FARQUHAR’S RELIABLE VEGETABLE SEEDS. 
ARTICHOKE. Alcachofa. 
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, trans- 
plant in rows 4 feet apart and 2 feet in the rows. They yield the second 
year, and require protection 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., .15; 0z., 1.00 
Large Green Globe. ... : Pkt., .10; 0z., -35; per lb., 3.50 
Plants of Globe Artichoke. May delivery =... Per doz., 2.00 
Jerusalem Artichoke. JHelianthus tuberosus. Cultivated for its edible 
tubers. Tubers $2 --- Qt., .25; qt. by mail, .40; peck, 1.25 
ASPARAGUS. Esparrago Spargel. 
Culture. Sow the seeds thinly in drills one foot apart and one inch 
deep. The permanent bed should be trenched very deeply, and well manured 
with rich, thoroughly decayed manure. Wide drills should then be made, 
3 feet apart, and deep enough to admit of the top of the plants being cov- 
ered 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 cov- 
ering 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 sows 60 
jeet of drill; 5 pounds sow one acre. 
Argenteuil. The largest and finest sort in cultivation. 
Pkt., .10; oz., .20; 4 lb., .60; lb., 2.00 
Conover’s Colossal. A standard sort, large and very prolific. 
Pkt 0207-710: 4 lbs -25ealb:;- -75 
Columbian Mammoth. Wuire. Large, white stalks. 
Pkt. 2055 0z.,.10;-4 Ib:, -30; lb:, 1:00 
ASPARAGUS ROOTS. April Delivery. 
Argenteuil. 2 years... 
Per 100, 1.50; per 1,000, 12.00 
Conover’s Colossal. 2 
years ... PerA00, 1.00; 
per 1,000, 8.00. 
Columbian Mammoth 
White. 2 years. Per 100, 
1.25; per 1,000, 10.00. 
BROCCOLI. 
Broculi. Spargel Kohl. 
This vegetable resembles the 
Caulifiower, but is hardier. 
White Cape. Heads white, close, 
and compact; a standard sort. 
Pkt., .10; oz., .40; 4 lb.,- 1.25; 
lb., 4.00. 
BRUSSELS SPROUTS. 
Berza de Brusels. Sprossen Kohl. 
Cultivate like Cabbage. It is ready 
for use late in autumn, after the 
early frosts. One ounce of seed pro- 
duces about 1,500 plants. 
Farquhar’s Matchless. The 
surest strain, producing large, solid 
sprouts. Pkt., .10; oz., .35; } lb., 
1.00; lb., 3.50. 
Aigburth. Compact heads, very pro- 
ductive: Bkt....10; oz., .30: 3 Ib., 
ioe elb:, 2.50. 
Farquhar’s Ideal. sprouts of 
™ large size, solid and of delicious 
Havors Pkt, 15; oz., .60. 
Serymger’s Giant. Pkt., 
001; .0Z:,. -2o™ + De, eto. 
Farquhar’s Ideal Brussels Sprouts. 
R. & J. FARQUHAR & CO., BOSTON, JANUARY ist, 1910. 
Artichoke, Large Globe or Paris. 
Argenteuil Asparagus. 
Copyright 1909 by R. & J. Farquhar & Co 
