

HERBS AND ODDS AND ENDS. 
HERBS Every kitchen garden should havea 
g few herbs. They are easily grown 
and are always pleasant and desirable for tlavor- 
ing, perfuming and medicinal purposes. 
*A nise.—Packet, 5 cents; ounce, 10 cents. 
+Balm.—Packet, 5 cents; ounce, 25 cents. 
*Basil, Sweet.—Packet, 5 cents; ounce, 20 cents. 
*Beme.—Packet, 5 cents; ounce, 15 cents. 
*Borage.—Packet, 5 cents; ounce, 15 cents. 
;Caraway.—Packet, 5 cents; ounce, 10 cents. 
+Catmip.—Packet, 10 cents; ounce, 35 cents. 
+Cicely, Sweet.—Packet, 5 cts.; ounce, 30 cts. 
*Coriander.—Packet, 5 cents; ounce, 10 cents. 
*Cumin.—Packet, 5 cents; ounce, 20 cents. 
{Dill.—Packet, 5 cents; ounce, 10 cents. 
+Fennel, Sweet.—Packet, 5 cts.; ounce, 10 cts. 
+Horehound. —Packet, 5 cents; ounce, 25 cents. 
}Lavender.—Packet, 5 cents; ounce, 15 cents. 
*Marjoram, Sweet.—Packet, 5 cts.; ounce, 15 cts. 
*Pennyroyal.—Packet, 10 cts.; 8 packets, 25 cts. 
+Rosemary.—Packet, 5 cents; ounce, 25 cents. 
TRue.—Packet, 5 cents; ounce, 15 cents. 
*Saifron.—Packet, 5 cents; ounce, 20 cents. 
+Sage.—Pkt.,5 cts.; 0z., 15 cts.; 4 1b., 40c.; 1b., $1.50. 
*Summer Savory.—Packet, 5 cts.; ounce, 10 cts. 
yTansy.—Packet, 5 cents; ounce, 30 cents, 
}Tarragon.—Packet, 10 cents; 3 packets, 25 cents. 
}Thyme.—Packet, 10 cents; ounce, 25 cents. 
}Winter Savory.—Packet, 5 cts.; ounce, 20 cts. 
+Wormwood.—Packet, 5 cents; ounce, 20 cents. 
(Herbs marked * are annual; marked + are per- 
ennial; marked t are biennial. 
GARDEN LEMON. 
Fruit striped dark green, 
somewhat smaller than the 
melon peach, with thinner 
flesh and decidedly more 
acid, thus dispensing with 
the sliced lemon so import- 
ant in putting up the melon 
peach. The cultivation is 
the same as for muskmelon. 
Packet, 10 cts.;3 packets,25 cts. 

SAGE. 

THYME. 









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Grows on @ vine, the same as a melon 
j) The fruit has the size, shape and golden 
yellow color of an orange. The flesh is 
snow white, and makes excellent pre- 
serves. The fruit may be s!iced and fried, 
like egg plant. Superior to peppers for 
use aS mangoes. The vine is productive 
and quite hardy, and the fruit will keep 
= @ long time after picking. Recipes for 
preserving sent with each packet of 
seeds. Packet, 10 cents; ounce, 25 cents. 



MELON PEACH. 
IMPROVED GROUND CHERRY. 
A low growing plant producing fruit good for 
canning, preserving, pies, etc. Unexcelled 
when dried in sugar, like raisins or figs. The 
fruit is of a handsome yellow color, and will 
keep until midwinter. The diameter of the 
fruit is 1 to 2inches and the flavor suggests the 
strawberry. It is abundantly produced. Itisa 
great curiosity everywhere, and in some 8ec- 
tions is highly prized, selling well in the mar- 
kets. Packet, 10 cents; ounce, 25 cents. 
CHINESE LANTERN PLANT, 
OR GIANT WINTER GHERRY, #2124 
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This plant is a gigantic species of the showy 
winter cherry, growing about 1% feet high. It 
is perfectly hardy, and will live out over win- 
\ ter. It makes a beautiful window plant. It 
™ pears the first season, producing halloon like 
husks 3 to 8% inches across. The husks or 
¢ pods at first are light green, then bright yel- 
low, then intense orange scarlet. Inside the 
husk or “lantern” is the fruit, which is simi- 
lar to the winter cherry or husk tomato, ex- 
cept that the color is a deep ruby red and the 
quality far superior for cooking, preserving 
or eating raw. Directions for preserving in 
each packet of seed. Pkt., 10 cts.; 3 pkts., 25 cts. 
Treat like parsley, A valu- 
GHERVI ag able flavoring herb. Packet, 
5 cents; ounce, 15 cents; 14 pound, 8d cents. 
A hardy perennial. Sow 
DANDELIO a in early spring,in drills 
half an inch deep, and thin to 10 or 12 inches 
in the row. The rows may be close together, 
or alternate rows of spinach or other quick 
maturing crops may be put in. Give good 
summer culture, and the Dandelion will be 
ready to cut the following spring. One ounce 
of seed to 300 feet of drill. Packet, 10 cents; 
ounce, 50 cents; 44 pound, $1.00. 







