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NOVELTIES will be Found on Colored Insert. 
Aware of the importance to the Gardener and 
Farmer of having Seeds that can be relied upon for purity 
and quality, it is our aim to supply the very best. 
ARTIC HOKE. (Artischoke.) 
The Globe Artichoke is cultivated for its flower-heads, which are cooked like Asparagus. 
three feet apart with slight covering in winter, will remain in bearing a long time. 
Plants set in any good garden soil about 
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Large Green Globe. The best variety; heads large, and scales tender and excellent. . . . .os 20 $3.00 
Jerusalem Artichoke. ( //e/ianthus tuberosus). Cultivated for its tubers. Qt., .20 ; peck, $1.00. 
ASPARAGUS. (Spargel.) 
4 This is one of our most delicious vegetables, and when proper care is 
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yy _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 
z, Gills should then be made three feet apart, and deep enough to admit of 
y, 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. labs 
Moore’s Giant Cross=-Bred. Stalks frequently an inch in diameter; productive, tender and 
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Conover’s Colossal. A standard sort; early; large, and very prolific. . . . . . . . . 005 «10 .50 
Columbian Mammoth White. Stalks clear white; large; distinct . . . . . . . . . 05 «10 1.00 
(ele Witbeny saveonteisor. im the vicinity GL Boston yt ss eek oan OR) Tipe L.GO 
RalinEreO nm OnciOs the eariest, or large and fine STOWE Fe se ee eee er a 5 OS TO) IEOO 
ASPARAGUS ROOTS. 
Moore’s Giant Cross=-Bred. One year old, per 100, {£0.75 ; two years, per 100, $1.00. 
Conover’s Colossal. e: 7 op és of T.00. 
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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. Pkt. Qt. Peck. 
Broad, vy maser. The best vanety; very hardy; height three’feet 2 2S 0% 130 $1.25 
Castine, Maine, Sept. 29. 
Gentlemen,— TI cannot help writing to express my satisfaction with your vegetable seeds. TI have bought of you 
for 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 
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