flower and a splendid garden variety Roots 75c.
DECORATIVE DAHLIAS
DELICE. One of the most popular pink varieties, its beautiful soft, yet lively color, a glowing rose-pink, together with its perfect shape, stout, stiff stems, and the fact that when cut it retains its freshness for a long time, makes this one of the most' valuable for cut- ting or decorative sorts in the garden Roots 35e.
DR. H. L. TEVIS. (Decorative) One of the California giant varieties, with a wonderful record as a prize winner. It is a magnificent flower of a blend of copper, old rose and old gold produced on the best stem pos- sible,raised well above the foliage Roots $1.00
EASTON. (Decorative) Not extra large, but a variety of brilliant coloring that should be in every collection, good form and remarkable free-flowering habit; in color a brilliant Turkish red Roots 35c.
JACK ROSE. (Decorative) Brilliant crimson-red similar in shade to the popular “Jack” Rose; perfect for garden decoration and cutting Roots 35c.
MADONNA. (Decorative) While rather flat in form, it is, nevertheless, very attractive; the petals being more or less curled or twisted give it a most graceful appear- ance; color white with just the faintest suffusion of
mauve Roots $1.50
CACTUS DAHLIAS
HELEN BURNBAUGH. (Cactus) Everybody is pleased with this and while of California origin, we believe it is even better here in the East than in its own home. The flowers, while not gigantic, are of good size, very
MONT BLANC. (Decorative) An early, free, continuous flowering creamy-white on good stiff stems. A most important cut flower variety .Roots 35c.
STELLA. (Decorative) Flowers of good size, of a peach blossom pink with yellow shading; very free, a fine cut flower Roots 50c.
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DECORATIVE DAHLIAS
(PRINCESS JULIANA. An ideal pure white for all pur- poses. A splendid cut flower and a good decorator for the garden. It is one of the earliest to flower, and con- tinues in good shape throughout the season. It holds its flowers well above the foliage on stiff, wiry stems. Roots 50c.
SYLVIA. (Decorative) Soft, pleasing, mauve-pink chang- ing to white in the center; a fine cut flower .. .Roots 35c.
W. D’ARCY RYAN. (Decorative) An attractive and strik- ing fancy variety which, unlike other fancy varieties, rarely produces self-colored flowers, which is a rich violet-purple, with a heavy white tip Roots $1.00.
CUBAN GIANT. (Show) Very large ball-shaped flowers of a bright maroon, free and early .Roots 35c.
CHARLES LANIER. (Show) Large, rich yellow.
Roots 50c.
GOLD MEDAL. (Show) This is without question the finest fancy Dahlia that has ever been produced. It is not a new variety, but it is only rarely that we have a sufficient supply to enable us to offer it. It is an early continuous bloomer; the flowers are perfect to the end of the season; in color a bright Dandelion yellow, beau- tifully streaked and splashed with Oriental red.
Roots 50c.
RED HUSSAR. (Show) Pure cardinal red Roots 35c.
POLAR BEAR. (Decorative) Unquestionably the finest white decorative variety yet introduced. It is pure in color, the flowers are of great size, of excellent form, borne very freely on good, long stems, and it lasts wonderfully either on the plant or when cut. .Roots $2.50.
PEONY— FLOWERED DAHLIAS
AMERICA. Pure shrimp-pink with golden suffusion. .Roots 75c.
WHITE SWAN. (Show) Reliable pure white.. Roots 35c.
CHOICE DOUBLE POMPON DAHLIAS
AMBER QUEEN. (Pompon) Rich, clear amber shaded apricot Roots 25c.
GRETCHEN HEINE. (Pompon) A dainty flower of rose- tinted white, each petal heavily tipped crimson-car- mine Roots 25c.
AVALANCHE. (Peony) A splendid white, which on ac- count of its pure color should have been called Purity. Roots 75c.
CEISHA. (Peony) The showiest and most attractive of this type yet introduced; the rich colored flowers are original in form, consisting of peculiarly twisted and
curled petals, of an effective and rich combination of scarlet and gold Roots $1.00.
HORTULANUS BUDDE. (Peony) Very free-flowering; rich rosy-scarlet; particularly attractive under arti- ficial light Roots $1.00.
INI ME. VAN BYSTEIN. (Peony) Splendid either for gar- den decoration as well as for cutting; a pleasing soft shade of mauve-pink on good stems Roots 50c.
MRS. G. GORDON. (Peony) Splendid large lemon-yel- low Roots 50c.
COLLERETTE DAHLIAS
DAINTY. Soft rose, deepening to carmine center, lemon- yellow color Roots 35c.
MAURICE RIVOIRE. (Collerette) Ox-blood red and white fringed color Roots 35c.
ROSETTE. (Collerette) Giant size, velvety cerise suf- fused white, white color Roots 35c.
NEW CENTURY SINGLE DAHLIAS
ROSE PINK CENTURY. Flowers 6 inches and over in diameter, of a clear rose-pink color; a strong grower, with long, stiff stems; fine for cutting ..Roots 35c.
SNOWFLAKE CENTURY. Very free-flowering; pure white. The finest single white yet introduced. .Roots 35c.
TWENTIETH CENTURY. Early in the season an intense rosy crimson, shading gradually to almost white on the edges and a little halo around the disc. As the season advances the flowers become lighter, changing almost pure white suffused with soft pink Roots 25c.
WILDFIRE CENTURY. Brilliant cochineal red with orange-scarlet suffusion: habit dwarf and free.
• ••••••••• Roots 25c,
SHOW AND FANCY DAHLIAS
A. B. LIVONI. A splendid clear pink, beautifully quilled,
of perfect form and very free-flowering. .Roots 35c.
ARABELLA. (Show) Light sulphur-yellow, shaded peach blossom on edges ......Roots 35c.
KLEINE DOMITEA. (Pompon) Orange buff, always U
flower .Roots 25c.
SNOW CLAD. (Pompon) Fine white ..Roots 25c.
SUNBEAM. (Pompon) A fine crimson ...Roots 25c.
Each Doz.
Dahlia, Double, pink * 15c $1.50
Dahlia, Double, scarlet 15c 1.50
Dahlia, Double, white 15c 1.50
Dahlia, Double, yellow 15c 1.50
Dahlia, Double, mixed 15c 1.50
(Bleeding Heart, Dicentra Spectabilis) A * hardy perennial plant, with finely cut fo-
liage, blooming in the spring. Flowers graceful, heart- shaped, pink and white; borne in long racemes. Each, 25c; Doz., $2.50.
GLADIOLUS
WRITE FOR SPECIAL PRICES ON ALL BULBS IF LARGER QUANTITIES ARE WANTED
The Gladiolus is one of the most decorative plants in the garden, and as a cut flower lends itself readily to any arrangement. If the spikes are cut when the lowest flower is in bloom, the others will open in succession and remain fresh a week or ten days. No flower has gained more rapidly in public favor than the Gladiolus; this> could not well be otherwise, for in addition to the great intrinsic merit of the flower, it is hardy and blooms the first season from bulbs.
Gladioli will thrive in almost any good soil except a stiff clay. They require full sunlight and are liable to injury only from rank manure. Plant bulbs six to nine inches apart, the large ones four inches and the small ones two inches deep. Make an early planting of the smallest bulbs first as soon as the ground is sufficiently dry and warm. Continue to plant at intervals of two weeks during the spring and early summer; in this way a succession of bloom may be had from midsummer until' frost. A free use of water during the season of active growth and particularly as the buds begin to show color will be beneficial in producing fine blossoms. In the au- tumn, before freezing, they should be dug up and the tops allowed to dry down, after which the dry tops, earth, and old bulbs can be removed. Store in a cool, dry place, se- cure from frost until spring.
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GIANT FLOWERED VARIETIES
AMERICA. Conceded to be one of the finest varieties for cutting or bedding ever sent out; color a beautiful soft flesh-pink; orchid-like in its coloring and texture 5c Each; 50c Doz.
BARON HULOT OR BLUE KING. A
really fine blue Gladiolus, in color a rich, royal violet blue, very effective when cut and used in conjunction with a yellow variety 8c Each; 75c Doz.
CHICAGO WHITE. Pure white, lightly marked with lavender; fine for cutting. 8c Each; 75c Doz.
EMPRESS OF INDIA. Rich dark maroon. One of the best dark varieties
10c Each; $1.00 Doz.
HALLEY. Large open flowers of a deli- cate salmon pink; very, early. 8c Each; 75c Doz.
LE MARSHAL FOCH. Rose pink re- sembling America in color, but deeper. Blooms same time as Halley.
10c Each; §1.00 Doz.
LOVELINESS. Very large flowers of creamy white, suffused with soft pink; a lovely variety.. 10c Each; §1.00 Doz.
MR. MARK. Light blue, very delicate, with dark spots.. 15c Each; §1.50 Doz.
MRS. FRANK PENDLETON. All ex- perts agree that this is one of the finest varieties yet introduced. The flowers are of largest size borne on strong straight spikes. In color a lovely salmon-pink with brilliant deep red blotches in the throat. A color combination rivaling many of the fin- est orchids in its richness exquisite in every way 8c Each; 75c Doz.
MRS. FRANCIS KING. A striking shade of light scarlet or flame color, one of the most effective. . ,8c Each; 75c Doz.
NIAGARA. A charming variety, of a delicate cream yellow, lightly marked and splashed with rose-carmine in the throat; beautiful as a cut flower. 8c Each; 75c Doz.
ODIN. Brilliant orange-salmon, stiff, straight flower stems.
15c Each; §1.50 Doz.
PANAMA. A favorite wherever high- grade varieties are grown; in color a rich rose-pink 8c Each; 75c Doz.
Gladiolus
PEACE. Immense pure white flowers with a touch of carmine in the lower petals. These are borne on tall, graceful spikes; a beautiful and exceedingly refined variety 8c Each; 75c Doz.
PRINCEPS. Immense wide-open amaryllis-like flowers of a rich, dazzling scarlet, marked with white on the lower portion, which serves to intensify the brilliancy of the scarlet 8c Each; 75c Doz.
GLADIOLUS MIXTURES
These choice assortments must not be confounded with the common mixed sorts. We recommend this stock with perfect confidence, as it is composed only of choice varie- ties and purchasers can depend upon having a magnificent variety of colors. Single and dozen prices include postage.
The 100 rate is by express at purchaser’s expense.
SCHWABEN. A most meritorious variety of wonderful vigor, with strong erect spikes and large well expanded flowers of a clear canary-yellow with a small blotch of deep garnet in the throat. This may now be con- sidered the best and freest growing yellow variety. 8c Each; 75c Doz.
WAR. A magnificent dark variety with tall spikes well filled with large flowers of a rich blood-red shaded with crimson black 8c Each; 75c Doz.
WILLBRINK (Sport of Halley). It retains the earliness of that variety, but has a delicate pale pink color, somewhat similar to America 10c Each; §1.00 Doz.
Shades of Pink and Rose
Shades of Scarlet and Red
Shades of Orange and Yellow...
White and Light Varieties
Striped and Variegated Mixed . . .
Extra Fine American Hybrids Mixed.. 5c Groff’s Hybrid Seedlings. A great va
riety of shades and markings 5c
Lemoine’s Butterfly Varieties Mixed.
Throats very distinctly marked 3c
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BULBS AND ROOTS — Continued
LILIES
No flower is more expressive of the idea of queenly beauty and faultless pur- ity than the Lily. Nearly every variety we offer will, with a little care, endure the severity of our winters, and some are among the most hardy of our garden flowers. Most lilies last a long time after cutting and are admirably suited for decorative purposes.
Bulbs should be planted as soon as the frost is out of the ground; the earlier the better. Select a well-drained spot, dig the soil deep and make it fine, enriching it abundantly with well-rotted cow manure, adding a liberal mixture of sand. Set the bulbs from three to five inches deep, according to size. During the win- ter it is advisable to cover the surface of the bed with a thin layer of manure which will afford a slight protection to the bulbs and also materially enrich the soil. In spring the manure may be re- moved or dug in between the rows. Care should be taken that they have proper drainage, no water being allowed to stand around the roots. Once firmly estab- lished, they should not be disturbed oftener than once in five years.
To produce extra fine specimens, plant bulbs in pots early in spring and grow them in the house or under glass.
Aiiratiiin (Gold-Banded
nuraium .Iniinnl Thi
Lily of
Japan) This favorite garden lily is one of the grandest plants in cultivation. Its immense ivory-white flowers are thickly studded with yellow and crimson spots, while in the center of each petal is a golden band, fading at its edges into the white. Such choice bulbs as we offer, if well cared for, will give from five to ten magnificent flowers the first year and under good cultivation will, after becoming well established, give many more. Height outdoors in the open usually three to five feet. 35c Each; $3.50 per Doz.
I rm cn fl ACimt (Giganteum) Beau- Longiuurum ti£ult pure white, trumpet-shaped flowers, similar in form to Lilium Harrisil, the well-known Bermuda Easter Lily, and preferred by some to that variety. It does not come into bloom as early, but the flowers are of better substances. Extensively used by florists for cut flowers. When grown in the open ground it blooms in June or July. Height outdoors in the open, usually two or three feet. 40c Each; $4.00 per Doz.
Sn^rin«inm AlKmm Pure white flowers with & ijpeciosum rtlDUm greenish band through the
center of each petal; of great substance, very fragrant. One of the best for general culture. Height of plants in the open, usually two to four feet. 35c Each; $3.50 per Doz.
Snf»rJr»<snm RnKviim (Roseum) The Speciosum opeciosum l\umum or Lancifolium are among the most charming and brilliantly beautiful of the Japan- ese Lilies. The six broad, white or pink petals are thickly
Lilium Auratum
dotted with rose or crimson spots. Especially thrifty and hardy. One of the best for garden culture. Height, two to four feet. 35c Each; $3.50 per Doz.
Tigrinum Splendens i. oVmost “m-
ing appearance with very large, nodding flowers of ex- cellent form; color, orange-salmon with dark spots. The plants are of more robust habit, with longer flower spikes than the older type and are highly recommended. Height, outdoors in the open, usually three to four feet, sometimes taller. 20c Each; $2.00 per Doz.
Tigrinum Flore Pleno This magnificent lily is*
of stately habit, bearing immense clusters of very large, double flowers on tall, strong- stems; color, bright orange- red spotted with black. Height outdoors in the open, usu- ally three to five feet. 20c Each; $2.00 per Doz.
np 1 The flowers of this well-known,
I 1 1 DftirQSft tuberous rooted plant are waxy- * white, double and exceedingly fra-
grant. They are very useful in bouquets and house deco- rations.
If early flowers are wanted, fill five-inch pots half full of well-rotted cow manure and the remainder with good, rich, sandy soil. Plant the bulbs in this in March or April, water moderately and hasten growth by putting in a warm, light place. When weather has become warm, plunge the pots in the earth out of doors. They will usually flower before cold weather; if they do not, the pots can be brought in and bulbs will bloom in the house.
Dwarf Excelsior Pearl ^T”rth. , bttIXVm
Size number one, 4 to 6 inches Each 7c
Size number two, 3 to 4 inches Each 5c
MADEIRA VINE
Sometimes called Mignonette or Mexican Potato Vine. This-
tuberous rooted climber of dense, branching growth has- thick, heart-shaped, glossy green leaves and delightfully fragrant, small, feathery, white blossoms, produced in long, hanging racemes. It is of rapid growth, and is fine for porches and covering arbors in a single season. Perennial,, but take up roots in fall, as the plant will not endure frost. Each 5c; Doz. 40c.
TPITOMA PFITZERI. An improved variety of the- 1 l\i 1 IVIAv piant sometimes called Bed Hot Poker. The handsome flowers are produced in large spikes of rich, orange-red tinted flower tubes. Plant two feet apart. Trl- tomas are hardy when well covered in winter. Each 25c;. Doz. $2.50.
If you want larger quantities of bulbs than here quoted, write for our low prices.
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Fruit Trees, Small Fruits and Grape Vines
Select thrif-ty young trees in preference to old or very large ones ; the roots are more tender and fibrous and they bear transplanting better and are more apt to live; they can -•also be more easily trimmed and shaped to any desired form, and in the course of a few years will usually outstrip the older ones in growth. If not prepared to plant when your ■stock arrives, “heel in” by digging a trench deep enough to admit all the roots, and set- ting the trees therein, carefully pack the earth about the roots.
SUMMER VARIETIES
EARLY HARVEST. Pale yellow, fine; August.
RED ASTRACHAN. Large, crim- son, juicy, rich sub-acid.
•SUMMER RAMBO. Green striped red, sub-acid.
YELLOW TRANSPARENT. Pale yellow, good quality.
AUTUMN VARIETIES
-DELICIOUS. Large, dark red, juicy, aromatic.
MAIDEN’S BLUSH. Large, beau- tiful, blush cheek.
'RAMBO. Yellow, streaked with red; October to December.
DUKE AND MORELLO (Sour)
4 to 6 feet, first-class, $1.50 Each; $15.00 Doz. ©YEHOUSE. A very early and sure bearer; ripens a week before Early Richmond; fine quality; June.
EARLY RICHMOND. Medium, dark red, fine.
ENGLISH MORELLO. Dark red, rich acid, juicy.
MAY DUKE. Large red, and excellent variety. MONTMORENCY. Large red, fine flavor; finest.
‘OLIVET. Large red, tender, rich; sub-acid flavor. REINE HORTENSE. Large, bright red.
BARTLETT. Large, clear yellow, juicy; August. FLEMISH BEAUTY. Large, juicy, rich and fine; Septem- ber to October.
KIEFFER’S HYBRID. Large, and good quality. SECKEL. Small, yellowish brown.
SHELDON. Large, round russet-red; October.
Plums
STANDARD
Crab Apples
5 to 7 feet, $1.00 Each; $10.00 Doz.
HEWES CRAB FOR CIDER. Best cider crab grown.
TRANSCEND ANT. Skin yellow, striped with red.
Mulberries
5 to 6 feet, $1.00 Each; $10.00 Doz.
‘DOWNING’S EVERBEARING. One of the most pro- lific varieties, bearing an abundance of large, black sub- acid fruits, hardy.
NEW AMERICAN. An everbearing variety; large fruit of finest flavor, hardy.
Peaches
4 to 6 feet, 50c Each; $5.00 Doz.
CHAMPION. Creamy white with red cheeks, freestone, excellent quality; early in August.
ON PLUM STOCKS, 5 to 7 feet, $1.50 Each; $15.00 Doz. ABUNDANCE. Large, yellow, with heavy bloom. BURBANK. Large variety; color red; excellent. DAMSON. Small, oval fruit, purple, hardy.
GERMAN PRUNE. Medium, oval fruit, purple,
GREEN GAGE. Small, delicious, very prolific. LOMBARD. Medium, red, juicy, productive.
PURPLE EGG. Rich purple, fine flavor, best market variety. *
RED JUNE. Large, red, fine quality; strong, vigorous grower.
Quinces
4 to 5 feet, $1.50 Each; $15.00 Doz.
MEECH’S PROLIFIC. Fruit bright yellow; flesh very fragrant and tender; October.
ORANGE. Large bright golden yellow, fine quality.
We can furnish all varieties of fruit trees, etc., usually catalogued, but our list comprises the most desirable sorts.
3 years old, 5 to 7 feet high, $1.00 Each; $10.00 Doz.
WINTER VARIETIES
‘BANANA. Large, golden yellow, shaded crimson.
BALDWIN. Large, dark red, pro- ductive.
•GANO. Deep red, fine quality; good shipper.
-GRIMES GOLDEN. Medium to large, skin golden yellow, flesh crisp, tender, juicy, long keeper.
JONATHAN. Medium, red and yellow, flesh tender.
NORTHERN SPY. Large, striped red; good keeper.
ROME BEAUTY. Large, yellow shaded red, tender.
WEALTHY. Large, round, skin smooth, splashed dark red; flesh white, tender, juicy, sub-acid.
WINE SAP. Medium, deep red, rich, sub-acid.
Cherries
HEART AND BIGARREAU (Sweet)
5 to 7 feet, first-class, $1.50 Each; $15.00 Doz.
ALLEN. Large, nearly black, very productive.
'BLACK TARTARIAN. Very large, purplish black, juicy, rich, excellent, productive; last of June.
•GOVERNOR WOOD. Large, light red, juicy, rich, deli- cious. Tree healthy and productive; June.
NAPOLEON. Large, pale yellow, firm, juicy.
ROCKPORT BIGARREAU. Large, yellow, juicy.
WINDSOR. Large, liver colored, fine quality.
"YELLOW SPANISH. Large, pale yellow, with light red cheek; late June.
Apples
CRAWFORD’S EARLY. Large, yellow, of good quality, freestone; early in September.
CRAWFORD’S LATE. Large, yellow, with red cheeks,
freestone; last of September.
ELBERTA. Large, yellow, with red cheek, flesh yellow;
firm, juicy, very prolific; September.
HEATH CLING. Large, flesh white, juicy, and melting; October.
OLD MIXON CLING. Large, yellow with red cheek;
September.
OLD MIXON FREE. Large, yellow with red cheek;
September.
SALWAY. Large, creamy yellow with crimson cheek; October.
Pears
STANDARD AND DWARF
6 to 7 feet, first-class, $1.25 Each; $12.00 Doz.
Apples
All fruit trees should be sprayed intelligently. Ask us for booklet telling you how.
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FRUIT TREES, SMALL FRUITS AND GRAPE VINES— Continued
SFT FPT r'RAPF^^'^y do well trained to the side of any building or along the gar- OLLLL 1 Val\Alrllof|en fences> occupying but little room and furnishing an abundance
of the healthiest of fruit. Make the soil mellow and plant the vines from six to eight feet apart. All Two-Year Old Selected Stock 25c Each; $2.50 per Dozen.
Black or Purple Grapes
2 years old, 20c Each; $2.00 Doz.
CONCORD. Large, black grape, hardy and productive; juicy and sweet.
IVES’ SEEDLING. Dark purple, sweet.
MOORE’S EARLY. Bunch medium; berry large; round, with a heavy blue bloom; vine hardy and moderately prolific. Its large size and earliness render it desirable for an early crop.
WORDEN. Larger than Concord in bunch and berry; ex- ceptionally sweet, sprightly.
Red Grapes
BRIGHTON. Bunch large, berries large, red, round, ex- cellent flavor.
CATAWBA. Berries large, round; when ripe a dark cop- per color; sweet, rich.
DELAWARE. Small, light red, thin skin; very juicy; sweet, sprightly.
25c Each; $2.50 Doz.
White or Yellow Grapes
MOORE’S DIAMOND. White good sized berries, juicy and sweet.
NIAGARA. Bunches very large and compact; berries large, light greenish white, slightly ambercd in the sun.
25c Each; $2.50 Doz.
Blackberries
90c per Doz.; $5.00 per 100
EARLY HARVEST. Dwarf grower; fruit medium size of fine quality. The first to ripen.
ELDORADO. Large fruit, borne in large clusters and ripen well together, fine quality, good keeper.
RATHBCN. A strong erect grower with strong stem, branching freely. Fruit very large, sweet and luscious, without hard core.
SNYDER. Medium size sweet and juicy, extremely hardy and very productive.
Currants
Best Sorts — Strong Two-Year Old Plants 25c Each; $2.50 per Doz.
CHERRY. Deep red.
FAY’S PROLIFIC. Color rich red; the leading variety for home use.
BLACK PROLIFIC. The favorite sort for preserving. PERFECTION. A new red variety, combining size, color, high quality, and productiveness.
WHITE GRAPE. Best white.
Dewberry
90c per Doz.; $5.00 per 100.
LCCRETIA. One of the low-growing, trailing blackberries. It has proven highly satisfactory wherever tried, and many say it is the best of all the blackberry family.
Gooseberries
25c Each; $2.50 per Doz.
DOWNING. Large, pale green, and of splendid quality for both cooking and table use.
HOUGHTON’S. Small to medium; roundish, oval, pale red, sweet, tender.
INDUSTRY. Berries of largest size, excellent flavor, pleasant and rich, dark red color when fully ripe. Strong upright* grower, . an immense cropper.
