Beckert's Seed Store, 101 and 103 Federal St., N. S., Pittsburgh, Pa. • VEGETABLE SEEDS 



Special Collections of Vegetable and Flower Seeds for Your 



and the Children's Garden 



Ail the varieties in the different collections are dependable standards that are bound to make good in all sections and under widely 

 varied conditions of soil and climate. Any boy or girl can take these seeds, put them in the ground, and raise a crop if he just tends 

 the garden a little while each day. Encourage the children to work in the garden because the exercise will cause them to become 

 strong and sturdy while the crops they grow will cause them to appreciate the returns for manual efforts. 



A Few Salad Suggestions 



Lettuce, Endive, Chard, etc., are the tonics which prevent us from eating too much of the heavier foods. Several rows of them 

 are needed in every garden. They can never be bought as fresh on the market as you can pick them in your own garden. Besides 

 being easily grown, they occupy very little space, and even the smallest garden should have a Lettuce-row. Lettuce is among the 

 easiest vegetables to grow and if you read the cultural directions, on pages 19-20, you should have no end of delicious, crisp salad 

 from Mav until frost. 



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Splendid Salads, Large 

 Packets, Best Kinds, for 



25 cts. 



Cress, Extra Curled 

 Endive, Moss Curled 

 Chinese Cabbage, Pe-Tsai 



Lettuce, Early Curled Simpson 

 Lettuce, May King Butterhead 

 Swiss Chard, Spinach Greens 



All of these, excepting Swiss Chard, may be eaten raw or 

 cooked. We think so much of this, however, that we include it 

 in this collection while further notes on it are found on page 30. A 

 dozen well-developed plants, a foot apart in the row, will provide 

 an abundance of tasty greens for a family of five from August until 

 frost. The seeds in packets we supply will sow 30 feet of row. 



Beckert's "Beginner's Garden" Vegetable 

 Seed Collection — Six Large Packets 25 Cents 



These are just the thing for the Children's Garden, being easily 

 grown and of vigorous growth. 



Crosby's Egyptian Beet, Chantenay Carrot, Black -seeded 

 Simpson Lettuce, White Bunch Onion, Crimson Globe Radish, 

 White Milan Turnip. 



A Splendid Keeping Onion 



Ohio Yellow Globe 



This strain comes to us from one of the Buckeye State's 

 foremost Onion specialists. Within 100 days it perfects 

 symmetrical, ha rd globes, averaging 234 inches in diam- 

 eter. They have thin skin and thin necks that ripen 

 down hard. The flesh is fine-grained, very firm, and mild 

 enough to make this one of the most desirable salad 

 Onions obtainable. 



If you do not begrudge the time it takes to thin out the 

 young seedling Onions to stand 4 inches apart in the row 

 when they become 4 inches tall, you should not experience 

 any difficulty in growing a handsome bunch of well-keep- 

 ing Onions in comparatively small space in the garden. 



Pkt. 10 cts., oz. 30 cts., l/ 4 lb. $1, lb. $3.50. 



Beckert's "Root-Crop" Collection 



In years gone by, root-crops formed a far more important part of people's diet than they do today. This is much to be regretted, 

 not only because Beets, Carrots, Turnips, etc., are valuable in that they help to keep the human body in good order, but also because 

 they afford a chance to put a most wholesome variation into our winter diet. Grow more Root Crops. 



Six Most Profitable Home-Garden Varieties for 25 Cents, Postpaid 



Beet, Crosby's Improved I Carrot, Danvers Half-long I Parsnip, Hollow Crown 



Celeriac (Turnip-rooted Celery) | Kohlrabi, White Vienna Turnip, White Milan 



For complete descriptions of these splendid sorts, please consult their respective headings on the following pages. 



P. S. Both the "Root-Crop" and "Salad" Collections would be fine for the children's garden 



An inspiring example of Neighbors' Co-operative Gardening in a Pittsburgh suburb 



