CHOICE NEW VARIETIES OF 
VEGETABLE SEEDS 
EXTRACTED FROM 
STEPHEN BROWN’S CATALOGUE, 
SUDBURY, SUFFOLK. 
220 LETTUCE—THE LONGSTANDER, a very crisp and excellent summer cabbage 
lettuce, most remarkable for duration without running. Several of the plants 
grown this season were found to stand full four weeks longer than any other of the 
longest standing sorts in cultivation, having been tested with them on the same 
ground. The quality is fine. ^ pkt. is. 
1 PEAS—FIRST CROP (Carter’s), stated to be earlier than any pea ever offered in 
previous years, and also has another advantage over all other early varieties in 
being the most prolific early pea in cultivation. Height about 2\ feet, and the 
haulm is literally covered with pods. ^ qt. 2s. 6d. 
375 „ ESSEX RIVAL (Eley’s), hardy, very prolific and early, in use about four days 
after Sangster’s No. 1, and superior in flavor as an early pea. p qt. 2s. 6d. 
12 „ ADVANCER (Me Lean’s) a dwarf blue wrinkled marrow, of fine flavor, long 
pods well filled, very prolific, and nearly as early as Sangster’s No. 1.—the earliest 
and best of the wrinkled peas. ^ qt. Is. 8d. 
14 „ PRINCESS ROYAL (Me Lean’s), a very large white variety, second early, 
produces abundance of very large well filled pods up qt. Is. fid. 
22 „ PRINCE OF WALES (Me Lean’s), one of the most prolific white wrinkled 
pea in cultivation, producing pods from near the root to the top, in use same time 
as Scimetars "p qt. Is. fid. 
24 „ YORKSHIRE HERO (Dixon’s), a splendid variety of the wrinkled marrow 
feet in height, very branching and abundant bearer, requires sowing very thin on 
good rich soil, and will produce from 50 to 70 well filled pods, delicious flavor, full 
10 days or a fortnight earlier than Veitch’s Perfection. p qt. 4s. 
76 BROCCOLI—OSBORNE’S WINTER WHITE— a new self-protecting Winter 
Broccoli, it forms fine heads, is as white as a cauliflower, and superior to Snow’s 
Winter, inasmuch as it is self protecting, and comes in before it. Sown early in 
March, it is ready early in November, and by successive sowings, may be had in use 
up to April and May pkt. 2s. fid. 
39 BEANS—BECK’S GREEN GEM, very prolific dwarf green ^ qt. Is. 
135 CAULIFLOWER— EAAGE’S DWARF EARLIEST —one of the best, if not the 
best in cultivation for early forcing and the open ground, habit quite dwarf, leaves 
very small, a space of 1 to 1^ feet, sufficient to grow it, producing very large and 
firm heads of the finest white colour, it will prove first-rate ill worst seasons; no 
other sort so hardy, and the earliest of all varieties p pkt. Is. 6d, 
