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Improved Purple Top Ruta Baga. 



This is grown for feeding stock and also for 

 table use. It is oblong in shape, yellow 

 flesh, ver}' solid. Should always be sown 

 in rows or ridges. 



Long Island Purple Top Rnta Buga. 

 This kind is purely of American origin. 

 "The root is smoother than the foregoing 

 variety, the flesh is of golden yellow, fine 

 grained and solid; it is earlier to mature. 

 The stock we have is expressly grown for- 

 us on Long Island and cannot be surpassed. 

 Canv.ot be too highly recommended. 



Bxtra Bariy White French, or 

 White Kgg. This is a lately introduced 

 variety; is said to be very early, tender and 

 cnsp/The shape of it is oblong, resembling 

 an egg. Having tried it we found it as 

 represented, quickly growing, tender and 

 sweet. It will ' never become a favorite 



market variety, as only flat kinds sell well 

 in this market. It has to be pulled up 

 soon, as it becomes pithy shortly after at- 

 taining maturity. 



Extra Bariy Purple Top Munich. 

 Recently introduced from Germany; flat, 

 with red or purple top; same as the Ameri- 

 can variety, but fifteen days earlier to ma- 

 ture. It is ver}' hardy, tender, and of fine 

 flavor. 



I/arge Co\7 Horn. A long white varie- 

 ty of very good quality, shaped like a cow's 

 horn, from which the name. It is good for 

 feeding stock. 



Sweet German, or Hanover. Re- 

 sembles the Ruta Baga . in growth; it is a 

 white flesh variety, very solid and sweet. If 

 sown in the fall will keep well until spring 

 without getting pithy like the flat varieties. 



Seven Top Turnip. Tliis varietv is qiiite largely 

 planted in ihe South for green forage during the 

 winter mouths. The plants do not produc^^ bulbs, 

 hut are of strong growth with abundant green fol- 

 iage. In some sections Turnips are largelv planted 

 to make rt green crop to turn under to eunch the 

 soil, ar.d this variety is one of the best for the pur- 

 pose. 



Improved I'urple Top Ruta Eaga, 



Extra Eurb 



Lte French or White Egg Turnip. 



THE VEGBTABLB PBAR. 



Sycios or Sechium edulis. 

 The Vegetable Pear, or "Mirliton," as the Creoles here call it, belongs to the Gourd 

 ■family, and is known to botanists under the 

 tnost cf the Gourds the plant is a vine 



ornar'>pntal nnd n 



and 

 abundant bearer. 



name of '-One-Seeded Cucumber." Like 

 mav be trained upon a trellis, on a fence or 



The fruit, if prepared right, forms 



Largest Seed House in the South. 



