GRAND RAPIDS GROWERS, Inc., Grand Rapids, Michigan 
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Your Garden 
Your garden depends upon the quality of seeds and time you put in it. A few 
small rows of each variety will give you the fresh vegetables that you cannot find 
in the markets or grocery store. Grow your own vegetables and see the difference 
in the flavor and quality. Our line of seeds are grown by critical growers and each 
variety of seeds are thoroughly tested. Poor seeds are expensive. 
Large Size Packets 
Vegetable Seeds 
Our seeds are all put up out of our bulk 
Below we give you a suggestive list: 
1 pkt. Leaf Lettuce, Early Curled 1 
Simpson. 1 
1 pkt. Radish, Vick’s Scarlet Globe. j 
1 pkt. Carrots, Chantenay. 1 
1 pkt. Beets, Crosby’s Egyptian. j 
1 pkt. Cabbage, Early Copenhagen 
Market. 1 
1 pkt. Swiss Chard, Lucullus. 
of Any Kind of 
Postpaid for 
stock and you are assured of the best. 
pkt. Beans, Pencil Pod Black Wax. 
pkt. Cucumber, Early Fortune, 
pkt. Sweet Corn, Early Evergreen, 
pkt. Peas, Early Alaska, 
pkt. Spinach, Round Summer Thick 
Leaf. 
pkt. Turnip, Purple Top White 
Globe. 
We have only given you the variety to let you know what we would advise; 
however, if you desire to make your own selection, do so, as you may have a 
preference that we are not aware of. 
Rutabagas 
CULTURAL DIRECTIONS. One ounce to 100 feet of drill; one 
pound to the acre, if sown in drill rows. Spring sowing should 
be done very early, so that the ’bagas may get their growth be¬ 
fore hot weather, or they will be pithy and bitter. For main 
crop sow in July or August. 
» T._ A hardy, productive variety with small 
American rurpic lop neck, roots large, globe shaped, with 
small tap roots, bright yellow in color with purple top, solid, 
tender and sweet. Our strain is the best available. Oz., 10c; >4 lb., 
20c; 1 lb., 60c, postpaid. 
Long Island, Improved , G n r °J " s 
top-shaped, purple top, flesh yel¬ 
low. Used for stock feeding or 
table use where a large Rutabaga 
is wanted. Oz., 10c; *4 lb., 20c; 1 
lb., 60c, postpaid. 
Canadian Gem ’Ji'.YX; 
shaped with small tap roots. A 
very solid variety, tender and 
sweet. Oz., 10c; *4 lb., 30c; 1 lb., 
$1.00, postpaid. 
Rhubarb 
American Purple Top Rutabaga. 
CULTURAL DIRECTIONS. One 
ounce will produce 100 plants. The seed should be sown in the spring in rows about 
18 inches apart and transplanted the next spring to permanent beds. Roots should 
be planted three or four feet apart, and well manured, either with well-rotted 
stable manure or Pulverized Hen Manure. Give thorough cultivation. 
ip , • One of the best market sorts; stalks a beautiful red. Oz., 15c; *4 lb., 
ViUOnB 45c; i lb., $1.50, postpaid. 
Salsify or Vegetable Oyster 
CULTURAL DIRECTIONS. One ounce to 75 feet of drill; five or six pounds 
to the acre. Sow the seed early in the Spring in drills 
twelve inches apart and one inch deep. Thin to four or 
five inches apart. The roots will be ready for use in 
October, when a supply should be taken up and stored 
like carrots for Winter use. Like parsnips, they may be 
left in the ground all Winter and dug as soon as the 
ground is thawed. 
Rhubarb. 
Mammoth Sandwich Island f nE sp, ,“4i? lK“ k ‘ y 
white roots, very uniform, mild and delicious in flavor. 
A popular sort with the market gardeners. Oz., 15c; J4 
lb., 45c; 1 lb., $1.50, postpaid. 
Salsify. 
