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Good Seed. Do not make out your seed list and 

 then go around looking for the man that can supply 

 you the cheapest. Do not buy cheap seeds. We 

 Americans buy seeds too cheaply; if seeds in England 

 were offered at the same price that they are in 

 America, they would not be considered worth 

 planting in a garden worthy of the name. In 

 England, their novelties in peas, for instance, sell 

 for seventy-five to eighty cents per pint, while 

 here they are retailed at twenty cents. I honestly 

 believe you will get full value for your money, 

 whichever you buy, by which I mean that their 

 seeds are better than ours., Do not infer from this 

 that American seeds are not good. They are just 

 as good as the English seeds in germination, but 

 we have not attained the perfection of qualities in 

 the varieties that they have over there. It is good 

 economy to buy the highest grade of seeds offered. 



Kinds and Varieties. While we all have our 

 favorite varieties of various species, one must al- 

 ways remember that others may think differently. 

 If it were not so, the seedsmen would handle but 

 one variety of each kind. I am not infallible, but 

 speaking generally, the varieties here mentioned 

 will, I think, be found satisfactory. Where there 

 are early and late vegetables of one species, I give 

 the best variety of both: 



Asparagus Palmetto, Early Argenteuil 



Bean, bush Black Valentine 



Bean, bush, Lima Burpee's 



Bean, bush, wax Currie's Rustproof 



Bean, pole, Lima Ford's Mammoth 



