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1916
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LEONARD’S MARKET GARDENERS’ CATALOGUE
GENERAL OmCES AND rillNCirAL WAIlEIIOrSES, LEONARD SEED C03IPANY. KINZIE AND
ERANKLIN SIREETS, CHICAGO
This building- also contains a complete retail store in charge of Joseph A. Daly. Mr. Daly,
formerly connected -with New York and Philadelphia seed houses, has been with the Company
now fifteen years and spends the months of June, July and August with the Company's trade
in Indiana and part of Illinois.
The Seeds quoted herein are for Market Gardeners. The list embraces all the best va-
rieties and is issued to meet the needs of planters in every market gardening section EAST,
WEST, NORTH and SOUTH, as well as for the especial requirements of OUR OW'^N CHICAGO
GARJ>ENERS. Our position as MARKET GARDENERS’ SEEDSMEN is well and favorally
known both at home and throughout the country. Our pre-eminent standing in this line of
the Seed Business has been long established. The Market Gardener, when he plants LEON-
ARD’S SEEJ>S, may therefore feel reasonably sure that he is planting the best seed obtainable.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR CUSTOMERS WHO ORDER BY MAIL
We send Seeds to Market Gardeners in every city of the country.
We make no charge for cartage, bags, boxes or i)acking, but at tlicsc prices (except where
noted otherwise) buyer must pay all Express or Freight Charges. Small parcels can go by
mail if purchaser desires it. In such cases 10 cents for each pound and 15 cents for each
quart must be added to these prices to cover postage. Half bushels are soltl at bushel rates,
and one-half pounds are sold at the pouiul rates.
WE (JIVE NO WARRANTY, express or implied, as to purity, description, quality, pro-
ductiveness or any other matter of any Seeds, Bulbs or Plants we send out, and .ve will not be
in any way responsible for the crop.
LEONARD SEED COMPANY
GENERAL OFFICES:
Long Distance Phone Main 2762
Automatic 33222
226-228-230
WEST KINZIE STREET
Registered Cable Address:
“LEONARD,” Chicago
Retail Stores:
810 W. Randolph Street
10912 Michigan Avenue
4845 Milwaukee Avenue
CHICAGO
WAREHOUSES:
Columbus Wis.
Marshall Wis.
Antigo Wis.
Jefferson Park III.
Avondale III.
LEONARD’S MARKET GARDENERS’ CATALOGUE
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Randolph Market Branch — Leonard Seed Co.
810 West Randolph St., CHICAGO
At 810 West Randolph Street we have our largest retail and market gardeners’ store.
This is the center of the largest Vegetable Market, known as Hd3^nlar!<iet 'Stiua:Te-.'- Our store
has been operated on this Square continuously for the past thirty years and has heen in charge
of the same Manager for the same length of time. }
The Manager of this store, Miss Louisa Brown, we believe to be the most prajctical seeds-
woman connected with the American seed trade today. A mind that is naturally retentive and
quick, a preference for the work; three decades spent in a seed st^oreyin the't^rjr center of o;ie
of the greatest markets in the world, has helped her to this enviable poSllSibn. • ' ' ’ /
We are Market Gardeners’ Seedsmen. It is one thing to stind bql;ii,nd, the cpqnter and |
sell seed, but it is an entirely different matter to be able to tell w|iy dhe is' botteT 'than ,
another for a given purpose. Market Gardeners desire such infotmation and the Market Gar- ■
deners’ Seedsmen must be able to give it. This knowledge cannot be acquired ”§htireiy' from '
books, although many able Market Gardeners have written books that help greatly. It can be
acquired from experience only, and it requires long continued experience at that. The manag-
ing heads of our departments are practical and our regular employees work on our farms
during the summer and in our stores and warehouses the rest of the year. It is this combi-
nation of theory and practice that rounds out a seedsman and puts him in a class considerably
in advance of those who ordinarily pass as being qualified.
RANDOLPH MAKKLT STORE — LEONARD SEED COMPANY,
810 W. RANDOLPH STREET, CHICAGO
More than 10,000 growers who garden for profit buy Leonard’s Seeds at our Retail Stores
each year in Chicago. In no county in the United States are there so many market garden-
seed of one firm as buy seed of Leonard Seed Co., in Cook County. The men
who buy these seeds, and many of them buy in great quantities, are equal in gardening ability
to any gardeners that exist.
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Jefferson Branch — Leonard Seed Company
4845 Milwaukee Ave., CHICAGO
JEFFERSON BRANCH— LEONARD SEED COMPANY,
4845 MILWAUKEE AYE., CHICAGO
Eight years ago we found it
necessary on account of in-
creased retail business as well
as from the fact that the
gardening sections were being
pushed farther from the heart
of the city to open up branch
retail stores. Our Jefferson
Park Branch is now located
at 4845 Milwaukee Avenue,
Chicago. This store is situ-
ated northwest of the city
and is inside of the city lim-
its. The location of this store
being ten miles from the
heart of the city, makes it
about half way between the
town and the gardening sec-
tion, which is very convenient.
The customers we have in
this section constitute market
gardeners who plant diversi-
fied crops. The gardening
section served by this store
is very large, extending some
thirty miles beyond the city
limits.
J. M. Clark, the Secretary
of the LEONARD SEED
COMPANY, who died August
16, 1915, had been with the
Company from its beginning.
The company feels his loss
keenly and will do everything
possible to retain ’that confi-
dence and good will which
Chicago Market Gardeners
had for Mr. Clark.
James R. Clark, in charge
of the Jefferson Branch store,
received careful training un-
der his father, J. M. Clark.
TN EVERY State Leonard’s Seeds are sold to seed
-*■ dealers. This selling over so large a territory
gives the firm the opportunity to be thoroughly ac-
quainted with the seed business, their view is not
localized. The Leonard Seed Co. does not commission
seeds, so the grower has no fear of receiving second-
hand goods when buying this Company’s products.
LEONARD’S MARKET GARDENERS’ CATALOGUE
3
Roseland Branch— Leonard Seed Company
10912 Michigan Ave., CHICAGO
ROSELAND BRANCH, LEONARD SEED COMPANY, 10913 3nCHIGAN AVE., CHICAGO
Eig-ht years ago, we also found it necessary to open up a branch store twenty-five miles m
the opposite direction from our Jefferson Park Store mentioned on the opposite page. This
store is situated at 10912 Michigan Avenue, Chicago, about twelve miles south from the heart
of the city, but well wuthin the city limits. This store supplies the market gardeners who are
located south and southeast of the city. The bulk of the gardeners of this section are Holland-
ers and do -what is termed Intensive gardening. They are the successful growers of truck
under frames, the best cauliflower and lettuce growers and in fact everything in the way of
small vegetables from asparagus to turnips.
Jake Boss, the son of a market gardener, then a market gardener himself, then con-
nected with the Randolph Market store, is now in charge of the Roseland Branch.
OUR SPECIAL STOCKS
During the many years that we have been e ngaged as seedsmen, making a specialty of sell-
ing strains suitable for market gardeners we have always been on the lookout for varieties
that are of particular value to planters whose living depends upon the kind of vegetables they
grow. These specialties are leaders and have the endorsement of the most successful truck
farmers in all sections. The exceptional value of these specialties as money bringing articles
has been proven over and over again by those who plant our seed.
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LEONARD’S MARKET GARDENERS’ CATALOGUE
HORSFOKD’S MARKET GARDEN PEAS IN BLOSSOM
The above is a close vie-w of Horsford’s Market Garden Peas in blossom at Columbus,
Wis. The purpose of these experimental gardens is to establish a stock of seed that -will be
true to type "when planted for a crop. Very much as in the breeding of live stock the results
may not be all that is desired, but it is an advance. It is not alone in Peas that -we are work-
ing, but on Beans, Radishes, Cucumbers, Beets and all other stocks of garden seeds.
The views in the inside of the rear cover are of Test Gardens at Avondale, and the two
kinds of gardens have very different purposes. The- Test Garden of course tells us what any
particular lot of seed should be for our trade when they buy it or plant it, but it tells us by
comparing the tests many other things. It tells us what seed does that has been grown on clay or
loam, or muck, what seed will do planted early or late, harvested when less or more mature,
harvested in wet weather or dry, and answers the seeming endless number of questions a pro-
fessional seedsman asks himself about his crop.
Our effort in stock improvement is more than repaid by the appreciation of our customers
and the increased volume of business we are receiving.
The view below is of one of our Onion Set fields, so our work gardening must be thought
of as both intensive and extensive.
WORKING CULTIVATORS IN ONION SETS AT JEEEERSON PARK FARM
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LEONARD’S MARKET GARDENERS’ CATALOGUE
LEONARD’S SWEET CORN, NARROW GRAIN
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LEONARD’S MARKET GARDENERS’ CATALOGUE
ARTICHOKE.
Tubers (Jerusalem)
Conover’s Colossal
Barr’s Mammoth
Palmetto
Columbian Mammoth White.
Giant Argenteuil
Bonvallets Giant
kg.
02.
i/4-Lb.
Lb.
).05
$0.30
$1.00
$4.00
1.
.05
.10
.20
.60
.05
.10
.20
.60
.05
.10
.20
.60
.05
.10
.20
.60
.05
.10
.20
.75
.05
.10
.20
.75
10 Lbs.
ASPARAGUS— Roots.
1 year old roots
2 year old roots.
3 year old roots
BEANS — Dwarf, Bush or Snap.
Green Podded Varieties.
Beans are 60 lbs. to Bu., except Limas and Broad Windsor, which
are 56 lbs., and Flageolets and Red Kidney,
which are 58 lbs. to Bu.
Hopkin’s Improved Red Valentine $0.15
Early Improved Red Valentine 15
Early Mohawk
Long Yellow, Six Weeks 15
Round Yellow
Extra Early Refuge 15
Refugee or 1,000 to 1 .15
Giant Stringless
Burpee’s Stringless Green Pod
Bountiful ’
Longfellow 15
Tenn Green Pod or Brown Bunch
Black Valentine
Pheasant Eye Stringless Green Pod 15
Dwarf Horticultural...
Goddard, or Boston Favorite
Improved White Kidney
White Marrow
Prolific Tree
Vineless Marrow
Navy
Boston White Pea Bean
Red Kidney
Broad Windsor Bob, Fava, or Horse Bean
Burpee’s Bush Lima
Henderson’s or Dwarf Seiva.
Dreer’s Bush Lima
Wonder Bush Lima
Fordhook Bush Lima
Wax Podded Varieties.
Davis White Wax 15
Improved Golden Wax, Rust Proof 15
Black Wax
Pencil Pod Black Wax
Challenge Black Wax
Prolific German Black Wax
Bismarck Black Wax
Currie’s Rust Proof
Jones Stringless Wax
White Wax
•/2-Pt.
Pt.
Qt.
Pk.
Bu.
$0.15 $0.25
$0.45
$2.00
, .15
.25
.45
2.00
. .15
.25
.45
2.00
.15
.25
.45
2.00
.15
.25
.45
2.00
, .15
.25
.45
3.00
.15
.25
.45
2.00
.15
.25
.45
2.25
, .15
.25
.45
2.25
.15
.25
.45
2.50
.15
.25
.45
ii.OU
.15
.25
.45
2.50
.10
.15
* .25
1.25
5.00
.10
.15
.25
1.25
5.00
.10
.15
.25
1.25
5.00
.10
.15
.25
1.25
5.00
.15
.25
.45
2.25
Varieties.
.10
.20
.35
2.25
.10
.20
.35
2.00
.10
.20
.35
2.25
.10
.20
.35
2.25
.15
.25
.45
2.50
1 or Snap,
ieties.
. .15
.25
.45
3.50
. .15
.25
.45
3.50
.15
.25
.45
3.00
LEONARD’S MARKET GARDENERS’ CATALOGUE
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BEANS — Dwarf, Bush or Snap — Continued.
Detroit Wax
Black Eye Wax
Webber Wax, a very superior Wax bean
Yosemite Mammoth Wax
Round Podded Kidney Wax
WardwelTs Kidney Wax
Golden Eye Wax or Yellow Eye Wax
Scarlet Flageolet Wax
Violet Flageolet Wax
Refugee Wax C
Valentine Wax
Hodson Wax
BEANS — Pole or Runni
White creaseback
Red Speckled Cut Short or Corn Hill
Kentucky Wonder or Old Homestead
Lazy Wife
Horticultural Cranberry or London Horticultural
Early Golden Cluster Wax
Siebert’s Early Lima
Jersey Extra Early Lima
Dreer's Improved Lima or Challenge
Large White Lima
Carolina Small White Lima or Seiva
King of the Garden Lima
Scarlet Runner
Early Dutch Case Knife
Kz-Pt.
Pt.
Qt.
Pk.
. $0.15
$0.25
$0.45
$3.00
.15
.25
.45
3.25
. .15
.25
.45
3.50
. .15
.25
.45
3.00
.25
.45
3.00
.25
.45
2.75
ng.
.10
.20
.30
2.00
,10
.20
CO
o
2.00
,10
.20
.30
1.75
,10
.20
.30
2.00
,10
.20
.30
2.00
.10
o
CVJ
.35
.10
.20
.30 '
2.25
MAULES NOXALL OR MISSOURI WONDER
Mammoth Podded Horticultural
BEETS— For the Table. Oz. !4-Lb. Lb.
Leonard’s Egyptian $0.10 $0.35 $0.80
Early Egyptian Blood Turnip .10 .25 .75
Early Eclipse .10 .30 .60
Lentz Early Blood Turnip... 10 .25 .60
Crosby Egyptian 10 .35 .75
Early Crimson Globe 10 .35 .80
Edmand’s Blood Turnip 10 .35 .75
Dewing’s Blood Turnip 10 .30 .60
Bastian’s Blood Turnip _.10 .25 .60
Early Flat Bassano 10 .25 .60
Detroit Dark Red Turnip 10 .35 .80
Early Blood Turnip, Improved 10 .30 .75
Long Smooth Dark Blood 10 .25 .60
Half Long Blood 10 .25 .75
Swiss Chard 10 .30 .75
Columbia 10 -25 .75
Arlington 10 .30 .75
Early Dirigo 10 .35 .80
Electric 10 .30 .75
Ruby Dulcet 10 .30 .75
BEETS— Mangel Wurzels.
Long Red 05 .15 .30
Leonard’s Improved Mammoth Long Red 05 .15 .30
Norbiton Giant Long Red 05 .15 .30
Giant Intermediate or Ovoid Yellow 05 .15 .30
Golden Tankard 05 .15 .30
Yellow Globe 05 .15 .30
Orange Globe 05 .15 .30
Bu.
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LEONARD’S MARKET GARDENERS’ CATALOGUE
BEETS — Sugar.
Lane’s Imperial Sugar '
French White Sugar, Red Top
Vilmorin’s Improved Sugar
French Very Rich...
Klein WanzIeben
Giant Rose Half Sugar for Cattle
Giant One-Half Sugar Winter
White Red Top
BROCCOLI.
White Cape
Purple Cape
BRUSSELS SPROUTS.
Dwarf Improved
Tall French
CABBAGE.
We
can put
Cabbage
Seed
up in
1/2-lb.
and 1-lb.
Packages
if desired
Extra Early Etampes
Extra Early Express
Early Jersey Wakefield
Early York
Charleston Large Wakefield
Early Spring, Earliest Flat Head
Henderson’s Early Summer
All Head Early
Leonard’s Faultless
All Seasons
Succession
Early Dwarf Flat Dutch
Early Large York
Early Winnigstadt
Glory of Enkhuizen
Acme Flat Dutch
Stein’s Early Flat Dutch
Early Drumhead
Early Deep Head
Fottler’s Early Brunswick Blue Stem.
Copenhagen Market
Premium Late Flat Dutch
Surehead
Louisville Drumhead
Stone Mason Drumhead
Large Late Drumhead
Leonard’s Bridgeport Drumhead
Marblehead Mammoth Drumhead
Leonard’s Luxemburg
Leonard’s Winter Cabbage (new)
Danish Ball Head, Imported Stock
The Holland, Leonard’s Strain, Imported Stock
Holland Short Stem Strain, Imported Stock
Holland Cabbage, Domestic Stock
The Lupton
Autumn King
Early Blood Red Erfurt
Mammoth Rock Red
Large Red Drumhead
Red Dutch
Houser Flat Dutch
Volga
Improved American Savoy
Chinese Cabbage or Pe Tsai
Oz.
$0.05
.05
.05
.05
.05
.05
.05
.05
.35
.35
.25
.25
.15
.15'
.25
.15
.25
.25
.25
.25
.25
.25
.25
.20
.25
.15
.25
.25
.25
.25
.25
.25
.25
.25
.25
.25
.25
.25
.25
.25
.25
.25
.25
.25
.25
.25
.25
.25
.25
.25
' .25
.25
.25
.25
.25
!4-Lb.
$0.15
.15
.15
.15
.15
.15
.15
.15
1.00
1.25
.75
.75
.50
.50
.60
.50
.65
.75
.60
.75
.75
.60
.60
.50
.60
.40
.75
.60
.60
.60
.60
.60
1.00
.60
.60
.60
.60
.60
.75
.60
.75
.85
.75
.85
.85
.75
.60
.60
.60
.60
.60
.60
.75
.75
.60
1.00
Lb.
$0.30
.30
.30
.30
.30
.30
.30
.30
4.00
5.00
2.25
2.25
1.50
1.50
2.00
1.50
2.00
2.50
2.00
2.50
3.00
2.00
2.00
1.75
2.00
1.50
3.00
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.00
3.50
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.00
3.00
2.00
2.50
3.00
2.50
3.00
3.00
2.50
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.00
3.50
LEONARD’S MARKET GARDENERS’ CATALOGUE
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CARROT.
Early French Forcing
Early Scarlet or Short Horn
Half Long Nantes
Chantenay
Geurande or Ox Heart
Danvers
Half Long Scarlet Carentan
Saint Vallery
Long Red Altringham
Improved Long Orange
Large Orange Belgian
Long White Belgian
Improved Short White
Large White Vosges
Coreless
CAULIFLOWER.
Leonard’s Early Snowball
Earliest Dwarf Erfurt
Early Snowball, Danish
Danish Dry Weather
Early Erfurt
Extra Early Paris
Early Paris or Nonpareil
Lenormand’s Short Stem
Autumn Giant
Late Algiers
CELERY.
Golden Self-blanching, French Stock..
Golden Self-blanching, American Stock
Rose Ribbed Paris, Self-blanching
Pink Plume, Self-blanching
White Plume, Self-blanching
Winter Queen
Dwarf Golden Heart
Boston Market
Giant Pascal
Giant White Solid
Evans Triumph
Crawford’s Half Dwarf
»
Giant Golden Heart
Perfection Heartwell
Dwarf White Kalamazoo
New Rose
Apple Shaped, Celeriac
Large Smooth Prague, Celeriac
Erfurt Large Early, Celeriac
Soup or Cutting Celery
Celery Seed, for flavoring
Curled
CHERVIL.
CHICORY.
Common
Large Rooted
Witloof or French Endive
CARDOON.
Oz. i/4-Lb.
$0.15 $0.50
.15
.50
.20
.50
.20
.60
.20
.50
.20
.60
.20
.50
.10
.35
.10
.35
.15
.35
.15
.40
.15
.40
.15
.40
.20
.50
.20
.50
2.00
8.00
2.00
8.00
1.75
7.00
2.00
8.00
1.50
6.od
1.00
3.50
.50
1.00
.25
.60
.25
.75
.26
.75
.20'
.40
.20
.40
.20
.40
.20
.40
.20
.40
.20
.40
.20
.40
.20
.40
.20
.40
.25
.50
.25
1.00
.15
.40
.20
.60
.20
.60
.20
.65
.05
.15
.15
.40
.15
.40
.20
.60
.20
.60
.25
.75
Lb. 5 Lb.
$ 1.00
1.00
1.00
1.25
1.00
1.25
1.00
.80
.80
.80
.80
.80
.80
.80
1.25
32.00
32.00
28.00
32.00
24.00
12.00
6.00
2.25
2.75
3.00
1.50
1.50
1.50
1.50
1.50
1.50
1.50
1.50
1.50
2.00
3.50
1.50
2.00
2.25
1.50
.60
1.50
1.50
2.00
2.00
2.00
10 Lbs.
Large Solid
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LEONARD’S MARKET GARDENERS’ CATALOGUE
COLLARDS.
Oz.
!4-Lb.
Lb.
True Georgia
$0.10
$0.20
$0.60
Southern or Creole
.10
.20
.60
. CORN SALAD.
Large Seeded, Large Leaved
.10
.20
.60
SWEET CORN.
Sweet Corn is sold by measured bushel. Qt.
Pk.
Bu.
5 Bu.
Golden Bantam (Yellow)
$0.30
$1.25
$5.00
Cory
20
1.00
4.00
$17.30
White Cob Cory
20
1.00
4.00
17.50
Chicago Market or Ballard
20
1.00
4.00
17.50
Mammoth White Cory
20
1.00
4.00
17.50
Premo
20
1.00
4.00
17.50
Peep o’Day
20
1.00
4.00
Extra Early Adams
20
.90
3.50
15.00
Perry's Hybrid
20
1.00
4.00
17.56
Early Adams
.20
.90
3.50
15.00
'Early Minnesota
20
.90
3.50
15.00
Kendall’s Early Giant
20
1.00
4.00
17.50
Early Crosby
20
1.00
4.00
17.50
Champion
20
1.00
4.00
17.50
Moore’s Early Concord
20
1.00
4.00
17.50
Stabler’s Early
20
1.00
4.00
17.50
Shaker’s Early
20
1.00
4.00
17.50
Early Mammoth
20
1.00
4.00
17.50
Shoe Peg
20
1.00
4.00
17.50
Country Gentlemen
.20
1.00
4.00
17.50
Zig-Zag Evergreen...'.
20
1.00
4.00
17.50
HIckox Improved
20
1.00
4.00
17.50
Old Colony
20
1.00
4.00
17.50
Egyptian
20
1.00
4.00
17.50
Stowell’s Evergreen
20
1.00
4.00
17.50
Early Evergreen
20
1.00
4.00
17.50
White Evergreen ’.
20
1.00
4.00
17.50
Leonard’s Sweet Corn, Narrow Grain
30
1.50
6.00
Mammoth
20
1.00
4.00
17.50
Black Mexican
20
1.00
4.00
17.50
White Mexican
20
1.00
4.00
17.50
Malakoff
25
1.25
5.00
Early Iowa
20
1.00
4.00
17.50
CORN— Field.
Big Whiskey. A large new yellow dent
15
1.00
3.00
Improved Learning
15
1.00
3.00
King of the Earliest
15
1.00
3.00
Reid’s Yellow Dent
15
1.00
3.00
Pride of the North
15
1.00
3.00
‘ Iowa Gold Mine
15
1.00
3.00
Iowa Silver Mine
15
1.00
3.00
Early Sanford
15
1.00
3.00
Boone Country White
15
1.00
3.00
Champion White Pearl
15
1.00
3.00
Early 8-Rowed Canada Flint
15
1.00
3.00
Improved King Philip (Flint)
15
1.00
3.00
Longfellow (Flint)
15
1.00
3.00
Red Cob Ensilage
15
1.00
3.00
Southern Horse Tooth
15
1.00
3.00
Wisconsin White Dent
15
1.00
3.00
Evergreen Sweet Fodder
15
1.00
3.00
LEONARD’S MARKET GARDENERS’ CATALOGUE
11
CORN— Pop.
Pkt.
Oz.
'/4-Lb.
Lb.
5 Lbs.
White Rice, Shelled
$0.10
Pearl, Shelled
.10
Red Rice, Shelled
.10
Golden Queen, Shelled
.10
Popping Corn (not for seed)
.07
CRESS.
Curled or Pepper Grass
. $0.05
$0.10
$0.20
True Water
.10
.35
1.00
CUCUMBER.
•
West India Gherkin. A small, burr-shaped variety
.05
.15
.50
Early Cluster
.05
.10
.20
$0.75
$3.50
Green Prolific or Boston Pickling
.05
.10
.20
.75
3.50
Early Frame or Short Green
.05
.10
.20
.75
3.50
Chicago , Pickle, Westerfield’s, Leonard’s
Strain
.05
.10
.20
.75
3.50
Chicago Pickle, not our growing
• .05
.10
.20
.70
3.25
Jersey Pickling
.05
.10
“.20
.75
3.50
Everbearing
.05
.10
.20
.75
3.50
Cumberland
.05
.10
.20
.75
3.50
Improved Long Green
Write
for
.05
.10
.25
1.00
4.50
Nichol’s Medium Green
Special
.05
.10
.20
.75
3.50
Parisian Pickling
Price
.05
.10
.20
.75
Livingston’s Evergreen
in
1 AC 11-k
.05
.10
.20
.75
Fordhook Pickling
lUU-lD.
lofs
.05
.10
.25
1.00
Leonard’s Greenhouse Cucumber
.05
.10
.30
1.00
4.50
Early Improved White Spine
.05
.10
.20
.75
Peerless White Spine
.05
.10
.20
.75
Evergreen White Spine
.05
.10
.20
.75
Arlington White Spine
.05
.10
.20
.75
3.50
Cool and Crisp
.05
.10
.25
1.00
4.50
Emerald
.05
.10
.20
.75
Japanese Climbing
.05
.10
.20
.75
Fordhook Famous
.05
.10
.25
1.00
4.50
Davis Perfect
.05
.10
.20
.75
Snow Pickle
.05
.10
.20
.75
3.50
Klondyke
.05
.10
.20
.75
3.50
DANDELION.
Improved Large Leaved
.10
.40
Cultivated or French Common
.10
.40
EGG PLANT.
Leonard’s Improved New York, Purple.
Spineless
.10
.40
1.00
4.00
New York Improved Purple
.10
.30
.75
3.00
Black Pekin
.10
.30
.75
3.00
Early Long Purple
.10
.30
.75
3.00
White Pearl
.10
.40
ENDIVE.
Green Curled
.05
.15
.50
1.25
White Curled
.05
.15
.50
1.25
Moss Curled
.05
.15
■ .50
1.25
Broad Leaved Batavian
.05
.15
.35
1.10
GARLIC.
Bulbs Market price
GOURDS.
Dipper 05
Fancy Varieties, Mixed . .05
Japanese Nest Egg 05
Sugar Trough 05
12
LEONARD’S MARKET GARDENERS’ CATALOGUE
HORSE RADISH.
Per Doz.
100
1000
Small Roots
$0.25
$1.00
$5.50
HERBS.
Pkt.
Oz.
!4-Lb.
Lb.
Anise
$0.05
$0.10
$0.25
$1.00
Balm
05
.25
.75
2.50
Basil Sweet
05
.15
.40
1.50
Borage
05
.15
.35
1.25
Catnip
05
.25
Caraway, for Planting
05
.10
.20
.80
Coriander .•
05
.10
.20
.80
Dill — Mammoth
05
.10
- .20
.75
Dill — Common
05
.10
.20
.75
Fennel, Sweet
05
.10
.20
.80
Florence Fennel
05
.20
.65
2.00
Horehound
.20
.60
2.00
Hyssop
05
.20
.60
2.00
Lavender
05
.20
.60
2.00
Sweet Marjoram
05
.20
.60
2.00
Rosemary
05
.40
1.00
3.50
Rue
05
.30
.75
3.00
Sage — Broad Leaved
05
.15
.40
1.50
05
.30
1.00
3.00
Summer Savory
05
.15
.50
1.50
Thyme ••
05
.40
1.25
4.00
Wormwood
.25
.75
2.50
KALE.
Dwarf Curled Scotch
.10
.20
.60
Half Dwarf Moss Curled
.10
.20
.60
Siberian, Dwarf German Greens or Sprouts
.10
.20
.60
Tall Curled Scotch
.10
.20
.60
Dwarf German Purple
.10
.20
.60
Thousand Headed Kale
.10
.20
.60
KOHL-RABI.
Early White Vienna Forcing
.20
.50
2.50
Early White Vienna
Large Green
.10
.30
1.25
Early Purple Vienna
Early Purple Vienna Forcing
.20
.50
2.50
LEEK.
London Flag
40
■1
Large American Flag
■ I 9
.15
•‘tU
.40
1 •QU
1.50
Rouen — Large Winter
.15
.40
1.50
Large Musselburg
.15
.40
1.50
Monstrous Carentan
.15
.40
1.50
LETTUCE.
Black Seeded Simpson
.10
.25
.80
Early Curled Silesia, W. S
.10
.25
1.00
Grand Rapids, B. S
.10
.25
.80
Early Curled Simpson, White Seeded
.10
.25
.80
Tilton’s White Star, W. S
.10
.25
1.00
Boston Curled. B. S
.10
.25
.80
The Morse, W. S., similar to Black Seeded Simpson
05
.10
.25
1.00
Denver Market, W. S
.10
.25
1.00
Prize Head, W. S
.10
.25
.80
Improved Hanson, W. S
.10
.25
.80
Boston Market
.10
.25
1.00
LEONARD’S MARKET GARDENERS’ CATALOGUE
13
LETTUCE— Continued.
Tomhannock, W. S
Iceberg, W. S
Early Tennis Ball, White Seeded. The best head variety for forc-
ing. This is also called Boston Market
Tennis Ball, B. S
Silver Ball, W. S
Buttercup, W. S
St. Louis Butter, W. S
All Season
Royal Summer Cabbage, B. S
Big Boston, W. S
White Summer Cabbage, W. S
Defiance
Hubbard’s Market, W. S
Wonderful, same as New York
New York, W. S
California Cream Butter, B. S
All Year Round, B. S
Salamander, B. S ; .
Golden Stonehead, W. S
Chartier Head, W. S
Blonde Blockhead, W. S
Philadelphia Butter or Early White Head, W. S
Mammoth Black Seeded Butter
Brown Dutch, B. S
Large Drumhead or Victoria Cabbage, W. S
Speckled Dutch Butter, W. S
Tom Thumb, B. S ,
Mignonette, W. S • . .
Deacon
May King
Marblehead Mammoth
Winter Lettuce, W. S
Tender Heart
COS OR BLANCHING VARIETIES.
Paris White Cos, W. S
Romaine Cos, W. S
MUSKMELON.
Burrell’s Gem
Ordway Gem
Osage Gem
Admiral Togo
Hoodoo
Paul Rose
Emerald Gem
Princess
Osage
Jenny Lind ,
McCotter’s Pride
Banquet
Delmonico
Tip Top
Surprise
Banana
Ornamental Pomegranate
Rocky Ford
Eden Gem
Netted Gem
Delicious Gold Lined
Early Nutmeg
Skillman’s Netted
Early Hackensack . , .
Large Hackensack
Defender
Pkt.
Oz.
$0.05
$0.10
.05
.10
.05
.10
.05
.10
.05
.10
.05
.10
.05
.10
.05
.10
.05
.10
.05
.10
If)
q
.10
.05
.10
.05
.10
.05
.10
.05
.10
.05
.10
.05
.10
.05
.10
.05
.10
.05
.10
.05
.10
.05
.10
.05
.10
.05
.10
.05
.10
.05
.10
.05
.10
.05
.10
.05
.10
.05
.10
.05
.10
.05
.10
.05
.10
.05
.10
.05
.10
.05
.10
.05
.10
.05
.10
.05
.10
.05
.10
.05
.10
.05
.10
.05
.10
‘ .05
.10
.05
.10
.05
.10
.05
.10
.05
.10
.05
.10
.05
.10
.05
.10
.05
.15
.05
.10
.05
.10
.05
.10
.05
.10
.05
.10
.05
.10
.05
.10
.05
.10
.05
.10
l/4-Lb.
Lb.
$0.25
$1.00
.25
1.00
.25
.80
.25
1.00
.25
1.00
.25
.80
.25
.80
.25
1.00
.25
.80
.25
' 1.00
.25
.80
.25
.80
.25
1.00
.25
1.00
.25
1.00
.25
.80
.25
.80
.25
.80
.25
.80
.25
.80
.25
.80
.25
.80
LO
CVJ
.80
' .25
1.00
.25
.80
.25
80
.25
1.00
.25
1.00
.25
80
.25
1.00
.20
.75
.25
1.00
.25
1.00
.25
1.00
.25
1.00
.20
.75
.20
.75
.20
.75
.25
.80
.25
.80
.20
.75
.25
.85
.20
.75
.25
.85
.20
.75
.25
.85
.25
.85
.25
.85
.25
1.00
.25
1.00
.25
1.00
.50
1.75
.20
.75
.20
.75
.20
.75
.25
1.00
.20
.75
.20
.75
.25
.80
.25
.80
.25
.80
14
LEONARD’S MARKET GARDENERS’ CATALOGUE
MUSKMELON— Continued.
Pkt.
Oz.
14-Lb.
Lb.
Chicago Market Nutmeg
. $0.05
$0.10
$0.25
$0.80
Melrose
.05
• .10
.25
.80
Jersey Belle
.05
.10
.25
1.00
Long Island Beauty
.05
.10
.25
1.00
Early Green Citron
.05
.10
.20
.75
Shumway’s Giant
.05
.10
.35
1.25
Montreal Market....
.05
.10
.25
.80
Acme or Baltimore
.05
.10
.25
.80
Cosmopolitan
.05
.10
.25
1.00
Improved Cantaloupe
.05
.10
.25
.80
Champion Market
.05
.10
.25
.80
White Japan
.05
.10
.25
.80
Bay View
.05
.10
.25
.80
Vine Peach, Mango Melon
.05
.15
.50
1.50
Garden Lemon
.05
.15
.50
1.50
Casaba
.05
.10
,25
1.00
Pine Apple •.
.05
.10
.25
1.00
Norfolk Button
.05
.15
.25
.80
WATERMELON.
Phinney’s Early
.05
.10
.25
.80
Vick’s Early
.05
.10
.20
.75
Cole’s Early
.05
.10
.20
.75
Harris’ Early
.05
.10
.25
.80
Excell, new, the coming variety, the best shipping melon
.05
.10
.35
1.00
Gypsy or Rattlesnake
.05
.10
.20
.75
Peerless
.05
.10
.20
.75
Sweetheart
.05
.10
.20
.75
D i X i A
.05
.10
.20
.75
Florida Favorite
.05
.10
.20
.75
Kolb’s Gem
.05
.10
.20
.75
Seminole
.05
.10
.25
.85
Black Diamond
.05
.10
.25
.85
Halbert Honey ^
.05
.10
.25
.85
Tom Watson
.05
.10
.20
.75
Pride of Georgia
.05
.10
.20
.75
Ironclad ,
.05
.10
.20
.80
Alabama Sweet
.05
.10
.20
.75
Light Icing
.05
.10
.20
.80
Dark Icing
.05
.10
.20
.80
Jumbo
.05
.10
.20
.80
Cuban Queen
.05
.10
.20
.80
Success
.05
.10
.20
.80
Mountain Sweet
.05
.10
.20
.80
Ferry’s Iceberg ;
.05
.10
.20
.80
Ice Cream
.05
.10
.20
.80
Monte Cristo
.05
.10
.20
.80
T riumph
.05
.10
.20
.80
Mclver’s Sugar
.05
.10
.20
.80
Kleckly Sweets, same as Monte Cristo
.05
.10
.20
.80
Hungarian Honey
.05
.10
.25
1.00
Eden
.05
.10
.20
.75
Bradford
.05
.10
.20
.75
Duke Jones
.05
.10
.20
.80
Red Seed Citron, for preserving
.05
.10
.20
.80
Green Seed Citron, Colorado preserving
.05
.10
.20
.80
Girardeau Favorite
.05
.10
.20
.80
The Boss
.05
.10
.20
.75
MUSTARD.'
Brown (Wild)
.05
.10
.15
.40
White, London
.05
.10
.15
.40
Southern Giant Curled, Ostrich Plume, Fordhood Fancy
.05
.10
.20
.50
Chinese, Smooth Leaf, or Bloomdale Large Leaved
.05
.10
.20
.60
LEONARD’S MARKET GARDENERS’ CATALOGUE
15
MUSHROOM SPAWN.
Oz.
Lb.
Pure Culture — in bricks\
$0.20
English — in bricks
.10
French — in 3-lb. boxes (per box)
.75
NASTURTIUM.
Pkt.
Oz.
^4-Lb.
Lb.
Tall or Garden
$0.05
$0.10
$0.20
$0.50
Oak Park Tall
.05
.10
.25
.60
Dwarf Mixed
.05
.10
.20
.50
Oak Park Dwarf
.05
.10
.25
.60
OKRA.
Perkins Mammoth Long Pod
.05
.10
.20
.60
Dwarf Green, Improved
.05
.10
.15
. .50
Long Green !
.05
.10
.15
.50
White Velvet
.05
.10
.15
.50
ONION SEED.
Leonard’s Onion Seed is endorsed by market gardeners everywhere.
Each year adds
to its
popularity with them. This is the surest indication of merit.
Pkt.
Oz.
Lb.
5 Lb.
10 Lb.
Leonard’s Early Yellow Cracker
$0.05
$0.20
$2.00
$ 9.50
$18.00
Early Flat Yellow Danvers
.05
.20
2.00
9.50
18.00
Yellow Dutch or Strasburg
.05
.20
2.15
10.25
19.50
Australian Brown. Skin Brownish Yellow
.05
.20
2.00
9.50
18.00
Yellow Globe Danvers
.05
.20
2.00
9.50
18.00
Michigan Yellow Globe
.05
.20
2.15
10.25
19.50
Ohio Yellow Globe
Leonard’s Yellow Globe. A true globe-shaped variety; the
.05
.20
2.15
10.25
19.50
best yellow sort for muck lands; the best market gar-
deners’ variety; the handsomest yellow-skinned onion
known; a splendid keeper
.05
.25
2.55
12.25
23.50
Southport Yellow Globe
Prize Taker. A popular variety for fall marketing; very
.05
.20
2.25
10.75
20.50
showy and a prolific yielder; ordinarily not a real good
keeper
.05
.15
1.80
8.50
16.00
Extra Early Flat Red
.05
.20
2.25
10.75
20.50
Large Red Wethersfield
Leonard’s Red Globe. True globe-shaped, bright red col-
.05
.20
2.25
10.75
20.50
ored; the best red skinned variety for market pur-
poses; well adapted for all soils; the best red sort for
muck land •
.05
.25
2.55
12.25
23.50
Southport Red Globe
Red Victoria
.05
.20
2.00
9.50
18.00
White Portugal. American Silver Skin
.05
.30
3.00
14.50
Philadelphia Silver Skin
.05
.30
3.00
14.50
Extra Early White Pearl
Leonard’s White Globe. True globe-shaped; the best white
.05
.20
2.55
12.25
23.50
skinned variety for market; the best white sort for'
muck land
.05
.30
4.00
Southport White Globe
.05
.30
3.50
ONION — Imported Sorts.
Red Bermuda
White Bermuda
Crystal White Wax
.05
.30
2.50
White Barletta
.05
.30
2.50
White Queen
.05
.20
2.55
12.25
23.50
White Welch
.05
.20
2.50
Early Neapolitan Marzajola
.05
.25
2.50
Mammoth Silver King
.05
.20
2.00
White Italian Tripoli
.05
.20
2.00
Mammoth Spanish King
Red Rocca
Mammoth Copper King
.05
.05
.20
.20
2.00
2.00
16
LEONARD’S MARKET GARDENERS’ CATALOGUE
HEADQUARTERS FOR ONION SETS.
We are now and for many years have been the leading Onion Set Growers.
We claim a superiority for our product, which comes from superior knowledge in planting,
harvesting, storing and shipping, as a result of long continued experience and large operations.
Red Bottom Sets
White Bottom Sets
Yellow Bottom Sets
Yellow Globe Sets
^ . Prizetaker Sets
Crystal White Wax Sets
Pearl Sets
Genuine Top Sets
Winter Top Sets or Perennial.
Potato Onions
White Multipliers or Shallots.
Yellow Multipliers or Shallots
Bu.
Write
for
Market
Prices
Buyers of onion sets should write for prices, as the values are always changing.
PARSLEY.
Plain or Single
Double Curled
Champion Moss Curled
Fern Leaf
Triple Curled or Myatt’s Garnishing
Hamburg or Rooted
^PARSNIP.
Improved Hollow Crown
Guernsey Improved
Long White Dutch
PEAS — Smooth Seed. '
, Smoot Seed Peas, 60 lbs. to bu.
Alaska t
Ameer
Bountiful
Blue Imperial
Blue Beauty
Blackeye Marrowfat
Claudit
D’Anoney Amelior
Early May
Extra Early
Essex Star
Early Morn Suttons
First and Best
French Canner
Fillbasket
Giant Lightning
Giant Blue Express
Improved Sugar Marrow
Long Island Mammoth
Mauritania
Maud S
Mammoth Melting Sugar
Prolific Early Market
Prime
Peter Pan
Pilot
Pride of Market
Saxonia or Saxa
Telegraph
Tom Thumb
Velocity
White Marrowfat
Pkt.
Oz.
$0.05
$0.10
.05
.10
.05
.10
.05
.10
.05
.10
.05
.10
.05 .10
.05 .10
.05 .10
Pt.
Qt.
$0.15
$0.30
.15
.30
.15
.30
.15
.30
.15
.30
.20
.40
.15
.30
.15
.30
.15
.25
.15
.25
.15
.20
.15
o
CO
o
CVJ
.40
.15
.25
.20
.40
.15
.25
.15
.40
.15
.40
Lb.
$0.80
.90
.90
.90
.90
1.00
.50
.50
.50
Pk.
Bu.
$1.50
1.50
1.50
$5.00
5.00
5.00
1.50
1.50
5.00
5.00
1.50
1.50
6.00
5.00
1.50
1.25
5.00
4.50
1.25
1.50
4.00
6.00
1.50
5.00
1.50
6.00
1.50
1.50
1.50
6.00
6.00
6.00
1.50
1.75
5.50
6.50
LEONARD’S^ MMKEL_GARDENE^ CATALOGUE
'America^ Wonder. . . . , .
Advancer . -. ; '.
Adhilfiai . 1 ; i ; . ; . ; ; . . . . . . .
Abundance . . . . . .
Autdfcrat . •. ; . . . : ; . . . . .
Aidermairt ■. . . . . •. . . : •. . : . , .
Ad mi fal Dewey . •. . : . . .
