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City Folks; Suburbanites! 
You don’t need a farm to enjoy large, juicy Strawberries on 
your table all summer and all fall. 
Note in the above cut you can make gardens of small nooks 
and corners. 
Brown’s Popular 
Strawberries 
There are hundreds of varieties of 
Strawberries, and most of them good, 
with favorable conditions. 
Conforming with our policy of careful 
selection, we have chosen only the best 
varieties that we would plant ourselves. 
Our Best Early Season 
Varieties 
Parson’s Beauty. A medium early berry 
that is grown extensively for canning 
and for market. Berries are large, firm 
and have a delightful flavor. 
Premier. Without question the best early 
Strawberry. Berries are large and light 
red. Very productive. 
Senator Dunlap. The plants are strong, 
healthy growers, that will give entire 
satisfaction. Berries are medium to 
large in size, deep rich dark red, of 
excellent quality. 
Our Best Medium Season 
Variety 
Big 1 Joe. This is one of the most reliable and profitable mid¬ 
season berries. Fruit large, luscious, with a glorious red 
color. Plants are heavy producers. 
Our Best Late Season Varieties 
Aroma. Plants are productive. Berries large, firm, and de¬ 
licious flavor. A popular home garden variety. Good keeper. 
William Belt, The fruit is very large; plant is a strong 
grower; fruit is fine in quality and combines about all the 
good points you would naturally expect one berry to possess. 
Mastodon Everbearing. Acknowledged to be the greatest 
Strawberry ever produced. Berries are extra large, and plants 
are unusually productive. For the commercial grower as well 
as the home owner who wants Strawberries over a long sea¬ 
son. The Mastodon is the acknowledged leader. 
Brown’s Currants 
In Demand for Jellies, Jams, Preserves, 
Tarts, Etc. 
No garden is complete without a dozen or two bushes. Plant 
four feet apart each way. 
Cherry. Standard Red Currant. Of good quality, early. 
Fay’s Prolific. A hardy and popular red variety. Easy to pick 
and of excellent quality. Season, early to medium. 
Perfection. A beautiful bright red Currant. Large in size 
and very productive. Clusters are compact and easy to pick. 
Recommended for northern sections. 
White Grape. This is the best of all white Currants. Very 
productive, and commercially successful. Medium season. 
Wilder. Red with large fine flavored fruit. Few varieties equal 
it in productiveness and long keeping. 
Brown’s Gooseberries 
Every home garden should have a dozen or two bushes as 
Gooseberries are easy to grow, and the fruit is extremely de¬ 
sirable for cooking and culinary purposes. Plant four feet apart 
each way. 
Downing. Large, pale green color, soft and juicy. 
Houghton. Roundish, medium size, sweet and very productive. 
Josselyn. (Red Jacket). Berries smooth, very prolific, and 
hardy. 
Brown’s Horseradish 
Bohemian Gold Medal. An approved variety. By leaving a 
part of the roots in the ground after cutting, a supply of 
this delightful condiment may be harvested each year. 
Brown’s Rhubarb 
or Wine Plant 
There is no garden of whatever size that cannot find room 
for a few' clumps of Rhubarb. It can be grown anywhere and 
is delightful for use in the spring, for pies, canning, and sauce. 
The health-giving qualities of Rhubarb constitute it an out¬ 
standing spring tonic. 
Plant four feet apart each way. The stalks will be fit for use 
second season after planting. 
Myatt’s Linnaeus. A superior variety, tender, mild, sub-acid 
flavor. 
Sutton. An English variety, producing immense stalks of mild 
flavor. Requires less sugar than any other sort. By far the 
best variety on the market. Practically seedless. 
Brown’s Asparagus 
The Vegetable Aristocrat 
The first of the early green vegetables, the most delicious 
delicacy in vegetables. The three varieties listed are the best 
for general purposes. 
Conover’s Colossal. Immense size, very tender, and well fla¬ 
vored. Sends up from 15 to 20 sprouts each year; color 
deep green and crown very close. 
Giant Argenteuil. The popular variety in the Paris markets. 
Shoots exceedingly large, dark green and delicious. A very 
productive sort. 
Pedigreed Washington. A new, rust-resisting variety, pro¬ 
duced by the U. S. Department of Agriculture. Stalks are 
large, dark green, with heavy purple overtone. Rapidly gain¬ 
ing in popularity. 
