WILLIAM EWING & CO.'S SEED CATALOGUE 
"Ewin^^ Quality" Ves^etable Seeds for I9II 
CONDITIONS OP SAI/S :— Wm. lowing & Co. give no warranty, expressed or implied, as to 
description, quality, productiveness or any other matter of any seeds they send out, and will 
not be in any way responsible for the crop. If goods are not accepted on these terms they 
are at once to be returned. 
Before ordering, read carefully the front page of Catalogue. 
SEEDS PREPAID BY MAIL 
Please note that prices in the following list include prepayment of postage on Seeds offered in packets, ounces and quarter 
pounds to any post office in Canada, when money accompanies the order, unless otherwise mentioned. On half pounds and 
pounds, postage must be added at the rate of 5 cents per lb. for all Post Offices in Canada, and at the rate of 16 cents per lb., 
n quarter pounds, half pounds and pounds, when mailed to Newfoundland or U. S. A. 
ARTICHOKE 
-FR. ARTICHAUT 
The Globe Artichoke is cultivated for its flower-heads, which are cooked like As- 
paragus. Set the plants in any good soil, and if covered slightly during w nter will 
remain in bearing several years. 
Green Globe. 
oz. SOc. ; 
pkt. -Sc. 
Early Purple Globe. ^o^.; 
JERUSALEM ARTICHOKE 
Grown for its tubers, which resemble potatoes, and are grown in 
a similar manner. It is very hardy, and of late years has been 
cultivated extensively in Canada, for feeding hogs. 20c. per 
lb. post paid ; 3 lbs. SOc. post paid ; bushel $2.50 ex. Montreal. 
ASPARAGUS 
-FR. ASPERGE 
One ounce of seed will sow about 40 ft. of a row. A bed 12 x 40 ft. requires 100 
plants, which is sufiBcient for the use of a small family. Soil should be made as rich as 
possible before planting, and the beds should be manured, and sUghtly dug every fall. 
By far the earliest Asparagus. Heads 
are pure white, and of the most delicate 
New Giant Snow-Cap. 
flavor, oz. 2Sc.; pkt. lOc. 
Palmetto. 
Grows to an immense size. The heads are green without 
any purple tinge, are of excellent flavor, and tender. 
Grown extensively for the New York and Philadelphia markets, 
lb. 7Sc.; i lb. 25c.; oz. lOc; pkt. 5c. 
An early and remarkably 
healthy variety, extensively 
grown in France. Stalks grow to a mammoth size, and quality is 
excellent. The head is slightly pointed, and the scales, with which it 
is covered, are very closely set, overlapping one another, pkt. Sc.; 
oz. I Sc.; i lb. 30c. 
Early Giant Purple Argenteuil. 
lb. 60c.; } lb. 20c.; 
CONOVER'S COLOSSAL— The old standard variety, 
oz. lOc; pkt. Sc. 
COLUMBIAN MAMMOTH WHITE— Produces white shoots, rather larger 
than Conover's Colossal, lb. $1.00; i lb. 30c.; oz. lOc; pkt. Sc. 
Early Giant Purple Argenteuil. 
ASPARAGUS PLANTS— SEE PAGE 30. 
DWARF BUSH LIMA BEANS 
New W^Onder. '^^'^ earliest, hardiest, dwarfest and most prolific of all Bush Limas. The plants are upright and com- 
pact in growth, and are completely covered with large pods, many of which contain four beans, which 
are large and flat. lb. 30c. (post paid, lb. 35c.) 
Burpee's Improved Bush Lima. erect growth, about 20 inches high. An immense yielder, and the pods are 
=- — '- filled with large beans of luscious flavor. Beans are as large as the Pole 
Lima and two weeks earlier, lb. 25c. (post paid, lb. 30c.) 
BROAD WINDSOR BEAN 
Ewinff'S Chamoion. English variety, used as a Shell Bean. Should be planted early in spring in drills 3 feet 
2 £^ 1 apart ; seed covered to a depth of 2 inches. Per lb. 25c. (add 5c. per lb. if by mail.) 
