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Fotiler's Drumhead Cabbage, 
This is, in season, intermediate between the 
Winnigsta U and Fiat Dutch. No variety with¬ 
in my recollection has come so rapidly in public 
favor as the Fortier. Wherever known, it is 
favorably known. Being two weeks earlier 
than the Late Fiat Dutch it can be put out cor¬ 
respondingly later. If planted early it makes 
a profitable summer variety. It produces beau¬ 
tiful, large, white flat heads, Irequently attain- : 
ing a weight of 20 pounds each. We have great¬ 
ly improved this variety since it came into our 
hands, and believe that it is, as we have it, the 
test variety, for ail purposes, known. We have 
received many very flattering reports concern¬ 
ing its great value from growers in all sections 
of the Union. 
Per pkt. 10 cts., ounce, 20 cts., lb. $3.00. 
Cow Peas, 
These resemble beans in their growth. They 
are used for green feed, for hay, and for green 
manure crops, to be plowed under. The growth 
is rapid, and the weight of the haulm enormous. 
Two bushels of seed drilled in is the usual seed¬ 
ing per acre. Their use is rapidly increasing 
in the Northern States, especially for green ma¬ 
nuring. On good soil, simply “run out,” no ma¬ 
nure is require!. Onbarren land, some fertili¬ 
zer is desirable, to secure a crop, though not es¬ 
sential. Repeated crops, plowed under, will in¬ 
sure a degree of fertility upon any soil. The 
Southern practice, of putting in the seed at the 
last hoeing of corn and plowing as soon as the 
corn is cut up is an excellent one. Per pkt. 10c. 
Pint, 30c. postpaid, Prices by the bushel on 
application. 
A*ew Egyptian Street Cron. 
A comparatively new variety that has been 
grown near Baltimore, Md., for some time. 
The ears are of large size, and the flavor is 
peculiarly rich and sweet, and so snperior to 
other sons of Sweet Corn, that hotels and fami¬ 
lies u'-insr it will have no other kind as long as 
this variety,!.* t<» he ha<l. Toe introducer, whn 
is a large grow- r and caoner of corn, states that 
the superiority of this varirty is so well establish¬ 
ed in his neighborhood, that the prices he 
receives for it both m the canned and green 
state, will average nearly one half more than 
what he can obtain forany other sort begrows. 
Like all other large sorts it is late m ripening. 
Pkt,. 10 cts.; pint, 30 cts., postpaid. 
Early Snowball Cauliflower. 
This is a new, very desirable early sort. Very 
similar to, but an improvement on, the Extra 
Early Dwarf Erfnrt. Of ten different kinds of 
cauliflowers planted out the first week in April 
fifty plants each, the first ready was the Early 
Snowball, which gave heads measuring 9 inches 
in diameter by 10th of June. Every plant form¬ 
ed a fine head, and in addition to its earliness 
and a greater certainty to head over all other 
sorts, its dwarf habit and short outer leaves 
allows it to be planted so close that from 12,000 
to 14,000 can be set out on an acse. Pk. 25 cts. 
This, if “tbtte,” is unquestionably the best 
very early cabbage known, producing large and 
solid heads, and is marketable earlier than any 
other variety which makes what may really be 
be called a head. It is the favorite with all 
market gardeners around New York, and, in 
fact, where ever tested is gaining in popularity. 
The seeds are sown in September, and the 
plants wintered over in cold frames for earliest 
spring use. or what answers quite as good a pur¬ 
pose, are sown in March in a hot-bed. from 
which they are shifted into a cold frame about 
the first of April, in this latitude, where they 
are kept until the weather permits their being 
set in the field. 
Per pkt, 10 cts., ounce, 3o cts., lb. $5.00. 
