VI. ELLIOTT’S NOVELTIES AND SPECIALTIES FOR 1894. 
Rawson’s New ‘‘Hot-House’”’ Lettuce. 
We take pleasure in offering the above, believing it to 
be the very best lettuce for growing under glass. Our 
stock is from the introducer, Mr. W. W. Rawson, who 
is one of the largest market gardeners in the world, 
and who has made vegetable growing a scientific pro- 
fession. We quote Mr. Rawson’s description: “It is 
especially adapted for growing in greenhouses and hot- 
beds, being THE LARGEST LETTUCE GROWN, NEARLY 
DOUBLE THE SIZE OF THE FAMOUS BOSTON MARKET OR 
WHITE SEED TENNIS BALL. Itis also a sure header and 
not liable to rot in the heart, making it the most desirable 
variety for market gardeners and family use.”” The seed 
we offer was all grown under glass. Price per packet, 
15 cents ; 0z., 75 cents. 
THE SWEETNUT 
SQUASH. : 
This new Squash is described by the introducer 
as the only Squash that is absolutely borer proof, 
the Squash borer having never been known to 
touch it even when all other varieties were 
affected. It is of medium size and form, as many 
as eight having been grown on a single vine. 
When only half grown and cooked green as summer Squashes they are dry, fine flavored and most delicious eating. Cutin slices 
and fried like egg plants, they can hardly be distinguished from that excellent vegetable; but their e7veatest value consists in being 
used as a winter Squash when pulled before frost laid away in a dry room or cellar, they will keep sound and sweet the whole 
winter through. For making pies, custards, etc. their beautiful yellow flesh possesses a dry, rich sweet flavor, even without the use 
of sugar. Packet, 10 cents ; 3 packets, 25 cents ; oz., 50 cents; 4% Ib., $1.50. Es 
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The Very Best First Early Pea in Existence. 
ELLIOTT’S IMPROVED “*MAUD S.”’’ 
This is mot a novelty, but an improved strain of the true Maud S., which originated with one of the oldest and most reliable 
pea specialists. ’ 
This stock is the result of years of careful selection, and we offer it as undoubtedly the very earliest, the most productive, the 
sweetest and most valuable first early Pea ever introduced. It is regular in height, the haulms are dwarfer than most early varieties, 
and are inclined to stool or branch. The pods are of a bright green and are filled with magnificent peas of a most luscious character 
and produced in such profusjon as to almost cover the plant. It is at least a week earlier than Early Dexter and varieties of that 
type. Height, 2! feet. Price per pint, 20 cents; quart, 35 cents; peck, $2.50, 3 
NEW CLIMBING 
JAPANESE CUCUMBER. 
This new Cucumber has proved to be a valuable Novelty. 
It isa strong and vigorous grower, the vines attaining nearly 
twice the length of common varieties. It is prized for its prolific 
and hardy qualities, a single vine bearing 50 to 75 well-formed 
fruits about ten to twelve inches in length, of a dark green color 
and a delicious flavor. It is very fleshy, solid and sweet, with 
exceptionally few seeds, never bitter, therefore well adapted for 
pickling as well as slicing. The vines are proof against mildew, 
never suffering from wet weather orinsects. For exhibition no 
other Cucumber will attract so much attention, their shape being 
very uniform, straight and perfectly smooth. 
Packet, 10 cents; 0z., 25 cents; 4% lb., 75 cents. 
HEROINE PEA. 
There have been so many new varieties of Peas offered by 
seedsmen in the last few years that planters have become some- 
what skeptical of the merits of new aspirants for public favor, 
but the Heroine has been a conspicuous exception. In fact, no 
mew Pea since the introduction of ‘‘American Wonder” has 
created such a sensation. Every one who sees it wants it—seeds- 
man, market gardener and amateur; in fact, we reftised orders 
from dealers for hundreds of bushels last fall in order to have 
enough stock for our own retail trade this spring. It is far supe- 
rior to all other varieties of Peas as it combines quantity and 
quality in a degree possessed by no other variety. The Heroine 
is a medium early, green wrinkled Pea, grows uniformly about 
two and one-half feet high and is literally covered with its long, 
heavy, pointed pods—in fact, so striking and distinct is this 
variety that it wouid be picked out at once in a field of one hun- 
dred other varieties. The quality of this Pea is simply perfection 
—that rich, buttery, marrow-like flavor for which the Peas grown 
in the gardens of Old England are celebrated. 
Price per % pint, 15 cents; pint, 25 cents; quart, 40 cents; 
peck, $2.75. 
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