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



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ME QRE/ITE5T OF ALL ^ 

 t EARLY Q/1BP/1QE5 • 



IF YOU WANT TO MAKE MORE 

 MONEY THAN EVER THIS YEAR 

 GROWING CABBAGE, SOW JOHN- 

 SON & STOKES' EARLIEST. 



Pkt., loc; oz., 40c.; ^_^ lb., Sil.t>,>; 11)., S4.00, post-paid. 



JOHNSON & STOKES' EARLIEST CABBAGE. 



NO-W IN THE SIXTH YEAR OF ITS 

 GREAT POPULARITY, WITH DEMAND 

 GREATER THAN EVER BEFORE. 



This now famous variety gives us greater satisfaction than 

 any of our new introductions, and no one can possibly be dis- 

 appointed with it. The demand for the seed the past three 

 years has been really marvellous. We have supplied it to 

 more than 5,000 market g irdeners, among them some of the 

 largest growers of cabbage in the U. S., and have received 

 several hundi ed letters pronouncing it the most profitable cab- 

 bage they have ever grown. The demand from small family 

 gardeners alone reached the enormous total of 56,800 packages 

 the past three .seasons, and we doubt if there has ever been a 

 novelty introduced in America which hns given such univer- 

 sal satisfaction, and been so highly commended in every par- 

 i jcular, and in all sections. It is ten days earlier tlian Early 

 .Jersey Wakefield and French Etampes, which have heretofore 

 been considered tlie earliest of all cabbages, and is luisurjiassed 

 in fiue qualit!/, greatbeaitly and rigor of growth. Above engrav- 

 ing, niadc from a jihotograph, shows its exact shape, whicli 

 is slightly conical, and remarkably large and solid. It lias very 

 few outer leaves, .and will produce a greater crop, on the same 

 area of ground, than any ordinary variety, from tlie fact that 

 it can be planted c'oser together. It i.s by all odds the most 

 desir.ible early cabbage ever introduced. No words of praise 

 can be written that would recommend this most valuable 

 cabbage too highly. Prices for 1890: Pkt., 15c.; oz., 40e.; 

 J^lb., $1.25; lb., W.OO, by mail, post-paid. 



C. H. Waters, Saginaw, Mich., Sept. 28, 1889, writes: 

 " Of all the cabbage seed boughtof you, the Johnson AStokes' 

 Earliest is the finest. I sowed it three weeks later than my 

 com|)etitors and it was on the market ten days ahead of them 

 all and finer than any following. My Atlantic Prize Toma- 

 toes were ten days in advance of others, and 1 received $2..dO 

 per bushel for them. My plants were started three weeks 

 later than my neighbors, owing to my being away from 

 home till the first of April. The cabbage croi^in this locality 

 is practically a failure, but mine is a good one, and I will 

 clear on my two acres of late cabbage 8:550. Every plant 

 made a good solid head, weighing 20 lbs. and upwards. 

 These varieties are your Short-Stem Drumhead and Match- 

 less Flat Dutch. After cutting the first heads off of •!. & S. 

 Earliest there was a second crop, growing good heads." 



Geo. Collins, Wilmington, N. C, April 8, 1889, writes: 

 " I cannot refrain from writing a few lines in prai.se of your 

 J. & S. Earliest Cabbage. I took but half a pound of your 

 seed to try, and I can faithfully say it would have made a 

 difference of hundreds of dollars if my entire crop had been 

 of your variety. I niaysnfelysay thatthere were 95good solid 

 heads from every 100. No other cabbage will bear any com- ■ 

 parison to them. I have drawn several of my neighbors' 

 attention to them and they all bear me out in my assertions. 

 Every one who sees them asks ' What variety is this?' " 



Wm. Andell, Johns Island, S. C, writes: "I am .just 

 winding up shipping my early cabbages (15 acres), and wish 

 you to know that I had one acre of your jolinson & Stokes' 

 Earliest cabbage planted A\hich turned out far better and 

 earlier than all the others ; all made good solid heads, low to 

 the ground. I am so well pleased that I cannot help letting 

 you know. As it will be our best cabbage in future, I want 

 10 lbs. for myself and my neighbors." 