Raspberries
90c per Doz.; $5.50 per 100, except where noted COLUMBIAN. The, fruits are cone shaped of dark red, almost purplish color, rich sprightly flavorV CUMBERLAND. The largest black cap; a healthy, vig- orous grower; very productive.
CUTHBERT. Large, firm, deep rich crimson, of excellent quality, tall, strong, and vigorous.
KANSAS. The hardiest black cap; strong, vigorous.
ST. REGIS. It is wonderfully prolific; the first or maip crop being far greater than that of any other red variety known. It fruits on the old canes in generous quantities until late in August. By that date, berries begin to ripen upon the young canes, which continue to produce berries in increasing numbers until severe frost. The berries are a bright crimson, of large size and surpassing quality —
Concord Grapes
rich, sugary with full raspberry flavor. They are of ex- ceedingly meaty, firm texture and keep in good condition longer after being gathered than any other red rasp- berry ..90c per Doz.; $5.50 per 100
Strawberries
The blossoms of those marked with (P) are destitute of stamens and are termed pistillate, and unless a row of per- fect flowering variety is planted at intervals not exceeding- about a rod, they will produce imperfect fruit and but little- of it; but when properly fertilized as a rule they are more- prolific than those with perfect flowers.
Dip the plants in water as soon as received, and bury the roots in moist, shady ground till you are ready to set
them out .....40c per Doz.; $1.25 per 100*
BRANDYWINE. A fine, large, late, handsome, productive berry of excellent quality; regular conical form; dark, glossy red.
BUBACH’S No. 5. (P) Large and uniform size, fine form and color; the leading market sort.
CARDINAL. (P) This Strawberry surpasses all in size of plant and abundance of runners; fruit stalks tall andi robust, bearing fruit well Off the ground; color, beau- tiful cardinal red.
GANDY. One of the best late varieties. Berries large, of fine form.
GLEN MARY. Large, to very large, sometimes flattened ;. sweet, rich.
HAVERLAND. (P) Very productive of medium to large,.
conical berries that are smooth, regular, mildly sub-acid; SENATOR DUNLAP. Exceedingly vigorous. Fruit large,, regular, and attractive in form, deep red to the center. Firm in substance.
WARFIELD. (P) Great beauty, firmness, earliness, pro- ductiveness, and vigor make this berry most popular. WM. BELT. Berries very large, conical, bright red, of good flavor. The plant is strong, healthy, very fruitful. Season medium to late.
SUPERB. The Ever-bearing Strawberry — is a truly won- derful fall-bearing variety, and what makes it unusually profitable is the fact that it also produces a heavy yield of choice fruit in the early summer, along with the standard varieties. They continue to give large yields of choice berries throughout August, September, and ln> October up to the time the ground is slightly frozen. Plants of this variety which are set in the spring should: have the blossoms removed until the first of July.
50c per Doz.; $2.50 per 10©
Use plenty of fertilizers. They are big crop makers.
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Everblooming Hybrid Tea Roses
All Roses on this page strong two-year old field grown — 75c Each; $7.50 per Dozen
Shades of Pink
Rose Premier
Red Shades, Dark and Light
■GRUSS AN TErLITZ. Dark rich crimson, passing to velvety fiery red. An exceptionally free bloomer and one of the brightest colored red Roses grown. The canes are strong and vigorous, producing blooms con- stantly from June till frost. A very fragrant variety and no trouble to grow.
'HELEN GOULD. Rich, vinous crimson in color, some- what resembling a luscious, ripe watermelon. The flowers are large, full, and deliciously sweet-scented. They are produced freely throughout the growing sea- son on strong stems. A splendid flower for cutting.
HOOSIER BEAUTY. A large, full flower with well- shaped buds; color is an exceptionally attractive, glow- ing crimson; sweetly scented. The plant is a vigorous grower and one of the most attractive reds in cultiva- tion. Highly commended.
RICHMOND. Bright, glowing crimson scarlet. Produced on long stems suitable for cutting. The flowers are not very double but the buds are perfectly lovely and you will find this Rose almost constantly in bloom.
■JONKHEER J. L. MOCK. The color is carmine on the outside, and imperial pink on the inside of the flower. The blooms are very large, perfectly formed, and highly perfumed. Plant an entire Rose-bed of this one kind.
White, Cream and Tinted
KA1SERIN AUGUSTE VICTORIA. This is one of the most beautiful Roses grown. Its extra large exquisitely formed flowers are borne singly on strong upright stems, making it very popular as a cut flower. Buds are long and pure white.
Yellow and Copper Shades
MRS. AARON WARD. Fine Indian yellow, sometimes washed with salmon-rose. Flowers are full double and as attractive when full blown as in the bud state. The young foliage is a rich, bronzy green.
-SUNBURST. Color a rich cadmium-yellow, with orange- yellow center. A magnificent free-blooming variety, especially handsome in bud form. A vigorous grower with flowers of elongated cup form. Valuable as a cut flower.
LA FRANCE. This Rose was introduced in 1867 and has been a favorite ever since. Both buds and flowers are of lovely form, grand size and very highly perfumed. Color peach-blossom-pink, clouded with rosy flesh.
MME. CAROLINE TESTOUT. Large, full flowers and handsome buds which resemble the famous La France Rose. Color is clear, rich pink, finely edged with silvery rose. In great demand for mass planting.
MRS. CHARLES RUSSELL. This is called the Pink Amer- ican Beauty. Color is a lovely bright rose-pink, deeper toward the center. Buds large and pointed.
OPHELIA. Salmon-flesh color, shaded with rose. The blooms come on strong stems, and the perfectly formed flowers are very lasting when cut.
PREMIER (New). A magnificent novelty with splendid, double, large, fragrant flowers of rich, deep, rose-color. It is practically thornless and is destined to become very popular.
RADIANCE. An ideal bedding variety of very free-flower- ing habit. Color rosy carmine and soft pink.
KILLARNEY ROSES
PINK KILLARNEY. Remarkable for its .freedom of bloom and the large size of its intensely fragrant flowers. The buds are large, long, and pointed. Color is exquisite — a brilliant imperial pink, sparkling and beautiful almost beyond description. A bed of these beauties in full bloom is a sight not easily forgotten. A bouquet of these Roses is always a welcome gift.
WHITE KILLARNEY. More double than Pink Killarney, and the flowers, made up of long, firm petals, are pure waxy white and very sweet.
KILLARNEY BRILLIANT. Flower is larger, more double and a more brilliant pink than the parent Killarney. It is also fragrant and blooms freely.
Polyantha, or Baby Rambler Roses
BABY TAUSENDSCHON. An exact counterpart of the grand climber, “Tausendschon,” except in habit of growth.
CECILE BRUNNER. The delicate buds are of perfect form and color, which at first is rose pink, shading to a deep salmon pink, and showing a rich orange center, toning to a pale flesh color when fully opened.
CLOTHILDE SOUPERT. A grand bedding rose pearly white shading to a pure rose pink.
ERNA TESC1IENDORFF. Bright red, being superior to the Crimson Baby Rambler.
Rose, Climbing American Beauty
Spray Roses regularly to prevent blight and Rose Aphis.
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Hardy Climbing Roses
AMERICAN PILLAR. The enormous flowers sometimes measuring 3 inches across, are borne in large clusters and are produced with the greatest freedom. Color is a delightful shade of pink.
CRIMSON RAMBLER. The trusses of bright crimson flowers are freely produced. It is one of the easiest Roses to grow for hedges, pillars, arches, pergolas, etc.
DOROTHY PERKINS. One of the best. The flowers are borne in clusters and are very double. The color is a most beautiful shell pink and holds a long time without fading.
FLOWER OF FAIRFIELD. A sport from Crimson Ram- bler, with same climbing habit, hardiness and immense trusses of crimson flowers.
PHILADELPHIA RAMBLER. Identical with the Crimson Rambler except the color is deeper and more lasting, the flowers are perfectly double to the center and come into flower about 10 days after the Crimson Rambler.
TAUSENDSCHON. The flowers appear in large clusters, from the beginning of June till the end of July. A beautiful soft pink, same color as Clothilde Soupert, later on changes into rose carmine.
GARDENIA. (Wiehuriana) Buds bright yellow, opening double flowers of a cream color. Suitable for climbing over walls, arbors, stumps of trees, and for trailing over rocks or rough ground.
Climbing Vines
AMPELOPSIS VEITCHII. (Japan Creeper or
Boston Ivy) The leaves are small on young plants, which at first are an olive green color, changing to red in the autumn; as the plant acquires age the leaves increase in size. The best climbing plant for covering brick or stone walls.
AMPELOPSIS ROBUSTA. A strong vigorous
grower. A quicker grower than Veitchii. AMPELOPSIS QUINQUEFOLIA. (Virginia Creeper) For covering walls, verandas, and trunks of trees.
Above , 50c Each
ARISTOLOCHIA SIPHO. (Dutchman’s Pipe)
Hardy vine of rapid growth, with very large
heart-shaped leaves $1.00 Each
BIGNONIA RADICANS. (Trumpet Vine) Flow- ers trumpet-shaped, bright scarlet .... 50c Each
Clematis
COMMON WOODBINE. A strong, rapid grower; flowers very showy; red outside, buff within.
HALLEANA. Nearly evergreen; flowers pure white. SCARLET TRUMPET. Scarlet inodorous flowers.
IVY, ENGLISH. Beautiful evergreen vine. For hanging
baskets, window-boxes, and vases ....40c Each
KUDZU VINE. (Or Jack-and-the-Bean-Stalk) A rapid
growing vine 40c Each
MOON FLOWER PLANTS 25c Each
WISTARIA, CHINESE. Delicate violet blue blossoms.
50c Each
WISTARIA, CHINESE WHITE. Pure white flowers.
50c Each
Clematis
DUCHESS OF EDINBURGH. A free-flowering double white.
GIPSY QUEEN. One of the finest of the dark purple.
HENRY II. Fine large, creamy white flowers. JACKMANII. Intense violet purple.
VILLE de LYON. Magnificent brilliant crimson.
The above named Clematis $1.00 Each
PANICULATA. (Japanese Clematis) Pure white, very fragrant, borne in large clusters; small
flowering 50c Each
CARDINAL CLUMBER. A graceful annual climber. The flowers are a fiery cardinal red, flowering from mid-summer until frost. Plant in good, rich soil when all danger of frost is over,
Plants, 50c Each
COBAEA SCANDENS. (Cathedral Bells) Purplish lilac flowers. Rapid grower 50c Each
Honeysuckles
40c Each
AUREA RETICULATA. Foliage variegated yellow and green with yellowish white fragrant flowers.
MONTHLY FRAGRANT OR DUTCH. Blooms all summer.
Hardy Perennial Plants
The steadily increasing demand for hardy plants has been little short of marvelous. We are in a position to supply all varieties in any quantity. If large quantities are wanted, write for special prices. All perennials, 25c Each; $2.50 per Doz. (except where noted).
ACHILLEA. (Sneeze wort) The Pearl. Flowers of the purest white. 2 feet high.
ANCHUSA ITALICA. (Dropmore Variety) Remarkable for its free and continual flowering all summer and the beautiful gentian-blue of its flowers; grows about five feet high.
ANTHEMIS TINCTORIA. The hardy Marguerites are summer-flowering perennials, growing about 15 inches. Large golden yellow flowers.
ANTIRRHIUM. (Snap Dragon) Assorted colors.
ANEMONE JAPONICA. (Wind Flowers) They grow 2 to 3 feet and are in bloom from August till mid-Novem- ber, furnishing abundant cut flowers and a brilliant display.
AQUILEGIA. (Columbine) The distinct, clear-cut foliage and delicate arrangement of colors in the flowers of Col- umbine, make it one of the showiest and most desirable of the hardy garden plants.
ASTERS. (Michaelmas Daisies, or Starworts) These are among the showiest of our late-flowering hardy plants, giving a wealth of bloom at a season when most other hardy flowers are past, and for the best effect should be planted in masses of one color. The hardy sorts are en- tirely distinct from Annual Asters, being smaller in bloom, but produced in greater quantity.
BEGONIA, HARDY. Exceedingly useful plants for the garden, good for shady places. Lustrous bronze green foliage with small pink flowers.
BOCCONIA. (Plume Poppy) Cordata. A splendid plant, growing sometimes 6 feet high, bearing panicles of creamy-white flowers in July and August; makes a grand effect as a centre in a hardy bed or a border background. BOLTONIA. (False Chamomile) Tall-growing showy plants, with flowers resembling hardy Asters; appearing in September.
CAMPANULAS. (Bell Flower) Bell-shaped flowers, well- known and most easily grown; equally useful for flower border, shrubbery, or wild garden.
Calyeanthema. (Cup and Saucer) White, pink, or blue. Medium. (Canterbury Bell) Single white, single blue, and single pink.
CHRYSANTHEMUMS, HARDY. These varieties are very popular for out-door bedding. They will produce an abundance of bloom until killed by frost.
Old-Fashioned, Large Flowering — Autumn Glow. Rose- crimson. Indian. Red. Golden Queen. Yellow. Old Homestead. Pink. Victory. White.
Pompons — Baby, a miniature lemon-yellow. Boston. Golden-bronze. Cerise Queen. Cerise pink. Gold Nug- get. • Golden-yellow, inner petals tinged red. Golden Pheasant. Rich golden -yellow. Julia Lagravere. Rich garnet. Model of Perfection. White. Pi-esident. Pur- plish-crimson. Rhoda. Apple-blossom pink. St. Illoria. Silver-rose, quilled petals. Strathmeath. Rosy-pink. The Hub. Fine white.
Vines and Perennials like good soil. Fertilize frequently.
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COREOPSIS LANCEOLATA GRANDIFEORA. A beauti- ful hardy border plant; grows 18 inches high, and produces its bright golden yellow flowers in great pro- fusion the entire season. DELPHINIUMS. (Perennial Larkspur) These are deserv- edly one of the most popu- lar subjects in the hardy border, bold, attractive, and highly prepossessing plants of easiest culture; perfectly hardy. They will establish themselves in almost any garden soil, but respond quickly to liberal treatment. Belladonna. The freest and most continuous blooming of all. The clear turquoise-blue flowers are not surpassed by any.
Formosum. Dark blue, white center, spikes 3 to 4 feet tall, vigorous; free blooming. Giant Hybrids. Unquestion- ably the finest strain of mixed hybrids ever offered. The original stock came from Europe, and consisted of the best-named varieties. The plants are of strong, vigorous habit, with large flowers on spikes two feet and over long, the majority running in the lighter shades of blue.
DIELYTRA SPECTABILIS. (Bleeding Heart, or Seal Flower) An old-fashioned favorite; its long racemes of graceful heart-shaped pink flowers are always attractive; is perfectly at home in any part of the hardy border, and especially valuable for planting in the shade.
DIGITALIS. (Foxglove) The strong flowerstalks — fre- quently 4 to 6 feet high — rising from rich and luxuriant masses of leaves, always give an appearance of strength to the hardy border.
HIBISCUS. (Mallow) These are a mass of bloom during the entire summer, when they produce large flowers in gorgeous colors.
Crimson Eye. Blooms of purest white with deep crimson eye; flowering in July; 4 feet.
Mallow Marvels. A robust type of upright habit, pro- ducing an abundance of large flowers in all the richest shades of crimson, pink and white.
Giant-flowering Marshmallows. Flowers of enormous size, frequently 10 to 12 inches in diameter, have been developed. They af>J)ear to be equally at home in all positions, having the same vigor in dry and wet ground, and are perfectly hardy. They grow from 5 to 8 feet high, and are very floriferous, blooming from early in July until late in autumn. We offer three distinct colors — red, pink, and white — strong roots. One each of the 3
colors for $1.00 35c each; $3.50 per doz.
HOLLYHOCK. For planting in rows or groups on the lawn, or for interspersing among shrubbery, they are invaluable. They require rich, deep soil, well drained. Double White, Double Rose, Double Yellow, Double Red. Double Mixed, Single Mixed, Allegheny Fringed Mixed. IBERIS. (Hardy Candytuft) Sempervirens. Low-grow- ing with evergreen foliage. In spring and early summer is completely covered with dense heads of pure white flowers.
German Iris
(IRIS GERMANICA)
For the best results plant in a well-drained sunny posi- tion, barely covering the roots. Avoid fresh manure in preparing your border.
BARON VON HUMBOLDT. Dark blue.
CANARY BIRD. Light yellow or buff, very fine. CELESTE. Fine satiny blue. One of the most beautiful German Irises.
COERULEA. Sky blue.
FLORENTINA ALBA. White; one of the most desirable. KING OF YELLOWS. Yellow.
LTNNOCENCE. Pure white veined with orange purple. QUEEN VICTORIA. Blue, changing to pale bluish white. THORBECKE. White and deep violet.
GRASSES. (Ornamental) See page 81.
HELENIUM. (Sneezewort) These are desirable border plants, suc- ceeding in any soil in a sunny location, useful for cutting. Riverton Gem. Old-gold, chang- ing to wall-flower red.
HELIANTHUS. (Hardy Sunflower) The perennial Sunflower is very effective either in borders, among shrubbery, or as clumps on the lawn, etc.; 4 to 6 feet.
HELIOPSIS. (Orange Sunflower) Very similar to a small sunflower, but blooming earlier; deep golden yellow; all summer. June till frost; 3 feet high.
HEMEROCALLIS. (Yellow Day Lily) Lily-like plants, which flower in greatest profusion dur- ing the summer.
Japanese Iris
(IRIS KAEMPFERI)
They like rich soil and plenty of water when they are forming buds and developing flowers.
AZUMA NISHIKI. Outer petals have soft pink ground, shading to white at edges, inner petals lilac. Bright yellow star center, standards white with red borders. AZUMA YUKI. Petals rosy purple with heavy white veins, standards brownish-red, striped with yellow, yellow star center.
HEUCHERA. (Alum Root) Foliage remains close to the ground. Dur- ing July and August the graceful thin flower spikes, 2 feet high, appear in profusion.
Iris
FUNKIA. The Plantain Lilies are among the easiest plants to manage; their broad, massive foliage makes them attractive subjects for the border even when not in flower. They succeed equally well in sun or shade. Coerulea. (Blue Day Lily) Blue, broad green leaves. Subcordata Grandiflora Alba. (White Day Lily, August Lily) Pure white, lily-shaped, fragrant flowers.
GAILLARDIA GRANDIFLORA. Beginning to flower in June, they continue one mass of blooms the entire sum- mer. Flower, 3 inches in diameter; center dark reddish brown; petals orange to crimson.
GYPSOPHILA. (Baby’s Breath)
During August and September the plant is a mass of delicate feathery blooms. These may be used as fresh cut flowers, also for a semi-everlasting effect.
Paniculata. Loose, feathery sprays of white flowers; making a mist- like effect; fine for bouquets.
Paniculata Flore Pleno. Produces double pure white flowers. Splen- did for bouquets.
If contemplating a hardy border, ask our advice as to varieties best suited for continuous bloom.
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BANRAI NAMI. Petals pale pinkish white with white standards and yellow center.
GOSETSU NO MAI. Petals light blue, yellow star center, with dark bluish purple standards.
KIMINO-MEDMUI. Soft lilac with dark purple veins, and purple standards.
KRISHI-IKARI. Petals brownish-red with light brown veins, center yellow, standards scarlet striped with white.
KURO KUMO. Petals intense bluish purple, heavily veined with light purple standards.
OKINO-KAMONE. Petals recurved and creamy white, standards pure white.
YODO NO KURUMA. Petals bright pink shading to dark pink at center and heavily veined, standards purple marbled with white.
Above named varieties 35c each, $3.50 per doz.
We can furnish large clumps of most of the above varie- ties from $1.00 to $1.50 each.
PLATYCODON. (Balloon Flower, or Japanese Bell-flower)
The Platycodons are closely allied to the Campanulas, and form neat, branched bushes of upright habit. Grandiflorum. Deep blue cupped, star-shaped flowers, one and one-half feet.
Album. A white-flowered form of the above.
Mariesi. Deep blue bell-shaped flowers, nearly three inches across on one-foot high plants.
Hardy Phloxes
(PHLOX DECUSSATA)
Probably the most satisfactory of all perennials, and a
good space in proportion to the size of the garden should
always be given to these plants.
AFRICA. Brilliant carmine-red with deeper eye.
BARON YON DEDEM. Blood-red scarlet, immense trusses.
BERANGER. White ground delicately shaded with pink and distinct red eye.
BRIDESMAID. Pure white, with crimson-carmine eye.
COQUILECOT. Bright orange-scarlet, with crimson eye; extra large compact flower heads.
DAUBIGNY. Rosy purple, with enormous florets.
ECLAIREUR. Dark crimson, center rose, surrounded with white; an excellent variety.
ETNA. Deep fiery red, dark eye.
F. G. VON LASSBURG. The finest white flowers; very large; strong vigorous grower.
FRAU ANTON BUCHNER. The finest white yet intro- duced, having the largest truss and individual flower.
GEO. A. STROHLEIN. Bright scarlet, with crimson red eye; large flowers, does not bleach.
HENRY MURGER. White, with crimson-carmine center; a beautiful variety.
INDEPENDENCE. An early, pure white.
LE SOLEIL. Bright china rose, dark rose center.
MME. PAUL DUTRIE. Delicate lilac-rose in shade like a soft pink Orchid; flowers very large, borne in immense panicles.
MACULATA. Tall growing, bright purple.
MISS LINGARD. (Suffruticosa) Pearly white, very early and free.
OBERGARTNER WITTIG. Large, crimson-carmine flow- ers, vigorous grower.
PANTHEON. Bright carmine-rose; large and fine.
R. P. STRUTHRES. Bright rosy-carmine, with claret-red eye.
RICHARD WALLACE. White with bright crimson center, large flowers in immense panicles.
ROSENBURG. Bright reddish violet with blood-red eye; individual flowers large.
SELMA. Large trusses of very large pink flowers with cherry-red eye; choice.
SNOWFLAKE. Large flowering pure white.
THEBAIDE. Salmon with carmine eye, dwarf.
VON LASSBURG. Splendid pure white, very large in- dividual flowers.
WM. ROBINSON. Bright pink. Tall growing variety.
•Hardy Phlox
Phlox Subulata
(MOSS, or MOUNTAIN PINK)
An early spring-flowering type, with pretty moss-like evergreen foliage, which, during the flowering season, is- hidden under the masses of bloom. An excellent plant for the rockery, the border, and invaluable for carpeting the- ground or covering graves.
ALBA. Pure white.
ROSEA. Bright rose.
Herbaceous Peonies
Strong Roots, 2 years old, $1.00 each, $10.00 per doz.
ALBERT CROUSSE. Delicate sea-shell pink of most per- fect form; a perfectly double ball.
FELIS CROUSSE. The ideal self-colored bright red Peony.. FESTIVA MAXIMA. This is considered the finest white..
FLORAL TREASURE. An extra choice variety with very- large flowers, of a pleasing showy pale lilac-rose.
GOLDEN HARVEST. Peach-blossom pink with creamy- white center.
LA TULIPE. Very large globular, flesh pink, shading to» ivory-white, center petals tipped carmine.
MME. DUCEL. A very perfectly formed globular flower of a bright silvery pink, with salmon shadings anda silvery reflex.
Choice Standard Double Peonies
Strong Roots, 2 years old, 50c each, $5.00 per doz.
DUCHESSE DE ORLEANS. Very free flowering mid- season variety of a medium pink color.
GRANDIFLORA ROSEA. Light solferino red, center petals lighter, shaded salmon.
LOUIS VAN HOUTTE. Rich dark crimson, developing a, slight silvery tip as the flowers age.
PRINCE IMPERIAL. Very large semi-double amaranth- red : late flowering.
QUEEN VICTORIA. Pure white with creamy-white center..
Japanese Single Peonies
No other plant can vie with the Single Peony for beauty,* and a bed, when in full bloom with the large silky flowers,, is simply gorgeous.
We offer a mixture of colors at 30c each, $3.00 per doz_
Plant Perennials tliat you possibly overlooked last season,
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Peonies
Peonies in Mixture
They are from our named varieties. We keep the colors separate and offer them to color as follows: White, red, and pink in mixture. 25c each, $2.50 per doz.
Hardy Garden Pinks
These old-fashioned favorites, are absolutely perfect as an edging for the hardy border; as cut flowers, they are indispensable.
