NOVELTIES OF STERLING MERIT. 



JOBHSflH & STORES' HEW EBRLY BLflBflSTEE BPnUFLOWEB. 



This is the first season we have been able to secure enough seed of this most valuable new and 

 distinct sort to offer it to the general public, our small crops of seed having been all engaged by Long 

 Island market gardeners, even before the seed was taken out and cleaned. Our Early Alabaster was 

 originally a sport from the finest German strain of the selected Dwarf Erfurt, one extra fine kead ap- 

 pearing some ten days in advance of any other in the crop of one of the largest and most expert cauli- 

 flower growers on Long Island in 1881. The seed of this was carefully saved by him, and from it our 

 stock has been brought up. Careful selections have been made each year, the type is fixed, and we 

 confidently recommend this as the earliest and best Cauliflower in the world, and it is so pronounced by 

 all growers of Eastern Long Island who have had it, and in Suffolk County, N. Y. , where it originated, and 

 where hundreds of acres are annually grown and shipped to market. Many of these taen have told 

 us they would not take Snow Ball, Erfurt, or seed of any other variety as a gift, as long as they could 

 buy the Early Alabaster. It is suited for forcing as well as for growing in open ground, being of very- 

 dwarf erect habit, with short outer leaves. It can be planted as close as eighteen inches apart each way. 

 It is a sure header, every plant forming a large, .solid and perfect head of remarkably pure snowy- white 

 color. Of the finest table quality. All market and family gardeners, who have failed in growing this de- 

 licious vegetable, may rest assured that the trouble has come from either inferior or imported unacclima- 

 ted seed, and should bear in mind that our seed of the Early Alabaster is American grown, and from 

 it a crop of cauliflower can be; grown as easily as a crop of cabbage, and with greater profit. Try it. 

 Pkt., 35'^-; 3 pkts., $1.00; X 02., $2.00 ; yi oz.,$4.oo; oz., $8.00. One ounce cauliflower seed will 

 produce about 2500 plants, the crop of which would usually bring in this market $300 to I400. 



A KEMAEKABLE CATJLIPLO'WEB. 



K Clithekoe, Ashton, R. I., writes: "The Alabaster 

 '-'^"flower is certainly remarkable; it surprised many people 

 who had an idea cauliflowers could not be raised here. They 

 are of very large size, and of very superior quality." 



50 PEK CENT LAHOEB AND FINER HEADS. 



Mb. Chas. Vatjtieb, Magazine Lane, a leading Philadel- 

 phia market gardener, says : " The Early Alabaster Cauli- 

 v°'^^"' Jt?^* ,°™ y°" produces fifty per cent, larger and finer 

 heads than the Selected Dwarf Erfurt or Snowball, and I 

 ■Will also Bay that I have never had better Snowball than I 

 got from you." 



THE BEST EVER GRO"WN. 



John Van DusEN, Warren, Pa., writes: " Your cauli- 

 flower is very fine indeed, by far the best I have ever grown." 



NOVELTIES NOT OVERPRAISED. 



E. D. GrBSON, Ashbumham, Mass., writes : " I have had 

 your seed for a number of years, and have found them true 

 in name and quality. I find your novelties not overpraised, 

 and that you do not send out old varieties under new names, 

 as some do^ When you get a new thing ydu tell us the truth 

 about it." 



