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JOHNSON & STOKES, PHILADELPHIA. 



ARTICHOKE. 



targe Green Globe. Pkt., 10c.; oz., 2.5e.; lb., 82.50. 



JERUSALEM ARTICHOKE ROOTS. 



ARTICHOKE ROOTS. 



Three bushels will seed an acre. 



.Terasaletn. This variety is not produced from seed. 

 They are sometimes used as a table vegetable when pickled, 

 but their greatest value is for feeding stock. They are the 

 best hog-food known, and are now attracting much attention 

 on account of their great fattening properties, great produc- 

 tiveness (over one thousand bushels liavingbeen grown on 

 an acre), and ease with which they can be grown. They 

 need not be dug in the fall ; the hogs should be turned in 

 on them, and will help themselves by rooting for them. 

 One acre will keep from twenty to thirty head in tine con- 

 dition from October until April, except when the ground is 

 frozen too hard for them to root. They are also said to be a 

 preventive of cholera and other hog diseases. They are also 

 highly recommended for milch cows, increasing the yield of 

 milk and at the same time improving their condition. They 

 are well adapted to any soil where corn or potatoes can be 

 grown. The tubers should be cut same as potatoes, one eye 

 to a cut being sufficient, planted in April or May, in rows 

 three feet apart and two feet in the rows, and covered about 

 two inches deep. To destroy them, they should be plowed 

 under when the plant is about a foot high, at which time the 

 old tuber has decayed and new ones are not yet formed. 

 They can be shipped at any time during the season, as they 

 are not injured bv freezing. Lb., 3.5c. ; 4 lbs., SI. 00, post-paid ; 

 by freight or express, peck, Sl.OO; bush., S3.00; bbl. of -3 

 bush., S7.50. 



ASPARAGUS. 



One oz. will sow forty feet of row ; 7200 roots will plant an 



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the stem, and of delicious flavor, which, together with 

 the fact that it requires much less labor in cutting and 

 bunching, thus lessening the expense of marketing, makes if 

 much the most desirable of any kind yet introduced for the 

 market gardener. It has attracted much attention in Phila- 

 delphia markets, where it is much sought after and sells at 

 double the price of any other sort. ^Ve have seen a bunch 

 of twenty-five edible shoots weigh thirteen pounds. It is now- 

 grown by many of the leading market gardeners of Phila- 

 delphia, "Chester and Montgomery Counties with great proHt. 

 Price of seed: Pkt.. lOc; oz.,20c.; J^lb., 50c.; lb.,S1.50. Price 

 of roots: 1 vear old, S1.25 per 100 (bv mail, S1.50 per 100); 

 SC.OO per 1.000; 2 years old, S1.50 per 100; S7.00 per 1,000. (500 

 roots at 1,000 rate.') 



PALMETTO ASPA- 

 RAOrS. Attention was 

 first called to this new 

 variety by Mr. John Nix, 

 a large vegetable grower, 

 of South Carolina, where 

 it is supposed to have orig- 

 inated. It is now quite ex- 

 tensively grown by a few 

 Southern gardeners for 

 New York markets, where 

 it sell at very high prices, 

 I owing to its mammoth size, 

 ' evenness and regularity in 

 ;rowth and appearance. 

 An average bunch of 

 fifteen shoots will naeasure 

 thirteen tofourteen inches 

 in circumference. For the 

 pasttwo seasons this aspa- 

 ragus has reached the New 

 York markets ten days 

 ahead of all other va- 

 rieties and sold at fabulous 

 prices, even after other 

 SEW PALMETTO ASPARAGUS. Varieties had Come in. 

 Price of seed : Pkt., lOc; oz.. 20c.; }^ lb., 60c.: lb., 82.00. 

 Roots: 81.50 per 100 (bv mail, 81.75 per 100); 87.50 per 1,000. 

 (500 roots at 1.000 rate.) ' 



Conover's Colossal. A good productive variefv. Seed: 

 Pkt., 5c.; oz., lOc; J^ lb., 20c.; lb., 60c. Roots: 1 vear old, 

 90c. per 100 (bv mail, post-paid, 81.15 per 100) ; 84.00;per 1,000; 

 2 years old, 81.00 per 100; 85.00 per 1,000, by express or 

 freight. 



BEANS, Dwarf or Bush. 



One quart will plant one hundred feet of drill, two 

 bushels will plant an acre in drills. 



Comparative tests of Dwarf Beaus made on our 

 Trial Grounds in 1888, to determine the relative earliness 

 of the new and leading sorts. 



The plantings were all made the same day, June 2d, 

 under precisely the same conditions, with the following 

 results : 



VARIETY. 



I Plant 



1 J*'^"'''^ iBlossoms Tj. , . 

 Ground, i"*""^" ", Picking. 



First 



Ready 

 for 



Early Mohawk, June 10 



Improved Round Pod, Extra 



Earlv Valentine, 1 " 10 



Early Red Valentine, I " 12 



White Valentine " 11 



Long Yellow Si.x Weeks, . . .| " 12 



NewSnowflake Field Bean. . .1 "IS 



White Marrowfat Field " 14 



WAX SORTS. 



WardwelTs New Kidnev Wax, June 10 



Golden Wax " 11 



Dwarf German Wax, " 12 



Black-Eve Wax " 10 



New Flageolet Wax , " 12 



Julv 9 ' Julv 22 



5 



14 



13 

 16 



Julv 



15 

 25 

 20 

 19 

 23 

 29 



July 14 



" 18 



" 20 



" 17 



" 21 



BARK'S PHILADELPHIA BIASI3IOTH. This 

 Asparagus is superior to any yet oflFered for sale in this 

 country. It originated about six years ago Avith Crawford 

 Barr, of Montgomery Co., Pa., a prominent market gar- 

 dener. Grown side by side with the Conover's Colossal, 

 and subject to the same treatment, it came in earlier and 

 grew more than twice as large. It is very productive, 

 throwing up a great number of strong, well-developed 

 shoots throughout the entire season. It is fender to 



Please remember to add for Postage 8c. per 

 pint or 13c. per quart, on all Beans when ordered 

 to be sent by mail. 



LARGE PACKETS OF ANY VARLETT, 5c. EACH, 

 POST-PAJD. 



NEW BXJSH BEAN— NE PLUS ULTRA. 



This bean, as its name indicates, is the Ne Plus Ultra of 

 all sorts. It differs from all the other varieties in both seed 

 and habit of growth. It is very early, growing very dwarf 

 and compact, and producing its magnificent long pods in 

 such great profusion as to completely hide the bush. It is 

 verv hardy, of fine delicate flavor, most productive, and ex- 

 cellent for forcing. Pkt., 10c.; pint. 35c.; qt., 60c. 



