FAUST'S NOVBI.TIES AND SPECIALTIES FOR 1894. 
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Celestial Pepper. 
This pepper originally came from China, 
and the plant is one of the most beautiful and 
attractive in cultivation. The plant begins to 
set its peppers early in the season, and con- 
tinues until frost, branching freely and bear- 
ing profusely. The peppers up to the time 
they are fully grown, are of a delicate creamy, 
yellow color, and when fully growp, change 
to an intense vivid scarlet, making a plant, 
when loaded with fruit, part of one color and 
part of the other, an object of the most strik- 
ing beauty and oddity. The peppers are 2 
to 3 inches long, of clear, sharp flavor and 
superior for any of the uses to which a pep- 
per can be put. They are all carried upright, 
and the brilliant contrast in color makes a 
beautiful sight. Per pkt., 10 cts. ; oz., 25 
cts. ; X lb., 75 cts.; lb., I2.50. 
Perkin's Mammoth Long Podded Okra. 
The pods are an intense green color, 
about 8 inches long, and do not get hard, as 
with other sorts. Its productiveness is simply 
wonderful, the pods shooting out from the 
bottom of the stalk within 3 inches of the 
ground, and the whole plant is covered with 
them to the height of a man's head. Mr. 
Perkins always obtains $3.00 to $4.00 per bas- 
ket for his Okras in Philadelphia markets ; 
also, much sought after by canners, being the 
best of all green sorts for winter use. Pkt. , 
5 cts.; oz., 10 cts.; % lb., 25 cts.; lb., 90 cts., 
postpaid. 
White Multiplier Onion Sets. 
This new variety is enormously productive, fre- 
quently producing as many as 20 bulbs in a cluster 
from a single bulb planted. The color is pure, sil- 
very white. The quality is unexcelled and the size 
just right for bunching green ; while if ripened for 
use as pickling onions, it can be grown very profit- 
ably. When ripened, their keeping qualities are 
remarkable, having been known to keep perfectly 
sound for one year. It is aptly said of them * ' that 
the grass and weeds cannot grow fast enough to 
cover them." The largest of the sets, if allowed to 
grow through the summer, make an onion of fair 
size, which divides when ripening in the fall, multi- 
plying liberally for another season. Another fea- 
ture is extreme earliness, being 3 weeks ahead of 
any other onion sets. Per pint, 25 cts. ; quart, 45 
cts., postpaid. 
Faust's Prize Head Late 
Flat Dutch Cabbage. 
This fine cabbage has been pro- 
nounced by all who have seen it to be 
the finest strain of Late Flat Dutch 
Cabbage in the world. It is a low- 
growing variety ; the large bluish-green 
heads are round, very solid, broad and 
flat on top, of the very finest quality. 
It is a superb variety for fall use and is 
the best for late keeping. It is the 
result of years of the most careful selec- 
tion, and is sought after in preference 
to other late sorts by large growers of 
cabbages. It never fails to make a per- 
fect, solid head and is most uniform in 
size and color. Our seed has been 
grown from large and carefully selected 
heads, and we confidently recommend 
it as being the finest strain ever intro- 
duced. Per pkt., 10 cts.; oz., 30 cts.; 
X lb., $1.00 \ lb., $3.50. 
Climbing Cucumber. 
This new cucumber has created unparalleled 
sensation in the trade on the Continent, and has 
proved to be a valuable novelty. It climbs vigor- 
ously to a height of 6 or 7 feet on poles, and is 
prized for its prolific and hardy qualities, a single 
vine bearing 50 to 75 well-formed fruits, about 10 
inches in length, of a dark-green color and of 
delicious flavor. The fruits are netted when ripe. 
The fruit is very flesh)', solid and sweet, with 
exceptionally few seeds. As a variety for slicing, 
they will prove very useful, while for exhibition no 
other cucumber will attract so much attention. 
Their shape is ver}'^ uniform, straight and perfectly 
smooth. Although very hardy, it forces well and 
comes into bearing very early. Per pkt., 10 cts.; 
3 pkts. , 25 cts. 
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