CHINESE 
LANTERN! 
PLANT. 
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‘| meat in nutritious qualities. One pound of spawn 
UPLAND CRESS. 
—A_ perennial 
much like water cress, ' 
ready for use in earli- 
est spring. Hardy. 
Sow in shallow drills” 
in early autumn. PkKt., ; 
10 cts.; 3 pkts., 25 ctw. 
; KXTRA CURLED 
CRESS, OR PEP= 
PER GRASS.-—An an- 
nual, making a good 
A _ Salad. Sow thickly in 
shallow drills in 
Pies Spring, and make re- 
Nill, peated plantings. It 
j Pkt., 5 cts.; oz., 10 cts.; 
i 14 Ib., 20 cts.; 1b., 60 cts. 
WATER CRESS.— 
Propagated by roots 
F or seeds. It will grow 
in shallow water on the edge of streams, or upon a greenhouse bench in 
moist soil. Packet, 10 cents; ounce, 35 cents; 14 pound, $1.00. 
CHIGORY Root used when dried as a substitute for coffee; the ten- 
g der sprouts, when forced in the dark are used for salads. 
Packet, 5 cents; ounce, 10 cents; 44 pound, 25 cents; pound, 75 cents. 
CORN SALAD. 
Sometimes called Fet- 
ticus. Used as a salad 
like lettuce or cooked 
like spinach, 
CULTURE. — Treat like 
lettuce, except that it 
may be planted closer, as 
itissmaller. Itis hardy, 3 
and may be _ carried 4&3 
through the winter in 
cold frame or under litter. CORN SALAD. i 
NEW LARGE ROUND-LEAVED. — Ma- 
tures in 4 or 5 weeks. Packet, 5 cents; ounce, 
10 cents; 144 pound, 25 cents; pound, 60 cents. 
ENDIV Endive is used as a salad, and for 
g Window decoration in eating 
houses and restaurants. 
CULTURE.—The seed is usually planted in the 
open ground, in June or July, as a second crop, 
in rows 12 to 18 inches apart and the plants 
thinned to stand a foot apart from each other. 
The seed should be drilled in an inch below the surface, and the soil 
pressed firmly about 
it, as with all other 
seeds sown in hot 
weather. In autumn 
the endive is blanched 
by tying the leaves 
together, or laying a\\ 








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the plant, or covering 
with a box for a week. 
Use 4 to 5 pounds of 
seed per acre; 1 ounce 
to 300 feet of row. a) 
BROAD-LEAVED 
BARANAAN Taree: == 2 
kt., 5 cts.; 0z., 15 cts.; Anas aS 7 
14 |b., 40 cts.; 1b., $1.25. EVER WHITE CURLED ENDIVE. 
GREEN CURLED.—Hardiest. PEt., 5c.; oz., 15c.; 4 1b., 40c.; Ib., $1.25. 
EVER WHITE CURLED. — Self-blanching. Packet, 5 cents; 
ounce, 15 cents; 44 pound, 40 cents; pound, $1.50, 
Seeds 
MUSTARD Leaves used for salad, or boiled like spinach. 
p usedasacondiment. Make repeated sowings in shal- 
|low drills a foot apart. Of easy cultivation. 
WHITE.—Packet, 5 cts.; ounce, 10 cts.; 44 pound, 15 cts.; pound, 40 cts. 
BLACK.—Packet, 6 cts.; ounce, 10 cts.; 44 pound, 15 cts.; pound, 40 cts. 
NEW CHINESE.—Pkt., 5 cts.; 0z., 10 cts.; 14 1b., 20 cts.; 1b., 50 cts. 
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is sufficient for 8 square feet of prepared bed. 
Special cultural hints sent out with every order. & 
‘Lsuggest the spawning of old sod ground, either 
Jawn or field, in a Small way by inserting bits of 
spawn just under the sod and making it firm 
again. This is frequently done with much suc- 
cess. Per pound, 25 cents; 5 pounds, $1.00, post- 
paid. By express, 10 pounds, $1.25; 25 pounds, $2.50. 
NASTURTIUM Used for pickles. Also 
a prized as a flower. 
CULTURE.—Sow in drills, 1 inch deep, as 
soon as danger of frost is over. The tall kinds 
need sticks. An ounce will sow 25 feet of row. 
TALL.—PEt., 5c.; 0z., 1Uc.; 14 1b., 25¢.; 1b., 75¢. 
DWARE.—PEt.,5c.; 0z.,15c.; 14 1b.,40c.; 1b. ,81.25, 
S R EL Cultivated for use as a salad. 
R g It has asprightly flavor. Cook 
likespinach. Pkt.,5c.;0z.,15c.5;!4 1b.,30¢.51b.,$1.00. 
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