Holmes Seed Company, Harrisburg, Pa. 



CAULIFLOWER. CELERY. CARROTS 



CAULIFLOWER 



HOLMES" IMPROVED EARLY SNOWBALL CAULIFLOWER 



saw it. 



The Mon- 

 arch celery also proved excellent, and the 

 Houser cabbage brought good results. 



T. U. WJEIDENSAUL. 



Astoria, III., March 10, 1905. 

 Your Improved Big Boston lettuce proved to 

 he excellent. MRS. J. C. BENNY. 



HALF -LONG 



ivers Garrot 



A handsome half -long, cylindrical, stuni]v|i:- ' 

 rooted Carrot of good size and of a rich; dark V 

 orange color; it grows to a large size, is 

 smooth, and the flesh very close in texture, a-\ 

 with very little core and a small tapering tap- |i 

 root. It is a first-class Carrot for all soils ; un- 'i 

 der good cultivation it has yielded 25 to 30 

 tons per acre with the smallest length of root 

 of any now grown, and is more easily harvested 

 than the longer types. Our selected stock 

 gives the best of satisfaction. {See Out.) 

 Pkt. lOc, oz, 153., Mlb. 40c., lb. $1.25. 



Culture.— For spring and early summer crop sow in March or 

 early in April in hotbed; transplant to coldframe when sufl&ciently 

 large, and to the open ground as soon as danger of hard freezing is 

 over; after plants are set put a little shell lime around each plant. 

 For late crop sow at same time as for late cabbage and treat in the 

 same manner. After the heads begin to form draw t-he leaves over 

 and pin or tie them together to protect the heads. Our Cauli- 

 flower seed is produced by the most experienced growers in 

 Europe, and the greatest care is taken to save the seed from per- 

 fectly developed plants only. 



HOLMES^ IMPROVED 



E^AB^LY 3N0WBAU 



The earliest and best quick growing 

 variety for Family or Market-Gardener 



The best for either early or late use, for family or mar- 

 ket-gardener, for forcing or coldframes. Sui'e to head 

 when others fail. Earliest of all, and every plant is cer- 

 tain to make a solid, compact head under careful culture. 

 Our stock is the original Snowball and is grown especially 

 for us by the leading growers of Denmark. Pkt. 20 cts., 

 3^oz. $1.75, oz. $3, Mlb. $10. 



Allemvood, Pa., April 4, 1905. 

 The Snowball Cauliflower tested last year was very 

 fine. ^' Never saw anything finer^' were the comments of 

 many who 



DANVERS CARROT 



New 



Celery 



SNOWHITE 



BeaMtifully 

 WKite 



SNOWHITE' CELERY 



The new Snowhite is a pure white, self -blanching variety, introduced in 1902, after fi^ve 

 years of careful selection and improvement. It is without a rival in purity of color. The 

 originator says on this point. "In the season of 1900 1 set -7,000 plants of Snowhite and 

 found seven green stalks; in 1901, three thousand plants and only one green stalk, and in 

 1902, six thousand plants, and not a single stalk that was not pure white. It does well where, 

 others fail." Mr. E. J. Hollister, the noted Celery g'rower, and author of our book on Celery 

 Growing^ also says : "The pearly whiteness of the stalks of your Snowhite Celery denotes 

 good constitution, and, together with the size, strength and number of the stalks, makes a 

 perfect picture." In vigor of growth, ease of blanching, size, richness of flavor, crispness 

 and purity, it is ideal. Our picture, made from a portion of a photograph of one dozen stalks, 

 gives some idea of the beauty of this variety, hut not of the size. The dozen stalks weighed 

 20 pounds. Single stalks sometimes weigh 2K pounds, and quite frequently 2 pounds each. 

 It grows solid on all kinds of soil and keeps better that many standard varieties. See illus- 

 tration. Pkt. lOc, oz. 30c., Mlb. $1, lb. $3.25. 



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