DELICATA. A self-colored variety of a delicate lilac shade, on long stems.
HER MAJESTY. The best, pure white.
NAPOEEON III. Double blood-crimson flowers. The best of all hardy pinks.
NEWPORT PINK. Very early, fine salmon pink.
MIXED HARDY GARDEN PINKS. Seedlings grown from a very select strain, which should produce a good per- centage of double flowers.
Oriental Poppies
(PAPAVER ORIENTATE)
The gorgeous colored flowers make a rich, brilliant dis- play. These bloom usually in July; after the flowering period the plants have a tendency to take on the appear- ance as if they were dead, but they return to vigor as soon as the weather becomes cool.
DIANA. Beautiful salmon flowers.
GOLIATH. Flowers scarlet, of enormous size.
MARY STUDIIOLME. Salmon, with silvery shade. MAHOGANY. Flowers dark red, shading to crimson- maroon.
MRS. PERRY. Salmon-rose.
PERRY’S WHITE. A pure satiny white, with a bold crim- son blotch at the base of each petal.
PRINCESS VICTORIA LOUISE. Soft lilac rose. PROCERPINE. Dark lilac with large black blotch. ROYAL SCARLET. Scarlet flowers with black center. SALMON QUEEN. Soft, salmon-scarlet, very distinct. ORIENTAL POPPIES MIXED. 15c each, $1.25 per doz.
Iceland Poppies
(PAP AYER NUDICAULE)
The graceful feathery foliage is surmounted with a mass of stems a foot high, which terminate in a beautiful cup- shaped flower. They flower the entire summer.
Orange King, White, Yellow, Mixed Colors.
Pyrethrum
The large daisy-like blooms appear as early as June and continue in abundance continuously until September. They delight in a rich soil with a natural drainage. They thrive best in the full sunlight. As the flowers die, the old stems should be cut off to encourage new blooms.
HYBRIDUM EL. PL. Double flowering, mixed. HYBRIDUM, SINGLE FLOWERING. In choicest mix- ture.
ULIGINOSUM. (Giant Daisy) Grows 4 to 5 feet high, and is covered with large white daisy-like flowers 3 inches in diameter from July to September.
RUDBECKIA. (Cone Flower) A variety of these will furnish a supply of cut flowers from early July until September. They are extremely hardy, doing well with every one. They could be termed “a city garden peren- nial,” doing so well with little attention.
Golden Glow. Double; canary yellow; 6 feet; August. Newmanni. Single dark orange, with deep purple cone center; 3 feet high; flowers from July to September. Purpurea. (Giant Purple Cone Flower) The flowers remain in perfect condition on the plants for weeks at a time. In fact, we do not know of any other perennial where the flowers last so long in perfect condition. Flow- ers from July to September; 2% feet high.
SAXIFRAGA. Umbrosa. (London Pride, Nancy Pretty, or None-so-Pretty) The Alpine Saxifraga requires a semi-shady position in well-drained ground or on the rockery. A low-growing, spreading sort, throwing up stems a foot high of white flowers, sometimes suffused with red.
SCABIOSA JAPONICA. They last a long time when picked and placed in water. Bears lavender-blue flowers on long stems from July to September.
SEDUM SPECTABILIS. (Brilliant Stone Crop) Erect growing; height 18 inches, with broad light green foliage and immense heads of handsome, showy rose-colored flowers.
Acre. (Golden Moss) Much used for covering graves: foliage green, flowers bright yellow.
SHASTA DAISY. Large snowy-white flowers, in bloom continuously throughout the summer and fall.
Alaska. A decided improvement on the original, very free-flowering, with blooms 4% to 5 inches across, of pure glistening white.
STATICE. Latifolia. (Great Sea Lavender) Immense heads, 2 to 3 feet across, small blue flowers, which last for months if cut and dried.
STOKESIA CYANEA. (Cornflower Aster) Produces showy Aster-like deep blue flowers which measure from 4 to 5 inches across; 18 to 24 inches high, blooming freely from July until frost.
SWEET WTLLIAM. (Dianthus Barbatus) We offer a superb strain of mixed single and double-flowering sorts.
TRITOMA. (Red-hot Poker, Flame Flower, or Torch Lily) Pfitzerii. (The Everblooming Flame Flower) In bloom from August to November, a rich orange-scarlet pro- ducing a grand effect either planted singly in the border or in masses.
VERONICA. (Speedwell) Spicata. An elegant border plant, growing about IY2 feet high, producing long spikes of bright blue flowers.
Longifolia Subsessilis. A pretty species with blue flow- ers, produced on spikes a foot long, continuing in bloom the entire summer and fall.
VINCA MINOR. (Periwinkle or Trailing Myrtle) Dwarf
evergreen trailing plant, is used for carpeting the ground where it is too shady for other plants to thrive. Variegata Aurea. A variegated form of the hardy Vinca Minor, the foliage is irregularly margined and marbled with yellow. It should prove valuable for use in the window boxes.
YUCCA FLLAMENTOSA. (Adam’s Needle) A hardy ever- green plant with long, narrow leaves that are bright green the whole year round. The flowers are white, pro- duced on long spikes.
Peonies, Flowers Supreme.
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Ornamental Grasses
ARUNDO DONAX. (Great Reed) Ornamental, grows 10 to 12 feet.
ARUNDO DONAX VARIEGATA. A variegated form, grows 6 to 8 feet.
ERIANTHUS RAVENNAE. (Plume Grass) Grows 6 to 8 feet.
EUUALIA GRACILLIMA. (Japan Rush) Narrow, grace- ful foliage, without variegation
EULALIA JAPONICA VARIEGATA. Leaves striped white and green longitudinally.
EULALIA ZEBINA. (Zebra Grass) The variegation is across the leaf in regular bands.
PHALARIS ARUNDINACEA VARIEGATA. (Variegated Ribbon Grass, or Gardener’s Garters) For bordering large beds.
ALL GRASSES:
25c each, $2.50 per doz. Large clumps 50c to $1.00 each.
Ornamental Trees and Flowering Shrubs
75c each, except where noted.
There is nothing that will add to the beauty and value of the home so much as well-selected, judiciously planted Trees and Shrubs, and considering their moderate cost and the fact that they last for many years when properly cared for, is the best reason why they should surround every home. We shall always be pleased to make suggestions as to the best varieties to plant for certain purposes or locations.
ALMOND DOUBLE FLOWERING. Erect slender branches, covered with small double pink flowers.
ALTHEA. (Rose of Sharon) The Altheas are among the most valuable of our hardy Shrubs on account of bloom- ing from August to October, a period during which but few Shrubs are in flower. They are also extensively used as hedge plants.
ASH, WEEPING MOUNTAIN. Odd, drooping branches.
2 year heads $2.00 each
AZALEA AMOENA. A dwarf evergreen with small green leaves that deepen to a lustrous coppery hue in winter. In April or May the whole plant is a mass of rosy crim- son flowers $1.00 each
Mollis. A hardy species from Japan. Flowers yellow and different shades of red, in trusses. 75c each; extra
strong plants .....$1.00 each
Anthony Koster. One of the prettiest of the Mollis sec- tion. Its intense golden orange-yellow flowers are of exceptional large size, and are produced very freely early
in May $1.25 each
BERBERIS. Thunbergii. (Japanese Barberry) One of the most beautiful shrubs either for hedging or general purposes. It is of a neat, compact growth and never need be touched with the shears. The foliage is beau- tiful at all times and in the fall turns to a most brilliant crimson color. The plant is literally covered with bright scarlet berries all the fall and winter. It seldom grows over ,4 feet high. It is fine for the edge of a terrace and along roads and walks, and is justly popular as a hedge plant, forming without clipping a low dense hedge, or by the free use of the shears, a formal hedge of great density and durability. 15 to 18 inches 35c each; $3.50
per doz.; 18 to 24 inches ..50c each; $5.00 per doz.
BUDDLEYA. (Butterfly Shrub or Summer Lilac)
Variabilis Magnifica. Flowers continuously all season. The flower racemes are composed of many little blos- soms in the shape and color of lilacs. This variety is entirely separate and distinct from Buddleya Veitchiana, which at times is referred to as “Butterfly Bush.” Our trials of the two have shown “Magnifica” to be much superior.
CALYCANTHUS FLORIDUS. (Sweet-Scented Shrub) Flowers fragrant, double and of a chocolate color. CARYOPTERIS IMA ST ACANTHUS. (Blue Spirea) A pretty autumn blooming shrubby plant producing clus- ters of beautiful blue fragrant flowers in great profusion from September until frost. Dies to the ground in winter. CATALPA BUNGEI. (Umbrella Catalpa) Grafted on stems 6 to 9 feet high, it makes an umbrella shaped top without pruning. Perfectly hardy. Leaves large, glossy, heart-shaped, deep green; lay like shingles on a roof; al- ways making a symmetrical head. One of the most unique trees; desirable for lawns, park, and cemetery
planting. Specimen trees $2.50
CERCIS CANADENIS. (Judas Tree or Red Bud) Very showy and beautiful when in bloom. All the branches and twigs are covered with a mass of small pink flowers early in the spring, before the leaves appear. 6 to 8
feet $1.25 each
CLETHRA, ALNIFOLIA. (Sweet Pepper Bush) A de- sirable, dense growing shrub, with dark green foliage and showy upright spikes of creamy white fragrant flowers in August.
CHION ANTHU S VIRGINICA. (White Fringe Tree) Large shrub or small tree with large, heavy leaves almost hidden in spring by a thick mist of fragrant drooping
white flowers. 2 to 3 feet 50c each
CHESTNUT. (Horse Chestnut) Dwarf $1.25 each
CHERRY. (Ornamental) Double Rose Flowering. 5 to 6 feet $1.50 each
CRAB. (Bechtel’s Double Flowering) Most beautiful of all the flowering Crabs; hardy. Trees are covered in early spring with large, beautiful double fragrant flowers resembling small roses of a delicate pink. 4 to 5 feet.
$1.25 each
CORCHORUS. (Kerria) Globe Flower or Japanese Rose. Japonica. A shrub 4 to 6 feet tall. Native of Japan. Leaves bright green, fading in autumn with tones of yel- low. Flowers numerous, bright yellow, large and showy. A charming old-fashioned plant.
Japonica Flore Pleno. Double flowered. This fine old shrub should be in all collections. It is of spreading habit. Its double yellow blossoms, which are about one inch in diameter appear early in May, one from each leaf axil. It is excellent for massing.
Argentea Variegata. A dwarf variety with small green foliage, edged with white. One of the prettiest and most valuable dwarf shrubs.
CORNUS. (Dogwood) Florida. (White Flowered Dog- wood). Strong plants, 2 to 3 feet.
Rubra. (Pink Flowered Dogwood)
Mascula. (Cornelian Cherry) One of the earliest of spring blooming shrubs, bearing a profusion of small, yel- low flowers along its naked branches in early days of April. Bright red berries the size of small cherries, very
ornamental. 2 to 3 feet, 40c each; 3 to 4 feet 50c each
Sanguinea. (Red-branclied Dogwood) Very conspicuous and ornamental. Bark in winter blood-red.
CORYLUS PURPUREA. (Purple Leaved Filbert) A con- spicuous shrub with large dark leaves; distinct. 60c each CYDONIA JAPONICA. (Pyrus Japonica) Japan Quince, or Fire Bush. A single shrub on the lawn is very attrac- tive; brilliant crimson flowers, among the first in spring. Valuable for ornamental hedges.
CYTISUS. Laburnum. (Golden Chain) A large shrub with shining green leaves and racemes of Wistaria-like yellow flowers, which appear in early summer.
Barberry Thunbergii
A Suburban Home is not complete without trees and shrubbery.
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Weeping Mulberry
DESMODIUM PENDULIFLORUM. (Lespedeza) A shrub- like plant which dies to the ground in winter, but 'comes up vigorously each spring. Bears attractive sprays of bright rose-colored flowers in September.
DEUTZIA. We are indebted to Japan for this valuable genus of plants. Their hardihood, fine habit, luxuriant foliage, and profusion of attractive flowers places them among the most beautiful and most popular of flowering shrubs. Flowers in June and through July and August. Crenata Flora Plena. Flowers double white, tinged with pink, very desirable.
Gracilis. A dwarf bush, covered with spikes of pure white flowers.
Lemoineii. Flowers pure white, borne on stout branches, which are of upright growth. Habit dwarf and free flow- ering. A decided acquisition.
Pride of Rochester. Large double white flowers; the back of the petals being slightly tinted with rose. It excels all the older sorts in size of flower, length of panicle, profusion of bloom and vigorous habit.
ELEAGNUS. Longipes. (Japanese Oleaster) A desirable nearly evergreen shrub of medium height, with light green foliage, which is silvered on the under surface. The orange-scarlet colored berries are very attractive during late summer.
EUONYMUS. (Strawberry or Burning Bush) Hardy shrubs with showy fruits, noted for intense coloring of the fall foliage. They are well adapted for specimen plants or for massing in the shrub borders. They require moist, loamy soil.
Americanus. (Strawberry Bush) An erect shrub with slender green branches, leaves bright green. Fruit warty, rose color, with scarlet seed coats.
Europaeus. (European Spindel Tree, Burning Bush) A conspicuous shrub in the autumn and winter, when loaded with scarlet seed pods, from which the orange-colored berries hang on slender threads.
ELM. Caraperdown. (Weeping) 2 year heads. .$2.00 each
EXOCHORDA GRANDIFLORA. (Pearl Bush) A vigor- ous-growing shrub, bearing white flowers in slender racemes in early spring; very graceful; useful for cut flowers.
FORSYTHIA. (Golden Bells) Bright golden yellow, star- shaped flowers, burst into bloom just as winter is leaving and while the bush is otherwise bare. In fact, when in flower, nothing else but bloom can be seen.
Fortunei. Erect growing with dark green foliage. Suspensa. Of graceful drooping habit, can also be trained for covering arches and trellis work.
Viridissima. Of erect growth and spreading branches, narrow glossy foliage; one of the first to bloom.
HALESIA TETRAPTERA. (Silver Bell) A beautiful large shrub, with pretty white, bell-shaped flowers in May. It is distinguished by its four winged fruit, which is from one to two inches long.
HYDRANGEA. Paniculata Grandiflora. The large pani- cles of white flowers are at their best during August; later they take on a reddish cast. These plants look fine used as single specimens on the lawn or grouped in large beds. Strong bush form plants.
Paniculata Grandiflora. (Standard or Tree Shaped)
These are fine, planted as individual specimens in the lawn or in the center of beds, containing other plants
2 to 2V2 feet long with shapely heads 75c each
Arborescens Grandiflora Alba. (Snowball Hydrangea) The snow-white blooms are of the largest size coming into flower early in June and lasting until late in August. Is more hardy than any other sort and especially suited to plant in shaded places.
KALMIA EATIFOLIA. (Mountain Laurel) For plant- ing in conjunction with Evergreens, the Laurel fills an important part. Foliage is evergreen and about May and June, according to locality, the plant is a mass of flower- heads, resembling somewhat the Rhododendron. A deli- cate pink, changing to white as they expand. Strong plants $1.00 each
LILACS. (True Syringa) Purple. (Syringa Vulgaris) The common purple species, and one of the best. White. (Syringa Vulgaris Alba) Flowers pure white; very fragrant.
Price of Any of the Following Named Lilacs, Fine Plants $1.00 each. Extra strong, $1.50 each.
Charles X. Rapid grower, reddish, purple flower. Josikaea. Blooms in June, flowers lilac purple.
Ludwig Spaeth. Long panicles of purplish-red flowers. Madame Lemoine. Double white flowers.
Marie Legrave. Flowers pure white, extra.
Michael Buchner. Double pale lilac.
LONICERA. (Bush, or Upright Honeysuckle) Handsome upright shrubs. They thrive in almost any soli. Ledebouri. Very distinct, producing red flowers in May. Morrowi. A handsome Japanese variety with white flow- ers during May, but especially valuable for its bright red fruit during the summer and autumn months.
Tartarica. (Tartarian Honeysuckle) A large shrub with numerous upright or spreading branches. Flowers borne in great profusion in late spring. Fruit red or orange, ripening in summer. Red, white, and pink.
LYCIUM. (Matrimony Vine) The long branches may be trained over fences or trellises, but more effective results may be obtained by planting at the top of retaining walls or steep banks and allowing the graceful stems to fall over.
MAGNOLIA. We offer the best adapted to our climate. Alba Superba. Its superb pure white flowers cover the
tree in early spring $5.00 each
Alexandria. A Chinese species. The flowers are large, pure white, very numerous, and appear before the
leaves $5.00 each
Halleana. (Stellata) A pretty dwarf form that opens
its snowy, semi-double flowers in April $5.00 each
Lennei. The flowers are of a deep rose color, the foliage large, flowers at intervals through the summer.$5.00 each Soulangeana. One of the hardiest. Its blossoms are from
3 to 5 inches across, cup-shaped, white and rosy violet, opening before its leaves, which are massive and glossy’
* $5.00 each
MAHONIA AQUAFOLIA. (Holly-leaved Mahonia) A
native species of medium size, with purplish, shining leaves' and showy, bright yellow flowers succeeded by bluish berries. 18 to 24 inches.
MAPLES, JAPANESE. These are exceedingly beautiful, especially in spring, when they burst into leaf. Polymorphum Atropurpureum. Leaves deep blood red.
$2.50 each
Polymorphum Atropurpureum Dissectum. Dark maroon, deeply serrated thread-like leaves ..$3. 50 each
MULBERRY, TEAS’ WEEPING. The slender branches grow downward parallel with the stem, forming an um- brella-like shape. It takes the foremost place among weeping trees; has beautiful foliage. 1 year heads, $1.50 each; 2 to 3 year heads $2.50 each
OSMANTHUS AQUIFOLIUM. A very beautiful evergreen shrub, with dark green, spiny-toothed leaves, resembling the Holly. In the fall, and sometimes in the spring, it produces deliciously fragrant white flowers. Strong plants . .$1.00 each
Are you utilizing all that ground of yours?
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ORNAMENTAL TREES AND FLOWERING SHRUBS— Continued
PEACH. Double flowering red and double flowering white, 4 to 6 feet 75c Each
PRIVET— (See HEDGE PLANTS).
PHIL ADELPHUS OR SYRINGA. (Mock Orange or Orange Blossoms) A Shrub that can always be depended upon to give splendid satisfaction. No insects bother it, and in May and June, the bushes are literally covered with flowers.
Coronarius. (Garland Mock Orange) This is the popular tall variety; very sweet and one of the first to flower. Coronarius Aurea. (Golden-leaved Mock Orange) Fine golden-yellow foliage, contrasting beautifully with the dark leaves of other shrubs.
Grandiflorous. (Large-flowered Mock Orange) Without a doubt one of the most popular shrubs grown, and ought to be in every garden. Flowers are pure white and very large.
PRUNUS. (Plum, Ornamental) Pissardi. (Purple-leaved Plum) Single white flowers in spring, the leaves are a lustrous crimson, changing to a rich purple... 75c Each Triloba. (Double-flowered Plum) Native of China. Flow- ers double, of a delicate pink, thickly set on the long, slender branches; flowers in May before the leaves un- fold.
RHODODENDRON. Named hardy Hybrids. .. .$1.25 Each
RHODOTYPOS. (White Kerria) Kerrioides. Handsome foliage and large single white flowers in the latter part of May, succeeded by numerous black berries.
RHUS COTINUS. (Purple Fringe, or Smoke Tree) A low shrub- bery tree, covered in midsummer with large clusters of feathery flowers, giving the appearance of a cloud of smoke or mist.
RHUS TYPHINA LACINIATA.
(Cut-leaved Staghorn Sumac) A
large-growing bold and effective shrub, with delicate fern-like fo- liage and brilliant scarlet fruit in the autumn.
RIBES AUREUM. (Golden Cur- rant) Bright green foliage, beau- tifully tinted in the autumn; fragrant yellow flowers in May, followed by dark brown fruit.
ROBINIA HISPIDA. (Rose Aca- cia) A very handsome shrub.
The leaves are similar to those of the Locust. In June and July long panicles of rose-colored flowers hang from the branches.
ROSA RUBIGINOSA. (True Eng- lish Sweet Briar) This is the true Eglantine.
ROSA RUGOSA. (Japanese or Shrubbery Rose) An excellent plant for a shrubbery bed or a solid hedge.
Alba. Single white. Rubra.
Single reddish pink.
Blanc de Coubert. Double pure white.
SPIREA. A large group of showy, free-flowering hardy shrubs.
Van Houttei. (Improved Bridal Wreath) This is without a doubt the most beautiful and useful of shrubs. Always effective if planted singly or in groups on the lawn, in front of the porch, in shrub borders, or in a hedge. Handsome throughout the entire season. But when in flower it is a complete fountain of white bloom. Clusters of white florets are set close along the drooping stems.
Anthony Waterer. Makes nice, round bushes 3 feet high and wide; beginning to bloom in summer, continuing until fall. Rose red flowers in large round clusters all over the bush.
Billardii. Pink flowers; bloom nearly all summer. It is grand for planting in masses.
Callosa Alba. A white flowering variety of dwarf, bushy symmetrical form. Flowers all summer.
Opulifolia Aurea. (Virginian Guelder Rose) Golden- tinted foliage and large white flowers in June. Prunifolia FI. PI. (Old Bridal Wreath) Blooms in May, with pure white double flowers.
Reevesii FI. PL Tall with dark, bluish green foliage, and large pure white double flowers, in May and June. Thunbergii. Of dwarf, graceful form; branches slender and somewhat drooping; foliage narrow and yellowish green; flowers small white, appearing early in spring.
SAMBUCUS. Aurea. (Golden Elder) Attractive golden foliage and desirable to mix with other shrubs.
SYMPIIORICARPUS. (Snowberry and Indian Currant)
Small native shrubs much used in shaded places and in open masses. Grow in almost any soil; quite hardy. Racemosus. (Snowberry) A graceful shrub, 3 to 5 feet tall, with slender branches. Flowers white or pinkish, in loose racemes, in summer. Berries white, produced in showy profuse clusters, the branches bending under their weight.
Volgaris. (Coral-Berry or Indian Currant) A grand shrub, producing a wealth of red or purplish berries which remain on the branches all winter. Flowers greenish red, in summer. Berries coloring, in early autumn, very showy. Does well in shade.
TAMARIX. Africana. (Tamarisk) Strong, slender, tall- growing, irregular shrubs, with feathery foliage and small, delicate pink flowers.
THORN. Paul’s Scarlet. 3 to 4 feet ....$1.00 Each
Paul’s White. 3 to 4 feet. .................. .75c Each
VIBURNUM. (Snowballs and High Bush Cranberry) The
Viburnums are one of the most useful shrubs, being very hardy and of good habit. They all have white flowers mostly on flat heads and with a few exceptions are noted for their handsome clusters of berries.
Opulus. (High Bush Cranberry) The white flowers In June are followed in autumn by bright scarlet berries, which are very attractive until very late in winter. Strong bush plants.
Opulus Sterilis. (Guilder Rose or Snowball) Of spread- ing habit, bearing flat clusters of single white flowers, which afterwards produce brilliant red berries, which
hang to the plant all winter; very decorative. Strong plants.
Plicatum. (Japan Snowball) One of the choicest hardy shrubs, with healthy dark foliage; the perfect balls of pure white flowers are borne in great profusion in May. VITEX. Agnus Castus. (Chaste Tree) A graceful shrub, growing from 5 to 6 feet high, with dense spikes 6 to 8 inches long, of lilac-colored flowers late in summer,
WEIGELIA. (Diervilla) These shrubs bloom after the lilacs, in June and July. Their large flowers are of wide trumpet-shape, colors from white to red, and borne in clusters thickly along the branches.
Candida. White flowering Weigelia, flowering through- out the summer.
Eva Rathke. The finest Weigelia in cultivation. Flow- ers continuously throughout the summer and autumn; of an entirely distinct color, being a rich ruby carmine. Should be in every garden.
Rosea. A beautiful shrub, with rose-colored flowers in May and June.
