Qatalo^ue of tl?e Joseph Harris $<wd Qompapy, 
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Stone Mason — A valuable winter variety, earlier 
than the Premium Plat Dutch, and sure to head. Per 
lb., $2.40; 34 lb., 70 cents; oz., 25 cents; packet, 5 cents. 
Drumhead Savoy— A very superior and delicious 
Cabbage. Per lb., $1.65; 34 lb., 45 cents; oz., 15 cents; 
packet, 5 cents. 
HARRIS’ SHORT STEM DRUMHEAD — 
We improve this Cabbage every year, by carefully select¬ 
ing the best heads for seed. All our seed this year is of 
our own growth and we can confidently recommend it 
We believe it to be the best Cabbage in the world. 
See Specialties. Page 8. Per lb., $2.80; 34 lb., 75 cents; 
oz., 25 cents; packet, 5 cents. 
EXCED5IOR LARGE FUAT DUTCH— (Fig.12) 
-A very fine strain of Flat Dutch Cabbage. Large heads* 
short stems. Per lb., $2.90; 34 lb., 80 cents; oz.,25 cents 
packet, 5 cents. 
Fig. 12 Excelsior Large Flat Dutch. 
Gollards. 
Fr. Chou. Ger. Blatter- 
Kohl. 
Collards, or Cole- 
worts, are extensively 
grown in the Southern 
States. Cultivation the 
same as Cabbage. 
Collards, or Cole- 
worts— Per lb., $1.15; 
34 lb., 35 cents; oz., 12 
cents; packet, 5 cents. 
GahlifloWers. 
Fr. Choufleur. Ger. Blumen-Kohl. 
In growing Cauliflowers, as we remarked last year, there 
are many failures or partial failures, and few successes. 
Poor Cauliflower seed is very common ; really good Cauli¬ 
flower seed is very scarce and high. American seedsmen 
get nine-tenths of their Cauliflower seed from Europe. 
The wholesale price of “ 1st quality ” seed is more than five 
times as much as the “ 2nd quality ” seed of the same vari¬ 
ety, and some varieties cost more than twenty times as 
much as other varieties. 
These facts ought to be known. Market gardeners some¬ 
times get $1,000 per acre for one lot of Cauliflowers, and 
for a lot alongside not $50 per acre—the only difference 
being the seed. The seed for the one acre probably cost 
the seedsman $1.50, and the other 10 cents ! The market 
gardener perhaps paid $2.00 for the one and $1.00 for the 
other. He saved one dollar on the seed and lost nine hun¬ 
dred and fifty dollars on the crop! 
Our Experiment Stations are doing something towards 
correcting this evil, but gardeners should help by refusing 
to buy cheap Cauliflower seed. Let it be understood that 
while high priced seed is not necessarily good, cheap seed 
always has been, and always must be now, henceforth and 
forever, necessarily poor. 
Cauliflowers for Forcing should be sown from the 
middle of February to the first of March. For this purpose 
the best variety in our experience is the Erfurt Earliest 
Dwarf, and the next best is the genuine Henderson 
Early Snowball. In fact there is comparatively little dif¬ 
ference between them. 
For Autumn Use sow in a well prepared bed as soon as- 
the frost is out of the ground and from that on to the first 
of May. We occasionally have a season when we can get 
good Cauliflowers late in the autumn from seed sown as 
late as the first of June, especially of the eaily varieties. 
The better way is to sow and set out at different times and 
run the chances. We had a magnificent lot of Erfurt 
Earliest Dwarf and Henderson’s Early Snowball last fall, 
from seed sown the last of June. 
The three best and surest varieties are the Erfurt Earli¬ 
est Dwarf, the Early Snowball and Erfurt Early Dwarf. 
The seed of these varieties is costly, but the extra price is 
nothing as compared with the increased value of the crop. 
Erfurt Early Dwarf Cauliflower. 
34 oz., $1.40; K oz., 75 cents; packet, 15 cents. 
ERFURT 
EARU Y 
DWA R F 
— Called in 
many cata¬ 
logues “Ear¬ 
liest Dw’rf.” 
One of the 
earliest and 
very best 
Cauliflow¬ 
ers. Exeel- 
lent for 
main crop 
in the sum¬ 
mer and au¬ 
tumn. Per 
oz., $2.50 
Large Lenormand, Short Stem. 
Uarge Lenormand, Short Stem. Oneof the largest 
and best of all the Cauliflowers. A strong, vigorous grower, 
short stem. Withstands drouth better than any other 
sort. Per 34 lb., $3.00; oz., 90 cents; packet 10 cents. 