Boston U nrivaled . ; . ; ; ; . ; :
feritish Wonder. : . *. . . . ; :
feuttefcUp . . ; •. . ; ; ; . : . : ;
Giata'Wai Leonard’s . . : . . . :
tehampio’n of England. : : : :
Cheisea_ Gem
bwarf Telephone or Daisy
Dwarf Defiance, Sutton’s..
Danby Stratagem
Duke of York
Duke of Albany
Duchess
Dwarf Gray Sugar
Exonian
English Wonder
Everbearing
Forty Fold
Gems, Premium
Gems, McLean’s Little....
Green Gem.
Gradus
Gladstone
Golden King
Heroine
Horsford’s Market Garden
King Edward VII
Laxtonian
Little Marvel
Lincoln
Nott’s Excelsior
Potlatch, Leonard’s
Prince of Wales
Richard Seddon
Surprise or Eclipse
Suttdns Excelsior
Suttons A-1
Suttons Peerless
Suttons Pioneer
Shropshire Hero
Stratagem
Sharpes Queen
Sherwood
Senator
Stanley
Thomas Laxton
Telephone
Witham Wonder
Wm. Hurst
World’s Record
Yorkshire Hero
PeA§— Wrilikieiil Sised;
Wrinkled Seed l^eas, 56 lbs. to bu;
Pt.
QL-
Pk."
$0.15
$0.30
$1.66
;15
.25
1.50
.25
1.50
.i6
;2S
1.'50
:25
1:56
.16
:26
1.60
.66
:40
2.66
.20
:46
.1.50
;2q
.40
•i.50
;16
;26
1.50
.20
.40
2.25
.15
.30
1.75
.15
.30
1.75
.15
.25
1.50
.15
.25
1.50
.15
.30
1.75
.20
.40
1.50
.15
.25
1.50
.15
.25
1.50
.15
.30
1.50
.15
.30
1.50
.15
.30
1.50
.15
.25
1.50
.15
.25
1.50
.15
.25
1.50
.20
.40
2.50
.20 ,
.40
1.50
.15
.30
1.75
.15
.30
1.75
,15
.30
1.50
.20
.40
2.25
.20
.30
1.50
.15
.30
1.75
.15
.25
1.75
.15
.25
1.50
.15
.25
1.50
.15
.30
1.75
.15
.25
1.50
.20
.40
1.50
.20
.40
1.50
.15
,25
1.50
I 7
SuV
^6.66
5.00’
4.75
6.00
6.00
6.00
7.00
6.00
6.00
5.00
7:66
7.66
7.00
6.00
6.00
7.00
6.00
6.00
6.00
6.00
6.00
7.00
6.00
6.00
5.00
9.50
6.00
7.00
7.00
6.00
7.00
6.00
6.00
7.00
6.00
6.00
7.00
6.00
6.00
6.00
5.00
18
LEONARD’S MARKET GARDENERS’ CATALOGUE
. FIELD PEAS.
60 lbs. to Bu.
Common White or Canada
Common Blue or Green
Scotch Green Field
Subject to
Market
Changes.
PEPPER.
Long Cayenne
Red Chili
Red Cluster
Celestial
Coral Gem
Kaleidoscope
Bell or Bull Nose
Sweet Mountain
Pimento
Ruby King
Chinese Giant
Procopp's Giant
Golden Upright
Golden Dawn
Golden Queen
Tabasco
Red Cherry
PUMPKIN.
Small Sugar
Japanese Pie
Large Cheese or Kentucky Field
Connecticut Field
Mammoth Tours
Mammoth Potiron. Called also King Mammoth and Mammoth Prize
Cushaw or Crookneck.
Winter Queen or Luxury
Golden Oblong
Pie
Calhoun
Tennessee Sweet Potato...
RADISH.
Leonard's Three Leaf; excellent forcing sort; color, bright scarlet;
shape, olive
Olive Shaped Leafless forcing
Ne Plus Ultra, or Deep Scarlet Turnip Forcing
Scarlet Turnip White Tipped Forcing
White Tipped Scarlet Turnip (100 pounds, $40.00)
Early Scarlet Globe. The best forcing variety
V We put
Crimson Giant Forcing \ Radish Seed
Long Scarlet Short Top \ up in 14 -lb.
Wood’s Early Frame I 14-lb. or 1-lb
Cincinnati Market / Packages
Colorado Glass [ if desired
White Icicle I
Early Scarlet Turnip /
Deep Scarlet Turnip I
Scarlet Olive. V
Carmine Turnip I Write for
Rosy Gem I Special
French Breakfast / Prices in
/ 100-Jb.lots.
Early White Turnip or White Box
White Olive
Small Early Yellow Turnip
Golden Globe
Pkt.
$0.05
.05
.05
.05
.05
.05
.05
.05
.05-
.05
.05
.05
.05
.05
.05
.10
.05
.05
.05
.05
.05
.05
.05
.05
.05
.05
.05
.05
.05
Oz.
$0.05
.05
.05
.05
.05
.05
.05
.06
.05
.05
.05
.05
.05
.05
.05
.05
.05
.05
.05
.05
.05
.05
Oz.
$0.20
.20
.20
.20
.20
.20
.15
.15
.20
.20
.30
.25
.20
.20
.20
.35
.20
.10
.10
.10
.10
.10
.10
.10
.10
.10
.10
.10
.10
^4-Lb.
$0.15
.15
.15
.15
.15
.15
.15
.15
.15
.15
.15
.15
.15
.15
.15
.15
.15
.15
.15
.15
.15
.15
'A-Lb.
$0.75
.75
.75
.75
.75
.75
.50
.50
.75
.60
1.00
.90
.75
.75
.75
1.00
.75
.20
.20
.15
.15
.25
.25
.20
.15
.20
.20
.20
.20
Lb.
$0.55
.55
' .55
.55
.40
.60
.65
.50
.50
.50
.50
.50
.50
.50
.55
.50
.50
.50
.50
.55
.55
.55
Lb.
$2.50
2.50
2.50
2.50
2.50
2.50
2.00
2.00
2.50
2.25
3.50
3.50
2.50
2.50
2.50
4.00
2.50
.75
.75
.50
.40
1.00
1.00
.75
.60
.75
.75
.75
.75
5-Lb.
$2.50
2.50
2.50
2.50
2.00
2.50
2.75
2.25
2.25
2.25
2.25
2.25
2.25
2.25
2.50
2.25
2.25
2.25
2.25
2.50
2.50
2.50
LEONARD’S MARKET GARDENERS’ CATALOGUE
19
RADISH — Continued.
Half Long Deep Scarlet
Long Brightest Scarlet White Tip.
Improved Chartier
Long White Vienna or Lady Finger
Long White Pearl
White Strasburg
White Summer Turnip
White Stuttgart
Yellow Summer Turnip
Gray Summer Turnip
Rose China Winter
White China or Celestial
California Mammoth
Large White Spanish
Round Black Spanish
Long Black Spanish
Write for
Special
price in
100-lb. lots.
RHUBARB.
Linnaeus
Roots of Either Variety. .Per Doz.
75 cts. Per 100, $5.00. .
SALSIFY.
Large White
Mammoth Sandwich Island.
SORREL.
Large Leaved French
SPINACH.
Savoy Leaved
Large Leaved Viroflay or Thick Leaf.
Round Leaved
Prickly or Winter....;,
Long Standing
Broad Flanders
Victoria
New Zealand
SQUASH.
Summer Varieties.
Leonard's Giant Straightneck
Leonard’s Giant Crodkneck
Summer Crookneck
Leonard's Mammoth White Bush
Early White Bush...
Yellow Bush /
White Summer Crookneck
Strickler’s Summer
Italian Veg. Marrow (Cocozelladi-Napoli)
Winter Varieties.
Colvin’s Orange Marrow.
English Marrow
Boston Marrow
Sibley or Pike’s Peak. . .
Essex Hybrid
Red or Golden Hubbard
Mammoth Chili
Hard Shelled Marrow. . .
Oz.
y^-Lb.
Lb.
$0.05
$0.15
$0.50
.05
.15
.55
.05
.15
.50
.05
.15
.50
.05
.15
.50
.05
.15
.50
.05
.15
.55
.05
.15
.55
.05
.15
.50
.05
.15
.50
.05
.15
.50
.10
.20
.60
.10
.20
.60
.10
.20
.60
.10
.20
.60
.10
o
CVJ
.60
:t.
.05
.15
1.50
.05
.15
1.50
.05
.20
2.00
.05*
.20
2.00
.05
.15
1.50
Oz.
^4-Lb.
Lb.
$0.05
$0.25
.05
.25
.05
.25
.05
.25
.05
.25
.05
.25
.05
.25
.05
.25
.10
1.00
.10
1.00
.10
.75
.10
1.00
.10
. .75
.10
.75
.10
1.00
.10
1.00
.10
1.00
ivazzi) .
2 00
.10
.80
.10
.80
.10
.80
.10
.80
.10
1,00
.10
.80
.10
1.00
.10
^0
5-Lb.
$2.25
2.50
2.25
2.25
2.25
2.25
2.50
2.50
2.25
2.25
2.25
100-Lb.
$20.00
.20.00
’ 20.00
20.00
20.00
20.00
20.00
20.00
20
LEONARD’S MARKET GARDENERS’ CATALOGUE
SQUASH — Winter Varieties — Continued. Pkt. Oz.
Fordhook $0.10
The Delicious .10
Hubbard .10
Marblehead .10
Leonard’s Warty Hubbard .10
TOBACCO.
Connecticut Seed Leaf
. . $0.05
.20
Havana
.10
.30
White Burley
.25
Yellow Pryor
.10
.30
TOMATO.
Leonard’s Early Market
.20
Atlantic Prize
.05
.20
Early Michigan
.05
.20
Royal Red
.05
.20
Early Optimus
.05
.20
Dwarf Aristocrat
.30
Dwarf Stone
.05
.30
Volunteer
.30
Favorite
.20
Perfection
We put To-
.05
.20
Chalk’s Early Jewel
mato Seed
.05
.20
Ignotum
up in
.05
.25
New Stone *.
Vz-lh. or 1-lb
.05
.20
Paragon
Packages
.05
.20
Trophy
y if desired.
.05
.20
Honor Bright
.05
.25
Matchless
Write for
.05
.20
Earliana
Special
.05
.20
Crine’s June Pink
Price for
.05
.25
Early Detroit
100-lb. lots
.05
.20
Trucker’s Favorite
.05
.20
Success
.05
.20
Coreless
.05
.30
Acme
.05
.20
Beauty
.05
.20
Livingston’s Globe
\
.05
.30
Dwarf Champion
.05
.30
Mikado
.05
.25
Essex Hybrid
.05
.20
Imperial
.05
.20
Dwarf Giant
.05
.30
Greater Baltimore
.05
.30
Red Rock. Grown from original strain
.05
.30
Buckeye State
.30
Ponderosa
.05
.30
Tenderloin
.05
.30
Magnus
.05
.30
Crimson Cushion
.05
.30
Red Currant
.05
.30
Red Cherry
.05
.30
Red Pear
.05
.30
Red Peach 1
.05
.30
Yellow Cherry
For Preserving
.05
.30
Yellow Plum
.05
.30
Yellow Pear
.05
.30
Yellow Peach ^
.05
.30
Golden Queen
.05
.30
Golden Trophy
.05
.30
Husk or Ground Cherry
.05
.30
Lb.
$0.80
1.00
.75
1.00
1.00
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.50
2.50
2.50
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.25
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.25
2.00
2.00
2.25
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.50
2.00
2.00
2.50
3.00
2.25
2.00
2.00
2.50
2.50
2.5^
2.50
3.00
3.00
3.00
3.00
5*Lb.
LEONARD’S MARKET GARDENERS’ CATALOGUE
21
TURNIP.
Extra Early White Milan
Extra Early Purple Top Milan
Early Snowball
Early White Flat Dutch, Strap Leaved
Early Purple Top, Strap Leaved
Purple Top White Globe
Cow Horn or Long White
Large White Norfolk
Large Red Top Norfolk
White Egg
Pomeranean White Globe
Sweet German
Seven Top for Turnip Greens.-. .
Southern Prize
Golden Ball
Purple Top Yellow Aberdeen...
Amber Globe
Orange Jelly
Green Top Yellow Aberdeen
Yellow Stone
Yellow Globe
Can put
Turnip Seed
up in 1/4 lb.,
Vz-lh. or 1-lb.
Packages
if desired.
Write for
Special
Price for
100 lb. lots.
Pkt.
Oz.
Lb. .
5-Lb.
$0.05
$0.80
$3.50
.05
.80
3.50
.05
.60
2.50
.05
.50
2.25
.05
.50
2.25
.05
.50
2.25
.05
.60
2.50
.05
.50
■ 2.25
.05
.50
2.25
.05
.60
2.50
.05
.50
2.25
.05
.50
2.25
.05
.60
.05
.50
2.25
.05
.50
2.25
.05
.50
2.25
.05
.50
2.25
.05
.50
2.25
.05
.50
2.25
.05
.50
2.25
RUTABAGA.
Improved American Purple Top
.10
.50
2.25
English Purple Top
05
.10
.50
2.25
Laing’s Improved
.10
.50
2.25
Skirvings
05
.10
.50
2.25
Carter’s Imperial Purple Top
05
.10
.50
2.25
White Rutabaga
05
.10
.50
2.25
Monarch or Tankard
05
.10
.50
2.25
Budlong's White Rock
05
.10
.50
2.25
BIRD SEEDS—Net Cash.
Canary
Hemp
Lettuce
Maw
Millet
Rape. German Bird
Mixed Bird Seed...
Sunflower
Market prices.
SEE PAGE 32 FOR PRICES OF
22
LEONARD’S MARKET GARDENERS’ CATALOGUE
CHOICE FLOWER SEEDS
Our Flower Seed Department is fully equipped for efficient service. The stocks we
offer are the product of the best European and American speicialists. We call particulaur
attention to our ASTERS, PANSIES, PHLOXES and other popular flowers, being in posi-
tion to meet the requirements of those who take especial pride in their flower garden.
Abronia Umbellata, lilac
Abutilon, mixed
Acroclinum, Alba White
Roseum
Mixed
Adonis, aestivalis
Ageratum, Blue Perfection, dwarf
Imperial Dwarf, White
Mixed, White
Agrostemma, mixed
Ailanthus or Tree of Heaven
Aiyssum marltimum Sweet Alyssum
Little Gem, white, very dwarf
Saxatile compactum, hardy, spring blooming
Amaranthus caudatus. Love Lies Bleeding
Tricolor, Joseph’s Coat
Mixed
Ampelopsis Veitchii Boston or Japanese Ivy
Anemone Coronarian
Antirrhinum, tall mixed, snap dragons
Yellow -
Queen Victoria
Delila
Giant Flowering Brilliant
Aquilegia or Columbine, double finest mixed colors
Single mixed
Arctotis Grandis
Asparagus, plumosus nanus
Sprengeri, trailing
Asperula
ASTERS.
Perfection Paeony Flowered, dark blue
Brilliant Rose
White, pure*
Azure, Blue
Queen’s scarlet, fiery scarlet
Surprise
Finest mixed
Giant Comet, crimson
Snow White
Lavender
Deep Blue
Bright Rose
Mixed
Late Flowering, Branching (Semple’s Branching), white
Crimson
Lavender
Purple’
Shell pink
Mixed colors
Vick’s Branching, pure white
Vick’s Branching, mixed
Pkt. Oz.
$0 10
10
05
05
05 $0 20
05
05 50
05 40
05 40
05
05
05 30
05 50
05 40
05
05 30
05 30
05 50
05
05
05
05
05
10
05
05
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
LEONARD’S MARKET GARDENERS’ CATALOGUE
23
ASTERS — Continued.
Queen of the Market, white .(
Dark blue
Scarlet
Pink
Mixed
Daybreak, soft pink (Vicks)
Purity, pure white (Vicks) ^
Vick's Branching, Carmine
Crimson
Lavender
Purple
Rose
Deep Violet
White
Fine Mixed
Victoria, finest mixed colors
Scarlet
White, pure
Purple
Peach blossom pink
Sky blue
The Carlson Aster, white
Pink
Lavender
Blue
Daybreak pink
Mixed
Dwarf, Mixed, many classes and colors
Tall, mixed, many classes and colors
Bachelor's Button, see Centaurea Cyanus
Balsam Apple (momordica balsamina)
Balsam Pear (momordica charantia)
Balsam, premium mixed. Camellia
Camellia, flowered crimson i
Lavender
Lilac
Purple
Scarlet
White
Mixed
Double rose flowered, mixed
Carnation-striped, finest mixed
Balloon Vine
Bartonia aurea
Browallia (elata), mixed •
Beilis, perennis, double daisies, mixed colors
Double Giant rose, Longfellow
Double Giant snowball, white
Brachycome iberidifolia, mixed. Swan River Daisy
Cacalia, mixed
Calendula, Meteor, double yellow, striped orange.
Calliopsis. Golden Wave. Drummondi
Campanula (Canterbury Bell), finest mixed single
Double mixed
Canary Bird Flower
Pkt.
Oz.
$0 10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10*
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
05 !
50 25
05
25
05
25
05
1 00
05
65
05
65
05
65
05
65
05
65
05
65
05
65
05
65
05
65
05
10
10
10
10
10
05
10
05
05
25
10
30
10
1 00
10
24_ LEONARD’S MARKET GARDENERS* CATALOGUE
Pkt. Oz.
Candytuft. Empress, Giant Hyacinth Flowered, white spike $0 05 $0 40
White rocket, long spikes of white flowers 05 40
Dwarf Hybrids 10 50
Umbellata Crimson 05
Lilac 05
White Hyacinth flowered 05
Mixed colors 05
Canna, crozy sorts 10
Large Flowering, mixed varieties 05
Carnation, choice double mixed, extra fine strain 15
Chabaud 15
Giant Margaret, extra choice mixed 25
Margaret, mixed colors 20
Celosia, Dwarf, mixed i 10
Dwarf, Glasgow Prize 10
Centaurea, New Margaret, large, white Sultan..., 10 1 00
Giant Imperialis, mixed colors 10 75
Cyanus, blue (Ragged Sailor or Corn flowers) 05 25
Emperor William 10
Candidissima 10
Gymnocarpa 10
Chrysanthemum Coronarium, mixed 05
Double, white 05
Cineraria, Hybrida, fine mixture 25
Clarkia, single, mixed 05
Double, mixed 05
Cobaea, scandens, blue, beautiful tender climber, white, grows 20 to 30 ft 05
Coix Lachrymae, Job’s Tears 05
Columbine (aequilegia) single, mixed 10
Double, mixed 05
Coleus, choice mixed 25
Large leaved hybrids, finest mixed 25
Convolvulus Major. See morning glory 05 10
Convolvulus Minor. See morning glory 05 10
Coreopsis, lanceolata, grandiflora 10
Cosmos, large flowering, mixed colors 05 30
Dwarf early, mixed colors 05 40
Early Flowering Crimson 05 50
Pink 05 50
White 05 50
Mammoth Flowering Crimson 05 60
‘ Pink 05 60
White 05 60
Lady Lennox ( 10
Cyclamen, Persicum, finest mixed 25
Giganteum mixed 25
Cypress Vine, mixed colors 05
Daisy. See Beilis 10
Daisy, New Shasta 15
Dahlia, double mixed 15
Single mixed 10
Delphinium, Blue ^ 15
Hybridum single mixed ’ 10
Hybridum double mixed 15
LEONARD’S MARKET GARDENERS* CATALOGUE 25
Pkt. Oz.
Dianthus Heddewigi, single, mixed $0 05
Double, mixed 05
Diadematus fl. pi 05
Lacinatus, single mixed 05
Lacinatus, double Snowball 10
Hybridus, double Fireball 10
Digitalis or Fox Glove, mixed 10
Dolichos (Hyacinth Bean) mixed 05
Echinocystis, lobata. Wild Cucumber 05
Eschscholtzia Yellow California Poppy 05
Golden West 10
Mixed 05
Mandarin 10
Bush Eschscholtzia 10
Euphorbia variegata. Snow on Mountain 05
Heterophylla, Mexican Fire Plant 10
Forget-Me-Not. See myosotis 05
Four O'clock. (Marvel of Peru), mixed 05
Foxglove. See digitalis 05
Fuchsia, single and double mixed 25
Gaillardia, mixed, single annual varieties 05
GraVidiff, Hardy Perennial, splendid cut flower 05
Lorenziana, double mixed, annual 05
Geranium Zonale, large, single, mixed 25
Gilia, mixed 10
Globe Amaranth, mixed, fine everlasting 05
Godetia, mixed 05
Gourds, Dish Cloth 05
Dipper 05
Japanese Nest Egg 05
Sugar Trough 05
Hercules Club 05
Bottle 05
Mock Orange * 05
Apple shaped 05
Calabash 10
Pear shaped 05
Many sorts, mixed 05
Gypsophiia paniculata, fine cut flower 10
Helianthus. See sunflower 05
Helichrysum, double mixed 05
Heliotrope, finest mixed, dark sorts 10
Finest mixed, light sorts 10
Hibiscus, sunset, yellow 05
Crimson eye 05
Hollyhocks, double white 10
Finest double German mixed 10
Annual mixed 05
Allegheny, double fringed 10
Single, mixed 10
Humulus, japonicus, Japanese annual hop 05
Japonicus, variegated, mottled foliage 05
Ice Plant (mesembryanthemum) 05
Impatiens Sultan! 25
Ipomoea setosa, Brazilian Morning Glory 10
Grandiflora, moon flower vine, white 10
Heavenly blue, light blue, yellow throat 10
Japanese Imperial Morning Glories, mixed colors, choice “lO $0 30
26
LEONARD’S MARKET GARDENERS’ CATALOGUE
Job’s Tears
Kochia, Tricophylla — Summer Cypress is becoming very popular
Lantana, finest mixed
Larkspur, Double Dwf. German Rocket
Emperor, fine mixed
Lathprus latifolius (everlasting pea)
Linaria Cymballaria (Kenilworth Ivy)
Linum (Flowering Flax), scarlet
Blue
White !
Mixed “
Lobelia, Crystal Palace
Emperor William
Gracilis light blue, trailing
Mathioia, bicornis
Matricaria Capensis fl, pi. — double white Feverfew
Marigold African double mixed..*
Legion of Honor
Dwarf French mixed
Eldorado
Mignonette, Grandiflora, mixed
Machet .
Golden Machet
Parsons white
Maurandia Vine, mixed
Mimosa pudica. Sensitive Plant
Mimulus, tigrinus, spotted mixed. Monkey Flowers
Moschatus, Musk Plant
Mirabilis. See four o’clock
Moon Flower. See Ipomea Grandiflora
Morning Glory, all colors mixed
Dwarf mixed
Japanese. See Ipomea
Myosotis, alpestris, blue (Forget Me Not)
Alpestris, white
Alpestris, Victoria blue
Palustris, semperflorens
Nasti^rtium, Dwarf — New Chameleon, mixed
Aurora, deep yellow, blotched carmine
Beauty, scarlet, splashed canary
Bronze
Crystal Palace Gem, sulphur, spotted maroon
Deep scarlet
Empress of India, deep crimson, dark leaved
Golden King, rich color
King Theodore, rich red, bluish foliage
Lady Bird
Pearl, whitish
Prince Henry, yellow, marbled with scarlet
Rose
Ruby King, blue, tinted red
Spotted King
Vesuvius
Lilliput Flowers, small rich colors
Finest mixture
Leonard’s Oak Park, choicest bedding mixture
Pkt.
Oz.
$0 05
05
05
05
10
05
10
' 05
05
05
05
05
05
05
05
05
05
$0 30
05
30
05
50
05
40
05
20
05
75
05
75
05
10
05
40
10
1 50
10
2 00
05
10
05
05
10
30
05
05
05
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
10
. 10
10
10
10
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Pkt. Oz. Lb.
Nasturtium, Tall or Climbing — Butterfly .$0 10
Fashion 10
Jupiter 10
Salmon Queen ^ 10
King Theodore, darkest red 10
Mixed, all colors 10 $0 75
Nasturtium, Lobb’s — Asa Grey, yellowish white 10
Brilliant, dark scarlet 10
Lucifer, very dark scarlet 10
Firefly, dark orange, spotted red, dark foliage 10
Madam Gunther, mixed 10
Roi des Noirs, king of blacks... 10
Mixed sorts..... 10
Nicotiana Sanderae 10
Affinis 10
Nigella Damascena 05
Hippanica :
Mixed 05
Pansy, Giant, Trimardeau, mixed, finest strains 10 $2 00
Meteor 10 1 50
Leonard’s Fancy Mixture, the finest mixture of Pansy offered, large
flowers of brilliant colors and fine texture 10 1 50
French, large flowering, finest mixed 10 1 50
Odier, or five blotched, choice 15
Striped and mottled 10 1 50
Bugnot’s superb blotched, extra choice 15
English mixed, very fine 05
Named sorts,' mixed 10
Good Mixture 10
Fire King, very fine 10
Emperor William, blue 10
Faust, king of the blacks 10
Gold margined 10
Havana brown .'.. 10
Masterpiece 25
Azure blue 10
Lord Beaconsfield, purple shading to white 10
Mahogany color 10
Giant Peacock, blue, claret and white 10
Violet margined with white 10
Snow Queen, pure white 10
Victoria, wine red, very fine 10
White, black center, showy •. 10
Yellow, black center, showy 15
Yellow Gem, pure yellow 10
Perilla, nankanensis 05
Petunia, hybrida inimitable, dwarf 10
Hybrida, striped and blotched 05
Hybrida, finest mixed, first quality 05
Double, large flowered, extra fine mixed 25
Single fringed, very fine 25
Double fringed, very fine 25
Giants of California • • • 25
Ruffled Giants, mixed 25
Phlox Drummondi, finest mixed, all sorts 05
Grandiflora, white ... 10
Grandiflora, finest mixed 10
Decussata perennial varieties, mixed 10
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LEONARD’S MARKET GARDENERS’ CATALOGUE
Phlox Drummondi — Continued Pkt. Oz.
Semi-double, white $0 10
Semi-double scarlet 10
Star of Quedlinburg 10
Poppy — American Flag 05
Carnation Flowered 05
Glaucum (Tulip Poppy) 10
Shirley (Improved) 10
Peony fl. scarlet 10
White 10
Yellow 10
Double mixed 10
Single, finest mixed t 10
Portulaca, single, large flowering, mixed 05
Double, large flowering, mixed 10
Primula, Chinese Fringed — Choicest mixed, very fine 25
Veris (Cowslip), mixed 25
Japonica, fine mixed ! 25
Pyrethrum aureum (Golden Feather) 05
Selaginoides 05
Single, large flowering, mixed 10
Double, large flowering, mixed 25
Rodanthe, mixed, excellent market plants 05 $0 50
Ricinus, Borboniensis 05 25
Sanguineus 05 25
Zanzibarlensis 05 25
Gibsoni 05 25
Rudbeckia, Newmanni 15
Salpiglossis, grandiflora, finest mixed 10
Salvia splendens, scarlet sage 10 2 00
Splendens, Bonfire 10
Splendens, Burning Bush 10
Salvia splendens. New Silver pot
Scabiosa, dwarf double, finest mixed 05
Large flowered, double, white • • 05
Large flowered, double, finest mixed 05
Schizanthus, fine mixed 15
Smilax, new crop 05
Silene armeria (catchfly) 05
Sunflower, multiflores double 05
Globosus Fistulosus 05
Californicus double 05
Nanus, double dwarf 05
Miniature flowered 05
Stocks, large flowering, German 10
White '•0
Crimson
Canary Yellow 10
Light blue 10
Dark blue ' 10
Good mixed 10
Finest mixed 15
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LEONARD’S MARKET GARDENERS’ CATALOGUE'
' MIXED SWEET PEAS
Choice Mixed. A very good mixture of all the standard sorts
Eckford Mixed. A very fine mixture of the standard Grandiflora sorts.
Leonard's Fancy Mixed. This mixture contains the cream of the stand-
ard sorts, including the Unwin and Spencer varieties. It is the
best mixture to be had '
Leonard’s Florists' Mixture. This mixture contains the varieties suita-
ble for cut fiower trade
Leonard's Named Sorts Mixed. A complete mixture of the Grandiflora
and Unwin types blended in proper proportions
Spencer Varieties Mixed
Bush Varieties Mixed ;
Christmas Flowering Mixed
SWEET PEAS— SPENCER VARIETIES.
Apple Blossom Spencer, bright rose
Asta Ohn, lavender tinted with mauve
Aurora Spencer
Blanche Ferry Spencer
Captain of the Blues, Spencer
Constance Oliver
Countess Spencer
Dainty Spencer
Elfrida Pearson
Florence Morse Spencer, delicate pink
George Herbert, rosy magenta, shading to carmine
Helen Lewis, orange, shading to buff
John Ingman, rosy magenta •.
King Edward Spencer
King White
Le Marquis Spencer, violet, shading to navy blue *.
Loyalty Spencer
Margaret Madison
Mont Blanc, pure white
Mrs. Routzahn, apricot, shading to pink
Othello Spencer, deep maroon
Primrose Spencer, true primrose ’
Stirling Stent
Thomas Stevenson ‘
Vermilion Brilliant
White Spencer, pure white
White wonder
Pkt.
Oz.
Lb.
,.$0.05
$0 10
$1 00
,. 05
10
1 00
.. 05
15
1 25
15
1 10
05
15
1 10
50
1 50
.. 05
25
.. 05
25
*25
25
25
.. 05
25
.. 05
25
.. 05
25
.. 10
30
.. 05
25
.. 05
25
05
25
.. 05
25
.. 05
25
.. 05
25
.. 05
25
. . 05
25
.. 05
25
25
05
25
CHRISTMAS OR WINTER FLOWERING.
Christmas White, pure white
Christmas Pink, pink and white
Earliest of All, pink and white ,
Earliest White, pure white
UNWIN AND GRANDIFLORA TYPES.
Admiration, rosy lavender
Agnes Eckford, light pink.. !
America, blood red striped white
Aurora, orange rose, striped white
Blanche Ferry, pink and white
Black KnigKt, dark maroon
05 15
05 15
05 15
05 15
05 15
05 15
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SWEET PEAS — Unwin and Grandiflora Types — Continued. Pkt. Oz.
Captivation, rosy purple, large $0 05 $0 15
California Sunbeams, cream color, fine 05 15
Coquette, primrose yellow, shaded lavender 05 15
Countess of Cadogan, reddish mauve, wings blue 05 15
Dorothy Tennant, rosy mauve. 05 15
Dorothy Eckford, one of the best whites 05 15
Duke of Westminster, deep rose maroon 05 15
Earliest of All, pink and white 05 15
Earl Cromer, claret magenta 05 15
Emily Eckford, reddish mauve 05 15
Emily Henderson, pure white 05 15
Evelyn Byatt, fine orange salmon 05 15
Extra Early Blanche Ferry, pink and white 05 15
E. J. Castle, rich carmine shaded salmon 05 15
Gorgeous, bright orange salmon 05 15
Henry Eckford, of extraordinary orange color 05 15
Janet Scott, fine pink 05 15
Jeanie Gordon, bright rose, shaded cream 05 15
Katherine Tracy, fine soft pink 05 15
King Edward VII, bright scarlet, large flower 05 15
Lady Mary Currie, orange pirrk, shaded lilac 05 ' 15
Lady Nina Balfour, delicate mauve 05 15
Lottie Eckford, white, suffused lavender 05 15
Lovely, soft shell pink * 05 15
Maid of Honor, white edged lavender 05 15
Miss Willmot, richest orange pink 05 15
Mrs. Alex. Wallace, delicate lavender 05 15
Mrs. Collier, primrose, delicate shades 05 15
Mrs. Joseph Chamberlain, white, flaked rose 05 15
Mrs. E. Kenyon, primrose 05 15
Navy Blue, deep blue 05 15
New Countess, delicate lavender . 05 15
Othello, dark maroon 05 15
Prima Donna, pure pink 05 15
Prince of Wales, bright rose, self color 05 15
Queen Alexandria, bright scarlet red 05 15
Royal Rose, rosy pink 05 15
Sadie Burpee, large, pure white.... 05 15
Senator, chocolate, striped white 05 15
Shasta, pure white 05 15
Stella Morse, rich primrose, flushed pink 05 15
Sunbeam, delicate cream 05 15
Sybil Eckford, creamy buff 05 15
Triumph, standard rose, wings veined with scarlet 05 15
Venus, salmon buff ■ 05 15
Sweet Violet, semper florens blue 10
Sweet William, single, mixed 05
Double, mixed v 05
Thunbergia, mixed 1u
Verbena, hybrida. Defiance, scarlet 10
Mammoth purple 10
Pink ,10
White 10
Hybrida, finest quality, mixed 15
LEONARD’S MARKET GARDENERS’ CATALOGUE
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Pkt. Oz.
Vinca, rosea, very fine $0 05
Rosea, white, rose center 05
Fine mixed 05
Wallflower, single mixed 10
Double mixed 10
New annual red 05
Wild Cucumber ~ 05
Wild Flower Garden Mixture 05
Zinnia, double Giants Crimson
Flesh color 05
Purple 05
Scarlet 05
Sulphur Yellow 05
Mixed 05
Semi-Dwarf, finest mixed 05
Semi-Dwarf, finest mixed 05
ZINNIAS
Our position as MARKET GARDENERS’
SEEDMEN is well and favorably known both
at home and throughout the country. Our
pre-eminent standing in this line of the Seed
Business has been long established. The Mar-
ket Gardener, when he plants LEONARD’S
SEEDS, may therefore feel reasonably sure
that he is planting the best seed obtainable.
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LEONARD'S MARKET GARDENERS' CATALOGUE
MISCELLANEOUS PRICES.
LAWN GRASS SEED. Pound.
Leonard’s Chicago Park Mixture 5 |bs. for $1.00 $ 0.25
Shady Nook Mixture 25
Terrace Mixture oc
GOLF MIXTURE.
Leonard’s Putting Green
Leonard’s Fair Green
Each.
PERFECTION GARDEN CULTIVATOR— See page 106 $ 3.50
“Planet, Jr.’’
No. 4, Hill and Drill Seeder and Single Wheel Hoe 10.50
No. 4, Hill and Drill Seeder, Plain (as a Drill only) 8.50
No. 25, Combined Hill and Drill Seeder 13.00
No. 31, Combined Hill and Drill Seeder 6.50
No. 3, Seed Drill 10.00
No. 5, Hill and Drill Seeder 12.50
No. 21, Hill and Drill Seeder and Fertilizer Drill 18.50
No. 11, Double Wheel Hoe 8.50
No. 12, Double Wheel Hoe 6.50
No. 13, Double Wheel Hoe ! 4.50
No. 16, Single Wheel Hoe 5.35
No. 17, Single Wheel Hoe 4.50
No. 18, Single Wheel Hoe 3.25
No. 19, Single Wheel Hoe 3.00
12 Tooth Horse Cultivator, complete 8.75
Matthews’ New Universal Model Garden Drill 6.50
Hill and Garden Seeder 7.25
rjew Universal Double Wheel Hoe, Cultivator, Rake and Plow 5.25
Plain Double Wheel Hoe 3.75
Single Wheel Hoe, Cultivator, Rake and Plow 4.75
Plain Single Wheel Hoe 3.00
' Expansion Double Wheel Hoe, Cultivator, Rake and Plow 6.25
High Arch Expansion Wheel Hoe, Cultivator, Rake and Plow 7.75
No. 2 Single Wheel Hoe, Cultivator and Plow 4.25
Standard Midget Seeder 2.50
No. 22, Single Wheel Cultivator 4.25
No. 2, Spring Beam Double Wheel Cultivator 4.75
New Model Drill 8.00
Matthews’ Hand Cultivator 6.00
McGee Hand Cultivator 5.00
No. 22 Iron Age Seed Drill with Fertilizer Attachment 18.00
Cahoon Hand Broadcast Seeder 3.50
Cyclone Hand Broadcast Seeder 1.50
Chicago Fiddle Bow Broadcast Seeder 1.00
Excelsior Weeding Hook.... .10
Hazeltine Weeding Hook .20
Lang’s Weeding Hook .20
Combination Weeding Hook .25
Whitewash Sprayer No. 28 1.50
Compressed Air Sprayer No. 30 2.00
Eagle Corn Planter 1.25
Where Tools and other Supplies are described in the Catalogue and not priced in the price
list the values vary and special prices will be given upon application.
Bug Death, 1 lb. pkg., 15c; 3 lb. pkg., 35c; 5 lb. pkg., 50c; I2/2 lb. pkg., $1.00; 100 lb. keg,
$7.50 in bulk.
Slug Shot, 5 lb. pkg., 25c; 100 lbs., $4.50 in bulk.
Tobacco Dust, 1 lb. pkg., 10c; 5 lb. pkg., 25c; 10 lb. pkg., 45c.
Tobacco Stems, 3 lbs. for 25c; 10 lbs. for 45c.
ARTICHOKE
GREEN GLOBE
ARTICHOKE
ARTICHOKE JERUSALEM
ARGENTETJTL
The Globe Artichoke is grown for the use of its unexpanded flower
heads that are cooked like asparagus. If started in a hot bed and handled
like a tomato it matures the first year. Oftenest it is treated like a
perennial, that is, given slight covering in winter it remains in bearing
several years. Give the plant two to three feet space in three-foot rows
and cut all flower buds before opening to continue to plants blooming.
Large Green Globe. The
standard variety.
The Jerusalem Artichoke,
distinct from the Globe, is
grown from the tubers for its
tubers, as are potatoes. Its
value is as a stock food, be-
cause of its fattening prop-
erties.
ASPARAGUS
Complete cultural direc-
tions furnished on request.
As some cutting may be be-
gun only in the third year
from planting the seed the
use of roots or plants prove
an expediency.
ASPARAGUS SEED
Columbian Mammoth
White. A new and entirely
distinct variety that produces
shoots that are white, and remain white as long as fit for use.
Conover’s Colossal. The standard variety; of large size, tender
and of excellent quality.
Barr’s Mammoth. The stalks are very large, frequently one inch
in diameter, with few scales; the stalks retain their thickness com-
pletely up to the top of the shoots, and have close, round heads.
Palmetto. It is of very large size, even and regular in growth
and appearance. It is a very early sort, and immensely productive
and of the best quality.
Giant Argenteuil. Is a selection from imported French Argenteuil
stock. An improvement upon the original. In the south it is regarded
as distinctly superior to Palmetto. One experienced grower says that
Argenteuil is as much larger than Palmetto as Palmetto is larger than
Conover. *
Bonvallet’s Giant. Becoming very popular with large growers.
Preferred by many over all other kinds.
ASPARAGUS PLANTS
Asparagus Roots can be supplied from November 1st to May 1st,
but the best time for planting in the North is in the early spring.
Columbian Mammoth White. 2 -year-old roots.
Conover’s Colossal. 2-year-old roots.
Barr’s Mammoth. 2-year-old roots.
Palmetto. 2 -year-old roots.
; Giant Argenteuil. 2-year-old roots.
- Bonvallet’s Giant. 2 -year- old roots.
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LEONARD SEED COMPANY, CHICAGO
BUSH BEANS GREEN POD VARIETIES
Culture. Beans are easily frost killed, so plant them at corn planting time on light dry
land. Cold wet weather will rot the seed in the ground and fresh manure causes a rank
growth of vine with a lack of pods. If hand cultivated beans can be drilled in poor soil as
close as eighteen inches, but in rich soil with horse cultivation thirty inches is required. Drill
six beans to the foot and cover one inch deep; or plant four beans to the hill eighteen by
twenty-four inches apart. One quart of seed should plant 200 feet and five pecks plant an
acre. Plant every third week for a succession up till Aug. 1st in the latitude of Chicago.
Pick beans before the bulge of seed appears and pick beans clean to continue the plants bear-
ing. Give beans shallow cultivation and do not till the soil when the plant is in bloom or the
plant in self defence will drop its blossoms. To cultivate when wet is to invite rust.
Extra Early Red Valentine. Hardy, pod light green, and semi-transparent, round and
slightly curved. Succulent, prolific, and quite free from strings, continuing long in an edible
condition; 4 6 days from planting to first picking.
Burpee’s Stringless Green Pod. This new bean produces a vine similar to Red Valen-
tine, but develops pods to an edible condition in 42 days, about four days earlier than Valen-
tine. The pods are green, not quite so round as Valentine and less curved. The pods are string-
less, absolutely so, this quality at once plac-
ing the variety at the top of the list among
table beans, while the early maturity is of
great merit. This stringless quality is of
particular value, the pods breaking as short
and free as pipe stems.
Giant Stringless. A very hardy, stocky
vine, pods long, round and green in color, of
exceptionally fine quality and stringless
throughout its entire growth. About a week
earlier than Red Valentine and much more
prolific.
Tennessee Green Pod. This dwarf snap
bean, although new to the Seed Trade, has
for several years been grown in the South,
and wherever known is freely spoken of in
terms of highest praise. Vine prolific, foliage
dark green with leaves large and crumpled.
Pods long, flat, irregular in shape, bright
green and of most excellent quality. Seed
medium size, oval, flat, yellowish brown in
color.
Leonard’s Pheasant Eye. Is a valuable
new green podded variety. Vines hardy,
sturdy, well leafed. Pods long, meaty, string-
less and of excellent quality. Originated from
plants found in Bountiful; it retains all the
good points of that variety, with added sym-
metry of pod. Seed white, splashed more or
less at eye side with yellowish brown, which
coloring also surrounds eye.
Bountifid Beans. This new, green podded
Bush Bean is a heavy cropper and very early,
of fine shape, stringless, and good quality. Its
hardiness and great productiveness make it
one of the very best Bush Beans.
Dwarf Horticultural. Vines very produc-
tive, compact, upright, with large leaves. Pods
medium length, cylindrical, curved, with
splashes of bright red on a yellowish ground.
Seed large, oval, plump and nearly covered
with splashes of bright red.
Long Yellow Six Wee’rs. The vine is large, vigorous, branching and productive, with large
leaves. Pods long, straight, thick, flat in shape, green in color, of good quality when young and
fair as they near maturity. Is ready for picking 45 days from planting.
