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A Grand Leading Main Crop Sort of my Introduction 
The Only Real Rival of the Famed Surehead. 
The Lupton cabbage began its career in 1888, on 
the eastern endof Long Island, in an extensive 
cabbage growing district. The originator, whose 
name the cabbage bears, is undoubtedly the largest 
grower of first class cabbage seed in America and 
every prominent seed firm in the country considers 
him an authority on this important subject. In 
the autumn of 1888 a single specimen of a new 
Strain of cabbage was found growing as a sport 
in a field of Late Flat Dutch. Mr. Lupton, whose 
long experience qualifies him to act as an expert 
judge, at once recognized a prize in the new sort, 
and thus the Lupton cabbage had its origin. 
Lupton has some of the best traits of Surehead, 
with the size and general shape of Maule’s Prize 
Flat Dutch, but is several days earlier than the 
latter. Its growth is particularly strong and vig- 
orous. Its color is a dark bluish green, indicating 
robust constitution and healthy development. 
The leaves are broad and well filled out to their 
juncture with the stem. The stem is short, and 
broad under the head, but tapers almost to a 
point where it enters the ground. The head is 
thick and flat, with the outer leaves covering it 
well across the centre. It is very large, solid, and 
of the most excellent quality and flavor, without 
any features of coarseness, the veins and ribs be- | 
ing well developed, but not prominent. 
It matures about a week in advance of the vari- 
ous strains of Late Flat Dutch, is an excellent 
keeper, and for all purposes of the farmer and gar- 
dener makes with Surehead the two best main 
crop cabbages now on the market. 
= =e Packet, 10 cents; ounce, 30 cents: 
HE FINEST Type OF LATE CABBAGE.) ly pound, $1.00; pound, $3.00. 
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THE LUPTON CABBAGE. ( 
New White Evergreen Sweet Corn. 
Originated by my old friend, Mr. C. 8. Clark, of Ohio, who | feet high. Ears are very large, uniformly well filled to the tip, 
is naturally very enthusiastic in its praise. He says it is the | with long slender grains of the purest whiteness and most 
good old Stowell’s Evergreen, only white instead of a dark | delicious, sweet flavor. When in the green state both cob and 
white like Stowell’s. The introducers of White Evergreen | grain are white as snow. Market gardeners, canners and all 
claim it to be the finest sweet corn in the world, and go on | lovers of sweet corn have long been lookirg for a white sweet 
to say that the stalks are of strong, vigorous growth, 6 to 7 | corn that is as good as Stowell’s. 
Packet, 10 cents; pint, 20 cents; quart, 35 cents, postpaid. Peck, $1.00. 
NEW WHITE EVERGREEN SWEET CORN. 
smaller cities nearby would gladly have taken large 
quantities. Where the plants stood fairly thick in 
the row (as thick as we should aim to have them, }, 
and as we can get them by sowing 6 or 8 pounds of 
seed to the acre, on rich ground) we made four 
dozen bunches from 6 feet of row, the rows being 14 
inches apart. When a spot of ground 14 inches 
wide by 6 feet long brings one dollar, you can easily 
figure out that the acre rate is fully $6,000, less than 
one-tenth of which goes for Jabor in preparing 
(cleaning and bunching) the product for market. 
The expenses of growing the crop are comparative- 
ly slight. I like to sow seed in spring or early 
summer, not in the fall.” Mr. Greiner reports great 
difficulty in securing good seed of the Welch onion. 
He advised me of the matter and while in Europe 
THE WELSH ONION. 
My old friend Mr. Greiner had this to say about 
this bunch onion last summer:—“In the new bunch 
onion culture, I am figuring out the gross returns 
from one-sixth acre to be fully $1,000, nine-tenths of it 
being clear profit. Fig. 1 shows a bunch as given 
in the Cyclopedia of American Horticulture. 1 
find this onion hardy as an oak, and the sugges- 
tion of a bulb makes it suitable for a bunch onion. 
A bunch, such as we made them and found ready 
sale for them, is shown in Fig. 2. These bunches 
were quite attractive, and coming in a season 
when green stuff is scarce, extremely serviceable 
for the purposes of a bunch onion. We put about 
ten stalks to the bundle, or twice as many as found 
in the average bunch in the market. We could last year I managed to secure a supply, which I 
have disposed of a good many more than we had, \\ take pleasure in offering to my customers. 
even in our local market, and Buffalo and the ONION. Pkt., 10 cents; oz., 25 cents; 14 lb., 75 cents; 1b., $2.50. 
