CATALOGUE OF CHOICE GARDEN SEEDS 
Turnip 
White Egg Purple Top White Globe 
Culture. —For early use, sow as soon as the ground can be worked in spring, in drills 15 inches apart, 
and thin to 8 inches apart as soon as the plants are large enough to handle. For succession, sow at in¬ 
tervals of a fortnight until the last week of July, from which time until the end of August sowings 
may be made for main and late crops. The sowings should be made just before rain if possible a 
rapid growth being important. 
One ounce will sow 250 feet of drill; 1*A pounds will sow an acre 
Amber Globe. One of the best of the yellow 
fleshed, globe shaped turnips. 
Early Snowball. Exceedingly early, of medium 
size, round as a ball, with pure white skin and 
flesh. 
Early White Flat Dutch. A very early, flat, pure 
white turnip, of medium size and of fine quality. 
Extra Early Purple Top Milan. A summer tur¬ 
nip and the earliest of its class; bulbs of med¬ 
ium size, flat and white, with a bright purple 
top. 
Extra Early White Milan. Similar to Purple Top 
Milan, except the roots are a solid clear white. 
Long White Cow Horn. Used largely for stock 
feeding and breaking up clay soil; the long, 
round, white, carrot shaped roots are usually 
slightly crooked. 
Pomeranian White Globe. A large, white, globe 
shaped variety; for stock feeding. 
Purple Top Strap Leaved. The most widely cul¬ 
tivated and best known variety; the flat roots 
are white, with a purple top above ground. 
Purple Top White Globe. The most desirable of 
the turnip family, and grown more largely for 
market than any variety. Almost a perfect 
globe in form, with clear white skin and flesh 
and a purple top; very fine grained, sweet and 
tender. 
Rice’s Improved Golden Ball (Orange Jelly). An 
exceedingly fine yellow fleshed turnip, with 
small tops; roots medium in size, round and 
smooth. 
Shogoin or Japanese Foilage Turnip. A very 
popular variety for turnip greens, having an 
upright growth with clear white globe-shaped 
roots. Said to be less subject to insect pests 
than Seven Top. 
Seven Top. Grown exclusively for the tops, 
which are used for greens. 
White Egg. An excellent early, medium sized 
variety, especially adapted for the home gar¬ 
den. The roots are oval or egg-shaped, smooth 
and white, with small tops; flesh clear white, 
firm, fine grained and sweet. 
Yellow Aberdeen (Purple Top). A late, medium 
sized, long keeping variety; yellow with a 
purple top. 
Yellow Globe (Stone). A round, smooth, clear 
yellow variety, of medium size and good quality. 
Tobacco 
Culture. —Seeds maye be started in hotbeds, or sown in the open ground as soon as the ground can 
be worked, in rich, dry soil; rake off the bed, and sow broadcast, pressing down firmly and evenly, 
covering the seed very slightly; keep free from weeds, and water frequently if the weather is dry; 
set out the first of June, 3 feet apart, in land that has been heavily manured. 
One ounce will produce 5,000 plants; 2 ounces will plant one acre 
Connecticut Seed Leaf. A popular sort, used for cigar wrappers. 
Fine Havana. Finest strain of imported seed. 
Our Best Mixed Lawn Grass 
Four bushels of seed will sow one acre. One quart to one square rod of ground 
Makes a handsome lawn wherever sown. The foundation of a good lawn is, first, good seed. For 
that reason we prepare our own Lawn Grass Seed, and we know of what the mixture is composed. 
Our preparation of Lawn Grass contains Blue Grass, White Clover and other very choice and fine 
varieties, and is, we think, the very best preparation possible for our hot and dry summers, as we 
have long been making experiments to ascertain this fact. Our Mixture of Lawn Gass Seed is un¬ 
surpassed, either for lawns, parks, or grass-plots. It forms a thick, compact growth of short-growing 
varieties, following one another in succession, and can be highly recommended. 
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