FARQUHAR’S RELIABLE VEGETABLE SEEDS. 
ARTICHOKE. Alcachofa, (Sp.) 
A most delicious vegetable, rapidly gaining in popularity. The heads are usuall 
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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 in the rows. They yield the second year, and require pro- 
tection during Winter by earthing up and mulching. In the Northern States it is better 
to treat this plant as an annual, sowing seeds under glass and keeping the seedlings 
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. rete rae aa Pkt., 20 cts.; 0z., $1.00 
Plants of Globe Artichoke. May delivery. ... ws ... Per doz., $3.00 
Jerusalem. (Helianthus tuberosus.) Cultivated for its edible tubers. 
Tubers, qt., 40 cts.; peck, $2.50 
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 
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neatly raked. One ounce of fm if 
seed sows 60 feet of drill; —-—__ alia 
5 pounds sow one acre. Argenteuil Asparagus. 
Arg enteuil. The largest and finest sort in cultivation. 
Pkt., 15 cts.; oz., 30 cts.; + Ib., $1.00 
Conover’s Colossal. A standard sort, large and very prolific; green. 
é Pkt., 10 cts.; oz., 15 cts.; }.b., 35 cts. 
Reading Giant. Large, succulent stalks. 
Pkt., 10 cts.; 0z , 25 cts.; + Ib., 75 cts. 
Palmetto. Early and prolific. Pkt., 10 cts.; 0z., 15 cts.; + lb., 50 cts. 
ASPARAGUS ROOTS. 
Asparagus roots can be supplied from November 1st to May 1st. 
: 100 1000 
Argenteuil. 2 years uae Was Be: .-. $2.00 $18.00 
Conover’s Colossal. 2 years ... weeks tiie ae £2500) « }18.00 
Reading Giant. 2 years vce 2.50 24 .00 
BROCCOLI. Broculi, (Sv.) 
_This vegetable resembles the Cauliflower, but is hardier. 
White Cape. Heads, white, close and compact; a standard sort. 
: Pkt., 15 cts.; oz., $1.00 
Italian Purple Sprouting. An early maturing variety yielding a 
profusion of purple sprouts of delicious flavor wee ar Pkt.; 25icts: 
Artichoke, 
Earge Globe, or Paris. 
Farquhar’s 
Matchless 
Brussels 
Sprouts. 
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 like 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. 
Farquhar’s Ideal. Sprouts of large size, solid and of delicious 
flavor ey ee ue :.. Pkt. 25 cts:;0z., $1.00 
Farquhar’s Matchless. The surest strain, producing large, 
solid sprouts ... se Pkt., 15 cts.; oz., 50 cts.; 4 Ib., $1.50 
Aigburth. Compact heads, very productive. ; 
’ ; Pkt., 10 cts.; oz., 50 cts.; + lb., $1.50 
Serymger’s Giant. ma Pkt., 10 ets.; oz., 50 cts.; 1 Ib., $1.50 
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