POPULAR VEGETABLE SEEDS 



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JOHNSON A stokes' CHAMPION SPRING AND SUMMER. 



JOHNSON & STOKES' CHAIVIPION SPRING and 



SUMMEK. This new lettuce was offered for the first time 

 five years since, and from the number of favorable reports 

 and its wonderful popularity, has certainly proved a boon to 

 every gardener who planted it. It is certainly one of the 

 most valuable and distinct varieties in existence. It 

 is a beautiful bright golden color, and is not only one of 

 the best lettuces for early spring planting, forming good 

 solid heads before half grown, but alike valuable for growing 

 during the hottest summer months. The heads are so solid 

 and slow to shoot that they generally have to be cut before 

 any seed-stalk can make its appearance. Pkt.,10c.; oz.,30c.; 

 ^ lb., 75c.; lb., 82.75; 2 lbs., S5.00. 



14 WELL-KNOWN LETTUCES. 



Large Packets, 5c. Each. 



Per oz. hi lb. lb. 



Tennis Ball, or Boston Market, .... $0 10 80 .30 $1 CO 



Black Seed Tennis Ball 10 .30 1 00 



Pliiladelphia Early White Cabbage, . . 10 .30 100 



Improved Hanson, 10 30 1 1.5 



CaUfornia All-Heart 20 60 2 25 



Blonde Blockhead, or Sunset, 15 40 1 25 



California Cream Butter, 15 40 1 25 



Perpetual, or Improved Simpson 15 40 1 25 



Tomhannock, 10 30 1 00 



Victor Dutch Butter, 20 50 1 75 



Chartier Pink 15 35 1 25 



Yellow Seed Butter, 10 30 1 00 



Oak-Leaved, . .' 15 40 1 25 



Deacon, 15 40 1 25 



As this catalogue 

 will reach many 

 who have never had 



New C ustomers 



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our seeds, we would urge such tb send us a trial 

 order, no matter how small ; even though you may 

 now be satisfied with seeds bought elsewhere, we 

 believe our special strains of many of the newer 

 varieties will attract your special attention and 

 effort, and finally be found as profitable to you as 

 they have been to thousands of others who are now 

 regular customers. 



Seeds of Equal High Quality Can 

 Nowhere be Obtained for Less Money. 



IS:: MELON SEEdI 



We grow our Melon Seed almost exclusively on our own 

 farms and those of our private growers. We are to-day the 

 largest growers of Melon Seeds in the United States, our an- 

 nual production amounting to many tons. During past 

 years we have annually supplied them, not only in the 

 United States, but to customers in nearly every country in 

 Europe, Africa, South America, Mexico and West Indies. 

 We also supply, every season, over our counter, hundreds of 

 New .Jersey truck gardeners with our superior strains. We 

 attribute the popularity of our melon, as well as of other 

 seeds, to our careful selection of the very finestspecimensof 

 our seed stocks, thus improving and breeding up our stocks 

 to the highest state of perfection. As will be noted in the 

 following descriptions, several of the best and most popular 

 melons now known were first introduced by us. 



Muskmelons or Cantaloupes. 



One ounce will plant about seventy hills ; three pounds 

 will plant one acre. 



The following new melons are offered this season for the 

 first time : McCleary's Improved Jenny Lind, Ivey 

 Gem, Toogoodo Winter and Shippers' Delight. For 

 illustrations and descriptions, :L2e Novelties, pages 6, 7 and 8. 



NEW 6REBN-PLESHED OSAGE MELON. 



GREEN-FLESHED OSAGE. This splendid new and 

 distinct muskmelon represents several years' selection made 

 by Chauncey P. Coy, one of the most experienced growers 

 of melons in the world. With his thorough knowledge of 

 all varieties, the originator says: "It is superior in all re- 

 spects to any other green-fleshed melon now known." This 

 strong claim has been fully verified by hundreds of our cus- 

 tomers who have grown it the past two seasons, and proclaim 

 it " the king of all the green-fleshed sorts." It is very hardy 

 and prolific, in size and shape like the Red-Fleshed Osage, 

 but much more handsomely netted and colored on the out- 

 side skin, while its flesh is a beautiful pea-green and of most 

 dehdous quality. Pkt., 5c.; oz., lOc; 14 lb.. 30c.: lb., 81.00. 



MILLER CREAM, or RED-FLESHED OSAGE. No 

 variety of muskmelon has become so widely known in such 

 a short time as the Osage, or Miller Cream, as it is called 

 in some sections. In the Chicago and other Western markets 

 it is now the favorite sort. It is also well known by commis- 

 sion men and the general public, being offered on the hotel 

 and restaurant bills of fare by its own name — "OSAGE." 

 It grows to a medium size, and is egg- or globe-shaped. The 

 skin is very thin, of dark green color, and well netted. The 

 flesh is of a salmon pink color, remarkably sweet and 

 spicy in flavor, extremely thick and delicious to the rind. 

 Pkt., 5c.; oz., lOc; I4 lb., 20c.; lb., 50c.; 5 lbs. and over, 45c. 

 per lb., by express or freight. 



