38 ASPARAGUS— BEETS— BKANS— SUGAR CORN— CABBAGE. 
in the Philadelphia market by truckers from commission men is on an average ten cents per 
bunch, never lower than eight cents, though sometimes the price paid by commission men is 
forty to fifty cents. . ., . , 
Asparagus is always in demand; such a thing as the market being seriously glutted with 
it never occurs. The variety known as the Colossal is the best, producing shoots often one 
inch in diameter, and sometimes as many as fifty to the plant. 
One pound of Asparagus seed will produce 2500 plants. The seed may be sown when the 
cherry is in bloom or among the earliest operations in the Spring, and is usually drilled in 
rows of ten inches. If the land be friable, fertile and well cultivated, these seedlings can be 
set out the next Spring. 
TABLE BEETS. 
Landreths' Very jBarly (For Forcing).— We do not know of a better early Beet than 
this. It is nearly as early as the Egyptian and hardier. It is not so dark in flesh, but is 
more firm when boiled or pickled; the leaf -tops are remarkably short and compact, fitting the 
\ar\&\.y iox forcing under glass ox close planting on the border. A remarkably fine sort, and 
distinct from others. We recommend it most highly. See priced-list in back of this catalogue. 
I.Egyptian. '2. Eclipse. 3. Landreths' Forcing. 4. Early Blood-Red Turnip. 
3. Bassano. 6. Philadelphia Early Turnip. 7. Half-Long Blood. 8. Long Blood-Red. 
Half-Long Blood-Red. — Very desirable. One of the best. A handsome, wedge- 
shaped root, growing well under ground; flesh very dark blood-red, skin smooth, habit much 
earlier in maturity than the old Long Blood and only half its length. Recommended highly 
to market gardeners as a succession to Turnip-shaped Beets. Valuable for Winter keeping 
or market supply, as it retains its solid, juicy character long into Spring. See priced-list in 
back of this catalogue. 
BEANS. 
Landretlis' Scarlet.— Seed large, kidney formed, pods golden wax. A sort come to 
stay. Vine strong, foliage large, broad, hardy. This valuable icaW^Z-seeded, yellow-^odAitd 
Bush Bean, in some particulars, might be compared with the Golden Wax, but produces 
much longer, broader and more meaty pods, is earlier (maturing for the table in thirty-five 
days from germination) and more productive, fifty to sixty pods to the vine being quite gen- 
eral, and some vines far exceeding that number. The pods of this variety may almost be 
said to be rust-proof, so free are they from the spotting so common among other varieties of 
golden-podded Beans. It is entirely distinct in origin from the Golden Wax, and entirely 
different in color and form of the drj- seeds from all others, the seeds being of kidney form, 
and of a color ranging from light to deep scarlet, some almost purple. We could so select the 
color of the seeds as to breed them all light scarlet, but we find from experience that such 
selection would be made at the expense of size of pod. The Landreths' Scarlet is superior to 
the white-seeded Dwarf Kidney Wax, which latter in color and form of edible pod somewhat 
resembles the Landreths'. See priced-list in back of this catalogue. 
SUGAR CORN. 
Landreth Sugar.— A remarkably satisfactory and productive variety, two ears on every 
stalk, often three, sometimes four. Stalk two feet' shorter than the Evergreen, and very close 
jointed. The ears set low, large and well filled. The grain is narrow and very long, of deep, 
somewhat similar in shape to Evergreen, but smaller. The ear remains long in milky con- 
dition for the table, the edible grain being pure white and exceedingly sugary The Lan- 
dreth Sugar Corn is a very showy variety, both in stalk and ear, and will mature for marketing 
in eighty-two daj'S, eight days earlier than the Evergreen. The Landreths' Sugar Corn will 
afford market gardeners more baskets of marketable ears to the acre than any other variety 
of Sugar Corn in cultivation, and is valuable to the canner as having almost as long a grain 
and ripening earlier than the Evergreen, while possesing all the merits of the Evergreen 
under processing. We recommend it, without qualification, as being undoubtedly the best 
Sugar Corn in existence. That is high praise. Plant x 3 feet. See priced-list in back 
of this catalogue. 
CABBAGE. 
Select Very IJarly Jersey Wakefield.— The most widely cultivated of the early Cab- 
bages, of great celebrity in the Philadelphia and every other Northern market. It is very- 
early, short stemmed ; head cone shaped, broad at the bottom, with blunt peak ; leaves leath- 
ery, well folded over the top. A reliable header, and most excellent in all good qualities. 
The strain we offer is unexcelled by any offered under other names, or at a higher price. 
See priced-list in back of this catalogue. 
