New Guinea Butter Vine 
ONE OF THE MOST DELICIOUS OF ALL VEGETABLES 
The New Guinea Butter Vine is a wonderful vegetable. Grows 
to enormous size, one fruit often weighing 15 lbs., and from 3 to 
5 feet long. In growth it is similar to the squash, and can be 
grown in the same manner or can be trellised up. It is more 
productive than squash and much easier to grow. The vines are 
always free from disease and insect pests, and stand more neglect 
and abuse than any other vegetable vine we know of. The fruits 
should be eaten when small, while the fuzzy growth is yet on. 
It can be cooked like Squash and fried like Egg Plant. When 
cut up in small pieces and cooked with cream or fried it is most 
delicious. If trellised up, the vines take up so little space, no 
garden is too small for at least two or three plants. Mrs. Sam J. 
Yoder, Apple Creek, Ohio, grew one New Guinea Butter Vine 
fruit which weighed 15 lbs. and was \y 2 feet in length. Another 
customer writes that lie cut 75 fruits from one vine, and that 
each fruit was from 2 y 2 to 3 feet long. Pkt., I Oc; 3 pkts., 25c; 
oz., 50c, postpaid. 
New Guinea Butter Vine fruits grown from Burgess’ seeds by 
Mr. George Price, Waubaushene, Ont., Canada 
Easy Method of Growing Mushrooms 
A planter in 
Minnesota gives 
the following di¬ 
rections for grow¬ 
ing Mushrooms in 
the lawn: 
“Break up the 
brick of spawn 
into inch square 
pieces. Have ready 
some fresh horse 
manure, and place 
a trowel full under 
the s o d at inter¬ 
vals about the 
lawn. Put a piece 
of spawn on the 
manure, a n d re- 
Mushrooms Place the sod. Do 
this in early 
spring. After the warm spring rains, the lawn will be full of mushrooms. 
If these directions are followed, the size of the crop will be dependent 
entirely upon the weather. It is important that the spawn be planted 
previous to the early warm rains, as Mushrooms cannot be grown in this 
manner during the summer.” 
. Mushroom Spawn 
Each brick of our Pure Culture Mushroom Spawn contains about 40 
cubic inches of spawn, and will plant 10 square feet of bed. Cultural 
directions free with each order for spawn. 60c per brick; 3 bricks, $1.50, 
postpaid. By express, not prepaid, in quantities of six or more bricks, 
30c per brick. 
Mustard 
One ounce of seed to 75 feet of row. 
The large leaves of the two first named varieties 
make a most palatable and piquant type of greens and - 
possess healthful tonic properties. Preferred by many 
to Spinach, but should be cut young, for when old 
the flavor is strong. Begin sowing seed as early in 
the spring as the weather permits and make succes¬ 
sive sowings every two weeks. 
SOUTHERN GIANT CURLED. Leaves large, yellow¬ 
ish-green, much crumpled on the edges. The most ex¬ 
tensively grown of any variety. Ready for table in 
about 35 days. Pkt., 5c; oz., 10c; % lb., 20c; lb., 
65c; 2 lbs., $1.15; 5 lbs., $2.75; 10 lbs., $5.20, post¬ 
paid. 
FORDHOOK FANCY. Of vigorous growth; beauti¬ 
ful dark green leaves which curve outward like fine 
ostrich plumes. Shoots to seed more slowly than any 
other Mustard. Pkt., 5c; oz., 10c; *4 lb., 25c; lb., 
70c; 2 lbs., $1.25; 5 lbs., $2.95; 10 lbs., $5.60, post¬ 
paid. 
Best Seeds He Ever Had 
“Y’our seeds are the best I have'ever had—95% 
came up.”—Mr. Geo. O. Wilson, 435 Broadway, Or¬ 
lando, Florida, March 7, 1933. 
BURGESS SEED & PLANT CO., Galesburg, Michigan 25 
BOTTOM ONION SETS 
One quart of sets for a 50 foot row; 10 to 12 bushels per acre. 
Bottom Onion Sets are the product of seed and the little bulbs are planted for Green Onions, or to produce 
large Onions for early market. They produce Onions ready for the market or household use 4 to 6 weeks 
earlier than can be done by sowing seed. The planter is enabled thereby to get highest market prices for 
his early Onions grown from sets, also permitting the growing of another crop on the land the same year. 
Plant every ten days, beginning 
as early in the spring as the 
ground can be worked, for a suc¬ 
cession of Green Onions for the 
table. The sets we handle are well- 
ripened bulbs of small size and should 
not be confused with the cheap unreli¬ 
able kinds so often offered for sale. 
YELLOW BOTTOM SETS (Genuine 
Ebenezer or Japanese). Make sweet and 
mild Green Onions and big sweet Onions 
that will keep all winter. Try them once 
and you will never use any other variety 
of yellow sets. Pint, 20c; quart, 35c; 4 
qts., $1.25, postpaid. By express, not 
prepaid, $1.00 per peck; $3.70 per 
bushel. 
WHITE BOTTOM SETS (Silverskin). 
Pint, 20c; quart, 35c; 4 qts., $1.30, post¬ 
paid. By express, not prepaid, $1.10 
per peck; $3.95 per bushel. 
Prices of Onion Sets are subject to 
fluctuations of the market. The price 
per pint, quart, 4 quarts, peck and 
bushel will hold good throughout the sea¬ 
son, or as long as our stock lasts. Write 
for prices on larger quantities. 
32 lbs. of Onion Sets constitute a 
bushel. Ebenezer Yellow Bottom Onion Sets 
