WHAT TO RAISE IN A 
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Below we have made some suggestions as to what to raise in a complete vegetable garden, and about the quantities required 
for an ordinary family. The amounts and varieties should be varied to meet your own needs and tastes. As you study the 
catalogue, you can be sure that what we say about yield, quality and so forth is all based on our actual experience. 
Asparagus. Set out 100 to 200 roots, 2 feet apart, rows 4 feet apart. 
Mary Washington is the best variety. 
Beans. About 30 feet of row of wax or green pod varieties for early 
use. Pencil Pod or Sure Crop for Wax, Tendergreen, or Full Measure 
for Green Podded; Yi lb. seed of each, 15 hills Scotia, for later use; 
1 pkt. 150 feet of row. Bush Lima, using 1 lb. seed, or, if preferred, 
25 hills Pole Limas, Ideal; Yi lb. of seed required. 
Beets. About 40 feet of row, 1 oz. of seed required, Crosby’s Egyptian. 
Make a second sowing in July of Detroit Dark Red for late use and 
canning, or sow “Long Season” beet, which remains tender all 
through the season. 
Broccoli. 25 plants, or 1 pkt. seed. Italian Green Sprouting. Plant 
the same time as Cauliflower. 
Brussels Sprouts. 25 plants, or 1 pkt. seed. Long Island Improved. 
Chinese Cabbage. Excellent for salad. 30 ft. Sow 1 pkt. of seed in 
July. Chihli is the best. 
Cabbage. If early cabbage is desired, it is better to buy the plants. 
For late crop the seed is sown in May. We recommend Golden Acre 
for first early (forced plants); Savoy, Enkhuizen Glory or Sleaford 
Market for late fall and winter use; Large Late Copenhagen for 
kraut. 1 pkt. seed of each or 25 plants of early and 100 plants of late 
kinds. (We can furnish cabbage plants. See page 47). 
Carrots. If used as a vegetable, 25 feet of row; if merely for flavoring, 
10 feet of row, 1 pkt. seed; Red Cored Chantenay or Tendersweet. 
Make a sowing of Nantes about the first of August for late fall use. 
Cauliflower. 50 plants Snowball or 1 pkt. of seed. 24 plants Italian 
Purple or sow 1 pkt. of seed. 
Celery. 100 or 200 plants each of Golden Plume and Salt Lake; 1 pkt. 
seed of each kind. Better to buy plants than try to raise them. 
See page 47. 
Cucumbers. 10 hills Harris’ Perfection, Longfellow, or China; 1 pkt. 
seed. For pickles 5 hills (1 pkt.) Double Yield. 
Egg Plant. 12 to 15 plants, or 1 pkt. seed; Black Beauty. 
Kohl Rabi. Early White Vienna, 1 pkt. 
Lettuce. White Boston, Crisp-as-Ice, New York No. 12 and Sala¬ 
mander are best heading varieties. Non-heading or loose-leaf varie¬ 
ties may be sown in the open ground at intervals during the spring 
and summer. Prizehead and Black Seeded Simpson are good loose- 
leaf varieties. Mignonette makes small firm heads. 1 pkt. seed of 
each variety. 
Muskmelons. Those who have good soil and a sunny situation can 
raise fine muskmelons. Delicious, Sugar Rock or Bender’s Surprise 
are the best. 15 hills will be enough. 1 pkt. seed. 
Okra. 10 feet of row; 1 pkt. of seed. 
Onions. Green onions for early spring use are raised by planting sets. 
Set out a quart of white sets about 2 inches apart in the row. Large 
onions can also be raised in this way. If dry onions are required for 
fall and winter use, they can be raised by setting out Ebenezer sets 
or by sowing the seed. Riverside Sweet Spanish makes a large mild 
onion and is easy to grow from seed or plants (see page 34). Sow 
1 oz. seed in the spring, or set out 2 qts. of Ebenezer onion sets. 
Parsley. 5 feet of row, 1 packet of seed. 
