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SPECIALTIES FOR SEEDSME

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Nov. 12, 1895. Prices subject to change without notice.

e— New Climbing Nasturtium ~~

Madame Gunther’s Hybrids.

OR richness and variety of colors these new hybrids have no equals among Nasturtiums. There are shades of rose, salmon, brightest red, pale yellow either as self colors or spotted and striped. The foliage is mostly dark, and

contrasts very effectively with the rich colors. They are climbers and are free and continuous bloomers. Owing to the very unfavorable weather last summer seed of these as well as of other Nasturtiums is very scarce and supply is limited.

Messrs. C. C. Morse & Co., wrote us about them as follows:

“We have no mixture and never had one that can equal the one we are growing for you. We find it quite free from too much orange or yellow coloring and the field asa whole shows a good variety of colors and presents a most gorgeous appearance when in full bloom, It would be impossible to describe all the different colors but some of the most striking are as follows:— White, shaded carmine on the edges with deep maroon throat; bright carmine; bright salmon, with deep maroon throat; golden yellow, shading brown on the edges; yellow, shaded and mottled with carmine; white, with red blotches; shrimp pink, with deep maroon thoat; shrimp pink, self color; rose; bright yellow; orange, etc., etc.

We certainly find a great many colorsin your mixture that we never found in any other—some of them being impossible to describe.”

Trade Price, per Ib., $2.00; 5 Ibs., $9.00. Price for larger quantities on application.

NASTURTIUM, DWARF MIXED, 2 mixture made from four growers’ stock, per Ib., 45c.; 10 Ibs., $4.00; 100 IbS., $37.50.

Ib., 40c.; 10 Ibs., $3.50; 100 Ibs., $32.50. These prices on Nasturtiums are subject to change without notice.

NASTURTIUM in separate colors,—Wecan supplya number of sorts, send us your list, with quantity wanted for estimate. ELECTRO, $1.00.

NEW Sweet PEA, °**AMERICA.’’

g@S"The only real intense scarlet Sweet Pea in existence.sq

This novelty for 1896 was originated and has been perfected by Messrs. C. C, Morse & Co, While inspecting their fields of Sweet Peas last June we found this new scarlet / and white to be the most distinct and striking variety among all the novelties, and purchased at that time the entire stock.

There is no Sweet Pea now in existence which compares with it in distinctiveness. It has a wide, finely marked blotch of scarlet on pure white ground with some scarlet veinings toward the edges of both the standard and the wings of the flower.

The only variety which could be considered an approach to it in marking is Gaiety, which, however has smaller stripes which are a light pale red. This new Pea which we have named ‘‘AMERICA”’ is sure to take a permanent place in making up

any assortment of Sweet Peas because of its very striking combination of colors. Rev, W. T, Hutchins, the Sweet Pea Specialist, writes:—

INDIAN ORCHARD, MAss., Oct. 11, ’95.—‘‘I had Messrs. Morse’s new Sweet Pea ‘America’ in bloom this summer in my collection. Itisa heavily striped variety of the intensest scarlet. Hereto- fore, Queen of the Isles has been our best scarlet striped, and it was originally au Eckford variety, but ‘America’ beatsit. When I saw it coming into bloom, I said, Queen of the Isles must give away toit. Ilike it very much, The color is so intense in contrast with the white, and it is such a bold blood red that it is well named; and in size it also excels. It isa fine grower and lavish bloomer.”’

Trade Price, per roo pkts, $6.00; per 1000 pkts., $50.00. (Retail price, pkt., 15c.; 2 for 25c.) Electro free with order.

PANSY Vaughan’s International ? Pansy Mixture. . .

The fact that we handle Pansy seeds in large quantities enables us to offer this mixture in its superior quality,

' securing as we do our supplies from over adozen sources, So we are sure that this mixture (no matter under what

name it be offered) will secure you more trade, anda trade that is worth while to have, than any other specialty that could be catalogued. Wholesale Price, per % oz., $xX.00; 0Z., $7.50.

PA N SY A new shade in Pausies, being of a lovely slate color, a very pleasing addition to

s e ° our list of Pansies, We “discovered” this Pansy last year, and secured stock seed Coquette de Poissy: from the originator, and had it grown for us, and are therefore enabled to offer it in bulk. Wholesale Price, % oz., $2.00.

