NOVELTIES AND SPECIALTIES 
3 
CABBAGE SHORT STEM HOLLANDER 
Special Strain 
Grow it for trial to find it the best strain. What makes 
our strain of such high value? The fact that it forms ex¬ 
tremely tight heads with practically no hollow spaces, that it 
is perfectly globe shaped and of perfect size, namely of me¬ 
dium 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 im¬ 
mediate use are not desired because that means waste. The 
city people are careful 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. 
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. 
Pkt. 10c; oz. 30c; lb. $2.60, prepaid. 
CELERY TRADE BUILDER 
TENDER—BRITTLE—STRINGLESS 
Plant quite dwarf and stocky, heart large and full, 
creamy yellow. Stalks broad, thick and meaty, crisp, very 
tender and so brittle that it will not stand distant shipping. 
It stands alone in quality, which is wonderful in the full 
meaning of the word. This is a celery that will appeal to 
the fancy class of buyers and will fetch fancy prices. It will 
advertise you as a skillful gardener and producer of a per¬ 
fect product. Grow Trade Builder for your local market. 
You will sell it easily with a pleasing profit at any time. 
Almost as early as Golden Self Blanching, a wonderful keeper 
and high class as a winter sort. Pkt. 10c; oz. 12c; oz. 45c; 
14 lb. $1.00; 1 lb. $4.00. 
MUSKMELON GOLDEN QUEEN 
Originated with one of the melon growers in our locality. 
This grower made quite a bit of money selling his melons 
when the times were not as tough as they are at present at 
50c per melon never for less and many a melon went for 75c 
and as high as a dollar a piece for the biggest ones. In spite 
of his being there when it comes to charging, his customers 
were on the lookout for his melons. Golden Queen is a large 
melon of high quality averaging 15 pounds per fruit, heavily 
ribbed and heavily netted, outsells any other melon on the 
market and is ready for the market three days ahead of Hale’s 
Best. This may sound like a fairy tale yet these are the facts. 
Not suitable for shipping. Pkt. 10c; oz. 25c; lb. $2.00. 
NEW SPINACH BIG CROP 
Long Standing—Disease Resistant—Enormous in Size 
Big Crop Spinach produces almost twice as big a crop as the 
next best variety. Very early, very hardy and stands two weeks 
longer than Bloomsdale before shooting to seed. The leaves are 
borne on long, stout stalks, well above the ground, staying clean and 
free of dirt. They are thick, very large, rounded at the edges, twice 
as long as they are broad, moderately crumpled. Color bright green. 
Blight and wilt resistant. Of all so-called smooth leaved varieties 
such as Viroflay, Thick Leaf, Flanders, etc., Big Crop Spinach is the 
best and unbeatable for canning purposes and for a tremendous 
crop. Oz. 5c; % lb. 20c; lb. 40c, prepaid. Not prepaid: In lots of 10 
lbs. or over, at 20c per lb. 
BLIGHT RESISTANT SPINACH 
Virginia Savoy Blight Resistant, introduced . by the Va. 
Truck Experiment Station at Norfolk, Va. of Bloomsdale type, 
heavily crumpled with massive thick leaves. Highly blight 
resistant. Oz. 5c; lb. 40c, prepaid. Not prepaid: 10 lbs. $2.40; 
100 lbs. $22.00. 
CUCUMBER TRIUMPH 
Extra Early—Extra Good 
Unlike any variety so far offered. A cucumber the grow¬ 
ers were looking for, for a long time. That means a cucumber 
that is early, fairly long of good appearance and a reliable 
crop producer. 
Triumph is such a cucumber. An ideal cucumber as you 
will find out if you will try it. 
A robust growing new white spine variety producing 
heavy crops of very slender, very symetrical and highly 
attractive, intensely dark green fruits 10 to 11 inches long. 
Besides being heavily productive, an item of great import¬ 
ance, Triumph is as early as the famous Early Fortune. The 
fruits contain very few seeds, the flesh is tender, crisp white 
and the best quality. Very uniform, hardly any culls. Un¬ 
beatable for slicing and the KING of all cucumbers for 
shipping. Pkt. 15c; V 2 oz. 35c. 
MUSKMELON SUNKIST 
A round Rockyford type melon, yellow on the outside with 
fairly coarse netting and no ribs. Flesh golden-pink solid 
and VERY thick. Its greatest value is its ability to stand 
shipping and trucking ANY distance when thoroughly vine- 
ripened. Will stay in prime condition 5-6 days, in fact im¬ 
proves in quality after being picked. It has an extremely 
strong rind and it is the heaviest melon for its size. A melon 
that does not turn soft. 
Sunkist is an extra heavy producer, the vines are un¬ 
commonly thrifty and possess much more foliage than other 
melons. In picking you will not see the melons unless you 
stand right above the patch—the heavy foliage hides the 
melons. When the vines of other melons are beginning to 
“play out” the vines of Sunkist are as green and fresh as can 
be. When the melon is cut open no juice runs out of it. The 
seed cavity is exceptionally small, the amount of seed accord¬ 
ingly very small. 
Sunkist is very sweet and very FRAGRANT and it never 
gets soft at the ends even when the melons are handled 
roughly, they stay firm and solid. When you market any 
kind of melon the buyers feel the melons at the ends looking 
for soft spots. No buyer will find any soft spots on Sunkist 
melons, your melons will sell and there will be many calls 
for more. In season of ripening Sunkist follows Hale’s Best. 
When Hale’s Best is about one-third gone Sunkist is ready 
for picking. 
Although Sunkist is a very new melon it is sold under 
several names like Silver Bell, etc., and is best known under 
the trade name of Weaver’s Special. Pkt. 10c; oz. 30c; lb. 
$ 2 . 20 . 
WORTH KNOWING Down South where the best wa¬ 
termelons are grown, wide awake 
growers leave only two melons to grow on each vine. (New 
method.) There were two neighbors, both grew melons, one 
followed the new method and the other did not. Both were 
members of a melon growers association. The man with two 
melons to the vine sold six cars of melons, the smallest of 
which weighed 28 lbs. For his crop he received $2,440.00. The 
other man left all his melons on the vines, had smaller mel¬ 
ons and the association could only sell four cars for him. 
His biggest melons weighed 27 lbs. and the others ranged 
down to 12 lbs. These melons netted the grower only $660.00. 
The difference in favor of the man who believes in up-to-date 
methods was $1,780.00, enough to buy a fine automobile. 
