Beckert's Bountiful Home-Garden 



Collection 



20 Packets Sure-to-Bear Vegetable Seed and Bound -to- 

 Bloom Flower Seed, a Selection of Sorts We Grow in 

 Our Own Home Gardens, postpaid for 



$1 



While this assortment is primarily intended to start the beginner right, it was our most pleasant experience last season to see many 

 of our old friends and customers order it also. It matters little whether your garden is large or small — the many worth-while varieties 

 offered will prove a valuable adjunct to any garden. Moreover, this represents an exceedingly liberal dollar value, containing full- 

 sized packets of the same high-grade stocks as offered in the catalogue. 



One reason why we offer this remarkable collection at so reasonable a price is that we are able to put up the collections early in 

 the season. Because of this, please do not ask us to make any changes in their makeup. We have taken care to select varieties that 

 are thoroughly practical for every home garden. With but slight variations, the picture above will give you an idea of what your 

 garden may look like by middle of July if you start by the middle of April with one of these Dollar Collections. 



Here's What the Collection Contains: 



One regular packet of each of the following eighteen heavy-yielding kinds: 



Bean, Green-pod Bountiful 

 Bean, Sure-Crop Stringless Wax 

 Beet, Crosby's Egyptian 

 Cabbage, Enkhuizen Glory 

 Carrot, Danvers Half-Long 

 Chard, or Spinach Beet, Lucullus 



To increase the joys of garden-making, 

 of Sweet Peas. Let 



Corn, Early Mayflower 

 Endive, Green Curled 

 Kale, Dwarf Green 

 Lettuce, Black-seeded Simpson 

 Onion, Yellow Danvers 

 Parsley, Moss Curled 



Parsnip, Hollow Crown 

 Peas, World Record 

 Radish, Icicle 

 Spinach, New Zealand 

 Tomato, Bonnie Best 

 Turnip, Purple-Top Globe 



zve add, for good measure, a packet of Nasturtiums and a packet 

 these flowers brighten your garden and home 



SPECIALTIES SHOWN ON FRONT COVER 



OUR TRIAL-GROUNDS, a panorama of which is presented on 

 the cover (which should be spread open to give you a better 

 view}, are conducted solely for the purpose of safeguarding the 

 interests of our customers. Besides hundreds of vitality tests made 

 in sand, soil, and special testing apparatus, we grow hundreds of 

 samples of vegetables and flowers to maturity, to enable us to judge 

 better how the strains we offer "behave" under regular garden 

 conditions. 



BECKERT'S CHARTIER RADISH, since its introduction in 1884, 

 has become the most famous long red Radish, since it'remains in 

 crisp, brittle condition longer and will grow to larger size without 

 becoming pithy than any other spring sort. See page 33. 



OHIO YELLOW GLOBE ONION, as grown especially for us by 

 one of Ohio's most careful specialists, is bound to yield big crops of 

 handsome bulbs whenever given a fair chance. For cultural advice 

 and offer, see pages 5 and 27. 



