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NOVELTIES AND SPECIALTIES 
SHORT STEM HOLLANDER 
Special Strain 
Grow it for trial to find it the best strain. We ask a good 
price for the seed. This we must do, to recover the expense 
of years of effort to bring the strain into existence and to 
cover the expense keeping the strain pure. What makes our 
strain of such high value? The fact that it forms extremely 
tight heads with practically no hollow spaces, that it is per¬ 
fectly globe shaped and of perfect size, namely of medium size. 
This is an important item, making it desirable for shipping to 
centers of population where cabbage is sold by weight. Heads 
of cabbage larger than is needed for immediate use are not 
desired because that means waste. The city people are care¬ 
ful spenders and buy what looks to them as most for the 
money. 
Our Hollander keeps for months in storage. Other cab¬ 
bages do the same. But here is the difference: Our Hollander 
will come out of storage in better shape than other cabbages 
because it has several layers of dark green outside leaves. 
You remove one, you remove another layer of the outside 
leaves and you still have a head of cabbage as fresh looking 
as if it was cut recently, when, in fact, it was laying in storage 
for several months. In quality our Hollander is above the 
average of the type, yet we do not recommend it as a shining 
example of quality. 
To a purchaser shut up in a big city a cabbage head en¬ 
veloped in fresh looking green leaves looks mighty good and 
prompts him to buy. That’s what counts. There are several 
strains of Hollander. Because a slight difference in a strain 
makes a big difference in returns it will pay you to find the 
strain that pays best. We are pretty sure that ours is the best; 
we are also sure that you will agree with us after giving our 
strain a trial. Pkt. 10c; oz. 30c; lb. $3.00 prepaid. 
CABBAGE EARLY MARVEL 
If you grow early cabbage for market you will make 
some extra profit by growing Early Marvel. Positively the 
earliest cabbage, with large heads, in existence. The heads 
are ball shaped, slightly elongated, very hard, very white in¬ 
side, of fine quality, weighing 5 to 8 lbs. per head. The crop 
comes almost all at once, and every plant that you will set 
out will make a head. Pkt. 15c; oz. 60c. 
BEAN GIANT ENGLISH 
IMMENSELY PRODUCTIVE—HARDY LIKE PEAS 
PODS AND BEANS OF GIGANTIC SIZE 
Here is an opportunity for progressive gardeners. A 
bean closely resembling largest podded limas, ready weeks 
ahead of limas. A standard bean in England, different from 
other beans in being as hardy as peas or lettuce and like 
peas should be planted as soon as the ground is in workable 
condition in the spring. The pods grow direct from the stalk, 
the stalk grows about 3 feet tall, the pods are gigantic in 
size, so are the beans, and there is no bean more delicious. 
You will sell these beans if you will have them. They are 
nothing new to most foreign people who buy English Beans 
eagerly. Plant in rows 18 inches apart, six inches apart in 
the rows, one bean to a hill. Pkt. 10c; 1 lb. 40c, prepaid. 
F. O. B., 10 lbs. $2.00; 25 lbs. or over at 17c per lb. 
BEAN GREEN PERFECTION 
Possesses the same high qualities as our Admiral Wax Bean and 
is every bit as valuable. Very heavily productive, same fine, straight, 
meaty long stringless pods that are almost perfectly round and of 
the finest flavor. Fully as early as Admiral Wax, that is, it is the 
earliest high class green podded bean there is. The plants produce 
an extra heavy crop of pods and if kept picked clean will produce 
over a long period of time. Green Perfection is a variety that can 
hardly be improved upon. You will agree with us if you will try it. 
The seed is white, another advantage. Supply limited. Pkt. 10c; lb. 
30c; 10 lbs. $2.00. 
BEAN TENDERGREEN 
Possesses high eating qualities and is marvelously productive. 
The plants are strong and vigorous, well branched, holding the heavy 
load of pods well up from the ground. The pods «re seven inches 
long, absolutely straight, round, extremely meaty and tender, of 
beautiful attractive light green color. The pods are stringless even 
when fully developed. Tendergreen is of the greatest value both for 
market gardeners as well as for canning. Those that tried this bean 
praise it highly. Quite early, although not in the earliest class. Pkt. 
10c; lb. 30c, postpaid. Not prepaid: 10 lbs $1.80. 
NEW BEET IOWA 
VERY EARLY—HEAVILY PRODUCTIVE 
Extra early, superior in shape and color, with the extra 
advantage that its foliage is light, yet ample, to make it easy 
to tie. 
Globe-shaped, smooth and much darker in color than most 
globe-shaped beets, both in and out. Medium in size, never 
cracks open and never grows to immense proportions like 
other beets. The flesh is rich, deep, brilliant, scarlet-red 
without light zones, sweet and tender. Every plant of Iowa 
makes a shapely and salable root, even if the plantation is 
left unthinned and the plants allowed to crowd one another. 
Iowa is an all purpose beet, but especially valuable for grow¬ 
ing on a large scale for canneries or the wholesale trade. 
Pkt. 5c; oz. 10c; Y* lb. 20c; lb. 80c; 10 lbs. $6.00. 
LONG SMOOTH DARK RED BEET 
A long beet is popular in some markets and if you wish 
to get something extra good in a long beet we have it. The 
roots of our strain are shaped like a carrot, averaging 9 
inches in length and 3 inches through at shoulder, and 1 % 
inches through near the end of the root. Symmetrical, 
smooth, uniformly deepest blood red in and out, fine flavored, 
and sweet. Foliage dark bronze and not too heavy. Pkt 5c; 
oz. 10c; *4 lb. 20c; 1 lb. 80c; 10 lbs. $6.00. 
CUCUMBER LINDEN’S MARVEL 
An extremely handsome new variety a strain of white 
spine, the fruit averaging 10 in. in length, smooth straight of 
well balanced shape, the ends not pointed of very dark green 
color. Strong grower, blight resisting immensely productive 
and quite early. As long as Linden’s Marvel is on the mar¬ 
ket the buyers are leaving other cucumbers alone. This is 
because Linden’s Marvel is highly attractive in appearance 
and of the size everybody is favoring. When this cucumber 
made its first appearance on the Omaha market many of our 
customers inquired about the supply of seed. They are very 
very much interested and expect to grow Linden’s Marvel if 
the seed will be procurable. We have the seed but only a 
limited quantity. Pkt. 10c; oz. 25c; % lb. 50c. 
CHOP SUEY GREENS 
A new vegetable from the Orient, used in the preparation 
of the famous dish. Chop Suey, or can be used like any other 
greens. Of distinct flavor not found in any other vegetable, 
truly Oriental and impossible to describe. Those that tried 
it, prepared like spinach, proclaimed it a superb dish. Of 
upright growth with leaves cut like those of a fancy fern. 
Ready to use when about a foot high, to which height it grows 
in 30 days from date of sowing. Sow early in the spring in 
rows foot apart. Pkt. 10c; oz. 30c. 
An Ohio customer writes: Iowa beet beats any variety I 
ever planted. 
