Novelties and Specialties in Vegetables 
N presenting our Garden and Farm Manual for 1913, 
we wish to express our thanks to the thousands of customers 
for their generous patronage, which we have enjoyed in the 
past, and to assure them that we will use our best endeavors 
to merit a continuance of their good-will and orders in the 
years tocome. Many, no doubt, dislike to order but a few 
packets of seed which may be wanted, but we would like to 
emphasize the fact that we solicit the orders of all buyers, no 
matter how small or how large. 
While laying particular stress upon the newer varieties, we are 
very particular with our regular strains of standard old sort varie- 
ties, that perhaps have been your favorites and stand-=bys for years. 
NEW ASP ARAGUS Starkey’s Mammoth Prolific 
Originated and selected by one of 
Philadelphia’s most successful market 
gardeners, who for a few years past, 
has sent the largest and handsomest 
Asparagus to this market, realizing very 
high prices and by far the most profit- 
able variety in Philadelphia markets 
where it is becoming well known. 
Stalks are very large, tender, succulent 
and distinct bright green in color. 
Stalks measure 1 to 2 inches in diam- 
eter and have been known to weigh 
Yj |b. each. Mr. Starkey is a high 
cultivator and is usually one of the 
first inthemarket. Seed: pkt., 5c.;0z., 
10c., % lb., 30c.; lb., $1.15. Roots, 1 year 
old, $1.25 per 100, postpaid; by express, 
$1.00 per 100: $6.50 per 1000; 2 years 
old, per 100, $1.25; per 1000, $7.50. 
A NEW BEAN 
The Full Measure 
In the Full Measure we have 
another stringless, round, green-podded 
Bush Bean, the result of a cross by 
careful hybridization between the fam- 
ous Yosemite Mammoth Wax and the 
old-fashioned Refugee, or 1,000 to 1, 
and it inherits the good qualities of 
both of these famous Beans. The 
pods are often 5 to 5% inches long, 
round, firm and tender, and remain 
filled for use many days after arriving 
at their full size’ Pricemapkiy 1 0c: 
pt., 30c., by mail, postpaid; by ex- 
press or freight; pt .20G gt.) o0c:; 
peck, $1.35; bush., $5.00. 
FORDHOOK BUSH 
LIMA BEAN 
The only stiffly erect Bush form 
of the Potato Lima! Both pods and 
beans are twice the size of Dreer’s and 
-_ - more than half again as large as the 
Seg | _— Challenger Pole Lima. Measuring 5 to 
' 51% inches, and yielding 2 to 3 times as 
manv pods. The most popular of all 
thedwarf Lima Beans. Pkt.,10c.; Pint, 
35c., postpaid; qt.. 45c.; peck, $2.50; 
STARKEY NEW MAMMOTH PROLIFIC ASPARAGUS—FROM A PHOTOGRAPH. bush., $9.50 by freight or express. 
