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EARLY SHORT ROUND.—Eariiest ; 
does wellinshallow soil. Packet, 5 cents; ounce, 
10 cents; 4% pound, 25 cents; pound, 65 cents. 
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p= ; P. Shisler & Son, Beach City,Ohio.: “Wewere 
highly pleased with your seeds last year; 
planted them beside seeds from other firms a 
yours were at least 50 per cent. better in vi 
and produced a much better crop, so we are ge 
our entire supply from vou this year. We-soy 
% of an ounce of your Wakefield cabbage seed last 
fall: set outincold frame five thousand plants. and 
had about one thousand to throwaway. Thisshows 







~ TOM THUMB PEPPER.—As a winter decorative plant, this 
will be found to beagreat acquisition. Growm in pots, it will prove 
* very useful for the decoration of the dinner table, or in fact inany 
; situation where a bright color is desirable for effect. The plant isofa 
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dwarf branching habit, scarcely exceeding 9 inches in height. The 
leaves are small and ovalshaped. The berries, which are of a globu- 
lar form about the size of.a red currant, are of a bright color; they are 
produced in great profusion on short pedicels, which spring froin the 
axils ofthe leaves and rise above the foliage, literally covering the 
plant. The plant produces flowers and bears berries all through the 
Season, and should become quite as popular as the Solanum, on ac- 
count of its free habit of growth and 
its distinct appearance. This fine 
new pebper was awarded a first-class 
certificate of merit by the Royal 
Horticultural Society of London, 
England. It is sure to please every 
SUSLOmON who pome it. Packet, 15 
Wh cents; 2 packets, 25 cents. 
eth IN, CORAL GEM BOUQUET. — 
. NY! VEZ Beautiful pods of shining red color 
Laem are SO thickly set as to give it theap- 
pore nee of a bouquet of corals: 
ence its nam.e. Handsome andat- 
tractive, it delights every lover of |! 
the beautiful. Asa pot plant, it has 
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set with pods as to bend its branches. 
With so many desirable qualities |} 
combined, it will become one of the most popular and profitable in 
the manufacture of pepper sauce. Packet, 10 cents. 
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A NOTE FROM MR. GREINER. 
Coral Gem Bouquet. PEt., 10c. 





























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