NOVELTIES AND SPECIALTIES 



FOR 1914 



As is customary with most seedsmen to list the Novelties and Varieties of special 

 merit in a separate department, we devote a few pages to the new things in Vegetable 

 and Flower Seeds. 



This department is usually the most interesting to customers, as a good gardener 

 likes to test and carefully note the development of a new variety, that may prove distinct 

 and better than the old favorites amongst the standard varieties. 



Most varieties have been carefully tested in our trials, or obtained from such re- 

 liable sources that we can recommend them as worthy of a trial by our patrons and we 

 feel sure that .they will give satisfaction. 



One pkt. each of the 28 varieties of New Vegetables listed on the pink novelty sheet, for $1.40 net, 

 retail price $1.80. 



Asparagus — Bonvallet's Giant 



A novelty of which the introducer says: This variety is the quickest yielding, heaviest produc- 

 ing, finest quality and most disease-resisting of any variety now sold in America. Most of the large 

 growers of Asperagus around Chicago are now discarding all other varieties for Bonvallet's, because 

 it is free from disease, grows larger and faster than the other varieties. Its favorable points are 

 rust resistant, earliness, high productive power and lasting qualities. 

 1 Price per pkt. 5 cts., oz. 10 cts., *4 lb. 25 cts., lb. 75 cts. 



PERFECTION GARDEN CULTIVATOR 



The Discs can be adjusted to an angle, throwing the soil 

 to or from the plants 



Perfection at last. This New Disc 

 and Knife Weeder and Mulcher is the 

 final evolution in hand Cultivators. It 

 excels and supercedes all. In it is 

 found the best characteristics of others 

 simplified to the accommodation of the 

 professional trucker or home gardener. 

 A child can work it. It has no attach- 

 ments and no encumbrances, is com- 

 plete in itself. It does the weed kill- 

 ing, cultivating and mulching at one pro- 

 cess. This is something that no other 

 cultivator accomplishes. It is a per- 

 fect hand cultivator. 



No attachments are necessary to make 

 it do the work needed. By a simple 

 changing of the bolts it automatically 

 adjusts to suit the occasion. It can be 

 worked in gravel soil, through sticks 

 and coarse straw or stubble of any 

 kind. In stony land it works as well 

 as in the softest loam. 



For thirty years a satisfactory hand cultivator has been sought for ; improvements, combinations 

 and auxiliaries have been added to the older makes without resulting in complete satisfaction. In this 

 new weeder, however, the defects have been overcome and satisfactory work is the result. 



PERFECTION GARDEN CULTIVATOR is made in three sizes, viz: 

 2 — 9>Vz inches wide. No. 3 — 11 inches wide. 

 Retail price $5.00 each. 



No. 1 — 6 inches wide. No. 