Round Yellow Six Weeks. Very similar to Long Yellow Six Weeks as to vine, with pods
shorter and much more thick and fleshy, about one week later, being ready for table 57 days
from planting. Seed round, yellowish drab with a slightly darker marking about the eye.
IN THE FRONT OF THIS BOOK ARE THE PRICES OF ALL
VARIETIES DESCRIBED HERE WITH OTHER LESS FRE-
QUENTLY REQUIRED KINDS. THESE PRICES ARE AS REA-
SONABLE AS GOOD SEED CAN BE SOLD.
LEONARD SEED COMPANY, CHICAGO
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LONGFELLOW BEAN
BUSH BEANS — Green Pods — Continued
Longfellow. This new bean has long green pods^'is exceedingly prolific, al-
ways solid, a delicious flavor, is tender and remarkably early. It matures its
crop very regularly and withstands adverse conditions well. A good bean for
market or home use.
Black Valentine. This excellent variety is a great improvement over the old
standard early Red Valentine, being one-third longer than that
variety, with pods perfectly round and straight and of excellent
quality. It also has the additional advantage of being suitable
for both early and late planting and is extremely hardy. It will
withstand early and late frost, is an excellent shipper, a large
yielder, and of very handsome appearance.
Extra Early Refugee. Very much earlier than the Old
Style Refugee, or 1000 to 1, being fit to eat in 48 days from plant-
ing. More dwarf and compact in growth, while the pods are
round, solid, tender, and of excellent quality, suitable for table
use, canning or pickling.
Refugee, or 1000 to 1. The vines large, spreading, exceed-
ingly hardy, with small, smooth leaves, very late and bear long,
cylindrical green pods of excellent quality. Highly esteemed for
late planting and for use as pickles.
Early Mohawk. One of the oldest and best known sorts.
The pod is green, thick, flat in shape, of fair quality, developing
a slight string as it matures. Is ready to pick 48 days from
planting, and will resist a slight degree of frost very successfully.
Best of All. The hardy, vigorous vine produces an abun-
dance of very straight, handsome pods which when fit for use
as snaps, are very brittle and of a peculiar deep green color.
Improved Tree or Dwarf White Navy. A variety developed
In western New York. Is a sure cropper, and not only more
prolific than the common white bean, but also of better quality.
Large White Marrow or Mountain. Vines are large, slender,
spreading, with short runners and small leaves; very prolific;
pods medium, broad, green, changing to yellow; beans large,
clear white, ovoid, cooking very dry and mealy.
Red Kidney. Well known shell bean.
White Kidney. A slender white bean of superior quality;
used shelled, green or mature.
Broad Windsor. The standard English horse bean.
THE SEED SHORTAGE
So urgent has become the European demand for food
due to the war that very frequently the seed crops have
had to give way to the growing of such crops as may be
utilized for food. In many cases, the majority of employes
of the best foreign seed growers have been called to the
war, leaving behind only those who are either too young
or too old for war service to look after the growing and
harvesting of seed crops. This will of necessity mean a
lessened production and perhaps a production of some
inferior seed. In America adverse weather conditions from
planting until harvest time, early frost, anthracnose in
beans, etc., joined with the unusual foreign situation to
make the seed production for this year much less than
normal. Therefore we advise the early buying of seed
before some of the varieties wanted are exhausted.
BLACK VALENTINE
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LEONARD SEED COMPANY. CHICAGO
BUSH BEANS— Wax Pod Varieties
Lieonard’s Webber Wax. A new Wax Bean
of distinct character. This bean has been in the
hands of a few Chicago gardeners for some
years back. Several years ago we secured a
small lot which we have nursed along and this
year we have enough seed to offer it in limited
quantities to our customers. The vine is strong,
holding the pods well up. The pods are of an
exceedingly bright yellow color, handsomer in
this respect than any other wax bean; in shape
they resemble Wardwell’s wax but are rounder
and more meaty. The color of the seed is
yellow.
Davis White Wax. This bean is adapted
alike for the canner, market gardener, shipper
or amateur. The dry bean is large, kidney
shaped, and white in color, making it one of the
best for cooking in a dry state. Pods are long,
meaty, flat in shape, and of a beautiful yellow
color and fair quality.
Currie’s Rust Proof Wax. An excellent
Wax Bean in every respect. Rust proof, tender,
thick, flat pods of very good quality. Very lit-
tle string in early stages, developing a little
when nearing maturity. Fit for table use 4 7
days from planting.
Improved Golden Wax. Rust proof, an im-
provement on the old style Golden Wax. Pod is
semi-round, yellow, of good quality and has no
string. Ready for picking 47 days from plant-
ing.
Wardwell’s Kidney Wax. Hardy and pro-
ductive, pods long, broad, thick, flat, and of a
delicate waxy yellow, of excellent quality and
with no string in the early growth, ready for
table 48 days from planting.
Pencil Pod Black Wax. Pencil Pod Black
Wax grows a taller, stronger and more vigor-
ous bush than the Improved Prolific Black Wax, long, slender, straight, handsome pods,
shaped very much like a pencil.
Prolific Black Wax. The old stand-
ard Black Wax Bush Bean. It is so
good that it is worthy of special notice.
The pods are round, brittle, of handsome
golden yellow color, and of buttery flavor
when cooked.
Detroit Wax. A distinct variety of
recent introduction, which is worthy of
a p’ace in every garden. The waxy,
yellow pods are produced in grea.t abun-
dance and the quality is extra fine.
Flageolet Wax. A large bush wax
variety; seed large, purplish red; excel-
lent as a snap bean, and in great favor
as a dry shell bean.
Refugee Wax. A perfect Refugee
with wax pods. Pods long, round, and
of a golden yellow’ color. One of the
earliest, quality excellent and is fit for
picking 57 days from planting. A very
fine canning bean.
Hodson Wax. An excellent sort,
later than some of the others, but hav-
ing many superior points.
Round Podded Kidney Wax. A
round podded variety of great merit.
White Wax. The old standard
white seeded wax bean, very prolific.
REFUGEE WAX
GOOD SEED CANNOT BE SOLD MORE REASONABLY THAN
WE ARE SELLING SEED. THE PRICES FOR THESE VARIE-
TIES ALONG WITH VARIETIES LESS FREQUENTLY RE-
QUIRED IS FOUND IN THE FRONT OF THIS BOOK.
LEONARD SEED COMPANY, CHICAGO
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DWARF LIMA VARIETIES
Culture. As the lima requires even more heat than other beans, a failure will follow a too
early planting. The bean when favorably planted throws out from what we term the bean’s eye
a stout root; this root in turn lifts the bean above the ground. The bean then opens its halves
or false leaves, or cotyledons, ahd the true leaves soon follow. If in planting the bean is thrust
into the soil eye down, and just below the surface, the bean is in a favorable position to begin
its growth. However, the crop can be secured though with a lesser percent of germination by
dropping the bean in any position.
Bush or Dwarf Limas are earlier than pole limas and are planted in twenty-four to forty
inch drills, three to six inches apart in the row, according to varieties. One quart plants one hun-
dred and twenty-flve to one hundred and fifty feet.
Burpee’s. The only bush form of the true, luscious, large lima. It is pronounced by all
good judges as unquestionably the real Bush Lima. The bushes grow eighteen to twenty inches
high, of stout growth and always erect. It is an immense yielder.
Dreer’s. The true bush form of the chubby Dreer’s or Potato Lima. The pods are heavy
and thick. It is quite productive and of excellent quality.
Fordhook Bush Lima. Vines strong, erect and true Bush Lima growth. Foliage heavy and
very dark green in color. The stalks that produce the blossoms are thrown out from the lateral
and main stalks. The pods resemble Dreer’s Bush Lima, but average more than double the size
and contain from 3 to 5 beans to the pod.
Henderson’s. This is a bush form of the small Sieva pole bean. It is the original bush form
of the pole beans. It is the most productive of any, and on the whole is a vegetable of great
merit.
New Wonder. This gives the largest and best returns — a big crop from a small space — and
is a decided improvement on the original type of Burpee’s Bush Lima. The beans are of flat
shape and fully equal in flavor to the famous Dreer’s Bush Lima, so well and favorably known.
POLE BEANS
Culture. The pole bean climbs, sometimes needing a little training over any support given
it. A good practice is to set firmly in the ground every three or four feet each way, poles that
are, when set, about six feet high. Some time after bunch beans are planted, six or eight pole
beans are planted one inch deep near the base of each stake and latter thinned to three or four
plants to the pole. One half bushel of pole beans generously plants an acre and one pint plants
one hundred hills. The pole bean bears over a longer period than the bunch bean and is generally
considered of superior quality, but it requires more labor, longer time to mature, and is more
sensitive to adverse climatic and soil conditions. Note that the vine turns only one way around
its support.
When too old for use as a green snap bean, use any bean shelled, or still later, when it is
hard and dry, it remains equally serviceable.
Kentucky Wonder. Vines vigorous, climbing well, and very productive, bearing its pods in
large clusters; blossoms white; pods green, very long, often reaching 9 to 10 inches. Nearly
round when young and very crisp, although as they reach maturity they become irregular and
spongy. Dry Beans long, oval, dun-colored.
Lazy Wife. One of the most productive and easily gathered of the Pole Beans, hence its very
discourteous name. A most excellent bean for the home garden.
Scarlet Runner. Height, 10 feet, with dazzling scarlet flowers from July to October; both
ornamental and useful. It is used either as a string or shelled bean.
London Horticultural, or Speckled Cranberry. Vines moderately vigorous, bearing short,
broad, pale green pods, becoming streaked with bright red as they near maturity. Beans
large, ovate and splashed with red. Used either green or in the dry state.
Red Speckled Cut Short (or Corn Hill). This is the best sort of plant in hills of corn. A
great cropper.
Dutch Case Knife. Vines moderately vigorous, climbing well and excellent for a corn hill
bean; leaves large, crumpled, and pods very long, flat, green in color, becoming creamy white
later. Beans broad kidney shaped, flat, and white in color.
Early Golden Cluster Wax. One of the very finest pole beans. Very early, being only a
week later than Golden Wax.
White Creaseback. An extremely early Pole Bean. Vines small to medium and wonderfully
productive. Bearing pods in clusters of from 4 to 12, and medium in length. An excellent
shipper.
Early Jersey Lima. 10 days earlier than any other Lima. Recommended as a most profit-
able Lima Bean.
Dreer’s Improved or Challenger Lima. This is a bean of rather peculiar shape, being thick
and plump, rather than flat and oval.
King of the Garden Lima. The old standard market and family sort. The vine begins to
produce pods -at the foot of the pole, and the bearing season continues until frost. Pods large,
and well filled with beans of mammoth size.
Large White Lima. The large Lima is a general favorite wherever it can be cultivated,
on account of its excellent flavor and productiveness.
Small White Lima, Carolina or Sieva. Vines vigorous with many short branches, so that
they are sometimes grown without poles; very early and productive, bearing short pods, which
are thin and curved.
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TABLE BEETS
CROSBY'S EGYPTIAN
Cultui’e, As soon as the soil can he worked
in spring-, sow beet seed in twelve to eighteen-inch
drills for hand hoeing or eighteen to thirty-inch
drills for horse cultivation, dropping twelve seed
to the foot. Cover the beet seed, which is really
a beet fruit containing one or more seeds, one-
half inch deep. Later, thin the beets to stand
five to the foot. Planted April 1st the early vari-
eties should be marketable June 1st or the crop
may be advanced several weeks by starting under
glass and transplating to the open, first giving the
beet tops a severe pruning. Use one ounce of
seed to one hundred feet of row and five or six
pounds to the acre. Beets sown in early July
should be ready to store in pits or in sand in the
cellar when freezing weather begins.
Leonard’s Egyptian. This is the earliest and
best bunching beet for market gardeners. It has
been grown for many years by the gardeners of
Chicago, and now they prefer it above all others.
Crosby’s Egyptian. This variety resembles
the Egyptian only in its extreme earliness. The
stock we offer is of a distinct vermilion color,
which is very attractive not only in the beets as
pulled, but after they have been cooked. They
are also more spherical than the Extra Early
Egyptian and we think of better quality.
Early Turnip Bassano. Tops large; leaf
stems light red; leaves light green; roots large,
flesh pink, zoned with white.
Crimson Globe. This is one of the finest beets
yet introduced. Roots are not large, but very
handsome. Round, and a clean, smooth surface. Leaves very small, with slender stems.
Detroit Dark Red Turnip. Quality good, sweet and tender; color deep red; roots are turnip
shaped, with small tap roots.
Dewing’s Early Blood Tiu'nip. A good variety for main crop. Keeps well. Like Edmand’s,
but lighter color.
Edmand’s Early Blood Turnip. The best sort for general crop. In quality one of the finest,
exceedingly dark, shape globular, having only one tap root. Very popular with market men.
Improved Blood Turnip. An improved variety of the Early Blood turnip of deep, blood-red
color; fine form and flavor. An excellent market sort.
Bastians. An extra early variety, much esteemed by market men East and South. Color
light.
Ruby Didcet. Globe-shaped; in every respect a handsome market sort; small top, small tap-
root; skin and flesh deep, rich, purplish crimson.
Half Long Blood. One of the best for
winter use. The roots are only half as long
as the Long Blood, but weigh as much on
account of their thickness.
Long Smooth Blood. The standard long
late sort. Very dark, blood-red flesh; quality
fine.
Electric. A fine early beet. The color
is dark crimson, with rings of a lighter red.
Shape, round and smooth; leaves, small and
compact.
Columbia. Round and smooth, with deep
red flesh; early and very tender.
Arlington Improved. Early; deep round
form; medium size; color, dark blood red;
does not become stringy.
Early Egyptian. The well-known early
variety. Color, extra dark; shape, flat; qual-
ity, excellent.
Early Eclipse. A choice early variety;
well known and popular. Shape, globular;
quality, good; color, light.
Lentz Extra Early Blood Tiumip. A fav-
orite market-gardeners’ beet around Phila-
delphia. Very early and sweet; ringed red
and white.
S^A^ss, Chard, or Silver. This robust
growing variety is often referred to as the
Spinach Beet and is grown for its leaf, not
fbr its root. The thick rib may be stripped
from the leaf and used as in Asparagus while
the rest of the leaf is served as “greens.” SWISS chard
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MANGEL WURZELS
Mangel Wurzel, called also stock beet or cow beet,
is a very large beet growing mostly above the ground and
all stock eats it greedily. Plow deep for this crop and in
May or June plant six Mangel seed to the foot in two or
three foot rows, later thinning to a ten inch stand. One
ounce sows generously one hundred feet of
row and an acre requires five to six pounds.
When a light frost has occurred, lift the
roots and store in pits or cellars.
Leonard’s Improved Mammoth Long:
Red. The largest and most productive vari-
ety. Immense crops can be grown from it.
Norbiton Giant Long Red. Very large,
excellent variety for feeding stock.
Yellow Globe. Globular shaped roots.
More productive than Long Red in shallow
soil. Very nutritious and a good keeper.
Golden Tankard. Shape cylindrical,
color deep rich yellow, fiesh yellow circled
with white. Unequaled for feeding stock.
Orange Globe. We think this one of
the best varieties of mangel wurzel.
BROCCOLI
BRUSSELS SPROUTS
TANKARD MANGEL
Nearly allied to the caulifiower, but more hardy. The seed
should be sown in this district in the early part of May, and
transplanted in June; further south the sowing should be delayed
until June or July, and the transplanting accordingly from
August to October. In parts of the country
where the thermometer does not fall below 20
or 25 degrees broccoli may be had in perfection
from November until March. It succeeds best
in a moist and rather cold atmosphere.
White Cape. Heads medium size, close,
compact and of creamy white color. One of the
most certain to head.
Pm’ple Cape. Differs only in color.
This is one of the best vegetables for winter
use, producing from the axils of the leaves an
abundance of sprouts, resembling small cab-
bages, of excellent, mild flavor.
Tall French. Very fine.
Dwarf Improvedi. A variety producing com-
pact spj-outs of excellent quality.
BRUSSELS SPROUTS
SUGAR BEETS
The Sugar Beet, grown for the manufac-
ture of sugar and frequently used for stock
feeding, is a yellowish-white beet smaller
than the mangel but containing a much
greater percent of sugar. In growing the
sugar beet is treated like the mangel except that only
six or eight inches of space is given each beet in the row.
Vilmorin’s Improved Sugar. In general, the most
desirable beet for the factory is the one containing the
largest percentage of sugar.
Klein Wanzleben. A little larger than Vilmorin’s
Improved, yielding from twelve to eighteen tons per
acre, and containing about the same amount of sugar.
It grows below the surface, and the green leaves are
rather large and spreading.
Lane’s Imperial Sugar. Good for making sugar,
also stock feeding. A hardy and productive sort.
Yields fourteen to sixteen tons per acre, and contains
about 16 per cent of sugar.
Giant Half- Sugar. This unites the large size of
the mangel with the greater feeding value of the sugar
beet. The roots average ten to twelve inches, and the outline is
that of a broad thick wedge. The upper portion is of a soft
bright pink, shading lighter toward the bottom where the lower
portion for about one-third the length is white.
GOLDEN
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CABBAGE
Culture. Cabbage grows successfully on a wide variety of soils and experience points to
liming, deep plowing and heavy manuring as successful practices.
Cabbage plants when properly hardened by gradually being brought to a low temperature
and the quantity of water in them diminished, will stand any frost and some considerable
freezing. Yet, a cabbage plant raised at a high temperature and full of water will be killed
by even a light frost. Cabbage can be grown by planting the seed heavily where the crop
is to grow and thinning the plants, but a better practice is to raise the plants, without crowd-
ing, in a seed bed, whigh is not richer than the field to which the plants go. Transplant if
possible on a cloudy day, watering the plants if the soil is dry. South of the Ohio seed is
frequently planted out of doors in September and wintered in cold frames or in very Southern
localities the plant is Fall set on a shady side of the furrow to avoid as much as possible
the deadly freeze and thaw. For early cabbage north of the Ohio, sow seed in hot beds in
February, transplant to cold frames in March, and set outside in April, or sow seed out of
doors as soon as the soil can be worked in spring, covering the seed one-third inch deep. All
vegetable plants are best when grown wuthout check, so let as much soil adhere to the
roots of the plant in transplanting as will hold, and set up to the first leaf. At this time the
plant should have four or five pairs of leaves and be four to six inches high.
Set small varieties to be worked by hand as close as eighteen inches each way, while
large late varieties, horse cultivated, need thirty or more inches each way.
Nitrate of soda will hurry the crop and if heads are so early as to begin bursting, push the
head to one side far enough to tear off the roots on one side.
When club root appears, lime the soil heavily and do not plant brassica, that is, turnips,
caulifiower and kindred crops upon this sick soil for two or three years.
Fight cabbage w’orms with Paris Green, Hellebore, or other good stomach poison.
For cabbage maggots, pour kerosene emulsion about the roots or cut tarred paper in three-
inch squares, split the square to the center, and place this collar on the ground about the
plant when the plant is set. For plant lice or aphis use tobacco tea or kerosene emulsion.
Early Jersey Wakefield
Cabbage. We have exercised
great care in the growing of
this very important variety.
Its uniform excellence is con-
tinually a source of gratifica-
tion to us.
Large or Charleston Wake-
field. This is a selection from
the best early
Jersey Wake-
field which
will average
about 50 per
cent larger.
EARLY
JERSEY
WAKEFIELD
Early York.
Heads small,
heart - shaped,
firm and ten-
der. Can be
planted 15 to
18 inches
apart.
Early Win-
ningstadt. An
early variety of
excellent qual-
ity, not as early
as the Wake-
field.
Extra Early Express. An extra early sort, in v/hich the plants are compact, with round
thick leaves that form an oval head, which is astonishingly large for the size of the plants.
Early Spring Cabbage. The earliest fiat head, as early as Jersey Wakefield. Yields one-
third more than the early pointed heads. Solid, uniform and finely grained heads. Stem is
'short and extends but little into the head.
All Head Early. One of the finest early fiathead cabbages.
Early Dwarf Flat Dutch. An early cabbage of good size. Heads are flat and very solid.
The Lupton. The Lupton Cabbage is the result of an effort to cornbine in one variety
the best qualities of the second-early and the late sorts. It is a little earlier than any one of
the various strains of Flat Dutch and Drumhead.
Henderson’s Early Summer. A standard summer variety. We have the true stock.
Henderson’s Succession. A good summer cabbage; also makes a good cabbage to suc-
ceed itself.
Fottler’s Early Brunswick. An early fall variety, well known and popular.
Fottler’s Improved Brunswick. An excellent shipping sort, as it does not burst or rot. Well
thought of by all gardeners of Chicago.
All Seasons. A fine variety for any season, of good shape and size.
Vandergaw' or Chicago Market. The Vandergaw is a very good second early cabbage.
It is popular with many of the Chicago market gardeners. It comes in with the Succession
and All Seasons, and forms a nice solid head.
Louis^dlle Drumhead. This fine cabbage is very popular with the kraut makers. It is a
medium late variety, forming a large solid head, which seldom bursts. It is used largely by
shippers in the vicinity of Chicago who ship cabbages south.
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CABBAGE
COPENHAGEN MARKET
A new early variety, popular with market
gardeners. It is one of the finest early round-
headed cabbages in cultivation. It is desirable on
account of the remarkable characteristic of rna-
turing the heads all at the same time, enabling
the grower to gather his crop with less expense
and permitting the cleaning of the land at the
first cutting. The heads average about ten
pounds each in weight, are hard and solid with
small core. The quality is extra fine and sweet.
It is a short stemmed variety, the heads nearly
resting on the ground. The leaves are light
green, rather small, saucer-shaped and tightly
folded, making it possible to set them close
together in the field.
Volga. One of the earliest main crop cab-
bages of superior quality. Very desirable where
a large, uniformly round head with short stem
and compact growth is wanted. Matures very
early for a variety furnishing such large heads
of excellent shape. Very hardy, good keeper.
Early Drumhead. A second early, sure
heading cabbage of good quality. Plant of com-
pact growth. Head large, thick, flattened on the
top, solid, crisp and tender.
Premium Flat Dutch. This variety of late
cabbage is a standard in all sections for winter
use. It makes a large solid head which keeps COPENHAGEN MARKET
long without bursting, and is adapted to a more
varied climate than probably any other variety we grow.
Deonard’s Duxemherg. This cabbage will retain its fine green color until late in the spring,
and is often sold for new cabbage after being covered all winter.
Leonard’s Improved Bridgeport Drumhead. This is a standard winter variety on the Chi-
cago markets, and is used largely for shipping .south.
Sm*e Head. A fine variety for main crop. A good shipper and sure header.
LEONARD’S FAULTLESS
iS NOW AND FOR YEARS HAS BEEN THE FAVORITE SECOND EARLY CABBAGE AT CHICAGO
The product of this seed outsells any other second early cabbage two to one on the home
market. It can be marketed in the early summer, during midsummer, in the fall and early
winter, making it the best all purpose variety ever introduced. It is popular alike with the
grocer, kraut maker and shipper. It is possessed of earliness, large size, compactness and will
produce more salable heads to the acre than any other stock we know of. It is of the succes-
sion type, but is earlier, head is rounder, sets out of the under leaves higher, has a darker
color of leaf and can be planted closer.
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CABBAGE
GLORY OF ENKHUIZEN
GLORY OF ENKHUIZEN
sales some of our local gardeners consider this variety excel-
lent. It has been selected and perfected for more than
fifty years by the Danish gardeners, who prize it so highly
that they grow it almost exclusively for winter cabbage, and
annually export large quantities of it. It is hard heading,
and long keeping cabbage. Heads round as a ball, solid,
fine grained, has few outer leaves, tender, crisp and of unex-
celled flavor.
LEONARD’S WINTER
This is an excellent mid-summer variety. It
comes in about a week earlier than All Seasons,
makes a nice large head, has few outer leaves
and can be planted close. Our tests show it to
be worthy of a place among the new varieties of
merit and we
can r e c o m -
mend it as a
good addition
to the list.
Stonemason
Drumhead. A
late large
heading va-
riety; but not
as fine grained
as others.
Marblehead
Mammoth. A
large late va-
riety of fairly
good quality.
Large Late
Drumhead. A
late variety of
large size.
Danish
Ballhead Cab-
bage. For a
winter cabbage
for earlyspring
D.VNISH BALLHEAD
EAST PRAIRIE SPECIAL
This new cabbage originated in that part of the Xiles Center trucking region known as the
East Prairie, which is one of the best cabbage growing sections of Chicago.
It is a direct cross of the Leonard Luxemberg and the Leonard Strain of Holland and
combines the good points of both. It has the shorter stem and more lasting color of the
Luxemberg with the rounder head of the Holland. The combination gives a cabbage that is
superior to either. Three years ago we obtained from one of our best growers enough se-
lected heads to give us stock seed, and from this stock we raised, during the past year, a
LEONARD’S WINTER (EAST PRAIRIE SI'ECIAI.)
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CABBAGE
Improved
American Sa-
voy. Closely
approaching-
the cauliflower
in delicacy and
d e 1 i cious
flavor. The
best of all the
Savoys for
general mar-
ket or home
use. It has a
short stump,
grows to a
large size, is
compact and
solid, and is a
sure header.
M a mmoth
Rock R e tl .
The largest
heading of
any red sort.
Heads are
hard, of deep-
r e d c o lo r ,
quality excel-
lent.
Red Drum-
head. The
standard pick-
ling variety. A
good keeper.
IMPROVED
AMERICAN
SAVOY
? LEONARD’S HOLLAND CABBAGE
. ''For shipping or for storing for the late spring market, this cabbage is unsurpassed. The
poi)ularity and paying qualities of this cabbage itself when it is true are points long ago de-
cided. True Holland seed is produced at a few points only and seed grown elsewhere fails
to show the proper characteristics. Since 18 9 6 we have been fortunate in selling the seed crop
of one grower of this cabbage and it has met the requirements of exacting cabbage growers of
Chicago, Racine and other Holland cabbage shipping points. We do not hesitate to say that
Leonard’s strain of Holland cabbage is the best .seed purchasable.
HOLLAND CABBAGE, SHORT STEM STRAIN
This strain
of Holland
Cabbage dif-
fers from the
original Leon-
ard Strain in
the height of
the stem only.
In all other
respects it is
the same. It
has been bred
up to meet
the require-
ments of the
grower who
works heavy,
rich land. The
long stem of
the original
strain in extra
heavy soil has
been thought
to be some-
thing of a fault
and the grow-
ers have been
calling for a
stock that
would retain
all the good
points of the
original with
the additional
advantage of
dwarfer habit.
LEONARD’S STRAIN OF HOLLAND
The Heaviesrt Cabbage for the Size of Head Ever Found
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Oxheart Carrot
CARROTS
Culture. — The carrot, whether used raw, fried, boiled or
stewed used alone or combined with other vegetables or meat
is not surp3-SS6<i in nutritious heulthfulnoss by uny vogotH-blo
catalogued. Plant carrots in the latitude of Chicago from the
time the soil can be worked in spring till July, m one
to tw'o foot rows for hand cultivation or in thirty inch
rows where a horse drawn tool is used. Use one ounce
of seed to one hundred feet of row, three to four pounds
to the acre, covering one-half inch deep and later thin
to a four inch stand. To cultivate the rows at an early
date sow radish seed which germinates quickly with
carrot S66d, which germinates slowly. Do not overlook
the value of this crop as a stock food.
Early French Forcing. ' The earliest variety in cul-
tivation and the best suited for forcing. Tops small,
finely divided. The reddish-orange colored roots are
nearly round. When fully matured they are about 2
inches in diameter, but should be used before they are
full grown and while young and tender.
Half Liong Nantes. Tops of medium size; roots cylin-
drical, smooth, bright orange; flesh orange, becoming yellow
in center, but with no distinct core. Of the finest quality and
one of the most symmetrical and handsome of the medium
sized sorts; excellent for the market or home garden.
Early Short Horn. Excellent for early planting out of
doors. Tops small, coarsely divided; roots top-shaped, but
tapering abruptly to a small tap; skin orange-red.
Coreless. A fine half-long early carrot. Medium sized,
even shaped and productive. Blunt base and small tap root.
Small fine tops and a nice smooth skin. The flesh is a rich
orange red, finely grained and very free from the woody
yellow heart or core usually found in most red fleshed carrots.
Guerande, or Ox Heart. Tops small for the size of the
roots which are comparatively short but often reach a diam-
eter of 5 inches, terminating abruptly in a small tap root.
Flesh bright orange, fine grained and sweet. This variety is
especially desirable for soil so hard and stiff that longer rooted
sorts would not thrive in it. When young excellent for table
use, and when mature equally good for stock.
Chantenay. Tops medium sized; necks small; roots taper-
ing slightly but uniformly stump rooted and smooth; color
deep orange-red; flesh very crisp and tender. Although this
is a medium early sort, it furnishes roots of usable size as
early as any, is a heavy cropper and is undoubtedly one of
the best for both the market and private garden, w’hile its
great productiveness makes it very desirable as a field sort.
Danvers. Grown largely on account of its great pro-
ductiveness and adaptability to all classes of soil. Tops of
medium size, coarsely divided. The smooth and handsome
roots are deep orange, of medium^ length, tapering uniformly
to a blunt point; flesh sweet, crisp, tender and of a deep
orange color. Although the roots of this variety are short,
they produce as large a bulk as the longer field sorts and are
more easily harvested,
James Intermediate. A variety intermediate between the
Danvers and Long Orange. It tapers to a point not so blunt
as the Danvers and is more symmetrical and not so long as
the Long Orange.
Long Orange. The most popular of the older sorts for
farm use on mellow soil. An improvement obtained by years
of careful selection of the best formed. and deepest colored
roots.
St. Valery. A good late variety.
It grows long, shape uniform, taper-
ing from a wide shoulder to
a point.
COKELESS CARROT
MTiite Belgian.
^ Grows one-third out of the
ground. Roof white, green above ground, with small
top. Flesh rather coarse. The roots are of large
size and the variety is extensively grown for stock
feeding.
Improved Short WTiite. We think this distinct
variety is destined to take first rank as a field car-
rot, owing to its enormous productiveness and the
ease with which it can be harvested.
Price List of all Varieties in Front
Pages of Catalogue,
DANVERS CARROT
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CAULIFLOWER
Culture. Cauliflower, while it resembles cab-
bage and requires very much the same treatment
as outlined under and for cabbage, is not so hardy
as cabbage, needs more water, needs more culti-
vation and requires generally treatment superior
to cabbage. Cauliflower cannot be expected to
mature satisfactorily in hot, dry weather, and as
it requires one hundred ten to one hundred fifty
days for different varieties to mature, its planting
should be correctly timed. Start cauliflower un-
der glass or where cabbage plants can be wintered,
winter cauliflower. One ounce gives two thousand
five hundred plants and one-fourth to one-half
pound of seed plants an acre. When the head or
heart of cauliflower, as you may think or feel of
it, called the “curd,” appears, tie the outer leaves
over the head or pin these leaves with wood pins
or beef skewers so the leaves will shade and
blanch the curd and then cut the curd before it
starts to branch. Remember that all the enemies
of cabbage emphatically attack cauliflower and
are to be combated in a like manner.
Danish Dry Weather. We take pleasure in
introducing this Cauliflower to our customers. It
is from one of the best growers in Denmark and
we recommend it highly to market gardeners for
trial. It is claimed to be a splendid strain for a dry season and equally good in allweathers.
From the reports we have regarding this stock from gardeners who have tried it we consider it
a valuable addition to the list and a worthy companion to Our Famous Snowball.
Leonard’s Earliest Erfurt. A variety that has given excellent satisfaction to our home gar-
deners. It is snow white and a sure header. Gardeners will be amply repaid by giving this va-
riety a fair trial.
Extra Early Paris. This is a good early sort, and in a good season does well. Not as
sure a header as the higher priced varieties.
Autumn Giant. A late sort of fairly good quality. Will do well under favorable conditions.
LEONARD’S SNOWBALL
The leading Cauliflower at Chicago and unquestionably the purest strain of “Snowball”
Cauliflower seed to be had. Heads uniform; of desirable market size and of snowy whiteness.
After many years’ competitive tests it is pronounced by expert cauliflower growers to be the
best for both early and late planting. Successful frame growers of cauliflower say that under
glass culture our Snowball outclasses any strain of cauliflower seed known to them. There are
many expert cauliflower growers at Chicago, none better anywhere that we are aware of. Other
strains of snowball seed are well known to them and this strain of ours is their favorite for
early, for late and for forcing. Strong recommendations surely.
DANISH DRY WEATHER CAULIFLOWER
CAULIFLOWER— LEONARD’S SNOWBALL
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CELERY
Pres-; celery seed into the ground, do not try to cover it, and when seed is kept wet and not
above 60° F. germination occurs in ten to twenty days. Celery needs four to five months from
seed to use. so very early celery should be started in hotbeds after January, and when two inches
high transplanted or thinned to a space of two inches. Later trim the tops to produce stocky
plants and v hen five inches high set where plants are to mature, first trimming oft one-third of
the roots and leaves. Celery seed may be planted out of doors north of the Ohio in April and
treated as ouLined above. Given sufficient water, celery can be grown on any good garden soil
and one ounce of seed gives about 6,000 plants.
When almost grown, celery must be blanched; that is, the light is excluded from the edible
stock by the use of boards, earth, paper or other covering. If boards are used rows'can be set as
close as thirty inches, if earth blanched forty- eight inches or more is better. Set the plants
six inches apart in the row and press the soil firmly about the roots. Again celery is set in solid
beds eight inches each way, and the shade of the crowded bed does the blanching. With a few
stalks in a garden a tile set over the plant or a wrapping of paper answers the purpose. If
earth is used in blanching it should be drawn about the plant to one-third its height and
repeated twice a few days apart till leaves only are exposed. Do not cultivate, hill or disturb
celery when damp or rust may occur. • In this hilling with earth called handling place a peg at
end of row with string to it and pass string about each plant so as to prevent earth from falling
into the heart during the work. To store, celery should be only partly blanched.
Celery matures best in cool moist weather, so the grower farther south may delay this plant-
ing calendar to fit his own market and convenience.
Golden Self Blanching. The best of all early self-
blanching varieties. First introduced in America in
18 84, this is decidedly better in quality than the White
Plume. It is ready for use nearly as early, blanches as
easily, and is larger in size as well as finer in quality.
It is of dwarf compact habit, with thick, solid, heavily
ribbed stalks which blanch easily to a clear waxen
yellow.
White Plume. This is the earliest and most easily
blanched, but does not keep well taken from the
trenches. The plants grow rapidly and blanch easily
during the summer months. Later in the fall the cen-
tral stalks and leaves are of pure snowy whiteness even
without earthing up.
Crawford’s Half Dwarf. When blanched is of
rather yellowish-white color, and is quite solid and well
fiavored.
Evans’ Triumph. One of the best of late sorts.
This variety has a very strong and vigorous plant with
large, very white, crisp, brittle, tender and fine flavored
stalks. It is late and requires the whole season to
develop, but will keep well for a very long time.
Boston Market. For many years one of the most
popular sorts in the markets of Boston. Instead of a
single large heart it forms a number of smaller ones,
which are very white, and remarkably tender and crisp.
The best variety for ligl?it soils.
Winter Queen Celery. This is, without doubt, the
most valuable variety of celery for winter and spring
use ever introduced, even excelling the celebrated Per-
fection Heartwell as a late winter keeper. It is also
much stouter, thicker and heavier, with double the
amount of heart of any known celery.
Giant Pascal. This is a green leaved variety developed from the Golden Yellow Self
Blanching, and is an excellent sort for fall and winter use. It blanches to a beautiful yellowish-
white color, is very solid and crisp and of a fine nutty flavor.
Perfection Heartwell. A fine flavored, crisp and tender variety. The plants are a little
taller than Crawford’s Half Dwarf and a little later in maturing. The stalks are of medium
size, round, very solid, crisp, tender, white and of exceedingly fine and nutty flavor. This has
long been a standard variety and is yet one of the favorite sorts.
Dwarf Golden Heart. A variety of sturdy,
dwarf habit. It is solid, an excellent keeper, and
of fine, nutty flavor.
Dwarf Wliite Kalamazoo. Dwarf, white; stiff
close habit; solid, crisp.
Giant Golden Heart. This variety attains a
large size, but still remains crisp and tender. It is a
fine keeper and is a favorite on the Chicago market.
Soup or Cutting Celery. This variety is adapted
to sowing thick in rows and cutting when three or
four inches high, to use for soup flavoring.
GERMAN CELERY OR CELERIAC
Large Smooth Prague. Has a large smooth
root, and is the finest of all celeriac.
Apple Shaped. Not as smooth as the above,
but of good form.
Turnip Rooted, This is the ordinary and well-
known variety.
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CUCUMBER
Culture. Not before corn planting- time plant cucumbers out of doors in drills or hills
one-half inch deep. The crop may be advanced two weeks by starting in the hot bed or green-
house on inverted four-inch sods covered with leaf mold. The plant will appear in four to eleven
days and in three weeks from seeding, when the plant has two to four leaves it is ready to
transplant outside.
Mark the field up and down hill, then furrow across its face in a four-foot check and at each
intersection drop manure or fertilizer or, better, both. Throw earth to this intersection to form
an elongated hill four inches high. Plant the seed like a short drill, not haphazard; then later
two strokes of the hoe cleans this short drill.
Be generous. Use a dozen seed to a hill, and after the striped beetle has his toll, thin to
three plants to a hill.
To check the beetle, use
on foliage, but not too
heavily, road dust, ashes,
soot, air slaked lime,
bone flour, tobacco dust
or arsenate of lead; pull
earth about the stem or
cover the hill with net-
ting.
Cultivate as long as
possible. Cut the cu-
cumbers. Do not pull
or bruise them and to
keep the plants bearing,
cucumbers must not be
permitted to ripen.
Chicago or Wester-
field Pickling. A variety
esteemed and grown ex-
EVERGREEN WHITE SPINE CUCUMBER tensively for the large
pickling establishments.
West India Gherkin. A very small, oval, prickly sort, distinct from all others.
Early Russian. Solid, with few seeds.
Early Cluster. Vines vigorous, producing the bulk of the crop near the root and in clusters.
Japanese Climbing. While all cucumbers are running vines, yet this variety is much more
creeping or climbing in its habit.
ImproA-ed Dong Green. Fruit long and slim, not surpassed in quality by any variety.
Evergreen White Spine. An improved strain of the well known White Spine, and a favorite
with market gardeners, both for forcing and outdoor culture.
Green Prolific or Boston Pickling. A favorite with pickle growers and commercial garden-
ers, and good for table use.
Nichol’s Medium
Green. A valuable and
handsome variety, in
shape between White
Spine and Long Green.
Early Frame or
Short Green. An excel-
lent sort for table use
and for pickling. Fruit
straight, handsome,
smaller at each end,
bright green; flesh ten-
der and crisp and makes ^
fine pickles.
Jersey Pickle.
Sixty days to make
pickles. It is produc-
tive, and is said to
“green” better than any
other variety, and to
“hold color.”
Davis Perfect. In
color, a dark glossy
green; shape slim and
symmetrical, with an
average length of 10 to DAVIS PERFECT CUCUMBER
12 inches.
Thorburn’s Everbearing. Small size, very early and enormously productive, and valuable
as a green pickle. It continues to flower and produce fruit until killed by frost.
Leonard’s Greenhouse. This is a stock of cucumber upon which we have spent much time.
The seed we offer is of our own growing and the selection is from the finest types only. The
value of it to market gardeners and greenhouse men who desire a uniform, deep green, extra
long cucumber, will be appreciated as soon as tried.
The Emerald. It is strictly an evergreen.
Fordhook Famous. Of the true White Spine type. Vines produce an enormous crop, being
of unusually vigorous growth.
Early White Spine. One of the best sorts for table use. Vines vigorous, fruiting early and
abundantly.
Arlington. A selection from the White Spine, being more pointed at each end.
Giant Pera. ^ An exceedingly large growing sort, of excellent quality .\
Cool and Crisp. A strain of White Spine somewhat like the Arlington, but larger and less
symmetrical.
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SWEET CORN
Culture. Plant corn every two weeks for a continuous supply and
north of the Ohio from late April to late July. Plant corn in three or
four foot drills, dropping a grain every eight or sixteen inches, or plant
in hills three or four feet each way, giving six grains to the hill and later
thinning to three stalks. Corn should be planted about one inch deep,
planted deeper in sand than in heavy clay, planted deeper later in the year
when the soil is warm; dwarf varieties closer together than the larger
ones and a given quantity of seed of a small grained variety plants a
larger area than does a like quantity of the large grained. One quart
generally plants two hundred fifty hills and one peck is necessary to the
acre. Plow deeply for corn, cultivate shallow and pick corn before it is
too old. If the goodness of new corn tempts a too early planting, do not
blame the resulting failure on your seedsman.
Golden Bantam Sweet Corn. A very early sweet corn with golden
yellow grain, very tender and of excellent quality. The ears are six to
seven inches long and of the medium size found most suitable for the
table. The fiavor is exceptionally rich and delicious. Our stock has
been very carefully selected. Height about four feet.
White Cob Cory. This is an improvement over the Early Cory, as
the cob is white, which gives it a finer appearance. It is as early as the
Early Cory and of excellent quality.
Mammoth White Cory. The ears are twelve rowed, much larger
than the old Cory, white cobbed, and covered with very large white
grains of good quality.
Early Cory Red Cob. This variety is the favorite for first early, and
no other variety has proved earlier.
Chicago Market or Ballard. This is the largest and best early corn
in existence, twelve rowed, white cobbed and of exceedingly fine quality.
Premo. It is a “sixty-day” sweet corn. It not only combines all
the merits of the leading early varieties, but it is also really superior to
them all in size, quality and yield.
Extra Early Adams. This is an extra early field variety, but it is
much used as an early market variety, being sweet and juicy.
Peep o’ Day Sweet Corn. This new variety is claimed to be the
Earliest Sweet Corn. It is of Minnesota origin and has been offered in
the Minneapolis market from five to seven days earlier than any other
well-known kind in the trade. Ears five inches long.
Early Evergreen. The ears of this new corn grow 8 inches long,
are mostly 14 to 18 rows. This is a magnificent kind for market gar-
deners and for main crop in every home garden. It ripens 10 to 12 days
in advance of Stowell’s Evergreen and is equally as good for all purposes.
