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The last few years have given us a sense of true values which we have 
not had since before the war. Many people found to their great surprise 
that the home garden paid them big dividends—not only in healthful 
recreation and a new appreciation of flavor and quality in vegetables but 
in actual dollars and cents in savings. Many a back yard garden has 
stocked the cellar this winter. 
Of course you want to plant only the best. You will find this catalogue 
a reliable guide for the vegetables of the best quality and yield. 
Don’t forget the flowers. You can have plenty of bloom all through the 
season at a very small outlay of money. 
The Roadside Garden 
The roadside garden and stand offers an opportunity to many who live 
along the main highways to establish a profitable business in selling fresh 
vegetables and flowers. 
This business has grown to tremendous proportions in the past few years. 
Whether the stands are large or small, the ones who are going ahead are 
those who supply fresh vegetables of high quality at reasonable prices. 
Establish a reputation for good things, have them fresh and attractive in 
appearance and you will soon have many steady customers. 
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A COMPLETE GARDEN 
"DELOW we have made some suggestions as to what to raise in a complete vegetable garden, and about the quantities required for an ordinary family. 
The amounts and varieties should be varied to meet your own needs and tastes. As you study the catalogue, you can be sure that what we say about 
yield, quality and so forth is all based on our actual experience. 
Asparagus. Set out 100 to 200 roots, 2 feet apart, rows 4 feet apart. 
Mary Washington is the best variety. 
Beans. About 30 feet of row of wax or green pod varieties for early 
use. Pencil Pod or Sure Crop for Wax, Tendergreen, or Full Measure 
for Green Podded; lb. seed of each, 15 hills Scotia, for later use; 
1 pkt. 150 feet of row, Bush Lima, using 1 lb. seed, or, if preferred, 
25 hills Pole Limas, Ideal; J^ lb. of seed required. 
Beets. About 40 feet of row, 1 oz. of seed required, Crosby’s Egyptian. 
Make a second sowing in July of Detroit Dark Red for late use and canning, 
or sow “ Long Season” beet, which remains tender all through the season. 
Broccoli. 25 plants, or 1 pkt. seed. Italian Green Sprouting. Plant 
the same time as Cauliflower. 
Brussels Sprouts. 25 plants, or 1 pkt. seed. Long Island Improved. 
Chinese Cabbage. Excellent for salad. 30 ft. Sow 1 pkt. of seed in 
July. Chihli is the best. 
Cabbage. If early cabbage is desired, it is better to buy the plants. 
For late crop the seed is sown in May. We recommend Golden Acre for 
first early (forced plants); Savoy, Enkhuizen Glory or Sleaford Market 
for late fall and winter use; Large Late Copenhagen for kraut. 1 pkt. seed 
of each or 25 plants of early and 100 plants of late kinds. (We can furnish 
cabbage plants. See page 47). 
Carrots. If used as a vegetable, 25 feet of row; if merely for flavoring, 
10 feet of row, 1 pkt. seed; Red Cored Chantenay or Tendersweet. Make 
a sowing of Coreless about the first of August for late fall use. 
Cauliflower. 50 plants Snowball or 1 pkt. of seed. 24 plants Italian 
Purple or sow 1 pkt. of seed. 
Celery. 100 or 200 plants each of Golden Plume and Salt Lake; 1 pkt. 
seed of each kind. Better to buy plants than try to raise them. See page 47. 
Cucumbers. 10 hills Harris’ Perfection, Longfellow, or China; 1 pkt. 
seed. For pickles 5 hills (1 pkt.) Double Yield. 
Egg Plant. 12 to 15 plants, or 1 pkt. seed; Black Beauty. 
Kohl Rabi. Early White Vienna, 1 pkt. 
Lettuce. White Boston, Crisp-as-Ice, New York No. 12 and Sala¬ 
mander are best heading varieties. Non-heading or loose-leaf varieties 
may be sown in the open ground at intervals during the spring and summer. 
Prizehead and Black Seeded Simpson are good loose-leaf varieties. Mi¬ 
gnonette makes small firm heads. 1 pkt. seed of each variety. 
