NOVELTIES AND SPECIALTIES 
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A VALUABLE NEW CABBAGE 
JOHNSON’S EVER=READY 
See colored illustration from nature on back of this book 
Distributed by Johnson Seed Company last year as Nameless 
Seed now offered for sale for the first time 
I>ast season we were fortunate enough to secure from one of the largest cabbage seed growers 
of bong Island a small supply of seed of a new 
cabbage successfully grown by him for several 
years, but to which he had never given a name. 
We did not place it on sale, but sent out sample 
packages for trial, offering $100.00 in cash prizes for 
the best name suggested. These names were sub¬ 
mitted to a committee, who decided that JOHN¬ 
SON’S EVER-READ Y was the best name sent in, 
with ten other names as the next best. Checks 
aggregating $100 have been sent as follows: 
FIFTY DOLLARS FOR THE BEST NAME TO 
Joseph H. Parkin', Wood’s Cross, Utah. 
Frank Cox, Springdale, W. Ya. 
J. E. Swart wood, Sciota, Pa. 
FIVE DOLLARS EACH FOR THE TEN NEXT 
BEST TO 
J. W. Humphreys, Chadd's Ford, Pa. 
Warron H. Johnson, Cedarville, N. J. 
Henry Grosanor, Fort Wayne, Indiana. 
A. J. Barton, Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. 
Hon. Thos. M. Ferrell, Glassboro, N. J. 
G. P. Baldwin, Cimarron, New Mexico. 
F. M. Bates, Fairhaven, Mass. 
W. B. Ellis, Vineland, N. J. 
Enoch Babr, Herbst, Indiana. 
Thomas E. Robertson, Lakewood, New Jersey. 
We unhesitatingly pronounce this to be one of the handsomest, hardest heading and most uni¬ 
form of all cabbages. In a field of 4 acres, not a single plant showed the slightest variation from 
its true and valuable type, every one forming a large, solid, whitehead, weighing from Hi to 18 lbs. 
each and of the finest quality. 
Mr. Joseph II. Parkin, a prominent market gardener of Wood’s Cross, Utah, in a letter addressed 
NEW CABBAGE, “JOHNSON’S EVER-HEADY. ; 
Pkt., 20c.; oz., 60c.; Vi lb., 81.75. 
is ready for the table any time after it is as large as a door-knob, and to the man selling by weight it has the advantage 
in being so solid. It is a worm-resister, but two heads showing any sign of worms, while every head of 
another variety,only two feet away, was badly eaten.” Price :'Pkt., 20c.; oz., 60c.; 1-4 lb., $1 
•75- 
A Few Extracts from Hundreds of Letters Received 
GAINED FIRST PRIZE 
J. W. Humphreys, Chadds Ford, Pa., September?. 1907, 
writes: “At our State Fair this week I put on exhibition 
three heads of your new cabbage. Johnson’s Ever Ready. 
I got first prize for them ; also receiving a special premium for 
same." 
COULD HAVE HANDLED A CARLOAD 
W.m. T. Merrii,, Rising Sun, Md., August 25, 1907, writes; 
*' From a small picket of your new cabbage seed, Johnson’s 
Ever-Read.v, I raised 50 large beads, the largest weighed 20 
ll«., the smallest 11 lbs. 8 ozs. Sold all of them : could have 
handled a carload.” 
A THRIFTY GROWER 
S. R. Livingston, Worthington, Ind., August 24, 1907, 
writes : “lam delighted with your new Cabbage, Johnson's 
Ever-Ready. It is a thrifty grower, making fine large heads, 
weighing from 5 to 15 lbs. each. I have two single plants 
that measure four feet eight inches each from tip to tip." 
EVERY PLANT HEADED 
Miss Elsie Smith, Anna. Ills., August 14, 1907. writes : 
• Every plant of Johnson’s Ever-Ready Cabbage, trans¬ 
planted, headed, producing fine heads, giants in size." 
FINEST IN QUALITY 
Ron’T E. Owens, Hanover, Md.. August 7, 1907, writes : 
• 1 planted this new cabbage, Johnson’s Ever-Ready, on 
medium soil, and find it the greatest grower and finest in 
quality of any I ever raised." 
HANDSOME HEADS 
.1. W. Hamlin, Hillsdale, Mich., August20, 1907, writes: 
• I set out 400 plants of your new cabbage, Johnson’s Ever- 
Ready,and have 391 of the handsomest heads you ever saw.' 
NONE BETTER 
H. J. Sumers, Zanesville, Ohio, August 15, 1907, writes : 
“ 1 have been gardening for over 30 years, and have never 
had as good an all-around cabbage as Johnson’s Ever- 
Ready and I have tiought seeds from all the principal seed- 
men in the United States.” 
WONDER OF ALL 
O. E. Morton, Beltsville, Md., August 19, 1907, writes : 
” lour new cabbage, Johnson's Ever-Ready, is tiie finest 
w e have ever grown: it is the wonder of all our friends; such 
large, showy, solid heads surprise every one." 
STANDS THE DROUGHT 
W. A. Burgess, Pawling, N. Y.. August 19, 1907. writes: 
“ Your new cabbage, Johnson's Ever-Ready, is standing 
the drought better than any cabbage I have oil the place.’ 
JUST THE CAHBAGK 
G. W. Potts, Stokes. Tenn., June 4, 1907, writes: “Your 
new cabbage, Johnson's Ever lieadv, is just the cabbage 
for general crop." 