NEW CANNON BALL” MUSK MELON.

REMARKABLY uniform melon, perfectly

round, of medium size and very heavily netted-

The flesh is very thick, leaving only a small

seed cavity; green, solid and of very good

flavor. Itis an excellent shipper to distant points.

Our illustration is made from a photograph. We did not find a single impurity in a 5 acre field.

Trade Price, per Ib., 50c. Electro, $1.00°

MUSK MELON, “OSAGE.”

STOCK SEED, from extra selected Melons from the originator. Per Ib., $1.50.

Ordinary Seed, per tb., 35¢.; 100 Ibs., $30.00.

Japanese Climbing Cucumber.

f Gas sort is now thoroughly acclimated and has

established a permanent place for itself on account of its excellent qualities.

Trade Price, per Ib., $1.00; Iro Ibs., $9.00.

HROUGH extensive ad- vertising of nearly the entire catalogue trade, the retail demand for this novelty in small lots is good, but buy- ers will also notice that at our present very low prices the stock can be readily used for counter or shipping trade as a substitute for White Bottom Sets at no loss.

Price for present shipment, bushel of 28 Ibs., $2.00; barrels at cost. Electro free with order.

TURNIP, New Scarlet Kashmyr.

HE bright red or purplish color ofthis Turnip gives it a striking

resemblance to a large Radish: It might readily be pronounced

one of those Radishes so persistently complained of as tasting like

Turnip. This surprisingly colored Turnip produces beautiful large,

smooth, white fleshed roots of excellent keeping quality. Although the

root looks iike a Radish it tastes like a Turnip and its attractive appear- ance is supported by high cooking qualities.

Trade Price, per Iib., 75c.

NEW MUSK MELON, “IRONCLAD.”

The Musk Melon for long distance shipping.

UT of all the extensive trials Messrs. Coy & Son carry on year after O year, this is the only Melon they considered worthy of intro- duction this year, and all who know Mr. Coy’s careful and scrupulous methods know that he would not offer a new Melon that is not alone different from known types, but also superior in some of the main characteristics. Our illustration shows the shape of the melon and the extraordinary heavy, coarse netting which renders it so partic- ularly well adapted as a shipping Melon.

C. P. Coy & Son, the originators, whose entire stock of this new Melon we bought, say of it as follows:

“It is with the second early sortsin ripening, flesh thick, deep yellow and very sweet. A strong viner and very heavy cropper. It has been bred for years to secure a /hick, leathery, shell-like skin with heavy, coarse, protective netting, with the idea of making it a perfect shipper. Ttis now fixed in type and in our opinion will fill the place of a yellow fieshed shipping Melon in good shape. Its quality is good. Tf intense sweetness is an objection, it has a fault that way.”

Trade Price, per 100 pkts., $4.00; rooo pkts., $35.00.

Our illustration of ‘IRON CLap” Musk Melon, was not finished at the time this circular went to press, we shall be pleased to mail proofs of it on application. .

* See Bulletin 119-120.

TOMATO, ——_-

Vaughan’s Earliest of all.

“By careful and continued selection of seed, ‘‘Vaughan’s Earliest” has lost much of its angularity and has increased in size at no expense in earliness. It has again shown its superiority.as an early ripening sort.’’ It was earliest out of 29 varieties of Tomatoes tested at the Michigan Agricultural College in 1894.

_ For further description, see our ’95 Spring Catalogue.

Trade Price, per Iib., $2.00. Electro free with order.

We-can furnish the following at bottom prices:

CELERY, Pink Plume. SPINACH, Victoria. WATER MELON, Sweet Heart. WATER MELON, Maule’s Superior. _ TOMATO, Yellow Peach. ‘WILD CUCUMBER. SWEET PEAS, full line. CANNA SEED and ROOTS.

BLACK DIAMOND WATER MELON.

