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 all 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. 



ONE PACKjIGE each OF THE VEGETABLE SEEDS SHOWN ON BACK COVER, FOB 50c POSTPAID. 



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, quarc or peck, are not free by mail. Postage will haye to be added to the catalogue prices, if it is 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. Half pounds at pound rates, pints at quart rates, half peck at peck rates. 



LIBERAL PREMIUMS. 



Furchasers will select seeds in packets to the value of OITE DOLLAE AlTD T'WENTT-FZVE CENTS for every 

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

 Sear in mind that THIS TUBHITJUL ONLY BEFEES TO SEEDS IN FACZETS, AND NOT 'WHEEE QUOTED 

 S7 WEIQST OE MEATT7EE. 



ASPARAGUS. (Spargel.) 



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 ricti, and should be thoroughly trenched two feet or 

 more 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. 

 One ounce of seed for- every fifty feet of drill. 



j/Palmetto. This new variety supersedes C(?/o55a/ and other older varieties, it being not only 

 earlier but a better yielder^ and is more exten and regular in its growth, and must, eventually, sup- 

 plant others. Average bunches containing fifteen shoots, measure 13^ inches in circumference, and 

 weigh about 2 pounds. The Palmetto has now been planted and tested in all parts of the country 

 and reports indicate that it has given universal satisfaction in all sections ; its quality is unsur- 

 passed. Pkt. 5c, oz. 15e, lb. 35c, pound $1. 



* >/Palmetto Asparag:us Roots. Large 2 year old plants, $1.50 per 100, $12.00 per 1000. 

 ^olossal Asparagus Roots. Large 2 year old plants, $1.00 per 100, $7.00 per 1000. 



BEANS, BUSH OR SNAP. (Bohne.) 



Being extremely sensititive 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, 

 finishmg about the end of July. 



