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Dreer's Excelsior Blood Beet 



151 The attractive form and rich dark color of this Beet commend 

 it to all who grow it. Matures fully as early as any variety of 

 turnip-shape Beet known, and grows to a uniform size and 

 shape. The flesh is blood-red, remarkably sweet and tender, 

 retaining all of its good qualities until it has attained an 

 advanced age. Pkt., 10 cts.; oz., 25 cts.; J lb., 70 cts.; lb., 

 $2.00. 



Dreer's Perfect Forcing Carrot 



240 Easily one of the most popular of the early carrots, equally 

 useful for the outdoor garden as well as growing under glass. 

 It is a fine, half long variety of most symmetrical shape, uni- 

 form size, and has a remarkably small top. Of attractive 

 bright scarlet color, crisp, and with a singu- 

 larly small core, so small in fact that in the 

 young product it is hardly noticeable. It is 

 not particular as to soil and yields splendid 

 crops under ordinary home garden conditions. 

 Pkt., 10 cts.; i oz., 15 cts.; oz., 25 cts.; 

 J lb., 70 cts.; lb., $2.25. 



Turnip Golden Heart 

 Ruta Baga 



9S8 No vegetable garden is complete without 

 Turnips and this Ruta Baga is one of the 

 best for late use, and for storing over winter. 

 Unlike most of the sorts now being grown 

 this root is green topped, nearly round with a 

 creamy yellow flesh and very solid and of 

 sweet flavor. Can be stored over winter in a 

 cold dry cellar. Pkt., 10 cts.; oz., 15 cts.; 

 J lb., 35 cts.; lb., $1.00. 



French Unrivaled Lettuce 



458 A sure-heading variety which is suitable for 

 growing at any season. Forms large, com- 

 pact, buttery heads, and is slow to shoot to 

 seed. The general character is similar to 

 "Big Boston," except that the color is a 

 lighter green and leaves are not tinged with 

 brown, may be grown in cold frames like 

 "Big Boston," but is most valuable for grow- 

 ing in the open ground during spring and 

 summer. The seed we supply from the origi- 

 nator in France and produces heads which are 

 far superior in every way to those grown from 

 American grown seed. Pkt., 10 cts.; J oz., 

 25 cts.; oz., 45cts.; Jib., $1.25. 



Finnocchio, or Florence Fennel 



418 A delicious vegetable which should be more largely grown. It 

 is extensively used in Italy as a salad, but is particularly 

 palatable when served boiled, with a cream dressing. When 

 the enlargement of leaf stalk, at base of stem (see illustration 

 alongside), is about the size of a hen's egg it should be earthed 

 up so as to cover half of it, and in about ten days cutting for 

 use may be commenced and continued as the plants increase in 

 growth. The flavor is somewhat like celery, but it has a 

 sweet taste and delicate odor. Pkt., 10 cts.; oz., 30 cts.; 

 I lb., $1.00. 



Golden Acre Cabbage 



204 This excellent new variety is the earliest round headed 

 Cabbage. It will mature at least 7 days ahead of the earliest 

 strains of Jersey Wakefield, considered the standard Early of 

 the country. The heads of Golden Acre cabbage are perfectly 

 round, firm, and of exceptionally fine texture, heavy mid-ribs 

 being entirely absent. They average in weight about 4 pounds 

 and produce very few outer leaves, permitting close planting 

 in the row. A valuable addition to the list of fine Cabbages. 

 Pkt., 20 cts.; ^oz., 80cts.; oz., $1.50; J lb., $4.00. 



Bountiful Beans 



23 Easily the most productive flat, green-podded, stringless 

 bush bean in cultivation today. Under favorable conditions of 

 soil and season this variety has been known to bear one bushel 

 of pods per 15 foot row, in the course of the season. The plants 

 are very vigorous, and disease resistant. They bear the bulk 

 of the crop within 75 days from date of planting, the first pick- 

 ing being generally ready in sixty days. The pods average 6 

 inches long, by j inches wide, are thick through, of pleasing 

 light green color, very brittle and absolutely stringless at all 

 stages of development. Bountiful tastes as good as it looks. 

 Pkt., 10 cts., postpaid. § lb., 25 cts.; lb., 40 cts.; 2 lbs., 75 

 cts.; 10 lbs., $3.50. 



UTrVTnr" If Beans, Corn or Peas are wanted by Parcel Post, add S cts. per lb. to points East of the Mississippi River, and 10 cts.. 

 I\l I I r Pe' "»• t° points West of the Mississippi River. We deliver postpaid to any post office within the United States all other 

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