H W. BUCKBEE, ROOKFORD, ILLINOIS 



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German, Pastinake: French, Panais; Spanish. Pastinaca; Swedish, Palsternucka. 

 One ounce of seed for 200 feet of drill ; 6 to 6 pounds in drills for an acre, 

 PARSNIPS are well known as a delicious table vegetable, but their value for the purpose of feeding cattle and stock is but little ap- 

 A preciated. The parsnip is rich in saccharine food, which adds greatly to the richness of the milk when fed to cows, while the fresh 

 succulent roots increase the flow of milk as greatly as does the use of fresh, green food in the spring. It is especially valuable for 

 the purpose from its extreme hardiness, as the roots can be left in the ground all winter and improve in quality by the continued 

 freezing. 



NEW MALTESE 



A greatly improved and wonderfully fine strain. The loots do 

 not grow as long as the Hollow Crown, but are of greater diameter 

 and more easily gathered; very heavy cropper. The »-oot8 are very 

 smooth, flesh fine grained and of most excellent quajity. A yield 

 of 500 to 6U0 bushels per acre is of common occurence. Fine for 

 home use, market and shipping, while for stock purposes it is 

 sure to give the best of satisfaction. 



Pkt. 4c. ; oz. 6c. ; 2 oz 10c ; U lb. 15c. ; lb. 25c. ; lb. 40c. 



Improved Hollow Crown, or Long White Sugar 



Roots comparatively short, ending somewhat abruptly with a 

 small tap root; grows mostly below the surface, has a very smooth, 

 clean skin, easily distinguished by the leaves arising from a de- 

 pression on fop or crown of the root. 

 Pkt. 3c; oz. 6c ; 2 oz. 9c ; % lb. 12c ; X lb. 20c. ; lb. 35c. 



BTJCKBEE'S NEW SUGAR 



The best parsnip on earth. So say thousands of my customers 

 who made trials of this variety in 1905 and] 906. After repeated trials 

 at Rockford Seed F arms, during the past six years, I have no hesi- 

 tancy in offering this splendid Parsnip Roots grow to a fine size, 

 of good diameter, enabling them to be easily gathered; are exceed- 

 ingly smooth, the flesh finegrained and of the most excellent qual- 

 ity, A magnificent cropper, yielding as high as 75U bushels per acre 

 under good cultivation You will not be disappointed by planting 

 Buckbee's New Sugar Parsnip for any purpose for which this desirable 

 vegetable is used. Remember that I control the entire stock of this 

 varieiy for 1907. Send to Bucknee for the True Sugar. 

 Pkt. 5c. ; oz. 10c. ; 2 oz. 18c ; U lb. 35c ; X lb- 60c; lb. SI. 00. 



PIE PUMPKINS 



TWO NEW 

 VARIETIES OP 

 RARE MERIT 



On This and Succeeding Pages I Offer the Cream of the Old and New 

 Pumpkin Productions. 



BTJCKBEE'S NEW SANDWICH ISLAND PUMPKIN 



It affords me great pleasure to present to you this new Pumpkin Nov- 

 elty. My customers have found it to have exceptional merit and fully up to 

 their highest expectations. Coming from a remote section of the Sandwich 

 Inlands— where by chance my representative found it— it has created a great 

 furore in its new home. Remarkably distinct in every way, of fine size, very 

 prolific bearer, and deliciously thick flesh. An excellent keeper. I have 

 placed the price of seeds within the reach of all. Order early before my 

 supply is exhausted. Choicest seed of mv own growth. 



§1.00. 



NEW JAPANESE PIE PUMPKIN 



The small illustration correctly shows the shape and ex- 

 tremely small seed cavity — all the balance bein^ solid meat 

 throughout, which isof extra fine quality. The seeds are dis- 

 tinct in appearance, being curiously sculptured in the same 



Jap- 



manner as 

 anese letters. It 

 is a very produc 

 tive variety, the 

 Pumpkins ripen 

 early, of medium 

 size, good keep- 

 ers and weigh 15 

 to 20 pounds 

 each. Astoqual 

 ity, one enthu 

 siastic grower 

 says: "Theflesl 

 is a rich, salmon 

 unusually fine 

 grained, and 

 when cooked or 

 stewed is almosi 

 as dry and mealy 

 as a sweet potato. 

 For making pies, 

 custards, etc. , 

 they certainly 

 have no equal. 

 Containing but 

 little water, can 

 easily be cut and 

 dried like dried 

 apples, and 

 make excellent 

 pies or sauce for 

 winter use. We venture to say that pies made from the 

 Japanese Pumpkin, without eggs, are fully as good as pi"S 

 made from any other variety when eggs are used." 

 Pkt. 4c; oz. 8c';2 oz. 15c. ; y lb. 25c ; ^lb.40c. ; lb. 75c 



NEW JAPANESE PIE 



OTHER VARIETIES OF PUMPKINS, BOTH FIELD AND PIE, ON NEXT PAGE 



