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The flesh is remarkably solid, seed 

 cavity very small. The flavor is 

 perfect, absolutely free from any 

 acidity. Early as the earliest and 

 matures at first picking more than 

 double of other early sorts. One 

 of the most prolific of any yet 

 brought out, and the largest very 

 ■early Tomato known to the trade 

 to-day. 



Cleveland's Extra Early Pur- 

 ple Advance. This is the earhest 

 perfectly smooth tomato ever ofl"er- 

 €d. Vines are medium in size, 

 strong growers, great bearers, and 

 continue bearing throughout the 

 season. Ten days earlier than the 

 Dwarf Champion. Fruits medium 

 in size, similar to the Dwarf Cham- 

 pion or Acme. Ripens up evenly, 

 of fine quality and beautiful dark 

 or purple red in color. Very pro- 

 fitable for market gardeners or 

 truckers. 



Livingston's Stone. An excellent va- 

 riety; one of the best and most desirable for 

 our truck farmers. In Florida, where To- 

 matoes for shipping are grown more exten- 

 sively than in Louisiana, and where tough 

 skinned varieties of good quality with full, 

 solid and tender flesh are the most desirable, 

 the Stone has been selected as one of their 

 principal varieties. Thousands of bushel 

 boxes are annually shipped from there to 

 southern and northern markets, and no va- 

 riety has given better satisfaction than this. 

 For shipping it cannot be surpassed. The 

 fruit is of the handsomest brightest scarlet; 



Acme Tomato 



more globular in shape than the Beauty or 

 Favorite and perfectly smooth and glossy. 

 One of the best varieties for our climate. 



New Purple Cluster Tomato. This va- 

 riety has been tried and has given entire satis- 

 faction. The fruit is of a very dark purplish 

 red color, grows in clusters and gets very 

 large. It ripens even and perfect to stem, 

 and is entirely free from cluck or rot. The 

 skin is tough, perfectly smooth and the fruit 

 will bear shipping at any distance. It has 

 very few seeds, in fact it may almost be 

 called seedless. It grows on strong and 

 vigorous vines with dense dark green foliage. 



TURlSriP. 



Navet (Fr.), RuEBE (Ger.), Nabo CoMUN(Sp.), Navone, (Ital.) 



Early Red or Purple Top {strap-leaved.} 

 Early White Flat-Dutch {strap-leaved.) 

 Purple Top Globe. 

 Yellow Aberdeen. 

 White Spring. 

 Large White Globe. 

 Pomeranian Globe. 

 Seven Top. 

 Large Cow Horn. 



White Hanover or Sweet German. 



Robertson s Golden Ball. 



Amber Globe. 



Early Purple Top Munich. 



Improved Ruta Baga. 



Long Island Purple Top Ruta Baga. 



Extra Early White French, or White Egg. 



Extra Early White Milan. 



CULTURE. — Turnips do best in new ground. When the soil has been worked long, it 

 should receive a top dressing of land-plaster or ashes. If stable manure is used the ground 

 should be manured the spring previous to sowing, so it may be well incorporated with the 

 soil. When fresh manure is used the turnips are apt to become speckled. Sow from end of 

 July to October for fall and winter, and in January, February and March for spring and 

 sumnoer use. They are generally sown broadcast, but the Ruta Baga should be sown in 

 drills, or rather ridges, and should not be sown later than the end of August; the Golden Ball 

 and Aberdeen not later than the end of September. The White Flat Dutch, Early Spring 

 and Pomeranian Gl6be are the best for spring, also good for autumn. 



Early Red or Purple Top. (Strap-Leaved.) 

 This is one of the most popular kinds. It is 

 ilat, with a small tap-root and a bright purple 



top. The leaves are narrow and grow erect 

 from the bulb. The flesh is finely grained 

 and rich. 



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