Rosea Nana Variegata. A neat dwarf shrub, valuable for the clearly defined variegation of green, yellow and pink in its leaves; flowers delicate rose and pink; one of the finest variegated leaved shrubs.
WILLOW. Salix Babylonica. (Weeping Willow) Hardy and rapid growing shrubs, suitable for waterside plant- ing ............ . 60c to $1.00 Each
Spireas
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Hedge Plants
ALTHEA. (Rose of Sharon) Few are aware of the strikingly attractive characteristics of this per- fectly hardy and profuse flowering shrub, when used as a hedge plant or as a screen. Plant 15 to 18 inches aipart. For prices, etc., see Shrubs.
BERBERIS THUNBERGII. (Japan Barberry) Where a low, dwarf, deciduous hedge is wanted nothing equals this beautiful Barberry. Requires but lit- tle pruning to keep it in shape. The leaves are small, light green, and toward fall assume rich, brilliant colors, the fruit or berries becoming scar- let. Absolutely hardy in all parts of the country. Plant 12 to 15 inches apart.
15 to 18 inches 35c each, §3.50 per doz.
18 to 24 inches 50c each, §5.00 per doz.
PYRUS JAPONICUS. (Japan Quince) An excellent hedge plant with scarlet flowers. Plant 15 inches apart. See Shrubs. (Cydonia Japonica.)
ROSA RUGOSA. (Ramanas Rose of Japan) Both the single red and white flowering forms of this beautiful Rose are popular hedge plants. For prices, etc., see Shrubs.
SPIRAEA VAN HOUTTEI. An ideal flowering shrub to use as a dividing line between properties. Plant 18 to 24 inches apart. For prices, etc., see Shrubs.
CALIFORNIA PRIVET. (Ligustrum Ovalifolium)
Its foliage is a rich dark green, and is nearly evergreen, remaining on the plant until mid-winter.
It is of free growth and succeeds under the most adverse conditions, such as under dense shade of trees. The most advantageous manner of plant- ing is in double rows, the two rows being about 8 inches apart. The plants should be set 12 to 15 inches apart in the row, alternating the plants. In order to secure a dense hedge from the base up, the plants should be severly pruned the first two seasons.
2 Tear Old Plants §1.00 per doz.
24 to 30 inches .' §5.00 per 100
30 to 36 inches §7.00 per 100
Extra Large Bushy Plants.. §1.50 per doz.; §10.00 per 100
AMOOR RIVER PRIVET. A very hardy variety with large oblong, glossy green foliage nearly evergreen. Flowers white, in erect panicles. Splendid for hedges. Very similar to the California Privet so universally used for hedging.
18 to 24 inches §1.50 per doz., §10.00 per 100
24 to 36 inches §2.00 per doz., §15.00 per 100
Shade Trees
ALNUS (Alder). European 6 to 8 ft.
Imperial Cut-Leaved 3 to 4 ft.
ASH, American White 8 to 10 ft.
American Green 8 to 10 ft.
European 6 to 8 ft.
Mountain 8 to 10 ft.
BEECH, Purple-Leaved 4 to 5 ft.
BIRCH, European White 8 to 10 ft.
Purple-Leaved 3 to 4 ft.
CATALPA, Speciosa 8 to 10 ft.
CLADRASTIS TINCTORIA,
Yellow Wood 5 to 6 ft.
CYPRESS, Deciduous 6 to 8 ft.
ELM, American 8 to 10 ft.
English 6 to 8 ft.
Scotch 8 to 10 ft.
HACKBERRY
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LINDEN, American 8 to 10 ft.
European 6 to 8 ft.
Silver or White Leaf 6 to 8 ft.
LIQUID AMBER, Sweet Gum.... 6 to 8 ft.
MAPLE, Norway 8 to 10 ft.
Rock of Sugar 8 to 10 ft.
Scarlet 8 to 10 ft.
Weir’s Cut-Leaved 8 to 10 ft.
Silver or Soft 8 to 10 ft.
Cork Bark 3 to 4 ft.
Schwedleri 6 to 8 ft.
Ash-Leaved (Box Elder) 8 to 10 ft.
Sycamore Leaved 5 to 6 ft.
MULBERRY, Russian 5 U> 6 ft.
OAK, Red 6 to 8 ft.
Scarlet 6 to 8 ft.
pin 6 to 8 ft.
Burr or Mossy Cup 8 to 10 ft.
Golden 4 to 5 ft.
White
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SALISBURIA,
Maiden Hair or Ginkgo. SYCAMORE, American
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HORSE CHESTNUT
White Flowering 6 to 7 ft.
Red Flowering .....4 to 5 ft.
American Buckeye 5 to 6 ft.
KENTUCKY COFFEE TREE... 5 to 6 ft.
KOELREUTERIA PANICULATA 3 to 4 ft.
LABURNUM, Scotch 5 to 6 ft.
LARCH, European 8 to 10 ft.
TULIP TREE
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Evergreens and shade trees add to the beauty of any home.
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Specimen Evergreens
Our Evergreens are specimen plants, a little higher in price but cheapest in the long run. The roots are protected by a large ball of earth, hence the few that are lost after planting.
TRAILING, CREEPING OR VERY DWARF
Fine for Rockeries, Borders, Edging or Ground Covers. All Prostrate or Creeping forms. One to three feet high at maturity. Spread 8 to L5 feet in diameter.
Each
Juniperus Canadensis (J. Communis Depressa)
*1-1% ft. xx — B&B $2.50
Juniperus Sabina Horizontalis
1-1% ft. XXX — B&B 3.50
Juniperus Sabina Tamariscifolia
iy2-2 ft. xxx — B&B 0.50
DWARF OR LOW GROWING VARIETIES
Excellent for Foundation Planting, Low Groups, Terraces and Conifer Beds. Splendid where permanent effects are wanted without obstructing the view. Average height 4 to 6 feet at maturity.
Each
Juniperus Chinensis Pfitzeriana (Pfltzer’s Juniper)
2-3 ft. xxxx — B&B $7.50
Pinus Muglio Conipaeta (Dwarf Mountain Pine)
1-1 1/2 ft. xxx— B&B 4.00
1 % -2 ft. xxx — B&B 5.00
Pinus Tanyoslia Globosa (Japanese Table Pine)
2 % x 2 % ft. xxxx — B&B 10.00
Taxus Cuspidata (Japanese Yew)
l-iy2 ft. xxx — B&B 5 00
l%-2 ft. xxxx — B&B 7.00
Taxus Cuspidata Brevifolia (Dwarf Japanese Yew)
1-1 % ft. xxx — B&B 7.00
l%-2 ft. xxxx — B&B 9.00
Thuya Occidentals Conipaeta (Parson's Compacta Arb. Vitae)
12x12 in. xxx — B&B 3.00
15x15 in. xxx— B&B 4.00
MEDIUM HEIGHT VARIETIES
Excellent for borders to add contrast to flowering shrubs.
Fine for corners to give accent and add height to plant- ing of Creeping or Low Growing Evergreens. Good for sentinels or markers at each side of entrance steps, win- dows, or in garden. Average height 8 to 15 feet at
maturity.
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Abies Tsuga Canadensis (Hemlock)
2- 2 ft. xxx — B&B .$4.00
3- 4 ft. xxxx — B&B 6.00
4- 5 ft. xxxx — B&B 8.00
Juniperus Virginiana Counarti (Counarti Juniper)
2-3 ft. xxx — B&B 6.00
Juniperus Virginiana (Red Cedar)
2- 3 ft. xxx — B&B 4.00
3- 4 ft. xxx — B&B 5.00
Juniperus Virginiana Glauca (Silver Cedar)
4- 5 ft. xxxx — B&B 8.00
Juniperus Virginiana Schotti (Schotti Juniper)
3- 4 ft. xxxx — B&B 7.00
4- 5 ft. xxxx — B&B 8.00
Juniperus Scopulorum (Hill’s Silver Juniper)
*1-1 % ft. xx— B&B 2.50
Thuya Occidentals (American Arbor Vitae)
2- 3 ft. xxx — B&B 3.00
3- 4 ft. xxx — B&B 4.00
Thuya Occidental^ Pyramidalis (Pyramidal Arbor Vitae) 2-3 ft. xxx — B&B 4.00
TALL GROWING VARIETIES
For planting in Masses, Heavy Screen, Windbreaks or high Hedges; Small Groups to frame a vista; Single Speci- mens where an imposing Specimen is wanted to carry out some special effect. Average height 30 to 60 feet at maturity.
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Abies Douglass! (Douglas Fir)
2- 3 ft. xxx — B&B $4.00
3- 4 ft. xxx — B&B 6.00
4- 5 ft. xxx — B&B 8.00
Group of Evergreens
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Picea Alba (White Spruce)
3-4 ft. xxx— B&B $6.00
Picea Canadensis (Black Hill Spruce)
2-3 ft. xxx — B&B 6.00
Picea Pungens Glauca (Colorado Blue Spruce)
1- 1 y2 ft. xxx— B&B 5.00
Picea Pungens Kosteriana (Foster's Blue Spruce)
2- 3 ft. xxx— B&B 10.00
3- 4 ft. xxxx — B&B 20.00
Pinus Austriaea (Austrian Pine)
2- 3 ft. xxx — B&B 3.00
3- 4 ft. xxx — B&B 4.00
Pinus Iiesinosa (Red or Norway Pine)
3-4 ft. xxx — B&B 4.50
Pinus Strobus (White Pine)
3- 4 ft. xxx — B&B 4.00
4- 5 ft. xxxx— B&B 5.00
Pinus Sylvestris (Scotch Pine)
3- 4 ft. xxx — B&B 5.00
4- 5 ft. xxx— B&B .6.00
Each x indicates one transplanting.
B&B signifies balled and burlapped.
BOXWOOD PYRAMID SHAPED
Each
2 % ft.— B&B $7.00
3 ft.— B&B 9.00
BOXWOOD BALL SHAPED
Each
14x14 in. — B&B .$6.50
16 x 16 in.— B&B 7.00
18x18 in. — B&B 9.00
BOXWOOD STANDARDS
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Stem. 14 in.; Crown 16 in.— B&B $10,00
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VER-E-BEST LAWN SEED
A Superior Mixture of Selected Grasses for Lawns, Terraces, Croquet Grounds, Etc.
You will find no chaff or dirt in our VER-E-BEST LAWN SEED; it starts at once.
Price : 1 Lb., 50c; 5 Lbs., $2.25;
The mixture of grass seed that we sell under this name is made by the identical formula used by some Park Com- missioners in their work in laying out the beautiful lawns and terraces, which add so much charm to new parks. For many years the grass seed on a good many lawns has been supplied by us, which fact should be a strong guar- antee of quality. This mixture gives a fine, velvety sward within a few weeks after sowing. The very large demand for this lawn seed has necessitated our having the name “Ver-E-Best” as a trade mark, in order to protect our- selves from imitators.
10 Lbs., $4.25; 20 Lbs., $8.25.
a thoroughly balanced combination of various native and foreign fine-leaved, deep-rooting grasses of interweaving habit, that will flourish under varied soil and climatic conditions, and which may be depended upon to produce a beautiful, compact, evergreen sod that will resist tramp- ing and hard usage, and at the same time present that handsome, velvety appearance so much desired.
Watering the lawn is not as necessary as is popularly imagined. The only time it is needful is in time of drought. Surface sprinkling is responsible for the poor appearance of many lawns. It has a natural tendency to make the
Ouc Ver-E-Best Lawn Seed is made up of all the re cleaned seeds of different varieties that will make a good lawn quickly, so that when the seed is sown, if the ground is in proper shape, it wall start at once, and in a short time show a beautiful, deep green lawn and retain the same during the season with slight attention.
Upon no one thing does so much depend in making beautiful home grounds as upon a good lawn, for without that velvety green carpet, no place, however lavishly planned or grandly built, looks finished. The average per- son who buys a few pounds of grass seed and sows it on a hard-baked soil usually feels he has done his full duty and lays the subsequent failure of the seed at the door of the seedsman. The real lover of nature and the beauti- ful, need never be disappointed in his lawn if care is used in the preparation of the soil and selection of his grass seed.
To obtain a good lawn grass mixture, it is necessary that the best possible seed of fine grasses be used in the combination, embracing such varieties as are of neat, close growth, extreme hardiness, and adapted to produce a quick, permanent sod. Judicious selection of seed, knowl- edge of the habits, vigor, quality, and hardiness of varie- ties used in the mixture can only be gained by thorough and practical tests under different climatic and soil condi- tions. We offer our lawn grass seed mixture, composed of
roots seek the best supply of moisture, which, in this con- dition, would be near the surface. A deep-rooted lawn is the best. If you must water, water thoroughly. Take the nozzle off the hose and let the stream flow continuously for a couple of hours, then move and water another section.
DIRECTIONS — The following directions may be found use- ful to those who are not familiar with lawn making. First get the ground in good shape and be sure that the surface is smooth and well drained. An application of sheep manure, at the rate of ten pounds to three hundred square feet, or pure bone meal in the same proportion, will be very beneficial. On larger lawns use four bushels of grass seed to the acre and one thousand pounds of ferti- lizer. After spreading the fertilizer, the surface should be carefully raked and rolled. After sowing, the ground should again be lightly raked and rolled. One pound of our seed will sow 300 square feet. Four or five bushels per acre for new lawns being about the amount required. For renovating purpose, use only one-half the amount used on a new lawn.
Notice — Some of the finest lawns were made with our Ver-E-Best Lawn Seed.
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Ver-E-Best Shady Lawn Seed
For sowing on the north side of buildings, between houses, and for securing a lawn under
• large shade trees
Price: 1 Lb., 55c; 5 Lbs., $2.50; 10 Lbs., $4.75; 20 Lbs., $0.25.
In many lawns there are places which seem as if nothing can be grown; some are shaded by large trees and others by buildings. For these locations we have offered for some time our Shady Lawn Seed, which really meets the desired requirement.
It is always advisable for those who are seeding down the shady places to supply new soil, if possible, especially if the large trees are producing the shade, as their roots spread so fast and exhaust the nourishment in the soil. In the event of not being able to supply new soil, the ground should be well dug over and if tree roots predomi- nate, these should be taken out.
In most places where grass seed is to be sown, when shaded by buildings, the soil will have a tendency to sour, and in such cases we strongly recommend the use of agricultural lime (about 50 lbs. per 1,000 sq. ft.).
This special mixture for shady locations is selected from the best grasses possible to obtain for this purpose, and only those that will grow and flourish under shady conditions are used.
The ordinary lawn grass might grow for a short time, but as a general rule it will not last but one or two sea- sons, and then make a poor showing.
Ver-E-Best Shady Lawn Seed, if sown in these places, will undoubtedly grow and produce the best satisfaction.
RAJ a. f /"'i ir I inire While there are on the market numerous ready prepared golf mixtures of more or
mixtures IOF VlOlI LUIKS less value we have found that the best results are obtained by giving indi- vidual attention to each customer and making a special mixture to suit his needs. We have thus overcome the, diffi- culties presented by the great dissimilarity of local conditions of various links, and are willing to give you the benefit not only of our experience on some of the best greens in the country, but of expert knowledge of grass seeds as well. Write us a description of your links, telling what the nature of the soil is, how drained, how much it has the sun, whether the winters are long or open, and whether the summers are wet or dry, and we will offer you two or more mixtures especially adapted to the various parts of your grounds.
Grass Seeds
Prices upon Application
Awn]pcc OmTY1(i flracc (Bromus inermis) A per- fvwniess Drome orass ennlal, valuable for bind- ing the soil of embankments and for resisting both drought and cold. On light, dry soils it is used for hay and pas- turage, but is not recommended where better grasses will succeed. Sow forty pounds per acre.
Canadian Blue Grass <Tr°e!,„nc{,aT,,r4Th)
root-stalks which form a strong turf. It withstands drought better than most cultivated grasses and is espe- cially valuable in Lawn Grass mixtures. It succeeds best on clay soils but does well on sandy soils, being better adapted for use on sterile knolls and barren fields than probably any other cultivated grass. For hay or pas- turage it is best sown in mixture with other grasses. It is distinguished from the Kentucky Blue Grass by its flattened, shorter stems and bluer color of leaf. Height six to twenty inches.
Ci (Agrostis stolonifera) This
creeping Deni orass is particularly valuable for lawns that are to be used as croquet and tennis grounds, because it is benefited more than hurt by tramp- ing, and by its bright color adds to the beauty of the lawn.
We PrePare for many cus- \irass jeea mixiures tomers special mixtures of grass and clover seeds for certain soils and will cheerfully give information on this subject when so requested. Our price on these will be about the same as the market price on grass seed, as we do not charge for mixing.
Ua„ J poccuo (Festuea duriuscula) Similar to Ilct.ru r catUc Sheep’s Fescue, but not so dense and taller. It will often cover sandy soil under the shade of large trees where no other grass will grow. It is a desir- able addition to lawn grass. Sow thirty pounds per acre.
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called June Grass, but the true June or Wire Grass is much inferior. Kentucky Blue Grass is the most nutri- tious, hardy and valuable of all Northern grasses. Sown with White Clover it forms a splendid lawn; for this pur- pose use not less than fifty-four pounds of Blue Grass and six pounds of White Clover per acre. If sown by itself for meadow or pasture, use about twenty-eight pounds per acre.
M^a rlr»w (Festuea pratensis) A per-
AVie&uOW Jr 6SCU6 OF ennial, from two to four feet C' high, with flat, broad leaves.
Unglisn rsiue L»rass One of the standard Euro- pean grasses. It needs rich ground and succeeds well on prairie soil. An excellent pasture grass to take the place of the wild grasses, as it yields a large amount of early and late feed. Sow about twenty-five pounds per acre.
OrrViavfl Rfacc (Dactylis glomerata) Desirable A^iLIlciru Uiaos on account of its quick growth and valuable aftermath. It is ready for grazing in spring two weeks sooner than most grasses and when fed off is again ready for grazing in a week and will continue green when other grasses are withered by dry weather. It is palatable and nutritious and stock eat it -greedily when green. A tendency to grow in tufts unfits it for lawns. It does better if sown with clover and as it ripens at the same time, the mixed hay is of the best quality. If sown alone, about twenty-eight pounds are required per acre; if sown with clover, half that quantity. Perennial.
Perennial Rye Grass «3SSS ’XEff £ vPe£
manent pasture. Succeeds well on almost any soil, but is particularly adapted to moderately moist or irrigated lands. Sow thirty to forty pounds per acre in spring.
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Red or Creeping Fescue roro“%a>Sra,Z
resisting extreme drought, and especially adapted for form- ing a close and lasting turf in shady places. Valuable also for exposed hillsides, and golf courses. Sow thirty pounds per acre.
O „ J Ta_ (Agrostis vulgaris) In Pennsylvania and States farther south this is known as Herd’s Grass, a name applied in New England and New York to Timothy. It is a good, permanent grass, standing our cli- mate well, and makes good pasture when fed close. It is also valuable for low, wet meadows, producing a large re- turn in good hay. Sow in spring or fall.
RED TOP FANCY. Sow eight to ten pounds per acre. RED TOP UNHULLED. When sown alone, use about twenty-eight pounds of the chaff seed per acre.
Rhode Island Bent Grass J.afSfi8 Tifennui
for lawns and pasturage. Much like Red Top, though smaller. Thrives on light, dry soils as well as on rich, moist ones. For lawn purposes, if used alone, it should be sown at the rate of about forty pounds per acre; for pasture, if used alone, twenty-four pounds per acre.
Cpcri,a (Festura ovina) A small tufted, o i Cocuc hardy grass forming a cluster of narrow cylindrical leaves. Valuable in mixture for lawns, on dry soils and in shady locations. Sow about thirty-five pounds per acre.
Tall Meadow Oat Grass iaraTpertnnWmuch
used in the South and West. Roots penetrate deep. It yields a heavy crop on any good soil, and is valuable both for meadow and pasture. Sow thirty to forty pounds per acre.
A valuable perennial grass, very productive and nutritious. Succeeds best on moist, heavy soil, but will do well on any good soil, wet or dry. If used alone sow forty pounds per acre.
TimAiK t» (Phleum pratense) The most valuable of 1 lmoiliy all the grasses for hay, especially in the North. Thrives best on moist, loamy soils of medium tenacity. It should be cut just when the blossom falls. Sow early in the spring or fall, at the rate of twelve pounds per acre, if alone, but less if mixed with other grasses.
Wester wold Italian woldicum) An extremely
O /■"* _ ee raP^ growing annual for spring and sum- ivye V*rass mer sowing. As a forage and pasture grass it thrives on almost any soil but does best on heavy loam, clay, or land of a somewhat damp character. It is lighter in color and coarser in leaf than Perennial Rye but is very much stronger growing. After cutting it is the quickest grass to start again, making a new growth more rapidly than any other sort with which we are acquainted. From our repeated comparative trials we believe this is a most valuable addition to the list of grasses grown In this country.
Wood Meadow Grass SSS cTES^-hST?.*
two feet high; has a perennial creeping root and an erect, slender, smooth stem. Well adapted to shaded situations, such as orchards and parks, for either hay or pasturage. Sow about thirty pounds per acre.
Tall (Festuea elatior)
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McQUEEN’S INOCULATOR
NITROGEN FACTORIES FOR FIELD AND GARDEN
Inoculate your alfalfa, sweet clover, soy beans, red, alsike, mammoth clovers, vetch, peas, beans and all other legumes (pod bearing plants). McQueen’s Inoculator insures a catch, hastens ma- turity, increases the crop, enriches the soil and means success with legumes. You can start a nitrogen factory on your farm by inoculating your legume seed with McQueen’s Inoculator. An in- oculated legume takes nitrogen from the air and stores it in the soil for future crops. Simple directions with each package.
Prices
V2 Bu. size treats 30 lbs. seed $0.50
1 Bu. size treats 60 lbs. seed 1.00
6-1 Bu. sizes treat 360 lbs. seed 5.00
10-1 Bu. sizes treat 600 lbs. seed 7.50
Garden Size 20c
Combination for Peas, Sweet Peas, Garden and Lima Beans.
Do you want better legume crops than you ever had before?
Do you want to enrich your land so that it will produce better crops of any kind in the future, than it has done before?
Then inoculate your seed with McQueen’s Inoculator this year.
Sweet clover, alfalfa, soy beans, red clover, vetch, garden peas and beans and all other legumes need lots of nitrogen.
They can’t thrive without it any more than human beings could without a proper amount of oxygen. Treatment of the seed with McQueen’s Inoculator is the cheapest and surest way of enabling them to get the nitrogen they so vitally need, in sufficient quantity to insure a maximum yield.
McQueen’s Inoculator has an unequaled record of results.
McQueen’s Inoculator is the hardiest and most virile nitrogen fixing bacteria known.
That is because it is bred under nature’s conditions, not in a laboratory under hot-house conditions.
It makes poor soil good and good soil rich.
McQueen’s Inoculator will enable you to grow better crops than you’ve ever grown before in field and garden. McQueen’s Inoculator will cost you less per acre because it is sold on the bushel basis instead of by acre sizes.
When ordering, state the kind of seed you wish to treat.
CLOVER SEED
Alfalfa nv I lirnavn** (Medicago sativa) It is use- /AII all a or LUterne less to sow this clover on land having a stiff clay or hard pan subsoil, as the roots naturally penetrate to a great depth and must do so if the plants live any time Sow on rich, moist loam or sandy soil having a deep, porous subsoil. Prepare the land thor- oughly and sow seed at the rate of fifteen to twenty-five pounds per acre with a broadcaster or grass seeder. Cover with a brush or light harrow. The young plants are quite tender and the land must be free of weeds until they become established.
fYimcnri r\v (Trifolium incarnatum) An
crimson 1 reroii or annual variety in common
Italian use in the southeast for feeding Jtal ICl Hallo. II green and for hay, and also found profitable on the sandy soils of New Jersey. The yield in fodder is immense and after cutting, it at once com- mences growing again, continuing until severe cold, freezing weather. It grows about one foot high; the roots are nearly black; leaves long; blossoms long, pointed and of very deep red or carmine color. Makes good hay. It is sown in August or September in the South, but should not be planted in the North until spring. Sow ten to fifteen pounds per acre.
