Suggested Home Garden Varieties of Vegetables 



UNFORTUNATELY it is quite impossible for us to know 

 personally more than a very small proportion of our customers. 

 Those with whom we are privileged to come in contact personally, 

 very often will ask our advice regarding the best varieties of vege- 

 tables to grow for the home garden. There is such a vast difference 

 in the edible quality of certain vegetable varieties, many of which 

 are grown largely for their selling value, that we are often led to 

 believe that there is an imperfect acquaintance on the part of our 

 trade with those sorts which will develop into the most delicious 

 when grown and prepared for the table. Very often we will receive 

 orders from home garden planters for varieties which are in no way 

 suited for home consumption. Believing that perhaps we did not 

 express ourselves forcefully enough in our descriptions, and feeling 

 that it surely is our duty as seedsmen to have our customers grow 

 only such varieties as will bring the most satisfactory results, we 

 submit herewith the following list, which has been selected purely 

 from the standpoint of the edible qualities of the varieties in question. 

 Asparagus — Washington. 



Beans, Green-Podded Bush — Giant Stringless, Bountiful. 

 Beans, Lima — Fordhook Bush, Dreer's Pole. 



Beans, Wax-Podded Bush — Round-Pod Kidney Wax, Pencil Pod 

 ' Black Wax. 



Beet — Crosby's Egyptian, Crimson Globe, (Early Summer), New 



Century (Mid-Summer and Fall). 

 Brussels Sprouts — Improved Long Island. 



Cabbage — Early Jersey Wakefield (Summer), Danish Ballhead or 

 Hollander (Fall), Copenhagen Market (Summer) Pe-Tsai, Chinese. 

 Carrot — Chantenay. 



Cauliflower — Danish Dry Weather (Giant). 

 Celeriac — Giant Prague. 



Celery — Golden Self-Blanching (Summer), Meisch's Easy-Blanching 

 (Summer), Winter King (Fall), Pink Plume (Fall). 



Chicory (French Endive). 

 Cress — Extra Curled. 



Cucumber — Evergreen White Spine, Green Prolific. 



Eggplant — Black Beauty. 



Endive — White Curled. 



Kale or Borecole — Dwarf Curled Scotch. 



Kohlrabi — Early White Vienna. 



Leek— Carentan. 



Lettuce — All Seasons, May King, Unrivaled, Iceberg, Trianon 

 Cos. 



Muskmelon — Pollock No. 25, Osage, Emerald Gem. 

 Okra — Perkins Long Pod. 



Onions — Ohio Yellow Globe, Southport White and Red Globe. 



Parsley — Champion Moss Curled and Emerald, (Garnishing) Ham- 

 burg Turnip Rooted (Flavoring). 



Parsnip — Hollow Crown. 



Peas — Alaska, Ameer, Laxtonian, Telephone. 



Pepper — Chinese Giant, Pimiento, Bell or Bull Nose. 



Pumpkin — Small Sugar, Pie or Winter Luxury. 



Radish — Sparkler White Tip, Scarlet Globe, French Breakfast, 

 White Icicle, White Box. 



Salsify or Oyster Plant — Mammoth Sandwich Island. 



Spinach — Bloomsdale Savoy, All Seasons, New Zealand. 



Squash — Golden Hubbard, White Bush, Golden Summer Crook- 

 neck. 



Sweet Corn — Early Malcolm, Golden Bantam, Golden Giant, 



Stokes' Double-Barreled Best, Country Gentleman. 

 Swiss Chard — Giant Lucullus. 



Tomato — Stokes' Bonny Best, Stone, Globe, Yellow Plum. 

 Turnip — Purple Top Milan, Early White Flat Dutch, Purple Top 

 Strap Leaf. 



Watermelon — Kleckley Sweet, Harris Earliest, Halbert Honey. 



