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BAY STATE SQUASH — Has Come to Stay. 



Every one pleased with this new Squash 

 last season. Seed we offer comes direct from 

 the originator. 



The excellent features are its extreme 

 solidity, heavy weight, fineness and dryness 

 of grain, and sweetness of flavor. Is a trifle 

 earlier than the "Hybrid," crop averaging 

 smaller in size and more in number, making 

 the productiveness in weight about the same. 

 It possesses an extremely hard, flinty shell, 

 giving assurance of being an excellent keeper. 

 The color of the shell is a blue shade with a 

 greenish tinge. The flesh is of a beautiful 

 bright golden yellow, and exceedingly sweet 

 and tender in quality. The average weight of 

 the squash is about 10 pounds, thus being 

 peculiarly adapted for retail trade. Those; 

 who have tested the eating qualities speakilf 

 in the highest terms as to its merits. Price, '"~ 

 per pkt., 10c; per oz., 25c; per lb., $1.75. 



UPLAND CRESS. 



This new vegetable is destined to become 

 a most valuable and important acquisition, 

 for the reason that it supplies a long-felt want 



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for something green to satisfy a craving ap- 

 petite so natural in early Spring. Happily 

 this plant possesses very many desirable qual- 

 ities. It is a hardy perennial, thriving on any 

 soil, wet or dry. In early Springit is the first 

 to make its appearance, grows with surprising 

 rapidity, unequalled by any other plant, so that 

 in afew days it is ready to use. The young and 

 tender leaves may be eaten raw, or as a salad. 



The Upland Cress, besides its varied 

 uses as a vegetable, may at the same time 

 prove of much benefit otherwise, resembling 

 as it does the Water Cress in taste. Price, 

 ioc. per pkt. 



THE SIBLEY SQUASH, 



The introducers say of it : " A grand sur- 

 prise to those connoisseurs who have hith- 

 erto held the belief that to eclipse the Hub- 

 Upland Cress, bard was an absolute impossibility ! " 

 The form, accurately represented here, is 

 obviously entirely new, having the stem at 

 the swelled end. The seed alone, being of very 

 peculiar shape and color, brands the squash as 

 entirely original and distinct. The shell is pale 

 green in color, very hard and flinty, being at the 

 same time so very thin and smooth as to occa- 

 sion the least possible waste in baking. The 

 flesh is solid, thick, vivid brilliant orange in col- 

 or, and is possessed of rare edible qualities, 

 being dry and really wonderful for fineness of 

 grain and the rich and delicate flavor pecu- 

 liarly its own. The weight ranges from eight 

 to eleven pounds. In point of productiveness 

 it has the advantage of either the Hubbard or 

 the Marblehead, and ripens its fruit so evenly 

 that nearly the whole crop may be gathered 

 at one picking. As a keeper it excells all, re- The Sibley Squash, 

 maining in a good, dry cellar, perfectly sound until the last of March, improving in flavor and 

 quality. The^ardness and flintinessof the shell render the Sibley Squash one of the finest 

 shippers in existence. Price per pkt., 25 cents. 



