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Alabama Nursery Company, Huntsville, Ala. 
CURRANTS AND GOOSEBERRIES 
From our own experience and through reports from various sections of the 
South, we do not recommend the planting of either. They are not successful. 
However, if they are wanted, we can supply them. 
Price, 15 cents each, SI for 10 
CURRANTS 
Cherry. Red. 
Fay’s Prolific. Red. 
White Grape. White. 
GOOSEBERRIES 
Downing. Pale green. 
Houghton. Pale red. 
Industry. Dark red. 
RHUBARB (Pie Plant) 
Our long, hot summers are too much for this excellent material for pie or 
sauce. From the mountains of Tennessee and North Carolina we have had 
reports that occasionally it develops properly, making good, strong growth. Out 
side these sections we do not recommend it for general planting. 
We can supply roots at 50 cents for 10 
ASPARAGUS 
One of the very best things for the garden and one of the easiest plants to 
grow. Every garden in the South should include a bed or a few rows of Aspara- 
gus. The cost is almost nothing, and one planting will give you a supply of this 
very desirable plant for years after. Best grown in rows 5 feet apart and 1 foot 
apart in the row. Open the rows deep and wide, about ten inches deep, to allow 
enriching if soil is poor. Fill in 4 inches of rich top soil, if mixed with well- 
rotted stable manure (one-third manure, two-thirds soil), so much the better. Firm 
the roots into the soil and cover 2 inches, leaving the other 4 inches of open fur- 
row to be filled in by summer cultivation. The crowns we send out are two years 
old and will give some good plants for cutting the first year. Do not cut this first 
growth, however. Let it stand until frost, then cut all stalks even with the 
ground, rake off the bed and spread a mulching of well-rotted manure all over it 
to a depth of 2 inches. The winter rains will carry this mulching down into the 
soil where it will do the most good. The second year your Asparagus bed will 
be a pleasure to you, and with but little attention thereafter — keeping it free from 
weeds and giving it a mulching every third year is all it will require — will produce 
heavily for years. 
Prices, 40 cents for 10 Crowns; $2 for 100 Crowns; $6 for 1,000 Crowns 
VARIETIES. — Columbian Mammoth White, Conover’s Colossal. 
The collections on page 32 are especially adapted to town and city lots, do not require a great 
space, but are arranged to give the buyer the best returns from the space used. 
