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.-. JOHNSON .-. & .-. STOKES .'. PHILADELPHIA 



^aCHOI-S' IMPROVED I.ONG ORANGE CARROT. 



We procured this stock, offered for sale last spring for the 

 first time, from Mr. Robert Nichols, one of the most success- 

 ful market gardeners of this city, and the mere mention of 

 his name among his brother gardeners will be sufficient 

 guarantee of its high excellence. The strain is earlier than 

 either tlie well-known D.Tnvers or Long Orange as usually 

 sold. The color is of a deep orange when no thicker than an 

 ordinary lead-pencil, shading to a deep orange red when 

 fully grown. The root is perfectly smooth from the shoulder 

 to the extreme tip, and entirely devoid of side rootlets in all 

 stages of growth. It grows without any neck whatever, the 

 top is short, and this, together with its extreme earliriess, ad- 

 mirably fits it for growing in hot-beds. 



We pronounce it the ideal carrot, either for early or late 

 use, being enormously productive and highly nutritious for 

 stock when grown as a field crop. Pkt., 5c.; oz., 10c. ; J4 lb., 

 30c.; lb., SI. 00; 5 lbs., S4.2o, by express. 



laiPROTED I>A:NVERS carrot. Our pure Ameri- 

 can stock of this valuable variety is preferred by many mar- 

 ket gardeners to any other sort for forcing under glass. The 

 top is very small ; color of a rich shade of orange ; shape very 

 handsoine and smooth; quality the very best. One highly 

 valuable feature of our strain is that it has its full color when 

 quite young, which enables it to be pulled sooner than any 

 other sort. 



It is equally as valuable to grow for feeding stock, being 

 ■well adapted to all soils and will yield the greatest bulk with 

 the smallest length of root of any other sort. Under good 

 cultivation we have known it to produce thirty tons to the 

 acre. Pkt., 5c.; oz., lOc; 3^ lb., 25c.; lb., 90c.; 5 lbs., by ex- 

 press, S3.75. 



LONG ORAJCGE. The well-known and popular old 

 etand-by forlate summer and winter use ; grown extensively 

 for feeding stock. Pkt., 5c.; oz., lOc; ^ lb., 25c.; lb., 70c. 



OX-HEAKT, or HALF-LONG GUERANT>E. (Slvmp- 

 rooteri.) This is one of the most valuable of all recent intro- 

 ductions, either for family use or market. Intermediate 

 between the half-long and horn varieties, attaining a diame- 

 ter of three to four inches at the neck, and of most beautiful 

 shape and rich orange color. It is of extra fine qualitv and 

 very productive. Pkt., 5c.; oz., lOc; H lb., 30c.; lb., SLOG. 



HALF-LONG NANTES. {Stump-rooted.) A fine inter- 

 mediate varietv, bright scarlet color, smooth, large and of 

 excellent quality. Pkt., 5c.; oz., lOc; ^ lb., 30c.; lb., $1.00. 



NEW LONG RED CORELESS. One of the best long 

 carrots we have ever grown; it grows ten to twelve inches 

 long, and two inches in diameter; very smooth, stump-rooted, 

 good color, of excellent qunlity, free from any heart or pith. 

 Pkt., 5c.; oz., lOc; }i lb., 30c.; lb., Sl.OO. 



LARGE -maiTE VOSGES. A valuable variety, with 

 fine white flesh of e.'Tcellent quality ; large size, and by reason 

 of its shape is easily dug; very productive and nutritious; 

 excellent for stock. Pkt., 5c.; oz., lOc; J4 lb., 30c.; lb., 90c. 



Large Wliite Belgrian. Grows one-third above ground; 

 large white root, with green top; grown exclusively for feed- 

 ing stock. Pkt., 5c.; oz., lOc; J^ lb., 20e.; lb., 65c. 



Large Yellow Belgian. A good stock-feeding variety, 

 differing from the above onlv in color. Pkt., 5c.; oz., 10c ; 

 % lb., 20o.; \b., 65c. 



CELERY. 



One ounce will produce about twenty-five hundred 

 plants and sow about 200 feet of row. 



WHITE-|lE-t,eRY^ 





KALAHLiZOO BROAD BIBBED. This new variety, 

 whicli Ave offered last sea-<on for the first time, originated 

 with a prominent celery grower at Kalamazoo, Michigan, 

 and is pronounced by tlie few gardeners who have been for- 

 tunate enough to obtain the seed: "The m,ost perfect type of 

 Dwarf MTiite Celery ktioum." 



It is very distinct and handsome, of >a beautiful cream- 

 white color throughout, attains a very large size, of quick 

 growth, stiff and close habit (as shown in our illustration), is 

 remarkably solid, crisp eating and fine flavored. Ribs are 

 vei-y broad, thickly and closely set, while by reason of its 

 neat growth and showy appearance, it is a specially valuable 

 variety for market. It is also a first-class keeper, remaining 

 fit for use as long as the Golden I>warf and other good keep- 

 ing sor;s. For the use of hotels, restaurants and other large 

 establishments it is .superior to most other kinds, there 

 scarcely being any waste in dressing it for the table. It lias 

 such a distinctive appearance in growth as to cause almost 

 every one seeing it to exclaim: "What celery is that?" 

 Long rows of it being as level and even as though each plant 

 had been shaped in the .same mould. It is sure to take the 

 lead, and market gardeners and private planters will make 

 no mistake in planting it largelv. Pkt., 15c.; oz., 40c.; ^ih., 

 $1.25 ; lb., $4.00. 



