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One ounce for 100 feet of drill. Sp | Nn ai Cc h ~ 10 to 12 pounds in drills for an acre. 
This is an important market gardeners’ crop, of easy culture. For spring and summer use, sow either broad- 
cast or in drills, 1 foot apart and I inch deep, as early as the ground can be worked, and every two weeks fora 
succession. For winter and early spring use, sow in September, in well-manured ground; cover with straw on 
the approach of severe cold weather. The ground cannot be too rich; the stronger the ground the more delicate 
axd succulent will be the leaves. 
New Victoria Spinach—The foliage is heavy, the broad, dark green leaves are of the finest guali 
is in prime condition from two weeks to three weeks after all other varieties of spinach have run to seed. I 
1-4 pound, toc. 1-2 pound, 15c. Pound, 25c. 10 pounds, $2.00. 
by. 15 
-acket, 
5c. 
ong-Standing (Enkhuizen)—The leaves are large, thick, fleshy, and crumpled, fully equal in quality 
6 the Savoy-leaved. Packet, 5c. 1-4 pound, eee I5c. Pound, 20c. Io pounds, $1.50. 
W IMPROVED CURLED LONG-STANDING SPINACH. 
The most valuable for spring sowing. Its 
long-standing quality makes it absolutely 
the best for that purpose. The foliage is a 
very attractive, heavy dark green curled 
leaves, of the true Savoy appearance, and 
of the finest quality. It will stand from two 
to three weeks after all other varieties of 
Spinach have shot to seed. It can be planted 
all spring and summer with surety of mak- 
ingacrop. Last spring the demand far ex- 
ceeded our supply. Packet, 5c. % pound, 
loc. I pound, 15c. 5 pounds, 75c. 
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ARUE BLOOMSDALE CURLED 
SAVOY SPINACH. 
True Bloomsdale Curled Savoy 
Spinach.—15 pounds to the acre.— 
Many thousands of acres find profitable 
employment in growing spinach, 2nd no 
crop pays better. Our stock Curled 
Savoy Spinach was the truest and most 
beautiful in the market. Its growth is 
rapid, the leaf is properly curled, which 
gives it a very attractive appearance, and 
causes it to measure better than other 
sorts, and makes it the favorite with the 
largest growers—Packet, 5c. + Pound 
10c. Pound, 1l5c. 
Salsify, or Oyster Plant. 
CULTURE.—Sow early in spring in rows one inch deep; when up, thin same as carrots; 
foe best ia light, well-enriched, meljow, sandy soil. 
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andw Mammoth White—A new, improved Salsify; double the size of any other sort; superior in 
uality, rure white color; very meaty and fine flavor. Market gardeners use it exclusively. Packets, 5c. ang 
Ioc. 1-4 pound, 30c. Pound, $1.oo. : 
Your Lig Boston Lettuce satisfied me. I cut my Nov. 7, rgot. 
crop and they ran go heads to the barrel. They are Please come down and see my Golden Self-Bleach- 
fine. Your stock of Spinach has pleased me fora ng Celery, from your seed. I had four fice stalks 
nninber of years, and L expect to continue to use Zt. that weighed 100 1-2 pounds. They were solid ; 
HARRY B. SWEENEY. fine. Wm. DREVER. 
