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JOHXSOX & STOKES, PHILADELPHIA 



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LANNIER'S SUPERBA 

 BEET 



The Most Perfect Beet in Existence 



For more than fifty years Mr. William Larmier, one 

 of the oldest and best-known market gardeners near 

 Philadelphia, supplied the early and late markets with 

 the handsomest and most salable beets that could be 

 had, and Lannier's Beets, as they were called, became 

 much sought after by the best commission merchants of 

 New York, Boston and Philadelphia. During all these 

 years Mr. Lannier selected with a critical eye the most 

 perfect beets from each crop for seed stock to plant for 

 his own use, never allowing himself to purchase seed for 

 planting from any one. This new beet is the result of all 

 these years of such careful and intelligent selection, and 

 in it we believe the acme of perfection has been reached 

 in beet culture. The photographic illustration gives an 

 idea of its beautiful bell shape, between a turnip and a 

 half-long beet. It is a strong, vigorous grower, producing 

 marketable beets very early, quite as early as the Extra 

 Early Egyptian, but far surpassing it in size and tender 

 quality, and of a dark splendid carmine color. Price, 

 pkt., 10c; oz., 20c; } lb., 50c; lb., $1.50. 



LANNIER S SCPERBA BEET. 



Ruby Dulcet Beet 



The Ruby Dulcet is more of a globe shape 

 than the Superba ; not quite as early, but in every 

 way is a superior market sort ; small top, blood 

 red, free from fibrous rootlets and with a very 

 slender tap root. The skin and flesh are a deep 

 rich purplish crimson, fine grained, and sweet and 

 tender in all stages of growth. Price, pkt., 10c; 

 oz., 15c; Jib., 35c; lb., $1.10. 



The Longfellow 



Bush Bean 



(GREEN-PODDED) 



Extra Early, Very Proliiic, Tender, 



Delicious Quality 



The Longfellow is an ideal snap bean, a pro- 

 lific producer of perfectly round, straight, solid, 

 fleshy pods, averaging 6k inches long, exceedingly 

 tender and brittle, without any tough interlining, 

 and without string when broken. The delicate 

 green color of the pods, which is retained after 

 cooking, adds to its attraction. Plants are of 

 robust, compact habit, a very heavy cropper. It 

 is extra early, the pods being fit to pick four days 

 in advance of any other variety of equal size and 

 merit. Price, pkt., 10c; pint, 30c; quart, 50c; by 

 mail, postpaid ; bv freight or express, quart, 35c; 

 peck, $2.50. 



B.UBY DULCET BEET. 