Suggested Commercial Varieties of Vegetables 



WHAT has been said above applies equally here. The commercial 

 grower, however, must produce with certain fundamental con- 

 ditions constantly in view. We refer to such matters as the quickness 

 of growth, tonnage of crop, shipping qualities, etc., etc. However, 

 we do hold that the vegetable growers who have made the greatest 

 success have developed their markets by constantly offering articles 

 that were good to eat and not merely good to look at. The matter 

 of sugar content, as gone into briefly before, is food for thought 

 for every forward-looking grower. Is there not some means by 

 which you can eliminate some of the lost time between your field 

 and the ultimate consumer? You must remember that the more he 

 enjoys your product, the oftener he will want it repeated on his 

 table. We cannot urge too strongly that vegetables grown merely 

 for their appearance, with no regard to the edible qualities thereof, 

 do not help to popularize vegetables. Make them attractive, deliver 

 them fresh and do not forget that it is the delicious flavor when 

 eaten that will be remembered. We have eliminated varities from 

 our catalog which we felt were not good advertisements for vegetables. 

 Asparagus — Washington. 



Beans, Lima — Fordhook Bush, Dreer's Pole, Ford's Mammoth. 

 Beans, Green-Podded Bush — Black Valentine, Stringless Green- 

 Pod. 



Beans, Wax-Podded Bush — Currie's Rust-Proof Wax, Pencil Pod. 

 Beet — Crosby's Egyptian, Detroit Dark Red, New Century. 

 Beet, Mangel- Wurzel — Mammoth Long Red. 

 Brussels Sprouts— Improved Long Island. 



Cabbage — Early Etampes, Early Jersey Wakefield, Charleston 

 Wakefield, Succession, Early Flat Dutch, Copenhagen Market, 

 Late Flat Dutch, Danish Ball head. 



Carrot— Danvers Half-Long. 



Cauliflower — Early Dwarf Erfurt, Danish Dry Weather. 

 Celery — Golden Self-Blanching, White Plume, Meisch's Easy 

 Blanching, Winter King. 



Cucumber — Klondike, Davis Perfect, Evergreen White Spine. 



Eggplant — New York Improved. 



Endive — Green Curled, White Curled. 



Kale, or Borecole — Siberian. 



Kohlrabi — Early White Vienna, Purple Vienna. 



Leek — Montrous Carentan. 



Lettuce — Big Boston, New York, or Wonderful, Black-Seeded 



Tennis-Bali, Grand Rapids, Hanson, Iceberg. 

 Muskmelon — Netted Gem, Stokes' Sugar-Sweet, Pollock No. 25, 



Osage, Fordhook. 

 Okra — Perkins Long Pod. 



Onion — Southport Yellow Globe, Southport Red Globe, Southport 

 White Globe, Yellow Globe Danvers, Yellow Strasburg, Ohio 

 Globe. 



Parsley — Champion Moss Curled, Hamburg Turnip Rooted, 

 Emerald. 



Parsnip — Hollow Crown (Guernsey) 



Peas — Alaska, Ameer, Long Island Mammoth. 



Pepper — Ruby Giant, Ruby King, Bell or Bull Nose. 



Pumpkin — Large Sweet Cheese, Kentucky Field. 



Radish — Scarlet Globe, Giant Crimson, White Box, White Icicle, 



White Strasburg, Chartier, or Shepherd, White Chinese (Celestial), 



China Rose, Long Black Spanish. 

 Spinach — Thick-Leaved Viroflay, Bloomsdale, Long Season. 

 Squash — Golden Hubbard, Boston Marrow, Golden Summer 



Crookneck, Mammoth White Bush. 

 Sweet Corn — Golden Bantam, Stokes' Double-Barreled Best, 



Sto well's Evergreen, Golden Giant. 

 Tomato — Earliana, Bonny Best, Special Stock Bonny Best, Greater 



Baltimore, Enormous, June Pink, Globe. 

 Turnip — Early White Flat Dutch, Purple Top Strap Leaf, Purple 



Top White Globe, Yellow or Amber Globe, Yellow Rutabaga. 

 Watermelon — Tom Watson, Harris' Earliest, Kolb's Gem, Dixie. 



Better crops result when the right varieties are used 



