CATALOGUE OF CHOICE GARDEN SEEDS 
PUMPKIN 
Culture .— The common practice is to drop two or three seeds in every third or fourth hill in the cornfield, but if 
cultivated on a large scale the seed may be sown in hills 8 feet apart each way, four plants to each hill, and other¬ 
wise treated in the same manner as recommended for melons or cucumbers. 
One pound will plant 250 hills 
Large Cheese Pumpkin 
Connecticut Field. Generally used in the North for 
planting in corn for stock feeding and also for making 
pies; fruit large, rather oblong in form, distinctly 
ribbed and reddish-orange in color. 
Golden Cushaw. Similar to White Cushaw except in 
color of shell. 
Golden Oblong. Oblong in form, about 20 inches long 
and 10 inches in diameter; skin golden orange. 
Japanese Pie. Shaped somewhat like the Cushaws and 
grows to a large size; skin deep green with dark 
stripes; flesh deep yellow, of high quality. 
King of the Mammoths (Potiron). The giant among 
pumpkins; exhibition specimens have been grown to 
weigh 250 lbs. 
Large Cheese, or Kentucky Field. Largely grown in 
the central and southern states for canning; fruits 
large, round and flattened, creamy buff in color; 
flesh yellow, very deep and of fine quality. 
Mammoth Tours. A very large, oblong variety, 
grown mainly for stock feeding and exhibition pur¬ 
poses; skin smooth, gray-green in color. 
Striped Cushaw. Of the crookneck type with mottled 
green and white stripes; fruit weighs up to 15 lbs.; 
flesh yellow, very solid and fine grained. 
Sweet or Sugar (New England Pie). A rather small 
variety, looking not unlike a miniature Connecticut 
Field; one of the very best for pies and growing in the 
home garden. Fruit round, flattened at the ends and 
slightly ribbed; both skin and fl esh of deep orange- 
yellow color; the flesh is exceedingly thick and of 
high quality. 
Tennessee Sweet Potato. Of medium size, nearly bell 
shaped, with neck slightly crooked; skin creamy 
white, sometimes slightly striped green. 
White Cushaw (Jonathan). A popular crooknecked 
variety with a hard, creamy-white shell. 
Winter Luxury. One of the best for pie making and an 
exceptionally good keeper; of medium size, with 
golden yellow skin, closely and peculiarly netted. 
RHUBARB 
Culture .— Rhubarb succeeds best in deep, somewhat 
retentive soil. It may be propagated by seeds, but is 
usually grown from roots. But, whether grown from 
seed or roots, a deep, rich soil, trenched to the depth of 
2 or 3 feet, is required to insure the full development of 
the leaf-stalks. Sow the seed in April in drills, and when 
the plants are of fair size, thin to 9 inches apart, in the 
drill. In the fall following, or the next spring, the plants 
will be large enough to transplant into rows 3 feet apart, 
setting them the same distance apart in the rows. 
When grown from roots, they are usually set in the 
spring, and sometimes in the fall; either spring or fall 
will do, but the spring is considered best. 
One ounce will produce 1,000 plants 
Myatt’s Linnaeus Giant. An early and very fine 
variety; leaves and stalks of immense size. Juicy and 
tender; grows quickly, producing fine succulent stalks. 
DWARF ESSEX RAPE 
(For Sowing) 
A more general use of this seed would prove of great 
advantage to farmers, for it not only makes excellent 
pasture, but there is no plant that will give so large a 
yield of foliage at so small an expense as this. For 
green-manuring or for exhausted soils it has no equal, 
and no pasture can be provided on which sheep will 
thrive better. Care should be taken, however, to secure 
the genuine Dwarf Essex and not the annual variety, 
which is liable to become an obnoxious weed. 
Culture. — Prepare the ground as for turnips and sow 
in June or July, with a turnip drill, in rows feet 
apart, at the rate of 2 Yi pounds of seed per acre; or sow 
broadcast, 5 pounds per acre. Prices on application. 
The smallest expense in gardening is the item 
of seeds. Buy the very best seeds obtainable if 
you wish a profitable garden. 
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