The kernels are very sweet and tender, and when eaten from the cob
break off free from husky tips so common to some otherwise fine
table corns.
Stowell’s Evergreen. This standard main crop variety excels all other
late sorts in sweetness and productiveness. It is more popular than any
other for canning, for marketing and for the home garden. Great care
has to be exercised in the selection ofstock to grow seed from, as this va-
riety has a tendency to deterioration and a shorter grain, which makes it
less sugary and desirable.
Hickox Hybrid. Earlier than Stowell’s Evergreen, and makes a
large, attractive ear of white and handsome grain. It is one of the best
varieties for canners’ use. By planting it at the same time as Stowell’s
Evergreen the season will be lengthened considerably, as the Hickox will
be about through by the time Stowell’s Evergreen comes in. Very pro-
lific; ordinarily every stalk will have two large, fully developed ears. The
GOLDEN BANTAM best sort for drying.
Metropolitan. A new early sort. The ears are about 9 inches in length, 10 to 12 rowed,
well filled to the tip with large, deep kernels, which are very sweet and tender. It is an ex-
cellent variety for market gardeners.
£ARLY EVERGREEN.
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SWEET CORN
Malakoff Sweet Corn. The earliest real Sweet Corn in exis-
tence; habits simple like Peep o’ Day, with much better quality.
The plant is very dwarf and usually produces three ears to every
stalk; ears are short, three and one-half to four inches; eight
N rowed.
\ Early Iowa Sweet Corn. This is a very early Sweet Corn,
N^lmost as early as Malakoff and of much larger size. The stalks
gro^ three feet high and usually bear two or more ears. Early
Iowa is a week ahead of the Early Cory and bears ears nearly as
large.
Early Minnesota. One of the standard early sorts Ready for
market two weeks later than Cory or Chicago Market.
Perry’s Hybrid. An early variety of splendid quality. Ker-
nels tinged with pink when ripe, with white cob.
New Champion. This corn is unsurpassed for market use,
owing to its large size and fine appearance. It is medium early,
coming in at the same time as Perry’s Hybrid. It is fourteen
rowed and a splendid cropper.
Moore’s Early Concord. A well known variety of large size,
twelve rowed and of excellent quality. This makes a fine market
corn.
Kendall’s Early Giant. A valuable new early sweet corn.
The ears grow to a tremendous size, measuring eight to ten inches
long, and having ten to eighteen rows on each cob, the majority
having twelve rows; kernels pure white, sweet, tender.
Crosby’s Early. An early corn of large size arid choice qual-
ity. It has long been a standard variety.
Old Colony. This variety is two weeks earlier than the Ever-
green, and almost as large. It is considered the best and sweetest
by canning factories. A fine paying variety for market.
Country Gentleman. We have a stock of this excellent sweet
corn that is exceptionally good. There is no sweet corn that com-
pares with the Country Gentleman for sweetness. It is the variety
par excellence where quality is desired. Market gardeners who
make a specialty of growing for hotels and high class restaurant
trade use this as a main crop variety in preference to any other.
For home use it will be found superior and it is very productive.
The fact that it is a favorite variety with canners proves its merit.
Egyptian or Washington Market. A standard variety, in sea-
son between Evergreen and Mammoth Sugar. Very sweet and
well adapted for canning.
Mammoth Sugar. A large late variety having ears of mam-
moth size, 14 to 20 rows. Quality excellent, not exceeded by any
variety. A good canners’ variety, being white grained and very
uniform. A week later than Stowell’s Evergreen.
Black Mexican. This corn, when in condition for the table,
cooks remarkably white; but the ripe grain is black or bluish-
black. It is surpassed by none in tenderness. For family use
it is considered by many the most desirable of the medium late
sorts. It does especially well for second early in the South.
Zig-zag Evergreen. This fine new strain possesses the dis-
tinct characteristics which have made Stowell’s Evergreen so
deservedly the favorite for main crop, but produces ears fit to
use from one week to ten days earlier.
White Evergreen. This is a high-bred white type Stowell’s
Evergreen. It has been developed by careful work only the
finest white-eared product being saved and selected each sea-
son. The stalks are of strong, vigorous growth, six to seven feet high. .
White Mexican Sweet Corn. White Mexican is a heavy yielding, early maturing Sweet Corn.
It ranks in a class with White Cob Cory and is a better yielder. Height 4 feet; ear about six
and one-half inches long. Quality good.
Early Mammoth. Closely resembles the Late Mammoth, but is a little smaller, and about
two weeks earlier^. .Of good size and quality.
Leonaj;d^«*1S^^et Corn, Narrow Grain. See pages 50 and 51.
DOES GARDENING PAY?
How many dollars will you spend this year for vegetables?
How many hours can you spend this year in the garden?
If labor is what you sell, why not sell it to yourself?
Get your pencil. Suppose you begin gard&ning April fifteenth and spend thirty minutes
every work day in your garden till August fifteenth. On August fifteenth your gardening
efforts would be over except the joy of a continual harvest and you would have spent about
fifty hours at this work. At three dollars a day for your labor the garden has cost fifteen dollars.
The seed to plant the garden would not cost more than you would have had to pay to have the weeds
cut if you had not gardened. Vegetables can be placed upon your table from this garden every
work day and Sunday too from June first till Christmas, — two hundred days. If you use eight
cents w'orth a day from the garden for yourself and family during that time, you have received
sixteen dollars. That’s thirty cents an hour for your labor and the gift of a dollar. If your gar-
den is 44x100 feet you are growing vegetables on one-tenth of an acre and making land pay
at one hundred and sixty dollars an acre. As many gardeners do very much better than these
figures you have during a part of each day hotter than a three dollar a day job in your garden.
STOWELL’S EVERGREEN
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LEONARD SEED COMPANY, CHICAGO
sweEt corn
SIDE VIEW OF ONE OF Ol K DRYING SHEDS, 200,000 EARS
LEONARD’S SWEET CORN, NARROW GRAIN
This ]Ve\v Type of Sweet Corn is a stock worked up by S. F. Leonard after several years of
experimenting-. In it we feel that we have something vastly superior to the old wide grain Ever-
green. The ear is as l^rge as the Stowell’s Evergreen and averages more rows to the ear. The
cob is small in comparison to the size of the ear, and the kernels are very long, narrow and
remarkably free from starch. The rows are uniformly straight and the ear holds its evenness
from butt to tip more uniformly than any other type of Evergreen.
FRONT ATEW OF ONE OF OUR DRYING SHEDS
LEONARD SEED COMPANY. CHICAGO
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SWEET CORN
LEONARD’S SWEET CORN, NARROW GRAIN.
Top Row— KERNELS OF LEONARD’S SWEET CORN, NARROW GRAIN — Natural Size
Bottom Row— ItERNELS OF STOWELL’S EVERGREEN— Natural Size
As will be seen in the comparative view, the kernels of this Leonard’s Sweet Corn of the
Narrow Grain Type are much longer and narrower than the kernels of Stowell’s Evergreen.
The natural size of the kernels of each are sho wn in the picture, and a section of the ears of
both kinds are shown in the view given belotv. The comparison is the best method we can
think of to show the difference between the two stocks. The ears shown are the average run.
The Stoweil’s Evergreen has 14 rows and the Leonard Sweet Corn has 24 rows.
This Corn has proved itself ideal for canners’ purposes in place of Country Gentlen.an,
as it packs over a longer period than the Country Gentleman, makes better quality and is
more easily contracted with the farmer growing for the factory on account of the size of stalk,
which equals Stowell’s in height. Mr. Leonard started selecting and working on this
Corn some years ago, having in mind the type he wanted to attain. Each succeeding crop has
been selected and worked upon with this end in view. In this way, the desired type was
established. In the last three years canning factories throughout the country have in com-
petitive tests of Corn found Leonard’s Sweet Corn incomparable for their purposes.
These tests have not been in a small way, b ut vast fields have been grown for superior
packing from Maine to Iowa. The canner v,?ho ordered, re-ordered — that’s the final test. What
you might take at first glance to be a novelty has become for these people a necessity. Leon-
ard’s Sweet Corn has become a standard variety.
The demand for this Corn has been so great that our supply for 1916, though large,
has practically been exhausted. The man who buys seed early has with him quite a few
advantages.
The canner giving much thought to varieties was the first to recognize the superiority
of Leonard’s Sweet Corn, narrow grain. It is also equally serviceable for the trucker or the
amateur.
STO\I^LL’S EVERGREEN T.EONARD’S SIVEET CORN, NARROW GRAIN
Natural Size Natural Size
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CARDOON
Smooth, Solid Cardoon. Grown for the mid-ribs of the leaves which possess
an unusual delicacy of flavor when thoroug-hly blanched and used in the same
manner as celery. The root is also excellent when properly cooked.
CHERVIL
A hardy annual worthy of more general use for flavoring and garnishing.
The curled variety is even more beautiful than parsley.
Curled. Greatly superior to the old plain variety, being earlier, more hand-
some, and having fully as fine perfume and flavor.
CHICORY
Witloof Chicory or French Endive. Grown for its use as a salad, the
blanched head resembling Cos Lettuce in appearance. The seed planted in late
spring give parsnip like roots by late autumn. The roots are then placed in
earth where there is some heat, as in the green house boiler room, or a warm
cellar. The root then throws out the blanched salad head.
Large-rooted, or Coffee. Our stock is the improved type, with very much
larger, smoother, whiter and proportionately shorter roots than the old kind.
The dried and prepared roots are used quite extensively as a substitute or adul-
terant for coffee and the leaves used as a salad.
CORN SALAD
CORN SALAD
WITLOOr
Fetticus, or Lamb’s Lettuce. This small salad is used
during the winter and spring months as a substitute for let-
tuce, and is also cooked and used like Spinach. In warm
weather the plants will mature in four to six weeks. Sow
the seed in shallow drills about one foot apart. If the
soil is dry it should be firmly pressed over the seed in order
to secure prompt germination. On the approach of severe
cold weather, cover with straw or coarse litter. Like most
salad plants, greatly improved if sown on very rich soil;
indeed, tho ground can scarcely be made too rich for them.
COLLARDS
A form of cabbage or kale much grown throughout the south. It produces large leaves
and at times a modified head on a tall stout stem. Freezing does not injure but rather im-
proves the quality.
Georgia, Southern or Creole. We offer the true white or green stemmed sort.
CRESS
Culture. True Water Cress can be easily
grown by sowing the seed broadcast on garden
soil and keeping the soil very wet till the plants
are big enough to transplant to shallow indenta-
tions about five inches deep here and there along
the sides of a clean flowing stream. There it
will continue to spread by the lengthening of its
roots, also by reseeding and requires no further
care. The crop can be grown to maturity in
wet garden soil, or the seed can be sown directly
to the mud along the stream, but with lesser
measures of success. April or September is a
good time to plant these minute seeds, and this
aquatic prefers to stand with its roots and most
of its stems submerged. Cutting can begin in
about sixty days, and a little later frequent cut-
ting, using a sharp knife, will stimulate plant
growth.
True Water Cress.
Curled or Pepper Grass. A pungent, quick-
growing plant that poorly parodies the water
cress flavor, can be grown in any garden soil as soon as the ground can be worked,
one-half inch deep in one foot rows, thinning the plants to four inches.
WATER CRESS
Plant
DANDELION
Cultivated or French Common. This is considered the best by many and is not at all the
same as our wild dandelion, being greatly improved by careful selection.
Improved Thick Leaved. One of the earliest and best greens in cultivation.
It is well known that LEONARD’S SEEDS, both Vegetable and Flower, are standard
goods. We have the largest Market Garden trade of any of the Seed Houses. The
market gardener is the most critical of all seed buyers and the Seed House that -commands
the trade of this class of buyers is in the best possible position to suit the requirements
of all others.
LEONARD SEED COMPANY, CHICAGO
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EGG PLANT
Culture. Treat the Egg Plant like a tender tomato that required even a longer period to
mature. After cabbage plants are out of the hot-bed or greenhouse, which is April north of
the Ohio, sow egg plant, keeping even the night temperature above seventy degrees. One
ounce of seed gives two thousand plants, and four pounds plants an acre. Transplant later
to pots or to a three or four-inch stand, and when corn is shoe high, put egg plant outside
on rich, well drained land. Set the plants two feet apart in four foot rows, shading or water-
ing the plants if it is sunny or dry.
liconard’s Im-
proved New York
Pm’ple (Spine-
less.) Very large
and smooth, fine
dark color. Ours
is the spineless
plant, most pre-
ferred by our
market garden-
ers, both east
and west. We
have made the
most careful se-
lection possible
of our stock
plants, and know
it to be unsur-
passed for the
market.
Black Pekin.
A fine variety,
bearing large,
round deep
purple fruits, fine
grained, and of
superior quality. LEONARD’S IMPROVED NEW YORK PURPLE EGG PLANT
Earlyliong
Purple. Early hardy and productive; excellent for the table.
ENDIVE
Culture. Endive, or winter lettuce, used as a salaa, as greens or garnishing, is usually
planted one-fourth inch deep in a seed bed in mid-summer, and when convenient after a month
transplanted to stand one foot apart in eighteen-inch rows. When almost grown and about
two weeks before ready to use, it is blanched by tying the leaves together with soft cord, or
the blanching is by turning a flower pot or tile over each plant, or by blanching with earth,
like celery. The blanching removes the green plant’s acrid taste. The plant may be, but
seldom is, used as an early spring crop. Three to five pounds of seed plants an acre.
Green Curled. Beautifully curled, tender and crisp.
Moss Curled. More finely curled, and a heavier and more dense plant than Green Curled.
White Curled. Very tender when cut young; blanches readily.
Broad-Leaved Batavian. (Escarrole.) This variety is chiefly used in soups and stews; re-
quires to be tied up in blanching.
RADISH f radish produces no seed, but is grown from pieces
A-pj 1^ A member of the onion family with a strong penetrating odor; not
propagated by seed, but by dividing the bulb.
MEDICINAL, AROMATIC AND POT HERBS
In borders and irregular parts of the garden it will prove profitable and pleasurable to
grow a few herbs. Their use gives new and unusual flavors, pleasing aromas and perfumes,
and some medicines that are as serviceable as can be purchased. Exact cultural directions
suited to them all is impossible. Give them generally the care given vegetables or flowers.
Where the foliage is to be used cut the young stems on a dry day, wilt in the sun, dry in
the shade and either hang up in bunches or store in air-tight glass jars.
Anise. A hardy annual used for medicinal purposes and for seasoning and flavoring.
Balm. A perennial used for a medicinal tea, and a beverage of lemon-like flavor.
Basil, Sweet. An annual used for seasoning sauces, soups and meats.
Borage. A hardy annual grown for bee pasture; also used as a flavoring.
Caraw’ay. In its second year this biennial produces seed for flavoring pastry, etc.
Coriander. An annual grown for the use of its seed in confectionery and liquors.
Dill. The seed and foliage of this annual is used for flavoring, as in “dill pickles.”
Fennel, Sweet or Common. Foliage used as a salad and the seed for flavoring.
Fennel, Florence. An annual grown for the blanched base of its stem, which when cooked
has a sweet taste, a delicate odor and somewhat resembles celery.
Horehound. The leaves of this perennial are used in medicines for coughs and colds.
Hyssop. A perennial grown for the use of its foliage in medicine.
Lavender. A hardy perennial grown for its fragrance.
Sw'eet Marjoram. Treated as an annual and the younger foliage used for seasoning.
Rosemary. A fragrant perennial used for seasoning and medicinal purposes.
Rue. A hardy perennial to be used with caution medicinally.
Saffron. An annual used for seasoning, coloring and making cosmetics.
Sage. The well known hardy perennial used for seasaning.
Savory, Summer. The foliage and flowers of this annual used for flavoring and seasoning.
Thyme. The leaves of this perennial are used for seasoning and medicinally.
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KALE OR BORECOLE
Culture. In Virginia, kale planted in late
August has some of its plants thinned out and
sent to market within sixty days and the cut-
ting then continues unl^il the field is clean in
April, Further north, kale is treated like
the cabbage; that is, planted early in spring
in hot beds or out of doors, and it is used
in the fall when light frosts have improved it.
Kale is sown in two to three-foot drills and
then thinned to six to twenty-four inches, ac-
cording to varieties. One ounce sows gen-
erously one hundred yards and four pounds
plants an acre.
Tall Green Curled Scotch. This is very
hardy and is not injured by a moderate frost
About 30 inches tall, with an abundance of
dark green leaves which are densely curled
and cut, forming a very beautiful plant. It
stands the winters in the Middle States with-
out any protection.
Dwarf Curled Scotch. Plant low and
compact, but with large, bright, deep green
leaves, curled, cut and crimped until the DWARFED CURLED SCOTCH KALE
whole plant resembles a bunch of moss. One
of the best sorts for use, and when well grown and cooked
is one of the most palatable of vegetables.
Siherian. Sometimes called Sprouts and German Greens.
In this variety the very large, green leaves are comparatively
plain in the center but coarsely cut and frilled on the edge.
The plant is low but spreading and very hardy.
German Dwarf Purple. Similar to the Dwarf Curled
Scotch, but of a rich purple color.
KOHL-RABI
Culture. This relative of the cabbage, that looks like
a turnip that grew above the ground, can be treated very
much as either cabbage or turnips. One ounce sows one
hundred yards and four pounds plants the acre. Sow in
eighteen to twenty-four-inch rows, thin to four inches apart
and use for the table when small. Like the turnip, we can-
not expect good kohl-rabi in the summer heat, but a planting
made about August first north of the Ohio will give a crop
for winter storage. Do not overlook the value of this plant
as a stock food.
Earliest Erfurt. A white, tender variety, with a smooth
root and very short top; the best variety for outdoor culture.
Early WTiite Vienna. The finest for market. Flesh
white and tender.
Early Purple Vienna. Bluish purple; similar to the
above, except in color.
Large Green. Hardy, quite late, and used for feeding
stock. Bulbs large, weighing 8 to 10 pounds, whitish green
in color; leaves large and numerous.
LEEK
Cultm’e. This mild member of the onion family is used
in soups and salads. Sow one ounce to one hundred feet
of row or four or five pounds to the acre, one-half inch deep,
as early as the soil can be worked in spring. Thin the plants
to a stand of four to six inches in the twelve to eighteen-inch
EARLY WHITE VIENNA rows. It is advisable to throw earth to the plant to blanch
KOHL-RABI it, very much as celery is blanched.
London Flag. This is the variety generally cultivated in this country. It is hardy and of
good quality.
Large American Flag. A variety which has become very popular with some market garden-
ers on account of its being larger than the London Flag.
Large Rouen. Stem very large but comparatively short; the leaf is very broad, covered with
whitish bloom. Stands a long time in condition for. use.
Musselburg. The largest variety, often 3 inches in diameter and becoming very white and
tender. A hardy and desirable sort.
PRICES OF ALL SEEDS ARE LISTED ALPHABETICALLY
IN THE FRONT OF CATALOGUE
LEONARD SEED COMPANY, CHICAGO
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LETTUCE \
Culture. As lettuce will stand considerable freezing, it may be seeded or transplanted out-
of-doors as soon as the soil can be worked in spring. For a succession, replant every three
weeks till within sixty days of freezing weather. The soil cannot be made too rich and this crop
must be grown quickly and unchecked to be of superior quality. North of the Ohio lettuce is
frequently started under glass like cabbage in hot beds; in February transplanted to cold frames
and hardened to be set out-of-doors in early April. In more southern or milder winter climates,
lettuce may be sown in autumn, protected with sash or coarse litter and in late winter trans-
planted, or thinned and matured where planted. When the crop is matured under glass it re-
quires much ventilation and little heat, and beware of too much water in cloudy weather. In the
summer's heat canvas or a slatted half shade and plenty of water is of value. One ounce of seed
gives two thousand plants and three pounds plants an acre. In the seed bed drop twenty-five
seed to the foot, and gently rake it in; failure may result from too deep a covering. Mature let-
tuce in twelve to eighteen inch rows, giving the loose leaf varieties three to eight inches in the
row and head lettuce six to twelve inches.
Black Seeded Simpson.
We have a fine strain of
this lettuce carefully se-
lected. This is the most
popular loose-leaved sort.
Early Curled Simpson
WTiite Seed. Forms a close,
compact mass of curly yel-
lowish green leaves.
Earlier than the head va-
rieties.
Grand Rapids Forcing.
Preferred by a great many
to the Black Seeded Simp-
son, on account of being a
tougher leaved lettuce.
Early Curled Silesia. A
very early tender sort, w'ith
fine curled leaves.
Boston Curled. Curled
leaves of good quality, a
popular variety among
eastern growers.
The Morse. A careful
selection from the Black
Seeded Simpson. Seed
white.
Tilton’s White Star. A good early lettuce.
May King. Plant this lettuce for the first early head lettuce. It is equally good for out-
door planting or forcing. The outer leaves ^[lave a slightly brownish tinge, while the heart is
a beautiful yellow, very crisp and tender.
Defiance. Of a light green color, with the outer edge of the leaf slightly curled. Makes a
large head.
Huhhard Market. A large heading variety good for either forcing or sowing in open ground.
St. Louis Head. The most popular and satisfactory head lettuce. It forms a fine head, is
tender and crisp, and is very slow to run to seed.
Silver Ball. A good hard heading variety, and withstands the summer heat well.
Mammoth Black Seeded Butter. Resembles the old Black Seeded Butter very closely, but
is much larger, forming an enormous head, every part of which is tender, crisp and sweet. It
is a good sort for all seasons'.
Iceberg. A beautiful lettuce. Large, curly leaves of bright, light green, with a very slight
reddish tinge at the edges.
Salamander. This will stand the summer heat better than any other variety.
Boston Market. Also called White Seeded Tennis Ball. The best of the head varieties for
forcing.
All the Year. A good sort for early or late planting, and withstands the summer heat well.
Brown Dutch. This variety is a good variety. Makes a round head tinged with red.
The Deacon. A magnificent butter head lettuce.
Prize Head. A good header. Solid and large.
California Cream Butter. A grand, good butter lettuce.
Buttercup. A head lettuce of fine quality. Inside of head is waxy, crisp and delicious.
New York. Is of unusual size and solidity of head,
Chartier, It makes a very large, firm head, almost as hard as a cabbage, is very tender and
crisp.
Big Boston. This variety is identical in color, sh^pe and general appearance with the
famous Boston Market lettuce, but is double the size.
Hanson. Heads very large, from two to three pound.? each; hearts quickly and stands the
sumrner well; quality excellent.
^ ^„^Oak Leaved. Leaves light green, oak shaped, slightly curled, set close, having no coarse
^^ems; of fine flavor and extreme tenderness.
All Seasons. One of the best all head lettuces.
Denver Market. This is a fine crisp, crimpled head variety.
Paris MTiite Cos. The Cos lettuce differs entirely in shape from the other varieties, the head
being elongated and of conical form.
Winter Lettuce. A compact, solid, hardy lettuce for late winter or early spring use. ^
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LEONARD SEED COMPANY, CHICAGO
MUSK MELONS — Green Fleshed
Cultui’e. Musk melon, water melon, cucumbers, gourds and squash are known as cucurbits.
For musk melon follow our cultural directions for cucumber except that where a robust growing
variety of musk melon is grown, a space of as much as six by six feet is sometimes required be-
tw'een hills. One ounce of seed plants fifty hills, and three pounds plants an acre. The crop, or
the last planting for a succession, should be in by June, north of the Ohio. While not necessary, it
is advisable to pinch off the branches of musk melon if a quicker matured or a larger or a
better fruit is required. Pick the melon when it parts from the stem without difficulty and
store a few days in a cool room.
Early Hackensack. The fruits are
nearly two weeks earlier than Hackensack,
medium to large sized, nearly round or
somewhat flattened, evenly and deeply
ribbed and wfith very coarse netting. The
skin is green, slightly tinged with yellow
as the fruits mature. The flesh is green, a
little coarse but juicy and sweet.
Hackensack, or Turk’s Cap. A very
large, green fleshed melon. The vines are
hardy, vigorous and productive. The fruits
are nearly round, usually somewhat flat-
tened; ribs large and of irregular width,
densely covered with coarse netting.
Champion Market. The fruits are
large, round or slightly oval, slightly ribbed
and covered with dense netting. The flesh
is green, very thick and sweet.
Bay View. Fruits are of largest size,
long, distinctly ribbed and covered with
coarse netting. The skin is green, becom-
ing slightly yellow as fruits ripen. The
fiesh is green, thick and of fine flavor.
Montreal Market. The very largest
of all nutmeg sorts. The fruits are round,
flattened at the ends and have very broad
ribs. Flesh is green, fine quality.
Roeky Ford. This has become one of
the most popular of small or crate melons
and is shipped in large quantities from Colo-
rado and Arizona. The vines are vigorous
and productive. The fruits are oval, slightly
ribbed, densely covered with fine netting.
Flesh green, very sweet and highly flavored.
Extra Early Citron. A small, round
melon, valuable on account of its extreme
earliness, hardiness and great productiveness.
Jenny Lind. Vines rather small but
vigorous and productive. Fruits small,
somewhat flattened, deeply ribbed and well
netted. Flesh green and exceedingly sweet.
Skillman’s Netted. An excellent early
melon with fine, tender fiesh.
Netted Gem. The best early melon
knowm. Shipped to every market of note,
in great quantities, every year. Medium
size, but of excellent flavor.
EARLY HACKENSACK
Baltimore, or Acme. The fruits are medium
sized, oval or long oval, slightly pointed at stem
end, slightly ribbed, and are covered when ripe
with coarse netting. The fiesh is thick, green,
well flavored and sweet. This variety is a very
productive, sure cropper of good quality.
Chicago Market. This we consider the best
Nutmeg for earliness of maturity, large and uni-
form size, thickly netted skin, small seed cavity,
deep green fiesh, juicy delicious flavor and free-
dom from rot. A favorite wtih all who prefer
a green flesh sort.
Garden Lemon. An excellent fruit for pre-
serving. Has a decided acid flavor.
Tine Peach. Very similar to Garden Lemon,
and used for preserving.
Ornamental Pomegranate. A very interest-
ing and handsome fruited vegetable. Fruit simi-
lar to Vine Peach in size, color mottled and
having a rich perfume.
CHICAGO 3LARKET aiTSK MELON
LEONARD SEED COMPANY, CHICAGO
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MUSK MELONS— Yellow Fleshed
Emerald Gem. A very early, yellow
fleshed melon of small to medium size.
One of the very best for the home garden.
Vines vigorous and productive. Fruits
globular or slightly flattened, somewhat
irregularly ribbed and very slightly netted.
Surprise. Vines hardy and productive;
fruit medium to large size, oval, distinctly
ribbed, covered with slight patches of
netting; skin light yellow when mature.
Flesh deep salmon color and of excellent
quality.
Petoskey, or Paul Rose. A yellow
fleshed sort of suitable size for a crate
melon and of excellent quality. Vines vig-
orous and productive. Fruits oval, slightly
ribbed and densely netted.
Defender. This is one of the best yel-
low fleshed sorts and in some respects is
far superior to any of this class. The fruit
is medium sized, oval in shape, slightly
ribbed, covered with gray netting. The
flesh is firm, fine grained, rich, deep yel-
low, darker than that of the Osage and
of higher flavor.
HOODOO MELON
BURRELL GEM
Ordway. Under the name of Ordway a
golden meated Rocky Ford has been shipped
into the Chicago market by the Colorado melon
growers. It does not differ materially from the
Burrell Gem.
Burrell Gem. The originator says; “The
new Rocky Ford Melon with Golden meat.”
This describes the melon fully, as in the outside
appearance it looks just as the best types of
green fleshed Gems, or Rocky Fords do, but
has orange flesh inside.
Admiral Togo. This is an orange fleshed
netted Gem or Rocky Ford.
The Princess. This melon is one of the best
for the home garden. In shape it is nearly
round, with heavy netted dark green skin. The
flesh is salmon color, thick, sweet and luscious.
The Osage. Is of medium size, oval in
form, dark green in color, somewhat netted and
slightly ribbed. The flesh is extremely and uni-
TIP TOP MUSK MELON
formly thick, of firm texture, rich sal-
mon in color; highly flavored and de-
licious to the rind. Cavity very small.
It is a remarkable keeper and a good
shipping melon.
Hoodoo. A new orange fleshed va-
riety, ideal as a shipping melon and of
the very finest quality. Vine vigorous,
remarkably blight resisting and very
productive. Fruits uniformly of me-
dium size. Netting exceptionally fine
and dense, extending practically over
the entire surface.
TIP TOP MUSK MELON
The illustration shows a specimen
of our strain of this popular melon.
This very productive melon is of me-
dium to large size, nearly round,
slightly ribbed and fairly well covered
with shallow netting. The flesh is deep
yellow in color. The universal testi-
mony of every one using Tip Top is
that every fruit produced, whether big
or little, early or late in the season,
is a good one — sweet, juicy, finest flavor,
firm, but not hard-fleshed, eatable to
the very coating.
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LEONARD SEED COMPANY, CHICAGO
WATER MELON
Culture. For water melon, follow our cultural directions for cucumbers, except that it is
necessary to give the water melon a space of eight to ten feet between 'hills, and thin fhe plants
to two to the hill. One ounce plants twenty-five hills and three pounds of seed plants an acre.
Kolb’s Gem. Vines
of medium size, but re-
markably vigorous and
healthy. Leaves of me-
dium size, deeply cut
with a peculiar frilled
edge. Fruit of the larg-
est size, round or slight-
ly oval, marked with ir-
regular mottled stripes
of dark and light green.
Outer rind or shell ex-
ceedingly hard and firm,
making it a good sort
for shipping long dis-
tances. Flesh bright
red, solid, a little coarse
but sweet and tender.
Vick’s Early. This
variety is prized for its
earliness. It is oblong
in shape, smooth with
a very dark skin, rather
small in size; fiesh
bright pink, solid and
sweet.
Harris Earliest
Water Melon. The best
of the extra early sorts.
Fruit slightly oval with
irregular mottled stripes
of light and dark green.
Flesh bright red, sweet
and tender. A desirable
variety where the season is short. It is hardy, productive and the largest of the early kinds.
Phinney’s Early. Few, if any, of the early sorts of recent introduction surpass this old fa-
vorite, It is first to ripen, of good size and productive.
Cole’s Early. Very hardy, a sure cropper, and extremely delicate in texture of fiesh, which
is of a dark red color, possessing all the desirable features. Medium size, nearly round; rind
green, striped with lighter shades.
Peerless. The old but extremely popular home market melon. There is none better, nor a
more handsome melon grown.
Mountain Sweet. A large oval variety.
Pride of Georgia. Round, large, crisp; bright red fiesh.
Jumbo. Immense in size. The common weight of this melon is 60 to 80 pounds. In shape
it is nearly round; color solid dark green.
Halbert Honey. Equal to the Kleckley Sweet, of 20 inches oblong form, almost equally
round at each end. Rind dark green. Profitable locally, but not a good shipper.
Bradford. Shape long, color dark, with darker wavy bands, fiesh melting and excellent.
Triumph Water Melon. It is a cross between Duke Jones and Kolb’s Gem. It has the
handsome appearance and dark green color of the former and the shipping qualities of the Gem;
medium season, very prolific, deliciously sweet and of enormous size.
Seminole. An exceedingly productive variety, large size. Fruit oblqng in shape; flesh solid,
ripening clear up to the rind.
Black Diamond. A cross between Kolb’s Gem and Hoosier King.
Tom Watson
Water Melon.
Originated
near Augusta,
Ga., a fewyears
ago; very pro-
lific — six car-
loads on ten
acres often
made; shape,
long; color, •
dark, deep
green, no
stripes; large
• — often times
50 to 60 lbs.;
two melons to
the vii\e; no
ends, no necks
to rot; better
shipper than
Rattlesn a k e J
tougher rind;
flesh deep red;
seeds white,
smeared with
yellow.
KOLB’S GEM WATER MELON
TOM WATSON WATER MELON
LEONARD SEED COMPANY, CHICAGO
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WATER MELON
Eden. This melon by shippers is thought to-be better than Kolb’s Gem. Bluish cast melon
and elongated.
Success Water Melon. A southern variety which has become very popular with shippers.
The fruit is uniformly large, nearly round, dark green, sometimes indistinctly striped with a
lighter shade and has a thin and firm rind which makes it an excellent shipper; flesh bright red
and of good quality.
Iceberg Water Melon. One of the most popular market and shipping varieties. Grown
very extensively in the South for Northern markets.
Sweet Heart. This melon is early, large, handsome, heavy and productive. The shape is
oval, and color mottled light to very light green.
Black Spanish. Large, roundish, nearly black; dark red flesh; early.
Florida Favorite. A very large, long melon, mottled dark green, with stripes of lighter
shade.
Mclver’s Wonderful Sugar. Without a single exception this is the sweetest water melon
of all.
Monte Cristo or Kleckley Sweets. A splendid sort. Vine vigorous and productive; fruit of
medium size; oval; color dark, mottled green in two shades, forming indistinct stripes.
Cuban Queen. Fruit medium size to large, globular or oval; skin striped light and dark
green in sharp contrast.
Dixie. A popular market sort. Vine vigorous, large growing and hardy; fruit medium
sized to large, about one-third longer than thick. Color of skin dark green, striped with a
lighter shade.
Gypsy, or Georgia Rattlesnake. One of the largest varieties, and stands shipment long dis-
tances. Fruit cylindrical, square at the ends, 'smooth, distinctly striped and mottled light and
dark green. '
GYPSY, OR GEORGIA RATTLESNAKE
IF AND THE GARDEN
If you are so rich that deferential servants quietly anticipate your wish, your table is seri-
ously lacking when vegetables come other than dew bejeweled from your garden.
If you should come to be so poor that the wolf came to the door, remember the vegetable
garden is the best barricade ever erected between that animal and yourself.
If to you the world’s best music is the laughter of your child, your garden is that child’s
best kindergarten as possibly it was the kindergarten of the race.
If you love colors, the fleeting rainbow is permanently outrivaled in these things that
grow and change.
If you are tired of the crowd, make your garden a little park for the thoughtful or
quiet hour.
If just now it is little practical things that interest you, remember that a garden it is well
to own when the unexpected guest comes at meal time.
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LEONARD SEED COMPANY, CHICAGO
MUSTARD
GIANT SOUTHEKN CURLED
Culture. Mustard is grown for its seed which is
used for flavoring or medicinal purposes or grown
for its leaf which is used in salad or cooked like
spinach. Sow mustard as soon as the soil can be
worked in spring and every three weeks for a succes-
sion, or in the south it may be sown in the fall for
early spring greens. Cover the seed lightly in twelve
to eighteen-inch drills. Cut the leaf when not over
four inches high and expect this cutting in fifty days
from the seeding.
Giant Southern Curled. The favorite in the
South.
Fordhook Fancy, or Ostrich Plume. Same as
above.
Chinese or Large Leaved Mustard. The large
leaves which often measure 14 inches are ready for
use in about six weeks after sowing. Plants will
continue to yield until frosty weather. Leaves are
eaten boiled, like spinach.
Bloomsdale, Large Leaved. Same as the Chinese
Mustard described above.
AVhite. Best for general use.
Brown. Stronger than above.
MUSHROOM SPAWN
There is a mistaken
idea that mushroom
growing is difficult.
They will do well al-
most anywhere that a
fairly uniform tem-
perature of forty-
eight to fifty-five
degrees can be main-
tained. For the pur-
pose one may use
sheds, caves, cellars
or space under the
greenhouse benches.
A more uncertain
method, but one
which gives us sur-
prise crops is to in-
sert from time to
time pieces of spawn
in the lawn or in old
pastures. Full cul-
ture directions for
mushroom growing
free.
One pound of spawn is sufficient for a bed two by six feet.
We receive fresh spawn several times a year from the best makers.
English Mill Track Spawn.
French Mushroom Spawn. Put up in boxes of 2 pounds each.
American, Pure Culture, Spawui. Produced by the new grafting process, from selected
and most prolific varieties, has never failed to run.
NASTURTIUM
OKRA
Ta!I Mixed Garden. Grown not only for ornament but the beau-
tiful orange colored flowers and foliage are used for garnishing and
the young leaves or shoots are excellent for salads. The green seed
pods are greatly esteemed by many for use in mixed pickles.
Dwarf Mixed Garden. Same as above except that it grows in
dwarf form.
OKRA, OR GUMBO
Cidture. The pods of this plant are used in a great number of
ways throughout the Southern States, and the plant should be more
frequently grown in the north. Plant at corn planting time in rich
land, sowing the seed thickly in two to three foot drills, and thin-
ning to an eight to twelve-inch stand, according to varieties. A
generous planting is two ounces to one hundred feet and ten pounds
to the acre. Okra seed may be planted six seed to the hill, two to
three feet apart and thinned to two plants to the hill.
White Velvet. Produces pods larger than any other.
Dwarf Green. Grows low but stocky and is very productive.
Long Green. Taller than above, pods similar.
Perkins Mammoth Long Pod. The pods are produced in great
abundance and average longer than other sorts.
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LEONARD’S ONION SETS
RED WHITE YELLOW
Leonard’s Onion Sets are the Chicago Standard. We are the pioneers in set growing here.
The Chicago onion set has that fine bright color which is so much desired, and being grown from
the same kind of seed that produces our best large onion it produces a bulb far superior to the
Southern or Southeastern product. We claim a superiority for our onion sets which comes from
superior knowledge in planting, harvesting, storing and shipping as a result of long continued
experience and large operations. We are now and for many years have been the leading Onion
Set growers.
Cultm*e. Onion Sets should be planted as early in the spring as convenient to obtain early
green onions but they may be set at any time up to June first. Set in rows a foot apart and two
to four inches between them in the row. When grown in quantities superior cultivation is given in
order to forward the crop for an early market. Those not used in green condition will ripen
early in July. Potato and Top onion are grown from bulbs only. These clusters are separated
and kept for seed.
There is no crop which pays better than the first load or so of green onions in the market.
Onion sets make this crop for you. They will give the largest returns for the money invested
if the product is sold or give excellent green onions for home use at a time when fresh green
vegetables are needed.
Yellow Onion Sets. The yellow sets are grown from seed of Strasburg, Yellow Danvers, Yel-
low Globe Danvers and Southport Yellow Globe, either of which we can furnish. Yellow is the
standard color for onions in many of the largest markets.
Red Onion Sets. These sets are grown from the Red Wethersfield variety and will produce
marketable onions several weeks earlier than seeds. For green onions they are also very desirable.
White Onion Sets. We have sets grown fro m the White Globe seed or from the White Portu-
gal seed and can furnish either kind. White sets produce the finest early green onions, and no
garden should be without them.
Prizetaker Sets. These sets are grown from seed of the Prizetaker onion. The most sucr
ces-sful growers of Prizetaker say that this onion cannot be grown to its fullest perfection unless
seedlings are transplanted or the onions grown from sets.
*White Pearl Sets. This is the early waxy, silvery white Onion, the genuine White Pearl
Set. It is for sale in September and October and can not be kept in storage for a much longer
period. It produces an Onion that in mildness of flavor is probably not surpassed.
*Bermuda Sets. We use the Teneriffe seed, a product of the Canary Islands, and these
Sets produce the pale red, slightly flattened Oni on with white flesh, at times slightly suffused
with pink. With good care these Sets readily give an Onion of three to four-inch diameter.
Exactly the Onion that gave Texas its Onion gr owing reputation.
*Crystal White Wax. This set is also prod uced from Teneriffe grown Onion seed and is
very popular through the Southern States and Texas. It gives a large, pure white, flattened
Onion of mild flavor.
Shallots or Multipliers. These are very popular at the South. They are grown largely for
flavoring. The clumps are divided and they multiply very abundantly.
White Multiplier Onions. Owing to the white color this is considered an improvement on the
yellow multiplier onion, which it resembles in habit of growth.
, Yellow Potato Onions. The old original English multipliers, the genuine potato onion.
Winter Tops (Perennial Tree Onions). These are very hardy; they need no protection during
the Winter, and will continue for many years to yield an abundant supply of green onions with-
out replanting.
Genuine Top Onions. This is the old-fashioned top onion. The small clumps when separated
are planted and each small bulb produces a large, solid, marketable onion of the finest keeping
qualities. This onion, when planted, produces again on the top of a stalk which shoots up from
it the small clumps, just as ordinary onions throw up a ball of seed.
*These varieties for Pall shipment only.
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LEONARD SEED COMPANY. CHICAGO
Leonard’s Globe Onions
LEONARD’S THREE GLOBES.
Leonard’s Three Globes bring mor^ money to the onion ^oner and sell quicker than any
other varieties. Our Yellow Globe is the
Standard Yellow, our Red Glpbe is the
Standard Red and our
White Globe is the Stand-
ard White.
Leonard’s Yellow Globe
This Onion is our prize
yellow market variety. It
is the most uniform as to
size, the most productive,
the best keeping and the
handsomest yellow-
skinned Globe variety we
have ever known. It has
taken years of patient ef-
fort to bring it to its pres-
ent perfection, and to keep
up the standard of excel-
1 e n c e requires extreme
care in the selection of
bulbs to set out for seed-
ing when the time for
that event occurs each
year. This onion has the
call on the Chicago mar-
ket, and our home sales
for seed of it are very
large. Last season our
supply became exhausted
long before the planting
season was over.
Good growers of onions
seldom allow a difference
in price to keep them from
bnjang good seed if they
feel sure that it is good.
To such we would say:
The seed here offered is
worthy of investigation if
a good thing is wanted.
ONION— LEONARD’S YELLOW GLOBE.
LEONARD SEED COMPANY. CHICAGO
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Leonard’s Globe Onions
Leonard’s Retl Globe
The deep dark red color of our Red Globe is one
of its superior points, while in shape and size it is a
counterpart of our Popular Yellow Globe.
In the Michigan, Indiana and Ohio onion sec-
tions, as well as in Illinois and Iowa this
strain of Red Globe produces the prize-
winning' red onions.
Where competition is keen it will
pay large returns for the ad-
ditional cost of the seed.
Superior stocks are neces-
sary to the prosperity of the
market planter. The inferior
article may be more attrac-
tive at the beginning', because
it costs less, but the superior
seed gives the more valuable
product. You cannot afford
to do without the best.
