Farquhar's Reliable Vegetable Seeds. 



ARTICHOKE. Akachofa, (Sp.) 



A most delicious vegetable, rapidly gaining in popularity. The heads are usually 

 boiled, and the bottom of each scale eaten with butter and salt. In France they are 

 more frequently baked with a dressing of fresh butter, forming a most savory dish. 



Culture. Sow seeds in April or May, and when large enough, transplant in 

 rows 4 feet apart and 2 feet m the rows. They yield the second year, and require pro- 

 tection durmg Wmter by earthmg up and mulching. In the Northern States it is better 

 to treat this plant as an annual, sowing seeds under glass and keeping the seedhngs 

 growing vigorously until May, when they should be set out in rich soil, when they will 

 produce fine heads the first season. 



Large Globe, or Paris. The best of all Artichokes. Pkt., 25 cts.; oz., $1.25 



Large Green Globe. ... Pkt., 20 cts.; oz., $1.00 



Plants of Globe Artichoke. May delivery Per doz., $3.00 



Jerusalem. {Helianthus luberosus.) Cultivated for its edible tubers. 



Tubers, qt., 4C cts.; peck, S2.50 



ASPARAGUS. Esparrago, (Sp.) 



Culture. Sow the seeds thinly in drills one foot apart and one inch deep. The per- 

 manent bed should be trenched very deeply, and well manured with rich, thoroughly de- 

 cayed manure. Wide drills should then be made, 3 feet apart, and deep enough to admit 

 of the top of the plants being covered 6 inches. Set the plants, one or two years old, 12 

 inches apart in the rows, carefully spreading out and separating the roots. For the sake 

 of convenience one drill should be made at a time, and the planting and covering 



completed before another is commenced. In 

 November the plants should have their 

 annual top dressing of manure after 

 the stalks have been cleared away. 

 The dressing should be forked in 

 as soon as the ground can be 

 worked in Spring, and the bed 

 neatly raked. One ounce of 

 seed soivs 60 feet of drill; 

 5 pounds sow one acre. 



Argenteuil Asparagus. 



Artichoke, 

 Large Globe, or Paris. 



Argenteuil. The largest and finest sort in cultivation. 



Pkt., 15 cts.; oz., 30 cts.; i lb., $1.00 

 Conover's Colossal. A standard sort, large and very prohfic; green. 



Pkt., 10 cts.; oz., 15 cts.; J lb., 35 cts. 

 Columbian Mammoth. White. Large, white stalks. 



Pkt., 10 cts.; oz., 15 cts.; i lb., 50 cts. 

 Palmetto. Early and prolific. Pkt., 10 cts.; oz., 15 cts.; f lb., 50 cts. 



ASPARAGUS ROOTS. 



Asparagus roots can be supphed from November 1st to May 1st. 



Apgenteuil. 2 years $1 .50 $14 .00 



Conover's Colossal. 2 years 1 .25 10.00 



Reading Giant. 2 years 1 .75 15.00 



BROCCOLI. BrocuU,iSF.) 

 This vegetable resembles the Cauliflower, but is hardier. 

 White Cape. Heads, white, clo.se and compact; a standard sort. 



Pkt., 15 cts.; oz., $1.00 



Italian Purple SpPOUting". An early maturing variety yielding a 



profusion of purple sprouts of dehcious flavor ... ... Pkt.. 25 cts. 



BRUSSELS SPROUTS. 



Col de Bruselas, (Sp.) 



Culture. Sow the seeds under glass during April and transplant to 

 a cold frame when large enough to handle. They may be transferred 

 to the garden in June and cultivated hke Cabbage. When the sprouts 

 become crowded cut off some of the lower leaves so that they may 

 develop. They will be ready for use in Autumn after the early frosts. 

 One ounce of seed produces about 1500 plants. 



Sprouts of large size, solid and of dehcious 

 Pkt., 25 cts.; oz., $1.00 



Farquhar's Ideal. 



flavor ... 



r arQUnar S IVlatCnieSS. The surest strain, producing large, 

 soHd sprouts ... ... Pkt., 15 cts.; oz., 50 cts.; j lb., $1.50 



Aigburth. Compact heads, very productive. 



Pkt., 10 cts.; oz., 50 cts.; i lb., $1.50 



Scrymger's Giant. . . . Pkt., lo cts.; oz., 50 cts.; | lb., $i..50 



