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J. J. BUTZER, PORTLAND, OREGON 
Home gardening is experiencing a new birth, after a period of decline. The people of great cities as well 
as small are fleeing, those who can, from the congested centers to the countryside. 
And once more the kitchen garden is a recognized department of every home. Fresh vegetables and 
beautiful flowers with the unequalled quality they possess are the pride and joy of the successful gardeners. 
We have devoted unusual space to flowers because of the great increase of interest in ornamental gar¬ 
dening and its great importance to our general welfare. 
With every hope that you will find our catalog of interest, we wish you the best of success. We wish to 
remind you of this, last minute buying is always trying to our customers and to our over-busy staff, so 
ORDER EARLY, please, and help us to give you the best of service. 
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Notice in Reference to Varieties 
Modern varieties of vegetables are in a great many cases selections and highly improved 
strains of older and inferior types. These improved strains are stable to a certain degree 
only, and considerable care is entailed, in the growing of high-grade seeds, to keep these 
types up to present standard and to improve on them. 
We would point out, therefore, that under conditions of soil and season not altogether 
favorable, varieties may vary from the descriptions in these pages, especially as regards 
earliness or lateness of season, type and keeping quality. 
The descriptions are intended to serve as a guide only, in the selection of sorts likely to 
prove most suitable for purposes required. 
GARDEN COLLECTION No. 1 
The amateur gardener, not familiar with the different kinds, will find this collection a simple solution 
of the problem of selection. While the prices of collections are much lower than the regular list, we use 
only seeds of the highest quality, but being enabled to put them up during leisure time, the saving goes to 
the buyer. No changes will be made in the assortment. Orders can be filled immediately on receipt. 
No. 1 Collection Contains One Package Each of the 
Following Delivered to You by Mail Postpaid for 
1 Pkt. Beet—Detroit Dark Red 
1 “ Beans—Burpee’s Stringless 
1 “ Carrot—Chantney 
1 “ Cucumber—Long Green 
1 “ Lettuce—New York 
1 " Peas—Blue Bantam 
1 “ Nasturtium—Tall Mixed 
1 “ Radish—Crimson Giant 
1 “ Radish—Icicle 
1 “ Swiss Chard—Lucullus 
1 Pkt. Turnip—Purple Top White Globe 
1 “ Spinach—King of Denmark 
1 “ Parsley—Emerald 
1 “ Sweet Peas—Spencer Mixed 
1 “ Aster—Rose City Mixed 
15 Full Size Packages 
all for 
50c, Postpaid 
ASPARAGUS 
No vegetable is more healthful or more palatable than the tender asparagus that appears on the table very 
early in the spring. 
Every home garden should have a bed about ten by twenty feet, planting about one hundred roots. This 
would furnish enough tips from day to day to supply the family table. 
Set the rows two feet apart instead of four as for field culture, and one foot apart in the row. 
Drill the seed thinly in rows fifteen inches apart during March or April. Thin out to two inches apart in 
order to have strong plants. 
Exercise great care in preparing a field because it will last many years. 
Transplant during February, setting the roots two feet apart, in furrows six feet apart. Carefully spread 
out to avoid matting. The furrows should be ten or twelve inches deep and run North and South in order to get 
the sun on both sides of the rows. Cover the roots about three inches and as the plant grows throw the soil 
toward the plant. Each year when the berries are red, cut the plants close to the ground and burn, then spray 
the entire field with sulphur, in order to destroy any germs of mildew, red spider or rust that may be there. 
Keep a mulch over the row with a harrow, but cultivate more deeply between the rows. Use stable manure 
liberally and hill up a little higher each year. Irrigate freely during the growing period. Three pounds of seed 
is sufficient to plant an acre. 
A year may be saved by buying the plants (one-year-old are greatly to be preferred) and setting them at 
least two feet apart in the row, and the rows not closer than four feet; see that the roots are well and evenly 
spread out in planting and that they are not exposed to the air longer than is absolutely necessary, as they 
deteriorate rapidly. 
Palmetto—This is the favorite and earliest variety 
grown in the South. Pkt. 5c; oz. 20c; *4 lb. 35c; lb. 75c 
Pedigreed Washington—The tips are tight and firm 
and do not open out or begin to branch until well out 
of the ground, making the finest kind of green 
Asparagus both for home use and market. It is nearer 
to being rustproof than any other variety, and the 
large, luscious stalks will be greatly appreciated. 
Pkt. 5c; V 2 oz. 15c; oz. 25c; % lb. 50c; lb. $1.75 
ARTICHOKE 
Artichoke, Ger. ; Aritchaut, Fr. ; Alcachofa, Sp. 
Large Green Globe —The well-known French vege¬ 
table ; the undeveloped flower heads, when properly 
prepared, make a most delicious dish. Pkt. 10c; oz. $1 
Prices of 
Asparagus Roots 
50 
100 
1000 
1-year 
roots. 
by mail, postpaid .. 
... $1.35 
$2.25 
1-year 
roots, 
by express . 
.... 1.00 
1.75 
$10.00 
2-year 
roots, 
by express . 
.... 1.25 
2.50 
15.00 
Asparagus Knife 
The best knife for cutting Asparagus. Ea. 50c, postpd. 
