WHOLESALE PRICE LIST OF VEGETABLE SEEDS FOR FALL SOWING. 



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EGG PLANT. 



Improved New York Spineless. 



The New York Improved Egg Plant has been the standard 

 variety for years, but this selection is vastly superior in every re- 

 spect. The habit of the plant is low and branching, and is quite 

 free from spines both on the plant and calyx of the Egg. The 

 fruits are of the largest size and perfect form and from eight to ten 

 are produced on a plant. Another most valuable feature of this 

 Egg Plant is its extreme earliness, maturing its fruit at least two 

 weeks ahead of the old variety. The splendid quality and great 

 productiveness of this selection will greatly increase the popularity 

 of this delicious vegetable. (See cut.) 10c. per pkt. ; 35e. per oz. ; 

 $1.00 per i lb. ; $3.50 per lb. 



Lettuce "BIG BOSTON. 



This variety is identical in color, shape and general appear- 

 ance with the famous Boston Market Lettuce, but is double the size. 

 It is about one week later in maturing, but its solidity and greater 

 size of head will make it a most valuable sort. A most desirable 

 variety either for forcing in cold frames or open ground planting. 

 This variety, though similar in appearance, is quite distinct from 

 Boston Market, and being much larger should not be forced in 

 •such high temperature by 15 to 20 degrees as the Boston Market or other small forcing varieties. The "Big Boston" is sure to be wanted by 

 market gardeners and truckers, because it always produces large, solid salable heads, and it will commend itself to amateurs because it heads up 

 well at all seasons of the year and is of crisp tender quality. (See cut.) 10c. pkt.: 20c. oz. ; 50c. J lb. ; $1.50 lb. 



I JYl RTANT. — When we first placed the BIG BOSTON LETTUCE on the market, many competing houses soon offered what 



they thought was the same variety, under the names of "Large Boston," "Improved Boston Market,'' etc., and a Boston seed Iwuse in their catalogue 

 for 1892, went so far as to say, that itwas identical with Hittinger's "Belmont." They Jiave now admitted their error to us over their signature. 

 A Philadelphia seed house, claiming to do the largest mail trade, etc. , copied the same description of this Lettuce in its entirety, and without even 

 having tested it for themselves, which was something very unusual, considering that their trial ground is extensive and departmentised. They too, 

 have retracted in writing what they said in their catalogue regarding it. We mention all this here to put market gardeners on their guard, because 

 we feel sure that this same claim for Big Boston being synonymous with other varieties has led to a great deal of confusion and loss as to how Big 

 Boston should be forced — which should be at a lower temperature than the Boston Market, or any of Us selections. 



The Henderson's Big Boston Lettuce has been the largest and nicest looking on this market, measuring about nine and twelve inches in diameter and well headed. 



JOS. ROETTfclS, Paducah, N. Y. 



EGG PLANT, IMPROVED NEW YORK SPINELESS. 



THE BEST LETTUCES FOB. COLD FRAME! 



^'GOLDEN QUEEN." A very desirable small early variety of a most pleasing golden yellow color, thar. shade which is always most 

 •desirable in Lettuce. It is of dwarf, compact growth and one of the most deceptive varieties that we have ever seen, as at first glance it seems to 

 be a veritable miniature Lettuce ; but it forms all solid heads with litile or no waste, so that there is really more to it than in many Lettuces 

 double the size. This variety will prove equally valuable for forcing in greenhouses or frames, or out-door use, but if srrown in the open ground 

 it should be sown early in the season. It is very crisp, tender an:l juicy, and of particularly delicate flavor even when grown in the open 

 ground, resembling in its tender quality the Boston Market, when that varietv is forced with artificial heat under glass. 10c. per pkt.; 20c. per 

 oz. ; 6<ic. per ± lb. ; $2.00 per lb. 



EARLY CURLED SIMPSON. — Properly speaking it does not head, but forms a close compact mass of leaves of yellowish 

 shade of green, which are quite curly. This peculiarity enables it to mature quicker than varieties that form firm heads, and gives it a great de- 

 sideratum — earliness. It i.- the kind that is planted in cold frames extensively, and is also largely grown as an early open air variety between a 

 crop. 5c. per pkt ; 15c peroz.. 35c. per^ lb. ; $1.00 per lb. 



BOSTON MAR KET. — This is an improved 

 variety of the Tennis Ball, and attains a large size. It 

 grows very compact, is white and crisp, and is one of the 

 best varieties for forcing and for cold frames. 5c. per 

 pkt. ; 15c. per oz. ; 35c. per i lb.; $1.00 per lb. 



TENNIS-BALL BLACK-SEEDED - 

 A favorite forcing variety, and, as the name indicates, 

 forming a hard head. It makes but few outer leaves, 

 and for this reason can be planted quite closely under 

 glass — from six to seven inches apart. It is the variety 

 so largely used in our hot bens and forcing pits, and in 

 greenhouses. 5c. per pkt.; 15c. per oz.; 35c. per i lb.; 

 $1.00 per lb. 



REICHNER'S EARLY WHITE 

 BUTTER LETTUCE.— The introducer's des- 

 cribe it as follows — This very excellent new variety is the 

 result of several years' selection from the Philadelphia 

 Early White Cabbage, made by the Reichners, who are 

 among the best market gardeners around Philadelphia. It 

 is a splendid forcing lettuce; also for sowing in the fall in 

 open ground, and for planting on ridges, being entirely 

 hardy in the South, and requiring only a slight protection 

 in the North ; produces fine, hirge, white, solid heads, of 

 superb quality, and is remarkably early. Southern ship- 

 pers will find this variety much superior to the Old Royal 

 Summer Cabbage for their purpose. No market grower, 

 either North or South, can afford to be without this valu- 

 able varietv. 5c. pkt.; 15c. oz.; 35c. ± lb.; $1.00 lb. 



BIO BOSTON LETTUCE. 