Peas. If an abundance of peas is desired, so as to have them practi¬ 
cally every day during the pea season, it will require the following; 
1 lb. Gradus or Thos. Laxton, 1 lb. Laxton’s Progress, 1 lb. Dwarf 
Alderman, Midseason Giant or Advancer, 1 lb. Alderman, 1 lb. 
Onward. Sow 3 or 4 weeks later 1 lb. Onward. 
Pepper. 1 doz. plants of Harris’ Earliest or Harris’ Early Giant or 
“King of the North.” If “hot” peppers are required, plant Hot 
Portugal. 
Potatoes. For early, 300 to 500 feet of row; Irish Cobbler or White 
Gold. 1 pk. to Yi bu. seed. For late, Golden Rural, or Green Moun¬ 
tain. 
Radish. Early Scarlet Globe, Firecracker and Icicle are the best. 1 oz. 
each. It is well to sow some radish seed in August for fall use. 
Rhubarb. 1 doz. roots set 3 feet apart. 
Salsify. 50 feet of row, 1 oz. of seed. 
Spinach. 100 feet of row will produce a good lot of spinach if it is on 
rich ground. 1 pkt. Nobel Giant Leaf or Viking, 1 pkt. King of Den¬ 
mark or Long Standing Bloomsdale for spring sowing, and 1 oz. 
Long Standing Bloomsdale for w intering over. Sow n September 1st, 
spinach will be ready for use in the late fall and will last over with 
slight protection and be available for use as soon as the snow goes olf 
in the spring. 
Squash. For summer use 8 or 10 hills Giant Summer Straightneck 
and Mammoth White Bush Scallop or Italian Vegetable Marrow. 
For fall and winter, Delicious and Quality squash are excellent. 
1 pkt. each. 
Swiss Chard. For greens, 20 feet of row; 1 pkt. seed. Fordhook 
Giant. 
Sweet Corn. About 50 hills each. Canada Gold or Harris’ Extra 
Early Bantam, Buttercup or Golden Bantam, Mimms’ Hybrid or 
Bantam Evergreen, Golden Country Gentleman or Long Island 
Beauty. If you want to prolong the season still more, plant Golden 
Bantam or Buttercup 6 weeks later than the first sowing. Yi lb. of 
seed of each kind. 
Tomatoes. 25 plants of an early variety, such as Bonny Best, 50 
plants of a later kind, such as Stone, Success or Pritchard’s Scarlet 
Topper. 
Turnips. Purple Top W’hite Globe and Yellow Stone are excellent 
kinds. Sow in August. 1 pkt. seed of each kind. For winter use sow 
Macomber in late June or first of July. 
Watermelons. We do not advise amateur gardeners to raise water¬ 
melons in the Northern States unless they have light soil and plenty 
of room. Winter Queen, Stone Mountain and the new W onder 
Melon are good for the North and Kleckley Sweets for further South. 
Witloof Chicory or “French Endive.” Sow 50 to 100 feet of row; 
1 oz. of seed. Roots should be dug and forced during the winter. 
Herbs for Flavoring. Every garden should have some Dill, Sage, 
Thyme, Summer Savory and Sweet Marjoram. 
Note: There are many less common vegetables which you may find 
you want in your garden, such as Leek, Fennel, Endive, Celeriac, 
Cress, Kale, Mustard for salad, etc. You will find these all described 
in this catalogue. 
"THE GERMINATION IS MARKED 
ON EVERY PACKAGE OF HARRIS' SEEDS" 
EVERY package of Harris’ Seeds is marked with the percent which the seed germi¬ 
nated in test. 
This is a service which we have given our customers for the past 25 years and until 
recently we were the only seedsmen who so marked their seeds. Now it is required 
by New York State law on all vegetable and field seed offered for sale in the State. 
We also put the test on all/tower seeds, which is not required by law. 
If the purchaser doc* not accept the seeds under thej 
conditions, they must tic returned at once. J. U. Co.. Inc. 
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