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Quality Seeds 
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Garden Roots 
Jerusalem or Artichoke Root 
400 to 500 pounds will plant an acre 
CULTURE—The Jerusalem Artichoke is distinct from 
the Globe. It produces tubers like potatoes, and is cut, 
planted and cultivated the same as they are. May remain 
in ground all winter, not affected by cold weather. It is 
a most excellent table vegetable for salads, or cooked and 
Jerusalem Artichoke 
served the same as new potatoes. They are grown more 
largely for hog feed. When once planted and started it 
will not be necessary to dig and re-seed them, for if 
given an opportunity the hogs will help themselves, 
always leaving enough roots in the ground to re-seed it 
the next year. Postpaid: lb., 25c; 2 lbs., 45c; 5 lbs., 90c: 
Not postpaid: 25 lbs., $1.25; 100 lbs., $4.00. 
Rhubarb or Pie Plant 
Rhubarb should be In every garden, as It affords the 
earliest sauces and pies In spring. Set roots out in spring 
or fall, in rows 4 feet apart, so the crowns are an inch 
below the surface. Do not pull stalks the first season. 
Plants set out in the spring will bear quite abundantly the 
following season. Fertilizing in the fall will be of great 
help to the next season’s crop. Dressings of nitrate of soda 
in spring also produce splendid results as with Asparagus. 
STRAWBERRY —Our Strawberry Rhubarb has won quite 
a name for itself among home gardeners. It is early, 
very juicy, tender, large-stalked and red all the way 
through. Never tough or stringy. Grow it anywhere in 
your garden, in a row along the fence, in corners; It 
will do well anywhere. Strong roots. Each 15c; 3 for 
35c; 12 for $1.00, Postpaid. 
Chives—Snittlauch 
Small hardy perennial plants, resembling the onion in 
appearance and growing in clusters. They are grown for 
the young leaves, which are produced from early in the 
spring throughout the summer. They give a mild onion 
flavor to sausages, salads and various dishes. Each 25c; 
Postpaid. 
Asparagus Roots 
Asparagus is the earliest of all vegetables ready for use 
In spring, and one of the most delicious. It is easily 
grown, and once a bed is established, tender, luscious 
asparagus may be cut each year, for a life-time. It is also 
a most profitable vegetable to grow for market. The soil 
should be deeply dug, and plenty of fertilizer mixed in, 
before the roots are set out. Set the roots in rows 2 % to 
3y 2 feet apart, 8 to 12 inches apart in the rows. "The 
plants should be set so that the crowns are 2 inches be¬ 
low the surface. 
GIANT ARGENTEUIL —Probably planted more than any 
other variety, both for commercial use and the home 
garden. A very early variety, producing large stalks of 
even, regular size, of excellent quality. Two Year Old 
Roots. Postpaid: 12 for 55c; 100 for $1.50; 1,000 for 
$9.50. 
WASHINGTON —A new rust-resisting variety of great 
promise that is being planted largely in this vicinity. 
The stalks are large, dark green, with a heavy purple 
over tone. The tips are tight and firm and do not open 
out until well out of the ground. Two Year Old Roots. 
Postpaid: 12 for 55c; 100 for $1.50; 1,000 for $9.50. 
Horse Radish 
As soon as the ground can be worked in the spring set 
the roots in rows 6 inches apart, and about 6 inches apart 
in the rows; very little cultivation is needed. Late in the 
fall pull as many roots as will be required for your win¬ 
ter use, cut off tops, store them in a barrel and flu with 
sand, place them in a cool cellar, grate as wanted. 
MALINER KREN —The variety we offer is distinct from 
the common horse radish, being of quicker growth, 
producing larger and heavier roots and with pure 
paper-white skin. Postpaid: 30c per doz.; $1.00 per 
100 . 
Mushroom Spawn 
American Pure Culture— 
This spawn is obtained by 
selecting spores from indi¬ 
vidual specimen mushrooms, 
and is propagated and trans¬ 
ferred to bricks of manure, 
which will produce mush¬ 
rooms true to type with ex¬ 
ceptional uniformity and reg¬ 
ularity. Bricks weigh about 
1 y 2 lbs.; a brick will spawn 
a bed 10 feet square. Pam¬ 
phlet on mushroom culture 
with every order. 
To grow mushrooms on the lawn, break up the brick of 
spawn into inch square pieces. Have ready some fresh 
horse manure, and place a trowel full under the sod at 
intervals about the lawn. Put a piece of spawn on the 
manure, and replace the sod. Do this in May. After the 
warm rains, the lawn will be full of mushrooms. Post¬ 
paid: Per brick, 40c; 10 bricks, $3.00. 
Sage 
A hardy perennial. One of the most extensively used 
herbs for seasoning. Cut the leaves and the tender shoots 
just as the plant is coming into flower and dry quickly 
in the shade. 25c each; Postpaid. 
Rainbow Flower Collections 
COLLECTION OF CHOICE ANNUALS 
This collection contains eighteen full size packets, one 
each of the following: _ . . 
Asters (mixed), Bachelor’s Buttons (mixed). Candy¬ 
tuft (mixed), Cosmos (mixed), Dianthus (mixed), Mari¬ 
gold (mixed), Mignonette (sweet), Nasturtium (mixed), 
Pansy (mixed), Petunia (mixed), Phlox (mixed). Poppies 
(mixed), Portulaca (mixed), Scabiosa (mixed), Sweet 
Alyssum, Antirrihinum (mixed), Sweet Peas (mixed), 
Zinnia (mixed). Value, $1.25; Postpaid, 75c. 
PERENNIAL FLOWER SEED COLLECTION 
This collection contains one 10c packet each of the fol- 
IO Aquilegi'a^'miixed), Campanula (mixed) , Coreopsis, 
Daisy (Shasta), Digitalis (Monstrosa), Pinks (Hardy 
Garden), Poppy (Oriental), and Sweet William. Value, 
80c; Postpaid, 50c. 
EVERLASTING FLOWER COLLECTION 
This collection contains one 10c packet each of beautiful 
EV Ac l rociri?ium OV 'iRo S be Amaranth. Helichrysum, Rhodanthe 
and Statice. Value, 50c; Postpaid, 35c. 
SPECIAL COLLECTION OF NOVELTY ZINNIAS 
This collection contains five full size packets, one each 
of the following: 
Scabiosa Flowered, New Crown O’Gold, Curled and 
Crested Fantasy, Double Striped or Zebra. Value, 65c; 
Postpaid, 50c. 
EXPOSITION COLLECTION 
This collection contains eight full size packets, one 
each of the following: 
Alyssum (mixed), Candytuft (mixed), Aster (mixed), 
Nasturtium (mixed), Pansy (mixed), Sweet Peas (mixed), 
Phlox (mixed), Zinnia (mixed). Value 65c; Postpaid, 50c. 
ANNUAL CUT FLOWER COLLECTION 
This collection contains five full size packets, one each 
of the following: 
Crego Aster (mixed), Larkspur (mixed), Snapdragon 
(mixed), Zinnia, Dahlia Flowered (mixed), Scabiosa 
(mixed). Value, 45c; Postpaid, 35c. 
