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J. J. BUTZER, PORTLAND, OREGON 
LIST OF 
SELECT STRAINS 
OF 
Notice in Reference 
to Varieties 
Modern varieties of 
vegetables are in a great 
many cases selections and 
highly improved strains of 
older and inferior types. 
These improved strains 
are stable to a certain de¬ 
gree only, and consider¬ 
able care is entailed, in the 
growing of high-grade 
seeds, to keep these types 
up to present standard 
and to improve on them. 
We would point out, 
therefore, that under conditions 
of soil and season not altogether 
favorable, varieties may vary 
from the descriptions in these 
pages, especially as regards ear- 
liness or lateness of season, type and keeping quality. 
The descriptions are intended to serve as a guide only, 
in the selection of sorts likely to prove most suitable for 
purposes required. 
ASPARAGUS 
No vegetable is more healthful or more palatable than the tender asparagus that appears on the table very 
early in the spring. 
Every home garden should have a bed about ten by twenty feet, planting about one hundred roots. This 
would furnish enough tips from day to day to supply the family table. 
Set the rows two feet apart instead of four as for field culture, and one foot apart in the row. 
Drill the seed thinly in rows fifteen inches apart during March or April. Thin out to two inches apart in 
order to have strong plants. 
Exercise great care in preparing a field because it will last many years. 
Transplant during February, setting the roots two feet apart, in furrows six feet apart. Carefully spread 
out to avoid matting. The furrows should be ten or twelve inches deep and run North and South in order to get 
the sun on both sides of the rows. Cover the roots about three inches and as the plant grows throw the soil 
toward the plant. Each year when the berries are red, cut the plants close to the ground and burn, then spray 
the entire field with sulphur, in order to destroy any germs of mildew, red spider or rust that may be there. 
Keep a mulch over the row with a harrow, but cultivate more deeply between the rows. Use stable manure 
liberally and hill up a little higher each year. Irrigate freely during the growing period. Three pounds of seed 
is sufficient to plant an acre. 
A year may be saved by buying the plants (one-year-old are greatly to be preferred) and setting them at 
least two feet apart in the row, and the rows not closer than four feet; see that the roots are well and evenly 
spread out in planting and that they are not exposed to the air longer than is absolutely necessary, as they 
deteriorate rapidly. 
Palmetto —This is the favorite and earliest variety 
grown in the South. Pkt. 5c; oz. 20c; r A lb. 35c; lb. 75c 
Pedigreed Washington —The tips are tight and firm 
and do not open out or begin to branch until well out 
of the ground, making the finest kind of green 
Asparagus both for home use and market. It is nearer 
to being rustproof than any other variety, and the 
large, luscious stalks will be greatly appreciated. 
Pkt. 5c; *4 oz. 10c; oz. 15c; % lb. 35c; lb. $1.00 
ARTICHOKE 
Artichoke, Ger.; Aritchaut, Fr.; Alcachofa, Sp. 
Large Green Globe —The well-known French vege¬ 
table; the undeveloped flower heads, when properly 
prepared, make a most delicious dish. Pkt. 10c; oz. 75c 
Prices of 
Asparagus Roots 
50 
100 
1000 
1-year 
roots. 
by mail, postpaid .. 
... $1.35 
$2.25 
1-year 
roots. 
by express . 
.... 1.00 
1.75 
$10.00 
2-year 
roots, 
by express . 
.... 1.25 
2.50 
15.00 
Asparagus Knife 
The best knife for cutting Asparagus. Ea. 50c, postpd. 