Algilcp nr (Trifolium hybridum) This
rUcsIrVC ur uwcoibll perennial is the most hardy of all clovers. On rich, moist soil it yields an enormous quantity of hay or pasturage, but its greatest value is for sowing with other clovers and grasses, as it forms a thick bottom and greatly increases the yield of hay; cattle prefer it to any other forage. The heads are globular, fragrant, and much liked by bees which obtain a large amount of honey from them. Sow the seed in spring or fall, at the rate of six pounds per acre, when used alone.
Mammoth or Large Red S^oTgrow^eariy
twice the size of the Common Red Clover, often making a stand when the other clovers fail. Sow about eight to twelve pounds per acre.
Medium Red or June
(Trifolium pratense) This is by far the most impor- tant of all the varieties for practical purposes. Sow in spring or fall and if no other grasses are used, at the rate of eight to twelve pounds per acre; more is required on old, stiff soils than on new and lighter ones.
riiif/'L (Tnfolium repens) A small, creep- ▼ Y muc L/ u IU1 ing perennial variety valuable for pasturage and for lawns. It accommodates itself to a variety of soils, but prefers moist ground. Sow in spring at the rate of six pounds per acre, or when used with other grasses, half that amount.
Bokhara, or Sweet Clover
WHITE FLOWERED. (Melilotus Alba) A biennial plant and bears a close resemblance to Alfalfa, but is larger and coarser. It will make an excellent growth on any lime lands and stiffest clays, or any soils so hard and barren that they will sustain no other vegetation. It makes only a moderate growth and seldom blooms the first year, but during the second year it will reach from four to seven feet high, making stronger and heavier roots than any other forage plant. At the end of the second season it matures its seed and dies out; the roots decaying soon after.
The roots are very long, penetrating the soil to a depth of three to four feet, are large and being fleshy, decay more rapidly than alfalfa roots, hence their nitrogen becomes more quickly available for other crops. As they decay at the end of the second season, there is a good supply of humus.
Sweet Clover on account of its strong odor is not liked very much by stock at first, but since it starts very early in the spring when other forage is scarce, animals turned into a pasture of it at that time soon acquire a taste for it and eat it readily throughout the remainder of the season.
If cut before it ripens its seed, it will not spread. However, it will reseed the ground thoroughly if not cut in due time. Sow ten to fifteen pounds per acre. ... YELLOW FLOWERED. (Melilotus Officinalis) It re- sembles the White Sweet Clover, but blooms about three weeks earlier; produces finer stalks and does not grow as tall. It makes first class hay and excellent pasture for cattle and sheep. It will grow on any kind of soil, and being deep rooted, remains green in the dryest season. It should be sown by bee keepers in localities where Alfalfa is not grown, as it is one of the best honey plants.
UNHULLED SEED. (Bokhara) It is very slow to germinate.
JAPAN CLOVER. (Lespedeza Striata) It thrives on poor land and produces continual herbage. Half-hardy. Sow ten to twelve pounds per acre.
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Alfalfa Field
NOTICE — Owing to almost Daily Market fluctuations of all farm seeds we have omitted prices.
If interested will quote upon request.
Ravlair Barley succeeds best on rich
oaney, common lands more sandy and lighter than those adapted to wheat. It is sown in the spring and can be grown farther north than any other grain. Unless intended for seed it should be cut before fully ripe, as it is then heavier, of better quality and less liable to shell. Use about two and one-half bushels per acre.
D f IMPROVED EVERGREEN. The best
oroom vora variety for general cultivation on ac- count of the color and quality of brush. Ripens early; grows about 8 to 10 feet high; brush of good length, fine, and straight, and always of green appearance when ripe. Plant eight to ten quarts to the acre.
Buckwheat, Japanese
and resisting drought and blight remarkably well; the grain is much larger and has a thinner hull than Common or Silver Hull. Recommended especially for well-drained or sandy land and the dry climate of the western plains.
Buckwheat, Silver Hull muchTette?athInrIthe
old sort. It is in bloom longer, matures sooner, and yields double the quantity per acre; husk thinner, cor- ners less prominent; grain a beautiful light gray. The flour is said to be better and more nutritious.
CANADA FIELD PEAS ™Tio%rl X
chief among them being a very early green food; when used this way they are sown with oats about April 1st at the rate of one and one-half bushels of peas and one and one-half bushels of oats to the acre, either drilled or broadcast. The oats are intended as a support for the peas. They are cut just after the peas flower, and fed gre^n. Sheep, hogs, and cattle relish them keenly. They may be sown successively up to July if one has the avail- able land. Peas may also be sown alone at the rate of three bushels per acre, and furnish ' excellent pea hay; horses like it very much when properly cured, as does all other stock. For plowing under as green manure, they add a vast amount of nitrogen to the soil and suc- ceeding crops sown there the same year or even later, particularly wheat, are wonderfully benefited by produc- ing a more luxuriant growth and larger yield. The dried peas are extensively fed to pigeons, while when ground as meal, is an excellent addition to the regular soft food of cows, sheep, and horses.
rnu/ pr AC Cow Peas make one of the largest tt 1 yielding and most nutritious forage
crops grown. There is also no surer or cheaper means of improving and increasing the productiveness of your soils than by sowing the Cow Peas.
There is a wide difference between Cow Peas and Canadian Peas. Bear in mind that the Southern Cow Peas belong to the Bean family, therefore must not be sown until the ground is thoroughly warm and all danger from frost is past. The value as a fertilizing crop exceeds that of clover, for, in addition to being a larger nitrogen gatherer than the clover, they draw from the subsoil to the surface large amounts of potash and phosphoric acid, thus putting the soil in most excellent condition for fol- lowing crops. The feeding value of Cow Peas, either green fed as hay or preserved as ensilage, is very high, being considerably above that of Red Clover. The yield of green vines per acre runs ordinarily from five to fifteen tons.
Sow one and one-fourth to one and three-fourths bushels per acre, on land thoroughly pulverized and disc or plow
with a cultivator or double-shovel plow. If wanted for hay, cut when peas are forming; cure as clover. If peas are for fertilizer, sow same quantity after same prepara- tion as for hay; turn under when peas are in bloom. If farmers will first roll and disc peas they will turn under much easier and be more satisfactory. For a fertilizer, especially to be followed by wheat or corn, they are simply the best.
EARLY BLACK. Matures quickly, best variety for the extreme northern sections of the country. WHIP-POOR-WILL. An early variety, tall, upright, medium yield of vines, large yield of peas, for which they are particularly grown. Highly recommended for “hogging down.’’
CLAY. The leading variety in the South. Large yield of vines and peas, but require longer season to mature than the former-named varieties.
NEW ERA. Seed small, dun colored; earlier than Whip- Poor-Will, but more trailing in habit. A great favorite- in many places.
MIXED COW PEAS. These are splendidly adapted for those who merely wish same for feeding purposes, and being mixed, we are able to offer them at a lower price.
FIjiy (Linum usitatissimum) Sow late enough in the * spring to avoid frost and early enough to secure
good stand and enable the crop to ripen before the fall rains. A fair average quantity of seed to be sown on am. acre is one-half bushel, when cultivated for seed; if for the fibre, a large quantity should be sown. Cut before quite ripe and if the weather be dry, let it lay in the swath a few hours, when it should be raked and secured from the weather; thresh early in the fall and in dry weather.
S-Isimcrsiriars (Panicum germanicum) This is a spe- OUilganall cies of annual millet growing less rank, with smaller stalk, and darker beard, and often yielding two or three tons of hay per acre. It is very valuable and' popular with those who are clearing timber lands. Sow and cultivate like millet.
A great fodder crop. The finest grain EXcimr V^Orn for poultry and pigeons. The stalks- keep green and are brittle and juicy, making excellent fodder, either green or dried, which is highly relished by cattle, horses, and mules. The seed heads form at the top of each stalk, and as soon as these show the grain well, the joints next below the top send up shoots, which yield, the second seed heads. For the grain, sow in rows three feet apart; three to five pounds of seed to the acre. For fodder, sow twenty-five to fifty pounds, either broadcast or in drills.
(Panicum miliaceum) Requires lYiHicl) toinmon a dry, light, rich soil, and grows two and one-half to four feet high with a fine bulk of stalks and leaves. It is early maturing and is excellent for forage. For hay, sow broadcast, about twenty-five pounds per acre, from May 1st to August 1st. For grain, sow in drills, about twelve pounds per acre and not later than June 20th.
Millet, German or Golden leaved variety,
growing three to five feet high; later maturing than Common Millet, and a heavy yielder. The heads, though numerous, are very large and compact. The seeds are con- tained in rough, bristly sheaths and are round, golden yellow in color and very attractive in appearance.
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Oats, Danish Renegade ^lrdictahfsd varied
•originally was imported from Denmark, where the summer reason is quite cool and comparatively short, as instanced by the fine strains of cauliflower and winter cabbages pro- duced in that country. We have had our stock of seed of this variety gr«wn in the Northwest, where the growers -are most enthusiastic in its praise. It is very productive, growing with a strong, stiff straw from four to five and •a half feet in height. Grains plump, thin-hulled, and of a bright yellow, often three grains in a spikelet and dis- tributed over the entire head. The stalks, being so stiff •and heavy, do not lodge, nor does the grain fall off during a stormy season. The straw is very strong, well bladed, and when sown thinly stools very freely, as many as forty --stalks being produced from a single grain. It is an ex- cellent variety to sow with Canada field peas or vetches, and other leguminous crops where the latter are grown to produce ensilage or cured for hay. The strong, stiff straw makes a grand support for the running vines of the leguminous crop.
RAPF DWARF ESSEX FOR SOWING. There Is but Hi one variety of Rape that has proven profitable to sow in America, and that is the Dwarf Essex. No other plant will give as heavy a yield of forage at such a small cost as this, and its general cultivation would add largely to the profits of American farms. Especially valuable for green manuring and pasture. When fed off by sheep, it will probably do more to restore and make profitable •exhausted soils than any other plant. Biennial.
Ground should be prepared same as for turnips. Sow in June or July, with a turnip drill, in rows two and one-half •feet aipart, at the rate of two and one-half pounds of seed per acre. It may be sown broadcast, either with other fall forage crops or by itself, using from one to five pounds of seed per acre.
Fall nr Winter A hard^ strong growing I\ye, rail or VV inter annual, cultivated not only for its grain and straw, but valuable also for soiling and as a cover-crop and for use as green manure. It can be •successfully grown under greater extremes of climatic con- ditions than probably any other cereal, but makes its best -growth on soils containing less clay than some which are •adapted to wheat. Good drainage is very important. The time for sowing is from the middle of August to the last of September. Prepare the ground as for wheat and sow broadcast or with a drill at the rate of one and one-half bushels per acre.
DVA Used as a catch crop to sow where win- jprillg ivye ter grain has failed, and is grown for grain crop or turning under to improve the soil. Sow one and one-half bushels to the acre.
«« ITvmvmav A combination of Wheat, Oats opeiiz or nmmer and Barley, which is excellent for fattening cattle, poultry, horses, sheep, pigs, etc. Makes a heavy yield of grain and hay; excellent pasture, •and may be fed green. Sow 70 to 80 pounds per acre.
Sudan Grass (andropogon sorghum)
A sweet heavy-yielding grass, foliage, and seed resem- bles Johnson Grass, but is an annual. Root system is like oats. Seeds from 300 to 400 pounds per acre from Florida to Montana. Absolutely drought proof. Grows 6 to 10 feet high. Stems erect, unbranched, very leafy; three to four cuttings, 4% to 6% tons per acre of dry, sweet hay that cattle prefer to Cow Pea hay. Ripe for hay cutting in 70 days, and cut every 30 days following. Plant from
March to July in 18 to 30 inch rows, 5 pounds to acre, or broadcast 10 pounds. Each seed stools wonderfully — 20 to 40 stools per seed.
Sudan Grass is Without Doubt the Greatest Drought- Resistant Forage Crop Known. At the same time it does not blight where the moisture is heavy, and under good seasonable conditions it yields a larger tonnage of hay per acre than any other crop known. It recovers rapidly after cutting and the crop is usually ready for harvest within thirty days from the first cutting.
A revolution in haymaking. Sweeter than Johnson Grass, makes more hay, and yet an annual with no objectionable root system. Early Cow Peas, and Early Soy Beans and Sudan mix well.
Sugar Cane (sorghum)
Amkpr The best early variety and the one which we rYilAUCA especially recommend for the North where the
season is short. It is practically as early as the old Early Amber and yields much more per acre either of syrup or seed. The plant is large, of strong, vigorous, and erect habit and stands up much better than Early Amber. It may be planted as late as the fifteenth of June and will be in condition to harvest for syrup in September. Cane seed should not be planted before the weather is warm in the spring. Three to four pounds of seed are required per acre.
Farlv Oranap An exceedingly valuable variety; L,a,v v/ittllgc very large, of strong and vigorous habit and does not fall down. It is early and often yields as much as two hundred and forty gallons of very beauti- fully colored and highly flavored syrup to the acre. We recommend it highly to all desiring a superior cane.
Slinflnwpr LARGE RUSSIAN. This has very large GUllUUWcr single heads borne at the top of a single unbranched stalk usually, and with much more and larger seed than the common sorts. It is used extensively for feeding poultry. The plant often grows ten feet high. Sow seed as soon as ground is fit for planting corn, in rows three to four feet apart and ten inches apart in row. Cultivate same as corn. When the seed is ripe and hard, cut off the heads and pile loosely in a rail pen having a solid floor or in a corn crib. After curing so that they will thresh easily, flail out"or run through a threshing ma- chine and clean with^a fanning mill. This variety will yield 1,000 pounds or more of seed per acre. Some species are planted largely in the flower garden for ornament.
Soy or Soja Beans
THE GREAT LAND RENOVATOR — THE KING OF SUMMER FORAGE CROPS
This very valuable farm plant enriches the ground in which it is planted by the free nitrogen gathered from the air and which is deposited in the ground by the roots, leav- ing it in ideal condition and rich in nitrogen for the next crop. Fodder is relished in either green or dry form by cattle and dairy cows.
Soy, or Soja Beans, is an annual. Its character or growth resembles ordinary field beans. During the past few years the United States Department of Agriculture and State Experiment Stations have tested many varieties of Soy Beans and pronounced it a forage and grain plant of great promise. They are grown chiefly for hay, grain, silage, soiling, pasture, and as a soil renovator, are not hard to grow, not exacting to the character of soil and a valuable plant for forage, some claiming they have a higher pro- tein content than Alfalfa.
These beans should not be seeded until all danger of frost is past and the ground is thoroughly warmed, and usually sown from the middle of May until July.
It is best to plant beans only about one or two inches deep, or as shallow as moisture supply will permit, for the formation of a crust may prevent the beans from growing.
If grown for seed or silage, in drills 24 to 30 inches apart, sow about three pecks per acre.
If grown for hay or soiling, the foliage will be of a finer quality and be consumed with less waste; drilled solid, or sown broadcast using from one and one-half to two bushels per acre.
For hay, cut when pod begins to form.
For grain, cut just before beans are ripe, or when pods are beginning to take on a brownish black appearance. For silage, cut as near maturing as possible without drop- ping the leaves.
BLACK EBONY. A very early variety, maturing in
about 110 days. Very valuable variety.
BLACK EYEBROW. Same as Black Ebony, but sold
under name Black Eyebrow in some sections.
BLACK WILSON. A well-known early hay crop variety,
has fine stems and produces an abundance of foliage.
Matures in 110 days. Suitable for silage.
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Soy or Soja Beans— Continued
HABERLANDT. Seed yellow,, plant stout, bushy and erect. Produces an abundance of foliage making it desirable for hay, silage or green manuring, also suit- able for cover crop. Matures in about 125 to 130 days.
HOLLYBROOK. Good for hay or silage and an excellent grain producer; stout and upright growth. Matures three weeks earlier than Mammoth Yellow.
ITO SAN. Best known variety for a catch crop, as it matures in about 100 days. Grows about two to two and one-half feet high, stiff, branching and does not shatter as freely as some varieties. Good hay and grain variety.
MAMMOTH YELLOW. One of the best-known varieties, yielding an enormous amount of grain and forage, though late. Matures in about 145 days.
MANCHU. This well-known variety is a little later than Ito San and matures in about 110 days. Grows erect,
. bushy, therefore being excellent for hay, forage or seed yielding. Predict this to become one of the leading varieties.
MEDIUM YELLOW or A. K. Maturing medium early, upright growth, plenty foliage and medium stem. Ma- ture about the time most varieties of corn do, makes it an excellent variety for hogging off with corn; also produces a large amount of hay. Matures in about 110 days.
MIDWEST. Grouped together they include such varieties as Early Yellow, Hollybrook, Mongol, etc. Matures early and excellent for hay, silage or grain production.
MIXED VARIETIES. Used for hay or turning under and are used where a cheap variety is wanted.
MORSE GREEN. Good for hay or hogging down and a very heavy yielder and early. Beans do not shatter and matures in about 115 days.
OHIO BROWN. Grow and mature about the same as Mammoth Yellow, and yield about as much forage and grain. Not so well known but a good substitute for Mammoth Yellow.
VIRGINIA. One of the best-known varieties that yield an abundance of hay or silage, and do well on poor soil. Mature in about 125 days.
TpnQinfp (Reana Luxurians) Excellent for stock, A cudlliic either green during summer or dry dur- ing winter, and more nutritious and better liked than corn fodder by stock of all kinds. Grows well in this latitude, supplying an immense amount of fodder. Sow In May or June, in drills about four feet apart, using three pounds of seed per acre.
nr Tar^c SPRING. (Vicia sativa) A per- “ ciuica VII 1 dies ennial pea-like plant grown as an annual in the North. Desirable as a forage plant and valuable as a cover-crop for orchards. Culture same as for field peas. Sow ninety to one-hundred-twenty pounds per acre.
SAND, WINTER OR HAIRY (Vicia villosa)
V CldlCS a very hardy forage plant growing well on soils so poor and sandy that they will produce but little clover. Its nitrogen-gathering properties make it par- ticularly valuable as a soil renewer and enricher, but it is not recommended for land which is to be cultivated for grain crops on account of its tendency to volunteer and persist. The plants, when mature, are about forty inches high and if cut for forage as soon as full grown and be- fore setting seed, they will start up again and furnish even a larger crop than the first. Seed round, black, and should be sown thirty to sixty pounds per acre.
Field Cora
Our strains of corn are not the common kinds usually found in abundance on the market; we pay special atten- tion to the selecting of stocks in all lines of farm seeds. This is particularly true of field corns where re-selection means the limit of crops with little or no increase in cost. It is amazing to realize where the old unselected seed is used the average crop per acre is only half compared to the more intelligent selection of strains. Our stock is selected for size of ear and fodder, uniformity of kernel and the careful finish of the tip and butt, all of which means a considerable increase in production. Plant eight to ten quarts per acre in hills, sow two and one-half to three bushels broadcast for fodder. Never use feeding corn for seeding purposes.
M Cl C's-t'c. Truly a variety of great merit
OCCU s. offered and named by us and,
Perfected Golden Harvest w^Vea1!
favor wherever it has been tested. Beautiful in its rich
Golden Harvest Corn
golden color and profitable in its depth of grain and ears,, well filled out to the extreme end. Stalks, strong, vigor- ous with broad leaves, which make it a valuable fodder Corn. This variety offered to the public only after careful observation for a number of years. In the preparation of this Corn for Seed each ear is carefully selected, tipped and butted and hand-shelled, insuring corn of the highest per cent, germination.
True Yellow Learning £hr* ^SSg"4 A™
tensively-grown, large. Yellow Dent variety, which we have grown and sold with the greatest satisfaction for years. Our improved strain we do not believe is excelled, if equaled, by any other now offered. It has pure, glossy yellow ears, growing low, on very strong, heavy stalks; grains square and deep; ripens quite early — frequently in 100 days from planting.
Reid’s Thoroughbred Yellow Dent fZend]
any seed grain can* truly be called pedi- the Reid’s Yellow Dent Field Corn is certainly entitled to be known- as such, as its history dates many years back. It has been, bred up and selected with painstaking care to what is at the present time one of the best varieties of yellow corn- grown. Ear medium in size, remarkably uniform, and of a bright yellow color, with solid, deep grain and small, red cob. Has from 18 to 24 rows of kernels on the cob, 50 to- 60 grains in the row, and is well filled over the ends, and; especially the butt, leaving a small shank, which makes It a great favorite with huskers. Best shredding sort, as it shatters the least of any by actual test.
Boone County White Dent ™re if c?Hndrica!
to within about two inches of the tip, then slightly taper- ing. Tips fill well over the end and a large per cent, of the ears are entirely covered with grains; the butts are- well rounded out with a medium-sized shank, kernels very uniform wedge-shaped, pure white, and white cob; earn average about 10 inches in length with the circumference about three-fourths of the length.
Of strong and vigorous habit of growth and well covered, with broad blades — very valuable for ensilage. The length of season is about 120 days. This corn has been success- fully grown as far North as Ft. Wayne, Ind., or Marion, Ohio. We especially recommend it for the great corn growing valleys in latitudes of Columbus and South.
y* . One of the best yielding White Dent Oliver mine Corns. Cylindrical shape, tapering 8k little at the tip end; 18 to 20 rows; kernels deep and cobs small. A fine shelling and high-yielding variety.
D.J P-L A southern type of large, white
Ked Cob ensilage corn, with deep red cob, strong leafy stalks, and short joints. Adapted to all sections of the country, and a general favorite with thousands of dairy farmers.
Sugar Cora or Ensilage o?cuJ-
ing for winter than sweet corn. Cattle highly relish it, and when fed on it, keep in fine condition and give an. abundance of milk. It has the great merit of being s© sweet and palatable that cattle eat every part of the stalks- and leaves, and consequently none is wasted. Also ex- cellent for siloing. Sow thickly in drills or broadcast at the rate of two to three bushels per acre.
Seed Pop Corn
Plant two quarts to the acre.
lit /i O* A handsome variety, kernels long and.
W One Ixice pointed, very prolific. Price, Lb., 25c..
The stalks grow six feet high V^UCCll § UOiaen and the large ears are produced in abundance. It pops perfectly white. Price, Lb., 25c.
Ask for Lowest Market Prices on all Farm Seeds.
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Poultry Feeds and Supplies
The following is a lot of Poultry Feeds, etc., we always carry in stock in large quantities without prices quoted, owing to constant market fluctuations. We invite all who contemplate purchasing anything in the Poultry Supply line to get our special prices before buying elsewhere.
Hen Feeds
ALFALFA MEAL. BARLEY.
KAFFIR CORN.
BONE, GRANULATED. BRAN.
BUCKWHEAT.
BLOOD MEAL.
CRACKED CORN. CHARCOAL, Coarse, Me- dium, and Fine.
EGG MASH.
■GRIT, Coarse, Medium, and Fine.
HEMP.
KAFFIR CORN.
MILLET.
MIDDLINGS.
MEAT SCRAPS.
OATS.
OYSTER SHELLS, Coarse and Fine.
RYE.
SCRATCH FEED. SUNFLOWER SEED. SHELLED CORN. VETCHES.
WHEAT.
Chick Feeds
CHICK SCRATCH FEED. CONKEY’S BUTTERMILK FOOD.
DEVELOPING FEED. ALFALFA MEAL.
PIN HEAD OATS.
MILLET.
PRATT’S BABY CHICK FOOD.
CRUSHED OYSTER SHELLS, Fine.
MICA CRYSTAL GRIT, Fine.
PRATT’S BUTTERMILK BABY CHICK FOOD. PRATT’S BUTTERMILK GROWING MASH.
Pigeon Feeds
PIGEON FEED — MIXED —NO GRIT.
HEMP.
CANADA PIGEON PEAS. BARLEY FOR PIGEONS. PIGEON MILLET.
HARD WHEAT, RE- CLEANED.
VETCHES.
MICA PIGEON GRIT. OYSTER SHELLS, for Pigeons.
CRACKED CORN.
KAFFIR CORN.
MILLET.
•SOY BEANS.
Leg Bands
LEG BANDS — Celluloid Key Rings. American and Mediterranean breeds, 10 colors. Dozen, 15c; 50 for 45c; 100 for 75c. Chicken and Pigeon Size — Dozen, 10c; 50 for 30c; 100 for 50c.
