R. & J. FARQUHAR & CO.'S SEED CATALOGUE. 



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Farquhar's Reliable Vegetable Seeds. 



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ARTICHOKE. 



LARGE GREEN GLOBE. 



A most delicious vegetable, which will become 

 more popular when better known. The large 

 Green Globe variety is of better quality and gives 

 more edible part than the common sort. The 

 edible part is the undeveloped flower head, which 

 may be eaten raw or used as a salad. Plants set 

 out in April or May 3 ft. X3 ft. will produce heads 

 in July and continue to do so until the end of Octo- 

 ber. It will only produce a partial crop the first 

 season, but being a perennial, will remain in bear- 

 ing for years in the same bed. As soon as the head 

 is taken off, the stalk should be cut down close to 

 the main stock or root. Succeeds best in a very 

 rich, light, moist soil. Should have protection in 

 winter in our northern climate. 



Plants, .20 each ; $2.00 per dozen. 

 Seeds, .10 pkt.; .35 oz.; $3.50 per lb. 



^Large Globe or Paris. The best of all Arti- 

 chokes; .15 pkt.; .75 oz. 



. ^Jerusalem Artichoke. {Helianthtis tuber- 

 ktosus.) Cultivated for its tubers; .20 qt.; qt. by 

 mail, .35; $1.00 peck. 



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Asparagus. 



N over's Colossal. A standard sort; early; large, and very prolific .... 

 Columbian Mammoth White. Stalks clear white; large; distinct 



ASPARAGUS ROOTS.— April delivery 



onover's Colossal Two years 



olumbian Mammoth White ...... " 



Artichoke, Large Green Globe. 



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 productive for 

 many years. 



Culture. The permanent bed should be 

 trenched or ploughed very deeply, and well ma- 

 nured with rich, thoroughly decayed manure. 

 Wide drills should then be made three feet apart, 

 and deep enough to admit of the top of the plants 

 being covered six inches. Plants' 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. One ounce of seed sows sixty 

 feet of drill. 



BEANS, ENGLISH. {Faba.) 



per 100, 



Pkt. 



$I.OO; 

 I.25 



Oz. 



.IO 

 .IO 



i lb. Lb. 

 .25 $0.75 

 .30 I. OO 



per 1,000, $7.00 

 7.50 



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. Pk t> nt. % pk. Pk. 

 Broad Windsor. The best variety ; very hardy ; height three feet 10 .30 $1.00 $1.75 



