k SPECIALTIES IN VEGETAB1E SEED^ 



Dreer's Specialties for Better Food Gardens 



In each class of vegetables we find some that are superior to others in one or another characteristic. It may be extra earliness or 

 particularly attractive appearance, or superior flavor, or an ideal combination of many desirable factors. Such vegetables logically become 

 leaders and among such leaders, the finest strains are most eagerly sought by the growers. 



On this and the following pages we offer what we know to be prize strains of distinctly worth-while leaders among the most useful 

 vegetables. They are not necessarily novelties, but rather specialties which have won their way to the top through meritorious perform- 

 ances in gardens of Dreer customers everywhere. 



Mary Washington Asparagus 



1 2 This is a special selection from Pedigreed Washington, the 

 original U. S. Dept. of Agriculture introduction, being 

 earlier, larger, and longer, and the stalks slightly more oval 

 in form while it is quite as resistant to disease. Produces 

 large healthy seedlings. Pkt., 10 cts.; oz., 20 cts.; j lb., 

 60 cts.; lb., $2.00. 



Bountiful Beans 



23 Easily the most productive flat, green-podded, stringless 

 bush bean in cultivation today. Under favorable con- 

 ditions of soil and season this variety has been known to 

 bear one bushel of pods per 15-foot row in the course of the 

 season. The plants are very vigorous and disease resistant. 

 They bear the bulk of the crop within 75 days from date of 

 planting, the first picking being generally ready in 60 days. 

 The pods average 6 inches long by f inch wide, are thick 

 through, of pleasing light green color, very brittle and 

 absolutely stringless. Bountiful tastes as good as it looks. 

 Pkt., 10 cts.; \ lb., 25 cts.; lb., 40 cts.; 2 lbs., 75 cts.; 

 5 lbs., $1.75, prepaid. 



Dreer Bush Lima Beans 



105 Comes in a week or ten days later than our Wonder Bush. 

 The Beans are packed close together in the pods, producing 

 usually four beans each, sometimes five, and are thick, 

 sweet and succulent. An excellent variety, which is 

 particularly valuable for the home garden on account of its 

 productiveness. Note the results of the Experiment 

 Station, printed below. Pkt., 10 cts.; \ lb., 25 cts.; lb., 

 45 cts.; 2 lbs., 85 cts.; 5 lbs., $2.00, prepaid. 



Dreer's Special Crosby's 

 Egyptian Beet 



145 This special selection of extra early Beet is as great an im- 

 provement over the ordinary Crosby Egyptian as the latter 

 variety is over the old-time Egyptian Blood Turnip Beet 

 and is valuable both for the private gardener and the 

 amateur, on account of its reliability to produce a uniform 

 crop of best quality. The skin is very smooth, bright red 

 and flesh vermilion, very sweet and tender. Pkt., 10 cts.; 

 oz., 25 cts.; \ lb., 60 cts.; lb., $1.75. 



The Illinois State Agricultural Experiment Station at Ur- 

 bana, Illinois, recently concluded trials of five varieties of 

 Bush Lima Beans extending over five years and grown under 

 every conceivable condition, and the Dreer Bush Lima shows by 

 far the highest average in yield each year. The combined five 

 year average yields for all these different treatments show the 

 Dreer Lima Bean producing a 51 per cent, greater yield than 

 any other variety. For full report of these trials write for 

 Bulletin joy addressing above Station. 



Special Crosby's Egyptian Beet 



Sprouting Broccoli 

 "Calabrese" 



179 This fine vegetable is now to be seen in good produce 

 stores and markets, and is always in good demand. It 

 makes a welcome change from the usual "greens," and its 

 distinctive flavor and high tonic qualities merit for it 

 space in every garden. Of easy culture, it can be grown 

 for an early crop, starting seeds in hotbed or greenhouse in 

 February or March and later transplanting the same as 

 Cabbage, or it succeeds equally well when grown for fall 

 use, sowing seed in the open bed in May and transplanting 

 later thirty inches apart each way. Pkt., 15 cts.; J oz., 

 50 cts.; oz., 90 cts.; J lb., $3.00. 



Prices for Vegetable Seeds offered in this list are the lowest for years, 

 while high quality has been strictly maintained 



