QUALITY SEEDS AND BULBS— “THEY COME UP SMILING” 
VEGETABLE SEEDS 
In making up our list of Vegetable Seeds, we have selected the best strains as 
proved by experience of both Carters Tested Seeds, Inc., and J. M. Thorburn & Co., 
and can state without fear of contradiction that no such complete list of high class 
tested seeds can be found in any other catalogue. 
~TVrCom«Up Smilitg 
HINTS ON PLANTING SEED 
TIME TO PLANT. As the time for planting differs according to location, and our 
customers live in so many different latitudes, we cannot give a different time for each 
place, so instead of giving a definite time we will call A, the time when things should be 
started in the house, window garden, or hot bed, which is from six to eight weeks before 
it is time to set them in the garden, or about Feb. 15th in latitude of New York. B, 
which is just as soon as the ground is dry enough to work in the Spring, and C, which 
is when the ground warms up and all danger of frost is over, or the time known as 
“Corn Planting Time.” 
RULES FOR PLANTING. A good general rule for planting seed out of doors is 
to cover it from five to eight times its own thickness, covering it lighter in clay soil 
than in sandy soil. Sowing in boxes, or flats in the house or hot bed, cover about 
three times its own thickness. 
ARTICHOKE 
The Globe Artichoke is cultivated for its flower heads, 
which are cooked like asparagus. Seeds sown in the open 
ground in Spring, will produce heads second season if pro- 
tected during Winter by covering of leaves or straw. It may 
be used the first year if seed is started very early, in the 
house. 
115. Crown Artichoke, Earliest Drumhead. The finest strain in culti- 
vation. Pkt. 15c., oz. $1.00. 
110. Globe Green. Pkt. 10c., oz. 75c. 
120. Globe Purple. Pkt. 10c., oz. 75c. 
To prepare the boxes for sowing seed, take a box about four inches deep, and 
twelve to eighteen inches square, and bore quarter inch holes in the bottom for drain- 
age. Take 1/3 Rex Humus (leaf mold will do) 1/3 good garden soil, and 1/3 well 
rotted stable manure, mix thoroughly together and sift through a fine sieve, fill the 
boxes even full, and press lightly with a small piece of board. Sow the seed thinly 
on top of this soil and sift a light covering of Rex Humus over them, about two or three 
times the thickness of themselves and press lightly again. After the seed comes up, and 
the plant is out of the seed leaf, transplant to boxes, prepared as before, setting the 
plants one inch apart each way. Be sure to water very lightly from the time the seed 
is sown until after the plants are transplanted. 
PLEASE ORDER BY NUMBER 
ASPARAGUS 
This is the first Spring vegetable to appear, and one of the 
most delicious. A bed once established will last for many 
years, with little or no care. Ask for cultural directions 
when ordering. 
175. Carters Mammoth Emperor. A giant strain producing enormous 
stalks of very superior flavor. Under favorable conditions this may 
be cut the second year from seed. Pkt. 10c., oz. 25c. 
185. Reading Giant. A fine market asparagus. Pkt. 10c., oz. 20c., 
lb. $1.60. 
190. Batavian, Improved Palmetto. Pkt. 5c., oz. 15c., lb. $1.25. 
170. Colossal, Standard Sort. Pkt. 5c., oz. 15c., lb. $1.25. 
R.170. Colossal Asparagus Roots. Two-year-old roots 50c. per doz 
By express at customer’s expense, $1.60 per 100, $12.50 per 1,000, 
Three-year-old. 75c. per doz. prepaid. By express collect $2.25 
per 100; $20.00 per 1,000. 
Four-year-old for forcing. $2.00 for 50, $3.50 per 100, $30.00 
per 1,000, by express at customer’s expense. 
R.185. Reading Giant. Two year roots. 60c. per doz., postpaid; 
$1.60 per 100, by express, collect. 
R.175. Mammoth Emperor. Three-year-old roots. $1.00 per doz., 
prepaid ; by express collect, $3.60 per 100 ; $40.00 per 1,000. 
Mammoth Emperor 
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