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We will, on receipt of $5.00, send free to any address in the United States by Mail or Express, 
(as may ve cheapest for us,) one packet of each of the Vegetable and Flower Seeds detailed below; all 
of which are most valuable and distinct, nearly all of them new, and many for the first time 
offered, and only to be obtained from us. We have only room here for condensed descriptions, but all 
the varieties named are fully described further on in the Manual. 
IN NEW AND FINE VEGETABLES, the assortment comprises : 
Ivory Pod Wax Beans, early and productive, a fine shell bean—Canadian Wonder Bean, a late sort 
with large pods, of rich flavor.—-Golden Refugee Beans, a great improvement, pods round and light colored, fine for 
pickling. —Henderson’s Premier Cabbage, perhapsearliest in cultivation, heads small and pointed—_Henderson’s 
Early Summer Cabbage, largest and best early sort, does not burst or crack open.-_Henderson’s Selected 
Late Flat Dutch Cabbage, heads of immense size, solid and uniform.—_Netted Savoy Cabbage, leaves heavily 
curled, finest flavor—Henderson’s Early Snowball Cauliflower, is the earliest and best, more certain to head 
than any.—_Henderson's White Plume Celery, the grandest novelty of the year, stalks and leaves pure white, is crisp 
and of delicious walnut flavor. Its special value consists in the fact it does not need ‘* banking *’ to blanch it to render it fit 
for the table.—Major Clarke’s Pink Celery, Red celeries as a rule are better flavored than the white, this new sort is 
finest of its class -Squantum Sugar Corn, medium early, very sweet, produces 4 to 5 ears on stalk Amber Cream 
Sugar Corn, rich and tender, large ears Marblehead Early Sugar Corn, earliest of all, dwarf grower.—Green 
Prolific Cucumber, best pickling variety, enormous yielder.—Salamander Lettuce, best summer sort, color light 
green, best quality Yellow Seeded Butter Lettuce, produces large yellow head, crisp and tender.—California 
Nectar Musk Melon, most delicious flavored of any.—_Montreal Market Musk Melon, specimens often attain 
20 pounds and over, fine quality.—_Netted Gem Musk Melon, very early, nearly round, flavor rich and sugary.—Sealy 
Bark Water Melon, for shipping purposes this variety has no peer, standing without injury the longest journeys, and 
roughest handling; flesh crimson, and best quality Southport Yellow Globe Onion, our own special selection.— 
Dwarf Prolific Okra, grows 4 feet high, a wonderful yielder._Henderson’s First of All Pea, the earliest variety 
grown; pods good size and well filled with peas of richest flavor.—Laxton’s Minimum Pea, the dwarfest growing 
sort, attaining 6 inches in height, early and prolific.—John Bull Pea, a main crop, blue wrinkled variety Vanguard 
Potato, (one tuber) ten to twelve days earlier than Early Rose, quality first class—Golden Dawn Pepper, golden 
yellow in color, very prolific—Long Standing Spinach, remains a long time before running to seed; a splendid 
cooking kind.— Perfect Gem Squash, twenty-four squashes have been grown of this on a single vine, equally desirable 
for summer or winter use; finest flavor—The Cardinal Tomato.—See description in Novelties.—Livingstone’s 
Favorite Tomato, largest and smoothest Tomato yet introduced, dark red in color; solid, and ripens evenly.—_May= 
flower Tomato, extremely early, color bright red, solid and productive.—Extra Early Purple Top Munich 
Turnip, fit to dig two weeks before any other; flesh snow white, and of good flavor.—Snowwhite Olive Shaped 
Turnip, our new white oblong variety, very early end splendid for table use.—New Mediterranean Hybrid 
Winter Wheat, enormous yielder. . 
IN NEW AND RARE FLOWER SEEDS, the variety embraces : 
Victoria Aster, flowers large, perfectly double, imbricated and globular, all colors.—_Balsam, Extra Choice, 
mixed, very large double flowers.—Calendula ** Weteor®’, produces large light yellow flowers, striped with bright 
orange.—_New Carmine Candytuft, this variety bears a mass of vivid carmine blooms.-_New Cockscomb 
** Golden Beauty,” produces freely large blooms of the richest yellow.Coccinea Indica, a climbing gourd with 
glossy foliage and scarlet fruit—Dianthus Laciniatis, a beautiful fringed pink, all colors—New Ivy-Leaved 
Cypress Vine, with ivy-leaved foliage and scarlet flowers; this is a strikingly beautiful variety.—_Eschscholtzia 
Mandarin, a beautiful variety of California Poppy —_New Double Flowering Gaillardia, a most distinct new 
double variety producing flowers of many hues. —Godetia ** Lady Albemarle, flowers three inches across, of an 
intense carmine crimson shade._French Marigold ‘* Gold Striped,°? novel, and entirely distinct_Mignonette 
** Golden Queen,* most beautiful in existence; when in bloom it is literally a massof fragrant gold._New Spotted 
Pansy, flowers of largest size and most perfect, and of every conceivable color and marking; this beautiful strain is now 
offered for the first time.—-Phlox Drummondi Grandiflora, mixed, a large flowered strain._New Danish Poppy, 
flowers brilliant scarlet, each of the four petals being stamped with an ivory white spot. 
(= At our Catalogue prices the Seeds named above would cost $7.50. 
Besides this, and here is the feature that makes our offer extremely liberal, we will include 
without charge a copy of Peter Henderson’s New Book ‘‘ Garden and Farm Topics.” 
Price $1.50. The contents of which are given on page 4. It will thus be seen that in ih 
reality we give goods to value of $9.00 for $5.00, besides assuring free delivery to any 
point in the United States, no matter how remote. No changes, however, can be 
made in this Collection. The; ‘‘ Garden of Novelties” Collection will be sent to — 
purchasers in an ornamental box, which will afterwards be found useful for many fF 
purposes. In ordering the ‘Garden of Novelties”, please follow suggestions about f 
remitting as given on page 5. 