The Onion Seed Specialties
* here offered are worth many
times their cost to any mar-
ket grower, and the satisfac-
tion they will give to the
consumer will increase the
profits of the gardener who
grows them.
Leonard’s AVhite Globe
White skinned onions when
successfully grown are by all
means the handsomest and
will usually bring more
money per bushel than either
of the other colors. It is
harder to grow them to per-
ONION— LEONARD’S RED GLOBE.
fection than red or yellow, but many large grow-
ers score big returns from a crop of whites. This
strain of White Globe is uniform in size and
shape with our Yellow and Red Globe.
Our position as MARKET GARDENERS’
SEEDSMEN is well and favorably known,
both at home and throughout the
country. Our pre-eminent
standing in this line of the
Seed Business has been
long established. The Mar-
ket Gardener, when he
plants LEONARD’S
SEEDS, may therefore
feel reasonably sure that
he is planting the best
seed obtainable.
During the past twenty-
seven years, in addition to
the vast quantity w'e sell,
we have each year planted
and handled the product
of thousands of pounds
of onion seed. We plant
the same kinds of seed
that we sell, and sell the
same kinds that we plant.
We are growers of onions,
as well as sellers of the
seed. We would not sell
any seed that we w'ould
not be satisfied to plant
ourselves. We know what
omons should be and we
knmv the value of good
&OCCI#
ONION — LEONARD’S WHITE GLOBE.
LEONARD SEED COMPANY. CHICAGO
ONION SEED
Culture.—Study the demands of your market to know what onion that market requires.
As soon as the soil can be worked in spring, and not after May 1st, sow onion seed in twelve
to fifteen inch rows, leaving out every tenth row as a weed alley if preferred. One ounce of seed
plants one hundred fifty feet and five to six pounds plants the acre. The black, slow-germinating
seed should be covered firmly one-fourth inch deep. Quantities of manure had best be applied
in the year before the planting, and much commercial fertilizer, high in potash, harrowed in im-
mediately before seeding.
Begin cultivation as soon as the plant can be seen; cultivate frequently and when convenient
thin to a stand of two to four inches.
In the so-called new onion culture the onions are started in hot beds and easily trans-
planted when the size of slate pencils to the required stand in the field.
Prizetaker. Grows to an immense size and for fall marketing is unexcelled. Although of
such great size, it is very hardy and a fair Winter keeper, as it ripens up hard and firm; very fine
grained, and of mild, delicate flavor. The outside skin is rich yellow while the flesh is white. To
get the best results from this onion the seed is sown in beds and transpla'nted. It will, however,
make a good crop if sown in the ordinary way.
liconard’s Yellow Cracker. The earliest, handsomest, and best flat onion in the list. Be-
sides being early it is one of the best keepers.
Yellow Globe Danvers. This fine onion is of large size. An early and abundant cropper.
Bulbs very thick, flat or slightly convex bottoms, full oval top with small neck and rich brownish
yellow skin.
Early Flat Yellow Danvers. A good variety, but not as round or quite as early as the Yel-
low Globe Danvers.
Yellow Strasburg, or Dutch. One of the oldest varieties. Bulbs quite flat of good size,
skin yellow, flesh white, of mild flavor and keeps well. This is the variety used very extensively
for growing yellow onion sets.
Southport Yellow Globe. A large, perfectly shaped Globe onion and an excellent onion for
keeping throughout the winter. A very heavy cropper, handsome in appearance and a good dark
yellow color.
Michigan Yellow Globe. The bulbs are large and uniformly spherical with very small necks
and the largest diameter below the center of the bulbs of a rich orange color.
Ohio Yellow Globe. An early Globe onion, small neck and very uniform in size and color.
Very popular in the marsh onion sections of Ohio and Indiana.
Giant Yellow Rocca. Of all the magnificent Italian onions now in cultivation none are more
popular than the Giant Rocca.
Australian Brown Onion. Is of medium size, wonderfully hard and solid and most attrac-
tive for market, both as to form and appearance. The color of the skin is a clear amber brown.
Giant Red Rocca. This magnificent variety is of beautiful globe shape, skin red, flesh white,
of mild, pleasant flavor.
Large Red Wethersfield. We have a very fine and select strain of this s»rt. Color is deep
purplish red, flesh white moderately grained and very firm. Yields an enormous amount per
acre, and is one of the best winter keeping onions.
Extra Early Flat Red. This variety matures from ten days to two weeks earlier than the Red
Wethersfield. The color is a deep rich red, fine grain and close.
Southport Red Globe. This is a fine keeper. Large size and considered one of the best red
onions. Flesh is fine grained, very mild and tender.
Copper King. This variety is the largest red onion grown. It is fine and mild in taste.
With the two varieties above mentioned a combination is formed which wins prizes at all fairs for
all' colors.
Bermuda Red. A very early pale red onion, grown extensively in the Bermudas and southern
part of the United States for early shipping to northern markets.
Bermuda White. Mild flavored; yellowish in color; otherwise same as red.
Crystal White Wax. This variety is popular at the south where the transplanting method
of culture is practiced. A large, beautiful, silvery white skinned variety, of handsome flat shape,
of very fine flavor and quality.
White Portugal. American Silver Skin. This is the best sort to sow — for onion sets or
for pickling. When sown thickly for either it makes a small, round, hard bulb.
Philadelphia Silver Skin. Very desirable for family use. Flavor mild and pleasant.
White Victoria. A beautiful, large, round variety with silver white skin, but sometimes of a
delicate light rose color; flesh juicy, sweet, and milky white. A good keeper.
Southport White Globe. This grows to a very large size and is a perfectly globe-shaped
onion. Color is a clear pure white. This variety is used by the Chicago market gardeners for
bunching.
Spanish King. One of the handsomest onions grown. Specimens weighing nearly four
pounds are often harvested. *
Silver King. This is a grand onion. It is a mammoth grower, of beautiful pearly white
color, almost transparent in appearance. To match Spanish King at fairs and exhibitions it is
just what is needed.
Neopolitan Marzajola. A large, beautiful, silvery white skinned variety, of handsome flat
shape, of very fine flavor and quality.
Extra Early Pearl. A very fine, Italian variety that grows quickly to a good marketable
size. Very popular, particularly in the south. The bulbs are round, flattened, with a delicate
pure white skin.
New White Queen is a fine early silver skinned variety, of beautiful form and rapid growth,
and possessing fine keeping qualities.
White Barletta. When matured the tops die down, leaving beautiful and perfect little bulbs.
The color is pure white, flavor mild and delicate, perfectly adapted for pickling and table use.
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PEAS
Culture. All varieties of peas, regardless of height, may be grown successfully without a
trellis or support. As peas vary in height from six inches to six feet, it follows that the distances
in the row and apart in the row should vary. Dwarf or half dwarf varieties are best planted
in double or companion rows six inches apart to support and shade each other in their growth;
then leave a space of eighteen to thirty inches, according to height of the variety, and repeat
the double row. The tall varieties that may be given support are planted in single rows, the
space between the rows somewhat less than the height of the variety. Drop ten to twenty dwarf
peas to the double row or six to ten tall peas to the foot of row, using one quart to one hun-
dred feet and three bushels to the acre.
Plant. all peas about five inches deep in soil that has been deeply plowed. This deep plant-
ing is the grower’s attenipt to give the peas the cool, damp climate they prefer. Lightly harrow
or rake the soil when the peas should be breaking through, and continue to cultivate until the
vine stops the work.
All peas stand some frost and may be planted as soon as the soil may be worked in spring.
Peas should be planted frequently for a succession all north of the Ohio. The early varieties
are planted in August for a late autumn crop.
For quality’s sake, pick peas before they crowd the pod and pick all pods as rapidly as
produced to somewhat extend the plants bearing.
As all varieties of peas lose their characteristics when left without that selection given by
expert seedsmen, it is necessary to go to a reliable source for seed peas._
Notice. Wherever the number of days from planting to first picking' for table use is given,
the time is taken from our trial ground records made during the season of 1909 in Wisconsin.
Weather conditions, variations in soil and cultivation, as well as difference in latitude, will
make either a longer or shorter period of growth!
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SMOOTH SEED, 60 LB. TO BU. WRINKLED SEED, 56 LB. TO BU.
As to a superiority between smooth and wrinkled peas, it is all a matter of individual taste,
but the preponderance of taste is in favor of the wrinkled varieties.
SMOOTH SEED
Alaska. Well known and extensively used, especially by canners. Very early and when
carefully- grown, uniform in ripening. Vine is strong and vigorous, 2 to 2Y2 feet high, of a
peculiar light green color; pods 2% to 2% inches long, straight and blunt at the end, and
light in color. Is ready for picking 49 to 50 days from planting. Seed round, blue, slightly
pitted.
Ameer. Resembling the Alaska in appearance, 3 to 3% feet in height. Pale green foliage.
Pods 2 inches in length, pointed, dark green in color. Seed blue, dented, medium pitted.
Bountiful. Resembling the Alaska in general habit of growth. Vine 36 inches, foliage gray
green; pods 3% inches in length, pointed, gray green in color. Pit for table use 55 to 57 days from
'planting. Seed blue, medium pitted.
Blue Imperial. The height is 3 feet, foliage is medium: green in color, vines bearing pods
large in size, blunt and medium green in color. They are fit for use about 60 to 65 days from
planting. The seed is blue, round, smooth and large size.
Blue Beauty. The height is 1 % feet. The vines are medium green in color. The pods are
small, round and blunt at the end. They are pale green in color and are fit to pick about 52 to
55 days from planting. The seed is blue, smooth and small in size.
Black Eyed Marrowfat. Strong and vigorous vines bearing pods near the top of the vine.
Peas of a poor quality. Height 50 to 60 inches, light color foliage, pods 3 inches long, blunt,
light green. Ready to pick 69 days from planting. Seed large, smooth, white with a black eye.
Claudit. In general habit and height of vine resembling Alaska, ripening almost at the
same time, b^t' witli much longer, broader pods. Pods 3 inches in length, straight, handsomely
shaped and^well filled at the point. Seed round, light green, dented, height 2% feet.
IP^if^ay Amelior. Height about 12 inches, vines exceedingly uniform in growth, bushy
an^«<rornpact. Pods borne at top of vine in great profusion. Foliage light green in color, pods
2% to 2% inches in length, round, blunt, pale green in color, maturing with the first earlies.
Seed yellow mixed 'with pale green, medium sized and round.
Extra Early. Early, productive and hardy, with a strong, vigorous vine, which is light in
color and uniform ip. growth, 2V2 to 3 feet in height and bearing straight pods 2% to 2% inches
long, round, light in color and blunt at the ends. Is fit for table use 50 to 52 days from planting.
Seotfl round, rather small, and white in color. g
Early May Improved. This pea is one of the. .best of the “White” earlies and is superior
to First and Best or Prolific Early Market. Vines are strong growing for this class of pea, about
30 inches in height, foliage pale green. Pods are palp colored, straight, round and blunt. Aver-
age 2% inches in length. Fit for use 56 days from planting. Seed small to medium sized, white
and smooth.
Early Morn. An English variety of the Gradus type with many desirable qualities. Bearing
large, handsome pods in profusion. The peas are large, closely packed in the pod, and the fla-
vor is sweet and delicious. Those who know the good qualities of Gradus will not be disap-
pointed in their trial of this variety. The seed should not be sown until the soil is in a fit state
to receive it early in April, as it is a rapid grower. The pods are very large and well filled, and
are often ready to pick during June. Height about 3 feet.
Essex Star. Vine 3 % feet in height. Medium green foliage, pods 3 inches in length, pointed,
dark green in color. Fit for table use 50 to 55 days from planting. Seed medium size, dented,
mixed green in color.
First and Best. Early^ productive and hardy, with a strong, vigorous vine, which is light
in color and uniform growth, 2% to 3 feet in height and bearing straight pods 2% to 2% inches
long, round, light in color and blunt at the ends. Is fit for table use 50 to 52 days from planting.
Seed round, rather small, and white in color.
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PEAS — Smooth Seed — Continued
Fi*encli Canner. This is the small French Pea used for can-
ning. Very prolific. Long, slim pods containing from 7 to 10 peas.
Fillbasket. Hardy, upright and prolific in growth. Dark
green foliage, 3 feet in height, pods medium curved, dark
green in color. Seed blue green, medium sized, very smooth.
Fit for table use about 70 days from planting.
Giant Lightning, Carter’s. Vines 4 feet in height,
with pale green foliage. Pods large, blunt, pale green.
Fit for table use 57 to 60 days from planting. Seed large,
white and smooth.
Giant Express, Carter’s. A large type of Alaska Pea,
vines 4 feet in height, with pale green foliage bearing
large, broad, blunt pods pale green in color. Is fit for
table use 65 days from planting. Seed is large, smooth
and blue.
Improved Sugar Marrow. Much better than the old
White Marrowfat. Pods larger, w'ell filled and of the true
marrow flavor.
Long Island Mammoth. Very popular with market gar- |
deners who want a large, handsome pod of a dark green
color.
3Ielting Sugar. Large edible pod. Height, 42 to 48
inches. Pods, 4 to 4% inches long and 1% inches broad,
for table use 8 0 days from planting.
Mauritania. Vines 2 4 to 28 inches in height. Foliage
light green, pods 21% inches in length, blunt, light green
in Xolor. Matures in 46 days from planting to first picking.
Sdbd small, white, smooth. This pea resembles First and Best
in general habit, and is a vast improvement over First and
Best.
3Iaud S. A very fine extra early sort, hardy, productive
and of good flavor.
Pride of the Market. Of fine growth and general ap-
pearance, both vine and pod, and closely resembles the Strata-
gem except that the vine is not quite so iong and the pods
are deeper green in color. The vine is 20 inches high,
foliage dark green color. Pods are 3% inches long, broad
and dark in color. Fit for table use 61 days from planting.
Seed blue, slightly dented, large.
ProUfic Early Market. Said to- be an improvement over
the First and Best. This pea is early, hardy and productive.
Vines are strong and vigorous, pale green color. Height
2% to 3% feet. Pods are round, blunt, light green colored
and average 2 % to 2 % inches in length. Is fit for table use
in 52 days from planting. Seed medium sized, yellow and
smooth.
Primo. A good early broad podded pea of recent intro-
duction. Vines grow to a height of 3 feet, are light green in
color and strong growing. Pods are of good size, light green
in color and are slightly curved and pointed at end. Are
fit for table use in 58 days from planting. Seed is large, white,
smooth and flattened.
Peter Pan. A new English variety of merit. It may be classed among the early sorts.
Height of vine 16 to 20 inches, color medium dark green, bearing dark to medium dark pods
which are round, curved and pointed. Pods average 3% to 3% inches in length. Fit for table
use in 60 days from planting. Seed large sized and yellowish white in color and smooth.
Pilot, The. A new pea of English origin very similar to Gradus as to earliness, color of
vine and pod as well as quality. Vines grow to a height of 3 to 4 feet with foliage medium to
dark green color. Pods are large, pointed at end and broad. Dark green in color. Is fit for
table use 60 days from planting. Seed yellow and green mixed, medium sized and nearly
smooth.
Saxonia. The originator of this new Pea describes it as follows: With rare unanimity
has my new Pea, which I introduced last year, been accepted in all pea growing countries as
denoting an important progress in the development of our first early round sorts.
It is a well known fact that the one decided shortcoming of our first early round peas has
always been their short yield as compared to that of later sorts. This blemish has been com-
pletely remedied by my new Pea “Saxonia,” for it yields as abundantly as the favorite later
sorts, and it cannot be surpassed in earliness by any pea.
The pods are of double the size of the Extra Early or First and Best, they appear mostly
in pairs and are filled with large, pure white peas. The plant has the convenient height of
2 feet.
PILOT
Telegraph. Closely resembling Telephone in all respects, except that the pods are a deeper
shade of green, and the peas are of only fair quality, although the pods are of very fine ap-
pearance. Pods 4 to 4% inches long, medium dark green, pointed. Fit to pick 65 days from
planting. Seed large, blue and round dented.
Velocity. Height 2 feet, medium pale green foliage. Of the same type as Alaska. Pods
small, straight, blunt, medium green in color, well filled with Peas of excellent flavor. Matures
to first picking in 44 days from planting. Seed blue, small, pitted.
White Marrowfat. Vines hardy, strong, vigorous and bearing broad, thick leathery pods
near the top of the vine, and containing peas of a poor quality. Height 45 to 50 inches, foliage
light green in color, pods 3 inches long, blunt and light green. Ready to pick 69 days from
planting. Seed large, smooth, white.
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WRf VKl-ED SEED, 56 POUNDS TO BUSHEL
American Wonder. Vigorous, productive vines, with a luxuriant foliage, and producing
the leaves on one side of the stalk, growing from 9 to 12 inches high. On account of its
dwarf habit of growth it is very desirable for private garden use. Pods are light colored,
straight, round, about 2% inches long and blunt at the end. Pit for picking 55 days from
planting. Seed is wrinkled, green, medium in size and square at the ends.
Advancer. Vines upright and vigorous in growth, hardy and productive. Height 30 inches,
foliage dark green, pods 2Yz to 2 % inches long, round, dark colored and blunt, fit for picking
61 days from planting. Seed green, wrinkled, medium in size. A very fine pea for canners’
use.
Admiral. A long vine, medium season pea, bearing pods in profusion. About the same
size and shape as First and Best, but of much better flavor. The small size and fine flavor
of the pea, with its great hardiness, make it a most desirable sort for canners who wish a sweet
wrinkled pea of small size. Vines 48 inches high, with medium gredn foliage. Pods 2 inches
long, medium light in color and blunt. Fit for picking 68 days^from planting. Seed small,
wrinkled, white.
Abundance. Vigorous in growth and productive, bearing pods in great abundance, al-
though of medium size, and of excellent quality. Very similar in every respect to Horsford’s
Market Garden, except that it is about a week later, being fit for picking 71 days from plant-
ing. Pods are dark green, and blunt. Seed green, wrinkled, medium in size.
Autocrat. Height 3% feet. Foliage dark green; pods large, blunt and dark green in
color. Fit for table use 85 to 90 days from picking.
Alderman. A large podded pea of the Telephone type, very robust and vigorous as to
vine. Foliage mixed, medium green. Height, 50 inches, pods 5 inches long, broad, pointed,
medium green in color. Seed green, wrinkled, large.
Admiral Dewey. One of the largest podded pea yet introduced. Height, 3% feet; pods
a rich, dark green color, frequently six inches long, beautifully shaped. Peas large, tender
and of first class flavor.
Boston Unrivaled. Height 3% feet, foliage medium green in color. Pods large, pointed,
pale green in color. Fit for table use 65 to 70 days from planting. Seed large, blue, green,
wrinkled. Very similar to Duke of Albany and Alderman in habit.
Buttercup. Vine 2 feet in height. Foliage, medium to light green. Pods 4 inches in length
pointed light green in color. Fit for table use 61 days from planting. Seed blue wrinkled
medium size. .
Leonard’s Clatawa. “Clatawa” is Chinook Indian for get up and get. It describes in a
wprd the main characteristic of this wonderful nev/ pea.
^a^e Clatawa is as early as American Wonder and bears pods
like the Telephone, which certainly proves it to be a
“get-up-and-get” article.
Champion of England. Strong and vigorous in growth.
42 to 50 inches in height. Foliage medium green. Pods
2% to 3 inches long, blunt, medium dark green in color.
Ready to pick 68 to 73 days from planting. Seed large
green very much wrinkled.
Chelsea Gem. Height of vine 1 foot with dark green
foliage. Pods small curved, medium green in color. Fit
for table use 60 days from planting. Seed small, white,
wrinkled._
Duke of Albany. Resembling the Telephone in appear-
ance. Vine and foliage medium green in color. Height 50
inches, pods 5 inches long, broad, pointed, dark green. Seed
large, green, wrinkled.
Duke of York. A pea of the same class as the Tele-
phone, but earlier and more dwarf. - The peas are sweet
and of fine flavor.
Duchess. Height of vine 4 feet. Medium green foliage,
pods large, pointed, dark colored. Fit for table use 56 days
from planting. Seed, dark blue, large, wrinkled.
Dwarf Gray Sugar. The old variety of the edible-
podded sort, and is used in no other way. Grows about
2 feet high and is remarkable for its earliness. Pods are
broad, flat and crooked and contain 5 to 6 peas. Seed is
brown and wrinkled.
Carter’s Dauby Stratagem Improved. Vines SVz feet
in height, coarse dark green foliage. Pods are large,
pointed, dark green in color, maturing in about 65 to 70
days to first picking. Seed large, blue green, wrinkled.
Dwarf Telephone. Vines 18 to 20 inches high, with
rather coarse foliage, medium light green, bearing pods,
broad, straight and about 4 inches long. Pale green in
color and well filled with peas of excellent flavor. Ready
for picking from 62 to 65 days from planting. Seed pale
green, large, much wrinkled.
Dwarf Defiance, Suttons. The vines, vigorous and
hardy, about two feet in height, with coarse dark green
foliage, bearing long, broad pointed pods, dark green in
color. Fit for picking 61 days from planting. Seed large,
green, wrinkled. This pea is much more uniform in growth than the Stratagem, which it
very closely resembles, and has the advantage of remaining fixed in its type, and showing
practically no sports or runners.
English Wonder. Vines vigorous in habit, 12 to 18 inches in height. Medium green in
color. Pods 3 inches long, slightly pointed, dark green in color. Pit for table use 67 to 69
days from planting. Seed blue green, wrinkled, medium size.
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PJxonian. About 3 feet in height with pale green foliage,
bearing small round blunt pods, medium green in color, about
ten days later than Alaska. Seed green, wrinkled, small in size.
Everbearing. Vigorous and branching in habit of growth.
Height, 2% to 3 feet. Pods, 2% to 3 inches long. Broad, light
colored and blunt. Fit to pick 70 days from planting. Seed
green, wrinkled, large in size.
Forty Fold. One of the best of the tall late varieties for
general use. Height 5 feet. An abundant cropper
with peas of good flavor. Seed medium sized,
wrinkled.
Gems, Premium. Strong and vigorous, pro-
ducing vines from 18 to 24 inches in height, dark
foliage, bearing pods singly on both sides of the
stalk beginning near the ground. Pods are al-
most straight 2 % to 2 % inches long, light in
color and blunt at the ends. Ready to pick 59
to 61 days from planting. Seed is green,
wrinkled and medium in size.
Gems, McLean’s Little. Strong and
vigorous in growth, producing vines
from 18 to 24 inches in height, dark
foliage, bearing pods singly on
both sides of the stalk beginning
near the ground. Pods are almost
straight, 2 to 2 % inches long,
light in color and blunt at the ends.
Ready to pick 59 to 61 days from
planting. Seed is green, wrinkled,
and medium in size.
Gradus. A large wrinkled, early
pea wuth a pod nearly as large as
Telephone, fllled with large peas,
tender and of good quality and
flavor. Very quick to germinate
and mature with the early sorts.
This pea will not stand adverse
conditions, however, as well as
some of the other sorts, and seed
must be planted after all danger
of early frost has passed. Height
of vine 26 to 30 inches, with large
luxuriant foliage pale green in
color. Pods dark green, 4 to 4%
inches in length and pointed. Fit
for table use 52 days from planting.
SeedT^large, cream colored, wrinkled.
Green Gem. Height of vine
12 to 15 inches, with very dark
green foliage. Pods 3% inches in
length, pointed very dark green in
color. Ready for table use 54 days
after planting. Seed dark green,
wrinkled, medium sized.
Gladstone. Vine 3 % feet in
height. Dark green foliage with
large pods curved dark green in
color. Fit for table use 80 days
planting. Seed blue green, wrinkled, large size.
Golden King. Vine 4% feet in height, pale green foliage. Pods 4 to 4% inches in length,
straight, Golden yellow in color. Ready to pick for table use 77 days from planting. Seed
large, green, wrinkled.
Horsford’s Market Garden. Strongly resembling Premium Gem in habit of growth, but
about one-third taller. Vines growing 26 to 30 inches high, foliage dark green, pods light
colored, straight, about 2^ inches long And blunt. Fit for picking 68 days from planting. Seed
green, wrinkled, medium in. size. A very popular pea with the canners and market gardeners
on account of its excellent quality.
Heroine. Vin^ are strong and vigorous and produce an abundance of flne, large, w’ell
filled pods.
King Edward Seventh. Vine 1% feet in height with dark green foliage. Pods dark green,
curved and pointed at the ends. Ready for table use 60 days from planting. Seed blue green,
medium sized, wrinkled.
Laxtonian. Vine 1 % feet in height with dark green foliage. Large curved dark green
pods, pointed at the ends. Seed green, wrinkled, large sized.
Little Marvel. Height of vine 18 inches with dark green foliage. Small blunt dark green
pods. Fit for table use 53 to 55 days from planting. Seed blue green, small sized, wrinkled.
The Lincoln. 1% to 2 feet in height, foliage medium green. Pods medium sized, curved
and pointed and dark green in color. Seed blue green, mixed with yellow, small sized and
wrinkled.
Nott’s Excelsior. Resembling Gems in habit, but more dwarf and uniform in growth,
height 12 to 17 inches, with rather light foliage. Pods are light in color, round, about 214
inches long, blunt at the ends. Fit for picking 56 days from planting. Seed green, wrinkled,
medium in size and square at the ends.
Prince of Wales. Vines 3 feet in height, foliage pale green, pods medium sized, blunt, pale
green in color. Pit for table use about 65 days from planting. Seed white, large, wrinkled.
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vlieonard’s Potlatch. Strong, vigorous vines of even growth, 20 to 24 inches in hei^L with
lu^riant dark foliage, bearing pods medium green in color 3% to 4 inches in length. Broad
aflnd pointed at the ends. No variety known will produce more pods, and no pods could possihjy
j /"shell out better. The Potlatch is a variety from which anyone may expect great things. Pit for-
table use 61 days from planting. Seed green, wrinkled, large in size. We consider ourselves
very fortunate in having
secured and introduced
this pea.
Richard Seddon. 1 6
to 20 inches. Richard
Seddon, introduced a few
years ago, has already es-
tablished itself. The
largest canning factory
in New Zealand is now
using it in preference to
all others for canning its
famous green peas. The
haulms and pods are
deep green, the latter
crowded with 7 to 9 large
peas of the very best
color and flavor; it is as
early as American Won-
der, but a far more abun-
dant bearer. We test all
the new and standard
varieties each season,
and we can say with con-
fldence that there is no
better all-round early va-
riety than this. Seed
green, wrink,led and
small in size.
Surprise. R e s e m -
bling in vine, size and
shape of pod Alaska and
First and Best, but with
the tender quality and
delicate flavor of the best
of the wrinkled sorts.
Very much used by can- plant or I.E0NARD’S potlatch, SHOWING ITS great PRODUCTIVENESS
ners who wish an early
pea with a sweet and delicate flavor. Vines 2 % to 3 feet high, light foliage bearing pods 2 % to
3 inches long, light in color and blunt at the ends. Can be picked 43 to 47 days from planting.
Sutton’s Excelsior. Similar in habit of growth to Nott’s Excelsior, but bearing very large,
broad pods, well filled with large peas. Very tender, and of the most delicious flavor. Vines
about 18 to 20 inches high, medium light in color with pods 3U, to 3% inches long, light in
color and blunt at the ends. Is ready to pick 52 days from planting. Seed green, wrinkled,
medium in size.
Sutton’s A-1. Resembling somewhat Advancer in habit of growth, 24 to 28 inches high, fo-
liage light green. Pods 3 to 3% inches long. Round, light colored and blunt. Fit for table
use 65 days from planting. Seed medium sized, green, wrinkled.
Sutton’s Peerless. Vines 3 to 3% feet in height, dark green foliage. Pods large, pointed
and dark green in color. Pit for table use 75 to 78 days from planting. Seed large, blue,
wrinkled.
Sutton’s Pioneer. A first-early Pea, which has won great popularity for its many fine quali-
ties. The plant is unusually robust in habit, and carries a heavy crop of long, pointed pods of a
dark green color, which are well filled with rich-flavored peas. So numerous are the pods that
the plants present a most striking appearance while growing. We regard this as one of the
best varieties in the dwarf section of the early class. Height about 20 inches.
Shropshire Hero. Strong, vigorous vines 42 inches in height. Pods 3 to 3% inches long,
blunt, light green in color. Fit for table use 68 to 73 days from planting. Seed large, green,
wrinkled.
Stratagem. A vigorous, hardy and luxuriant vine, bearing large pods containing peas of ex-
cellent quality. A heavy cropper, although it has a tendency to sport. Vines 20 inches. Fo-
liage dark green. Pods 3^ inches long, straight, broad, pointed, gray green in color. Pit for
table use 5 6 days from planting. Seed very large, green, wrinkled.
Sharp’s Queen. Hardy and vigorous in growth. 36 inches in height with dark green foli-
age. Pods 3% inches long, curved, pointed, gray green in color. Fit for table use 62 days
from planting. Seed green, medium sized, wrinkled.
The Sherwood. Vines feet high, foliage dark green. Pods medium to large in size,
straight and blunt, dark green in color. Fit for picking 70 days from planting. Seed blue green,
medium sized, wrinkled.
Senator. Vines 36 inches in height, foliage dark green. Pods 4 inches long, curved and
pointed, and dark green in color. Fit to pick 61 days from planting. Seed medium size, green,
wrinkled.
Stanley. Vines strong, growing about 1^ feet in height, with medium green foliage and
bearing pods pale green in color, curved and slightly pointed. This pea may be classed among
the earlies. Seed is medium sized, green and wrinkled.
Thomas Laxton. Closely resembling Gradus in habit, rapidity of growth, earliness and fo-
liage, 26 to 30 inches high, and much hardier in every respect than Gradus. Pods 4 to 4%
inches long, round, well filled with peas, blunt at the end. Fit to pick 52 days from planting,
Seed large, cream colored, wrinkled,
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PEAS. Wrinkled Seed — Continued.
Telephone. Vines and leaves large and coarse. Foliage light green in color. Height 40
to 50 inches, pods 4% inches long, broad, pointed, medium green in color. Fit to pick 62 to
65 days from planting. Seed large, green, wrinkled.
Witham Wonder. Vigorous, uniform in growth. Height 18 inches with larger, broader
pods than American Wonder and well filled with peas of extra fine flavor. Pods 3 inches long,
round, a trifle curved and slightly pointed. Seed medium sized, green, wrinkled.
William Hurst. Resembling American Wonder in habit, but more straggling and uneven
in growth. Height 16 to 18 inches, foliage dark, vigorous and productive, bearing in pro-
fusion. Curved pods, medium green in color, about 3 inches in length, fit to pick 57 days from
planting. Seed green, wrinkled, medium in size.
World’s Record (Sutton’s). This is an English Pea introduced in 1907. -The introducer
says of it: “The haulm is not so tall as Sutton’s Early Giant, and the pods are scarcely so
large, but it is no exaggeration to say that the World’s Record is the earliest large podded
marrowfat pea in cultivation.’’ In our trial grounds it has proved to be a very fine large
podded early pea. Height of vine about 3 feet. Strong and vigorous. Very prolific. Pods
green in color and containing peas of very superior flavor.
Yorkshire Hero. Hardy, productive, and upright in growth, bearing near the top of the
stalk broad, pointed pods with peas of good quality. Foliage dark green, 23 to 28 inches in
height. Pods 2% to 3 inches long, blunt, light green in color. Fit to pick 68 to 73 days from
planting. Seed large, green, wrinkled.
PARSLEY
Parsley used for garnishing and for seasoning can be planted as soon as the soil can be
worked in spring. Cover the slow germinating seed one-fourth inch deep in twelve to
eighteen-inch rows, later thinning to a six-inch stand. One-fourth ounce sows one hundred
feet and three to five pounds plants an acre. To improve the appearance of the crop, trim
the plants with a sickle two or three times during its growing season and at the approach
of winter transplant to cold frames or a sunny window. Parsley may be mulched w’ith coarse
litter and wintered for spring use till the new crop begins.
Double Curled. The standard sort for outdoor
culture, also highly prized by market gardeners for
the greenhouse.
Champion Moss Curled. A very fine curled va-
riety. One of the handsomest for garnishing pur-
poses. The exceedingly curved leaves make it de-
sirable.
Fern Leaved. This sort has a peculiar, fern
shaped leaf. It is not so desirable as the more curled
sorts.
Triple Curled or Myatt’s Garnishing. Very finely
curled variety of dark green color. One of the best
varieties for all purposes.
Plain. Leaves flat, deeply cut but not curled;
often preferred on account of the very dark green
color as well as the hardiness of the plant and its superi-
ority for flavoring. The curled sorts are more extensively
used for garnishing.
Hambimg Rooted. The standard rooted sort. The
leaves are used for soup greens, and the roots when sliced
are very much esteemed.
CHAMPION MOSS CURLED PARSLEY
PARSNIP
Culture. Plant one-year-old parsnip seed as early as
the soil can be worked in spring and do not cover this
slow germinating seed deeper than one-fourth inch. Use
eighteen to tAventy-four-inch rows, thinning the plants to
a four-inch stand. One-half ounce of seed sows one hun-
dred feet and three to five pounds plants an acre. This
crop requires the entire season to mature, and as frost im-
proves the roots, they may be left in the ground all
winter. Both as to quantities and its feeding values, the
parsnip is a valuable stock feed.
Hollow Crown. Roots long, white, smooth, tender,
sugary and of most excellent flavor. Very hardy, and will
keep through winter without protection.
Guernsey. Root white, very tender, with a smooth,
clean skin. The variety is easily distinguished by the
leaves growing from depression on top or crown of the
root.
Long White Dutch, or Sugar. Root A'^ery long, white,
smooth, tender and of most excellent flavor. Very hardy
and will keep well through the winter without protection.
PRICE LIST OF ALL VARIETIES IN FRONT
PAGES OF CATALOGUE
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PEPPERS
Culture. The pods of the pepper are used in sauces, salads, soups or as a seasoning, and
the large mild varieties called mangoes are eaten from the hand or variously stuffed and pre-
pared with cabbage, tomatoes or meat. The pods of peppers are green until in ripening they
turn red or yellow, according to the variety.
Start pepper in hot-beds and in other ways treat like a tomato.
Set out of doors after frosts in thirty-inch rows, giving each plant
eighteen inches in the row. One ounce of seed gives, according to
the handling, from one to two thousand plants and one pound plants
an acre.
Long Red Cayenne. A long, slim, pointed pod, and when ripe,
of a bright red Color. Extremely strong and pungent.
Red Chili. Used in the manufacture of pepper sauce.
Red Cluster. A new type of Chili, with upright, bright red
fruits.
Celestial. A Chinese variety bearing roundish upright pods.
Coral Gem. This variety grows in the form of a bouquet; pods
bright red.
Large Bell or Bull Nose. A very large sort of inverted bell
shape, suitable for filling or for a mixed pickle. Flesh thick, hard
and less pungent than most other sorts.
Sweet Mountain. Plants very vigorous and productive, grow-
ing upright, with moderately large leaves. Fruit very large, long,
often 8 inches or more in length, by 2 inches in diameter.
Ruby King. An improved American sort, reaching the largest
size, yet retaining the symmetrical shape of the smaller sorts.
Chinese Giant Pepper, ithout doubt one of the very best and largest Mango Peppers ever
introduced. Its mammoth size, splendid shape, beautiful, rich, glossy-red fiesh and mild fiavor,
all lead us to speak of it in words of commendation.
Golden Upright. The fruits are large
and of a beautiful rich golden yellow,
tinged with blush red. The peppers are
mild and as pleasant to the taste as Ruby
King.
Golden Dawn. In shape it resembles
the popular Bell or Bull Nose pepper. It
is of a most beautiful golden yellow color,
making a very handsome appearance,
both in growth and upon the table.
Red Cherry. Plant tall, bearing a
profusion of bright red, round fruit which
is very pungent when ripe. The plant is
very handsome and an ornament to the
garden.
Golden Queen Mammoth. Very large
fruits; rich golden yellow color; early.
Tabasco. Of tall, bush-like growth,
three to four feet in height, producing an
immense number of small, slender, fiery
fruits one inch in length and vivid scarlet
in coloring. This is the true variety, from
which the famous Tabasco Sauce is made.
Procopp’s Giant. Very large, usu-
ally 8 to 9 inches long and 3 inches thick.
Brilliant scarlet color, flesh thick, of
pleasant flavor.
Leonard Seeds are never commissioned —
To buy Leonard’s Seeds is to avoid buying old seeds.
Leonard Seeds are sold in Bulk —
To buy Bulk Seeds is to see what is bought.
Leonard Seed Co. are Growers —
To buy from a grower has many things to recommend it.
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PUMPKIN
CHEESE, OR KENTUCKY FIELD
Shape flat; flesh yellow, thick
Culture. — The finer
varieties of pumpkins
are used for pies and
the coarser ones for
istock ^feeding. While
the pumpkin may be
grown very much as
cucumbers are grown
in a garden, they are
more frequently plant-
ed in the field with
corn, where several
seed are dropped in
each fourth hill. Plant-
ed alone, six to ten
seeds are covered one
inch deep in hills eight
to ten feet apart and
thinned to two to four
plants to the hill. -. One
ounce plants twenty-
five hills and two to
four pounds of seed
ge.nerously plants an
acre. As this crop re-
quires as much time' as
corn to mature, the
planting Cannot be too
long delayed.
C h e' e s e, or Ken-
tucky Field. One of the best for table use, and very productive,
and tender.
Connecticut Field. The hardiest of all pumpkins; cultivated mainly for stock-feeding, pro-
ducing enormous crops.
Large Tours, or Manunoth. Grows to an immense size, often weighing over 100 pounds.
Mammoth Potii'on. The flesh and skin are of a bright golden yellow color. Flesh fine
grained and of excellent quality. This
enormous variety has been grown to
weigh 200 lbs.
Cushaw, or Crookneck. A favorite
sort of excellent quality.
Winter Queen. This is an improve-
ment of the old, well-liked sugar pump-
kin. Its size is uniformly about nine to
ten inches in diameter. In color, a beauti-
ful deep orange yellow, with a very close
netting, almost as russeted as a potato.
Golden Oblong. A productive variety,
oblong in shape. Skin golden orange,
flesh, yellow, dr>' and sweef; excellent.
Sugar or Pie. A rather small, but
handsome variety. Shape, round; skin
deep orange colored; flesh fine grained,
sweet-fiavored; superior for pies.
Calhoun. Round, flattened, skin
brown; flesh salmon-yellow, thick and fine
grained.
Tennessee Sweet Potato. Hardy, pro-
ductive, sweet and delicious, and one of
the best for cooking purposes ever intro-
duced.
CONNECTICUT FIELD PUMPKIN
RHUBARB
(PIE PLANT)
Cultm’e. Rhubarb succeeds best in deep, somew'hat retentive soil. The richer its condition
and the deeper it is stirred, the better. Sow in drills an inch deep, and thin out the plants to six
inches apart. In the fall transplant the young plants into very highly manured and deeply
stirred soil, setting them four to six feet apart each way, and give a dressing of coarse manure
every spring. The stalks should not be plucked until the second year, and the plant never al-
lowed to exhaust itself by running to seed. Our seed is saved from selected plants of the Lin-
naeus, Victoria, Giant and other improved sorts, but like the seeds of fruit trees, rhubarb seed
cannot be relied upon to reproduce the same varieties.
Rhubarb Seed.
Rhubarb Roots.
SOME PLACE NEAR YOU LEONARD SEED IS SOLD.
IN BULK ONLY.
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RADISH
Culture. Plant radishes on a light soil if a
choice is possible, and every second week for a suc-
cession from the time the soil can be worked in
spring till the first light frost. Plant in two to
eighteen-inch rows, cover the seeds one-half inch
deep and permit four to ten radishes to grow to the
foot; use eight to twelve pounds of seed to the acre.
Radish seed, which germinates quickly, may be sown
with some slow-germinating seed that the cultiva-
tion of that crop may begin the earlier, or the
quicker-growing radish may be grown between rows
of some slow-growing crop that later requires con-
siderable space.
The Winter Radish is sown at late turnip plant-
ing time and used in the autumn or stored for
winter like the turnip.
Leonard’s Three Leaf Radish. So named on ac-
i count -<yt its extreme earliness and the fact that when
th^'e are three leaves formed besides the seed leaf
it Is large enough to eat. It is an improved form
of the well known Scarlet Olive.
Non Plus Ultra. This is one of the finest forcing
radishes. The roots are round, with a deep scarlet
colored skin, the flesh white, very crisp and tender.
Olive Shaped Bright Red Leafless Forcing. The
\ extra early forcing radishes lately introduced are
* rejanSirkable for the small size of their leaves. They
'-<Tevelop their roots in so short a time that the latter
are practically in advance of the leaves.
Rosy Gem. One of the very earliest in cultiva-
tion. Shape a perfect globe. Deep scarlet top,
blending into pure white at bottom. SCARLET GLOBE RADISH
Early Scarlet Turnip. The standard early turnip
radish. Fine flavored and mild.
Scarlet Tm*nip, White Tipped Forcing. An early strain of the White Tipped variety having
a short leaf and suitable to plant in the green house.
Scarlet Tm*nip, White Tipped. One of the handsomest of the turnip radishes and a great
favorite in many large markets for early planting outdoors. It is but little later than the White
Tipped Forcing, and will give entire satisfaction where extreme earliness is not the primary
object. Roots slightly flattened on the under side, color very deep scarlet with a white tip;
flesh white and of the best quality. ,
Scarlet Olive. Very tender and a beautiful color. Early.
Early Scarlet Globe. A desirable sort of hotbed forcing and outdoors, very early; flavor
mild; crisp, juicy and tender; top small; will stand heat without becoming pithy.
New Deep Scarlet Turnip. This is a very bright colored Scarlet Turnip radish, very early
and short leaf, well adapted to forcing under glass. Matures in fourteen to twenty-one days,
and its appearance will sell it in any market.
Early White Turnip Rooted. A little flatter than the Scarlet Turnip, and pure white in
color. ^
Half Long Deep Scarlet. A variety half the length of Long Scarlet and of same 'form.
French Breakfast. Olive shaped, scarlet, with white tip; crisp and tender.
Large White Summer Turnip. A very large turnip
shaped variety; white, very crisp and mild.
Large Yellow Summer Turnip. Like the above ex-
cept in color.
