Novelties and Specialties in Vegetables 
This is an age of progress in gardening as well 
as in other professions. There is an increasing 
demand for better vegetables and flowers. 
The successful gardener, before ordering his 
supply of seeds, makes a careful study of one or 
more reliable seed catalogues. Me has probably 
learned that there are two classes of seedsmen. 
One class offer each year, in bewildering num¬ 
bers, novelties from the four quarters of the globe, 
which they claim are destined to eclipse all similar 
varieties heretofore known. Such catalogues the 
gardener must regard humorously if he considers 
them at all. 
There is another class of seedsmen who are 
constantly on the lookout for something of value. 
New varieties of proven and distinct merit are 
promptly included in their lists, after thorough trials, 
such as made by us each season on our trial grounds. 
SECTION OF OUR TRIAL GROUNDS. TESTING NOVELTIES. 
NEW ASPARAGUS 
STARKEY’S MAMMOTH PROLIFIC 
Originated and selected by one of Phila¬ 
delphia’s most successful market gardeners, 
who, for a few years past, has sent the largest 
and handsomest Asparagus to this market, 
realizing very high prices. Stalks are very 
large, tender, succulent and distinct bright 
green in color. Stalks measure to 2 inches 
in diameter and have been known to weigh 
X lb. each. Mr. Starkey is a high cultivator 
and is usually one of the first in the market. 
Seed, pkt., 10c.; oz., 20c.; ]4 lb., 50c.; lb., 
$1.75. Roots, 1 year old, by mail, postpaid, 
per too, $1.75; by express, $1.25 per 100; 
$6.50 per 1000; 2 years old, per 100, $1.50; 
500 for $5.00; per 1000, $8.00. 
WITHAM FIREBALL 
THE EARLIEST KNOWN BEET 
This is a new and distinct extra early 
turnip-beet from an expert English grower, 
seed of which was first offered last season. 
The flesh is solid, crisp and sweet, brilliant 
fiery red, much more intense than Eclipse. 
In form it is a perfect globe with smooth skin, 
a tiny tap root and very slender leaf stalks. 
It is specially adapted for forcing, but can be 
sown with equal success in the open ground. 
Price, pkt., 10c.; oz., 20c.; X lb., 50c.; lb., 
$i-75- 
NEW BEAN 
JOHNSON’S GREEN POD STRINGLESS 
POLE 
After two years’ trial we take pleasure in 
offering and recommending this new Green 
Podded Stringless as the very best pole bean 
in cultivation. The writer named and in¬ 
troduced the Lazy Wife’s and Andalusia Pole 
Beans some years ago, but this new one beats 
them all, being much earlier and covering a 
longer season of productiveness. Pods in 
clusters, 7 to 9 inches in length, dark green and 
very meaty. Seed pearly white. Pkt., 15c.; 
2 pkts., 25c.; pint, 35c., postpaid; by ex¬ 
press, qt., 50c.; 4 qts., $1.75 (supply limited). 
Photograph of an 
average pod of 
JOHNSON’S NEW 
GREEN POD STRING¬ 
LESS POLE BEAN 
STARKEY’S MAMMOTH PROLIFIC ASPARAGUS. 
