NOVELTIES AND SPECIALTIES 
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The News for 1935 
The important news to vegetable growers is the fact that 
seeds of Sweet Corn, Cucumbers and Onions are in short 
supply. Lack of moisture and exceedingly high temperatures 
were the causes of short crops and in many cases of absolute 
crop failures. Because the supply of many items in the above 
named vegetables is an uncertain problem we are not quoting 
such seeds in larger lots. We assure you that if you will 
write for prices we will do our very best to supply RELIABLE 
stocks at the lowest prices possible. 
As to the supply of flower seeds there are ample stocks 
with very few exceptions. 
Our catalog contains everything new and worthwhile in 
vegetables and flowers, that we were able to unearth. 
We have added 10 new items in vegetables and 191 new 
items in flowers. 
We are doing our best to render service, we do not spare 
effort to locate the new and supreme. Offers from seed 
growers, seed specialists, florists, market gardeners, located in 
all parts of the world reach us, are carefully studied and con¬ 
sidered by us, whenever anything new of promise is offered 
we try it, whether it comes from California or from Patagonia. 
If found worthy we offer it and praise it as it may deserve. 
That means that we are doing our duty as seedmen. We 
are doing everything that can be done in order to DESERVE 
your patronage. 
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. Early Marvel can be marketed long 
before fully developed. If left standing in the field when 
fully developed, will not burst for several weeks. Heads very 
hard, leaves have small midribs, eating quality very high. Pkt. 
15c; oz. 60c. 
BEAN GIANT ENGLISH 
DIMEN SELT 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 quality 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. 
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 are 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; % lb. 23c; lb. 90c; 10 lbs. $7.50. 
An Ohio customer writes: Iowa beet beats any variety I 
ever planted. 
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 y 2 
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 lbs. 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; *4 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. 