Gray Summer Turnip. Popular for mid-summer.
White Strasburg, or Summer Hospital. Large^
showy, half long, white sort. Grows with great rapidity,
sometimes producing a crop in six weeks.
Giant Stuttgart. A summer variety. Grows to an
immense size. White flesh, very crisp and tender. Of
good flavor, and a good keeper.
Golden Globe. This variety is of quick growth, af-
fording crisp and tender radishes even in the hottest
climate and is extensively grown in the south.
Long Brightest Scarlet, Wliite Tipped. This is the
brightest and handsomest colored scarlet radish known,
and a decided improvement in earliness and color over
other varieties of this class. It makes roots fit for use
in about twenty-five days from time of planting.
Chartier. Decidedly distinct in appearance. The
color at the top being crimson, running into pink about
the middle and from thence downward it is a pure
waxy white.
Early Long Scarlet, Short Top. This bright scarlet,
small topped sort is about six inches long, is uniformly
straight, smooth, brittle and crisp, and is a standard
and excellent sort for private gardens or market use.
The Cincinnati Market. The tops of this new radish
are very small and may stand much closer in rows than
Wood’s Early Frame or Long Scarlet, without danger of
running to seed.
SCARLET TURNIP WHITE TIPPED
RADISH
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RADISH— Continued
Crimson Giant Turnip, Forcing. A variety extraordinary in that,
while growing to an unusually large size, it is always tender, crisp and
of mild flavor. It remains in perfect condition a remarkably long
time, and unlike other forcing varieties, does not become pithy even
when twice their size in diameter.
White Icicle. This handsome white 'variety is becoming very
popular. It is similar to White Vienna but is not so long, is earlier
and has a shorter leaf. We recommend it as a profitable, early variety
where a long white sort is desired.
Wood’s Early Frame. Shorter and thicker than the Long Scarlet
Short Top, one of the very best sorts for first crop out of doors.
Small Early Yellow Turnip. Very early yellow sort.
Long White Pearl. Similar to White Icicle.
Large White Spanish. A large rooted winter variety.
Long White Vienna, or Lady Finger. A very excellent white
variety with long, very smooth white roots, which are crisp and tender.
It comes into use shortly after Wood’s Frame and is one of the most
desirable of the white summer sorts.
Rose or Scarlet China. Roots cylindrical, or largest at the bot-
tom, tapering abruptly to a small tap. Skin very smooth and of a
bright rose color; flesh firm, crisp, tender and quite pungent.
Round Black Spanish. Roots round, sometimes top-shaped, three
or four inches in diameter; skin black, flesh white, very compact and
highly flavored. An excellent sort for winter, as the roots keep a long
time.
Long Black Spanish. One of the latest as well as hardiest of the
radishes; an excellent sort for winter use.
California Mammoth. First introduced into this country by the
Chinese in California. It is pure white, about one foot long, and two
or three inches through, tapering regularly to the tip. The flesh is
tender and crisp, keeping well through the winter.
White China or Celestial. A comparatively new variety which is
popular wherever known. The root is long, cylindrical, with beautiful
white skin and flesh so white as to attract attention, even among the
The flesh is very tender and of excellent quality.
SALSIFY OR VEGETABLE OYSTER
The long, white tapering root of salsify re-
sembles a small parsnip, and when cooked is a
good substitute for oysters, having a very similar flavor.
Culture. It succeeds best in a light well-enriched soil, which should
be stirred to a good depth. Coarse and fresh manure should be avoided,
as it will surely cause the roots to grow uneven and ill-shaped. Sow
early and quite deep, giving the general culture recommended for parsnip.
The roots are perfectly hardy, and many remain out all winter. Store
a quantity for winter use in a pit or cellar in damp earth or sand.
Large White. The common variety, roots medium sized, smooth;
flesh white.
Mammoth Sandwich Island. This is in every way superior to the
Large White, being larger, stronger growing and less liable to branch.
Invaluable to market gardeners.
SORREL
Large Leaved Fi*ench. The Standard Variety.
SPINACH
Culture. Spinach a delicious green, resembling in growth a non-
heading lettuce, is happily the best of tonics. As early as the soil can be
worked, sow it one-half inch deep in fourteen-inch rows, using one
ounce of seed to one hundred feet, and in the second week will appear
a tiny plant with two very narrow leaves that do not resemble the true
leaves that follow. Cutting should begin forty-five days from sowing.
It is impossible to put spinach on too rich a soil, and nitrate of soda
is used on it with profit.
South of the Ohio, spinach winters without protection. North, it
very often winter kills with good drainage and the best of straw covering.
All spinach quickly runs to seed in the heat of summer.
Victoria. An excellent sort, which forms a very large, exceedingly
thick, dark green leaf, somewhat curled in the center.
Savoy Leaved. The earliest variety and one of the best to plant in autumn for early spring
use. Plant of upright growth, with narrow, pointed leaves which are curled like those of Savoy
cabbage.
Round Summer Broad Leaved. This variety is generally preferred in the North for
early spring sowing, and is the most popular with our market gardeners.
Improved Thick Leaved. A variety which grows very rapidly, forming a cluster of
large, very thick, slightly wrinkled leaves, recommended for market gardeners.
Long Standing. An improved, round seeded strain of excellent merit, having all the good
qualities of other sorts and continuing in condition for use much longer.
Prickly Winter. A very hardy variety, and will withstand the severest weather with only
a slight protection of leaves or straw.
STRAIGHT-NECK
SUMAIER
MAMTHOTH
WHITE BUSH
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SQUASH
Culture. The directions for the
planting of cucumbers can be fol-
lowed with slight modifications for
squash or cymling. Plant the sum-
mer squash in hills four feet apart
and use before mature. Plant the
winter squash in hills six or eight
feet apart; handle without bruising
and store in a dry, moderately warm
place for winter. Plant the seed
generously and thin to two or three
plants to a hill. One ounce of seed
plants twenty-five hills and two to
four pounds plants an acre. The
squash is to be recommended either
for the table or the feed lot.
Early White Bush or Patty-Pan.
Is earlier than any other variety of
dwarf habit and very productive.
Summer Squashes should always be
used when young and tender, which
can be determined by an impression
of the nail.
Mammoth White Bush. This
variety is a selection made from the
Early White Bush; the improvement
consists in size of the squashes it
produces.
Early Yellow Bush Scallop or Golden Custard. A very early, flat, scalloped variety of
largest size; color, yellow; flesh pale yellow and well flavored.
Fordhook. The vines are of strong, vigorous growth and wonderfully productive. Fruits
oblong in form, eight to ten inches in length, slightly rigid; smooth, thin, yellowish skin; flesh
very thick and of a light straw yellow.
Giant Crook-Neck. This strain is a great improvement on the old variety of Crook-Neck.
It is larger and better in every way.
The Hubbard cannot be too highly extolled as a Winter Squash; it boils smooth and dry,
is of very rich quality, and keeps as solid as a rock. It is more popular with private growers
than any other variety.
Leonard’s Warty Hubbard. This is the best strain of Hubbard Squash. By its rough,
hard, warty shell and its dark olive green color, it can be distinguished from any other strain
either in the field or on the market. It was introduced by us in 1894, and since that time un-
der different names at different places, it has been given out to all who have called for the
best stock of Hubbard Squash. We have maintained its purity and offer headquarters’ seed.
For keeping over winter this strain is superior to all others. It is the best shipping variety and
the best seller.
Golden Hubbard. This is a very distinct sort, of the shape and general character of the
Hubbard, but a little smaller; of rich orange red color, instead of the dark olive green.
Boston Marrow. Is the favorite Winter Squash of the Eastern States; it is of fine flavor,
and a good keeper.
Hard Shelled Marrow.
The best sort for canning
and drying. The fruit is
very large, oval, of deep
orange-red color and
though quite smooth, has
as hard a shell as the
Hubbard. The flesh is very
thick, of rich orange-red
color without a tinge of
green.
Delicious. This is one
of the best Winter varie-
ties. Its color is almost
uniform of a green shade,
with occasionally a blue
specimen, it being just
about as pure in this re-
spect as was the original
Hubbard. In size it also
closely follows the original
Hubbard, which weighed
between 5 and 10 pounds.
In thickness of flesh it sur-
passes nearly every vari-
ety, the color being a dark
orange. XHE HUBBARD
Orange Marrow,^ This is the earliest of all Winter varieties. Its distinctive feature and the
one which will give it the greatest and most wide-spread popularity, is its earliness; it is at
least ten days earlier than any other long-keeping sort. It grows as long as the Hubbard, and
IS of as good quality.
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TOMATO
Culture. The tomato requires one hundred days or more to mature from seed. As to-
matoes are killed by other than light frost, early tomatoes should be started in hot beds two
months before they may be transplanted out of doors. Three weeks later these plants may
be potted or given a space of four by four inches in the hot-beds. Before setting in the field,
which is May north of the Ohio, the plants should be gradually exposed to the outside condi-
tions and the quantity of water given them decreased. Transplant on a cloudy day if pos-
sible, and water freely. Nitrate ^f soda may be given each plant at this time with profit.
A space of four by four feet should be given each plant in the field or more for robust
varieties, except that where they are carefully pruned and trained, which is unnecessary, they
may be planted as close as two by tw’o feet. One ounce of seed gives two thousand plants.
Leonard’s Early Market. A very prolific early red variety.
Atlantic Prize. Small, irregular, bright red; extremely early.
Early Michigan. One of the best second early sorts. Fruit crimson-scarlet.
Royal Red. One of
the best red main crop
sorts.
Optimus. One of
the best table tomatoes
in quality. Fruit me-
dium sized and of
bright crimson-scarlet
color.
D^A'arf Aristocrat.
^Upright growth; bright
red fruits.
Dwarf Stone. As
its name implies this is
a dwarf variety bear-
ing fruits similar to
that popular canners’
sort, the Stone.
Volunteer.
Livingston’s Per-
fection. In our opinion
identical with Paragon.
Stone. Large,
smooth, solid, scarlet,
highly recommended.
Chalk’s Early
Jewel. We consider this
one of the very best
early tomatoes yet in-
troduced. Vine vigo-
rous and very produc-
tive. Fruit deep scarlet-
red.
Crines June Pink
A fine new variety. It
is highly recommended
to gardeners whose
trade demands the
purplish pink sorts. It is the earliest of this class of tomatoes and fills the place in them
that Earliana does in the bright red sorts.
Earliana. Vine similar in growth, maturing bulk of crop as early as Atlantic Prize, but
the deep scarlet fruit is larger, distinctly smoother, solid and of very good quality. Early,
smooth and of a large size it is a particularly profitable tomato for market gardeners.
Red Rock. An extraordinarily solid,
smooth, very red tomato; a very heavy
producer, of excellent shape and very su-
perior texture and flavor. An excellent
variety for truckers and canning factories
on account of its shape, quality and pro-
ductiveness. This tomato is very free from
cracks, has a very shallow stem attach-
ment and is practically smooth. Fruits
will probably average from 8 to 9 ounces.
Borne in clusters of from 4 to 7 fruits, and
ripens in 110 days from sowing of seed.
Ignotum. A very good red fruited
variety.
Paragon. The well-known standard
bright red tomato.
Trophy. Very large, solid, and gener-
ally smooth; bright red.
Honor Bright. First white, then bril-
liant scarlet; extremely solid.
Acme. The well-known popular
standard bright pink tomato.
Lhingston’s Beauty. Large, solid,
smooth; purplish pink.
Lh'ingston’s FaAorite. Bright red,
smooth, of good size.
CHALK’S EARLY JEWEL
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TOMATO
liivingston’s Globe. Another new variety of
exceptional merit. It is of beautiful globe shape,
with quite a percentage of elongated (stem to
blossom) fruits, which permits a greater number
of slices being taken than with flat fruited sorts.
Color a beautiful glossy rose, tinged purple'.
Dwarf Champion. A purplish pink variety
forming a strong, erect, bushy plant two feet high.
Often sold as tree tomato. Fruit smooth, medium
sized, fairly solid and of good flavor.
Ponderosa. A purplish pink tomato of largest
size. Vine vigorous and very productive. Fruit
very solid, fairly smooth and considered of very
good quality, especially by those who prefer a
tomato quite free from acid.
Dwarf Giant. A very large fruited Dwarf
Champion. ^
Greater Baltimore. A splendid variety for
canning, similar to Stone.
Tenderloin. Similar to Ponderosa.
Timner Hybrid or Mikado. Large-fruited
purple; potato leaf.
Imperial. Large purple-fruited, early.
Essex Early Hybrid. Similar to the Acme,
fruit purplish pink, always smooth and handsome;
in quality is classed with the best.
Buckeye State. One of the best purplish pink
varieties. Vine exceptionally strong growing and LIVINGSTON’S GLOBE
vigorous and growers in some sections of the south
claim that it is blight proof. It should be given more room than most. Fruit very large, round,
smooth and Arm. An excellent shipper.
Magnus. A variety with potato leaved foliage, producing purplish pink fruit of the largest
size; much smoother than most of the large fruited sorts and matures earlier.
Crimson Cushion. A large fruited variety; smooth on the top but inclined to curve at
the ends making an indenture at the stem. Color a glossy crimson tinged pink. Fruit ripens
evenly, except toward the stem where it ripens somewhat slowly. A very solid heavy tomato.
New Coreless. This variety has less indenture than any other of the red varieties. It has
no corrugations at stem end, and absolutely no green core; for these reasons it is a model
variety for canning and catsup.
Model Tomato. A new variety. Foliage is very large, broad, very deep, dark green, and
is heavily blistered. The fruit is first-class in size, smooth, very neat, and of best quality. Color,
deep, brilliant scarlet.
Yellow Cherry. The small yellow fruits, borne in clusters, average half an inch in diameter.
Red Cherry. Little fruits of a bright scarlet color.
Strawberry or Husk Tomato. Plants of low-spreading growth and immensely productive.
The small yellow fruits are each enclosed in a husk. Of very sweet flavor, highly esteemed
for preserving or making pies.
Golden Queen. Fruit large and smooth; color a beautiful golden yellow, sometimes with
a slight blush of red, as smooth and well shaped as the best of the red varieties and of superior
flavor.
Red Pear-Shaped. This is a leading favorite
for preserves and also to make “tomato figs.”
The fruit is bright red, of true pear shape, and
of rich distinct flavor.
Red Currant. ^ Small sort growing in clusters.
Red Peach. Shaped like a peach and has
the peach appearance.
Yellow Peach. - Same as the red peach except
color.
Yellow Pear. Pear shaped; yellow.
Yellow Plum. Plum shaped; yellow.
Trucker’s Favorite. The finest large-fruited
purple tomato. The fruits continue of large size
to the very last and are always unexcelled for
slicing or cooking.
Success. The vines are of strong, vigorous
growth with abundant foliage. The fruits, set
in clusters, average 3 inches in diameter and
2 to 2% inches through from stem to blossom
end. Color brightest scarlet; perfectly smooth;
very meaty, of fine flavor.
Matchless. The best large-fruited bright red
tomato. Matchless is well worthy of its name;
beauty and symmetry of form it is indeed with-
out a fault.
MATCHLESS
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TURNIP
Culture. While the main crop of turnips is planted in July north of the Ohio, more turnips
should be grown in early spring. Seed may be broadcast on the few soils freed of weeds, but
it is more advisable to sow in one or two-foot drills, cover less than one-half inch and thin to
stand six inches apart in the row. Use one-half ounce of seed to one hundred feet of row and
two pounds to the acre. The turnip requires one-half more seed when broadcast than in
drills and the salad turnip requires one-half more seed than the turnip sown for a root crop.
Extra Early White Milan Turnip. The Purple Top Milan is one of the most popular tur-
nips for spring sowing, but in this new sort we have a splendid extra early turnip in which
the extreme earliness, small top and tap root of the Purple Top Milan is united with clear
white skin and flesh.
Pomeranian White Globe. This is one of the most productive kinds, and in good, rich
soil roots will frequently grow to twelve pounds in weight. It is of perfect globe shape; skin
' white and smooth; leaves large and dark green.
Purple Top White Globe. An early variety. Globe shaped; heavy cropper. In other re-
, spects similar to the Red Top Strap Leaf. A handsome looking bulb, and is rapidly taking the
lead of all other varieties of early turnips for market garden purposes.
! Extra Early Purple Top Milan. The earliest in cultivation, two weeks earlier than Purple
. Top Strap Leaf. The bulb is flat, of medium size, quite smooth with a purple top.
Cow Horn. This variety is pure white except a little shade of green at the top, and is
carrot-like in form, growing nearly half out of the ground, and slightly crooked.
I Early Snowball. A perfectly globe shaped, white skinned turnip. It is exceedingly pro-
ductive. The flesh is fine grained, firm and of very delicate fiavor.
Early White Flat Dutch. An excellent garden variety. The best for spring sowing.
White Egg. Belongs to the class of quick growing fall turnips, and for this purpose should
be sown, in this latitude, between August 10 and 25.
Large WTiite Norfolk. The standard variety for field culture for feeding stock. Very
large size.
Sweet German. This variety is very popular in many sections, notably so in the New
England states.
Seven Top. Cultivated extensively in the South for the tops, which are used for greens.
It is very hardy and will grow all winter.
Purple Top Munich. The earliest variety after the Red Top Milan.
Purple Top Strap Leaf. Rapid grower and mild fiavor, the most popular variety for early
use, either for the table or stock.
PURPLE TOP GLOBE
EARLY SNOWBALL
YELLOW ABERDEEN
LARGE WHITE NORFOLK
YELLOW FLESH SORTS
Yellow Aberdeen. Very hardy and productive, a
good keeper; globe shaped. Color pale yellow, with pur-
ple top. Very firm in texture, and closely resembling the
Rutabaga in good keeping qualities. Good either for
table or stock.
Large Amber Globe. One of the best varieties for
a field crop for stock. Flesh yellow, fine grained and
sweet; color of skin yellow; top green. Hardy, keeps
well, a good cropper. Very popular in the South.
Yellow Stone. A very desirable sort. The roots are
of medium size, uniformly globular and perfect in shape,
smooth skinned and of pale yellow color. The flesh is
crisp, tender and of flne quality.
Yellow Globe. Very similar to the Yellow Stone and
a very attractive sort.
Orange Jelly, or Golden Ball. Undoubtedly among
the most delicate and sweetest yellow fleshed turnips yet
introduced. Not of a large size, but firm, hard and of
most excellent flavor. Keeps well and is superior as a
table variety. It is extensively used.
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RUTABAGAS
Culture. Rutabagas, or Swedish Turnips, with their superior keeping qualities, had best be
drilled a month earlier than other turnips, given eighteen to thirty-inch rows and thinned to
stand six to twelve inches apart in the row.
Improved American.
The best yellow fleshed,
purple top variety
grown for stock or
table.
B u d 1 o n g’s White
Rock. Though some-
times called a turnip
this is more like a ruta-
baga. The root is large,
both skin and flesh
very white, and is one
of the best varieties we
have for table use. An
excellent keeper and a
desirable sort for mar-
ket gardeners.
Bangholm. A very
superior variety, both
in form and quality,
and held in high esti-
mation in many parts
of England. Of large
size, small neck, few
or no side roots, and
yields well. Flesh yel-
low, sweet and solid;
skin yellow, with purple
mPROVED AMERICAN RUTABAGA
WTiite Rutaba^. This variety is now very extensively cultivated, and preferred in many
sections for its white flesh. It is very hardy and productive, keeps well until late in the spring,
and is highly esteemed for its sweet, delicate flavor.
Sweet German. A superior variety for table or stock. Flesh Arm, sweet and juicy.
Laing’s Improved. One of the earliest of the rutabagas. Forms a handsome bulb of good
quality. Keeps well; good for table use.
Long WTiite French. A very delicate flavored variety. An excellent keeper and fine for
table.
Skirving’s Purple Top. A very heavy cropper. One of the best for field culture.
Carter’s Imperial Hardy. An English variety resembling the preceding. Very productive
and of fine quality.
Monarch or Tankard. This is a yellow fleshed sort having very large tankard shaped
roots, with relatively small necks and tops. Color purplish crimson above ground, yellow be-
low; flesh very solid, fine grained and of the best flavor. This very popular variety is also sold
as Hurst’s Monarch and Carter’s Elephant.
Drummond’s. An improved strain of purple top Swede, excelling in uniformity of shape,
color and quality. Considered by many an excellent table sort.
A GARDENING NOTE
While it is in a way true that anyone can garden, intelligence tells more quickly in agri-
culture, possibly, than in any other line of endeavor. Yet so many and varied are the ways
of reaching a result in agriculture that no two experienced and successful growers would agree
entirely upon the treatment of a crop or a piece of land. It does not follow that either grower is
right or wrong. We would rather say that in the agricultural sea there are many good pilots
with well charted courses and bid them “bon \oyage.’’ *
See each plant in the garden as an individual. Give to each plant the space and perfect
condition that it as a plant alone would succeed best with. Beyond this idea that there exists
only individuals, we do not see how it is possible for a gardener, a seed firm or a government to
pass. "yVith this conception it 4s easy to begin gardening. Begin your work leisurely with a few
seeds and a few plants. As the work progresses speed in planting and cultivating will quickly
be acquired. Do not think of gardening as difficult either physically or mentally. It is the one
work that may be made as simple or as complex, as easy or as strenuous, as anyone may require.
Those unacquainted with gardening frequently think of the sowing as in the spring and the
harvest in the autumn. In few investments are returns so quickly possible. Edible radishes are
frequently pulled in a month from planting. Nor is it necessary or advisable to wait till a late
date to begin the planting of seed. Spinach planted the first of April north of the Ohio should go
to the table May 15th or earlier. Lettuce also planted on All Fool’s Day can all be used by
June 1st. Peas planted at this same early date give for the effort that great delicacy June Peas.
Long after Winter cold seals the garden there may be in the cellar or in pits out of doors
radishes, turnips, carrots, parsnips, beets, cabbage, celery, witloof-chicory, kohl-rabi, onions,
pumpkins, squash, salsify, rutabaga and potatoes. Many vegetables are possible till vegetables
grow again upon the earth. Only the gardener need never go hungry.
If one is so unfortunate as to be delayed in securing a garden till in midsummer in the
North even then the garden may be compelled to give much. The planting should be hurried
and where the time till frost is very short for the variety the early quick maturing kinds are
the ones to be used. On the 20th of July we can still expect radishes, beets, turnips, kohl-rabi,
lettuce, spinach, beans, peas from seed and endive from plants.
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Hotbeds. While early in the year plants may be started in a sunny window, it is of profit
and advisable to use hotbeds and cold frames for even a small garden. From the first to the
latter part of March is quite early enough to make a hotbed. The time must vary according to
the latitude. Provide a quantity of of fresh horse-manure from the stables, and add to this, if
they can be had, one-third to one-half of its bulk of leaves. Mix them thoroughly, tramping down
the mass in successive layers, and form into a large pile, so that fermentation will proceed, even
in severely cold weather. In two or three days fermentation will be apparent by the escape of
steam from the heap. Now turn again, and allow the heap to remain two or three days longer,
or until the second fermentation commences. Make an excavation or pit 2 % feet deep, and of a
size suited to the number of plants required. The pit will be better if built up of brick. It
should be made in some dry, sheltered spot, facing the south or east, if possible. Hotbed sashes
are usually 3x6 feet, and one or two sashes will give early plants enough for a small family.
The frame for sashes should be 18 inches high at the back and 12 inches in front, which will
give the proper slope to catch the sunlight. Cross-pieces should be placed for the sashes to slide
on, to facilitate opening and shutting the frames. When everything is ready, the manure is placed
in the pit and trodden down firmly in layers to the required depth, 2 to 2 % feet. Then put on
the sashes, and keep the pit closed until the heat arises. At first it will probably be 100 degrees
or more, which is too hot to sow the seed in; but in two or three days it will subside to 90
degrees or a little less, when the soil may be put on to the depth of 6 to 8 inches. The heat may
be readily ascertained by plunging a thermometer into the manure. The soil should be of well-
rotted sod (or common garden soil will do), mixed with about a third of fine old manure; arid in
this the seeds may be sown thinly in drills 2 to 3 inches apart, and afterward (as soon as out of
the seed-leaf), either thinned out or else transplanted to another frame. Air must be given every
mild day by raising the sashes at the back. Water with tepid water whenever necessary, and
during cold nights and snow-storms keep covered with mats or board shutters. Tomatoes, Peppers
and Eggplants should be sown in a separate frame from Cabbage, Cauliflower and Lettuce, as
they require more heat. The same directions may apply to hotbeds made on the surface of the
ground, except that the manure should be at least a foot wider on all sides than the frame.
Cold Fi’ames are simply frames with tops of glass or cloth set on the ground, no bottom heat
being applied. It is banked up on the outside during the winter with marsh hay, straw or coarse
litter. The soil is prepared by forking in and thoroughly mixing to the depth of 10 or 12 inches
a liberal quantity of old, well-rotted manure. The manure of an old hotbed is good for the
purpose. The frame is prepared in the fall, and young Cabbage, Cauliflower and Lettuce plants
are .set out in it in time to get well established before very cold weather. Cauliflower and Cabbage
should be set down to the first leaf, and the soil m’ade firm around the plants. The seed is
usually sown, in this vicinity, from the 15 th to the 20th of September. The young plants will be
ready to transplant in about 25 to 30 days. During cold nights and stormy days the beds should
be closely covered with the sashes, and these further protected by straw mats or shutters. Cauli-
flower needs more and closer protection than Cabbage, and it is rather aiiore tender. During
mild days admit air freely, the object being to keep the plants in a dormant state, without actual
freezing, so that when spring comes, they are in a forward state for setting out. Seeds of Cab-
bage, Cauliflower, Lettuce and Radish may be sown in a cold frame in the spring from the last
week in February to the first week in March. The frame should stand in a warm and sheltered
spot, and be kept from freezing by mats or a thick covering of straw during cold nights.
Even before the hotbeds are made or the first seed purchased the garden should be planned
on paper.
If the garden has not been drained, preferably by tile, and there are very few pieces of
ground that do not need drainage, an effort should be made to get rid of the surplus water so
that the soil may warm up rapidly and bacterial life so necessary to plant life begin.
Frequently the application of lime or lime stone is more necessary than the application of
commercial fertilizer and this question, too, must be answered early.
Stones and stumps, along with trees of no value, should be removed from the garden, and
every effort possible made to get ready for the rush that comes with spring planting. There
are easy ways as against the difficult ways of gardening, and from time to time the work should
be carefully thought over with the idea of saving every effort possible. First of all, the vege-
tables should be planted in long rows so with a wheeled tool like the Perfection Garden Culti-
vator one can quickly cultivate the garden without stooping. It is also possible now to set plants
while walking in an upright position and avoid the back-aches of other years by using a Mas-
ters Rapid Plant Setter. Tools like these should be secured before the day they are needed.
MASTERS RAPID PLANT SETTER
THF nPFP ATiniM of' our Plant Setter is very simple. You mark off your land both ways,
mi:- 1 barrels of water (about two barrels to the acre
is usually enough) , place these barrels on the headlands and have
a few thousand plants all ready pulled, and place a
good box full on the headland at the water barrels.
’TUE' IV/I A M going to do the setting simply
i FlUi IVIAIN needs a common grape or peach bas-
ket with the handle cut off entirely, then pass a
leather strap or stout cord through one side of the
basket and fasten same around your waist; take the
Planter in your right hand and have it nearly full
of water and start down the row, putting in a plant
at every mark clear across the field; fill up your
basket with plants at the end of every row, also your
planter with water, and thus keep going back and
forth across the field all day, and in ten hours any
ordinary farm hand can set 10,000 to 12,000 plants
and when a man gets well used to the Planter and
has his land in the best condition possible he can set
15,000 plants per day without special effort.
Makes transplanting EASY, PLEASANT WORK and
will produce a perfect stand of plants and
a better quality crop. PRICE, retail
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MISCELLANEOUS GRAINS AND FARM SEEDS
SEED BARLEY
Six Rowed Barley. An early variety with a plump head on stiff straw.
Highland Chief. This popular two rowed barley is one of the best of the standard sorts.
Manshury. A long headed, six rowed variety that is well and favorably known.
Oderbrucker. A six rowed, heavy yielding barley that is high in protein.
SOJA BEAN, OR COFFEE BERRY
This valuable forage plant is one of the most nutritious of all vegetable products. It will
produce a crop of 20 to 30 bushels per acre, and is as easily grown as other beans. For pastur-
ing or feeding as green fodder it is very valuable, and nearly equal <to clover for fertilizing. The
Soja Bean, if used green and hulled as the Lima Bean is used, resembles the Lima very closely
and it is probable it will be used extensively here as a vegetable as it has been long used in the
Orient.
BROOM CORN
Tennessee Evergreen. More largely grown in the Western states than any other. The
brush is noted for its fine quality, good length and handsome appearance. Cut before the seed
is ripe, it is a beautiful pea green color.
>Iissoui‘i Evergreen. Has coarser brush than the Tennessee and is therefore desirable for
making heavy brooms.
SEED BUCKWHEAT
Japanese. The kernels are at least twice the size
of those of any other variety, and of a shape peculiar
and distinct from all others. The color of the kernels
is also most distinct, being a rich, dark shade of brown.
The straw is heavier, very branchy, and does not need
to be sown as thickly as other kinds. The quality is
excellent and the yield is enormous. It is about a week
earlier in ripening than the Silver Hull.
Silver Hull. This improved variety is much better
than the old sort. It is in bloom longer, matures sooner,
and yields double the quantity per acre. The husk is
thinner, the corners less prominent, and the grain of
a beautiful light gray color. The flour is said to be
better and more nutritious.
FLAX
Russian. We have some very choice seeds of this,
much superior in every way to common flax. It will
increase the yield and add to the value of the product.
Most of the flax of the country is badly run out. It will
pay you well to secure some new seed.
KAFFIR CORN
Kaffir Corn. One of the best forage plants. If the
crop is wanted mainly for fodder, it is recommended to
cut dowm the whole stalk when the first seed heads come
into bloom. The second growth springing at once from
the roots will still mature (in climates similar to Central Kansas) a full crop of grain and a sec-
ond full crop of forage before the middle of October. Sow in rows 3 feet apart, 3 to 6 pounds of
seed to the acre.
MILLET SEED
Siberian. A new and wonderfully productive forage plant from Russia, which has given ex-
cellent results in the United States.
Pearl. (Penicillaria Spicata.) A valuable fodder plant for the South; is enormously pro-
ductive. Sow in drills eighteen inches apart, and 8 to 10 pounds to the acre.
Hog. Known also as Broom Corn Millet. Quite unlike the German and common millet
in habit of growth as well as the appearance of the seed, which is much larger. The name.
Hog Millet, has been employed to emphasize the use to which it is now being put as an eco-
nomical and valuable food for hogs.
Japanese Barnyard. (Panicmn Crus GalU.) This wonderful and valuable new forage plant
was introduced into this country by Prof. Brooks, of the Massachusetts agricultural experi-
ment station.
Common. (Panicmn Miliaceum.) Requires a dry, light, rich soil, and grows two and one-
half to four feet high, with fine bulk of stock and leaves, and is excellent for forage. Sow
broadcast from May 1 to June 20, if for seed, or until the last of July, if for hay.
German or Golden. This variety is not so early as the Common millet, but yields a much
larger crop.
Hungarian Grass. (Danicum Germanicum.) A valuable forage plant. Succeeds well on dry,
light soil. Withstands the drought remarkably.
OATS
Extra Select WTiite. The choicest of white oats that reach Chicago markets.
Northern WTiite Swedish. A pure white, plump grain with stiff straw.
Black Tartarian. Probably the most widely used of the Black Oats.
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MISCELLANEOUS GRAINS AND FARM SEEDS
ONE or THE BAKNYAEDS ON OCR CA GRANGE FARM
CANADA FIELD PEAS
“Peas could be made to bring- more nitrogen to the soils of this country every year than is
now purchased annually by the farmers at a cost of millions of dollars.” — Year-book of the U. S.
Department of Agriculture.
For the Northern States there is no crop of greater value than Field Peas and none is more
neglected, which can only be attributed to a lack of knowledge as to its merits. Whether for
fodder, in mixture with oats, sown at the rate of two bushels each per acre, or the peas sown
alone at the rate of three bushels per acre for plowing under, there is no crop that we can so
strongly recommend for more extended culture.
White Canada. More used than any other.
Blue or Green. Like above except that color is a bluish-green.
COW PEAS
Black Eye. Seed large, round, oblong, creamy white, with a large black eye.
Whip-Poor-Will. The seeds are large, speckled brown in color.
PEANUTS
If you garden for profit or garden for pleasure, few things will outrank the peanut. Unlike
many things grown in gardens, every part of the plant is useful and new uses for it are rapidly
being found. While it thrives best on a sandy loam, it grows well in many soils, also ranking
high as a soil improver. The quantity of vine is freqeuntly two tons to the acre and the vines
have a superior feeding value.
Three pecks of unshelled peanuts should be used per acre, later giving level and thorough
cultivation.
Virginia. The common easily grown peanut of the South. The nuts are of good size and the
kernels large. Plant the nuts two inches deep and eight inches apart in three-foot rows.
Jumbo. Though not so early as some, it is the most profitable kind to grow. The plant
has a more erect habit than others and the nuts are very large. On account of its luxu-
riant growth, plant it in rows four feet apart.
SEED RYE
Fall or Winter. The time for sowing is from the middle of August to the last of Septem-
ber. One plowing is given and the seed sown broadcast at the rate of one and one-half bushels
per acre and dragged in. Harrowing and rolling in the spring are recommended.
Spring. Although this grain is often planted by farmers, especially for the paper makers,
who prefer it to any other, its principal value is as a “catch” crop, to sow where winter grain
has failed.
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DWARF ESSEX RAPE
A forage plant of great merit, easily grown in any part of the United States, on any land
that will raise turnips or corn, and will furnish abundant supplies of succulent, rich, nutritious
pasture, at a season when it is most needed. It is of great value for sheep
and lambs, and when turned on it, to use a common expression, “they soon
weigh like lead,” It is also of value for pasturing cattle. One acre of rape
is sufficient to pasture ten to fifteen lambs for two or two and one-half
months. It is often sown broadcast, about five pounds to the acre, but will
yield much better if drihed about two pounds to the acre, in rows twenty-
two inches apart, and cultivated until plants are too large. Seed may be
sown in May, but we do not advise sowing until June or July. Can, however,
be sown with grain in the spring, and is said not to interfere with the
grain crop.
WILD RICE (Zizania Aquatica)
The only one of our native plants furnishing food for wild fowl, ducks,
geese, etc., which has been made an article of commerce. This seed can be
sown on the borders of lakes, ponds and along small streams to great ad-
vantage, attracting all of these wild birds from September on.
SUGAR CANE
Early Amber. Its early maturity adapts it almost to every section. It
has given entire satisfaction wherever introduced as a profitable crop for
fodder as well as for sugar-making.
Orange. Later than Amber, but of very heavy growth and used for
stock feeding.
RUSSIAN SUNFLOWER
This is highly prized by poultry raisers and farmers as a cheap food
for fowls. It is immensely productive and can be raised cheaper than corn,
as any waste piece of ground will suffice. It is the best egg producing food
known.
TOBACCO
Pennsylvania Seed Leaf. This is the variety mostly grown for cigars,,
and is of fine quality and excellent flavor.
Persian Rose. A fine brand for cigars. Sells well.
Yellow Pryor. A fine yellow sort, and succeeds well where others fail.
Rlue Pryor. This is the genuine article and a good sort.
General Grant. Very early, and a good
yielder. .
Connecticut Seed Leaf. The best sort for
cigar wrappers. Try it.
Havana. This is the genuine article, and
is first-class.
Ohio. White leaved. A large yielder.
VETCHES
Sand, Winter or Hairy. (Vicia Villosa.)
This variety thrives on poor, arid, sandy soils.
It is sown either in fall or in spring, and
generally mixed with rye, which serves as a
support to the plants. It grows to a height of
from 3 to 4 feet, and can be cut twice for fod-
der, first as soon as the bloom appears, and
then it can be again cut for the seed. The
plant is perfectly hardy, and the produce is
recommended as most nutritious. The seed is
black and perfectly round, and should be sown
at the rate of one and one-half bushels to
the acre.
SEED WHEAT
Velvet Chaff Blue Stem. This is a very
superior milling wheat. It is the most popu-
lar in many of the spring wheat growing sec-
tions.
Saskatchewan Fife. This well - known
standard variety has been widely grown for
many years, and it is still as popular as ever. WINTER OR SAND \"ETCH
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GRASS SEEDS
Canadian Blue Grass. A very hardy peren-
nial grass that grows six to twenty-four inches
high. Used on hard clay or other poor soils
for pasture and dairy purposes.
Creeping Bent. (Agrostis Stolonifera.) An
excellent variety for lawns and pastures; suc-
ceeds well in damp soils.
English Rye Grass. (Lolium Perenne.) A
very nutritious, rapid growing variety, valuable
for meadows and pastures. 24-pound bushel.
B[ard Fescue. (Festuca Duriuscula.) Simi-
lar to Sheep’s Fescue, but not so dense, and
growing somewhat taller. '
Meadow Fescue, or English Blue Grass.
(Festuca Pratensis.) A perennial grass from 2
to 4 feet high, with flat, broad leaves. This is
one of the standard European grasses. It needs
rich ground, and succeeds well on prairie soil.
Sheep’s Fescue. (Festuca Ovina.) A small,
tufted, hardy grass, forming a cluster of narrow,
cylindrical leaves, of value in mixture for lawns
or dry soils and under shade.
Tall Fescue. (Festuca Elatior.) A valuable
perennial grass, very productive and nutritious.
Italian Rye Grass. (Lolium Italicum.) A
valuable European variety, adapted to any cli-
ITALIAN RYE GRASS mate, and produces large and nutritive crops.
18-pound bushel.
Kentucky Blue Grass. (Poa Pratensis.) It is the best pasture for our climate and soil, suc-
ceeding flnely on hill lands and producing the most nourishing food for cattle. Fancy clean seed.
Orchard Grass, or Rough Cocksfoot. (Dactylis Glomorata. ) This is one of the most valu-
able and widely known of all pasture grasses, coming earlier in the spring and remaining later
in the autumn than any other.
Reel Top. (Agrostis Vulgaris.) A valuable grass for moist soils and low lands. It is a good,
permanent grass.
Soudan Grass. A late introduced annual grass that is probably a wnld form of the Surghum.
It may be broadcast, drilled or cultivated in rows. Five to twenty pounds of seed will be required
per acre, according to method of cultivation and under the various conditions will grow three to
seven feet high. This drouth-resisting plant yields at two or three cuttings two to four tons
of easily cured, dry hay of high feeding value.
Timothy. (Phleum Pra tense.) This is decidedly the best grass for hay, making a large re-
turn on strong, rich clay, of medium state of moisture.
CLOVER SEEDS
Whether you cultivate a large or small area, do not neglect the use of clover. With a quarter
of the garden in clover each year, the profits of that garden will not be lessened, but increased.
Alfalfa or Lucerne. (Medicago Sative.) The value of this perennial clover-like plant can
hardly be overestimated. It is the most nutritious of all forage crops and sinks its stout tap
root four to twenty feet deep in quest of water and fertility. Its deep rooting, coupled with its
great ability as a nitrogen-gatherer, makes it the very best of soil improvers. The plant grows
one foot to four feet high and over a period of twenty-five years. This hay is equal in feed-
ing value to wheat bran. For the growing of alfalfa, twenty pounds of seed may be drilled
or broadcast per acre. The grower should remember that alfalfa will not live on wet, sour soil,
and a Arm, weedless seed bed is required. The young alfalfa plant is as weak as the mature
plant is robust and strong.
Medium Red or June. (Trifolium Pratense. ) This is by far the best known and now the
most important of all varieties of clover for the practical purposes of agriculture. Sow at the
rate of ten to twelve pounds per acre.
Mammoth or Large Red. (Trifolium Pratense Perenne.) Called also Pea Vine or Sapling
Clover. Similar to Red Clover but taller, coarser and more hardy. It will grow on poor, thin
soils where other clovers would fail, and is the best for reclaiming exhausted lands.
Alsike or Swedish. (Trifolium Hybridum.) A small seeded perennial clover that has been
rightly advertised as “the best for cold wet land,” but is likewise a great drouth-resisting- plant.
While it does not grow tall, it is finer than Red Clover, so that horses and cattle prefer it. The
blossoms furnish the best of bee pasture.
Crimson or Scarlet Clover. (Trifolium Incarnatum.) An erect growing annual, with long
scarlet blossoms. It can be seeded at any time from June to October at the rate of fifteen to
twenty pounds per acre.
MTiite Dutch. (Trifolium Ripens.) A small creeping, spreading perennial variety, with a
fragrant white blossom. It adapts itself to a wide variety of soils and climate and is valuable
for lawns and pasture.
Bokhara or White Blossom Sweet Clover. (Melilotus Alba.) “No other agricultural plant
is capable of maintaining itself under such great range of climatic conditions.” This stiff stemmed
biennial, with fragrant, small, white flowers, grows six feet high. It has long grown wild in many
places, and until recently was considered a troublesome weed. Lately its worth has been under-
stood and we rank it high as a soil improver, as a cleaning crop and for hay. One of the best
uses of this plant is as a crop to prepare the soil for alfalfa, as the bacteria that live upon the
two plants are the same.
Yellow Blossom Sweet Clover. (Melilotus Officinalis.) An earlier and not so robust a va-
riety as the White Sweet Clover. Has no value.
We recommend the White Blossom Sweet Clover, and warn our patronage that there is a
yellow annual variety that has no value. This annual we do not handle.
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LEONARDOS LAWN MIXTURES
CHICAGO PARKS PAWN GRASS
Yom* outdoor carpet should be of an even colored grass that grows so close that weeds can-
not get through. Think of your lawn as a number of plants, not “just grass.” These lawn
plants ask what other plants require: good drainage, a soil of a fit quality, the addition of lime
where soil is sour, deep preparation by spading or plowing, the addition of fertilizers before plant-
ing and from time to time afterwards as the plants continue to feed, and good seed. Where ma-
nure is used at any time it should be thoroughly decomposed and free from weed seed and a
complete fertilizer at the rate of 500 pounds to the acre is advantageous.
