Regarding Seed Crop The 1912 seed crop will be known as a 



*- short year although fortunately not as 



short or as bad as 1911. Last jear the seed grower had to contend 

 with dry weather. A period of 100 rainy days in the seed growing 

 sections of Europe did great damage and in tliis country early snows 

 and late rains hurt both the pea and bean seed crop badly. 



The principal shortages are Beets, Beans, Carrot, Cabbage (both 

 European and American), Golden Self-Blanching Celery, Leek, Globe 

 Onion Seed due to shortage; of Bulbs, Peas, Parsley, Parsnip and 

 some varieties of Turnip. 



Novelties and Specialties On this and the following pages we 

 ~ list a number of the latest intro- 

 ductions of new vegetables or new strains of standard kinds that we 

 believe after thorough trial are of value and interest to the market 

 gardeners. 



BEANS— "A Few Vaughan's Specials" 



The illustration from nature of five kinds of beans on this page 

 represents the types of the popular market garden beans — beginning 

 at the left, Wardwell's Wax, Davis KidncN- \\'ax, Longfellow, String- 

 less Green Pod and Black Valentine, toward which we have been 

 re-selecting and breeding up our stocks tor the past six years on our 

 farm in Central Michigan. As a result of this work we are able to 

 offer our customers strains of beans we know to be right. We offer 

 similar fancy strains of the following other sorts: Earliest Red 

 Valentine, Extra Early Refugee, Refugee or 1000 to 1, Improved 

 Golden Wax, Currie's Rustproof Wax, Hodson Wax and Round Potl 

 Kidney Wax. 



The superiority of our stocks of Beans is based on the following 

 points— Trueness to type— <'very field carefidly cleared of "off" 

 jjlants; chance mixtures in threshing eliminated; we are "line breed- 

 ing"; Vigor — our seed is almost free from blight or anthracnose. 

 Sample — we put more expense on cleaning and picking our beans 

 than does any other firm. See pages 5 and 6. 



Prices No Higher Than Others 



Wardwell's Wax 

 Davis Kidney Wax . . 

 Longrellow Green Pod 

 StringleHS Green Pod 

 Blacl< Valentine 



NEW CABBAGE— COPENHAGEN MARKET 



First Early Cabbage, Copenhagen Market 



A new Danish grown strain of a popular Dutch Cabbage, Early 

 Ditmarsher Copenhagen market, promises to fulfill a long-felt want 

 in America. It is a solid-headed flat cabbage of almost the same 

 season as Wakefield. The important featvues in its favor are uniform 

 ripening, so that harvest may be completed in almost one picking; 

 solid head of good keeping quality so that the heads may be kept in 

 case of a temporary market glut; heavy yield, the flat varieties! 

 producing a much heavier crop than the oblong sorts; compact head, 

 allowing close setting; quahty of the very highest and much superior 

 to the Wakefields. 



Our gardener customers who tried this sort the jiast seasons were 

 more than pleased with it. Pkt 10c, oz 40c, }4 lb $1.25, lb $5.00 



New Red Cabbage, Vaughan's Black Diamond 



A grantl second early, hard heading black red Cabbage. It is an 

 imported variety from Northern Europe and has all the keeping 

 and hard heading qualities of the Dutch Winter and Danish Ball 

 Head sorts. The heads are of medium size, having only two outer 

 leaves, permitting close plant- 



nig wlH>re s] 

 The most ini 

 bagc introdi 

 lOc, oz 35c 

 $3.50. 



du: 



int RcdCai)- 

 in years. Pkt 

 lb $1.00, lb 



, ,, I ' WurilweirH Wax: (2) DaviH Kidney Wax; (3) Lone- 



follow <,r<-.n I'od; M) HlrinKhsH (;re.n Pod, and (5) iilurk Valenfine, types 

 from nature of a few of Vaughan's Special Beans, our own breeding and growing 

 in L-entral iVIicnigan. 



CELERY, The Best 

 White. VAUGHAN'S 



CHICAGO 

 SELF BLANCHING 



A fine new early white Cc-lery, 

 earlier and larger than White I'lume 

 or Snow White; as large as (iolden 

 Self IManching and of nuich better 

 quality than any other White. 

 Chicago Self Blanching may be 

 sown for cai'ly use in I'cbruary and 

 niarUcted by July 1st wilhoui run- 

 ning to seed. The foliage is green 

 and white. The stalks are tender, 

 brittle, very sweet and of a nutty 

 flavor. Our seed this year is ro- 

 s(le(;ted stock on which we have 

 been working a number of years. 



Customers desiring an early white 

 Celery will find notliing as good as 

 this varietv. Pkt 10c, oz 25c U lb 

 75c, lb $2.50 



CHICAGO GIANT SELF- 

 BLANCHING CELEKV 



