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GRIFFITH, TURNER & CO., BALTIMORE, MD. 



NOVELTIES AND SPECIALTIES. 



Mammoth White Asparagus. 



A very valuable and entirely distinct variety 

 of this highly esteemed Vegetable. 



It produces shoots which are white and remain so as 

 long as fit for use, and from 80 to 90 per cent, of the 

 plaiv s come true from seed. This grand result has not 

 come by chance, bat is the legitimate outcome of years 

 of patient work and careful selection by the originator. 



In addition to the marvelous advantage of its white 

 color,the Columbian Mammoth White Asparagus is even 

 more robust and vigorous in habit and throws larger 

 shoots and fully as many of them as the Conover's Colos- 

 sal. When we add to these the immense advantage of 

 its needing no earthing up in order to furnish the white 

 shoots so much sought after, we think it evident that it 

 is superior to any sort now in cultivation, and that no 

 Asparagus grower can afford to plant seed of any other 

 kind. Our claims are not mere theory, but are substan- 

 tiated by actual experience. A field grown by one of 

 the largest and best Asparagus growers in this country 

 yielded an equal weight of cuttings with his bsst field of 

 any other variety and brought 20 per cent, more, not in 

 a fancy market or as a novelty, but at a canning factory, 

 where it was put up under a special brand and brought 

 enough more to warrant the packers in paying extra 

 for it. 



Market gardeners, growers for canners and ama- 

 teurs should give tliis great acquisition a thor- 

 ough trial. 



Per packet, 10 cts. Oz„ 30 cts. X lh., 60 cts. 

 lh., $2.00 postpaid. 

 Roots, $1.25 per 100. $10.00 per 1000. 



Burpee's Bush Lima Beans. 



This is the long tooked-for Bean, combining 

 hardiness and productiveness with fine quality. 



A strong-growing bush variety of remarkable 

 vigor and freedom from rust. It sends out short 

 tendrils on which pods are formed in addition to 

 those near the central stalk of the plant, which 

 accounts for its wonderful productiveness, 

 amounting, under favorable circumstances, to 100 

 to 150 fold. 



The pods are meaty and well filled, thick-flat 

 when youngand semi-round later; of rich yellow 

 color and fine quality, and entirely stringiess 

 even when large enough to shell. If the pods are 

 picked as fast as formed, the plant continues to 

 furnish a bountiful supply for an unusu illy long 

 season. 



These packets contain an ounce of Beans, being 

 60 to 75 in number, and if planted one Bean in a 

 place, ten inches apart in the row and the rows 24 

 to 28 inches apart, they will produce, UDder fav- 

 orable conditions, a bountiful supply for a family 

 of six or eight persons. 



Pkts.,15 cts. 2 pkts., 25 cts. 10 pkts. for .$1.00. 



Horticultural Lima. 



A novelty of great merit, being a cross between 

 the Dwarf Horticultural and Dreer's Improved 

 Lima, and combining the good qualities of the 

 latter with the earliness of the former. It has 

 been tested thoroughly for two years and found 

 fully as early as the Dwarf Horticultural and 

 as prolific as Dreer's Improved Lima. Its 

 extreme earliness will perroitof its being planted 

 far north of where any true Lima bean can be 

 grown, while its prolificness and the quality of 

 the green shelled beans make it a desirable addi- 

 tion to any garden, north or south. 



Pint, 25 cts. Quart, 40 cts. Peck, $2 50. 



The grower says: The bushes grow eighteen to twenty inches high, stout growth and always rrcct, yet 

 branching so vigorously that each plant develops into a magnificent circular bush, from two feet to three feet in 

 diamete)'. Thu bush character is thoroughly established, not one plant in a thousand showing any disuusition 

 "to run. 1 ' It i3 an immense yielded each busn bearing from 50 to 200 of the handsome larsre pods well filled with 

 very large beans, whu-h are identical in size and luscious flavor to the well-known large pole Limas. By the intro- 

 duction of this most valuable novelry, thn largest and best Lima Beans can now be raised in quantity at small cost, 

 without the expense and labor attached to the use of poles. 



X pint, 15 cts. Pint, 25 cts. Quart, 45 cts. By mail, 15 cts. per quart extra. Peck, $3.00. 