Seeding had best be done in the spring or fall. Be careful to have the entire surface as
near alike as possible that the grass may be even in its growth and finish by using a fine rake
and a heavy roller. Seed heavily. Use seventy-five pounds of the best lawn mixture to the acre,
or one pound to three hundred square feet. Sow the seed carefully on a calm, dry day and rake
lightly.
Cut the lawn frequently, setting the machine to cut as high as possible, and as weeds grow
where grass seed is not sown, weeds will grow in your lawn and some of them it may be nec-
essary to dig out with a knife.
In very dry weather a thorough wetting should be given about once a week, a little water
on a dry surface doing more harm than good.
Each spring after the winter heaving of the lawn by frost is over, the lawn should be re-
rolled while the soil is wet.
Leonard’s Chicago Park Lawn Grass Seed. This is positively the highest grade mixture that
can be prepared. It is composed of the seed of the finest English and American grasses with
White Clover so that with even ordinary care it cannot fail to make a beautiful lawn. For
quickly producing a permanent thick and velvety sward this brand cannot be excelled.
Shady Nook Lawn Grass. Usually it is
quite difficult to obtain a satisfactory growth
of grass under trees and in shady places. For
sowing in such places we recommend the use
of this special mixture. It will quickly pro-
duce an abundant and even growth of beauti-
ful green grass.
Terrace LawTi Grass. This is a special
blend for Terrace and Embankments.
GOLF LINK MIXTURES
There is no use to which a grass mixture
is put that is so exacting as that used for
pleasure grounds, golf links, etc. No other
turf is required to stand such wear and rough
usage. Hence the necessity of sowing such
grasses as will produce a thick and healthy
growth, and withstand the tramping of many
feet.
Leonard’s Putting Green. Prepared for
this one purpose only of fine bladed grasses
which do not form clumps.
Leonard’s Fair Green. This mixture con-
tains the seed of permanent hardy grasses
which will not winter kill arid will stand
great wear.
TERRACE EAWN GRASS
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FIELD CORN
Big WTiiskey Yellow Dent. A splendid new variety, large ear, deep grain, small cob; very
prolific, 100 days.
Extra Early Huron Dent. One of the earliest of the yellow dent varieties, 90 days.
Pride of the North. This famous corn still retains its popularity; an exceedingly early and
prolific variety, always maturing in ninety days; often shelling sixty-two pounds of grain from
seventy pounds of ears. Kernels closely set, large, of deep orange color; cob very small and
red; stalks about seven feet in height. This is, probably, the best Dent corn for general culti-
vation in the north.
Iowa Gold Mine. A splendid yellow corn. Everyone who has tried it is enthusiastic in the
praise of this splendid variety which was introduced in 1892. It has everywhere received the
most cordial endorsement as one of the best and most profitable varieties' ever grown.
Iowa Silver Mine. The Iowa Silver Mine is a splendid white corn. In 18 94, the poor corn
year, it yielded at the rate of ninety-seven and one-third bushels to the acre. It has no barren
stalks. The ears are very even in size, being but little smaller at the tip than at the butt, and
corn is well filled out over the tip.
Reid’s Yellow Dent. This variety has won more prizes at corn shows than any other corn.
It matures a ten-inch ear of eighteen to twenty-four rows in one hundred fifteen days.
Improved Learning. The Improved Learning Corn is a medium early yellow variety; large,
slightly tapering ears, deep grain, and medium sized red cob. In favorable years there is much
uniformity of both kernels and ears. Its numerous broad leaves not only encourage a healthy
development but make it a valuable variety for feeding.
Champion White Pearl. Originated in Illinois, and is enormously productive; a strong
grower; matures in about 100 days. The stalk is stout and thick, with large ears set low.
Bdng Philip PTint. A red grained flint variety, ripens in 80 to 85 days.
Longfellow Flint. This is an eight-rowed T ellow Flint variety, the result of careful selec-
tion. The ears are from ten to fifteen inches long, one and one-half to one and three-fourths
inches in diameter, are well filled out to the extreme end of cob.
Canada Eight-Rowed Flint. This standard Flint corn is the earliest of all. It is a safe
corn to plant where the season is short. It will mature in eighty-five days of good corn weather.
ENSILAGE CORN
Large or Southern Horse Tooth. A very leafy and robust growing corn that succeeds over
a wide area.
Red Cob Ensilage. A corn of fair height, slender, short 'jointed, leafy, sweet, juicy, that is
now in great demand in the North.
Evergreen Sweet Fodder. Superior for summer and fall green feeding.
POP CORN FOR SEED
The corn listed here is carefully grown for seed purposes and must not be confused with
the pop corn which we offer for other than seed purposes. With the increased demand for
pop corn brought about by the use of sanitary corn popping machinery, it is well to give this
crop' consideration. It brings a price above other corn, and matures quickly and, though it
lacks in height, it may be planted closely and the fodder is equal to any.
White Rice. The most popular of the varieties with the pop corn men.
White Pearl. A verj’ handsome, smooth grained variety.
Golden Queen. A fine yellow grained sort.
Pop Com for Popping. This corn we run through our drier to put it in perfect shape for
commercial purposes and must not be confused with what we offer above for seed purposes.
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In our lists are flowers and plants for many purposes and uses. Flowers are as necessary as
are pictures, and to their beauty is often added such stimulating and pleasing perfumes as can
not be bought in bottles. Some vines or tall plants may be grown to hide or make more sightly
some fence or pile of stone, or stump or building. Some plants can be grown in a partial shade
where grass does not grow, and others are serviceable in hanging baskets, vases or veranda boxes.
Some plants used for cuttings bring the sunshine to those that must live indoors, while others are
useful for cemetery lots, a tribute to those that precede us. Borders, beds and masses of flow-
ers may appeal to us most as “the bouquets that live.”
Most flowers are as easy to grow as vegetables. The same practices that promote the growth
of grains and vegetables and fruit apply to flowers. The same fertilizer it is well to use gener-
ously. Practically all flowers stand transplanting. Window boxes or hot-beds are good places
in which to cradle the baby plants. The stored energy of seed is often somewhat in proportion
to the seeds’ thickness, not its size. Cover the seed four times its least diameter. Drained,
moist, warm, mellow soil should be the flowers’ home; not soil that is wet or soil that bakes.
True, there are plants that are difficult to grow, but these' plants are few and respond to what
we know to be ideal conditions for plants.
Flowers fall readily into three classes:
Annuals bloom, mature, seed and die the first year.
Biennials bloom and die in their second year; some of them give us bloom in the first year.
Perennials flower for several years and some of them may bloom in the first year of their ex-
istence.
ACROCLINIUM
Mixed. Beautiful everlasting flowers. Cut when they begin to expand.
ADONIS
Hardy plants with delicate foliage, flowering freely and of easy cultivation.
Adonis Vernalis. A charming hardy variety with large yellow flowers, blooming early in
spring.
AGERATUM
Choice Mixed. Suitable for pot culture or bedding, bearing in profusion clusters of feathery
flowers. This mixture of colors contains the beautiful
ALYSSUM
Free flowering plants for beds, edging, etc. Use-
ful for bouquets because of their delicate fragrance.
Alyssum Sweet, Little Gem. Dwarf and com-
pact, with plants a mass of white from spring until
frost.
Alyssum, Sweet. White.
Alyssum Saxatile. (Hardy Alyssum.) Beauti-
ful spring-blooming variety, with flowers of a deep
pure yellow.
AMARANTHUS
Ornamental foliage plants. They are most bril-
liant on poor soil.
Aniaranthus Tricolor Splendens. Very brilliant.
Amaraiithus Salicifolius. The leaves change in
color from a bronzy green to a brilliant scarlet as the
plant attains age.
AURICULA
Tender perennials. Also called French Cowslips.
An old garden favorite.
Alpine. Most hardy.
ALYSSUM— LITTLE GEM
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ASPARAGUS
ASTERS
GIANT COMET ASTER
Daybreak. Large, very double flowers of a beautiful
shell pink color. 2 Y2 feet.
Purity. Large, very double flowers. Pure white.
2% feet.
Queen of the Market. Prized for its earliness, large
flowers and free blooming. Is of branching habit.
General Jacqueminot. Color very rich crimson, flow-
ers large, very double.
Snowball, or Princess. When a white aster is desired
this is very popular, being of good size and a profuse
bloomer.
Aster, Christmas Tree. On account of its branching
habit, this Aster is the most striking among the many va-
rieties. The branches are horizontal; the plants attain a
height of 20 inches and measure 24 to 28 inches in diam-
eter at the base. Early and very profuse flowering. This
effective aster is beautiful as a single plant, in beds or for
pot culture.
Dwarf, Finest Mixed. The dwarf varieties are becoming more popular, as the flowers are
nearly as large as the tall growing varieties and equally as good form. 1 foot.
Perfection Mixture. In this we have endeavored to make as perfect a selection for vari-
ety as possible, including all the finest varieties of the large flowering asters. The colors in-
clude every shade known to asters.
GIANT COMET, Snow White. Grand; pure white, flowers of immense size and wonderful
perfection.
GIANT COMET, Mixed Colors. A superb mixture which includes all the best colors and
shades in this class.
Peony Flowered Perfection. Excellent for exhibition and very popular for both florists and
private use. The best type of all incurved Asters; usually measures 4 inches across.
Aster. Chinese Single. These are exceedingly showy and excellent in cutting for vase deco-
rations. The large, brilliant, daisy-like flowers with yellow centers are produced in profusion.
Hardy perennial.
Hohenzollern. One of the newest va-
rieties, of branching habit, with enormous
flowers on long stems. The waxy petals are
long, curled, of graceful form; excellent for
cutting.
Semple’s Giant Finest Mixed Colors.
All shades and colors.
Semple’s Giant Lavender.
Semple’s Giant Royal Purple.
Semple’s Giant Pure TiTiite.
Semple’s Giant Crimson.
Semple’s Giant Shell Pink.
VICTORIA ASTERS
Of all the large flowered asters none
Surpass this truly magnificent class. The
plants themselves are strong growers, and
produce profusely the most beautiful im-
bricated flowers. The stems being long and
Strong, none are finer for cut flowers.
Victoria Asters, Mixed Colors — Very
fine. Separate Colors — Crimson. Carmine
Rose, Dark Blue, Light Blue, Pure White.
Dwarf Victoria Asters. Perfect flowers
of large size, produced profusely. 10 inches
high. Effective in beds and borders. Choice
mixed.
ANTIRRHINUM
(SNAP DRAGON)
Are extensively grown under glass for
cutting during the winter. The pure white
and yellow varieties are mostly used.
Tall Finest Mixed.
aster victoria
Dwarf Finest Mixed.
Sprengerl. Drooping variety, invaluable for suspended
baskets or table decoration. The fronds .frequently meas-
uring 3 to 4 feet in length.
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AQUILEGIA
(COLUMBINE)
One of the most popular perennials, easiest of cultivation. Blooms profusely from May to
August; very desirable for herbaceous borders and groups among shrubs. Moist soil preferable.
Hardy perennial.
Finest Mixed.
ARISTOLOCHIA
BALLOON VINE
BRACHYCOME.
(Dutchman’s Pipe.) A beautiful hardy climber. Leaves large and
• luxuriant; flowers brownish yellow, in shape resembling a pipe.
Ornamental climbing plant, remarkable for an inflated membranous
• capsule from which it derives its name.
(Swan River Daisy.) Produce an abundance of daisy-like flowers,
about 1 foot high. Fine for edgings, beds or rustic baskets.
BALSAMS
Dwarf Spotted,
Finest Mixed.
Double, Very Fine.
Mixed.
CENTAUREA
Bachelor’s Button
or Centam ea Cyanis. A
shov’y, hardy annual
succeeding well in any
soil, and bearing a pro-
fusion of flowers in
shades of pink, blue
and purple.
Centam’ea Marga-
ret. Large, fragrant
flowers; produced on
long stiff stems. They
are fine for cutting and MARGARET CARNATION
decoration.
Centam*ea, 'New Giant Imperial. The best yet introduced. Grows 4 feet high, of enormous
dimensions, covered with large, very fragrant flowers of an infinite variety of color.
Beautiful h a 1 f -
hardy annuals, from
to 2 feet in height.
Sow the seed early in
frames and transplant
to a well enriched bor-
der.
Improved Camelia-
flowered. Finest mixed.
Flowers very large and
extra double.
Improved Camelia-
flowered White Perfec-
tion. Pure white, with
large, very finely formed
double flowers. The
plant with its stems
thickly crowded with
snow-white blossoms,
produces a magnificent
effect.
(LADY SLIPPERS)
CARNATION
Margaret Mixed. These carnations have created a universal sensation, not only on account
of their beautiful colors, but, unlike all others, they bloom in about four months from sowing
the seed. Bloom until checked by frost.
Choice Double Mixed. Producing many double flowers of all shades and colors.
CANDYTUFT
Sho-wy, hardy annuals, very useful for edgings and masses, excellent for cutting; continu-
ous bloom from July to October.
Finest Mixed. 1 foot.
CANTERBURY BELLS
Very ornamental, growing about 2 feet high, producing beautiful, large, bell-shaped flow-
ers, which make a glorious display when planted in large beds,
Canterbury Bells. Single, blue and white niixed.
Canterbury Bells. Double mixed,
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Fine Varieties. IVIixed. Gorgeous colored plants with variegated foliage.
CINERARIA.
June to September.
Beautiful free flowering plants for greenhouse and window garden. Finest
mixed varieties.
Single IVIixed. Pretty hardy annual, about 18 inches high, blooming from
CHRYSANTHEMUMS
Handsome hardy annuals producing quantities of large flowers of striking colors, making a
brilliant display.
Single or “Painted Daisy” Varieties IVIixed.
Single or Double Yellow. Flowers very double, globe-shaped, extremely double.
Single or Double Fringed. Mixed. Flowers very double, with exquisitely fringed petals, in
great diversity of colors, from white and yellow to blood-red purple.
CALLIOPSIS OR COREOPSIS
CALUOPSIS
OR
COREOPSIS
One of the
most showy of all
annuals, the colors
being so striking as
seldom to be passed
without a remark.
Coreopsis.
Drummond’s. Yel-
low flowers, crim-
son center.
Coreopsis.
Golden Wave. Very
bushy and com-
pact. A mass of
bright, golden col-
or from July to Oc-
tober. Flowers two
inches across, with
small dark centers.
COCKSCOMB
Dwarf Fiery
Scarlet. A minia-
ture plant, with
enormous combs of
intense flery red.
Dwarf White.
Dwarf Crim-
son.
Mixed. Extra
large combs.
Japan Crim-
son. Huge combs,
much cut and be-
beruffled.
Glasgow Prize.
Dark leaves and
crimson combs; 1
foot.
Duarf Yellow.
Coreopsis. Mixed Varieties. Y'dlow and brown and velvety brown.
Coreopsis Danceolata. The perpetual Golden Coreopsis. Very free blooming and lasting in
its golden glory throughout the summer and fall. Unequaled for cutting.
COSMOS
A very effective autumn flowering plant, with beautiful foliage, growing from 6 to 8 feet
high, literally covered with very large, single daisy-like flowers, in shades of rose, purple and
white. For cutting, this is one of the finest flowers grown. Sow in April in pots or in the hot
bed, and transplant one foot apart.
Cosmos. The Bride. Pure White. The White Cosmos is the most fragrant.
Cosmos, Mammoth. Xew Fancy Varieties. In this splendid mixture are monster pink and
white flowers, beautiful crimson shade, delicate white and mauve, daintily tinted and clouded
with pink and mauve. Some large, white blossoms have broad plaited petals and pinked
edges.
Early Cosmos. IVDxed. Extra early, blooming in July.
CYPRESS VINE
Most beautiful and popular tender climber with very delicate, fern-like foliage and numer-
ous flowers.
Cypress Vine. Scarlet. Very brilliant,
CjTJress Vine. White.
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SHASTA DAISY
This is one of the
creations of Mr. Luther
Burbank. It is per-
fectly hardy, grows
anywhere and blooms
more abundantly each
season. The flowers
are very large, a foot
or more in circumfer-
ence, growing on long
stems, with two rows
of broad, pure white
petals and a yellow
center.
DOUBLE DAISY
(Beilis Perennis)
Charming plants
for edging and dwarf
beds, blooming the. first
year from seed. Thrive
well in shady places.
Daisy, Snowball.
Large flowered, pure
white, and extremely
double, with very long
stems, making them
valuable for cutting.
Daisy, “Longfel-
low.” Flowers of un-
usual size, a dark rose
color.
Daisy, Double.
Mixed.
DAHLIA
SHASTA DAISY
mixture. Handsome bedding plants, and extensively
Sow the seeds early
in pots or under glass,
and transplant to
strong, deep, rich soil,
and plants will bloom the first season.
Dahlia. Single Varieties. Splendid
used for cutting.
Dahlia Single. Perfection or Giant. A splendid strain. The seed being gathered from the
broadest petaled flowers only, reproduces them in variety of the most splendid colors, among
which are many striped sorts.
Dahlia. Double Mixed. Seeds saved from fine named sorts.
Dahha, Juarezi. (Cactus Dahlia.) Splendid varieties mixed.
Dahlia, Double Gloria. Perfectly new race in a great diversity of forms. One plant pro-
duces its flowers as a double Scabiosa, another as a double Gaillardis, a third as a peony-flow-
ered Aster, the next as a perennial Pyrethrum, another as a double Zinnia, and still another
as a rosy red Giant Daisy. Their colors are as rich and varied as in all other classes.
DATURA
(Trumpet Flower)
Showy plants, producing very
large, sweet scented, trumpet-
shaped flowers. Roots should be
removed to cellar in autumn.
Datura. Wright’s. White, bor-
dered with lilac.
Datura, Golden Queen. Beau-
tiful, double, yellow flowers, frag-
rant. If seed is sown indoors in
March, plants will bloom in July.
From that time on they will be
covered with their large and showy
flowers.
For a Complete List of
Flower Seeds see Front
Pages of Catalogue.
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DELPHINIUM
(Perennicil Larkspur)
Flowers remarkable for their great beauty, diversity of shades, and striking appearnce. De-
sirable for mixed borders. If sown early will bloom lirst year from seed.
Delphinium Formosum. Our flowers were two inches in diameter by actual measurement,
brilliant, azure blue in color. Spikes 8 to 10 inches in length.
Delphinium Elatum. (Bee Darkspur.) Blue, 2 foot.
Delphinium Hybridum. Fine mixed, splendid.
EUPHORBIA
Euphorbia Heterophylla. “Mexican Fire Plant.” Large, bushy plants growing about 3 feet
high. Sow early in pots or hotbed, and transplant to open ground in May.
Euphorbia Variegata. “Snow on the Mountains.” Leaves edged with pure white.
ESCHSCHOLTZIA
(California Poppy)
A very snowy plant, about 1 foot high, blooming from June until September. Produces a
brilliant effect at a distance when grown in a mass. Hardy.
Eschscholtzia. Finest mixed.
Eschscholtzia. Double Mandarian. Large double flowers.
FEVERFEW
(Matricaria)
A beautiful half hardy perennial, well adapted for beds.
Feverfew, Double Dwarf. Flowers large, creamy-colored and very double.
FOXGLOVE
Large Flowering. Spotted and mixed. Very ornamental amongst shrubbery, producing tall
spikes of showy flowers of purple, rose, white and yellow.
FUCHSIA
Elegant flowering plants, of easy culture in pots for parlor decoration or in the garden. In
the garden they require a slightly shaded situation. Soil should be rich.
Fuchsia. Finest varieties. Mixed. rt i it t a nfxt a
(lAlLLAKDlA
One of the most
showy and brilliant of
garden flowers, fine for
bedding and cutting,
producing large flowers
of rich shades through-
out the summer.
Gaillardia, Single
Grandiflora. Splendid,
mixed.
FORGET-ME-NOT
(Myosolis)
A very pretty, little
hardy perennial, about
6 inches high. Will
thrive best in a cool,
moist situation, and is
well adapted for bed-
ding or rock-work.
Forget - Me - Xot.
Blue. The standard va-
riety.
GERANIUM
Giant Flowering .
Hybrids. A strain of
seed saved from fine
new improved Hybrids.
The colors are all
shades of scarlet, crim-
son, rose, pink, salmon,
cream, veined pink,
blush, pure snowj'
white.
Geranium. Zonale
Varieties. Saved from
some of the finest col-
lections; many choice
and entirely new vari-
eties may be expected.
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GLOBE AMARANTH. iTr
annuals about 2 feet high.
Very attractive, hardy
GOURDS
Hen’s Egg. For nest eggs.
Hercules’ Club.
Sugar Trough. For holding liquids.
Towel Gourd, or Luffa.
Useful, Fancy and Ornamental.
Well - known,
deliciously fra-
grant plants, excellent for bedding pur-
poses or pot culture.
HELICHRYSUM. P/The^gar!
den and desirable for winter bouquets.
HELIOTROPE.
Seeds should
be sown in
June or July to have flowering plants the
next summer; or, if sown in the house
early in the spring they will bloom the
flrst year.
HOLLYHOCKS.
IPOMOEA.
ICE PLANT.
Very beautiful and popular climbers.
A singular-looking, tender annual, with thick fleshy leaves that have the
appearance of being covered with crystals of ice.
LINUM (FLOWERING FLAX)
Tiimim Grandiflorum Coccineum. One of the handsomest annuals ever introduced.
I ADV'QPf TP Very beautiful; hardy annuals, producing dense spikes of flowers, which
Li AKJxOl U Ix» are very decorative.
MARVEL OF PERU.
(iVIirabilis.) The old and well-
known Four o’clock. Fine plants,
flowers various colors, making a fine
summer hedge, set 1 foot apart.
MARIGOLD.
showy, 1 to 2 feet high, well adapted
to garden culture, blooming pro-
fusely through the season.
MIGNONETTE. tJZ
vorite on account of its delightful
fragrance. Blooms throughout the
season. Sow from middle of April
to middle of June.
MORNING GLORY
Climbing plants; unequaled for
rapidity of growth and profusion of
bloom, annuals attaining height of
30 to 50 feet.
Giant Imperial Japanese. The
flowers of these morning glories
are double the size of the ordinary
morning glory.
Tall. (Convolvulus Major.)
The well known tall annual climber.
Dwarf. (Convolvulus Minor.)
A fine bushy plant one foot high.
LOBELIA.
profuse blossom-
ing plants.
LOVE-IN-A-MIST.
la.) A curious plant about 1 foot
high, with finely cut leaves and
single flowers,
I I TPIIMC Mixed. Showy hardy
LiUuiilO* plants from 2 to 3
feet high, producing spikes of at-
tractive flowers.
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NASTURTIUM
There is no plant that in so short a time at so
little expense will give such an abundance of bloom,
continue that blooming over so long a period and
give such variety and brilliancy of color as the
Nasturtium. On a rich soil this plant gives us a
more robust growth and fewer flowers, so the thin-
ner soil is to be used if there is a choice. When
the frost is no more to be feared, sow the seed one
inch deep where the plant is to grow and remember
to pick the seed balls as they form, to continue the
plant’s blooming. This sweet scented plant lasts
long as a cut flower but is most frequently used
as a tape.stry to blanket some unsightlj'- fence or
pile of stone.
LEONARD’S OAK PARK BEDDING
The illustration is a photograph of a spray of
flowers grown from this exquisite blend of bedding
nasturtiums. It is well adapted for ribbon beds or
borders, and is strikingly effective in masses.
DWARF OR TOM THUMB VARIETIES
NASTURTIUM— OAK PARK COLLECTION
King of Tom Thumbs. Crimson.
King Theodore. Deep chocolate crimson, dark
foliage.
Dady Bird. Ground color is a rich golden yel-
low, each petal barred with ruby crimson.
Beauty. Golden orange, flamed scarlet.
Bronze Color. Of a burnished coppery bronze.
Cloth of Gold. Golden yellow foliage, flowers scarlet.
Crystal Palace Gem. Sulphur yellow, spotted maroon.
Golden King. Grand flowers three inches across; deep golden yellow, maroon blotches.
Empress of India. Brilliant crimson, dark foliage.
TALL OR CUMBING NASTURTIUMS
Dark Crimson. Rich and velvety.
Edward Otto. Flowers brownish lilac with a yellow spur.
BEemisphaericum. Very showy, lemon yellow, with crimson blotches.
King Theodore. Velvety dark brown.
Nankeen. Yellow.
Leonard’s Special Mixture of Tall Nasturtiums.
LOBE’S CLIMBING NASTURTIUMS
(TROPEOLUM LOBBIANUM)
They are as easily grown as the common Tall Nasturtium, which they far surpass.
Brilliant. Deep scarlet.
Crystal Palace. Very bright, orange, salmon, flowers.
Spitfire. Bright, fiery scarlet.
Choice Mixed.
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PANSIES
The dainty upturned face of the pansy makes an appeal to us all. It is one of the plants
we can easily have in bloom at any time we wish. Expect the flower 80 days from the seed-
ing. The seed sown out of doors early
in the spring and transplanted furnishes
bloom from late June till winter. This
plant then mulched will furnish pansies
early and till the next summer’s heat.
Seeds sown in July will yet bloom in
the fall. Seeds sown in August and win-
tered or seeds started in hot-beds or
window boxes will furnish the spring
flowering pansy. The seed planted very
shallow and kept continually moist,
germinates in eight to fourteen days.
Eight inches of space should be given
each plant in a rich, moist, loamy soil.
A northern exposure or a spot that is
shaded at noon is best suited to the
plant but, contrary to a prevailing opin-
ion, very much shade is to be avoided.
liconard’s Special Strain of Giant
Five-Spotted Pansy. Enormous size
Pansies of rich, velvety texture.
Giant Red. Bright coppery shades.
Giant Uncle Tom. Finest black,
deep jet; very velvety and large.
Giant Lord Beaconsfleld. Flowers
deep purple violet, shading to white at
the upper petals.
LEONABD’S GIANT FIVE-SPOTTED PANSY
Masterpiece. This strain comes nearer to the Dou-
ble Pansies than anything ever introduced under that
name.
Aurora. Flowers large. Color pure white without
blotches.
Giant Mahogany. A velvety, reddish-brown.
Mad. Perrett., Edge of petal is frilled. The col-
ors are of dark wine, pink and red, beautifully veined
and all with a white margin.
Gassier. This is a very fine mixture of pansies
marked with three or five blotches on rich backgrounds.
Peacock. Very striking. Form and substance per-
fect. Upper petals beautiful ultramarine blue, resem-
bling in shade the peacock feather. Lateral and lower
petals are of a deep claret, margined white.
Bugnot’s Large Stained Parisian. Mixed Colors.
This splendid new class produces flowers of immense
size and of the most varied and attractive markings and
colors.
GIANT FANCY STRIPED PANSY
PAN S Y — ^Masterpiece
Giant Fancy Striped. An infinite vari-
ety of beautiful colors, curiously striped and
flamed. Our stock is very select. The plants
are vigorous and compact in growth. Im-
mense flowers of fine form and texture, rich
and velvety.
Trimardeau Giant. The blossoms are
simply enormous, perfect in form and run
through all the varieties of colors, fro'm the
lightest shade to the darkest purple.
Marked with three large blotches.
Giant Odier. Handsome blossoms; be-
ing very large and perfect in form with
dark, deep velvety blotches, margined with
an endless variety of colors; extra large and
fine.
Giant Emperor William. Large, hand-
some flowers, borne in great profusion well
above foliage. Brilliant ultramarine blue,
with a purple violet eye.
Fine Mixed. A very good strain in a
great variety of colors.
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NICOTIANA
A handsome gremis of garden plants of the tobacco family, which are noted for the free-
dom and fragrance of their bloom. Half hardy annuals, 3 ft. high. Flowers white, salver
shaped, having long, tubular corollas, and are of exquisite fragrance. Deserves a place in
every garden.
Atlinis. Sanderac.
PASSIFLORA
(PASSION FLOWERS)
Passiflora Coerulea. The most beautiful and remarkable variety grown, producing rich,
green foliage and sky blue flowers, followed in the autumn by a profusion of golden fruit.
( iSankinensis Atropurpurea Laciniata.) Ornamental foliage plants similar to
Coleus. Fine for bedding with silver-leaved plants. Foliage metallic bronze;
same culture as for Coleus. Half hardy annual.
PERILLA.
PETUNIA
PHLOX
In its great variety of rich colors, probably the most bril-
liant of all annuals. Fine for bedding, making a dazzling show
throughout the entire season.
Phlox Driunmondii. Mixed Colors.
NEW STAR PHLOX
(CUSPIDATA)
I.ARGE
FLOWERING
DOUBLE
PETUNIA
For outdoor decoration or house culture,
few plants are equal to this class. They com-
mence to bloom early, and continue to flower
through the summer. Give them a rich soil
and a sunny place.
Double Mixed, Large Flowering. Flowers
twice the size of the ordinary strain, and the
most beautiful colors. Produce a larger per
cent of double than most strains.
Single Large Flowering. Mixed, all colors.
Large Flowering, Fringed.
Petunia, Fine IVIixed.
Petunia, Giants of California. Remark-
ably fine. Flowers very large, in every con-
ceivable shade of crimson, white, violet, lav-
ender, etc.
Fireball. Very brilliant.
Snowball. Fine white.
Mixed. Fine for pot
Heynholdi.
culture.
Fimbriata.
tifully fringed
white. Mixed. "
LARGE FLOWERING
Petals toothed, beau-
and margined with
VARIETIES
The flowers with
star-like appearance.
their long pointed petals and broad white margins, having a beautiful.
Many and wonderfully brilliant colors.
HARDY PHLOX
(Phlox Decussata)
These rank among the finest her-
baceous plants for beds and borders.
Magnificent, large, waxy flowers of
lovely shades of color. Strong bushes,
two or three feet high.
DWARF VARIETIES
Magnificent class. Flowers as large
as those of the perennial phloxes.
White.
Deep Purple.
Large FloAvering Mixed.
' Yellow.
Bright Scarlet.
PORTULACA
Sow early, in warm, light soil, and
thin plants to 4 inches.
Portulaca Single. Mixed.
Portulaca. Large flowered.
LARGE FLOWERING PHLOX
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ANNUAL PINKS
These flowers are without a superior among annual garden plants. Bloom continually all
summer long, and are most beautiful and lasting cut flowers. Of easy culture and bloom the
first year from seed. Very fragrant.
Double Chinese Pinks. Flowers large and double. This beautiful variety does well any-
where.
Double Heddewegii. Large flowers, beautiful rich colors, finely marked.
Double Diadem Pink. Of dwarf, compact habit, of various tints of rose, maroon and
purple.
Double Japan Pinks. This is a strain superior to any we have previously had.
Double Imperial Pink. Mixed.
Eastern Queen. Beautifully marbled; the broad bands of rich mauve upon the paler
surface of the petals are very striking and pretty.
Crimson Belle. Rich, vivid crimson-like color; flowers of extraordinary size and sub-
stance, evenly and finely laciniated.
Snow Queen Pink. This is an extra fine selection of the large flowering double White Ja-
pan Pink, the very best strain we have ever seen.
PRIMULA
Beautiful low-growing spring-flowering plants, for borders or pot culture.
Pi’imula Sinensis. (Chinese Primrose.) Splendid mixed.
Primula Vulgaris. (English Primrose.) The old favorite yellow Primrose.
POPPIES
Showy, large, brilliant colored flowers, growing freely in any garden soil. Produce a fine
effect in clumps or beds.
Finest Mixed. All colors and varieties.
Snow Drift. A grand variety. The large pure white flowers are perfectly round and
double.
Shirley. The absence of black gives them their wonderful light, bright tissue-paper-like
appearance. The colors range from purest white, through pinks of all shades, to glowing
scarlet, but a scarlet without black.
The Mikado. Of pure white and brilliant crimson scarlet. Large double flowers of
quaint, artistic beauty, with petals deeply cut and fringed.
Fairy Blush. The immense globular flowers are perfectly double, and measures from
ten to thirteen inches in circumference. The petals are elegantly fringed and pure white, ex-
cept at the tips, where they are distinctively colored with rosy cream.
Eoppy Carnation Flowered. Very fine, double fringed flowers, all colors.
TQ (Castor Oil Plant.) A highly ornamental, half-hardy annual, growing from 4 to
6 feet high, presenting quite a tropical appearance; select warm, dry soil and
plant 6 feet apart.
^ A A (Zanzibar Castor Bean.) Very showy, with gigantic leaves which
range from brilliant coppery-bronze to light and dark green; the
ribs also are bright colors, making a beautiful contrast with the leaves.
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RODANTHE
A beautiful and charming everlasting flower. The flowers when gathered as soon as opened
are very desirable for -winter bouquets, retaining their brilliancy for months.
Rodanthe Maculata. Single mixed.
C A I AMI^HhI op a Flowers 2 to 3 inches in diameter, vividly
OALrlVjJLUDola VjKAl>ILFlrLiLFI\A marked, spotted and striped on ground
colors of deep blue, rose, violet, yellow, reddish bronze, purple, etc. In rich coloring they vie with
Orchids in mixed colors.
SANVITALIA.
SCHIZANTHUS
Beautiful dwarf-growing plants densely covered with perfectly double
golden flowers.
(Poor Man’s Orchid.) Dwarf, large-flowering plants, grow about 12
• inches in height, literally covered with large beautiful orchid-like
flowers.
QIVyiTT AY climbing plant surpasses this in Jbeauty and grace of foliage. Extensively
OlYllLi/VA.* used for bouquet and floral decorations.
STOKESIA CYANEA. (Cornflower Aster.) A rare and beautiful hardy perennial.
SILENE. (Catchfly.) Hardy plants flowering in great profusion throughout the summer.
Half-hardy annuals, producing splendid spikes of very rich and beautiful flowers
Qf delightful fragrance. For early flow’ering sow early in spring in pots or in
hotbed, and transplant one foot apart. Bloom from June until November.
SWEET WILLIAM
Well-known, beautiful, hardy perennials, about 1 foot high, making a most splendid ap-
pearance in May and June.
Sweet William, Single.
Sweet William, Double.
or Kochia Scoparia. Burning Bush. The plants are always
of globe-like form, branching freely, the stems being covered
with delicate light green foliage. Early in the fall the ends of the- shoots are thickly set with small
bright scarlet flowers, the bushy plants resembling balls of Are. Very sho-wy when planted singly
to show the round ball-like form.
SUMMER CYPRESS
SUNFLOWER
Double Chrysanthemum Flowered. A tall plant, growing seven feet high and blooming
profusely all summer. Flowers are double, large, round, golden yellow, and resemble chry-
santhemums.
Globosus Fistulosus. Produces very large, exceedingly double flowers of bright yellow
color. Plants about five feet high.
Large Russian. A strong growing, single variety, about six feet high. The stalks are some-
times used for fuel.
SALVIA
Very ornamental
plants, 2 feet high, pro-
ducing tall spikes of
gay flowers. Sow early
in hotbed, or in pots in
the house, and trans-
plant 2 feet apart. Half
hardy.
Salvia Coccinea.
Splendid scarlet.
Salvia Bonfire. Fine
for bedding; grows
about 2% feet high,
forming handsome
globular bushes pro-
ducing long spikes of
brilliant, dazzling scar-
let flowers.
Mixed. All colors.
Salvia Splendeno.
Salvia Drooping
Spikes.
Salvia Clara Bed-
man.
A BORDER OF SAEVIA
FOR OTHER VARIETIES NOT FOUND HERE SEE
FLOWER SEED PRICE LIST IN FRONT OF BOOK
LEONARD SEED COMPANY, CHICAGO
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TREE OF HEAVEN OR
AILANTHUS
MIXED FLOWER SEEDS
FOR WILD GARDENS
A splendid mixture of beautiful,
free-blooming-, hardy flowers, which can
be offered at a much less price than
when sold in separate packages. Those
who cannot give the constant care nec-
essary for flnely arranged flower beds,
will And the “Wild Garden” a delight-
ful substitute, with its constant and ever-
varying bloom. Such a flower bed is a
continual surprise and pleasure, as new
varieties and the old garden favorites
flower successively throughout the sea-
son. Thin out where plants are crowded
and keep clear of weeds.
ZINNIA
(YOUTH AND OLD AGE)
Splendid hardy annuals; succeeding
well in any soil, and making a brilliant
show. The same flowers will retain
their beauty for weeks and a profusion
will be produced until frost. ,
Zinnia. Elegans Grandiflora. Ex-
tremely double, globe-shaped flowers, 5
inches in diameter, of striking and bril-
liant colors.
Zinnia. Mixed.
Zinnia. Tall. Finest varieties dou-
ble mixed.
Zinnia. Dwarf. Finest varieties
mixed.
ZINNIA GKANDIFLORA
This splendid ornamental tree is a native
of China, where it is called the Tree of Heaven,
from its great beauty. It is very hardy, and
thrives in any soil, no matter how poor, and
grows from 6 to 10 feet high from seed the
first summer. The leaves, from 5 to 6 feet in
length, give it a grand appearance. Nothing
outside the tropics can rival it for lawn deco-
ration. Large panicles of bloom, followed in
season by great clusters of colored seed pods,
make the tree a continual thing of beauty.
VIOLET
(VIOLA ODORATA)
Well known early spring blooming, fragrant flowers.
Single Blue. Very sweet scented blue flowers.
WALLFLOWER
Well-known half hardy perennials, blooming early in the spring and much prized for the
delicious fragrance of their flowers. Should be protected in winter.
Wallflou er, Single, Mixed.
Wallflowet, Double, Mixed.
TREE OF HEAVEN, OR AILANTHUS
VERBENA
Mammoth Verbena. Obtained by selec-
tion of the largest and most striking flowers.
Our strain is very fine. All colors mixed.
Mammoth Wliite. Large, very fine.
Scarlet. Very brilliant.
Striped Varieties.
Blue Varieties.
Bed Varieties.
Defiance. Very brilliant scarlet. Very
fine bedding variety.
Fine Mixed. All colors.
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SWEET PEAS
In few lines of endeavor has the adv’ancement been so
marked or so rapid as in the development of sweet peas. The
public has shown its appreciation of this flower and its im-
provement by buying more heavily of this flower seed than
any other. So abundant is the bloom from even a small expen-
diture for this seed that it is a flower within the reach of all.
But humble as it is in price, no more beautiful flower could be
found to grace a palace or a queenly corsage. If what you
want is a robust growth to hide some ugliness, if what you
ask is colors and artistic shades, or if the only possible appeal
to you is dollars made from sales, plant sweet peas.
If possible, for sweet peas spade deeply a well drained
soil in the fall and add any good compost, including some wood
ashes or lime. As early as the ground can be wmrked in spring
plant the peas in a trench five inches deep and cover with
one inch of sand or fine soil. When the peas are well above
the ground fill the trench and thin the peas to stand two to
three inches apart in the row. When planted, or very soon
afterward, set some four to five foot supports. Mulch with
lawn trimmings, water thoroughly once a week and cut fre-
quently to keep the plaint flowering.
MIXED SWEET PEAS
Leonard’s Fancy 3Iixed. The best blending of the choicest
nanjed varieties. No better mixture can be had.
Leonard’s Florist’s Mixed. A blend of the sorts best
suited for the cut flower trade.
Leonard’s Named Sorts Mixed. Blended from the named
sorts of the Unwin and Grandiflora types.
Eckford Mixed. A very choice mixture of the Grandiflora types.
Spencer Varieties Mixed.
Bush Varieties Mixed. Cupid or Dwarf Sweet Peas Mixed. Grow six inches high, giving a
carpet of just such blooms as the tall varieties produce and resist more successfully the summer
drouth.
Christmas or Winter Flowering Mixed. Used for forcing in the greenhouse but in the out-
door garden it gives the earliest though a somewhat smaller flower than some other sweet peas.
Choice Mixed. A studied and carefully made good mixture of all the standard sorts, not a
haphazard throwing together of whatever may be found. A statement we feel we should repeat
for you is this, that for the price there are no sweet peas sold that compare with our choice mixed
sweet peas.
SPENCER
VARIETIES
Asta Ohn, lavender
tinted with mauve.
Florence Morse
Spencer, delicate pink.
George Herbert,
rosy magenta, shadmg
to carmine.
Helen Lewis, orange,
shading to buff.
John Ingman, rosy
magenta.
Le Marquis Spen-
cer, violet, shading to
navy blue.
Mont Blanc, pure
white.
Mrs. Rootzahn,
apricot, shadhig to pink.
Othello Spencer, deep maroon.
Primrose Spencer, true primrose.
White Spencer, pure white.
White Wonder.
CHRISTMAS OR WINTER
FLOWERING
Christmas White, pure white.
Christmas Pink, pink and white.
Earliest of All, pink and w hite.
Earliest White, pure white.
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GRANDIFLORA
TYPE
SWEET PEAS
UNWIN AND GRANDI-
FLORA TYPES
Admiration, rosy lavender.
Agnes Eckford, light pink.
America, blood red striped white.
Am*ora, orange rose, striped white.
Blanche Ferry, pink and wliite.
Black Knight, dark maroon.
Captivation, rosy purple, large.
California Sunbeams, cream color, fine.
Coquette, primrose yellow, shaded lav-
ender.
Countess of Cadogan, reddish mauve,
wings blue.
Dorothy Tennaiit, rosy mauve.
Dorothy Eckford, one of the best whites.
Duke of Westminster, deep rose ma-
roon.
Earliest of All, pink and white,
Earl Cromer, claret magenta.
Emily Eckford, reddish mauve.
Emily Henderson, pure white.
Evelyn Byatt, fine orange salmon.
Extra Early Blanche Ferry, pink and
white.
Gorgeous, bright orange salmon.
Henry Eckford, of extraordinary orange
color.
Janet Scott, fine pink.
Jeanie Gordon, bright rose, shaded
cream.
Katherine Tracy, fine soft pink.
SPENCER
TYPE
King Edward VII, bright scarlet, large
flower.
Lady Mary Currie, orange pinlv, shaded
lilac.
Lady Nina Balfour, delicate mauve.
Lottie Eckford, white, suffused laven-
der.
Lovely, soft shell pink.
Maid of Honor, white edged lavender.
Miss Willmot, richest orange pink.
Mrs. Alex. Wallace, delicate lavender.
Mrs. Collier, primi*ose, delicate shades.