HE Black Diamond is the result of hybridization of Kolb’s Gem and Hoosier King,. the new seedling

propagated ana improved for five years, the most critical expert selection made during this whole time by one of the most successful Melon Growers in Knox Co., Indiana, until the new type is so thor- oughly fixed that we have a distinct and the best Melon without exception for the last 20 years. Shown at the Indiana State Fairin competit- ion with all the standard Water Melons in 1895 it took the Férst Premium, and at the Knox County Fair, the greatest Water Melon County in the Northern States, it took the First Prem- ium for 1895 also.

_ All that could be said of the Kolb’s Gem as to good shipping qualities can be truthfully stat- ed in a higher degree of the Black Diamond. All the praise of high quality bestowed on the Sweetheart as to its “ontting” nicely and peculiarly sweet flavor can be repeated of our new Melon, but its pre-eminent points of merit are extreme size—no Melon ever yet producing anything like so uniformly large fruit, nor approaching it in productiveness.

Melons weighing 75 to 95 pounds are frequent, and cars loaded with specimens averaging 30 to 35 pounds each to the whole car. It is the most prolific Water Melon ever planted. One grower the past season load- ed five cars from five acres, the cars containing from 800 to 900 Black Diamonds, against 1000 to 1200 Sweethearts and in two of these cars the Melons averaged each 34 pounds in weight and after harvesting this large product had fully 1¥% cars of choice Melons lef+on his plot of five acres. The most distinctive point in its appearance is its color which is a rich dark green almost black and of such a shiny lustre as produces an effect as if the fruits were varnish- ed, if such a word can’‘illustrate the beautiful gloss on the rind of this Melon.

Of uniformly symmetrical shape, roundish to bluntly oval and this similarity of shape running through the whole field so that as one grower termed it, “they look as if turned out on a lathe.’’ The habit of the vine is ex- tremely vigorous and when planted at same time as the older standard varieties the vine growth is more rapid. Commission men giving it preference over any other Melon which they have handled, and during the latter part of last season when the sale of other kinds dragged, the Black Diamond was the only one which sold in quantity.

We have given it such thorough investigation as regards all points of merit fora market Melon that we expect it to more than confirm the praise we willingly accord it.

Trade Price, per 1Ib., $2.00; 10 Ibs. and over, per Ib., $1.50. Electro free with order.

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~e—_CHICAGO WARTED HUBBARD SQUASH. —aa O produce perfect specimens of any vegetable, in size, color and form, isthe aim of every gardener. Such stock is sure of quick sale on any market. No matter what the competition. A bag of white onions, large, pure, white, hard, small necked, dry, appeal to every observer and tempt him to buy if he had no intention to do so. A Hubbard Squash, large, blackish green, hard as wood, with warty knobs all over it, satisfies even the inexperienced observer that it is the best of its class, rich in quality, a keeper and thick fleshed—such will sell at sight, while ordinary small, irregular, poorly colored specimens stay on the stand until they rot. Ourstrain of the above will produce mainly the type shown in our photo-engraving, and we consider it the Ideal Hubbard for home or for market use. Trade Price, per Ib., 40c.; 10 I1bS., $3.80; 100 Ibs., $35.00. Electro, $1.50.

It will pay you to list these Tools. We supply all in one freight shipment and save you money.

Combination Weeder. Combining as it does, both the rake and hoe, itis the most serviceable, durable, and the most ¢ perfect weeder on the Humphrey’s Patent Potato Knife. market, We are owners of the patent. Too well known to need any description. Trade Price, doz., $2.18; Zross, $24.00 We have smaller and larger electros besides this, and furnish one free with order for a dozen knives.

Hazeltine Weeder.

Noyes Weeder.

Turf Edger

Dibber,

New Model Drill.

To try itisto always use it. No one who has a garden should be without one of

BREEN’S PATENT FINGER SPADES.

_ For weeding it has no equal, Fitting the finger likea glovealmost, the smallest weeds can be extracted without difficulty and preventing the finger nail from being injured through contact with the earth, It is also splendid for transplanting.

Price, 10c.; by mail, 12c. Trade Price,doz., 60C.; xross, $6.00.

Weare manufacturer's

agents. Electro free with order.

SINGLE WHEEL ATTACHMENT,

Lane’s Patent Mole Trap.

Whitnall’s Dandelion Puller. Vaughan’s Steel Trowel. Excelsior Weeder. Double and Single Wheel Combined.