FARQUHAR’S RELIABLE VEGETABLE SEEDS. 
ARTICHOKE. Artischoke, (GER.) Alcachoja, (SP.) 
A most delicious vegetable, rapidly gaining in popularity. The heads 
are usually boiled, and the bottom of each scale eaten with butter and salt. 
In France they are more frequently baked with a dressing of fresh butter, 
forming a most savory dish. 
Culture. 
Sow seeds in April or May, and when large enough, transplant in 
rows 4 feet apart and 2feetin the rows. They yield the second year, and require protection 
during winter by earthing up and mulching In the Northern States it is better to treat 
this plant as an annual, sowing seeds under glass and keeping the seedlings growing vigor- 
ously until May, when they should be set out in rich soil, when they will produce fine heads 
the first season. 
Large Globe, or Paris. The best of all Artichokes. 
Pkt., .15; 0z., 1.00. 
Large Green Globe = Sm Sr Pkt 10:07.) -502 lbs a5 
Plants of Globe Artichoke. May delivery oe Per doz., 2.00 
Jerusalem Artichoke. JHelianthus tuberosus. Cultivated for its edible 
tubers. Tubers Qt., .25; qt. by mail, .40; peck, 1.25 
ASPARAGUS. Spargel, (GeR.) Esparrago, (SP.) 
Culture. 
Sow the seeds thinly in drills one foot apart and one inch deep. The 
permanent bed should be trenched very deeply, and well manured with rich, thoroughly 
decayed manure. Wide drills should then be made, 3 feet apart, and deep enough to 
admit of the top of the plants being covered 6 inches. Set the plants, one or two years 
old, 12 inches apart in the rows, carefully spreading out and separating the roots. For 
the sake of convenience one drill should be made at a time, and the planting and covering 
completed before another is commenced. In November the plants should have their 
annual top dressing of manure after the stalks have been cleared away. The dressing 
should be forked in as soon as the ground can be worked in spring, and the bed neatly 
raked. One ounce of seed sows 60 feet of drill; 5 pounds sow one acre. 
Argenteuil. The largest and finest sort in cultivation. 
Pkt., .10; 0z., .20; } Ib., .60; Ib., 2. 
A standard sort, large and very prolific; green. 
REG. 2053072500; 4. 'b.,):255 Ib.; 
Large, white stalks. 
Pkt., .05; oz., .10; 4 lb., .30; lb., 1.00 
Pkt..05707z7, 103.4. 1b:4305 lb. 1:00 
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Conover’s Colossal. 
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Columbian Mammoth. White. 
Palmetto. 
BROCCOLI. Broculi, (Grr.) Spargel Kohl, (Sv.) 
This vegetable resembles the Cauliflower, but is hardier. 
White Cape. 
Early and prolific. 
Heads white, close, and compact; a standard sort. 
EKG 10 7072405 Pibs 1:25: 1b., 4.00 
BRUSSELS SPROUTS. 
Rosen-Kohl, (Ger.) Chou de Bruzelles, (Sp.) 
Culture. Sow the seeds under glass during April and transplant to a cold frame 
when large enough to handle. They may be transferred to the garden in June and cul- 
tivated*like Cabbage. When the sprouts become crowded cut off some of the lower leaves 
so that they may develop. They will be ready for use in autumn after the early frosts. 
One ounce oj seed produces about 1500 plants. 
Farquhar’s Ideal. Sprouts of large size, solid and of delicious flavor, 
Pkt, 2h. 1077,1-50 
The surest strain, producing large solid 
Pkt., .10; oz., .35; + lb., 1.00; lb., 3.50 
Compact heads, very productive. 
PKS 105)02z,, .30: 4.Ib.,).75:1b:,-2:50 
; Pkt., .05; 0z.,,.25; 4 Ib., .75 
Farquhar’s Matchless. 
sprouts Sa ee cue 
Aigburth. 
Serymger’s Giant 
Farquhar’s Matchless Brussels Sprouts. 
Artichoke, Large Globe or Paris. 
ASPARAGUS ROOTS. 
Asparagus Roots can be supplied from November 1st to 
May Ist. 
Argenteuil. 2 years. Per 100, 1.50; per 1000, 12.00 
Conover’s Colossal. 2 years. Per 100, 1.00; per 
1000, 8.00 
Palmetto. 2 years. Per 100, 1.25; per 1,000, 10.00 
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Argenteuil Asparagus. 
