HENDERSON’S 
White Velvet 
Okra 
599. A most popular Southern 
vegetable. It is quite easy to 
grow, and it succeeds just as well 
in the North. The pods when 
young and tender are sliced and 
used in soups and stews. Hender- 
son’s White Velvet is the best of 
the Okras, long smooth, greenish- 
white pods, extremely tender, and 
very prolific. (See engraving.) 
Price, 10c. pkt., 20c. oz., 65c. 4% 
Ib., $2.00 Ib. 
Fordhook Fancy 
Mustard ~ 
It is Cooked Like Spinach—: 
Piquant in Flavor 
586. The ordinary Mustard Plant is 
usually eaten as a sa¥ad only; but Ford- 
hook Fancy is used -cooked like spinach 
as well as eaten raw as a salad. 
The flavor when cooked is universally 
conceded to be superior to that of any 
variety of spinach. 
The vigorous plants produce large 
quantities of crisp dark green leaves, 
which resemble ostrich feather plumes; 
and the plants stand well the ex- 
tremely hot days of summer. Sown 
at intervals of two or, three weeks a 
continuous growth of the fresh green 
leaves will be put forth during the entire 
growing season. (See engraving.) Price. 
‘10c. pkt., 20c. oz., 50c. 14 Ib., $1.50 Ib © 
White Velvet Okra ~ 
Famous Prizetaker Onion 
Magnificent in Size—Delightfully Mild in Flavor—A Matchless Keeper—Succeeds in all Sections of the U. S. 
613. Prizetaker is at once the largest and most handsome of all American Onions, and is renowned everywhere. It is grown with great 
success in all sections of the country, and is one of the few vegetables that attain great size, and still retain perfect quality. 
It grows as easily as any other sort, and can be used for all purposes—the young plants as salad; the half grown bulbs in early summer, 
and the perfect, mature Onion practically at all times, for it keeps so well that it may be used almost the year round. 
It is esteemed not only in America, but in Europe. Soon after its introduction, it was exhibited in London, and in the keenest competition 
with the products of the most skilful growers, earned an “Award of Merit”’ from the Royal Horticultural Society of England. 
Not only does it grow to a large size, but uniformly so. The shape is true globe, broad at the base, tapering sharply at the top. == 
It is so well bred that the tops dry down entirely when it ripens, leaving a clean, sound bulb, perfect i in form, rich in color, and wonderfully 
solid. The outer skin is rather pale yellow, the flesh pure white throughout. It is extremely mild in flavor, very much esteemed for slicing, 
baking and boiling, in fact, in whatever way it is prepared, it is unsurpassed. (See engraving.) Price, 10c. mikes 35c. oz., $1.20 4 Ib., $4.00 Ib. 
Special price on large quantities. =a 
Ailsa Craig Onion 
607. This is one of the largest of the 
British sorts, and is used very extensively” 
in private gardens both for ordinary use and 
for exhibition purposes. European Onions | 
do not, as a rule, grow well in America until 
thoroughly acclimated. This variety has 
proved to be an exception, and has done 
4) well since its first appearance here. Grown 
/jfrom seed raised under our supervision, it 
has become one of the largest and most 
useful Onions. Gardeners frequently bring 
us very large specimens, grown for exhibi- 
tion, five inches in diameter and weighing 
two pounds apiece. 
‘=4|. The skin is dark straw eee ‘the flesh she 
2 sehifes -very mild in eR, -and always = 
=| tender. ' 
We do not aes its use for keeping. Gus 
Globe varieties:and Prizetaker are ee 
Erise:, 25c. pkty $1. 00 Oz. 
“Onion Culture 
1 oz. for 100 feet of drill; 5 or 6 Ibs. 
in drills for an acre 
| For an early crop sow seed in cold frames % 
February or March, transplanting when large 
enough to handle in April or May. Regular 
open-ground sowing should be made about the 
Bai latter part of April or early May in latitude 
Belof New York, in soil that has been manured 
Milthe previous year. Sow about one-half inch 
ma|decp in rows one foot apart, and thin out to 
S\three inches apart in the rows. Weeds in the. 
row should be removed by hand. If ground is ; 
liable to be weedy, zt is well to sow a Litile radish i 
with the Onion seed—to mark the row. = 
Vegetable Plants are on sale at our store during the Spring and Summer, but owing to their perishable nature 
and delay in transportation, we cannot undertake to ship them. 