Old Reliable Incubator
against chills. For many years one of the biggest difficulties that poultrymen had to overcome was the danger of the heating system failing in the middle of the hatch. Today this danger has been completely overcome by the perfection of the heating system in the Reliable Incubator. Guaranteed to hatch every hatchable egg or money refunded.
Reliable Coal-Burning Colony Brooder
Reliable Coal-Burning Colony Brooder is fa- mous for its ability to turn out large, healthy chicks. Stove is 15% heavier, has 10% larger coal capacity, a four- inch flue and will burn soft or hard coal. Also guaranteed.
Reliable Blue-Flame Brooder
Reliable Blue-Flame Brooder is a wickless oil heated hover easily ad- justed to any size flame desired without gas or smoke. It being valve- less, eliminates clogging so often the case in other makes. No pack- ing or stuffing box to come loose and leak oil. Also guaranteed.
We also carry in stock CONKEY’S and PRATT’S REMEDIES.
<Our Reliable Incubators are guaranteed to hatch every hatchable egg or money refunded,
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IMPROVED TOP FILL FOUNTAINS
Made in Three Popular Sizes Pure Fresh Water at all Times
Made of heavy galvanized iron, with double walls, which keeps the water cool in summer, and retards freezing in winter. Feeds automatically, no valves to get out of order. Fills from the top, thus avoiding the annoyance of spilling over while being filled. Thoroughly sanitary and as easily cleaned as an ordinary pail.
Can be hung up out of the litter, and the square pan gives drinking facilities for two pens at the same time.
Fill the fountain in the morning and the chickens have an all day’s supply of pure water at just the right temperature.
The best and most popular fountain on the market.
No. 1—1 Gal Each $1.75
No. 2—2 Gal... Each 2.50
No. 4—4 Gal Each 3.25
THE FAMOUS STAR FOUNTAIN AND FEEDER
STAR FOUNTAIN
(Patented)
Fits any Mason Jar in Sizes 1 Pint, 1 Quart, 2 Quarts.
Made of One Piece of Heavy Non- Rusting Metal. No Solder, No Seams, No Loose Parts.
No. 32 Star Fountains Each 10c.
WALL FOUNTAINS
Removable Bottom Easily Cleaned A practical and convenient style of fountain, made of heavy galvanized iron. Can be hung on the wall, up out of the litter.
A very popular style with many breeders.
Made with a removable bottom, so that all parts may be easily cleaned and kept in a sanitary condition. Capacity about one gallon.
No. 26. 1 gallon Each 75c.
WALL FOUNTAINS
Capacity 5 Gallons
A large capacity fountain, made of heavy galvanized iron.
This style appeals to many breeders as it is a strong substantial wall foun- tain at a low price. Excellently adapted for watering pigeons. Easily filled and nothing to get out of order.
No. 74—5 Gal Each $1.75
FOUNTAIN HEATER
Can be used with all styles of foun- tains, and effectively prevents water from freezing. When used with our No. 74 Wall Fount makes an ideal combination Heater-Fountain of large capacity.
Effectively solves the problem of a uniform supply of fresh, clear water at all times, no matter how cold the weather.
The lamp fount or bowl holds suffi- cient kerosene to burn continuously for seven days. Simple and safe. Noth- ing to get out of order.
No. 10. Price Each $1.00
BOTTOM FILL FOUNTAINS
This fountain fills the breeders re- quirements for a good inexpensive article. Made in two pieces accurately stamped and formed. Easily filled and cleaned. The round taper shape prevents bursting from freezing. Made of best quality galvanized iron in three popular sizes.
No. 19. 1 Quart Each $0.30
No. 20. 2 Quarts Each .40
No. 24. 1 Gallon ........ .Each .60
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IMPROVED WALL FOUNTAINS
Made of heavy galvanized iron, in three sizes. The covered outlet keeps out dust and dirt, and the outlet is further protected by a removable plate which prevents any floating rubbish from being drawn into the reservoir.
No. 97. 2 Quarts Each $0.90
No. 98. 1 Gallon Each 1.10
No. 99. 2 Gallons Each 1.10
BROODER FOUNTAINS
No brooder is complete without one of these simple, sanitary foun- tains. Fits in a corner of the brooder and occupies but a small space. Can be hung up if desired.
Baby chicks can not get wet. Easily cleaned.
Made of best quality galvanized iron. Packed 1 dozen in box.
No. O. 1 Quart Each 45c.
ROUND BABY CHICK FEEDERS
No. 11 FEEDER
(Patented)
The most popular baby chick feeder on the market.
Made of best quality galvanized iron, accurately stamped with dies, and well made in every detail.
The top fits snugly; yet can be easily taken apart for cleaning and filling.
A great feed saver; as the chicks can not get into it and contaminate the feed. Can also be used for water or milk.
Chickens can not upset it. Made in two popular sizes.
No. 11 — Diameter 6 in. with 8 holes. Price, Each 15c.
No. 12 — Diameter 8M in. with 12 holes. Price, Each 25c.
SINGLE FEEDING TROUGHS
Sliding top easily cleaned.
For chicks and growing stock. Made of the best quality galvanized iron, accurately stamped with dies. No sharp or rough edges to injure the chicks. Made in three sizes. Can
oe hung on the wall.
No. 55. Length 12 in Each $0.30
No. 56. Length 18 in Each .40
No. 57. Length 24 in Each .50
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DOUBLE FEEDING TROUGHS
Sliding top easily cleaned.
For chicks and growing stock. Made of best quality galvanized iron, accurately stamped with dies.
No sharp or rough edges to injure the chicks. Made in three sizes.
No. 58. Length 12 in Each $0.40
No. 59. Length 18 in Each .55
No. 60. Length 24 in Each .65
POULTRY VEGETABLE RACK
Made of best quality galvanized Iron, with galvanized wire rack. A practical device for holding roots, beets, cabbages, sprouted oats, clover, etc., and prevents scattering and wast- ing of the food.
The round bottom trough catches the small tender leaves, and is easily cleaned. The feed saved soon pays for the racks.
No. 44. Vegetable Rack... Each $0.75
FEED AND WATER CUP
A practical and convenient cup made to hang on the side of exhibition coops.
Capacity about 1 pint.
Best grade galvanized iron. Hangs straight on the side of the coop.
No. 61. Moe’s Feed and Water Cup. Each $0.15.
SQUARE BROOD COOPS
Shipped knocked down. Quickly set up.
Made of heavy, best . quality, gal- vanized iron. The bottom is remov- able so the coop can be easily cleaned and kept in a sanitary condition.
Provides a perfect shelter for both the hen and chicks.
Has a combination door which can be adjusted.
1 — To keep the hen in and permit the chicks their liberty.
2 — To keep both hen and brood in, with perfect protection against weather, rats, cats and other animals; and yet allow ample ventilation.
3 — To give both hen artd chicks their liherty.
Made collapsible to save freight and space. Quickly set up.
Size, 16 inches wide, 23 inches long, 16 inches high.
No. 49 Price Each $2.50
DRY MASH HOPPERS
No. 36
A Dry Mash Hopper of great merit, made of heavy galvanized iron. All parts accurately stamped with dies. The curved bottom keeps the feed within easy reach of the birds, and the taper shape of the hopper — larger at the bottom — prevents the feed from clogging.
The wire grid and the wires running from the flange through the wire grid prevent the fowls from throwing out or wasting the feed.
The sloping top prevents them from roosting on the hopper.
When both covers are closed it is rat, mouse, and weather proof.
Made in three sizes.
No. 35. Height 19 in.; width 8% in. Each $1.50.
No. 36. Height 19 in.; width 12 in. Each $1.95.
No. 37. Height 19 in.; width 24 in. Each $2.75.
GRIT AND SHELL BOXES
No. 45
The feeding of grit, ground shells, and charcoal is now recognized as an essential part of the diet, to keep fowls in healthy, prime condition. There is no more economical method of supplying grit, etc., than with these practical, inexpensive compartment boxes. No solder used in their con- struction.
Can also be used as feed hoppers for little chicks.
Made of heavy galvanized iron in three sizes. The No. 45 for baby chicks has a square bottom, the other sizes have round bottoms.
No. 45. Compartments two. Each $0.40.
No. 9. Compartments three. Each $0.85.
No. 90. Compartments four. Each
$1.20.
FEEDER AND EXERCISER
Rain and Snow Froof Bird and Rat Proof
Fill the hopper once a week and let the chickens do the rest. Moe’s Automatic Feeder will save more time and save more feed than any other fixture in a poultry yard.
It is adjustable to all sizes of flocks and to all sizes of chickens.
Increases egg production and fer- tility of the eggs.
Guaranteed to be rain and weather proof, rat and bird proof. Always ready to feed the chickens just as often and just as much as they want to eat, and at the same time makes them scratch and exercise in order to get it.
Insures maximum efficiency of your hens at a minimum of expense.
The lower bar is baited with corn. The bar revolves when the chickens peck at it, and releases some of the feed which falls on the deflector and is scattered in the litter to be scratched for by the fowls. Can be adjusted to feed any kind of grain in small or large quantities.
Made of heavy best quality gal- vanized iron in two sizes.
No. 52. Capacity 8 Quarts; height 22 in. Each $1.45.
No. 53. Capacity % bushel; height 28 in. Each $2.00.
PIGEON FEEDER
Pigeons are particular and fastidious feeders with a strong tendency to scatter and waste feed. Moes round Pigeon feeder was especially designed to overcome this. Made of heavy gal- vanized iron, with feeding holes prop- erly spaced all around the hopper
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PIGEON FEEDERS
(Continued)
The hopper has a slanting bottom leading through large tube to the feeding bottom. This feeding trough or bottom is also made on a slant causing the birds to reach for the food and prevents them from billing the feed out and wasting it.
A practical, economical feeder which will soon save its cost.
No. 105 Each $1.00
No. 106 Each 1.50
SCRAPER AND CLEANER
Made of heavy galvanized iron, and Is just the thing for cleaning out brood coops, nests and dropping boards. It gets into the corners, which are often overlooked. Length 10 in.
No. 47. Scraper and Cleaner. Each
$0.20.
HIGH GRADE RED FELT LAMP WICKS
A good wick is very important, especially when it is in continuous use as on a brooder or incubator lamp. Our wicks are special high grade red felt, and a big improvement over the old style loosely woven cotton wicks, which often get clogged in the burner shaft. No loose threads to burn uneven and smoke.
No. 208. Width % in.; for burner No. 1. Doz. $0.25.
No. 209. Width % in.; for burner No. 2. Doz. $0.45.
No. 210. Width 1% in.; for burner No. 3. Doz. $0.55.
EGG TESTER
To test the fertility of eggs during the period of incubation. Used with an ordinary lamp (No. 2 burner) in dark room.
It will illuminate the interior of the egg, and show if the chick is alive, and also shows the size of the air cell in the egg. Made in one size only.
No. 48. Egg Tester. Each $0.25.
AUTOMATIC POULTRY FOUNTAIN
A perfect automatic valve and float, to regulate the flow of water to a drinking dish. The valve mechanism is entirely of brass, nickel finish, with nothing about it to rust or clog up. Positive in action.
The valve can be attached to any iron water pipe, or to a barrel or tank, and insures a continuous, automatic supply of water, without waste.
Valve is threaded for % inch iron pipe.
No. 30. Automatic Valve and Float only. Each $0.90.
No. 31. Water pan only. Made of heavy galvanized iron. Diam. 9 in., depth, 5 in. Each $0.40.
No. 31-A. Automatic Valve and Pan complete, as illustrated. Each $1.25.
NEVER FAIL TRAP NESTS
A simple, thoroughly practical, and inexpensive nest.
A good trap nest is the only way of ascertaining which are the prof- itable hens as it makes it possible to keep an accurate record of each hen’s performance.
The door is so arranged that upon the hen’s entrance the trap falls auto- matically, preventing her getting out, but allowing plenty of air and ample ventilation above and below the trap bar.
Moe’s nests are easily kept clean as all parts are readily accessible. Made of heavy galvanized iron, all sev up ready for use.
Packed one in a box. Made in two sizes. The No. 34 is for extra large birds.
No. 33. Size 12 in. square. Each $1.45.
No. 34. Size 12 x 12 x 14% inches. Each $2.00.
TRAP NEST FRONT
A new inexpensive and useful device which meets a popular demand and has proven to be a big seller.
Made of best quality galvanized iron, simple in operation, with no small loose parts to get out of order.
Can be easily fitted to any orange or ordinary wood box or coop and gives the breeder the opportunity to use a size nest best adaptable to his birds, with a uniform automatic trap feature suitable for any breed of fowl.
It is the same front used on our trap nests shown above and while it effectively traps the hen, yet allows ample ventilation.
Door is hinged, making it easy to remove the hen or clean the nest. Made in one size. Dimensions 11 in. wide by 12 in. high.
No. 63. Trap nest front.. Each $0.50
COAL BURNING COLONY BROODER
Coal Burning Colony Brooder is a thoroughly reliable, highly efficient and practical brooder or hover.
Simple in construction, no compli- cated or unnecessary parts. Provides
an even, continuous, and correct tem- perature at all times. Gives the chickens an abundance of pure fresh air, with ample room for them to get sufficient exercise.
Fine healthy, vigorous chicks raised to early maturity, with little or no loss.
Plenty of fresh air with no danger of getting chilled.
The Stove has a large deep fire pot, burns most any kind of fuel, but we recommend hard coal in chestnut size. It is filled from the top and takes 3 in. smoke pipe.
Has a large ash pit easy of access. The bottom of the ash pit is raised from the floor and further protected with a pad of asbestos.
Keeps a steady fire through the night in the coldest weather. The grate is in two sections, rocker type, center dump, making it easy to keep clean, bright fire at all times.
Automatic control. The fire is auto- matically regulated by twin thermo- stats which open and close the check draft on top of stove. Easily adjusted to any .desired degree of heat, and after adjustment at the beginning of the season needs no further attention.
The Hover or Deflector is of heavy galvanized iron, mounted on a cast iron ring, complete with pulleys and rope. Easily raised and lowered, and the stove can also be reached and attended to .through a round door in the deflector. Shipped in sections in a compact crate and quickly put to- gether.
Brooders are strong and substan- tial in every detail, but still not too heavy or cumbersome, so they can be readily moved from one colony house to another. Easier to move the brooder than the chicks.
No. 112. Diameter of Hover 42 in.; capacity chicks 500; height of stove 18 in.; diameter of fire pot 10% in.; shipping weight with Hover 80 lbs. Each $22.00.
No. 113. Diameter of Hover 52 in.; capacity chicks 1000; height of stove 22 in.; diameter of fire pot 11% in.; shipping weight with Hover 95 lbs. Each $27.00.
No. 114. Smoke Pipe. Diameter 3 in. Black sheet iron, in 2 ft. lengths. Per Length $0.18.
No. 115. Corrugated Elbows. Diam eter 3 in., black. Each $0.18.
No. 117. Chimney Collars. Size 6 x 3 in. Each $0.08.
LAMP BOWLS
Heavy galvanized iron bowls or founts for Incubators, Brooders and Fountain Heaters. Made in three sizes. The two larger ones are strongly braced and reinforced on the inside; making the top and bottom perfectly rigid. No give or spring to the top which is a common fault with ordi- nary bowls.
No. 100. Lamp bowl, diameter
6 in.; height 1% in. Has a side handle. Takes size 1 burner. This la the same bowl as used in our No. 10 Fountain Heater. Each $0.50.
No. 101. Lamp Bowl, diameter 7 in.; height 2% in. Takes size 2
burner, and size 2 chimney. Each $0.60.
No. 102. Lamp Bowl, diameter 8 in.; height 2% in. Takes size 3
burner and size 3 chimney. Each
$0.75.
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“IDEAL” POULTRY PUNCH
A new improved punch, scissors type. Works easily, cuts clean and does not pinch the foot.
Convenient to carry in vest pocket, and the lower end is an excellent cigar cutter.
Nickel Plated Finish. Length 3% inches.
No. 39. Ideal Punch. Price each $0.50.
POULTRY PUNCH
A popular and practical punch for marking baby chicks.
Punches a clean hole in the web between the toes, and will not bruise the foot. Guaranteed to work perfectly.
No. 38. Poultry Punch, each $0.25.
REGAL EGG CARRIERS
This “Safety First” box is adapted to either Parcel Post or Express use and can be used time after time. It is so strong that it will more than bear your own weight, and so safe that when filled with eggs, it will withstand the severest jolt without breaking an egg. Manufactured of strong corrugated fibre board in four
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LICE REPELLING WHITE NEST EGG
A white, sanitary, lice repelling nest egg of superior quality and appear- ance. They are unsurpassed as a dis- infectant in the poultry house and aid greatly in keeping the nest and the hen free from vermin.
Closely imitate a real egg in appear- ance, and contain a powerful disin- fectant. Some breeders recommend placing one in a corner of each nest under the straw.
Soon pay for themselves in in- creased yield.
Lice Repelling Nest Eggs oc Each, ‘Per Dozen $0.50
CHINA NEST EGGS
Made of white porcelain, natural in appearance, and uniform in size. Will not easily break.
They induce the hen to lay where •she should — in the nests provided for her.
China Nest Eggs 5c Each, Per '.Dozen $0.35.
WIRE HEN NESTS
Made of coppered steel wire, with flat steel ribs, and a heavy top wire, all copper finish.
Provides a clean, sanitary nest for the setting hen. Easily kept free from vermin. Intended to fasten to wall with nails or screwhooks. Can be
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OAT SPROUTER
Made entirely of metal. Strong and rigid.
Provides the very necessary green feed at all seasons. Healthy chickens and more eggs.
The frame is of steel, well braced and neatly painted. Has six heavy galvanized iron pans. Five of the pans have perforated bottoms to se- cure the proper drainage, and the bottom pan is solid to hold the drip- pings. Pans are interchangeable. Sectional frame can be quickly taken apart and stored in a small space.
Total height of frame 3 ft. Size of pans 16 in. by 18 in.
No. 110. Oat Sprouter. Each $0.00.
MANN’S NEW MODEL BONE CUTTERS
The easiest running and the most rapid, green bone cutting machine made. Has a perfect automatic and self governing feed. Adjustable to cut coarse or fine, fast or slow. The hinged open cylinder is easy to clean and adjust without taking the ma- chine apart. The bones are dropped in the open cylinder, no careful feed- ing or packing necessary. The ma- chine regulates itself to the resistance of various size bones.
The special steel knives keep their keen edge a long time, but can be easily ground sharp when needed.
No. 230. Style 5C. With crank handle. Diam. of cylinder 6 in. Ship- ping weight 35 lbs. Each $12.50.
No. 231. Style 5B. With balance 'wheel. Diam. of cylinder 6 in. Ship- ping weight 60 lbs. Each $15.50.
No. 232. Style 5BM. With balance wheel and mounted on heavy iron stand. Diam. of cylinder 6 in. Ship- ping weight 85 lbs. Each $18.15.
No. 233. Style 7. Hand power only. With balance wheel and mounted on heavy iron stand. Diam. of cylinder 7% in. Shipping weight 107 lbs. Each $20.75.
No. 234. Style 7 Yz. Hand or power. Tight and loose pulleys. Diam. 11% in. by 2% in. face. Diam. of cylinder 7% in. Capacity 50 to 100 lbs. of bone per hour. Horse power required % to 1. Shipping weight 150 lbs. Each $29.00.
“ZENITH” LAMP BURNERS
A “No Chimney” burner for Incu- bators, Brooders, Fountain Heaters, etc. Perfect combustion without a chimney. When used with our lamp fount the No. 1 burner is suitable for a lamp box 7 in. high, and the No. 2 burner for a lamp box 9 in. high.
No. 200. Size 1; diameter of thread % in.; diameter of cone 2% in.; size wick % in. Each $0.50.
No. 201. Size 2; diameter of thread in.; diameter of cone 3 in.; size wick % in. Each $0.65.
REDUCING COLLARS
Made of brass to reduce size of burner on oil fount.
No. 204. Reduce burner from size
2 to 1. Each $0.07.
No. 205. Reduce burner from size
3 to 2. Each $0.13.
METAL CHIMNEYS
For Incubators and Brooders. Made of galvanized sheet steel, with round mica windows. The mica can be easily replaced if it should accidently be broken. In two sizes.
No. 103. Metal chimney. Height 6 in. Fits size 1 and 2 burners. Price each $0.25.
No. 104. Metal chimney. Height 6 in. Fits size 3 burner. Price each $0.25.
“SUN” HINGED LAMP BURNERS
Used extensively by Incubator and Brooder manufacturers. So designed that perfect combustion is insured. Easily cleaned and trimmed.
No. 202. Size 2; diameter of thread in.; diameter of cone 2% in.; size wick % in. Each $0.45.
No. 203. Size 30; diameter of thread 1% in.; diameter of cone 3T% in.; size wick 1% in. Each $0.65.
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POULTRY SUPPLIES— Continued
MASTER BREEDER CHICK BOXES
Represent the best qual- ity of material and work- manship obtainable. The box is well ventilated — built to offset acute weather changes. Partition boards on both 50 and 100 chick size are made full height to add greater strength to the box and to prevent chicks from crowding over the tap, becoming squeezed and injured. Holes punched in partition boards will give cross ventilation if desired. Covers are attrac-
tively printed “Baby Chicks.”
No. S 25 — 25 chick size 15c Ea.
No. S 50 — 50 chick size ....20c Ea.
No. S100 — 100 chick size 30c Ea.
Chick Box
HATCHAN EGG BOX
This box is so constructed with filler inserted, that it will resist crushing and blows received when in transit much better than a one-piece box or a box with- out a filler, such as the average box now on the market. Designed particu- larly for transportation of valuable eggs for hatching. The maximum of safety is assured.
No. 3-15 egg 25c Ea.
No. -1-30 egg 40c Ea.
No. 5-50 egg 50c Ea.
Hatchan Egg Box
SHIPPING COOP
A m'at, strong, light weight coop — low in price — made in three parts. The top and bottom are made of wood so flanged that the body (which is one piece of waterproof corrugated fibre board) is quickly fastened in (place with absolute se- curity. The end holes serve as ventilation and are con- venient in handling this coop.
This is an exceptionally strong package, particularly adapted to fancy fowls be- cause there are no rough edges nor sharp corners on Shipping Coop the sides. The cellular
construction of the body provides more protection against changes of temperature than if the box were of wood construction.
B — 33 lbs.— 21x12x22 .....$0.70 Ea.
C— 41 lbs.— 21x18x22 90 Ea.
D — 50 lbs. — 21x24x22 1*00 Ea!
New Model Metal Egg and Butter Carriers
ISgga
Have proven themselves, by their thousands of users, to be the only practical idea for shipping Eggs, Butter and other farm products by Parcel Post.
The new patented Filler made of cardboard, circular in shape (like an egg) and reinforced, insures strength, yet retains lightness in weight, is a wonder for safety and durability. It is so constructed that shocks from all sides are absorbed without injuring the eggs. It is practically egg-break proof, unless the egg is cracked before shipping.
1 8 Eggs 2-1 Eggs
Price — Eggs
$1.25 Ea. 1.50 Ea.
Price — Combination
12 Eggs— 2 lbs. Butter $1.50 Ea.
24 Eggs — 4 lbs. Butter 2.00 Ea.
We have on hand a supply of all sizes and combina- tions. Get a Circular on same.
PAGEL’S SANITARY NON-FREEZE DRINKING FOUNTAIN
Pagel’s Sanitary Fountain is made of galvanized iron.
It is similar in construction to the fireless cooker, being packed with a non-conduct- ing material which retains the temperature of the water.
The drinking cup which con- tains only water exposed, forms a connection between the outer and inner can, and does not project beyond outer can. There being no chance for droppings, the cause of so much disease, to get into the water. A separate cup is also provided that can be removed and cleaned at any time.
This cup catches the food and dirt that adheres to the fowls’ beaks and is naturally deposited in the drinking water.
By preventing this accumu- lation from entering the main water chamber the water is kept sweet and clean, and by keeping the water clean, the bottom of the can is prevented from rusting, as it is- this sediment settling on the bottom of the can that causes- it to rust.
