JOHNSOK & STOKES, PHILADELPHIA. 



Johnson ^ Sf o([es' Uiondepf ul Cabbage. 



OHNSON ,^ 



ONDERfUli 

 CABBAGE. 



Cabbage, 

 wonder. 



Pkt., 15c. 



When we introduced our now famous John- 

 son &. Stokes' Earliest Cabbage six years ago, we 

 thought we had reached the top of the ladder of 

 extreme earliness in the cabbage family. En- 

 couraged by the phenomenal success of that 

 variety, our motto always being "Onward," in- 

 duced us to try again and, by persistent selection 

 for several years of the very earliest heads of that 

 variety, we have produced a new and improved 

 strain of our celebrated cabbage, which produces 

 fair-sized, good, marketable heads in seventy-flve 

 to eighty days from sowing the seed, and outdoes 

 it in earliness by at least six days. This makes 

 our New Wonderful Cabbage fully two weeks 

 ahead of any known variety, except Johnson & 

 Stokes' Earliest. Market gardeners can, of course, 

 realize what a bonanza this is to the pocket-book 

 of a cabbage grower, in the spring markets. It 

 does not, of course, form c^uite so large or solid a 

 head as our Earliest, but m all other respects it 

 fully equals it. It has few loose outer leaves, 

 and every plant forms a good head. The head 

 is well depicted in our illustration, taken from 

 nature. It will produce a larger crop than any 

 other variety, from the fact that it can be 

 planted closer together. For want of a more ex- 

 pressive name we have called it our Wonderful 

 and believe that every customer who plants it will agree with us in pronouncing it a perfect 

 Market gardeners try it, we guarantee you will not be disappointed in it. Prices for 1889 : 

 ; oz., 60C.; ){ lb., $1.50. 



Jicv^ CJdhitc {^U66ian Summer liettuce. 



^LLLEfTaCE3F0^TKE 

 Mi^I^KET 6)?RDENE^. 



In introducing this valuable new 

 lettuce to our friends, we do so with the ^^. 

 perfect assurance that it is a genuine ^Z'' 

 new sort of invaluable merit, that has «|s^ ^ 

 been tested by ourselves and by a few of fe 

 our most intelligent market gardenersf-' 

 during the past season, with the most! 

 gratifying results. It is pre-eminently I 

 the best sort to withstand the extreme | 

 heat of our long, hot cummer months, as! 

 it forms beautiful, large, solid heads, | 

 witheut sh»wing the slightest disposition! 

 whatever to run to seed. The heads 1 

 generally have to be cut before any seedl 

 stalk will appear. It is equally well 

 adapted to early spring sowing. Of very 

 rapid growth, with few outer leaves, in 

 color it is a very light green, being almost 

 white, and forms a very large, solid head new white Russian summer lettuce 



of the finest quality. Several Philadelphia market gardeners who tested it last season were so 

 highly pleased with it that they have already ordered a sufiBcient stock to last them two years — stock 

 limited — order early. Pkt., 15c.; oz., 45c.; X ^b. $1.25 ; lb., $4.50. 



To enable the agricultural community to send direct 

 to the regular seedsmen and growers that they may get 

 good seeds as cheaply as those who live in or near our large 

 cities, Congress, at its last session, reduced the postage on 

 seeds, plants and bulbs to all parts of the United States to 

 eight cents per pound, one-half the former rates. This liberal 

 concession on the part of the Government will be appreciated 

 by thousands of gardeners who have heretofore been obliged 

 to depend on the village stores for their supplies, which rare- 

 ly gave satisfaction, enabling them now to send away and get 

 them from some reliable seedsmen, with less trouble and ex- 

 pense than to purchase the worthless stock which are hawk- 

 ed about the country, and left at the grocery and other stores 

 to be sold on commission. 



