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"BIG BOSTON - ." 



This variety is identical in color, shape and general 

 appearance with the famous Boston Market Lettuce, but 

 is double the size. It is about one week later in maturing, 

 but its solidity and greater size of head will make it a 

 most valuable sort; a most desirable variety either for 

 forcing or open ground planting. The "Big Boston" is 

 sure to be wanted by market gardeners and truckers, be- 

 cause it always produces large, solid, salable heads, and it 

 will commend itself to amateurs because it heads up well 

 at all seasons of the year and is of crisp, tender quality. 

 Price, 10c. per pkt. ; 30c. per oz. ; 80c. per % lb. ; $3.00 

 per lb. 



fiEW FORCING liETTUCE. 



" GOLDEN QUEEN." 



A very desirable small, early variety, of a most pleas- 

 ing golden yellow color- that shade which is always most 

 desirable in a Lettuce. It is one of the most deceptive va- 

 rieties we have ever seen, as at first glance it seems to be 

 a veritable miniature Lettuce ; but it forms all solid heads 

 with little or no waste, so that there is really more to it 

 than in many Lettuces double the size. The "Golden 

 Qu-en" Lettuce is very crisp, tender and juicy, and of 

 particularly delicate flavor, even when grown in the open 

 ground, resembling in its tender quality the Boston 

 Market Lettuce when that variety is forced with artificial 

 heat under glass. (See cut.) Price, 10c. per pkt. ; 25c. 

 per oz.; 75c. per )^ lb. ; $2.40 per lb. 



t^RPlD FORCING RADISH. 



This grand variety resembles the White 

 Tipped Scarlet Turnip Badish, but is much 

 earlier, coming to maturity in 22 days from 

 the time of sowing and having very small i 

 tops and will prove to be the Badish for' ! J^a 

 forcing purposes. Being very handsome and 

 of fine quality, it is equally desirable for the 

 garden. Price, 5c. per pkt. ; 15c. per oz. ; 

 40c. per % lb. ; $1.25 per lb. 



ASPARAGUS HOOTS. 



If to be sent by mail add 40c. prr 100 to the prices. 

 A saving of one to two years is effected by planting 

 roots. Those offered below are strong two-year-old roots. 

 For private use or for marketing on a small scale, beds 

 should be formed five feet wide with three rows planted 

 in each, one in the middle and one on each side a foot 

 from the edge ; distance between the plants in the rows, 

 nine inches. 



The Palmetto. Until we found this new Palmetto Aspar- 

 agus, O mover's Colossal was the leading sort, and 

 justly so ; but the Palmetto is not only much earlier, 

 but is also a better yielder, and is more even and 

 regular in its growth, and must eventually supplant the 

 old favorite. Average bunches, containing fifteen 

 shoots, measure 13 Wj inches in circumference, and weigh 

 about 1 wo pounds. The Palmetto has now been planted 

 in all parts of the country, and the reports we have in- 

 dicate that it is equally well adapted for all sections 

 North and Sou! h. Its quality is unequaled. (See cut.) 

 Splendid roots. $1.50 per 100, $12.00 per 1,000. (50 roots 

 at 100 rate : 500 at 1.000 rate.) 

 Colossal. The standard variety. The shoots are of the 

 largest size ; very productive and of best qualitv. Fine 

 two-year-old roots at $ 1 .00 per 100, $7.00 

 per 1,000. f50 roots at 

 100 rate; 500 at 1,000 

 rate.) 



LETTUCE, GOLDEN QDEEN. 



