BEYER’S SEED CATALOGUE. 
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uniformly oval and perfectly smooth; color lemon yellow; used for preserves, 
also dried like figs. 
Mammoth Russian Sunflower. — Sunflower seed is the best egg-producing 
food known for poultry, they eat it greedily, keeping them in fine condition and 
fatten well on it. It is also being planted in low grounds and around drains as a 
preventive of malarial fevers It can be planted on any waste piece of ground 
from first of May to first of July. 
Extra Early Milan Turnip.— A remarkably early and distinct strap-leaved va- 
riety, being a week or ten days earlier than the ordinary early sorts. It is as early 
Purple Top Munich, but unlike that variety, which soon gets hot and bitter, this 
sort retains its good qualities and remains a long time fit for use. The bulbs are 
white with a purple top, with very tender tap root; flesh pure white, sweet, crisp, 
and of excellent quality; it proved last season, the most profitable market variety’ 
with me; had the first in market in early summer and fall. Also, selling quickly 
at $1.00 the former, and SO cents the latter per bushel. 
New Extra Early Purple Top Munich Turnip This is a remarkably hand- 
some turnip, very distinct; one of the earliest varieties in cultivation; forms bulbs 
six inches in diameter within ten weeks. It is very smooth, growing entirely 
above the ground; white color, purplish red top, and a few leaves; very produc- 
tive. 
Persian Insect Powder Plant.— Pyrethrum Roseum.-A plant which has 
eorne much into notice of late years; from its flower buds or heads. The Persian 
Insect Powder is manufactured, the most effective insect killing remedy, being 
sure death toall insect life, which infests plants or animals or are troublesome 
in the house, as for instance, ants on cupboards, etc , while it is perfectly harmless 
when applied to the plants, or the higher order of animal or human life It w r orks 
successfully on the cabbage worm, which fact was demonstrated on mine last sea- 
son, requiring only a slight brushing when the dew is on. The Plant, a hardy 
perennial, flowers the second season. The powder is now also kept for sale at al- 
most any drug store Ten cents per packet. 
Clark’s No. 1 Potato. — In some sections this is, though wrongly, called No. 4. 
Is comparatively' a new variety, having been introduced only a few y'ears ago by 
the government of the United States, having been held in such high esteem that 
the entire crop was purchased from the originator, and distributed in the South 
and West It is earlier than the Early Rose, and will yield from a quarter to a 
third more, J n appearance closely resembling it. It cooks mealy, is of excellent 
flavor and is every' way a capital variety for either the farmer or the market gar- 
dener. Raised on my grounds for several years, I found it to surpass any of the 
older as well as newer sorts. Tested at the Ohio experimental station with thirty- 
four other varieties, it stood second highest in y'ield, it berng 457 bushels per 
acre. For several years I have supplied early markets with this variety, and be- 
ing the first, sold quickly at $2.00 per bushel. I class this as the best for all pur- 
poses, one that will give greater satisfaction than any other. Will disappoint none; 
and for these reasons, it is the only' one I have to offer this season Price forty 
cents per pound; two pounds 75 cents; three pounds $1.00. by r mail prepaid. By 
express, charges paid by purchaser, 00 cents per peck, $2.00 per bushel. 
Mountain Sweet Pepper. 
Lnrjfe Red Weatherefleld Onion 
Trophy Tomato, 
