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WM. C. BECKERT, ALLEGHENY, PA. 



One ounce will sow 150 feet of dril 



Hybrid 

 Moss Curl- 

 ed. Extra 

 selected. No 

 variety is 

 more attrac- 

 t i V e when 

 well grown. 

 Resembles a 

 tuft of finely 

 curled moss, 

 is hardy and 

 slow in run- 

 ning to seed. 

 Pkt. 5 cts. ; 

 oz. 15 cts.; 1^ 

 _ lb. 50 cts. 

 - . i Extra 



_ Triple Curl- 



" -—^3-- • — ed. (Myatt's 



Extra Curled Parsley. Garnishing.) 



This variety 



is larger, and the plant of stronger habit than the preced- 

 ing, with foliage as finely curled. The leaves are bright 

 green above, paler beneath. Admirably adapted for gar- 

 nishing purposes. Pkt. 5 cts. ; oz. 15cts.; >^ lb. 50 cts. 



Plain Leaved. Not so handsome as the curled varieties 

 but hardier; and for using in soups and boiling it is better' 

 being superior in flavor. Pkt. 5 cts.; oz. 15 cts.; 14 lb. 50 cts. 



Emerald. Leaves very finelv cut and curled; deep 

 emerald green in coloi". ot~.: oz. 20 cts.: 'j' lb. (iO cts. 



Hollow Crown. The varietv mostly cultivated ; a great 

 cropper. Tender and sugary. "Pkt. 5 cts. ; oz. 10 cts. ; >| lb. 

 25 cts. ; lb. 75 cts. 



PEPPER. (Pfeflfep.) 



Sow the seed early in April in the hot-bed, and trans- 

 plant into the open ground when the weather is warm and 

 settled. The plants should be set in warm, mellow soil, in 

 drills three feet apart, and about two feet apart in the drill ; 

 or the seed ma}' be sown at once in the open ground when 

 all danger from frost is past, and thinned to the same dis- 

 tance as above. The pepper is much used in pickles, and 

 is v ery_ ex tensively cultivated. 



One ounce of seed will produce 2,000 plants. 



Chili. Used for pepper sauce. Pods small and conical. 

 Fruit bright scarlet and exceedingly pungent. Pkt. 5 cts. ; 

 oz. 30 cts. 



Cherry Red. Fruit small and round, prolific and quite 

 ornamental. Pkt. 5 cts. ; oz. 35 cts. 



Cherry Yellow. Fn 



difTering from the above. 



It velloA 

 Pkt -) 



In other respects not 

 : oz. 35 cts. 



PARSNIPS. (Pastinake.) 



r Sow as early in the spring is 



the weather will permit, in drills 

 fifteen inches apart, covering the 

 seed one half an inch deep; when 

 / well up, thin out to five or six in- 



■( '- ches apart in the rows. Parsnips 



■ i - are improved by frosts, and it is a 



Parsnips. usual Custom to take up in the fall 



a certain quantity for winter use, leaving the rest in the 

 ground until spring, to be dug as required. Aside from the 

 value of the Parsnip as a table vegetable, it is also one of 

 the best roots for cultivation for farm purposes, furnishing 

 a very nourishing food, particularly adapted to and relished 

 by dairy stock. 



^^One ounce to 150 feet, five pounds to the acre. 



New Celestial 



Celestial. Not only a most useful pepper, but one of the 

 most beautiful plants in existence. The plant begins to set 

 its peppers early in the season and continues till frost, 

 branching freely and bearing profusely. The peppers up to 

 the time thev are full grown, are of a delicate, creamy- yel- 

 low color, and when fully grown change to an intense vivid 

 scarlet, making a plant, when loaded with fruit, part of one 

 color and part of another, an object of the most striking beau- 

 ty and oddity. The peppers are the shape as shown in the 

 cut, two to three inches long, of clear, sharp flavor, and supe- 

 rior for an}- of the uses to which peppers can be put. Pkt. 

 5 cts.; oz. 40 cts. 



Kaleidoscope Pepper. Beautiful and useful as Celestial 

 is. Kaleidoscope, though entirely different, is in every respect 

 vastly superior to it. It is of beautiful habit, having long 

 wavy branches, which are loaded with drooping fruit. From 

 the time the peppers form until fully grown the}' are of a 

 light, vellowish cream color. When fully grown they com- 

 mence to change color, first to a lovely canary yellow, then 

 to a deep orange, then to a rose or pink, and so on through 

 different shades until they are an intense scarlet, vivid and 

 luminous. As may be imagined, a plant bearing hundreds 

 of peppers which show six or eight distinct colors is an 

 object of more than ordinary beauty. It is sure to become a 

 favorite pot plant as well as a useful vegetable. It grows very 

 freely in the garden or in pots and bears enormously. Its 

 flavor is clear and sharp, and for any use to which a pepper 

 can be put, it is second to none. Pkt. 10 cts. 



