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Knowledge of the 

 Needs of 



Market Gaurdeners 



We Make a Specialty of Seeds for 

 Market Gardeners and Florists. 



'I'ho wants and needs of Market Gardeners and Florists have been the study of our 

 firm since 1S77, when the President of this company personally solicited the market 

 gai cleii trade of Chicago. We know where to buy, and we buy and grow those strains 

 of Vegetable and Flower Seeds which produce the most marketable quality of goods 

 for our customers. This knowledge has taken years of time to acquire, inspections 

 ol growing crops all over the .seed and trucking sections of the world, and trials 

 ot hundreds of new and old varieties. 



Kverv lot of seed we send out is tested and known to grow. 



We buv from, and pay the highest prices to the most reputable growers all over 



the world. 



tliousands of field trials in which we compare our seeds with those of other 

 s. iMl-nien. we know what other firms are offering and keep our strains unsur 

 nviiiie. 



ur descriptions are true and not exaggerated 

 quality of seed can be sold. 



ASPARAGUS. BonvaHet's Giant. 



Thi: 



reproductio 



ot 



which is 

 ell known 

 ) market. 



BONVALLET'S GIANT ASPARAGUS (Cut Creen). 



Asparagus 

 on our front cover this year, i 

 as the best "grass" on the 



whore we first introduced it some years au'>. 

 Elsewhere it is doing equally \v<U; a Texas 

 customer, after a few years' trial, putting in 

 sixty acres of this variety this season. 



Bonvallet's Giant can be cut a year earlier 

 than any other sort and longer during the sea- 

 son. Grows equally well either white or green, 

 depending on how planted. The shoots are 

 purplish in color, much preferred over lighter 

 or whitish grass. It is the most rust-resistant 

 of any variety now on the market. 



Seed, oz., 15c; % lb.. 40c; lb., .$1.S50; 2-year- 

 old plants, per 100, .$1.75; per 1,000, S12.00. 



BUSH BEANS 



GREEN POD VARIETIES. 





Finally, our prices are as low as 



Artichoke. fJreen Globe. Pkt., lOo; oz., 30c. 



Globe Articlioke Plants. Eacb, 



35c; <lo7,., $3.50, bv express only. 

 JEKUSAtESI ARTICHOKES (Tubers). Peck, 

 3.5c; bu., $1.15; bbl., $3.25. If shipped from 

 New York, add 50c per bbl. and 20c pej- bu. 

 AsparaSTUS Roots. Conover's Colossal 1- 



L — year-old roots, per 



1,000, $3.75; 2-year-old roots, per 1,000, $5.00; 

 5,000 at $1.00 per 1,000. 



BAKU'S MAMMOTH. 1-year-old roots, per 

 1.000. .$5.00; 2-year-old roots, per 1,000, $5. .50. 



COLUMBIAN MAMMOTH. White 1 -year-old 

 roots, per 1,000. $5.00: 2-year-oId roots, per 

 1,000. $6.00. 



BONV.\I.LETS GIAXT. 1-year-old roots, per 

 1,000, $10.00; 2-year-oId roots, per 1,000, $12.00. 



PALMETTO. 1-year-old roots, per 1,000, $4.50; 

 2-year-old roots, per 1,000, .$5.25. 



Asoaraerus Seed.Ti^e seed shouia be sown 



in good rich mellow soil 



in March or April, just as soon as the ground 

 can be worked, in drills one foot apart, then 

 covered with earth from Vz to % inch deep. 

 STANDARD KINDS. 



Oz. V. lb. Lb. 



Conover's Colossal #...$0.10 $0.15 $0.40 



Barr's Mammoth 10 .1.5 .40 



Palmetto 10 .15 .40 



Columbian Mammoth, white.. .10 .15 .45 

 Early Giant .Arffenteuil 10 .25 1.00 



Bean, Black Valentine. 



variety is meeting with great favor, 

 g the same place as the popular Long- 

 fellow. The pods have as fine and handsome an appearance as Longfellow 

 and the vines are much more hardy and prolific. An immense yielder. 

 Eating quality is lacking unless eaten when quite small. Quart, 35c; peck, 

 $1.15; bu.. $4.50. 



Longfellow. This is the best quality Bean for the market garden. An 

 ^— — . extraordinary yielder that produces a pale soft green 7 to 8 

 inch long pod, which is cf good flavor and fair quality. Not as hardy as 

 Black Valentine. Quart, 25c; peck, $1.00; bu., $4.00. " 



Plant beans after all danger 

 from frost is past. Cultivate 

 only in fair weather; 1^4 bu. of 

 Bush Be.ans per acre; 10 to 12 

 (its. Pole Beans per acre. 



Stringless Green Pod. ^n 



pods are not lonp. about the sar 

 quality. Absolutely stringless. 

 market demands quality it is th( 

 $1.15; bu., $4.50. 



Mammoth Stringless Green Pod 



ideal Bean for market wagon trade 

 ■re one's customers demand quality. The 

 le as Red Valentine, but are of excellent 

 Plant a little tender; however, wlu-re 

 best Green Pod Bean. Quart, 25c; peck. 



A longer pod and a slightly later 

 strain of the above. Quart, 2,)c; 



STANDARD SORTS. 



Early Round Pod Six Weeks. 



Early Mohawk 



Long: Yellow Six Weeks 



Wliite Marrow 



^\1iite Kidney 



Dwarf Horticultural 



English or Broad Windsor 



Improved Navy 



Triumph of the Frames, for forcing 

 Bountiful, new 



BLACK VALENTINE BEAN. 



BUSH LiriAS. 



Qt- 



Henderson's Bush Lima $0.30 



Burpee's Bush Lima 30 



Dreer's Bush Lima 30 



New Wonder Bush Lima 30 



Qt. 



Pk. 



Bu. 



$0.20 



$0.90 



$3.60 



.20 



.95 



3.75 





.95 







.95 







.90 



3.60 



.20 



1.00 



4.00 



.20 



1.00 



4.00 





1.00 



4.00 





1.25 



5.00 





1.45 



5.75 



.20 



.85 



3.25 



.40 









1.15 



1.50 



li Pk. 



Pk. 



Bu. 



$0.85 



$1.60 



$6.25 



.85 



1.65 



6.50 



..90 



1.75 



7.00 



.90 



1.75 



7.00 



<E'V id) 



STRINGLESS CREEN POD BEAN. 



