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NOVELTIES will be Found at End of Catalogue. 
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. ARTICHOKE. (Artischoke.) 
The Globe Artichoke is cultivated for its flower-heads, which are cooked like Asparagus. Plants set in any good garden soil about 
three feet apart with slight covering in winter, will remain in bearing a long time. 
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Large Green Globe. The best variety; heads large, and scales tender and excellent. . . . .05 .30 $3.00 
Jerusalem Artichoke. (/elianthus tuberosus). Cultivated for its tubers. Qt., .20; peck, $1.00. 
ASPARAGUS. (Spargel.) 
This is one of our most delicious vegetables, and when proper care is 
taken in making the beds and setting the plants, they will continue pro- 
,. ductive for many years. 
Culture.—The permanent bed should be trenched or ploughed very 
, deeply, and well manured with rich, thoroughly decayed manure. Wide 
drills should then be made three feet apart, and deep enough to admit of 
Z the top of the plants being covered six inches. Plants, either one or two 
years old, may be purchased in spring, or may be produced from seed sown 
. in drills one inch deep and a foot apart. Set the plants eighteen 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. Ove ounce of seed sows sixty 
Jeet of drill. 
MOORE’S GIANT CROSS-BRED ASPARAGUS. Pkt. Oz. Lb. 
Moore’s Giant Cross=-Bred. Stalks frequently an inch in diameter; productive, tender and 
excellent Pe, Mie gt ge. oy ge Monae BOSD £)1N 9902 NE eI Re re nae LORS aes 
Conover’s Colossal. A standard sort; early; large, and very prolific . . . . . . . . . 05 «10 © .50 
Columbian Mammoth White. Stalks clear white; large; distinct . . . ......, OGL y UG ALAR O 
The Hap. wy sevorite sor ithe viemityof Boston, (4). Ce dudl aut LOM cs t8, DOOR MN a Oe Limp, TkOO 
Palmers, One of theearliest; of Jarce and ‘fing erowwthi:. ; V0. pm Fen as PONIES Ps 8". C1, 1.00 
ASPARAGUS ROOTS. 
Moore’s Giant Cross=-Bred. One year old, per 100, $0.75 ; two years, per 100, $1.00. 
Conover’s Colossal. és A ASE “6 1.00. 
The Hub. “ “6 “ I.00 ; rT “ Tee 5s 
Palmetto. “ “ “ ibis ; ‘“ “ 1.2. 
BEANS, ENGLISH. (viz) 
Plant six inches deep as early in spring as the ground can be worked. ‘The rows should be three feet apart and the seed deposited four 
inches apart in the rows. Pit eareck. 
Broad Windsor. The best variety; very hardy; height threefeet . . 2... 2... . 10.30 $1.25 
Castine, Maine, Sept. 29. 
Gentlemen,— TT cannot help writing to express my satisfaction with your vegetable seeds. TL have bought of you 
Sor six years ; formerly tried other houses, but never had any as reliable, pure and satisfactory as your Seed. Your 
Savoy Cabbage was very large and solid-headed, and your Stratagem Peas vastly superior to seed from two other 
Lvowers. J— M— L— 
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