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OTTE CAMERA AT WORK IN THE FIELD. 



To make our Catalogues Strictly accurate and to set 

 forth actual appearance and real merits ■without the 

 exaggeration that so flagrantly appears in nearly all 

 the seed catalogues published, led us some years ago 

 to adopt the method of PHOTOGRAPHIC REPRO- 

 DUCTION, which has given our MANUAL an unique 

 reputation for truthfulness and accuracy combined 

 •TO'ith beauty. The pleasure of examining these "Plant 

 Portraits" cannot be spoiled by doubt or distrust. 

 You are standing -where the camera stood, looking 

 through it at the object itself. 



COLUMBIAN MAMMOTH 

 WHITE /ISPARAGUS. 



This is a valuable, new and most distinct variety, 

 first discovered on Long Island a few years since. 

 The stalks are very large, produced abundantly 

 and very early. They are a beautiful clear white 

 and remain so, in favorable weather. The crown 

 or bud of the young stalk is considerably smaller 

 than the part just below it; thus still further dis- 

 tinguishing the variety. This sort has been grown 

 by a few Long Island growers who have been real- 

 izing an extra price, not only on a fancy market, 

 but from canners, who find that when put up, under 

 a special brand, it sells so readily at a high price 

 as to warrant them paying the grower an extra price 

 for it. About ten per cent, of the plants grown 

 from seed will produce green shoots, but these 

 plants can be readily distinguished and rejected 

 when setting the permanent bed. Prices of seed : 

 pkt., loc; oz.,20c.; j4 lb., 50c.; lb., I1.75. Good 

 strong roots, I year old, ^1.50 per 100 (by mail, 

 post-paid, $1-75 per 100); $7.50 per 1000; 2-year-old 

 roots, $1.75 per 100; $8.50 per 1000. 500 roots fur- 

 nished at 1000 rates. 



PHOTO OF A>' AVERAGE BUNCH. C0LI7JIBIAN MAJIMOTH WHITE. 



MEW VALENTINE <^ * 



* * W/IX BEAN. 



This new variety, now offered for the first time, 

 is the long-looked-for Bean, an Improved Round 

 Pod Extra Early Valentine, with handsome colored 

 yellow or wax pods. The tj-pe is so perfectly Used 

 that only one plant with green pods, and that prob- 

 ably from a stray bean, was found in the field of 

 the originator, Mr. T. V. Maxon, the noted bean 

 grower of Jefferson Co. , N. Y. It is the earliest 

 wax bean yet produced; planted June i8th,podsover 

 4 inches long were picked July 25th. Pods very 

 meaty, entirelj' stringless, remarkably free from 

 rust and of the best qualitj'. Supply of seed so 

 limited that it can only be offered in packets this 

 season. Per pkt., 15c.; 2 pkts., 25c.; 5 pkts., 50c. 



NEW VALENTINE WAX BEAN. 



