NOVELTIES AND SPECIALTIES 

 FOR 1869. 



VEGETABLE SEEDS. 



Per pkt. 



Conover's Colossal. A European variety, introduced several years since, which, by a 

 careful selection of seeds from the most vigorous shoots, has been wonderfully 

 improved both in size and quality, in point of which it surpasses all other 

 varieties in cultivation. Specimens were exibited the past season by Mr. Cono- 

 ver, which were grown alongside the best " Oyster Bay " varieties, and received 

 the same care and treatment, which attained four times the size of that popular 

 variety. Though but two years from the seed, many of the plants produced 

 twenty to thirty sprouts, averaging from two to four inches in circumference, and 

 were ready for cutting one year in advance of the ordinary varieties. Packets 

 containing 3 ounce each. See cut .......... 50 



Beans. 



Carter's Champion Runner. A gigantic variety of Scarlet Runners, having pods nearly 

 double the size of the old variety : it is more robust in growth and is an 

 extraordinary cropper ............. 25 



Early Wyman. This is the best and most profitable early-market cabbage grown. 



It originated with Mr. John Wyman of Arlington, about ten years since, 

 and has not been disseminated to any extent. 



It heads early in the season, is of large size, and first quality, and brings the 

 highest price of any early cabbage brought into the Boston market, selling 

 readily last season by the thousand, at $18 per hundred ; but a limited quantity 

 of seed can be procured ............. 50 



This cabbage took the first prize on the nth of July last, at the exhibition of 

 the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, as it has on several previous occasions. 



Com. 



Bates's Early Bronze Field. Mr. C. Bates of Kingston, Mass., has spent twenty years 

 of labor and care in producing this valuable variety of corn, obtaining the follow- 

 ing results : 



It is a cross between the Whitman, or Smutty White, and Early Canada. A 

 rapid-growing and early-maturing corn, of low growth, small stalk, throwing its 

 strength into the corn ; ears growing very near the ground ; cob small ; corn 

 large and well-filled ; color bronze, or a blending of yellow and white with a 

 slight trace of red ; very productive, yielding large crops even on poor soil ; 

 dwarf, averaging from root to top of spindle, from four to five feet. 



By years of labor we now obtain 



A corn with fodder small, but large in grain ; 

 Long, slim cob, with eight full rows around ; 



Top very low, earing near the ground ; 

 Thus filling the crib and not the mow ; 



Having more corn for horse than tops for cow. 



This com is highly recommended for all latitudes, particularly Northern, on 

 account of the above-mentioned qualities, early maturitv, large yield of grain, 

 and small amount of stalk. The favorable reports, together with the good im- 

 pressions received on visiting; Mr. Bates's corn-crib, has induced us to secure the 

 entire stock ; and we now offer it, in large or small quantities, at the following 

 prices : (see cut.) 



One Quart, by mail, postpaid, $1.00. One Bushel (express to be paid by the purchaser), $12.00; 

 Five Bushels, $50 oo. 



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