Dreer’s Reliable 
VEGETABLE SEEDS 
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Pumpkin 
For Delicious Pies 
One ounce for 25 hills. 
Calabaza, SP. 
Grosser-Kuerbis, GER. 
Potiron, FR. 
Zucca, ITAL. 
Health Value of 
Fresh Pumpkin 
Calories per lb. 117 
Vitamins A, B, C 
Culture —Sow in good soil in 
May when the ground has become 
warm, in hills 10 feet apart each 
way, or in fields of corn about 
every fourth hill; plant at the 
same time as the corn. Pumpkin 
varieties if planted together will 
mix. There is not much danger 
of their mixing with Squashes or 
other vines. 
Proteins 1.0% 
Carbohydrates 5.2% 
Fats .1Q% 
Calcium .023% 
Tron .00093% 
Philadelphia Bush Pumpkin 
758 Philadelphia Bush Pumpkin 
A Quality Pumpkin of True Bush Habit 
This new introduction should be of the greatest interest to 
all those who have vegetable gardens of limited size. Being 
of bush form it is well suited to the smaller garden where it 
requires no more room than a good-sized Tomato plant. 
Dark green fruits turning deep orange-yellow when fully 
maturé. Beautiful deep yellow flesh of sweet dry flavor. 
Excellent for pies. Pkt. 15c; oz. 35c; } Ib. $1.00. 
Certified Seed Potatoes 
Pomme de Terre, FR. 
Patatas, Sp. 
Patata, ITAL. 
Kartoffel, GER. 
One peck will plant 100 hills; 8 to 10 bushels an acre. 
NOTE— Potatoes are ready for shipment about March 1st 
and are forwarded by Express or Freight {. 0. b. Philadelphia. 
We decline shipping them C. O. D. 
Early Rose. A fine early Potato. Long and of good size with 
pink skin. Cooks pure white and mealy, and is of good flavor. 
Green Mountain. A late variety producing fair crops even on 
poor soil. Of attractive appearance and keeps well. 
Irish Cobbler. One of the earliest Potatoes. 
tubers with strong and well-developed eyes. 
in all sections. 
Round, smooth 
A heavy cropper 
Russet Rural. A well-known late variety and an exceptionally 
heavy cropper with large tubers which cook dry and mealy. It 
also is quite disease resistant. 
At the time of going to press with the Dreer Garden Book, 
potato prices were too unsettled to quote. Please write 
stating kind and quantity wanted, and we shall be glad 
to quote by letter. 
Dreer’s Improved Lawn Grass Mixtures are offered on pages 1 and 2 
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Sugar or New England Pie Pumpkin 
750 Large Cheese or Kentucky Field. A very hardy, 
late, large, round-flattened variety with pale yellow skin. 
Very thick, sweet, yellow flesh of fine quality. An excellent 
canner. Pkt. 5c; oz. 15c; } lb. 40c; Ib. $1.00. 
752 Large Yellow Field or Big Tom. The well-known 
cornfield Pumpkin, mostly grown for feeding stock. Rather 
oblong fruits with flattened ends. Smooth, tough, dark orange 
rind and dry, sweet flesh. Often used for canning. Pkt. 10c; 
oz. 15c; 4 lb. 40c; Ib. $1.00. 
756 Large Yellow Mammoth Potiron ( King of the Mam- 
moths, Jumbo). Largely grown for fairs and exhibitions. 
Specimens have been grown weighing over 100 pounds. Rich 
salmon-orange skin and light yellow, sweet, but somewhat 
coarse flesh. Pkt. 10c; oz. 20c; + lb. 60c; lb. $2.00. 
754 Mammoth Golden Cashaw. A very. prolific Crook- 
neck type of a golden orange color. Thick, solid flesh of good 
quality. Pkt. 10c; oz. 15c; 4 lb. 40c; lb. $1.00. 
760 Sugar or New England Pie. For pies this cannot be 
excelled. Small round fruits with deep yellow, plainly ribbed 
skin. Fine grained, sweet flesh of a deep orange-yellow color. 
Pkt. 10c; oz. 15c; 4 lb. 45c; Ib. $1.25. 
764 Winter Luxury. A very good keeper and a splendid pie 
Pumpkin. Round fruits with finely netted, russet-yellow skin 
like a Muskmelon. Thick, deep yellow flesh of excellent quality. 
Pkt. 10c; oz. 15c; 3 lb. 45c; Ib. $1.25. 
Rhubarb Rhubarbe, FR. 
Rabarbaro, ITAL. 
a Ruibarbo, Sp. 
Pie Plant ThbeneC 
Rhabarber, GER. 
Sow in shallow drills 
one foot apart. Trans- 
plant to stand 4 feet 
apart. 
Health Value of 
Fresh Rhubarb 
Calories per lb. 105 
Vitamin C 
Proteins .6% 
Carbohydrates 6.6% 
Fats .7% 
Calcium .044% 
Iron .00056% 
832 Victoria. 
Very large thick red 
stalks of most de- 
licious flaver. 
ef Pkt. 10c; oz. 20c; 
Victoria Rhubarb % Ib. 60c. 
94. 
