I am especially proud of this General List of Vegetable Seeds. 
It contains all varieties of merit, no matter how old, as well as 
many Novelties and Specialties that have been crowded out of | 
the green pages for want of room; making altogether, with those 
sorts listed on the preceding 32 pages, the most complete list of | 
vegetable seeds ever offered by an American seed house. You) 
will no doubt miss some things that are heavily boomed by other 
seedsmen; the reason I do not list them is because they are 
either not good enough for this book, or so similar to varieties 
that I[ already list, it would be superfluous to grow and catalogue 
them. ; 
I would again call the attention of my friends to the fact that 
General List of Vegetables 
this year I give away no free books or free sample packets for 
trial. Every customer has the privilege of selecting his own premium 
on the basis ot 50 cents worth of seeds in packets for every dollar re- 
mitted for seeds in packets. See notice 2nd cover page. In this way 
you can secure for trial, free of cost, a packet of as many things 
in this catalogue as you may desire, the number of packets only 
being limited by the amount of the order in packets and ounces. 
In past years I distributed hundreds of thousands of extra packets, 
many of which have been of no use to the recipient, because they 
were varieties they did not need, or that could not be grown in, 
their locality, hence were not appreciated. This year select your 
own premium packets as per announcement on 2nd cover page. 
GREEN GLOBE.—A table vegetable of 
ARTIGHOKES flower buds just before full development. Start seed in border and set plants 
@ 4x4feet. Protect with winter mulch north of Delaware. Pkt., 10c.; 0z., 30c. 
very high merit. Perennial. Use 
CuULTURE.—1 ounce of seed in drills will produce 400 plants. 
ASPARA Select strong one-year plants for making a plantation. 
@ apart, 144 feet or more apart inrow. This will require 6,000 plants per acre. 
BARR’S PHILADELPHIA MAMMOTH.—It throws strong, well developed shoots the entire season, 
and always commands top notch prices in the discriminating Philadelphia market. 
Barr’s Mammoth has yielded at the rate of $500 per acre. 
Pkt., 5 cts.; oz., 10 cts.3 
$2.00, postpaid. 
Which stay white. 
60c. 
Pkt., 5 cts.; oz.; 10 cts.; 
$2.00, postpaid. 
One experienced grower 
larger than Palmetto as 
1-year-old, 100 by mail, $1.00; 
By express, not prepaid, l-year-old, 
$4.00 per 1,000; 2-year-old, $6.00 per 1,000. 
COLUMBIAN MAMMOTH WHITE.—Has white shoots 
Pkt., 5c.3; oz., 10c¢.3; 14 Ib., 20c.3; lb., 
Roots, 11-year-old, 100 by matl, $1.00; 2-year= 
old, 100 by mail, $2.00, postpaid. By ex., not prepaid, 3 
1-year-old, $4.00 per 1,000; 2-year-old, $6 per 1,000. g 
PALMETTO.— Earlier than Conover’s. 
gin, but suitable for North also. 
1-year-old, 100 by mail, $1.00; 2-year-old, 100 by mail, 
By express, not prepaid, 1-year-old, 
$4.00 per 1,000; 2-year-old, $6.00 per 1,000. 
GIANT ARGENTEUIL.—The seed which I offer is a 
selection from imported French Argenteuil stock. 
strain is an improvement upon the original. 
it is regarded as distinctly superior to Palmetto, and I 
recommend it with great confidence to Northern growers. 
It has a place of its own in the New York and Boston 
markets, and sells for $1.00 to $2.00 more per dozen bunches 
than the best of old sorts. 
old, $1.00 per 100; 2-year-old, 100 by mail, $2.00, postpaid. 
l-year-old,75 cents per 100; $5.00 per 1,000. 
Soak the seed. 
Set deeply in rows 5 feet 
At three years old 
\4 Ib., 20 cts.; lb., 60 cts. Roots, 
2-year-old, by mail, 
Of Southern ori- 
Large and productive. 
ly Ib., 20 cts.; Ib., 60 cts. Roots, 
My 
In the South 
says that Argenteuil is as much 
Palmetto is larger than Conover. 
BARR’S PHILADELPHIA MAMMOTH, 
Pkt., 10 cts.; oz., 15 cts.; 14 lb., 30 cts,; lb., $1.00. Roots, l-year= 
By express, not prepaid, 
2-year-old, $1.00 per 100; $6.00 per 1.000, 
1 quart to 275 feet of drill; 
per acre. 
of beans. 
BUSH BEANS.—GREEN POD. 
Cover bush beans 2 inches; pole beans 1 inch. 
apart; pole beans in hills 4 feet each way. 
Limas delight in soil that is made very rich by liberal manuring. 
CULTURE. — Beans are rather tender, and 
should not go into the open ground until 
danger of frost is over. Of bush beans use 
Of pole beans use 1 quart to 200 hills; 10 to 16 quarts 
Sow bush beans in drills 2 to 4 feet 
Good corn land is in condition for growing a crop 
14% bushels to acre. 
9 Ons rs 
Burpee’s Stringless Green Pod. 
The Stringless Green Pod is now one of the most popular bush 
beans in America. In point of earliness it ranks among the first, in 
quality it is excelled by none, and in bearing ability it stands without 
a rival. It is unquestionably the greatest green pod bean to date. 
As to brittleness of pod, the point suggested by its name, its merit is so 
high that its enthusiastic friends claim it is the only stringless bean. 
Packet, 10 cents; pint, 25 cents; quart, 40 cents, postpaid. 
The pods are round, fleshy and nearly straight; are borne in abund- 
ance through a long season, beginning early. They are 544 to 61% inches 
in length, light green in color, very tender, and of highest and best 
flavor. They remain long in edible condition, and the plant or bush 
bears continuously for weeks. This bean is unexcelled for home use, and 
will be found very profitable for market. It has already taken great hold 
with market gardeners, on account of its heavy cropping ability. The 
testimony in regard to it is all in one direction and all highly flattering. 
By express or freight, not prepaid, peck, $1.75; bushel, $6.00. 