You will notice in reading articles written by author- ities on egg production that clean water of the right temperature and plenty of it, which Pagel’s Sanitary Fountain is guaranteed to supply, is an absolute necessity to good health and heavy egg production.
DIRECTIONS FOR USING
Do not remove cover of fountain. Lay fountain back on legs provided, to keep it from rolling, remove cup. and pour water in funnel shaped opening. To empty, tip- fountain forward and water will run out freely. During extremely cold weather best results are obtained by filling fountain in the evening with hot water, this will gradually cool in the night and heat the packing, which in turn, will keep the water warm when but a little is left in fountain. One filling a day is all that is necessary. It is a good idea to place the fountain on a shelf about 18- inches from the floor, this prevents fowls from scratching litter into drinking cup.
PRICE— No. 2, $3.50; No. 3, $4.00; No. 5, $5.00.
CARBOLA
Carbola is a white paint in powder form combined with a disinfectant twenty times stronger than carbolic acid. It is ready to use as soon as mixed with water— no waiting or straining.
Carbola will not clog the sprayer. It does not blister, flake or peel off. It dries out white with a smooth finish. It doesn’t spoil by standing, even after it is mixed with water. It paints and disinfects at one operation and is recommended for use in poultry houses, stables, cellars, dog kennels, hog pens, dairies, garages and outbuildings. It saves time, labor and money and gives far better results than can be had from the old-fashioned use of whitewash and disinfectants. Put up in various sizes.
PRICE — 5 Lb. Pkg. 75c; 10 Lb. Pkg. $1.25; 50 Lb. Bag $5.00. Also put up in 300 Lb. Bbls.
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Garden Tools and Sundries
The prices in this Catalog are necessarily those in effect at the time it goes to press. We can not guarantee them lor an entire season.
We will mail any articles that we can, Provided Postage Is Remitted With Order, 1st lb. 5c, each additional lb. lc.
Asparagus Knife
r SPARAGUS KNIFE.' Each 50c.
FERTILIZERS. See page 85.
FLOWER POTS. See page 85.
FUMIGATING LAMP. Metal, for vaporizing nicotine. 75c.
GARDEN TOOL SETS. For women and children; rake, hoe and shovel. $1.50. ’
GLAZING POINTS. Peerless, made in three sizes — No. 1, for small single thickness giass; No. 2, for medium double thick glass; No. 3, for large double thick glass. Per 1,000, 60c; postpaid. 75c.
Hand Corn Planter
CORN PLANTER. A real necessity in replanting corn, both field and sugar. Each $1.50.
iron Dibble Wood- Handle Dibble Spade Handle Dibble CULTIVATORS. See page 84, “Weedera,” page 84. CULTURES. For legumes, see page 72.
DIBBLES. For transplanting plants, iron, 60c; wood handle, 75c; spade handle, 90c.
Small Hand Fork
Large Hand Fork
FORKS. Hand spading, small, 50c; larger, 73c. Spading, 4 tines, $2.00; 5 tines, $2.25; boys’, $1.00.
GRAFTING WAX. % lb., 15c; 1 Id., 40c.
GRASS EDGING KNIVES. With handles, English, 8-in., $2.00; 9-in., $2.25; American, 9-in., $1.00.
GRASS HOOKS OR SICKLES. English, riveted back, No. 2, 90c; No. 3, 95c; No. 4, $1.00; solid, 70c.
Little Giant, 75c.
HANGING BASKETS. Painted galvanized wire, S-in., 20c; 10-in., 25c; 12-in., 30c; 14-in., 35c; 16-in., 50c.
IIOES. Combined hoe and rake. 4 teeth rake, 90c; 6 teeth, $1.00.
Garden, 1 point, 60c; 2 points, 70c.
Grubbing, blade 7x9 in., $1.50.
Forged steel, 5-in., 90c; 6-in., 90c; 7-in., 95c; 9-in., $1.25.
Square, 6-in., 90c; 7-in., 95c; 8-in., $1.00; 14-in., celery.
$2.00.
Warren, 7-in., $1.25; 7% -in., $1.50.
Baby Warren hoes, short handle, 4% -in. blade, 50c.
HOSE, RUBBER. Moulded, for garden and greenhouse.
Red, best made, %-in., per foot, lhc.
Black, %-in., per foot, 16c.
SASH, UNGLAZED. Made from strictly clear cypress lumber. White lead used on the tendons, and iron dowel pins at the corners. 4x6 ft., 5 rows, 8-in glass, $4.50 each.
We also carry in stock regulation size Sash Glazed second hand but good. $1.00 to $3.50 each.
LABELS, WOOD. For pots, painted.
4x %-in., per 100, 30c; per 1,000, $2.50.
5x %-in., per 100, 35c; per 1,000, $3.00.
6x %-in., per 100, 40c; per 1,000, $3.50.
Sx %-in., per 100, $1.00; per 1,000, $8.00.
lOx % -in., per 100, $1.00; per 1,000, $9.00.
12x1 % -in., per 100, $1.25; per 1,000, $11.50.
LABELS. Tree, notched, copper wired, per 100, 40c; per 1,000, $3.00.
LABELS. Heavily waxed paper, copper wired, none bet- ter, per 100, 35c; per 1,000, $2.90.
LEAF MOULD. Peck, 25c; bu., 75c.
MOLE TRAPS. Reddilc, 75c; Schroeter, $1.25.
MOSS, SPAGNU3I. For growing orchids and packing plants. Bale, $1.50.
MOSS, SHEET. Bale, 50c.
PUTTY, BLACK GLAZING. Gives with the vibration of the house, saving in cracked or broken glass. Further, glass set with Black Glazing Putty is easily removed when desired. Gal., $2.00; 10 gal. drum, $1.15 per gal.
PUTTY BULB. A useful tool for applying liquid putty and glazing greenhouses. $1.35.
PEAT, JERSEY. Peck, 25c; bu., 75c.
POTTING SOIL. Peck, 35c; bu., $1.25.
PUTTY MACHINE. Made of good steel, $3.50; new style, $5.00.
RAFFIA. Tough and pliable. Best for tying plants. Lb., 50c; 5 Lbs., $2.00.
ROLLERS
Water ballast. Is a very easy running roller, having roller bearings and counter- poise weights, which counter- balance weight of handle. The special feature of this roller is that it can be adjusted to any weight with water. Coun- terpoise, $4.50 extra; not in- cluded in following prices;
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No. |
Diam. |
Width |
Empty |
Filled |
Price |
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3 |
14-in. |
20-in. |
46 lbs. |
150 lbs. |
$12.50 |
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5 |
18-in. |
23-in. |
76 lbs. |
300 lbs. |
15.00 |
|
7 |
24-in. |
24-in. |
95 lbs. |
500 lbs. |
18.00 |
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GARDEN TOOLS AND SUNDRIES— Continued
SAND. For propagating, peck, 40c; bu., $1.25.
RAKES. Garden, straight steel teeth, 10 teeth, 90c; 12 teeth, 95c; 14 teeth, $1.00.
Bow steel teeth, 12 teeth, $1.00; 14 teeth, $1.10 Lawn, Ames, wood, with 3 steel bows, $1.50.
Hustler, galvanized, steel wire, 24 teeth, $1.00; 36 teeth, $1.25.
Lawn King, wood, 22 teethf 75c; 26 teeth, $1.00.
'RAT EXTERMINATOR. Guaranteed to kill them and leaves no odor. Price 25c.
•SAUCERS. See page 85.
SEED SOWER. Little Giant, $2.25.
Horn, $1.00.
Cyclone, one of the best, $2.50.
•SCYTHES. English, riveted back, 30 and 32-in., $3.00; 34-in., $3.25; 36-in., $3.25; 38-in„ $3.50.
American, $2.25; heavy bush, short blade, $2.25. SCYTHE STONES. English Talacre, 35c; Darby, 25c; Carborundum, 35c.
SHEARS
GRASS. Border without wheel, American, 8-in., $3.00
9- in., $3.25; 10-in. , $3.50; imported, 8-in., $1.00; 9-in., $4.25; 10 -in., $4.75.
Border, with wheel, American, 8-in., $4.50; 9-in., $4.75;
10- in., $5.00; imported, 8-in., $4.75; 9-in., $5.00; 10-in., $5.25.
. Hand pruning, first quality, 6-in„ ladies’, $1.75; 8-in., $2.50; 9-in., $2.75.
Second quality, 8-in., $1.25; 9-in., $1.50.
Wiss, 9-in., heavy. We believe this the best shear made, $3.50.
Hedge, American, notched, 8-in., $2.00; 9-in., $2.25;
10-in., $2.50; 12-in., $3.00.
Hedge, Simplicity, $4.00; better grade, $6.00.
Tree Pruning, 8-ft. pole, 90c; 10-ft. pole, $1.50.
SHOES, WOODEN. We carry all sizes and shapes con- stantly. $1.00 to $1.50 per pair.
SHOVELS. Hound point, D handle, $2.25; long - handle, $2.25.
Square point, D handle, $2.25; long handle, $2.25. SPADES. $2.25; ladies’, $1.25; special long strap nursery spade, $3.25.
PLANT STAKES
Heavy Rose or Dahlia. Bound, painted green.
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Each Doz. |
100 |
Each Doz. |
100 |
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3 ft. $0.14 $1.50 |
$10.75 |
5 |
ft. |
$0.22 $2.50 |
$18.25 |
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4 ft. |
.17 1.85 |
14.25 |
6 |
ft. |
.28 |
3.19 |
22.35 |
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Square. |
Painted green. |
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Each Doz. |
100 |
Each |
Doz. |
100 |
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1% ft. |
$0.03 $0.30 |
$1.85 |
3% ft. |
$0.14 |
$1.25 |
$9.00 |
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2 ft. |
.06 .54 |
3.50 |
4 |
ft. |
.17 |
1.60 |
12.00 |
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2% ft. |
.07 .75 |
5.50 |
5 |
ft. |
.25 |
2.25 |
16.00 |
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3 ft. |
.11 1.00 |
7.00 |
6 |
ft. |
.30 |
2.75 |
18.00 |
Western Cane Stakes. These must not be confused with the Southern stock. While not quite as large, they are much firmer and will outlast the Southern cane many times
over.
6 to 8 ft $3.00
9 to 12 ft 5.00
Green Hyacinth Stakes. Wood.
12 in., per 100, 30c; per 1,000... $2.50
18 in., per 100, 40c; per 1,000. 3.50
“ADJUSTO” PLANT SUPPORT is a marvel for simplic- ity and efficiency. It consists of two parts; an oak stake pointed at the bottom and painted green, and a hoop of the toughest wire, also painted green to prevent rust.
It contains no nails, hooks or screws. It holds securely any flower or plant and can be adjusted to any height to conform with the plant’s growth.
ADJUSTO PLANT STAKES, COMPLETE
18-in $0.10 48-in ....$0.35
24-in 12% 60-in 40
36-in 30 72-in 45
ADJUSTO PLANT STAKES, WITHOUT WIRES
36-in $0.15 60-in .....$0.25
48-in 20 72-in 30
TROWELS. American, 6-in., 20c.
English pattern, 7-in., 50c.
Steel shank, extra heavy, 75c.
Transplanting, 30c.
Ladies, 15c.
American Beauty, 50c.
Hoe trowel, 75c.
THERMOMETERS. We carry the best make Incubator or Brooder Thermometers. 75c to $1.50 each.
General purpose variety, best made. 60c to $2.00. TUBS. American style. See page 84.
TWINE. White cotton, 3, 4, 6 ply, lb. 45c.
Jute, 2, 3, 5 ply, lb. 30c.
WATERING CANS. 8 qt 85
4 qt. .$0.65 10 qt. ........ ... 1.00
6 qt .... .75 12 qt. ............... 1.20
Above cans are extra heavy galvanized.
WEEDERS. Excelsior, 15c; Magic, 35c.
Dandelion, Lawn Weeder, $1.00.
Magic Garden Cultivator and Weeder, 4-tine, 75c; 3-tine, 50c.
WINDOW BOXES. Self-watering. See page 85.
Adjusto Plant Support Watering Can
Transplanting Trowel
English Trowel
Steel Shank American American Trowel Beauty Trowel Trowel
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Wheel Hoes, Cultivators and Seeders
Much of the tedious, back-breaking seeding, wee ling, and hoeing are eliminated by the use of adjust- able wheel tools. Being light and simple in construction they are practical tools for women and children. Market Gardeners use them making possible accurate sowing and thorough cultivation in rows too narrow for horse tools.
SEND FOR A PLANET JR. CATALOGUE. It is possible to list only a few of these tools here since the line includes a very complete assortment of hand and horse tools, both for one and two horses.
No. 16. SINGLE WHEEL HOE.
Designed to do all work required in the small garden: plowing, cultivat- ing, hoeing and raking. It is very light, and can therefore be easily carried about. Price, $8.50.
No. 12. DOUBLE AND SINGLE WHEEL HOE COMBINED. The arch is high enough to straddle a row until plants are 20 inches high; this insures close work. It can be altered into an admirable single wheel hoe for working between rows. Price. $10.25.
No. 4. COMBINED HILL AND DRILL SEEDER AND SINGLE WHEEL HOE. The small grower should select one of the combined machines. The drill attachment will not be used as often as the hoeing and cultivating tools, but will be a source of much saving. This machine is a special favorite. There are prob- ably more of them in use in the world than any other Seeder made. As a Hill and Drill Seeder it opens the furrow, deposits the seed, covers it and rolls it, either in drills or hills. Holds 2V2 quarts. Price, $17.50.
No. 31. COMBINED D R I L 1 SEEDER AND SINGLE WHEEI HOE. This machine is thoroughly well made and offered at a price that makes it pay the very small gardener. Holds one quart. Price, $13.75.
Combined Hill and Drill Seeder and Single Wheel Hoe
FAIRY CULTIVATOR. A very useful and moderate priced wheel hoe. Price, $3.20,
THE TRUE TEMPER GENEVA, No. G-2, is recognized everywhere as the only real Quick-Adjustable Cultivator on the market today. It has a Scuffle Hoe, a Plow and five Cultivator Teeth, all perma- nently
Combined Drill Seeder and Single Wheel Hoe
Efficient — inexpensive — Easy to Operate
frame.
A Cultivator with Exclusive Features
attached to the Any of these tools may be securely locked into working position by a few urns of the Hand Wheel. No lost attachments or wrenches to look for.
Every gardener knows and appreciates the value of time — that is one reason why this Cultivator is such ;a favorite. Price, $8.00.
Combined True Temper Plow, Wheel Hoe Cultivator
True Temper Wheel Cultivator
Magic Weeders and Cultivators
Adjustable From y/ 7 To is Inches
CULTIVATOR, HAND GARDEN. The Prongs are square spring steel bent Cornerwise, with forged shovels at ends. The Socket Frame and Clamping Bar are made of tough- est malleable. Handle best grade of White Ash; 4 feet long. 9-Tooth Cultivator, $1.50; 5-Tooth Cultivator, 75c.
MAGIC WEEDER.
One of the best hand tools, saving time and labor. It is made in different styles as shown by the cuts and can be used both for cutting and dig- ging out weeds, as well as for making rows, if desired.
Style D
Magic Weeder and Cultivator
Style E — 4 Tines, Handle 4 ft Price, 45c.
Style A — 3 Tines, Handle 6 in !..!!.!!! Price! 15c.
Style D — 1 Tines, Handle 6 in ! Price! 45c!
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FERTILIZERS
ASK FOR SPECIAL PRICES IN LARGE QUANTITIES
Every ton of manure and straw should be saved and hauled to the field. Fertilizers should be ordered early and used on all intensively grown crops. They mean bigger crops and save labor at a time when it is scarce, in that they make every acre return its utmost for the work expended upon it. All Fertilizers delivered free of charge, and prices quoted subject to market change with- out notice. If large quantities are wanted ask for special prices.
ASHES, HARD WOOD. Indispensable for all crops requiring potash; very beneficial for lawns. Apply one to two tons per acre. Per Lb. 10c; 50 Lbs. $1.50; 100 Lbs. $2.50.
BLOOD, DRIED. For flowering plants. Its chief ele- ment being nitrogen. Per Lb. 15c; 25 Lbs. $2.00; 100 Lbs. $7.00.
BONE. PURE GROUND. This is ground very fine, decomposes more rapidly in the soil than coarser grades, and is therefore more quickly beneficial. Per Lb. 10c; 10 Lbs. 65c; 25 Lbs. $1.25; 50 Lbs. $2.00; bag 125 Lbs. $4.25.
CATTLE MANURE. Shredded and dried, therefore more concentrated than it is from the stable. Price, 100 Lbs. $2.25.
EXCELSIOR PLANT FOOD. For Ferns and Other House Plants. An odorless preparation combining in a concentrated and soluble form every element required in plants and flower? to produce vigorous growth and a pro- fusion of flowers. It is immediately soluble in water, and available to plant life from the moment of application. Small Pltg. 15c; Medium Pkg. 25c; Large Pkg. 35c; 5 Lbs. $1.50.
11UMUS. That portion of soil formed by decomposition of animal and vegetable matter. A valuable constituent of soil. Price per bag. Per. Lb. 5c; 5 Lbs. 25c; 25 Lbs. 75c; 50 Lbs. $1.25; 100 Lbs. $1.75.
LIMESTONE AGRICULTURAL. Destroys Soil Acidity — Loosens Up Clay Soils— Tightens Up Sandy Soils. Puts soils in better condition. Apply at the rate of 2,000 to 4,000 lbs. per acre, and may be applied at any season of the year. Per Pkg. 10c; 100 Lb. Bag $1.25; 500 Lbs., $5.50.
MURIATE OF POTASH. One of the most necessary fertilizers. This fertilizer is entirely imported. Per Lb. 15c; 25 Lbs. $2.00; 100 Lbs. $5.00.
NITRATE OF SODA. Contains about 16 per cent, nitro- gen, equal to 20 per cent, ammonia. If plants are slow in
taking hold a small quantity will be found beneficial. Per Lb. 15c; 10 Lbs. $1.00; 25 Lbs. $2.00; 50 Lbs. $3.00; 100 Lbs. $5.50.
ACID PHOSPHATE 16%. Invaluable for all crops. Analysis — Available Phos. Acid, 16 per cent.; Insoluble, 1 per cent. Per Lb. 5c; 25 Lbs. $1.00; 50 Lbs. $1.50; bag 125 Lbs. $2.50.
PULVERIZED SHEEP MANURE. This is a pure, nat- ural manure, and one of the most nutritious foods for plants. Its effect is immediate. It is very rich, safe, and gives quick results. It will give excellent results on flower beds, lawns, or in vegetable gardens, as it contains all the elements for promoting a quick, luxuriant growth, as well as adding body to the plant. Can be used either in dry form or dissolved to make a liquid manure. If applied dry, no raking off is required, as it does not disfigure the grounds, nor does it contain seeds of foul weeds, nor offen- sive odor. It is especially desirable for lawns, producing a quick luxuriant growth of rich green color, that will enable the grass to withstand the heat and drought of summer. Per Pkg. l«c; 5 Lbs. 30c; 10 Lbs. 50c; 25 Lbs. $1.00; 50 Lbs. $1.50; 100 Lbs. $2.50.
STIM-U-PLANT TABLETS. As every kind of plant grows in the garden, orchard and farm, feed it along with Stim-L-planT tablets. These tablets contain highly-con- centrated, immediately-available forms of plant food for use in stimulating fruit, flower, vegetable and ornamental plants, and may be used in liquid or tablet form. Trial Pkg. 15c; Medium 25c; Large 75c; 1,000 $3.50.
PLANT MARVEL. Guaranteed to promote luxuriant, perpetual bloom, the sweetest scented flowers, most in- tense, vivid colors, thick, bushy ferns, vigorous growing bulbs, gorgeous roses, hardy shrubs, tender succulent, crisp vegetables, rich, velvety lawns. Pkg. 25c; % Lb. 60c; 1 Lb. $1.00.
SULPHATE OF AMMONIA. Contains approximately 25% of ammonia and comes in crystal form which makes it nice to apply broadcast. Owing to its firmness and keeping qualities it is preferred by some gardeners and fruit growers to Nitrate of Soda. Carrying 5% more Ammonia to the weight than Nitrate of Soda, it should be applied with a little more care, using four lbs. instead of five of Nitrate of Soda. Price, 1 Lb. 15c; 10 Lbs. $1.00; 25 Lbs. $2.00; 50 Lbs. $3.00; 100 Lbs. $5.50.
TANKAGE. Very similar to blood but not so high in fertilizer content. 50 Lbs. $2.00; 100 Lbs. $3.50.
Flower Pots and Saucers
STANDARD FLOWER POTS
|
Size |
Each |
Doz. |
Size |
Each |
Doz. |
Size |
Each |
Doz. |
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2 inch |
30c |
5 inch |
$0.75 |
10 inch |
....... .$0.60 |
$ 6.50 |
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2 y2 inch |
3c |
35c |
6 inch |
12c |
1.20 |
12 inch |
1.00 |
11.00 |
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3 inch |
40c |
7 inch |
18c |
1.75 |
14 inch |
1.75 |
12.00 |
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3 y2 inch |
5c |
45c |
8 inch |
2.75 |
16 inch |
2.50 |
25.00 |
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4 inch |
50c |
9 inch |
4.00 |
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FLOWER POT |
SAUCERS |
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Size |
Each |
Doz. |
Size |
Each |
Doz. |
Size |
Each |
Doz. |
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4 inch |
35c |
7 inch |
10c |
$1.00 |
10 inch |
20c |
$2.00 |
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5c |
50c |
8 inch |
12c |
1.20 |
12 inch |
2.75 |
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6 inch |
6c |
60c |
9 inch |
1.50 |
AZALEA FLOWER POTS
These are the same style and price as our standard Flower Pots, but not so deep. Suitable for Azaleas, Bulbs, Ferns, Spireas, etc.
PAPER POTS
|
Size |
Doz. 100 1,000 |
Size |
Doz. |
100 |
1,000 |
Size |
Doz. |
100 |
1,000 |
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2 14' |
inch |
$0.10 $0.60 $5.00 |
3 inch |
$0.15 |
$0.85 |
$ 7.00 |
4 inch |
$0.25 |
$1.40 |
$12.50 |
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2% |
inch |
.10 .70 6.00 |
3y2 inch |
.20 |
1.15 |
10.00 |
5 inch |
.30 |
2.00 |
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ROUND SEED PANS
These are the same style as our standard Pots, but not so deep, and are suitable for Cacti, Begonias, Tulips, etc. Size Each Doz. Size Each Doz. Size Each Doz.
5 inch 8c $0.75 7 inch ,18c $1.75 10 inch $0.60 $6.00
6 inch .’ 12c 1.20 8 inch 25c 2.75 12 inch 1.00 11.00
THE MARKET GARDENERS’ SEED GO’S. PLANT TUBS
An excellent tub, cheap, neat and durable. Made from
and 2 coats of green ipaint.
Diameter High
No. 7 12 inches 11 inches ....$2.50
No. 8 13 inches 12 inches 2.75
No. 9 14 inches 13 inches 3.00
No. 10 15 inches 14 inches 3.25
Add 50c extra if
-inch Cypress, with iron handles and feet, 3 iron hoops,
Diameter High
No. 11 16 inches 15 inches .$3.50
No. 12 17 inches 16 inches 3.75
No. 13 18 inches 17 inches 4.25
No. 14 19 inches 18 inches 4.75
Feet are wanted.
BEST EVER WINDOW FLOWER BOXES
Designed with ventilating subway, neat, strong, with weatherproof finish. This box is attractive in appearance, durable, being made of heavy galvanized metal. .... . „ .. , . „
The heavy roll edge adds greatly to the appearance and a device inside the box permits the application of water to the plants without any untidyness which frequently is the case from watering the plants by sprinkling. All boxes 7 or 7y2 inches wide at the bottom, 6 inches deep, width at top over curled flange 8% inches.
Prices: — 18 in. $1.25; 24 in. $1.50: 30 in. $2.00; 36 in. $2.50; 48 in. $3.25.
