Catalogue of Novelties. 
NEW EXTRA. EARLY PURPLE TOP MUNICH TURNIP. 
TURNIP. — New Extra Early Purple Top Munich. 
Awarded a Jirst-class Certificate by the Royal Horticultural Society of England. 
This is a remarkably handsome and very early turnip, with a bright purplish-red top and fine 
mouse-tail root. Very distinct and valuable. It has been grown during the past season in the 
garden of the Royal Horticultural Society, at ^Chiswick, where it was proved to be about three 
weeks earlier than any other variety sown on the same day side by side with it. Price, per pkt., 5c.; 
per ounce, 10c.; per lb., 6oc- 
ESSEX F.ARI.Y TTYBRTD TOMATO. 
TOMATO.—Essex Early Hybrid. 
It is a cross between the Essex Early Smooth Round and Lester’s Perfected Tomato, retaining 
the shape of the Essex but is a considerably larger tomato, and has the pink color of the Per¬ 
fected, making it one of the handsomest colored tomatoes grown. It is a number of days earlier 
than the Essex Early Smooth, and always ripening all over alike, leaving no green spots around 
the stem, as some other kinds of tomatoes do. The flesh being very hard and solid makes it one 
of the best tomatoes for shipping or marketing there is, as it will keep a considerable while after 
being ripe without rotting, which is a great benefit to those who follow the market. This tomato 
has been exhibited for the last four years at the Fair of the Essex County Agricultural Society, 
and has taken the first premium each year, in competition with the Acme and other varieties. It is 
very productive, and a vigorous grower, fruits very evenly on the vines, without any rough fruit, 
bearing hardly ever any fruit which is not fit for the market. Per pkt., 10c ; per ounce, 40c.; 
per pound, $4.00. 
