Manns’ Superior Vegetable Seeds 
Including Specialties of REAL MERIT for 1912 
We supply J2 bu. at bushel rate; J2 pk. at peck rate; /2 lb. at lb. rate. 
Seeds by packet, oz. and Jz lb. will be mailed free. In quantities of /2 lb. 
and upwards, postage must be added to Catalogue prices at the rate 
of 8c per lb. For Peas and Beans add 15c per qt., and Corn 10c. per qt. 
ARTICHOKE 
2° 
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bushels to the acre, cut to one eye. 
This Artichoke is 
Large Green Globe. 7's ycnore is 
flower heads, which are cooked like As- 
paragus. Hardy and easily cultivated. 
Plant similar to potatoes, in rows 3 
feet apart and two feet in the row, cover 
two inches deep, plant from March to 
April. They should not be dug in the 
fall, but remain in the ground and be 
gathered as may be desired. 
This variety is 
Jerusalem. from tuberous only, and 
frown exclusively for their large po- 
tato-like roots, which are valuable for 
feeding hogs, often yielding two tons 
per acre. The tubers are also edible, 
and are delicious when roasted and 
salt and 
produced 
boiled and served with butter, 
pepper. 
Peck 60c.; bush. $2.00. 
The seed can be sown early in April in 
a rich seed bed in drills one inch deep 
and 12 inches apart, thinning, when up, 
to 4 inches apart. Protect in winter 
with a slight covering. The second sea- 
son they form heads. Once established, 
they will continue bearing for years, 
Pkt., 5¢.; oz., 25c.; %4 1b., 80c.; Ib., $3.00. 
Can be regulated 
Asparagus Bunchers (2.7 po yeeuinted 
length and bunches of different sizes. 
Strong and well made. $1.75, 
7 30 cents each; by 
Asparagus Knives mail, 35 cts. each 
postpaid; dozen, $3.00. 
ASPARAGUS-—Spargel 
1 oz, for 50 feet drill; 500 plants. I lb. produces plants to set one acre. 
To grow plants from seed, sow in April or May, mix the seed with sand, pour 
warm water on it, and place in a box, keeping up the moisture until the seed com- 
mences to sprout, Sow the seed and sandin drills about eighteen inches apart: and 
two inches deep. When the plants are well up, thin to about one inch apart ‘and 
give frequent cultivation. Under fair conditions the plants will be fit to set in beds 
the following spring. i 
1 *] Of French origin. Earlier and larger than the old standard 
Giant Argenteuil. varieties, yet retaining that delicate, light green color and 
tender quality desired. Pkt, 5c.; % lb. 20c.; Ib. 60c. ‘ 
Barr’s Mammoth. A fine, large-stemmed, green variety, free from fiber. 
% 1b. 15c.; lb, 35c. 
Palmetto It is of a large size, even and regular growth, and of a dark green 
Pkt. 5c.; % Ib. 15c.; lb, 35c. 
color. It does well both North and South. The quality is excellent. 
A large and rapid grower of light green color andg 
Conover’s Colossal. 7,17 So gon 1b. 150.1 Ib, 35c. © 
Asparagus Roots 
100 roots plants a bed 15x50 feet. An acre, 4,000 to 6,000. 
A saving of one to two years is effected by planting roots which we can su 
at very reasonable prices, especially in large quantities. See 
I; Culture.—Plow trenches 18 inches wide and 8 to 12 inches deep, 5 feet apart, 
If the subsoil is not naturally loose and friable, it should be made so by thoroughly 
stirring with a harrow-tooth cultivator or spade. Scatter well-rotted manure in 
the furrow and mix with the soil, and then set the plants 15 to 20 inches apart in 
the row. Care should be taken in setting all the crowns to point in one direction, 
thus preventing the roots of one plant taking nourishment from another. Cover the 
roots 3 to 4 inches deep, and on the approach of winter cover with manure, which 
work in early in the spring and apply pure animal bone or kainit. If white asparagus is desired, the second spring 
after planting, earth up 18 inches above the roots, to blanch the asparagus as it grows. If green asparagus is de- 
sired, it is not necessary to earth up so deeply, or to make the rows more than 4 feet apart. Do not cut too late 
in the spring, as it is liable to exhaust the plants. After you stop cutting, leave the plants to grow, and during 
the winter or early spring cut off the growth and burn or destroy it, run the plow over the bed to throw the earth 
down, and apply manure or Pure Animal Bone, or both, mixing with the soil. To make white asparagus, the beds 
must be freshly and lightly earthed up each spring just before the growing season commences, 
Strong 2-year-old roots of the above named varieties (per doz. 30c., postpaid), by express or freight, not pre- 
paid per 100, 45c.; per 1000, $400. ? 2 
Sow Our Seeds and Have the Best Garden You Have Ever Had 
Pkt. 5c,; 
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