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J. STECKLER SEED CO., LTD., ALMANAC AND 



Faultless Cabbage. 



This strain of cabbage is one wbich we 

 have been at work on for several years 

 until we have now, in our judgment, one 

 of the best stocks of second early cab- 

 bage, a little earlier than Stein's Early 

 Flat Dutch; remarkable uniform in its 

 habit of growth; producing deep flat 

 heads which are very hard. The stock 

 heads up practically all at one time. The 

 leaves are light green in color, broad 

 with medium growth of plant outside of 

 heads. The field from which the seed 

 was taken produced fully 99 per cent of 

 large heads, very uniform in size and 

 very attractive in appearance. 



Price, 50 cents an ounce; $1.50 per t4 

 pound. 



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Orleans Pride Cabbage. 

 Orleans Pride Cabbage, earliest variety 

 head cabbage. It is a selected cross be- 

 tween the Jersey Wakefield and the Early 

 Flat Dutch, afterwards improved by selec- 

 tion of stock until it produces uniformly 

 a fine head. This cabbage is the earliest 

 flat heading cabbage that is now known 

 in any market, maturing at about the 

 same season as the Charleston Wake- 

 field. Tt should he planted closely in 

 rows, as there is but little outside growth, 

 and, when so planted, will produce fine 

 crops of solid heads of very fine quality. 

 Wherever it has been used, we have had 



most excellent reports from it. We 

 recommend same highly for market and 

 family use. 



Price, 50 cents an ounce; $1.50 per % 

 pound. 



Tip Top Musk Melon. — This splendid 

 melon has "held its own" during the past 

 dozen years or more with all introduc- 

 tions in the melon line, and no melon of 

 which we have any knowledge compares 

 with it in uniformly good eating qualities. 

 The testimony of all who have used Tip 

 Top is that every melon produced, wheth- 

 er big or little, early or late, is a good 

 one; sweet, juicy, finest flavor, firm (but 

 not hard) fieshed, and eatable to the out- 

 side coating. Its appearance on the mar- 

 ket is very attractive — sells on sight. 

 Customers soon learn to pick them out 

 and will have no other variety. Fruit of 

 large size, and flesh attractive bright 

 salmon in color; nearly round, evenly 

 ribbed, moderately netted, and very pro- 

 ductive. Price of our best selected stock, 

 packet, 10c: ounce, 15c; % lb., 50c; lb., 

 $1.50. 



New "Chinese Giant" Red Pepper. 



Double the size of Ruby King, this is 



| the largest and finest mild Red Pepper. 



Xot only is it immensely productive for 



so large a pepper, but its enormous size 



j and magnificent appearance make it sell 



j most readily. The plants are vigorous in 



j growth, but of stocky habit, seldom more 



! than two feet in height. They are well 



branched and thickly set with enormous 



fruits. Frequently half a dozen peppers 



will touch each other, as if on a single 



bunch. 



The strong growth of the plants 

 enables them to mature the gigantic 

 fruits only slightly later than our well- 

 known Ruby King. The monstrous pep- 

 pers are of thick blocky form and of most 

 brilliant, glossy scarlet. They grow four 

 to five inches broad at the top and are of 

 equal length, divided into four or more 

 large ridges; when ripe they are indent- 

 ed at the blossom end. The first fruits 

 set in a cluster of three to five at base of 

 the plant, and are generally longer than 

 those setting later on the upper branches, 

 although the latter are equally as broad. 

 All are uniformly of most "enormous" 

 size. The flesh is extremely mild, — as 

 sweet as an apple. — and unusually thick. 

 It makes an excellent salad sliced and 

 served like tomatoes. The true seed of 

 a selected strain, — producing uniformly 

 large fruits, — will always be high in 

 price. Per pkt. 10 cts.; oz. 30 cts.; % 

 lb. $1.00; lb $3.00. 



Steckler's French Market Lettuce is the Best. 



