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April 22 
HORTICULTURE IN 1993. 
AS SHOWN BY A SEED CATALOGUE. 
After an evening spent in studying 
the many large and beautiful seed and 
plant catalogues of 1893, I laid back in 
my easy chair and my mind wandered 
away through the misty future and I 
seemed to see a postman coming up the 
graveled walk leading to the house, 
bearing a bulky package which, when 
delivered to me, I eagerly opened, and 
found it to contain a book of such mam¬ 
moth proportions as had never before 
been equaled, and printed in such bril¬ 
liant colors that the rainbow would 
blush and the sun hide his face on be¬ 
holding it. But what is it ? It is the 
great masterpiece of artistic skill and 
beauty issued by “ The Great Con¬ 
solidated Universal Plant and Seed Com¬ 
pany,” and bears the date 1993. The 
first 150 pages are given up to a brief 
letter to the concern’s patrons, telling 
of the monstrous growth of its business 
the past year, and asking for a continua¬ 
tion of the receiver’s valuable patronage, 
and containing beautiful views of its 
imposing and mammoth buildings in all 
parts of the world, and also a list of the 
leading members of the firm, with oil 
paintings of them. Among the names 
are many who I judge are descendants 
of some of the prominent seedsmen of a 
century before, and a firm containing so 
many men of such undoubted ability 
must of a certainty be worthy of the 
patronage of all mankind. 
Among the long list of prominent 
stockholders I find the names of the 
Hon. Jules Verne Salzer, U. S Senator; 
Hon. Julius Caesar Wilson, M. C.; Hon. 
Munchausen Childs, Governor of the 
magnificent State of Manhattan; Hon. 
Rider Haggard Everitt, M. C.; Hon. Geo. 
Washington Maule, Mayor of Phila¬ 
delphia, and many others too numerous 
to mention. This beautiful book con¬ 
tains 3,000 pages and 300 full-page 
plates, in colors. The size of the page is 
16 by 20 inches, and the book is bound 
in the finest of American morocco, 
beautifully embossed with gold. 
After the first 150 pages, come the 
novelty and specialty departments, con¬ 
taining 350 pages, printed in old gold, 
on a beautiful pearl-tinted paper, and 
among the many new and rare plants 
never before catalogued we find the 
great Mastodon asparagus, which grows 
3 feet high, and 4 inches in diameter in 
a single day; the Universal Plant and 
Seed Company’s giant tree bean, which 
grows into a beautiful tree 7 feet high, 
bearing pods 3% feet long and 4 inches 
through; the beans are 2% inches in 
diameter, and there are from 12 to 15 in 
a pod. This new wonder is perfectly 
hardy, bearing year after year, and an 
average crop is 10 bushels per tree. The 
crop is good either as snap beans or for 
dry beans ; in fact, no plant ever before 
produced has so many good points. Ten 
pages are devoted to this wonder alone, 
also a beautiful colored plate in 35 oil 
colors. Single beans are sold at 25 cents 
each. There seem to be one or more new 
varieties of nearly every vegetable 
grown, but space will not permit men¬ 
tion of them all. 
Our Mammoth Childsi celery seems to 
be a very distinct species, growing 3 
feet high and 18 inches in diameter and 
combining with its mammoth size the 
finest flavors ever known. There is also 
a new sweet corn called the Universal 
Plant and Seed Co.’s Early Mastodon 
Honey Sweet. It is fit for the table in 
60 days from planting, and one ear is 
enough for a meal for a large family. It 
grows ears 2% feet long and 8 inches in 
diameter, and there are often four or five 
ears to the stalk and never less than 
three. Single kernels are 2 inches in 
length and 1% in width and thickness, 
and they are all sweeter than honey. 
Single kernels of this wonder are sold at 
50 cents each. Next comes the Superla¬ 
tive Giant cucumber, growing 5 feet long 
and 12 inches in diameter, and such a 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
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WEBtism 
prolific grower is it that the cucumbers 
often lie three or four deep on the ground. 
The customers are offered two wonder¬ 
ful novelties in melons : one is the Mun¬ 
chausen’s Early Mammoth Wonder musk- 
melon, which grows to a weight of 100 
pounds, and averages 20 to 30 to a vine, 
and so very early is it that the first are 
ripe in 60 days from planting. The other 
is Cae&ar’s Mastodon Giant water-melon, 
and so great is the size of these that they 
are shipped on flat cars with only one on 
a car, and there is a beautiful view of the 
grounds with a long train of cars, each 
loaded with a single melon, in the fore¬ 
ground, and a vast field containing thou¬ 
sands extending away to the left. 
Among the large varieties of onions is 
Caesar’s Royal Mammoth Golden Giant, 
which weighs 35 pounds and yields 
5,000 bushels per acre. 
The company have “ some pumpkins” 
also that are worthy of mention, and the 
Washingtonian Mammoth Hard Shelled 
Rockribbed Gigantic takes the prize. Its 
only fault is its enormous size, making 
it impossible to move the specimens about 
for exhibition. They grow 10 feet in diam¬ 
eter, and the flesh is 3K feet in thick¬ 
ness. A hole is made in one side and a 
small pig is put in, and he has abundant 
food'close at hand to enable him to grow 
into a large hog. The hard shells are 
also cleaned out and used for houses, etc. 
A single plant will produce from 12 to 15 
large pumpkins, so that if one wants a 
house, woodshed, barn and other out¬ 
buildings, all he has io do is to grow a 
single vine and clean out the shells, and 
he has all the buildings he needs for a 
large farm. Single seeds are sold at $1 
each. 
In tomatoes they offer a large list of 
varieties, but the one that most favor¬ 
ably impressed me was the Gigantic Pon- 
derosa Mastodonic Tree, which makes a 
strong growing tree 30 feet high and as 
many in breadth. The fruits are very 
solid, often weighing 15 pounds each, 
and sometimes 25 pounds. A tree well 
cared for will produce at least three tons 
of fruit in an ordinary season. 
(To be continued.) 
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