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



This is the second 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 head 

 appearing 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 iS8i. 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 men 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 waj". 

 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 

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

 mated 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., 25c.; 5 pkts., $1.00; X oz., $1.50; >^ oz., $3.00; oz.. $6.00. One ounce cauliflower seed will 

 produce about 2500 plants, the crop of which would usually bring in this market I300 to I400. 



ImprDved Rust Froof B-DldEii IZSTax Bean. 



From our trials of this splendid new variety, we believe that it must, when fully known, entirely 

 take the place of the well-known Golden Wax. It originated with Mr. Fred. Williams, one of the 

 largest bean growers of New York State and from whom we* have obtained our seed. Descriptive of 

 this new bean, we can hardly do better than quote the following, from a lettfer written us by Mr. 

 Williams, October 9, 1889 : 



"The Improved Rust Proof Golden Wax is the handsomest and hardiest of all the Wax Beans. 

 The pods are straight, long, and thicker than Golden Wax, much superior in quality and absolutely rust 

 proof. It outyielded the Golden Wax two to one this season, and I think it will become the most pop- 

 ular of all Wax Beans." 



Every claim made in the above was fully substantiated in our trials of this bean the past season, 

 and we hope no progressive gardener will omit giving it a trial this season. Pkt., loc; pint, 30c.; qt., 

 55c., post-paid. Qt., 40c.; peck, ^2.50, by freighter express. 