Muskmelons. Those who have good soil and a sunny situation can 
raise fine muskmelons. Delicious, Sugar Rock or Bender’s Surprise are 
the best. 15 hills will be enough. 1 pkt. seed. 
Okra. 10 feet of row; 1 pkt. of seed. 
Onions. Green onions for early spring use are raised by planting sets. 
Set out a quart of white sets about 2 inches apart in the row. Large 
onions can also be raised in this way. If dry onions are required for fall 
and winter use, they can be raised by setting out Ebenezer sets or by sow¬ 
ing the seed. Riverside Sweet Spanish makes a large mild onion and is 
easy to grow from seed. Sow 1 oz. seed in the spring, or set out 2 qts. of 
Ebenezer onion sets. 
Parsley. 5 feet of row, 1 packet of seed. 
Peas. If an abundance of peas is desired, so as to have them practically 
every day during the pea season, it will require the following; 1 lb. Gradus 
or Thos. Laxton, 1 lb. Laxton’s Progress, 1 lb. Midseason Giant or Advancer, 
1 lb. Alderman, 1 lb. Onward. Sow 3 or 4 weeks later 1 lb.Onward. 
Pepper. 1 doz. plants of Harris’ Earliest or Harris’ Early Giant or 
“King of the North.” If “hot” peppers are required, plant Hot Portugal. 
Potatoes. For early, 300 to 500 feet of row; Irish Cobbler or White 
Gold. 1 pk. to }/?, bu. seed. For late. Golden Rural, or Green Mountain. 
Radish. Early Scarlet Globe and Icicle are the best. 1 oz. each. It 
is well to sow some radish seed in August for fall use. 
Rhubarb. 1 doz. roots set 3 feet apart. 
Salsify. 50 feet of row, 1 oz. of seed. 
Spinach. 100 feet of row will produce a good lot of spinach if it is on 
rich ground. 1 pkt. Nobel Giant Leaf, 1 pkt. King of Denmark or Long 
Standing Bloomsdale for spring sowing, and 1 oz. Long Standing Blooms- 
dale for wintering over. Sown September 1st, spinach will be ready for 
use in the late fall and will last over with slight protection and be available 
for use as soon as the snow goes off in the spring. 
Squash. For summer use 8 or 10 hills Giant Summer Straightneck and 
Mammoth White Bush Scallop or Italian Vegetable Marrow. For fall 
and winter, Delicious and Quality squash are excellent. 1 pkt. each. 
Swiss Chard. For greens, 20 feet of row; 1 pkt. seed. Fordhook Giant. 
Sweet Corn. About 50 hills each. Gill’s Early Market or Harris’ Extra 
Early Bantam, Buttercup or Golden Bantam, Mimm’s Hybrid or Bantam 
Evergreen, Country Gentleman or Long Island Beauty. If you want to 
prolong the season still more, plant Golden Bantam or Buttercup 6 weeks 
later than the first sowing. lb. of seed of each kind. 
Tomatoes. 25 plants of an early variety, such as Bonny Best, 50 plants 
of a later kind, such as Stone, Success or Pritchard’s Scarlet Topper. 
Turnips. Purple Top White Globe and Yellow Stone are excellent kinds. 
Sow in August. 1 pkt. seed of each kind. For winter use sow Macomber 
in late June or first of July. 
Watermelons. We do not advise amateur gardeners to raise water¬ 
melons in the Northern States'unless they have light soil and plenty of 
room. Winter Queen, Stone Mountain and the new Wonder Melon are 
good for the North and Kleckley Sweets for further South. 
Witloof Chicory or “French Endive." Sow 50 to 100 feet of row; 
1 oz. of seed. Roots should be dug and forced during the winter. 
Herbs for Flavoring. Every garden should have some Dill, Sage, 
Thyme, Summer Savory and Sweet Marjoram. 
Note: There are many less common vegetables which you may find you 
want in your garden, such as Leek, Fennel, Endive, Celeriac, Cress, Kale, 
Mustard for salad, etc. You will find these all described in this catalogue. 
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