Stokes Seed Farms Qompany, Moorestown, New Jersey 



95 Brussels Sprouts 



A VEGETABLE IN GREAT DEMAND BY ALL HIGH-CLASS MARKETS 



Up to this time vegetable-growers and home-garden planters do not seem to have recognized the value of 

 Brussels Sprouts. Only a very small proportion of the private gardens have this most delicious of vegetables 

 included, and very few vegetable-growing districts make a specialty of it. A large interest has been taken in it 

 by the cauliflower men on eastern Long Island, where it is intercropped extensively and where it has proven to 

 be a splendid money-maker for all who have taken it up. The plant resembles cabbage, the edible part, however, 

 being in the small leaves or "sprouts" which grow on the stalk at each leaf-joint. The culture of this vegetable 

 is very generally the same as for late cabbage except that the leaves are broken down in the fall to give the little 

 heads more room to grow. One of the great difficulties which American gardeners have had with this vegetable 

 is the fact that they do not allow it a long-enough growing season. It is primarily an autumn vegetable, but 

 must have a long growing season, and this point is not generally recognized. Seed should be sown in the hot- 

 beds early in March and then transplanted to permanent quarters before they crowd one another. We cannot 

 be too insistent in urging our customers to go in for at least a small quantity of Brussels Sprouts this season. 

 If you do not want them for your own use, you are sure to find a ready market for them anywhere. As Mr. Sutton 

 of England has said, "Brussels Sprouts command respect from prince and peasant as the finest autumnal vegetable 

 we have of the small green class." Pkt. 5 cts., oz. 20 cts., Vilh. 60 cts., lb. $2. 



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