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THE MARKET GARDENERS’ SEED COMPANY
Spraying Pumps,
No. 0 Paragon . No. 1 Paragon
Powder Dusters and Appliances
No. 5 Paragon
PARAGON SPRAYERS
Always sold fully equipped with pipe, hose, nozzles, everything required ready for spraying, are adapted to any spraying solution, and will positively spray whitewash and water paints without straining, and will not clog.
One season’s increased production of fruit or one good job of whitewashing will pay many times the cost of a sprayer.
Every Paragon Sprayer is fully guaranteed. NOTICE — Our space being limited, compels us to omit illustrating other sizes of Paragon Sprayers. However, if interested, will mail a circular describing each and every Paragon Sprayer made. We also carry a full line of repairs for Paragon Sprayers; also Bamboo Brass Lined Spray Poles.
PARAGON SPRAYER No. 0
Net Price, §12.50. Capacity, 3 y2 Gallons EQUIPMENT: 4 feet Special Spray Hose, 3 feet Spray Pipe, 1 Mist Spray Nozzle, 1 Steel Cap for Mist Nozzle, 1 Straight Spray.
PARAGON SPRAYER No. 1
Net Price, §17.50. Capacity, 6 Gallons EQUIPMENT: 5 feet Special Spray Hose, 5
feet Pipe, 1 Mist Nozzle, 1 Steel Cap for Mist Nozzle, 1 Straight Spray Nozzle. Any additional length of hose can be furnished at a reasonable extra charge.
PARAGON SPRAYER No. 3
CAP
Jim Dandy Sprayer
No. 22 Banner Compressed Sprayer
Junior Continuous Sprayer
No. 20 Glass Jar Sprayer No. 29 Brass Spray Pump
No. 8 Pint Tin Sprayer
Net Price, §25.00. Without Truck, $21.50 Capacity, 12 Gallons
EQUIPMENT: 10 feet Special Spray Hose 7% feet Extension Pipe, 1 Mist Nozzle, 1 Steel Cap,
1 Straight Sp'ray. Any additional length of hose can be furnished at a reasonable extra charge.
PARAGON SPRAYER No. 4 Net Price, §39.50. Capacity, 28 Gallons This machine not mounted on wheels, §29.50
EQUIPMENT: 20 feet Special Spray Hose, 10 feet Extension Pipe, 1 Mist Spray Nozzle, 1 Extra Steel Cap, 1 Straight Spray. Any additional length of hose can be furnished at a reasonable extra charge.
PARAGON SPRAYER No. 5
Net Price, §45.00. Capacity, 50 Gallons
EQUIPMENT: 25 feet Special Spray Hose, 10 feet Extension Pipe, 1 Three-Way Spraying Noz- zle, 1 Single Spraying Nozzle. Any additional length of hose can be furnished at a reasonable extra charge.
BANNER COMPRESSED AIR SPRAYER
is adapted for all spraying (purposes. It can not be excelled for spraying garden vegetables, plants, shrubbery, trees, flower beds, whitewash- ing and disinfecting poultry houses, stables, cellars. Brass, §11.00; Galvanized, §7.35.
THE JIM-DANDY
works twenty-five times more rapidly than any hand sprayer and is much more efficient. To operate, simply work plunger handle slowly; one stroke will cover a large area and no liquids wasted. Sprays anything and everything. The reservoir is made of heavy galvanized iron, capacity two quarts; all other parts are entirely of brass, including ball check valves and nozzle. The Golden Spray Nozzle furnished is adjustable for large fine mist spray or long distance coarse spray, as desired. Heavy Galvanized, §3.50; Brass, §4.30.
THE JUNIOR
is a sturdy sprayer with no parts to get out of order. It is adapted for all spraying purposes, such as garden vegetables, shrubbery, flowers, house plants and for spraying disinfectants in public buildings, poultry houses, stables, etc. Heavy Galvanized, §1.45; Brass, §2.25.
No. 20 SPRAYER
No. 20 made with BRASS pump head, dis- charge tubes, jar cap and glass reservoir, makes this sprayer indestructible against rust or cor- rosion. Discharge tubes placed within slots in pump head, holds them rigid and impossible to get out of alignment. Price, 85c.
No. 29 BRASS SPRAY PUMP (Will fit any pail or bucket)
Made entirely of bras-s with the exception of handle and stirrup, which are malleable iron. Has brass valves and valve seat, brass plunger, which are not affected by the poisonous arsenics used in spraying formulas. Price, §3.70.
No. 8 TIN SPRAY
Made of heavy tin, throws fine mist spray covering large area. Provided with ,-^drip cup which prevents any liquid soiling the floor -or carpet. Price, 40c.
We carry constantly in stock repairs for all makes of sprayers, also spray rods and hose.
120-122-124-126 EAST COURT ST., CINCINNATI, OHIO
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SPRAYING PUMPS, POWDER DUSTERS AND APPLIANCES— Continued
No. 3 TIN SPRAYER
Made with large air chamber, cone shaped end extends through the Double Seamed Reser- voir. Discharge tube is protected by band brace. A well-made sprayer. Price, 50c.
THE ROBERTSON COMPRESSED AIR SPRAYER
They give a continuous spray. By means of the universal nozzle the spray can be thrown on the under side of the leaves of plants and shrubs, the under side of beds and other furni- ture, into corners, behind doors, on top of mould- ings, window casings, behind steam pipes, and other difficult places. Capacity, one quart.
Tin ..$1.00 Brass $1.75
Galvanized 1.25 Copper 2.00
No. 3 Quart Tin Sprayer
Robertson Sprayer
VEGETABLES, PLANTS, ROOTS AND HERBS IN SEASON
BELLOWS, ACME
Is well made, with a solid hardwood head block, hardwood handles, best leather for the bellows, and extra elbow is furnished to tilt the funnel for getting under the leaves of plants and shrubs. Each $1.50.
DICKEY BUG DEATH DUSTER
Practical and effective; for applying Bug Death Pow- der. 25c Each.
CHAMPION INSECTICIDE DUSTER
It will cover two rows as fast as a man can walk. Can be easily regulated as to quantity and will do as much work in a day as a horse sprayer. Extension tubes enable the Gun to be used on fruit and shade trees and in the vineyard. Among tobacco and potato growers they have become almost indispensable, per- forming the work in a perfect and rapid manner. Each $14.00.
LITTLE GIANT DUSTER
This is made on the same principle as the Champion but the capacity is smaller and there are some differ- ences in construction. It is offered to supply the de- mand for a low-priced implement. It works in the same manner as the Champion with a crank. Does not have as many parts nor as much extension. Each $11.00.
THE STANDARD SPRAY PUMP
Not a compressed air sprayer and is, in short, merely a very accurately designed and finely fitted “squirt gun,” with a proper outfit of nozzles capable of vari- ous combinations. It is made of brass throughout. The nozzles are attached to the discharge end and the hose to the suction end of the pump. Each $5.00.
FOUNTAIN LAWN SPRINKLER
Sprinkles a full circle with a fine, “Mist-like” Spray. No moving parts — simple and efficient. The original lawn sprinkler of its type. Known the country over. Each 95c.
HALF FOUNTAIN
Sprinkles but half of the full circle. Pick it up without shutting off the water — stays upright. Sprinkles the lawn — keeps the walks dry. Has the “Mist-like” spray. Each 50c.
BUSTER BROWN DUST GUN
A mechanically perfect apparatus which emits pow- der in clouds of right consistency from any position and in any direction, downward, upward or horizontal. Entirely different principles of mechanics have been brought into play than have been used heretofore on such outfits. Each $2.50.
Acme Powder Bellows
Little Giant Duster Standard Spray Pump
READY FOR PLANTING OUT
Lawn Sprinkler Half Circle
Circular Lawn Sprinkler
We have grown for us annually thousands of Vegetables, Plants, etc., ready about April 15th, weather permitting.
Doz. 25 50 100
Asparagus — -Giant Argentuil 25 .50 .90 $1.75
Cabbage — Jersey, Copenhagen, Dutch, .15 .25 .45
Cauliflower — Snowball 25 .50 .90 1.75
Celery — Golden Yellow and Rooted... .25 .40 .75
Egg Plant— Black Beauty 25 .50 .90 1.75
Kohl Rabi— Vienna .15 .25 .45
Horse Radish — Bohemian 25 .50 .80 1.50
Pepper — Mango and Cayenne .25 .50 .90 1.75
Sweet Potato — Jersey, Nancy Hall . . . .20 .35 .60
Tomatoes — All Leading Sorts 25 .50 .80 1.50
Herbs — All Varieties — Potted . 15 to .25 Each
Buster Brown Duster
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THE MARKET GARDENERS’ SEED COMPANY
Insecticides and Fungicides
Demand Blue Bird Brand Ask for Special Prices on Large Quantities
Almost every one realizes the necessity for spraying. It is also necessary to use the right materials, the right way, at the right time. In order to acquaint yourself with how, what, and when to spray, get our spray calendar free.
ANT EXTERMINATOR. 44 Lb. 25c; 44 Lb. 45c; 1 Lb. 80c.
B.G. Prmt Company
0 F'G CHEMISTS
HEW YORK CITY. US A
ARSENATE OF LEAD. (Dry Powdered.) Can not dry out or deteriorate in any way, even if carried over in- definitely and represents the ideal Arsenate of Lead. 44 Lb. 30c; 1 Lb. 50c; 5 Lbs. $2.00; 10 Lbs. $4.00.
“BLACK LEAF 40.” Soft-bodied, sucking insects may be effectively controlled by spraying with “Black Leaf 40.” This is a contact remedy. 1 Oz. bottle 35c; 44 Lb. tin $1.25; 2 Lb. tin $3.50; 10 Lb. tin $13.50.
BORDEAUX MIXTURE. (Dry Powdered.) Will not dry out or deteriorate. 44 Lb. 25c; 1 Lb. 40c; 5 Lbs. $1.75; 10 Lbs. $3.50.
BUG DEATH. A valuable powder for Cucumbers, Egg Plants, Melons, Hose Bushes, Currants and Potatoes. 1 Lb. 20c; 3 Lbs. 40c; 5 Lbs. 60c; 12 44 Lbs. $1.40.
CAL-SULPHFR. Kills Mexican Bean Beetles. The only insecticide made for the control of the Mexican Bean Beetle. Bean Beetles ruin crops in a few days. Formula of tri-calcium arsenate and flowers of Sulphur by Dr. W. E. Hinds, State Entomologist for Alabama. Recommended by leading farm papers, agricultural agents and the Fed- eral Bureau of Entomology at East Lake, Ala. 1 Lb. 30c; 3 Lbs. 65c; 5 Lbs. $1.00.
CALCIUM CYANIDE. (Cyanogas.) For greenhouse fumigation. A powder, which when exposed to the air, forms a gas. One-quarter ounce sufficient for 1,000 cubic feet, for control of Aphis, White Fly, Thrips, Soft Scale, etc. Also an effective control for Ants, Moles, etc. Per Lb. 60c; 5 Lbs. $2.50.
COPPER SULPHATE. For making Bordeaux mixture. 1 Lb. 20c: 10 Lbs. $1.50; 100 Lbs. $12.50.
CUTWORM FOOD. The worm seeks the Food In prefer- ence to the plant. 1 Lb. 35c; 5 Lbs. $1.50.
DRY LIME SULPHUR. Is a combination of Lime and Sulphur which can be used not only as a dormant spray but also as a summer spray in combination with Arsenate of Lead. 44 Lb. 20c; 1 Lb. 35c; 5 Lbs. $1.40; 10 Lbs. $2.25; 25 Lbs. $4.00.
FISH OIL SOAP. For destroying insects on Plants, Trees. Vines, etc. This is also a contact remedy. 44 Lb. 15c; 1 Lb. 25c; 5 Lbs. $1.15; in bulk, 25 Lbs. $4.00.
HELLEBORE POWDER. For destruction of Slugs, Worms, Caterpillars, etc. y> Lb. 30c; 1 Lb. 50c; 5 Lbs. $2.25.
LIME SULPHUR SOLUTION. For Fall, Winter and early Spring spray. Destroys San Jose Scale, Peach Leaf Curl. Bud Moth. Apple Aphis. Blister Mite, any scale. In- sects or Bark Lice. 1 Qt. 50c; 44 Gal. 75c: 1 Gal. $1.00; 5 Gals. $4.00; 44 Bbl. (25 Gals.) $9.00; 1 Bbl. (50 Gals.) $13.00.
*NICO FUME. Paper. A nicotine preparation. Fur- nishes easiest method of fumigation. Box of 24 sheets, $1.25: 144 sheets, $5.50: 288 Sheets. $10.00.
NICOTINE FUMIGATOR (Hall’s). For fumigating greenhouses — 12%% Nicotine guaranteed. One cone will fill 7,000 cubic feet with deadly Nicotine fumes. Three cones will rid the average size greenhouse (20 by 3 00 ft.) of Aphids, Thrips and similar soft-bodied sucking insects, and the cost will be only 25c. 1 Lb. tins, $1.25; 244 Lb.
tins, $2.50; 10 Lb. tins, $8.50.
PARA-DICHLOROBENZENE. For killing the peach tree borers. Can be used successfully only during August and September, as it is not effective if used at other sea- sons. Do not use on very young trees. Per Lb. 60c; 5 Lbs. $2.50: 10 Lbs, $4.25.
PARIS GREEN. A poisonous powdered insecticide for insects that chew. Principally used on Potatoes and To- bacco in drv and liquid form. 44 Lb. 20c; 44 Lb. 30c; 1 Lb. 55c; 5 Lbs. $2.50.
PYROX. (Bordeaux Arsenate of Lead, Paste.) A com- bination of Bordeaux Mixture and Arsenate of Lead, form- ing thereby a remedy for fungus and leaf-eating insects. Use 1 lb. to from 5 to 10 gallons of water. 1 Lb. 50c; 5 Lbs. $2.00; 10 Lbs. $3.50.
SCALECIDE. Used according to directions will kill every San Jose Scale that comes in contact with it. Qt. 60c: 44 Gal. $1.00: 1 Gal. $1.40; 5 Gals. $6.25.
SLUG SHOT. Very effectual in destroying Caterpillars, Currant, Gooseberry and Cabbage Worms, Potato, Melon, Squash and Cucumber Bugs. Rose Slugs, Rose Lice, etc. 1 Lb. carton 25c; 5 Lbs. 75c; 10 Lbs. $1.35.
SPRAY TABS. A complete insecticide in tablet form containing the proper amount of poison with other chemi- cals to control insects, etc. Dissolve in water and use. Full directions on each package. 30 tablets in box, 30c.
SULPHUR, POWDERED. Used to prevent and cure mildew on plants. 1 Lb. 15c; 2 Lbs. 25c; 5 Lbs. 50c; 10 Lbs. 90c.
TOBACCO DUST FOR FUMIGATING. 1 Lb. 10c; 4 Lbs. 25e : 10 Lbs. 50c: 25 Lbs. 90c: 100 Lbs. $3.50.
TOBACCO STEMS. Used for fumigating plants to kill insects, and as a mulch for roses, asters, lettuce, etc. 1 Lb. 5c: bale of about 125 Lbs. $2.00.
TREE TANGLEFOOT. For protecting trees against climbing insect pests in a simple, economical and effective way. 1 Lb. 60c: 5 Lbs. $2.75; 10 Lbs. $5.25.
WEED KILLER. One application will keep paths and roadways free from weeds for an entire season. 1 Qt. 60c; 1 Gal. $1.50; 5 Gals. $6.50.
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ORDER SHEET FOR
TRUE TESTED SEEDS
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The Market Gardeners’ Seed Co., cinohioati
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We shall esteem it a great favor if you will give us in spaces below the NAMES AND ADDRESSES of any Market Gardeners or Truck Farmers among your acquaintances. We wish to send them our SEED CATALOG.
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Acroclinum 34
Ageratum . 34
Alfalfa 72
Alsike 72
Althea 40, 65
Alyssum 34
Amaranthus 34
Amaranth Globe.. 3 9
Anemone 34
Animal Regu- lators 86
Anise 18
Aquilegia 37
Arabis 34
Artichoke 3
Asparagus ....3, 34 Aster 34
Baby’s Breath . . .40
Bachelor’s Button. 36
Bacteria 72
Balloon Vine ....35
Balsam 35
Balsam Apple ...35 Balsam Pear ....35
Barley 73
Basil Sweet 18
Beans 4-8
Beets 9, 10
Begonia 34, 53
Beilis 37
Bignonia Radicans. 35
Bird Seeds 71
Blackberry 59
Bleeding Heart ..55 Bokhara Clover ..72
Borage 18
Borecole 18
Brazilian Morning
Glory ..40
Broccoli 10
Brooders 76
Broom Corn 73
Brussels Sprouts. .10
Buckwheat 73
Bulbs 53, 57
Butterfly Flower. .65
Cabbage 10, 12
Calceolaria 35
Calendula 35
California Poppy.. 38
Calliopsis 35
Canada Field
Peas 72
Campanula 35
Canary Bird
Flower 35
Candytuft 35
Gannas 36, 53
Canes-Bamboo ...83 Canterbury Bell ..36
Caraway 13
Carbola 81
Carpet of Snow... 35
Carnation 36
Carrot 12
Cassaba 22
Castor Bean ....37
Cauliflower 13
Celery 13-14
Celery Cabbage ..12
Celeriac 14
Celosia 37
Centaurea 37
Cheiranthus 37
Chervil 14
Chicory 17
Chinese Cabbage.. 12 Chinese Primrose. 49
Chives 17
Chrysanthemum ..37
Cineraria 37
Citron 22
Clarkia 37
Clematis 36, 61
Climbing Vines ..61
Clover 72
Cobaea Scandens..37
Cockscombs 37
Coix Lachryma. . .37
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Cold-Frame 2
Coleus 38
Collards 17
Columbine 38
Convolvulus Major. 3 8 Convolvulus Minor. 3 8
Coreopsis 34
Coriander 18
Corn, Sweet .... 15
Corn Flower 36
Corn, Field 75
Corn Planters ...82 Corn, Popcorn ...75
Corn Salad 16
Cosmos 38
Cow Manure 85
Cowpeas 73
Cress 16
Crimson Treefoil. .72
Cucumber 16
Cucurbita ....38, 39
Cultivator, Hand, Garden or Wheel. 84
Cultures 72
Cup and Saucer.. 35
Currants 59
Cyclamen 38
Cypress Vine ....38
Dahlia ...38, 54, 55
Daisy 38
Dandelion 17
Datura 38
Delphinium 41
Devil-in-a-bush ..41
Dewberry 59
Dianthus .... 38, 46
Dibbles 82
Dielytra (Dicentra)
55
Digitalis 3S
Dill 18
Dimorphoteca . . .39
Dolichos 38, 40
Dusty Miller 36
Egg Plant 17
Elephant Ear ....54 Emerald Feather. 32
Endive 17-18
Enothera 47
Escarolle 18
Eschscholtzia ... .39 Evening Glory ...39
Evergreens 69
Everlastings ..32, 40
Farm Seeds ...73-75 Miscellaneous
Fennel Sweet ....18
Ferns 39
Fertilizers 85
Feverfew 39
Flax 73
Flower Pots and
Saucers 85
Flowering Sage ..48 Flower Seeds
Culture 32
Flower Seeds .32-52 Forget-Me-Not ...39 Four O’Clock ....39
Foxglove 40
French Honey- suckle 4 0
Fruit Trees 58
Fuchsia 40
Fumigating Damp. 82
Gaillardia 40
Garden Tools.. 82-84
Garlic 18
Geranium 40
Gilliflower 40
Gladiolus .... 39, 56 Glazing Points ...82 Globe Amaranth.. 40
Gloxinia 40
Gomphrena 40
Gooseberry 59
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Gumbo 23
Hanging Baskets. .82 Hardy Perennial
Plants 61-65
Hedysarrum . .39-41 Hedge Plants ... .68 Helianthus ...40, 49
Helichrysum 41
Heliotrope 41
Herbs 18, 87
Hibiscus Africanus.41
Hollyhock 41
Honeysuckle ..39, 61 Horse Radish ...18 Hose, Rubber ... 82
Hot Beds 2
Hot Beds, Sash... 82 Humulus Japonicus
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Hungarian 73
Hunnemannia .... 38 Hyacinth Bean. 38, 41
Iberis 41
Ice Plant 41
Impatiens Balsamina
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Immortelles 40
Inoculator 72
Incubators 76
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Momordica |
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Moss Rose |
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Nasturtium |
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Nicotiana |
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Nigella |
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Oenothera |
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Oats |
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Okra |
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Onions |
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Oxalis |
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Pansy |
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Papaver |
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Parsley |
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Peas 24 |
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Pentstemon |
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Peony |
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Pinks |
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.83 |
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Plant Tubs . . . . |
. 85 |
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Boorman’s Orchid |
.47 |
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Poppy |
.47 |
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Portulaca |
.47 |
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Potatoes, Irish . |
.32 |
|
Potatoes, Sweet ., |
.32 |
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Potash |
.85 |
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Potting Soil |
,8-2 |
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Poultry Feeds and |
|
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Supplies ... .76- |
-81 |
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Powder Dusters. 86- |
-87 |
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Primrose |
,47 |
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Primula Sinensi. . |
,49 |
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Pruning Shears . . |
,82 |
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Pumpkin |
23 |
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Putty, Bulb |
82 |
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Putty, Diquid |
82 |
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Putty Machine . . . |
82 |
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Pyrethrum |
48 |
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Radish 27- |
-28 |
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Raffia |
82 |
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Rape |
74 |
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Raspberry |
59 |
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Rat Exterminator. |
,83 |
|
Red Clover |
72 |
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Red Hot Poker... |
57 |
|
Reference Tables.. |
,91 |
|
Rhodanthe |
48 |
|
Rhubarb |
28 |
Ricinus 36, 48
Page
Rocket, Sweet ...48
Roots 53-57, 87
Rose Multiflora ..48
Rosemary 18
Roses 60
Rue 18
Ruta Baga 31
Rye 74
Saffron 18
Sage 18
Salpiglossis 48
Salsify 28
Salvia 48
Sapling Clover ...72
Sand 83
Savory, Summer.. 18
Scabiosa 48
Scarlet Flax.. 41, 48
Schizanthus 48
Scythe Stones ...83
Seed Drills 81
Seed Potatoes ...26 Seed Sowers ....83 Seed Sweet Potatoes 26
Sensitive Plant ..48
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Shade Trees . |
68 |
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Shoes, Wooden |
. . .83 |
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Smilax |
49 |
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Snapdragon . . |
49 |
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Sorghum . . . . |
74 |
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Sorrel |
|
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Soy or Soja |
|
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Bean |
74-75 |
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Speltz or Emmer.74 |
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Spinach |
28 |
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Spray Pumps. |
.86-87 |
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Squash |
29 |
|
fitno.lc |
. . . .49 |
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Strawberry . . . |
|
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Straw Flower |
. . .49 |
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Sudan Grass |
. . . .74 |
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Sugar Beet . . . |
10 |
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Sugar Cane . . . |
74 |
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Summer Cypress.. 41 |
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Sun Flower... 49, 74 |
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Sweet Clover . |
... 72 |
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Sweet Peas . . |
.50-51 |
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Sweet Rocket . |
49 |
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Sweet Sultan . |
. . .36 |
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Sweet William |
. .52 |
Swiss Chard 9
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Tagetes |
. . .52 |
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Teosinte |
. . .75 |
|
Thermometers |
. . .83 |
|
Thyme |
. . .18 |
|
Tigrinum |
. . .57 |
Tobacco 29
Tomato . 30-31
Tropaeolum 52
Torenia Fournieri.52 Trumpet Vine ...61
Turnip 31
Twines, Cotton or Jute 82
Vegetable Oyster. 28 Vegetable Plants. 87
Verbena 52
Vetch or Tare.... 7 5
Vinca 52
Viola Tricolor ... .52
Vines 61
Virginian Stock ..52
Wall Flower 52
Watering Cans ..83 Watermelon ..21-22
Weeders 83, 84
Wheel Hoes 85
White Dutch
Clover 72
Window Boxes ..84 Wild Cucumber ..52 Wistaria Chinensis. 52
Woolflower 36
Worm Wood 18
Zinnia 52
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Cincinnati, Ohio