1887 MANN S’ 1928 
SUPERIOR VEGETABLE SEEDS 
Selected from improved strains having true commercial merit, offered at lowest possible prices 
consistent with highest quality. FOR MARKET GARDENERS and other 
judicious and careful growers who sow the best. 
ASPARAGUS 
1 ounce to 60 feet of drill; 1 Ib. per acre; 3,000 plants per acre. 
| Asparagus grows easily in almost any good soil, but best results are 
| obtained in well-enriched, deeply dug, sandy loam. It may be grown 
from seed, but much time is saved by planting roots, 
If you wish to grow plants from the seed yourself, sow in spring in drills 
about eighteen inches apart and two inches deep in light, rich soil, plant- 
| ing fifteen to twenty seeds to each foot of row. When the plants are 
well up, thin to about one inch apart and give frequent and thorough 
cultivation during the summer, If this has been well done, the plants 
| will be fit to set the next spring. 
|} 
The permanent bed should be prepared by deep plowing or spading 
and thoroughly enriching the ground with stable manure or other fer- 
tilizer; a moist, sandy soil is best. Set the plants about four inches deep 
and one to two feet apart in rows four to six feet apart. After the 
plants are well started, give frequent and thorough cultivation. Early 
the next spring spade in a heavy dressing of manure and about one 
quart of salt and double the quantity of fresh wood ashes to each square 
| rod and cultivate well as long as the size of plants will permit, or until 
they begin to die down. The next season the bed may be cut over two 
| or three times, but if this is done, all the shoots, no matter how small, 
| should be cut. After the final cutting. give a good dressing of manure, 
| ashes and salt. Cultivate frequently until the plants meet inthe rows. 
In autumn after the tops are fully ripe and yellow, they should be cut 
' and burned. A bed fifteen by fifty feet, requiring about one hundred 
plants, if well cultivated and manured, should give the following season 
an abundant supply for an ordinary family and continue productive for 
eight or ten years. 
Famous French variety noted for its earli- 
Giant Argenteuil ness and size. It resists rust better than 
som2 domestic sorts and is also very prolific, producing an abundance of 
light green, tender shoots. Pkt., 10c; 14 Ib., 20c; Ib., 60c. 
This is one of the most popular varieties grown for gen- 
Palmetto eral garden purposes, being early, prolific and very uni- 
form. Shoots are light green but frequently deep green when allowed 
to grow above ground. Pkt., 10;c 14 Ib., 20c; Ib., 60c. 
| * Superior to Martha Washington and 
| Mary Washington Washington Pedigree, in quality and 
equally resistant to disease. It is larger and earlier and produces remark- 
ably tender dark green stalks with very compact purplish green tips. 
«Pkt. 10c; oz. 25c; 14 Ib. 75c; Ib. $2.00. 
ASPARAGUS ROOTS 
From one to two years may be saved by planting 
_ Asparagus roots instead of seed. Choice, 2-yr. old 
_ roots, all leading varieties. $1.25 per 160; $8.00 per 1000. 
MARY WASHINGTON, $1.75 per 100; $12.00 per 1000. 
| ARTI CHOKE (Jerusalem of Tuberous Rooted) 
Grown exciusively for their large potato-like roots which are valuable 
for feeding hogs. Price, 1/4 pk., 45c; pk., $1.25; bu., $4.00. Express- 
age extra. 
A (Large Green Globe). About 500 plants from 1 oz. 
Artichoke The scale like leaves of the flower heads are used as 
"a salad or boiled, making a delicious dish which is very popular with 
the French and Italians. Pkt., 10:; oz., 50c. Asparagus, Martha Washington Rust proof. 
