October 13, 1906 



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JOHNSON'S 

 HIGH GRADE 



BULBS 



ORDER 

 NOW 



25 at lOO rate; 250 at lOOO rate 



per loo per icxi 

 SINGLE TUUPS 

 Artus, scarlet, 

 Chrysolora, yellow, 



Duchess de Parma, red edged yellow 

 La Reine, while, selected stock, 

 Yellow Prince. 

 Pottebakker. scarlet. 

 Superfine, Mixed, single, early, 

 double, rarlv. 



NARCISSUS 

 Paper White Grandiflora (true) 



13 cm. and over, 

 Giant Princept, selected bulbs, 

 Pocticus, 



PoeticuR Ornatua. double nosed, 

 Trumpet Major, single Van Sion, 

 Double Van Sion, selected, fine bulb 



per 100 pei .ort 



Send for our Complete Bulb Catalogue AT ONCE 



JOHNSON SEED CO. 



217 MARKET ST., 



It will interest you. 



HERBERT W. TOHNSON 

 of the late firm of John- 

 son Sc Stokes, President 



PHILADELPHIA, PA. 



subject and the grass seed end of its 

 business is ever on tlie increase. 



Among the notable Introductions by 

 this firm the following is only a par- 

 tial list: In 18(J4, New White Peach 

 Blow potato; in 1S72, Thorburu's Late 

 Rose potato; in 1878, Beauty of He- 

 bron potato and Thorburu's First and 

 Best peas; in ISSl, White Elephant 

 potato; in 1882, Thorburu's Extra 

 Early Refugee bean and Market Gar- 

 dener Private Stock lettuce; in 18S6, 

 The Thorburn potato; in 1887, Oem- 

 ler's Triumph watermelon; in 1889, 

 Pride of Newtown bean, Improved 

 Stonehead Heavy Red Dutch cabbage, 

 Large Late Flat Dutch cabbage and 

 Rural New Yorker potato. No. 2; in 

 1890, Refugee Wax bean. Extra Early 

 Flat Turnip beet. New Everbearing 

 cucumber, Coldframe ^\^lite Cabbage 

 lettuce; in 1892, Thorburn Commer- 

 cial Pickle cucumber and Long Keeper 

 tomato; in 1893, Dwarf Lima bean 

 (the first dwarf lima ever intro- 

 duced). Lemon Blush tomato and 

 Terra Cotta tomato; in 1S94, Carman 

 No. 1 potato; in 1895, Carman No. 3 

 potato; and in 1905, Noroton Beauty 

 potato, the grandest of all potato in- 

 troductions. 



J. M. Thorburn & Co. was incorpo- 

 rated in 1895 with Mr. P. W. Brugger- 

 hof as president, Mr. Bruggerhof hav- 

 ing been connected with the business 

 and associated in its earlier days with 

 Mr. Jas. M. Thorburn, for over 50 

 years. Mr. B. is still actively engaged 

 and is conversant with everything go- 

 ing on, himself superintending every- 

 thing. 



In the fall of '98 they were obliged 

 to vacate the building occupied for 

 upwards of 60 years at 15 John street, 

 the property there having been con- 

 demned. They have since been lo- 

 cated at 36 Cortlandt street, from 

 which they have been compelled to 

 move, owing to the condemnation of 

 this building and many others in the 

 same block for tunnel and railroad 

 purposes. 



ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY ACRES 

 OF SWEET PEAS. 



It was predicted that California 

 would become one of the world's 

 greatest seed growing centers, and 

 there is no doubt about it. We do not 

 have to travel far over the California 

 field to be convinced of the same. 



The writer paid a visit to one of 

 John Bodger & Son's seed farms on 



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the 17th of June when the one hun- 

 dred and sixty acres of the leading 

 varieties of sweet peas were in full 

 bloom and it was a sight never to be 

 forgotten. One hundred and twenty 

 varieties from the purest white to the 

 darkest blue. To begin with there was 

 the well known white, Mont Blanc, 

 one of the earliest, and Dorothy Eck- 

 ford and white and black seeded Sadie 

 Burpee and several other white varie- 

 ties. 



In the creams or light yellows there 

 were tlie fetching Coquette, a deep 

 primrose shaded with lavender, and 

 the stately Hon. Mrs. E. Kinyon. 

 Modest}' and Sensation made a splen- 

 did showing. America, which is con- 

 sidered about here to be very appro- 

 priately named by the resemblance to 

 the stripes of the national emblem, is 

 strikingly shown in streaks of a rich 

 blood red on a ground of silver white. 

 Aurora is another beauty in the striped 

 and variegated list, its large blooms 

 being flecked with bright orange and 

 salmon on a creamy white ground. 

 There were other variegated varieties, 

 such as Senator, Juauita, Romona, Lot- 

 tie Hutehins and Princess of Wales. 

 There were also a splendid showing of 

 blues, namely — Captain of the Blues, 

 Navy Blue, Captivation. Fascination 

 and Countess Cadogan. Among the 

 lavenders were Lady Grisel Hamilton, 

 Lady Nina Balfour, Admiration, New 

 Countess and Princess Mary. Among 

 the scarlet and red were King Edward 

 ■V'll., Mars, Prince Edward of 'Vork 

 and Salopian. There was also a fair 

 showing of Cupid in white and pink. ■ 



Unable to secure sufficient and suit- 

 able land for seed growing purposes 

 John Bodger & Sons came down from 

 Ventura County two years ago at 

 which place they have been engageil 

 in the seed growing business for the 

 past fourteen years. They are also 

 growing asters and petunias, giant Cal- 

 ifornia petunias and stocks and all the 

 leading novelties, including vegetable 



seed. They have the largest seed farms 

 in Southern California, viz.: three 

 hundred and thirty acres near Gar- 

 dena, about twelve miles south of Los 

 Angeles and two hundred at Alametos. 



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