JAMES J. H. GREGORY'S SEED CIRCULAR AND RETAIL CATALOGUE. 
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pounds each. This law, in effect, brings my seed establishment 
to every man's door. 
Payment foe Seed. All sums to the amount of one 
dollar or upwards can be more safely sent in Cashier’s Checks 
on New York or Boston, Drafts, Money Orders on Marblehead 
or in Registered Letters. Money Orders, when of the value 
of one dollar and upwards, may be purchased at my expense, 
the cost being deducted from the amount remitted. If money 
orders are not for sale at your office they can oftentimes be 
procured at a neighboring town. Cash must accompany* all 
orders. Let me advise my friends before ordering their seed 
sent by Express to figure carefully and see if it would not be 
much cheaper for them (as is almost invariably the case with 
small parcels) to have them sent by mail. 
I would advise my customers not to order their seed by 
Express to be sent C. O. D.; though should they do so I shall 
of course send as directed. If the order is sent through the 
express, as Express Companies give receipts for all money, 
there can be no risk in sending the money before the seed is 
received, and as I have to add the cost of collection and return 
charges to the cost of the seed to make myself whole, my 
customers will see at a glance that the transaction is highly 
unprofitable. I make no charge for postage on packages or 
ounces ; I do not pay Express charges , but I will make no 
charge for boxes used in packing. 
Large Orders from Granges of Husbandry, Clubs, Mar- 
ket Gardeners, Inviduals and Dealers. 
Eive per cent, discount on all orders allowed for seed to the 
amount of five dollars and upwards, excepting Onion seed, for 
discount on which see page 27, whether the order be for pack¬ 
ages, ounces, pounds or quarts, either separately or combined; 
eight per cent, when the amount ordered is as high as ten dollars 
and under twenty-five ; ten per cent, when twenty-five and 
under forty dollars ; and twelve and a half on orders to the 
amount of forty dollars and upwards. Terms to Dealers, Clubs 
and Granges of Husbandry on application. I do not send out 
seed to be sold on commission. 
CABBAGES. 
For full particulars on Cabbage growing, see my Treatise, advertised in this Catalogue. 
Nine tenths of the Cabbage seed raised in the United States is grown from heads that are so small or 
soft that they would be worthless if carried to market. My seed is grown from the largest and hardest of 
heads, both larger and harder than the great bulk of those which are sold in the market for table use. For 
several years I have devoted the first three or four pages of my catalogue to quite a detailed presentation of 
the standard varieties of Cabbage and Squash. I do this because, having been the original introducer of sev¬ 
eral of these, varieties* the public naturally look to me for the fullest explanation and description of them, and 
I therefore present these pages for the information of the thousands of new customers who come for the first 
time each season, rather than for the perusal of old friends, who from personal experience of years know all 
about their merits. 
MAYIv/I ST^DTEEIS AX> MAMMOTH. 
Maeblehead Mammoth. This is without doubt the 
largest variety of the Cabbage family in the world, being 
the result of extreme high culture. I have had heads, 
when stripped of all waste leaves, that could not be got into 
a two-bushel basket, having a diameter two inches greater! 
The weight of these cabbages is proportional to their size, av¬ 
eraging by the acre , under the culture of our Marblehead far¬ 
mers,, about thirty pounds a plant. In a former circular I 
quoted from persons residing in fourteen States and Terri¬ 
tories, and also in the Canadas, East and West, expressing 
their great satisfaction with the Stone-Mason and the Marble¬ 
head Mammoth Cabbages, in their great reliability for head¬ 
ing, the size, sweetness and tenderness of the heads. . They 
had succeeded in growing the Mammoth to the weight of 
thirty and forty pounds, and in some instances over fifty 
pounds ! 
This Cabbage will make larger heads in the West Indies 
and in the extreme South, than any other kind! I have sup¬ 
plied seed to one planter in the W. I. for several years. He says 
the heads are three or four times as large as he can get from 
any other kind. Yet I would not have my Southern friends 
suppose from this that they will succeed in growing them to 
the extreme large size attained in the North, where the colder 
climate is more favorable for Cabbage culture. What I assert 
is, that large market gardeners in New Orleans and elsewhere, 
who have raised them for market on a large scale for several 
years, inform me that with them they grow to much larger 
size than any other variety of Cabbage. 
Stone-Mason Cabbage. This 
Cabbage is the standard drumhead 
in New England, being distin¬ 
guished for its reliability for head¬ 
ing, the size, hardness and quality 
of the heads. Under proper culti¬ 
vation nearly every plant on an 
acre will make a marketable head. 
The heads vary in weight from 
nine to over twenty pounds, de¬ 
pending on the soil and cultiva¬ 
tion. In earliness the Stone-Mason 
is upward of a week ahead of the 
STONE IVI^XSON' Premium Elat Dutch and makes 
a harder head. 
FOTTLER’S EARLY DRUMHEAD. 
After an extensive trial on a large scale by market farmers, 
in all parts of the United States, Fottler’s Cabbage has grown 
in estimation, particularly in the great Cabbage districts of 
Long Island and in the vicinity of Albany, N. Y. My stock 
seed came directly from Messrs. Copeland and Eottler, the two 
gardeners who were the first to raise the Cabbage. I send 
this out in 15 cent packages also at 70 cts. per ounce, $7 per II 
