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SQUASH — (Continued.) 



Per pkt. Per oz. Per lb. 



Early Prolific Marro-w. A very valuable fall and winter squash, 



with which no variety can compete in earliness and productive- 

 ness. Color brilliant orange ; shape similar to the Boston 



Marrow; flesh tine grained, dry, and sweet, 05 .10 $0.80 



Fordhook. Of medium size; very thick fleshed, fine and dry; 



keeps perfect till spring, . 05 .10 .80 



Pike's Peak, or Sibley. Superior in flavor and quality to the 



Hubbard. Shell pale green, very hard ; flesh orange, solid, very 



thick and dry. Very productive, and keeps well. Weight 



about ten pounds, 05 .10 .80 



Low's Bay State. Splendid fall and winter squash. Its points 



of excellence are solidity, heavy weight, fineness of grain, 



dryness and sweetness, 05 .10 .75 



Perfect Gem. Excellent for summer, and equally good as a win- 

 ter variety; very productive, .05 .10 .75 



Essex Hard-Shell Turban. Productive, good keeper and one of 



the best flavored in cultivation, 05 .10 .75 



American Turban. Excellent quality; fiesh thick and sweet; 



superior fall sort, 05 .10 .75 



Hubbard. Our seed of this splendid standard winter Squash is 



very fine, and pure. A general favorite and very largely 



grown; very hard, dark-green shell; meat thick, dry and 



finely flavored, 05 .10 .75 



Boston Marrow. Good keeper, and of excellent flavor; shell 



orange, quite hard; several weeks earlier than the Hubbard, . .05 .10 .75 



Marblehead. Color light blue ; large, splendid keeper ; for sweet- 

 ness, dryness and fine fiavor, quite unsurpassed, 

 Canada Crookneck. Flesh close-grained, dry and fine. 

 Winter Crookneck. Larger and later than the Canada Crookneck ; 



the bugs rarely trouble these two sorts, 



Mammoth Yellow. With very rich treatment, grows to a great 



size, often weighing over one hundred and fifty pounds, . 



.05 



.10 



.75 



.05 



.10 



.80 



.05 



.10 



.80 



.10 



.15 



1.50 



TOBACCO. {Nicotiana Tabacum.) 



Start the seeds in gentle heat, and set the plants out about June 1, three feet apart, in very heavily 

 manured land. A packet will produce five hundred plants; one ounce, about sixteen thousand plants. 



Per pkt. Per oz. Per lb, 

 Connecticut Seed Leaf. The variety grown in New England, .05 .25 $2.50 

 Havana. True, imported seed, ^ . . .10 .50 5.53 



TOMATO. (Liebes Apfel.) 



This is a native of South America, Nearly all of our choice varieties are of recent origin. The seed 

 should be sown thinly, about the first week in March, in a hot-bed, greenhouse, or inside the window or 

 sitting-room, where the temperature is never below sixty degrees. When the plants are about two 

 inches high, set out in boxes, three inches deep, four inches apart, in the same temperature, or pot singly. 

 If again transplanted before setting out, the plants will be still more stocky. Set out in the open ground 

 about the first of June, four feet apart each way, using a shovelful of rotted manure in each hill. Choose 

 a sunny knoll and light sandy loam for early Tomatoes. If the vines are trained on a trellis, the fruit 

 will be finer in every respect. One ounce will produce over two thousand plants; two ounces will give 

 plants enough for one acre. 



Per pkt. Per oz. Per lb. 

 Dwarf Champion. Quite distinct and very early. The foliage is 

 very dark and the stem stitt', so that the plants stand up well 

 even when loaded with fruit; the fruit is very smooth, solid, 



and excellent, 05 .25 $2.50 



President Cleveland. Excelling all others in solidity, fine qual- 

 ity and smoothness ; evenly large, and ripens clear up to stem ; 

 first class in every respect, and gives better satisfaction for 



main crop than any variety yet introduced, 10 .40 4.00 



Faultless Early. The best for very early crops, maturing a week 

 earlier than any other good sort; color, deep red like the Bos- 

 ton Market ; fine fiavored ; not so smooth as the later sorts, . .10 .40 4.00 

 Red Cross. Very good for main crop ; in our trials much inferior 



to President Cleveland, 05 .20 2.50 



Ignotum. Very early and good; rather under sized, . . , .05 .25 3.00 



Chenery's Early. A very solid, smooth and handsome sort; ripens 



uniformly early ; from select fruit, -05 .30 3.00 



