GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Jan. 



Seeds for the Garden and Greenhouse for 1887. 



As a number of the friends in the South are now sending in their orders for seeds, it re- 

 minds us that it is tiaie to indicate our preferences, and to let you know wliat we feel like 

 advising and offering for sale the coming year. 



PRICE 5 GTS. PER PAPER; 10 PAPERS, 40 GTS.; 100 PAPERS, $3.50. 



(Seeds of new or rare vegetables and novelties, we include at the uniform price of J cents 

 per package ; but, of course, ice are obliged to put a smaller number of seeds into such packages. 

 This will he noticed with the White-Plume Celery and Snowball (Jaidifloiver, etc. Aou", these 

 5-cent jxtpers are all sent by mail postpaid ; but wlien you order seeds by the ounce or pot^jstd, 

 you must pay 2c extra for postage and packing on each and ever^ ounce, and 18c extra for post- 

 age and packing on each and every pound of seeds ordered. Tou will notice from this, that llie 

 FIVE-CENT PACKETS, POSTPAID JBY MAIL, never contain a full ounce of any thing. 



BEANS, 

 liandrctli's First in tlie Marlcet. Ft. 30c; pk. 



$3.00. The earliest shell beans. 

 Dwarl Oerinan AVax, or Butter Beans. Pt. 



10c; pk. ^1.50. The earliest snap-short variety. 

 Ciolden Wax. Pt. 10c; pk. $1.50. 



A staple siiiip-shoit bean. 



Soutliern Prolific. Pt. 1.5c; pk. $3.35. 



The best snap-sliort pole bean, maturing in 70 days 



Large Lima. Pt. I5c; pk. $3.oo. 



The ahove heans will he furnished in 5-cent packages; 

 but where they eire to qo by mail, postpaid, of course 

 the above packages will have to be quite small. If 

 wanted by mail, add loc per pint for postage. 



BEETS. 

 Eclipse. Oz. lOc; lb. 75c. 



This gave us Die liest satisfartioii last season of anj- thing 

 we ever raised in the waved' brets. They are a very quick 

 grower, of exri-llent iiuality, and the appearance of the 

 bright smooth scarlet bulbs is fully equal to any thing that 

 has been pictured in the colored plates of our catalogues. 

 In order to get a fancy price for them, start them in tlie 

 greenhouse, and transplant when of the size of peas, or a 

 little larger. They bear transplanting well, and are exceed- 

 ingly hardy. 



Pliiladelpliia Turnip. Oz. 5c; lb. 50c. 



This is .1 little later and larger than the above, and is a nov 

 elty because of its alternate rings of dark and light pink. 



liong Blood Red. Oz. 5c; lb. .50c. 



An old standard variety. 



CABBAGE. 



Select, Very Early Jersey Wakefield. 



Oz. 35c; lb. $3.00. 



Our cabbage seed this year is raised by Francis Brill. At 

 the Experimental College Farm, at Columbus. C, they give 

 his cabbage seed the preference over that raised by any other 

 seedsman, and they have tested nearly all of them. They all 

 say that the Early .Jersey Wakefield, of their best selected 

 strain, is fully as early as any other cabbage known, and 

 greatly superior in quality. We sold single heads last sea- 

 son at retail at 30c each, raised from plants started in the 

 greenhouse in February. 



Henderson'!* Early Siiimuer. Oz. 3.5c; lb. $3.00. 



This comes next In the .li-iscy Wakefield; and although it 

 is an early cal>li;i,!4c, uiulcr very favorable conditions it pro- 

 lUices large heads of most excellent quality. 



Winuiui^'stadt. Oz. 10c; lb. $1.50. 



Much like the .Jersey Waketleld, but later and larger. The 

 heads are lound. and some of them are so hard as to seem al- 

 most like bullets Our customers of last season greatly pre- 

 ferred these and Hcnder.son's Early Summer cabbage to the 

 later flat cabbages. 



Flat Dutch. Oz. lOc; lb. $1.50. 



This is a standard late cabbage, for winter. 



Stonemason. Oz. 15c; lb. $3.25. 



Another standard varictv, but, as its name implies, it pro- 

 duces harder heads than the Flat Dutch. 



Perfection Druniliead Savoy. Oz. lOe; lb. $1.50. 



The Savoy rahliage is handsome in appearance, and richer 

 and finer iii quality, than any of the other varieties. In 

 taste it nearly a|jproaihes the caulillower. 



Iiar^e Red Drumhead. Oz. 10c; lb. $1.50. 



