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MATJLE'S EARLIEST SCARLET RADISH If you are at all anxious to have 



Radishes four or five days to a week earlier than any of your neighbors, Maule's Earliest is what 

 you should sow. Its crisp, brittle flavor, as well as its remarkably quick growth, alike recommend 

 it. Color of skin, a rich scarlet, while the flesh is pure white for mild flavor, always crisp and 

 tender. Has a very small short top, and is equally valuable for forcing or open ground ; in favorable 

 weather maturing in from 20 to 25 days from the sowing of the seed. The illustration above is a 

 correct representation. Not one of my customers should fail to sow the earliest of all Radishes in 

 , 1893. Packet, 10 cents ; ounce, 15 cents ; % pound, 40 cents ; pound, S1.25. 



JERUSALEM CORN. — This corn belongs to the non-sacaharine sorghums, and was brought 

 here from the arid plains of Palestine by a missionary, who gave two grains of it to a farmer in 

 Finney County, Kas. These two grains made 5 heads the first year, next season he got 5 bushels, 

 and next season he planted 8 acres and gathered 200 bushels. It is pronounced the best and surest 

 grain crop for dry countries and seasons, even better than Kaffir Corn, Dhoura and Milo Maize. 

 It grows about 3 "feet high, makes one large head on main stalk, and several smaller heads on 

 side-shoots ; have seen as high as 8 heads on one stalk. The grains are pure white and nearly flat. 

 Three pounds will plant an acre. The government experimental farm at Garden City raised "a crop 

 of it in 1890, and makes the following report : 



From Henry Clav Brooks, Superintendent of the United States Experimental Grass and Forage Station, 

 Garden City, Kas. : ' r This is to certify that I raised a fair crop of ' Jerusalem Corn 'on the unirrigated part of 

 the United States Experimental farm the past season, which was the dryest season in the past 15 years at this 

 point, the record showing 10 incites less rain fall this year than the average of the past 15 years. I had 90 

 acres in crop with different varieties of forage plants, arid the Jerusalem Corn was the only kind that did any 

 good. I consider it good for both man and beast. I have experimented with it in fattening a hog, and the 

 hog is in as fine condition as I ever saw one. I have also used it in my family in the form of hominy, and it 

 certainly makes the best hominy that I ever ate. H. C. BROOKS, in Charge." 



I have had a supply of Jerusalem Corn grown for me in Kansas the past season, and take 

 pleasure in offering it to mv friends at the following prices : Packet, 10c; lb.. 30c; 3 lbs., 75c 



COCOZELLE BUSH SQUASH These squashes, as shown in illustration, are of oblong 



shape, green and white striped. A very desirable quality of the Cocozelle squash is the fact that the 

 small green Squashes when only 2 to 4 inches long are most delicious in flavor. While a distinct 

 type of the bush squash family, they can be cultivated the same as the ordinary Bush Scalloped. 

 Plants grow very compact and uniform in height, vines do not run. They can either be boiled 

 whole, or sliced and fried like egg plant ; and I have no doubt my customers will find Cocozelle a 

 most desirable addition to the Squash family. Pkt., 5c; oz., 15c; M lb., 40c: lb.. S1.00. 



NEW GOLDEN OBLONG PUMPKIN.— This new Pumpkin, on account of its prolific- 

 ness and desirable shape, is sure to make a name for itself, and I can recommend it to my 

 friends. The following is the introducer's description, and I do not think I can improve 

 upon it; "They grow very uniform, from 15 to 20 inches in length; the outer color is a 

 rich golden orange, or old gold ; the skin, while thin, is tough, making it almost as good a keeper 

 for winter use as the hard-shell winter squashes. The fruit when young is dark green, and changes 

 to a rich golden yellow as it ripens. The flesh is light yellow in color, of very rich, fine qualitv, 

 and has been pronounced by lovers of pumpkin pies the very best they have ever had for this 

 purpose. As to the prolific character of the Golden Oblong, we would state that, one of our custo- 

 mers to whom we sent a few seeds for trial, wrote us that he counted 14 good pumpkins on one 

 vine.' " Packet, 10 cents ; ounce, 15 cents ; M pound, 50 cents ; pound, 81.50. 



REYNOLD'S EARLY CABBAGE This is a scientific cross made by Mr. Franklin 



Reynolds, between the Schweinfurt Quintal and Cannon Ball Cabbage, the result being a new 

 variety in which are combined the good qualities of both its parents. All of my customers who 

 have raised tha Schweinfurt must have been struck with three of its characteristics, viz. : its 

 remarkable eariiness, the great size of the heads, and its reliability to head. The ureat draw- 

 back was the softness of the heads. Now , the Cannon Ball is an early cabbage, being one of 

 the hardest heading varieties known ; and the result has been to produce a neweabbage, which, 

 while as early as the Schweinfurt, partakes also of some of the hardiness of the Cannon Ball. 

 The flavor of this new cabbage is rich, tender and sweet, being superior to the general Drum- 

 head class, making it a very superior variety for familv use, and also lor marketing where 

 there is not a long transportation. One special qualification is the fact that the Revnolds Earlv 

 has such a very' short stump the heads appear to be perfectly on the ground ; at the same time it is a 

 most certain header, surpassing in this respect every other early variety of cabbage. Mr. Gregory 

 writes me that it is the only cabbage in America produced by" scientific crossing, and the actual 

 passing of the pollen of one variety to the other with all proper'precautions taken. It is certainly a 

 great credit to Mr. Reynolds that he has been able to produce such a perfect cabbage, and my 

 customers may rest assured that the Reynolds Earlv will surpass the expectations ol all who plant 

 it. Supply of true seed is very limited, so can offer it in the smallest quantities only. Packet, 15 

 cents; ounce, 40 cents; % lb., SI. 25. yuimiimmiiiini mi^iiji ii. 



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