Mrs. Joseph Chamberlain, white, flaked
rose.
Mrs. E. Kenyon, primrose.
Navy Blue, deep blue.
New Countess, delicate lavender.
Othello, dark maroon.
Prima Donna, pm*e pink.
Prince of Wales, bright rose, self color.
Queen Alexandra, bright scarlet red.
Royal Rose, rosy pink.
Sadie Burpee, large, pm*e white.
Senator, chocolate, striped white.
Shasta, pure white.
Stella Morse, rich primrose, flushed
pink.
Sunbeams, delicate cream.
Sybil Eckford, creamy buff.
Triumph, standard rose, wings veined
with scarlet.
Venus, salmon buff.
In the front of the book is the
price of all the described and
many other varieties of flowers.
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SUMMER FLOWERING BULBS
HARDY LILIES
Lilium Am*atmn. The glorious gold banded Lily of Japan and
one of the grandest plants in cultivation.
Lilium Longiflorum. The pure white flowers resemble the well
known Bermuda Easter Lily and are very fragrant.
Lilium Speciosum Album. Pure white flowers, with a greenish
band through the center of each petal.
Lilium Speciosum Rubrum. No words can overstate the bril-
liant beauty of these famous Japan Lilies.
Lilium Tigrinum, Flore Pleno. (Double Tiger Lily.) This mag-
niflcent lily is of stately habit, bearing clusters of very large double
flowers on tall, strong stems; color, bright orange red, spotted with
Lilium Tigrinum, Splendens. (Improved Single Tiger Lily.)
Has very large flowers of excellent form; color, orange salmon with
dark spots.
CALADIUM
LILY BULB ESCULENTUM
Known as Elephant’s Ears. One of the finest tropical
plants which can be grown in the open air in the north.
It can be made to produce three to ten leaves, three to four
feet long and nearly as wide, on stalks four to six feet high.
TUBEROSES
Tall, Double. Three to five feet high, strong and free
blooming.
Pearl. Larger, better and more flowers produced by
this sort than the old variety. Stems short; from two to
three feet high.
Excelsior Pearl. An 'improvement on the ordinary
pearl; produces very heavy spikes of large double flowers.
DAHLIA
The dahlia has always been a favorite for autumn
flowering. The flowers are so symmetrical and perfect,
and the range of colors so large and varied that they will
always be popular where display is wanted.
LARGE FLOWERING GANNAS
Best Standard Sorts.
GLADIOULUS
These desirable bulbs should be planted in every gar-
den. Claimed by many to be “the flower of all flowers.”
They contain every shade of color from the most brilliant
and gorgeous to the softest and most delicate. The im-
mense spikes of bloom develop in the greatest perfection;
if cut when the first four flowers open, and placed in water,
they will last ten days.
Mixed, Large Flowering Bulbs. This mixture is com-
posed of every color — white, pink, yellow, rose, scarlet,
crimson, dark maroon, etc,, beautifully marked and varie-
gated.
Red Mixed. All shades.
White and Light Colors.
Pink Shades.
Yellow Mixed.
MADEIRA VINE
Tuberous rooted climber with glossy green leaves and
delightfully fragrant white blossoms. Sometimes called
Mignonette Vine.
CINNAMON VINE
A very pretty vine to train around the window or on a
trellis. In mid-summer the plant is covered with a brilliant,
glossy foliage and an abundance of fragrant flowers. It is
also an exceedingly quick grower.
CALLA LILIES
Richardia Ethiopica is the well known Egyptian Lily,
or Lily of the Nile, with large white flowers, broad foliage,
and it will prosper under very adverse circumstances if
given plenty of water.
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SEEDERS
Tools are very necessary to win success in this most peaceful of all pursuits. Not so many
tools are necessary as a few good ones. The mechanism and use of these should be carefully
studied and then the tools be well cared for. Care of tools means that they be kept clean and
dry, and some tools oiled frequently with the proper oil or kept sharp or kept well adjusted. To
be a good gardener or farmer be a good farm engineer if for only one reason — it pays.
“VELVET-
LAWN”
SEEDERS
not only drill the
seed in the ground
at the right depth
and cover it, but
they do the finest job
of cultivation possible,
leaving the ground in ex-
cellent condition. Each and
every feed on the Velvet Lawn
Seeder sows an equal amount of
seed, therefore all the seed furrows
contain the same quantity. The feeds
on the^ Velvet Lawn Seeder are force
feeds and no matter how slow or fast
the machine is made to go, the amount
sown is always the same, until the gauge
is set to sow a different quantity. All the
seed being planted at an even depth in the
soil, the plants must all come up at one time and make uniform growth. Seed can be sown
when the conditions are right — wind or no wind. Because the seed is in the soil the birds cannot
eat the seed, rain cannot wash and wind cannot blow the seed away.
The Velvet Lawn Seeder in addition to sowing grass seed and clover is admirably adapted
for drilling all small seeds, such as onion, radish, lettuce, carrot, etc.
Velvet Lawn Seeder will also sow dry ground sheep manure, dry bone meab dry screened
wood ashes and dry ground lime.
CAHOON SEEDER
PRICES ARE IN THE
FRONT OF THE BOOK
The Cahoon. This
well known broadcast seed
sower is considered among
the best. It is easily worked
and sows timothy, clover,
fiax, wheat, oats, rye, bar-
ley, all kinds of grass, and
may be used by the gar-
dener for spinach seed or
any other kind he may
wish to sow broadcast.
The Cyclone. A seeder
which is becoming very
popular. It is a cheaper
machine and a good one.
Hand Corn Planters —
The Eagle. This is a ro-
tary planter having three
different sized plates,
which can be put in or
taken out as needed, in the
easiest manner. It is the
most popular planter of all.
FOR MASTERS PLANT SETTER SEE PAGE 80.
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LEONARD SEED COMPANY, CHICAGO
PLANET JR. FARM AND GARDEN TOOLS
The few who do not like to garden, are
either unacquainted with the beauty and
utility of gardening or they have not used
the proper tools to help them with the
least effort to secure results.
Planet Jr. tools are used in practically
all the great gardens because they are
strong, accurate and fast. How fast? The
Manufacturer says, “Capacity, 2 acres a
day." In a case under our observation a
farmer planted three acres of Soya beans
in four hours and twenty-five minutes with
a Planet Jr. hand drill.
No. 5 Planet Jr. Hill and Drill Seeder
16% inch steel wheel. Sheet steel hop-
per holding 5 quarts. Weight, packed, 51
pounds.
Special size for market gardeners and
farmers, for sugar beet and onion set grow-
ers, etc. It is the great hand-power planter
for both hills and drills, where the amount
of sowing to be done is large. It runs light,
and plants equally well with a full hopper or with an ounce of seed, and up hill or down.
Planet Jr. No. 25 Combined Hill and Drill Seeder, Double and
Single Wheel Hoe, Cultivator and Plow
Planet Jr. No. 3 Hill and Drill Seeder
We recommend customers to buy separate seed drills and wheel
hoes where they have enough work to warrant it, and this is the
size that should be bought, except by the very largest market gar-
deners and sugar beet growers, etc., to whom
we recommend No. 5, which is similar but
larger. It sows evenly in drills, and also drops
in hills at 4, 6, 8, 12 or 24 inches apart. It is
thrown out of gear instantly by moving a con-
venient lever, or the fiow of seed is stopped
by pushing down the feed rod. No time is
lost, no seed is wasted. It is quickly set to
sow the different kinds of seeds in the exact
thickness required.
This new combined machine is intended for
gardeners who have enough acreage for a
double wheel hoe to be used and yet prefer not
to buy seeders and wheel hoes separately; also
for onion growers and for the large family
garden where both a single and double wheel
hoe can be used to advantage. The hopper
holds four pounds of onion seed.
The change from Drill to Wheel Hoe takes
but a moment, and the whole combination is
one we can heartily recommend and guarantee
satisfactorily.
No. 31
Planet Jr.
Combined Drill Seeder and Wheel Hoe
It is thoroughly well-made and offered at
a price that makes it pay the smallest gar-
dener. It will sow even a small packet of any
garden seed any thickness desired with the
greatest precision from % to 2 inches deep, in
a narrow row. The index is most simple,
easily set for every kind of seed. The flow
of seed is stopped simply by raising the han-
dles, and the tool may be thrown in or out of
gear in a moment. It holds one quart.
The seed drill attachment may be removed
in a moment and be replaced as quickly by a
tool standard to which are fitted all the various
cultivating attachments.
LEONARD SEED COMPANY, CHICAGO
105
PLANET JR. FARM AND GARDEN TOOLS— Continued
THE HOE IS TOO SLOW IN 1916
More and better work can be done in one day with a wheel cultivator than in three days
with a hand hoe.
Planet Jr. catalogue, describing fifty-five tools, including seeders, wheel-hoes, harrows,
orchard and beet cultivators, etc., free upon request.
Planet Jr. goods are standard articles fully guaranteed and one cannot afford to farm or
garden without some of these best of tools. A few of these cultivators we list on this page.
Planet Jr. No. 17
Single Wheel
Hoe, Cultivator
and Plow
For easy gar-
dening, and at
the same time
clean and per-
fect gardening,
the kind that
will make your
garden the talk
of the nighbor-
hood and cause
your face to
glow with hon-
est pride, noth-
ing is quite the
equal of this No.
17 Single Wheel
Hoe. It is suited
to all kinds of
garden cultiva-
tion and all gar-
den crops. The
No. 17 has a
pair of 6-inch
hoes, a plow and
a set of culti-
vator teeth, an
outfit sufficient
for most garden
work. Other at-
tachments can
be added at any
time and will be found to fit. No.
PLANET JR. NO. 18 SINGLE WHEEL HOE
18 Single Wheel Hoe is the No. 17 with hoes only.
EQUIPMENT:
Planet Jr. No. 16 Single
Wheel Hoe, Cultivator,
and Plow
One pair of 6-inch hoes.
Three cultivator teeth.
One large garden plow.
All oil tempered.
One 7-inch rake.
One 4-inch rake.
One leaf guard.
Single wheel hoes are lighter than the
double and do almost the same variety of work,
but are used mostly between the rows, yet
by attaching the wheel to the other side of the
arm. Planet Jr. Single Wheel Hoes can be used
to hoe both sides at once while the plants are
small — the most important time.
Planet Jr. Twelve-Tooth Harrow, Cultivator and Pulverizer
This tool expands to 32 inches and con-
tracts to 12. The e3^pander works with ease,
yet holds the tool thoroughly rigid. The teeth
and pulverizer leave the ground in the finest
condition, and the operator can set the tool
exactly to any depth desired, making delicate
work not only possible, but easy. Improved
braces enable one to change the handles in
height to suit boy or man, and also sidewise.
106
LEONARD SEED COMPANY. CHICAGO
CULTIVATORS AND WEEDERS
Perfection Garden Cultivator
Different From Others — Superior to All.
The hghtest garden tool on the
market. '
Easiest to adjust.
Strongest in workmanship.
Easiest to operate.
Is a complete machine within itself.
Needs no extra parts.
The only garden tool made that
throws the soil to or from the plants
without extra attachments.
Is made in three sizes, viz;
No. 1. With two discs, on which 6
inch or 7 inch knives may be used.
No. 2. With four discs, on w'hich
7 inch, 8 % inch or 8 % inch knives may
be used.
No. 3. With four discs, on which 10
inch or 11 inch knives may be used.
The No. 1 will wmrk rows 9 to 11
inches wide. No. 2 will w'ork rows 11 to
14 inches wide. No. 3 will work rows 13
to 16 inches wide.
Mention what size knives you wish
when ordering. The price is the same
for any of the sizes.
This Perfection Garden Cultivator, a new disk and knife weeder, is an evolution in hand
cultivators. It does the weed killing, cultivating, and mulching at one process, something no other
cultivator accomplishes. It can be worked in gravel soil or in stony land, through sticks and
coarse stubble, or in the softest loam. As a deeper mulch is required in dry weather than in
moist weather, as a crop as it advances in age requires more shallow cultivation, as diiferent
crops and soils require different treatment, this tool is adapted to them all. Preferred by the
successful professional gardener or the most exacting amateur home gardener, the tool is also so
simple a child can work it. While built for the gardener who wants a tool stout enough for his
most robust w’orkman, it is so easy of operation as to meet with favor in the hands of the woman
flower grower or the little housewife.
The inventor of this tool is a practical onion grower and trucker. During his thirty years in
truck farming and onion growing he has tried out all of the garden cultivators that have been
made and recommended during that time. He knows the good points as well as the defects of
each. From this knowledge he has perfected, after repeated efforts, this new tool, which in a
simple form, does all the work that can be done by the complicated attachments and combina-
tions of the other tools.
One thumb screw is all that is operated in adjusting this tool. No attachments are neces-
sary to make it do the work needed.
The tool is now in its third year. Onion grov/ers and truckers find that it works closer to
the plant than any other, and save them half on cultivation and hand weeding.
The photograph shows the tool complete. It is durable, made of the best material, and
within the reach of all in price.
Notice the Thumb Screw that Adjusts the Discs
The stiff wire leaf guards keep the tops of the plants
away from the discs.
LANG’S WEEDER EXCELSIOR WEEDER
The best hand weeder for all finger weed-
ing purposes.
McGEE CULTIVATOR
The best cultivator of all for straddling
the row.
THE PHILLIP CULTIVATOR
A regular “old fashioned scrub.” Made
in Chicago. 6-inch and 9-inch size.
PRICE OF ALL TOOLS IN
FRONT OF BOOK
LEONARD SEED COMPANY, CHICAGO
107
New Way Garden Barrow
Something Different
The sides detach as easily as those of
the ordinary barrow but unlike the usual
barrow do not fall out when the barrow is
upset.
This barrow is framed of the best grade
of seasoned hard wood carefully put to-
gether, then primed, painted and varnished,
high carbon steel axle. Box (when sides
are up) is 26% inches long, 19% inches
wide at front, 22% inches wide at rear,
11% inches deep, and ha.s a 20% inch
wheel. The handiest thing about the place
for corn or any big crop.
Just four times the capacity of the barrow when
sides are in natural position.
ORIGINAL MODEL GRINDING MILLS
HAND AND POWER
They grind all kinds of small grain without exception, shelled
corn, wheat, oats, rye, split peas, hominy, as well as dry bone,
dry shells, fine table or butter salt, roots, bark or any dry, friable
substance. They make table meal good enough for anyone. They
turn out a uniform grist, always.
Model Mills are adjusted by hand in a second to grind fine, me-
dium or coarse. They do anything from coarsest cracking to finest
grinding. No other mill has such range of usefulness.
The Burrs are made of Steel-Alloy Metal, the most durable
grinding surfaces made.
WAKRANTY. — These Mills are warranted to grind more rap-
idly and outlast any Mills of this class on the market.
Legume inoculation is very practical. Think of
Legumes as Peas, Beans, Alfalfa, Clover, Vetch, etc.
The knots or nodules found on the roots of these
Legumes are the homes of vast numbers of tiny germs
or bacteria. Air is four-fifths nitrogen. These germs
draw nitrogen from the air and store it in the nodules
on the roots. This nitrogen nourishes the plant and
enriches the soil. the simplest safest and surest system
Each legume has a separate strain of bacteria with of soil inoculation for all legumes
a few exceptions. Pure bred germs are put up in ventilated tin cans with a granular food and
called NITRAGIN. There are other inferior ways of selling these bacteria, so protect yourself
by remembering this name.
To use NITRAGIN simply add water, mix with the seed, let dry and plant
as usual.
The bacteria in every package of “Nitragin” are guaranteed to retain their
vitality and virulence for six months from date of shipment.
This “Nitragin” Pure Culture is sold by the acre — not by the pound. It is
put up in three sizes.
Half-Acre or Garden Size (weighs about 6 ounces>.
1-Acre Size (weighs about 12 ounces).
5-Acre Size (weighs about 4 pounds).
CONSIDER THE MANY GOOD REASONS FOR
BUYING BULK VEGETABLE SEEDS
108
LEONARD SEED COMPANY. CHICAGO
FERTILIZERS
There is an axiom that “what grows one year will decay the next.” So among the economies
practiced by the European and which must not be confused with that which is miserliness or
stinginess is the use of a compost heap. This practice could well be copied here. Not only the
individual American but our great cities throw away vast quantities of that which might be
composted. The gardener had best select a spot removed from the residence and there save
continually all weeds, grasses, leaves, poultry and stable manure, soot, hoof and horn parings,
bones, unused vegetables and fruit and refuse from the table. Eartn and phosphate can be
added to this compost heap, and while the heap should be kept moist enough to decay, it should
be protected by a roof from rain. Later this compost should be spread upon the soil and
plowed or spaded in.
As man advances he asks more varied kinds of foods. Or should we say as man secures
more varied kinds of food he advances? So for plants as for animals, they are best fed when
given many kinds of food. This is one of the reasons why the compost heap is so valuable. It
is very probable that our commercial fertilizer of the future will contain several elements we are
making no effort to feed plants now. As we expect different foods from day to day for ourselves,
now we are changing and rotating fertilizers. The plant’s dinner must not be the same on each
bill of fare. We must not surfeit or sicken our plants by one food, good as that food may be.
Experience has taught, with few exceptions, that the same crop is not to be grown year
after year on the same soil. The crops are to be rotated. In the gardens and flower beds as in
the field this should be true. If cabbage were on the east side last year, then put something be-
sides cabbage, or something in no way related to cabbage there this year. To think about gar-
dening is to come to the conclusion that it is wise to rotate crops and equally wise to rotate or
change fertilizer.
As nature makes an attempt to keep all soils busy and all bare spots covered up, so, when-
ever possible, man should plant cover crops and plow or spade them under. Rye and vetch
planted in the fall and in the spring spaded in is an excellent method of green manuring.
Fertilizer is a big word. Shade from trees or buildings is another lack of fertility. The poi-
sonous fumes from factories kill plants, so plants do breathe. After all, much or most of our
fertilizer is just sunlight or air. While most of the world’s fertility does not reach us as
freight, some very good fertilizers that it is wise to use do come done up in bags.
Think of the organisms or bacteria that live in the soil as laborers living and working in
their home, and that they need material wuth which to work. These tiny workmen, we say, make
the plant food available. So not only are workmen necessary, but we must supply them with
the raw material with which to work. Some of the things we may add to the garden may con-
tain with new workmen, call them micro-organisms if you wish, one or several raw materials as
well. Other materials we supply to our gardens may contain only these elements or materials
which we class as phosphates, potash and nitrogen. We say a fertilizer is complete when it con-
tains these last three named elements. The word fertilizer suggests one or more of these three
elements put up in bags and known as commercial fertilizer. If the manufacturers of commer-
cial fertilizer have had a weakness it has been in their lack of effort to teach that their product
is not an antidote for the poison of poor farming or gardening. No one who can see and think
can doubt its profitable and necessary use. Such a use must go hand in hand with other good
practices, like soil draining, subsoiling, liming, deep plowing, stable and green manuring, the
rotation of crops, the rotation of fertilizers, thorough cultivation and the use of good seed.
Pulverized Sheep Mhnure. Humanity builds the results of its learning into little sayings;
one of them is, “The sheep’s foot is gold.” Generations of farmers learned that where the
sheep were kept or pastured later grew rich crops. So we are offering sheep manure that has
been pulverized, screened and dried till it contains no weed seed and is in the most perfect con-
dition for handling. Where the ant was found to follow the application of bone meal to lawns,
the application of this Pulverized Sheep Manure was follo-wed only by good results. Its effect
is not only immediate but lasting. For a potting soil one part of this manure to six parts of
the soil was found to be preferred. For the making of a liquid manure one pound to six gal-
lons of water was superior. It does not offend by its appearance. When heavily and freshly
applied to lawns it is barely discernible. A heavT application is not to be feared but to be ad-
vised for house plants, lawns, flower gardens, fruit or vegetables. Prices in front of catalogue.
LEONARD SEED COMPANY. CHICAGO
109
FERTILIZERS
It is unnecessary to tell our customers that Chicago is recognized as headquarters for com-
mercial fertilizer. Here is to be had material for the manufacturing of fertilizer in large quan-
tities and of highest grade. We have made special arrangements with the factory by which we
are able to offer this article at the lowest wholesale price, and solicit correspondence from par-
ties wishing large quantities. We can save you money if you buy by the sack, ton or carload.
Fertilizer prices vary. PURCHASER PAYS THE FREIGHT. Prices subject to market changes.
FARMERS’ FAVORITE BRAND.
Guaranteed Analysis.
Per cent
Ammonia (Nitrogen 2.47) 3
Available Phosphoric Acid (Animal) 8
Potash (K2O) 1
This is a high grade all around fertilizer, especially adapted to all field crops and is better
for market gardeners’ use than nine-tenths of the “Onion Growers,” “Potato Growers,” etc., on
the market. It is the best of brands on the market for fruit trees, vines and small fruit.
BIG HARVEST SPECIAL,.
Guaranteed Analysis.
Per cent
Ammonia (Nitrogen 1.65) 2
Available Phosphoric Acid 12
Insoluble Phosphoric Acid (Animal) 2
Potash (K2O) 1
This brand is especially for soils or crops that require a large amount of Phosphoric
Acid. It contains enough Ammonia to give the plant a good start, also some of Potash. We
consider this one of the best fertilizers we manufacture for grain crops.
Nitrate of Soda. Valuable solely for the nitrate it contains. It is chiefly a stimulant used
in addition to other fertilizers. It is quick in action and hastens crops to maturity, being ex-
tremely soluble; it is easily applied after the plants are above the ground. As a liquid, use one
pound in fifteen gallons of water.
PURE GROUND BONE.
Guaranteed Analysis.
Per cent
Ammonia (Nitrogen 1.85) 2.25
Total Phosphoric Acid 28.
This is a soft steamed bone and the staple article for Pall seeding. It is wholly animal mat-
ter, is slower of action than complete goods, so is especially adapted for use on wheat, meadows,
or any crop that remains in growth a year or more.
Blood and Bone. Manufactured of pure blood and bone. When this fertilizer is used in
rows or in hills for such crops as celery, cabbage or early corn from 100 to 200 pounds per acre
will be enough.
Hard Wood Ashes improves the texture of the soil and drives away insects and indispensable
for all crops requiring potash. Very beneficial for garden and field crops, grass lands and lawns.
Total potash, 6 per cent.
HIGH GRADE ACID PHOSPHATE.
Guaranteed Analysis.
Available Phosphoric Acid, 14 to 16 per cent. This brand was put on the market to supply
the demand for a cheap fertilizer, running high in available Phosphoric Acid only.
We know from past experience, that crops need Nitrogen and Potash, as well as Phosphoric
Acid, and farmers who have been induced to use fertilizer containing nothing but Phosphoric
Acid invariably find that high grade goods are more economical, because better results are
obtained.
no LEONARD SEED COMPANY, CHICAGO
A PAGE ON FUNGICID]
The attempt to summarize the militant ways
sects that attack our plant world would be, becj
quickly developed science that is rapidly progres
brief, which means we cannot be concise, we mig]
fungous diseases; second, insects that eat or ch(
juices; fourth, insects that bore into the plant.
FIRST. The Fungous Diseases of plants irn
dry rot, black rot, rust, scab or mold, etc.
The remedies applied are called Fungicides.
Some of them are as follows:
Bordeaux Mixtui’e.
Copper Sulphate 6 pounds
Quicklime X 4 pounds
Water 40 gallons
Dissolve the copper sulphate by putting it
in a bag of coarse cloth and hanging this in a
vessel holding at least 4 gallons, so that it is
just covered by the water. Use an earthen or
wooden vessel. Slake the lime in an equal
amount of water. Then mix the two and add
enough water to make 4 0 gallons. It is then
ready for immediate use.
Ammoniaca Copper Carbonate.
Copper Carbonate 1 ounce
Ammonia enough to dissolve the copper
Water 9 gallons
ES AND INSECTICIDES
of man in his battle with disease, fungi, and in-
luse of its brevity, somewhat imperfect. This
ssing fills volumes of space. In the effort to be
tit say of the plants’ enemies that they are: first,
5W the plant; third, insects that suck the plants'
ly be thought of as blight, mildew, spot, speck.
They may be preventative or cures, or both.
The copper carbonate is best dissolved in.
large bottles, where it will keep indefinitely,
and it should be diluted with water as required.
Copper Sulphate Solution.
Copper Sulphate 1 pound
Water 15 gallons
Dissolve the copper sulphate in the water,
when it is ready for use. This should never
be applied to foliage, but must be used before
the buds break. For peaches and nectarines
use 25 gallons of water.
Practically all insecticides and fungicides
are now put up in concentrated form, saving
the gardener the trouble of mixing the ingredi-
ents. Frequently this prepared article is su-
perior to that which could be mixed at home
and often cheaper. In this buying one has a
choice as between the fluid, paste or dry forms
at times.
SECOND. Insects that chew or eat the pk
The poisons we feed to this class of our enemies -v
Paris Green.
Paris Green 1 pound
Wate^* 250 gallons
If tkis mixture is to be used upon peach
trees, 1 pound quicklime should be added.
Repeated applications will injure most foliage
unless lime is added. Paris Green and Bor-
deaux can be applied together with perfect
safety. The action of neither is weakened, and
the Paris Green loses all caustic properties. If
applied as a powder it should be mixed with
flour or plaster, 100 parts to 1 part Paris Green.
London Piu’ple.
This is used in the same proportion as
int may be bugs, caterpillars, worms or slugs,
ve call Stomach Poisons and some of them are:
Paris Green, but as it is more caustic it should
be applied with lime, or with the Bordeaux
mixture.
Hellebore.
Fresh White Hellebore 1 ounce
Water 3 gallons
Apply when thoroughly mixed.
Arsenate of Lead.
Among the insecticides none stand higher
than this. It adheres and does not injure the
most tender foliage, does not readily wash off
and as it is white it shows where it has been
applied. It remains so well suspended in solu-
tion as to give an even distribution.
THIRD. Insects that suck the juices of pi
black fly, red spider, scale, etc. The poisons we
ing through the insect’s skin and are referred t(
Kerosene Emulsion.
Hard Soap % pound
Boiling Water 1 gallon
Kerosene 2 gallons
Dissolve the soap in the water, add the
kerosene, and churn well with soap for 5-10
minutes. Dilute 10 to 15 times before applying.
ants may be plant lice, mealy bug, green and
apply to this class of our enemies kill by strik-
3 as Contact Poisons, some of them are:
Tobacco Dust or Tea.
The aphis or plant louse is not apt to go
where there is tobacco dust and a tea made
from tobacco, just tobacco boiled in water till
the water is dark, is an excellent remedy for
this class of pest.
FOLRTH. Insects that bore into the tree or plant are retarded or injured by having
Tanglefoot put in their way or Fish-Oil Soap or Whale-Oil Soap smeared or washed upon the
plant’s trunk.
Frequently some combinations of the above Fungicides and Insecticides may be made with
advantage, as Bordeaux with Arsenate of Lead, or Kerosene Emulsion with Paris Green.
Again, in advertised articles upon the market are found some very superior combinations and
preparations.
Slug Shot. This well known preparation has been in use for more than a quarter of a cen-
tury and its popularity does not diminish. It can be used on all sorts of vegetables, in the
flower garden, on fruit bushes, trees or wherever the insect pests appear. It is an impalpable
powder, non-poisonous to human beings or stock.
Sulphate of Xicotine contains 40 per cent of Nicotine and is not surpassed for use against
plant lice or aphis in orchards or truck crops. It may be combined with Arsenate of Lead
or Lime Sulphur or both. Use % pint of Nicotine to 100 gallons of water.
Bug Death. This preparation we highly recommend. We have many testimonials at hand
from large vegetables growers and we feel confident in offering it with our endorsement to any of
our customers who want a quick-acting, non-poisonous bug killer. It can be used on all
house plants, vegetable and fruit crops, with excellent results.
The application of remedies for fungus or poison for insects may be by dusting, using a
powder gun, duster or bellows, and the liquids applied with a syringe, spray pump or vaporizing
bellows.
To apply these remedies or poisons when fruit is in bloom may kill the bees and affect
pollination.
Keep all poisonous properties under lock and key if possible, where poultry, stock and
human beings are not apt to reach it by accident.
LEONARD SEED COMPANY, CHICAGO
111
THE ^‘NEW MISTY^^
A general purpose Sprayer, for farm, stable or
garden uses. Handles fly-oils, bug poisons and
disinfectants. Has large, powerful pump. Lock
seamed can. Made of heavy tin. Tank 4x4 in.
Length over all, 21 in. Holds one quart.
THE “PERFECTION” SPRAYER
Highest Priced Sprayer in its Class — and Worth it.
For Spraying, Disinfecting or Whitewashing, on Plants.
Bushes, Vines, etc. Made of heavier metal, with fewer parts,
stronger in construction, more powerful in action. Pump has
bronze ball valve, and is fastened to top of tank with heavy
threads. Tank 7^ -in. by 20-in., lock seamed with twenty-six
rivets. Hose attached with clamps. All furnished with auto-
matic shut-oft nozzles which will handle whitewash and thin
. liquids without change of parts. Made of Galvanized Steel or
all Brass.
CORONA DRY
CORONA DRY is a chemically pure Arsenate of Lead, which
is put up in a patent powdered form containing one-third arsenic,
the most effective known poison for leaf-eating insects. It mixes
readily with water or it may be used dry in its powdered form.
It is distinctive for quick poisoning — even application and great
adhesiveness. Its purity and unusual chemical activeness give it
the highest poisoning power.
Dry or Grain Measure
2 pints make 1 quart
8 quarts make 1 peck
4 pecks make 1 bushel
36 bushels make 1 chaldron
Square Measure
30% square yards make 1 square rod
40 square rods make 1 rood
4 roods make 1 acre
640 acres make 1 square mile
Liquid or Wine Measure
4 gills make 1 pint
2 pints make 1 quart
4 quarts make 1 gallon
31% gallons make 1 barrel
2 barrels make 1 hogshead
Avoirdupois Weight
27 11-32 grains make... 1 dram
16 drams make 1 ounce
16 ounces make 1 pound
25 pounds make 1 quarter
4 quarters make 1 cwt.
20 cwts. make 1 ton
2,000 pounds make 1 short ton
2,240 pounds make 1 long ton
14 pounds make 1 stone
22% stones make 1 pig
8 pigs make 1 f other
100 pounds make 1 quintal
5,760 grains apothecaries make 1 pound
Troy or Jewelers’ Weight
24 grains make 1 pennyweight
20 pennyweights make 1 ounce
12 ounces make 1 pound
Apothecaries’ Weight
20 grains make 1 scruple
3 scruples make 1 drachm
8 drachms make 1 ounce
12 ounces make 1 pound
Long Measure
12 lines make
12 inches make
3 feet make
5 % yards make
40 rods make
8 furlongs make
3 miles make
69 1-6 miles make
6,075 4-5 feel make
1 inch
1 foot
1 yard
1 rod
1 furlong
1 mile
1 league
nearly 1 degree
. 1 nautical mile
Surveyors’ or Land Measure
7.92 inches make 1 link
29 links make 1 rod
4 rods make 1 chain
10 square chains make . . .1 acre
160 square rods make 1 acre
640 acres make 1 square mile
36 square miles make 1 township
Measurements of an Acre
10 rods by 16 rods.
8 rods by 20 rods.
5 rods by 32 rods.
4 rods by 40 rods.
5 yards by 96 8 yards.
10 yards by 484 yards.
20 yards by 242 yards.
40 yards by 121 yards.
220 feet by 198 feet.
110 feet by 396 feet.
60 feet by 726 feet.
120 feet by 36 3 feet.
300 feet by 145.2 feet.
400 feet by 108.9 feet.
Number of Plants or Trees to the Acre at Given
Dis. apart.
Distances
No. plants. Dis. apart.
No. plants.
12x 1 in . . ,
522,720
36x36
42x42
in
.... 4 480
12x 3 “ . .
174,240
12.446
12x12 “ . .
43,560
42x24
“
6,223
16x 1 “ . ,
392,040
42x36
“
4,148
18x 1 “ . ,
348,480
48x12
“
18x 3 “ . .
116,160
48x18
“
7,790
18x12 “ .,
29,040
48x24
“
5,445
18x18 “ .,
19,360
48x30
“
4,356
20x 1 “ . ,
313,635
48x36
“
3,630
20x20 “ . ,
15,681
48x48
“
2,723
24x 1 “ . ,
261,360
60x36
“
2,901
24x18 “ .,
15,520
60x48
“
2,178
1,743
24x24 “ . ,
10,890
60x60
“
30x 1 “ . .
209,088
8x 1
8x 3
ft. . .
.... 5,4.45
30x 6 “ . .
34,848
1,815
30x12 “ .
17,424
8x 8
“
30x16 “ .
13,068
lOx 1
“
4,356
30x20 “ .
10,454
lOx 6
726
30x24 “ .
10x10
435
30x30 “ .
6,970
12x 1
3,630
36x 3 “ .
58,080
12x 5
736
36x12 “ .
14,520
12x12
302
36x18 “ .
9,680
16x 1
2,722
36x24 “ .
7,260
16x16
“ . .
170
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LEONARD SEED COMPANY, CHICAGO
Useful Information
lbs.
oz.
bu.
oz.
lbs.
oz.
lbs.
oz.
qt.
lbs.
lbs.
Seed Requii’ed Quantity per Acre.
Artichoke, 1 oz. to 500 plants 6 oz.
Asparagus, 1 oz. to 400 plants 1 lb.
Asparagus Roots 8,000 to 10,000
Barley 1 % to 2 bu.
Beans, Dwarf, 1 pint to 100 ft. of drill 1%
Beans, pole, 1 pint to 100 hills %
Beans, Soya in drills %
Beets, garden, 1 oz. to 100 ft. of drill. 6
Beet, mangel, 1 oz. to 100 ft. of drill. 5
Broccoli, 1 oz. to 3,000 plants 4
Brussels Sprouts, 1 oz. to 2,500 plants 4
Buckwheat Vz to 1
Cabbage, 1 oz. to 2,500 plants 4
Carrot, V2 oz. to 100 feet of drill. . ... 3
Cauliflower, 1 oz. to 2,500 plants. ... 4
Celery, 1 oz. to 6,000 plants 4
Chicory • 4
Clover, Alsike and White Dutch 6
Clover, Lucerne or Alfalfa 15 to 25
Clover, Crimson Trefoil 10 to 15
Clover, Large Red and Medium 8 to 12
Collards, 1 oz. to 3,000 plants 3
Corn, rice (shelled) 2
Corn, sweet, % Pint to 100 hills 6
Corn, field 10 to 15
Cress, % oz. to 100 feet of drill 12
Cucumber, 1 oz. to 60 hills 2 to 3 “
Egg Plant, 1 oz. to 1,500 plants 4 oz.
Endive, % oz. to 100 feet of drill. ... 4% lbs.
Flax, broadcast, for seed % to % bu.
Garlic, bulbs, 1 lb. to 100 feet of drill
Gourd, 2 oz. to 100 hills
Grass, Blue, Kentucky 2 “
Grass, Blue, English 1 “
Grass, Hungarian and Millet.... % to 1^
Grass, Mixed Lawn 75
Grass, Red Top, Fancy, Clean. 8 to 10
Grass, Red Top, Chaff Seed... 20 to 28
Grass, Timothy to % bu.
Grass, Orchard, Perennial Rye, Fowl
Meadow and Wood Meadow 2 “
Hemp % to IV2 “
Horse Radish Roots 10,000 to 15,000
Kale, drilled 4 lbs.
Kohl Rabi, 1-3 oz. to 100 feet of drill 4 “
Leek, 1-3 oz. to 100 feet of drill 4 “
Lettuce, oz. to 100 feet of drill. ... 3 “
Martynia, 1 oz. to 100 feet of drill. . . 5 “
Melon, Musk, 1 oz. to 60 hills. . . . 2 to 3 “
Melon, Water, 4 oz. to 100 hills.. 2 to 4 “
Nasturtium, 2 oz. to 100 feet of drill. 15 “
Oats 1 % to 2Y2 bu.
Okra, 1 oz. to 100 feet of drill 8
Onion Seed, % oz. to 100 ft. drill. 5 to 6
Onion Seed for sets 40 to 80
Onion Sets, 1 quart to 40 feet of drill 16
Parsnip, % oz. to 100 ft. of drill..! to 5
Parsley, % oz. to 100 ft. of drill 4
Peas, garden, 1 pt. to 100 ft. drill. 2 to 3
Peas, field 2
Pepper, 1 oz. to 1,500 plants. . . % to 1
Potatoes, Irish 8 to 12
Pumpkin, 1 oz. to 100 hills 3 to 4
Radish, 2-3 oz. to 100 ft. drill. 10 to 12
Rape, Dwarf Essex 5 to 10
Rutabaga 1 to 2 “
Rye 1% bu.
Salsify, % oz. to 100 feet of drill. ... 8
Spinach, 1 oz. to 100 ft. of drill. .8 to 1^
Spurry 15
Summer Savory %
Sunflower 8
Squash, Summer, 4 oz. to 100 hills. . . 3
Squash, Winter, 8 oz. to 100 hills 3
Tomato, 1 oz. to 2,000 plants 4
Tobacco, 1 oz. to 5,000 plants 2
Turnip, 1 oz. to 250 feet of drill. . 1 to 3
Vetches lYz
Wheat 1 %
lbs.
bu.
lbs.
bu.
lb.
bu.
lbs.
lbs.
Lregral Weights and Measures — Pounds Per BusheL
ARTICLES
Ills.
la. ■'
5Vis. Mich Ind.
Mo.
N .Y.
Ohio
Apples, dried ....
24
24
28
22
25
24
25
' 25
Apples, green . . .
50
48
44
48
48
1 48
Bran
20
20
20
26
20
20
1 20
Barley
48
48
48
48
48
48
48
48
Beans, white ....
60
60
60
60
60
60
60
60
Beans, Castor . . .
46
46
46
46
46
46
Buckwheat
52
48
50
48
50
52
48
! 48
Broom corn seed.
48
50
46
46
46
46
46
30
Beets
60
56
50
60
1 ..
56
Carrots
50
50
50
50
1 50
50
Charcoal
20
20
22
22
22
Coal, stone
80
80
80
80
80
80
Coke
40
40
40
Corn, shelled ....
56
56
56
56
56
56
56
56
Corn, ear
70
70
70
68
70
68
Corn meal
48
48
50
50
50
50
50
50
Cranberries
33
1 . .
35
40
33
1 . .
Dried Peaches ...
33
33
33
28
33
33
1 32
33
Flax Seed
56
56
56
56
56
1 55
55
Grass Seed, Blue.
14
14
14 1
! 14
14
14 1
1 . .
“ Clover '
60
1 60
60
1 60
60
60
60
60
“ Hungarian .
50
50
48
1 50
48
48
50
“ Millet
50
50
50
50
50
50
50
“ Orchard . . .
14
14
14
14
14
14
14
“ Red Top . .
14
14
14
14
14
14
14
“ Timothy . . .
45
45
45
45
45
45
45
45
German Lupine .
60
Hemp Seed
44
44
44
44
44
44
44
44
Hickory Nuts ...
50
50
50
Malt, Barley ....
38
34
38
38
34
34
Middlings, fine . .
40
40
Middlings, coarse.
30
30-
Oats
32 1
1 32
32
32
32
32
32
32
Onions
57 j
i 52
50
54
48
57 1
' 57
57
Onions, tops ....
30 1
28
28
28
28
25
Onions, sets
32 '
32
32
■ 1
Osage Orange . . . |
33 1
32
33
Parsnips
50 1
45
44
55
54
Potatoes
60 1
! 60 I
60 1
60
60
60
60
60
Potatoes, Sweet.
50 1
50
54 1
56
55
56 1
54
54
Peas, dried
60 1
60
60 1
60
60
60
60
Peas, in pods. . . .
32 1
50
. . 1
Pop Corn
70 !
70
. . 1
. . 1
Quick Lime
80 i
80
. . 1
80
80
80
Rye
56
56 1
56 !
56
56
56
56
56
Salt, coarse
55
80 1
70 1
50
50
50
70
Salt, fine
50
80 I
50 1
56
50
50
56
56
Turnips, Rut’b’ga.
55
55 1
56 !
58
55
50
55
60
Turnips, White . . .
60 1
42 1
42
Wheat
60
60 1
60
60
60
60
60
lbs.
bu.
Days.
6 to 8
Average Time Required for Garden Seeds to Germinate.
Days.
Bean 5 to 10
Beet 7 to 10
Cabbage 5 to 10
Carrot 12 to 18
Cauliflower .... 5 to 10
Celery 10 to 20
Corn 5 to 8
Cucumber 6 to 10
Endive 5 to 10
Lettuce ....
Onion 7 to 10
Pea 6 to 10
Pa*rsnip 10 to 20
Pepper 9 to 14
Radish 3 to 6
Salsify 7tol2
Tomato 6 to 12
Turnip 4 to 8
Time Required for Maturity of Different Garden Crops
Reckoned from the Day of Sowing the Seed.
Days.
Beans, String.. .45 to 65
Beans, Shell. ... 65 to 70
Beets, Turnip. .
Beets, Long. . . .
Blood
Cabbage, Early.
Cabbage, Late. .
Cauliflower ....
Corn
65
150
105
150
110
75
Eggplant .... 150 t# 160
Days.
Lettuce 65
Melon, Water.120 to 140
Melon, Musk . 120 to 140
Onion 135 to 150
Pepper 140 to 150
Radish 30 to 45
Squash, Sum’r 60 to 66
Squash, Wint’r 126
Tomato 160
Turnip 60 to 70
LEONARD SEED COMPANY. CHICAGO
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OTHER VERY USEFUL INFORMATION
The VIEWS on this page are of the AVONDALE TEST GARDENS. The LEONARD
SEED COMPANY have several of these gardens in which it is not experimenting and not
growing seed. Enough seed is taken from each quantity that they sell to plant one of the
rows pictured here; then they know what that seed should do for those who buy it and plant
it. All seed is tested in seed testers for its germination before it is sent out. All records are
complete and exact, so that the course of all seed is known from each field to the man who
buys it, with the result of all tests given it. With the advantages that the grower has the
LEONARD SEED COMPANY knows as exactly what they are selling as seedsmen can possibly
know.
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