NOVELTIES .-. AND .-. SPECIALTIES .-. 



One of our market garden customers in Manitoba was so delighted with his crop of Early Alabaster 

 Cauliflower that he had a large photograph made and sent to us, of which the above is an exact copy, 

 reduced in size. He writes : "The seed was sown April iSth, transplanted June ist, cauliflowers such as 

 were never before seen in that northern latitude were cut for market July 14th." 



J0Htii2N 6r JTOKZr E^RLT ^Lm^JTER CAULIFLOWER. 



THE EARLIEST OF ALL. 



THE EASIEST GROWN. 



THE SUREST HEADER. 



The Early Alabaster is an entirely new and distinct sort, of American origin. It was originally a 

 sport from the finest German strain of the selected Dwarf Erfurt, one extra fine head appearing some 

 ten days in advance of any other in the crop of one of the largest and most expert cauliflower growers 

 on Long Island in 1881. The seed of this was carefully saved by him, and from it our stock has been 

 brought up. Careful selections have been made each year, the type is fixed, and we confidently 

 recommend this as the earliest and best cauliflower in the world and it is so pronounced by all growers 

 who have had it. It is suited for forcing as well as for growing in open ground, being of very dwarf 

 erect habit, with short outer leaves. It can be planted less than two feet apart each way. It is a sure 

 header, every plant forming a large, solid and perfect head of remarkably pure snowy-white color, of 

 the finest table qualitj'. All market and family gardeners who have failed in growing this delicious 

 vegetable may rest assured that the trouble has come from either inferior or imported unacclimated seed, 

 and should bear in mind that our seed of the Early Alabaster is American-grown, and from it a crop of 

 cauliflower can be grown as easily as a crop of cabbage, and with greater profit, as one ounce of cauli- 

 flower seed will produce about 2,500 plants, the crop of which would usually bring in this market $300 

 to I400. Pkt., 25c.; 5 pkts., $1.00; '4 oz., $1.50; /z oz., $3.00; oz., $6.00; }{ lb., $20.00. 



]\IbW Catibage, Gaf olina HaM MM. 



This entirely new and distinct late cabbage 

 was originated in Buncombe County, North 

 Carolina, where it has had a great local reputa- 

 tion for a few years past, the seed frequently 

 being sold by local gardeners who were fortu- 

 nate enough to have it, at the rate of ;^i.oo per 

 ounce. An old gardener in describing this cab- 

 bage says : '' It heads as sure as the sun rises.''' 

 It grows good sized flat and very hard heads, 

 averaging fifteen to twenty-five pounds each, 

 very short stock or stem, and darker green in 

 color than any other cabbage of its class ; earlier 

 than the best strains of Late Flat Dutch, and 

 while it is the most reliable hard-heading cab- 

 bage for the South we find it equally valuable 

 for the North, having tested it for three succes- 

 sive seasons on our Trial Grounds. The seed 

 we offer, now for the first time, is also grown on 

 our Pennsylvania farm. Money growers will 

 make no mistake in planting it largely. Pkt., 



lOC; oz., 40c.; 2 oz., 75c.; U lb., I1.25; lb., |54-00. pi,„t„g,.,,pu of the New Cabbage, Carolina Hard-Header. 



