SPRING CATALOGUE OF SEEDS, BULBS AND PLANTS FOR 1899. 
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Turnips. 
A valuable garden and farm crop. Good Turnips are 
almost as desirable for table use as Potatoes. For winter 
use sow last of July or first of August. * Turnips may be 
sown late in ground that has been cropped with Peas or 
Beans early in the season. 
Scarlet Kashmyr This Turnip has a striking resemblance 
to a large Radish, being as round and uniform in shape, 
and crisp as a radish, and of the most excellent quality. 
It matures almost as quickly as the earliest radishes, be¬ 
ing several weeks ahead of any other Turnip, and when 
cooked is of unsurpassed quality. Pkt., 10c.; 3 pkts., 25c. 
Early Ivory— A sort of peculiar value, owing to its extreme 
earliness. It grows almost as quickly as a radish, and to 
a great extent resembles a large white winter radish. It 
is sweet and of first-class quality. Pkt., 10c.; oz., 40c. 
Early Flat Dutch Clear, white skin, and juicy, crisp flesh. 
A fine sort for either market or home garden. Pkt., 5c.; 
oz., 10c.; fl>„ 45c. 
Purple Top White Clobe— A large Turnip of fine keeping 
qualities. Pkt., 5c.; oz., 10c.; lb., 50c. 
Large Yellow Clobe -A large round Turnip with deep 
yellow flesh and fine, firm grain; very sweet and good. 
Pkt., 5c.; oz.. 10c.; lb., 50c, 
Extra Early Milan— The earliest strap-leaved variety. A 
smooth, medium-sized variety, with a bright purple top. 
Fine quality and good keeper. Very delicious. Pkt., 
5c.; oz., 10c.; lb., 75c. 
White Egg Beautiful white, eg^-shaped sort, of rapid 
growth. Flesh firm and solid, fine grained, sweet and of 
very mild flavor. Fine either for early or late variety. 
Grows to good size. Pkt., 5c.; oz., 10c.; lb., 50c. 
Tennoji The Tennoji Turnip is a mammoth fiat variety of 
excellent quality. It is impossible to say just how large it 
will grow under favorable conditions, but the Japanese 
claim is something incredible. Here in our trial grounds 
under the disadvantage of a crowded test-bed it has grown 
to t he largest dimensions we have ever seen in a Turnip. 
Finest seed, just imported from Japan, 10c. per pkt.; 3 
pkts. for 25c.; oz., 35c, 
Kuta-baga or S\Vede. 
These are grown largely for stock feeding as well as for 
table use. For either purpose they are a profitable crop. 
Carters* Elephant - A new Turnip of great size and a won-, 
derful cropper. In shape it is beautiful and perfect, and 
remarkably uniform, of quick growth and excellent 
quality. Owing to its very large size it will probably 
turn out 50 per cent, more bushels to the acre than any 
other, and is therefore, the most profitable variety for 
large crops, especially for growing, for stock feeding. 
Pkt-., 5c.; oz., 10c.; lb., 80c. 
Breadstone—A beautiful white ruta-baga, so remarkably 
tender that it will cook in fifteen minutes, while the 
flavor is uncommonly sweet and delicate. It is also a 
wonderful keeper, not growing pithy and dry like the 
ordinary Turnips when kept in the celler over winter. 
Flesh perfectly white fine grained, tender and sweet, 
without the strong taste so common among Ruta-bagas. 
Finest of all table varieties. Pkt., 10c.; oz., 15c.; 1b.. $1. 
Improved American Ruta-baga --Large, smooth and hand¬ 
some, quick in growth, tender, and fine in quality. A 
superb standard sort. Pkt., 5c.; oz., 10c.; 1b., 60c. 
Obion- 
ffl}/ Egyptian or Perennial Tree 
mPS — In this we have an 
v&y entirely new variety of 
i'W Onion. It differs from 
y those raised from seeds or 
sets, from the Top Onion, 
Potato Onion, in the fact 
that when once set out, without 
the slightest protection, it will 
come up year after year as soon as 
the frost breaks ground, and grow 
so rapidly that it is ready tor mar¬ 
ket or home use two or three weeks 
before any of them. It is usually 
ready for the table early in May. 
Is unsurpassed for sweetness and tenderness. It is per¬ 
fectly hardy in all sections of the North. Pint, 20c.; 
quart, 30c.; postpaid; peck, by express, SI 50. 
EG ypTUf 
As a forage or fodder plant 
this is the greatest thing of 
the age. especially for the 
South. In appearance it re¬ 
sembles corn, but the leaves 
are much longer and broader 
and sweeter. It grows twelve 
feet high, producing a great 
number of shoots, which are 
thickly covered with heavy 
foliage. 85 stalks have been 
grown from one seed, and it 
produces forty tons to the 
acre. At the rate hay and 
other stock feed costs, Teo- 
sinte will yield $200 worth of 
fodder or ensilage to the acre. 
Plant it as you would corn. 
W. J. Pitts, of Stockton, Ga., 
writes : “ I cut two 2-horse 
loadsof forage from an ounce 
of seed.” It may he cut t wo 
or three times during the 
season. It never suffers in 
drought or rain. Three 
pounds of seed is enough for 
an acre. Pkt., 10c.; oz., 15c.; 
lb., $1.50. 
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Tobacco, Persian Muscatel le„ 
This is the best of all, an exceedingly ornamental plant 
and so early that it can be grown r. any State. It is from 
the garden of the King of Persia. The grower says of It: 
“ It is one of the eariest varieties we have, of remarkably 
strong and vigorous growth, attaining the height of five to 
seven feer. The stalks are strong, thickly set with leaves, 
many of them measuring 3V6 to 4*4 feet in length with pro¬ 
portionate width. The leaves are usually small ribbed, 
very elastic, of finest possible texture, of a light brown col¬ 
or and of mild flavor. Pkt., 10c.; oz., 50c.; lb., $5.00. 
