FAUST'S NOVELTIES AND SPECIALTIES FOR 1900. 



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MAMMOTH PRIZE-TAKER ONION. 



Most everyone is familiar with the appearance of the beautiful straw-colored onions, imported from Bermuda and Spain, offered 

 for sale at the Iruit stauds every fall in all our large cities and which command such good prices. They can now be grown the first 

 year in America from our home-growa seed. Our Genuine Prize-Taker Onions are of a clean, bright straw color, the flesh being 

 pure white, very sweet and tender. Of perfect globe shape, as shown in the illustration, and are always uniform. Tae immense 

 bulbs measure Irom 12 to 16 inches in circumference, and under special cultivation they have been raised to weigh four to six 

 pounds each. Either for market, family use or exhibition purposes it has no equal, and as a keeper it is unsurpassed. It will yield 

 950 bushels and over per acre. The seed here offered is all AMERICAN GROWN. Pkt., 10 tts. ; oz., 15 cts. ; % lb., 35 cts. ; lb., 

 f 1.25. By express or freight, 5 lbs. at $1.15 per lb. 



I^OTT'S EXCELSIOR PEA. 



This new early dwarf wrinkled pea grows at the uniform height of 

 one foot, and is remarkably hardy and productive, besides being earlier 

 than any of the wrinkled peas. It has been impartially tested in vari- 

 ous sections of the United States and Canada, and has proved to be so 

 haidy and vigorous that it may be planted in early spring with any 

 smooth variety, and counted on for table use almost as soon, while the 

 quality is far superior. During the years that the originator has been 

 developing these peas, they have never failed to be well matured for 

 table use within 50 days from planting, with ordinary garden culture. 

 The large pods are well filled with from 7 to 9 fine peas, which are very 

 tender and of unusually sweet flavor. Every private garden should in- 

 clude this fine early variety, as it is one of the best flavored in cultiva- 

 tion. Pkt., 10 cts. ; pint, 25 cts. ; quart, 40 cts., postpaid. By express or 

 freight, quart, 25 cts. ; \^ peck, 75 cts. ;_peck, 51.25 ; bushel, $4.50. 



SADDEE-BACK WAX BEA]^. 



For handsome appearance and rare quality for table use, it is une- 

 qualled. Of vigorous growth, the foliage is profuse enough to shade the 

 ground and keep it moist, so that in a dry season this variety is not 

 likely to suffer. A profuse bearer, plants usually bearing from 30 to 

 40 pods each. The pods are straight, long and round, being full of meat, 

 and are absolutely stringless. When the pods are broken between the 

 beans, there is no open space, the pods being filled with meat. Pkt., 10 

 cts.; pint, 25 cts.; quart, 45 cts., postpaid. By express or freight, quart, 

 30 cts,; peck, 81.75; bushel, $6.50. 



