FAMOUS ROCK RIVER VALLEY SEED FARMS 
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Specialties For the Garden That All Should Plant 
COLLARDS 
GEORGIA, SOUTHERN, OR 
CREOLE. A variety of cabbage known 
in different specimens as "Cole," 
"Coleworl," or simple "Greens." It is 
extensively \ised in the Soutli. I offer 
the true white or green stemmed sort 
so exclusively used in the South. 
Forms a large loose open head, or a 
mass of leaves on tall stems. Freez- 
ing does not injure, but rather im- 
proves their quality. Sow thick in 
drills, in rich ground, transplanting 
when 4 inches high and thin to 2 or 3 
feet apart in the row when the proper 
size. Packet, 3 cents; ounce, 8 cents; 
14 pound, 25 cents; !4 pound, 45 cents; 
pound, 85 cents. 
CORN SALAD 
FETTICUS OR LAMB'S LETTUCE. 
Tills delightful salad, known as Mache- 
Steck Salol. is used during the Win- 
ter and Spring months as a substitute 
for lettuce, and is also cooked and 
used lilte spinacli. In warm weatlicr 
tlie plants will mature in four to si.v 
weeks. Packet. 3 cents; ounce, 7 cents; 
Y/i pound, 22 cents; pound, 40 cents; 
pound, 75 cents. 
THE WONDERFUL 
COFFEE BERRY 
THE GREAT HEALTH DRINK 
Once Tried Always Used 
All pronounce it better than the gen- 
uine. It is certainly tlie best berry to 
mix with other col'fee I ever saw. Half 
and half will produce a drink claimed 
by many to be equal to a good cup of 
Rio. It is very hardy, easily raised 
and most enormously productive. You 
can raise y<\UY own coffee for one cent 
a pound. Packet, 4 cents; Yn pound, 8 
cents; pound, 15 cents; pound, 25 
cents. 
CHERVIL 
Hardy annual, worthy of more gen- 
eral use for flavoring and garnisliing. 
Curled variety more beautiful than 
parsley. 
CURLED. Greatly superior to the 
old. plain variety; earlier, more hand- 
some, having fully as fine perfume and 
flavor. Packet, 4 cents; ounce, 7 cents; 
1/4 lb., 25 cents; 54 lb., 45 cents; pound, 
85 cents. 
CRESS 
NEW UPLAND CRESS. Has the 
highly prized flavor of Water Cress. 
It is so hardy as to be green nearly 
the whole year, and is ready for use 
before any other salad in Spring. Its 
usage should be more general, as it is 
of as easy culture as spinach. It is a 
perennial plant, and can be grown for 
several years without renewal. Packet, 
4 cents; ounce, 25 cents. 
CURLED. OR PEPPER GRASS. This 
small salad is much used with lettuce 
to the flavor of whicli its warm, pung- 
ent taste makes a most agi'eeablo ad- 
dition. Packet, 3 cents; ouncej 5 cents; 
1/4 lb., 15 cents; yi lb., 28 cents; pound, 
50 cents. 
TRUE WATER CRESS. This is 
quite distinct from the last, and only 
thrives when its roots and stems are 
submerged in water. It is one of tlie 
most delicious of small salads, and 
should be planted wherever a suitable 
place can he found. Packet, 4 cents; 
ounce, 25 cents. 
Improved New York Spineless. 
Egg Plant 
Endive. Fine Green Curled 
SELECTED POP CORN 
Pop corn should be found in every 
garden, especially if there are children 
to enjoy it during the long winter 
evenings, which bring young people 
together for social amusement. 
MONARCH WHITE RICE. My strain 
is an improvement, witli larger ears. 
Six ears on a stalk is not a rare oc- 
currence. The grains are sharply 
pointed, and tiie ear is a handsome one. 
Packet, 5 cents; Yz pt., 12 cents; pt., 
20 cents; qt., 35 cents. 
QUEEN'S GOLDEN. This is per- 
haps the handsomest of all the pop 
corns when on the ear, surpassing all 
others in size and color. It pops per- 
fectly white. Produces four to six 
ears on a stalk. Packet, 5 cents; Yi 
pt., 12 cents; pint, 20 cents; quart, 35 
cents. 
EGG PLANT 
NEW YORK IMPROVED SPINE- 
LESS. This Is an entirely spineless 
strain of the large purple-fruited, 
which is the well-known standard. The 
plants are equally as productive, 
fruits as large and well colored, but 
stems and clyx are entirely free 
from spine. Packet, 4 cents; ounce, 
25 cents; Yt pound, 70 cents; Yi pound, 
$1.25; pound, $2.35. 
EARLY LONG PURPLE. Hardier 
and much earlier than the large New 
York Purple, succeeding fartlier north. 
Thin fruits from six to ten Indies long. 
Packet, 3 cents; ounce, 15 cents; '/4 
lb., 4b cents; Yz lb., 80 cents; pound, 
$1.50. 
BLACK BEAUTY. As large as the 
New York Improved, but about ten 
days earlier. Very rich purplish black. 
Packet, 4 cents; ounce, 20 cents; '4 
lb., 60 cents; Y2 lb., $1.10; pound, $2.00. 
ENDIVE 
This is one of the most refreshing 
and attractive of all autumn and win- 
l<'r salads. It is commonly known in 
restaurants as Chlcoree, and is most 
appetizing wiien served mixed with let- 
tuce, witli French dressing. Sow^ seed 
from middle of June to last of August. 
GREEN CURLED. Leaves finely 
cut or laciniated. Packet, 4 cents; 
ounce, 10 cents; U lb., 35 cents; Yi lb., 
60 cents; pound, $1.00. 
WHITE CURLED. Does not need 
'blanching, the midribs being naturally 
of a pale golden yellow, and the finely 
cut and curled leaves almost white. 
Packet, 4 cents; ounce, 10 cents; 1/4 lb., 
35 cents; Yz lb., 60 cents; pound, $1.00. 
GIANT FRINGED, or "OYSTER." 
This is the beautifully fringed sort 
displayed upon blocks of ice on piles 
of oysters before so many restaurants. 
Of strong growth, it has a large white 
heart and broad stems. Packet, 5 
cents; ounce. 12 cents; [4 lb., 40 cents; 
Yi lb., 75 cents; pound, $1.35. 
BATAVIAN. Large heads of broad 
tliicli leaves, which can be blanclied 
as a salad or make excellent cooked 
greens. Same price as Giant Fringed. 
