GENERAL LIST OF VEGETABLE SEEDS. 



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Beckert'S Select Vegetable Seeds. 



Our Vegetable Seed Department is very complete and embraces all varieties that are desirable, including many recent 

 introductions of acknowledged merit. The descriptions herein given are as accurate as possible and are principally the 

 deductions of our own experience and observations. 



SEEDS FREE BY MAIL. 



Purchasers will please observe that the prices given on seeds by weight include postage — packets, ounces, quarter- 

 pounds and pounds all being sent free at prices being named. Seeds by Measure, as Beans, Peas and Corn, when quoted 

 by the pint, quart or peck, are not free by mail. Postage will have to be added to the catalogue prices, if to be sent in this 

 manner, at the rate of 8 cents per pint and 15 cents per quart for Beans and Peas, and 5 cents per pint and 10 cents per 

 quart for corn. 



Purchasers will select seeds in packets to the value of ONE DOLLAR AND TWENTY-FIVE CENTS for every 

 ONE DOLLAR sent us. $2.50 worth for remittance of $2.00, and $3.75 worth for remittance of $3.00, and so on. 

 Bearinjmind that THIS PREMIUM ONLY REFERS) TO SEEDS IN PACKETS, AND NOT WHERE QUOTED 

 BY WEIGHT OR MEASURE. 



ASPARAGUS. (SpapgeL) 



A bed once properly made will last for years, and no garden should be considered complete without one. A fair crop 

 may be expected the third year from the seeds, or one in two years from the roots, according to their age when planted, 

 and after that, full crops every year. The soil for this crop cannot be made too rich, and should be thoroughly trenched 

 two feet or mere in depth. The plants should be set six to eight inches deep, in rows three to four feet apart and one foot 

 apart in the rows. The roots should be set in the spring, as soon as the ground is in good working order, say about the 

 end of April. The crowns of the roots should be from four to six inches from the surface of the bed. 

 ounce of seed for every fifty feet of drill. 



Colossal. The variety most in cultivation; large, of rapid growth, productive and of fine 

 quality. Pkt. 5 cts. ; oz. 10 cts. ; 3^ lb. 20 cts. ; lb. 60 cts. ' 



The Palmetto. Colossal had always been the leading sort, and justly so ; the Palmetto is 

 not only much earlier^ but is also a beiter yiclder, and is more eve7i and regular in its growth. 

 It must eventually supplant the old favorite. Average bunches, containing fifteen shoots, mea- 

 ksure ISi'a inches in circumference, and weigh about two pounds. The Palmetto has now been 

 planted in all parts of the country, and reports indicate that it is equally well adapted for all 

 sections North and South, although a variety of Southern origin. Its quality is unequaled. 

 jPkt. 5 cts. ; oz. 15 cts. ; lb. 35 cts. ; lb. $1. 



BEANS, BUSH OR SNAP. (Bohne.) 



Being extremely sensitive to frost and cold, they should not be planted before the middle 

 of spring, when the ground has become light and warm. In a favorable season, the first of May 

 will generally be found about right. Select a dry, sheltered spot, which has been previously 

 manured and well dug; make drills two inches deep, and three to three and a half feet apart, 

 and plant the beans three inches apart in the drill, and cover not more than two inches deep. 

 Hoe often, but only when dry, as earth scattered on the leaves when wet with dew or rain will 

 cause them to rust, and greatly injure the crop. Plant at intervals throughout the season for 

 a succession, finishing about the end of July. 