This is a red (cabbage for pickling. The bright red, by way 

 of contrast, will maKe a load or lot of cabbages attract at- 

 tention, and tlici'c is always more or less demand for red cab- 

 bage for pickles. 



<'\RROTS. 



Orange Danvers, Half-Long. Oz. 5c; lb. 60c. 



CAULIFLOWER. 



Brill's Early Snowball. K^ oz. $1.00; oz. $3.00. 



Nice specimen. - (de.irlv eaiiiillnwer often bring extravagant 



prices, and it i^ays ivell t'> start tliem in the greenliouse.and 



use hand-glasses lo foruard them befort the hot weather 



pomes on, 



CELERY. 

 Henderson's W^liite Plume, '.t oz. 15c; oz. 50. 



We place this at the head of the list, and especially for ear- 

 ly celery. During the past season we had fine stalks on the 

 market in July, and it sold readily at 10c each. We are plan- 

 ning to have celery this year in the market in the month of 

 .June. The seed was started in the greenhouse about the 

 middle of December. On account of its self-bleaching quali- 

 ties it is better fitted for early celery than any other. 



Golden Dwarf. Oz. 30c; lb. $3.50. 



One of the standard sorts for a later crop. The golden tint 

 of the head stalks makes it a very handsome vegetable. 



Boston Market. Oz. 30c; lb. $3..50. 



An old standard variet3- in and around Boston, and raised 

 largely throughout the land. 



Major Clark's Pink. Oz. 3.5c; lb. $3.a). 



While the Wliite Plume is the earliest and finest in appeai- 

 ance, we regard the above as the richest and most toothsome 

 of all the celeries. It also, under favorable circumstances, 

 makes exceedingly rapid growth. Plants set in September, 

 the past season, made stalks weighing 2 lbs. each, by the mid- 

 dle of November. 



lunt of ils excel- 



CORN (FOR TABLE USE) 

 Ford's Early Sweet. 



We put this at the head of the list on 

 lent quality and exceeding earliness. 



Crosby's Extra Early. 



This isagreat yielder, with .soil suitable, although it I'omes 

 a little later than Ford's. 



Extra Early Minnesota. 



One of the standard sorts. 

 Late Maiiiiiiolli Sugar. 



This is excellent in quality, and gives ears of mammoth 

 size, and is .i wonderful yielder. Our trade has been so large 

 in this kind ol corn for eight or ten years past, that we have 

 now thirty or forty bushels dried on the husks by steam heat. 



Corn we sell ats cents for a half -pint package; but 

 at this price purchasers must paxj the postage, which 

 is 7 cents for each half-pint. If wanted in larger 

 quantities tM price willbe$l.iM per peck, or $3.!i() per 

 bushel. 



CRESS, OR PEPPER fiR.4SS. 



Extra Curled. Oz. ."ic; lb. .50c. 



CUCUMBER. 

 Early Frame. Oz. 5c; lb. .^Oc. 



The earliest cucumber. 



Rawson's Improved Early W^liite Spine. 



Oz.30c; lb. .53.0(1. 



This is the kinil he u^es for raising in l.i . !.:reen!i'ouse,aud 

 the cucumbers bring M to i5 cents each, even whe' c he raises 

 them by the thousands. Fine specimens are wonderfully 

 handsome, and taking, and they sometimes grow to a great 



size without gctlin.j yellow. 



Short Prolific Pickle. Oz 10c; Ih. $1.00. 



This is is the kind generall.v used for r.iising pi -kles tor 

 market. 



KOHLBABL 

 W^hite Vienna. Oz. 30c; lb. $3,50. 



This is a nuic-k-growing vegetable, half way between tur- 

 nip and calibage. If the plants are started in the greenhouse, 

 the vegetable may be put on the market at the same time 

 with the very earliest cabbages; and where people once get 

 a taste of it, it is pretty sure to meet with a rajiid sale at good 

 prices. 



LETTUCE. 

 Landreth's Forcing. Oz. 40c; lb. $5.00. 



Excellent for hot-beds and <old-frames; exceedingly early. 

 The heads are small, and may be .sent to the table in their en- 

 tire fcjrm, on the root. 



Boston Market. Oz. 10c; lb. $1.50. 



The best variety for greenhouse culture, an the heads are 

 small, but compact and handsome. 



Bloomsdale Early Summer. Oz. 10c; lb. $1.50. 

 Second earlv; sometimcj called, bv tht Souttieni friemj«, 

 " Creole." 



