DREEa S GARDEN CALENDAR. 



21 



LATAEIA TOBAOOO SEED, ) 



Introduced by the distinguished traveller, Bayari Taylor, from 

 Mount Lebanon. This is considered in the Orient the finest smoking 

 tobacco in the world. It exhales a delicious aromatic odor, resem- 

 bling that of dried roses, and is believed to be an entirely distinct 

 species, peculiar to Mount Lebanon. Price, per packet, 25 cts. 



ESOULEI^T EOOTS AND PLANTS IN SEASON. 



Early Potatoes. Mushroobi Spawn. 



Garlic. Asparagus Roots. 



White Onion Sets. Sweet Potato Slips. 



Yellow Onion Sets. Rhubarb Roots. 



Cabbage Plants. Lettuce Plants. 



Celery " Tomato Plants. 



Egg " Pepper Plants. 



NEW AND DESIEABLE VEGETABLES. 



We take pleasure in offering the following varieties, and can recom- 

 mend them for their superior qualities. 



Tilden Tomato. 

 This valuable variety originated with Mr. Henry Tilden, of Daven- 

 port, Iowa. The plant is somewhat dwarf in its habit, the branches 

 rarely reaching three feet in length, even when trained on stakes. It 

 is good, both as an early and late variety, ripening the past season on 

 late ground by the 10th of July, and continued bearing up to the last 

 of October. In shape the largest fruit is uniformly oval, which is the 

 normal form of the variety, the warty excrescences about the calyx, 

 and which so often disfigure the fruit of other varieties, are never 

 seen in the Tilden. The color is a brilliant scarlet, and the skin is 



