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DESIRABLE NOVELTIES, AND SPECIALTIES. 
ASPARAGUS. 
Have you an asparagus bed? If not, 
plant one this spring. No vegetable 
Is grown with greater ease and cer¬ 
tainty, and none fs better reilsbed. It 
Is the earliest and best tbe garden 
affords, and a bed well made will last a lifetime. 
Plant it now. “The Palmetto” Is a wonderful 
improvement on tbe old sorts, being 
earlier, much better, and will yield 
double. My seed is TRUE and VERY 
CHOICE. Plant a pound and sell 
plants to all your nabors at a big 
profit. vw See page 6. at 
FOTLER’S IMPROVED BRUNSWICK CABBAGE. 
This is tbe earliest and best of tbe large bard-bead¬ 
ing Drumheads, and combines in a wonderful degree 
all desirable requisites. The beads are very large, of¬ 
ten weighing 30 to 30 pounds each: very bard and 
firm; it will ripen in 85 days, and is a good keeper; 
quality very fine. No variety has more rapidlv grown 
in public favor than this. It is a sure header; My 
seed is grown from the original John Fottler’s strain 
and cannot be surpassed. Pkt. 5 cts. oz. 25 cts. # id. 
75 cents, per lb. $2.50 postpaid. 
CHRISTMAS WATERMELON. A valuable 
new and distinct variety which has attained great 
prominence on account of Its wonderful keeping and 
shipping qualities, it being not uncommon to have 
them in good condition two or three months after be¬ 
ing harvested. Hundreds of customers state they 
keep until Christmas in perfect condition. The flesh 
is of a beautiful rich scarlet, very solid, and of deli¬ 
cious sugary flavor. The vines are hardy and vigorous 
and very productive. Its uniform size and handsome, 
fresh appearance make it one of the most salable of 
watermelons. Price per pkt. 5 cts. 6 for 25 cts. 
SALSIFY, 
OR OYSTER PLANT. 
A vegetable that is sure to be 
called tor where it is once intro¬ 
duced. It is a good substitute for 
oysters, having a very similar fla¬ 
vor ;ic is very wholesome and nutri¬ 
tious. The roots are either boiled or 
mashed , and made into fritters, in 
which form they are delicious. For 
an oyster stew; cut the roots into 
smail pieces, cook until tender, tnen 
add the other ingredient s same as 
for oysters. The roots are perfectly 
hardy: may remain in the ground all 
winter. No garden should be with¬ 
out this splendid vegetable. Pkt 5c. 
Invest a small sum and have 
a beautiful Flower Garden. 
EARLY J ERSEY WAKEFIELD CABBAGE. 
This is preem¬ 
inently the best 
extra early cab¬ 
bage in the 
world. It is of 
large size for so 
early a kind, 
and is well de¬ 
serving its pop¬ 
ularity. It 
beads up re 
markably hard 
and solid: can 
be planted close 
and is very de¬ 
sirable for ear¬ 
ly market. 
Pkt. 5 cts. 
All of my cabbage seed is very chclce. being raised 
from the best hard heads carefully selected. 
Gardeners! plant them this year and you will agree 
with the verdict that “they are the best in the world.” 
All varieties of cabbage seed (except Short-Stem.) 
are 5 cts. per pkt. 25c. per oz. 4 ozs. 75 cts. lb. $2.50. 
Short-stem cabbage, oz. 35 cts. 4 ozs. $ 1 . 00 , lb $3.50. 
Hybridized Potato Seed. 
I have the pleasure of of¬ 
fering a very choice strain 
of Potato Seed—the product 
of numerous hybridizations 
between many of the best 
new and old varieties in 
cultivation. Growing new 
sorts from the seed-ball seed 
is a very interesting em- SFRn ...... 
ployment for old or young. SLED ILLS ’ 
There is i.ie widest range of difference in color, shape 
and generai characteristics between the different 
seedlings; every one is more or less unlike every 
other. Great success has already attended the at¬ 
tempt to improve this valuable esculent, and the end 
is not yet—many varieties will yet be found which 
will bring a golden harvest to the fortunate growers, 
and prove of inestimable value to the world. 
Price, 15 Cts. per Pkt. 2 for 25 cts. 5 for 50 cts. 
Directions for planting, cultivating etc. on each pkt. 
Jesse Green, Dayton, III. writes:—Out of 30 varie¬ 
ties raised from your seed, I selected the earliest and 
best, and planted them at same time, and in same 
field with Early Ohio, EarlyRose, and Beauty of He¬ 
bron. They have been rrom one to two weeks ahead 
of all these kinds, and are now (July 12th.) fully ripe, 
while the others are still green. They are very pro¬ 
ductive; and the best eating potato we have. I think 
I will have 200 bushels. 
Wm. M. Johnson, of Tampico, Ind. writes:—“The 
packet of Potato-Seed you sent me done well. 
Some look like the peach-blow, —some are a beauti¬ 
ful pale pink, large and long for a seedling the first 
year, they are a beauty. Some large white, purple 
eyes:—some round, pale red, 30 to 50 in a hill:—some 
pale blue:—some white, flat, and three inches or 
more long;—two hills of black potatoes, &c. &c. I nev¬ 
er saw so many different colors and shapes. If they 
grow in the same ratio another year, they will be the 
largest ever raised in this section.” 
POP CORN.—Cook’s Improved Egyptian. I have 
been improving this corn, for many years, and now 
offer a strain of seed that cannot be surpassed. 
Every one who keeps poultry, should raise a supply 
for feeding chickens, nothing can be better. I 
send out only EXTRA SELECTED seed. 
Pkt. 10 cts. 3 for 25 cts. quart, 60 cents. 
