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JAMES J. H. GREGORY’S SEED CIRCULAR AND RETAIL CATALOGUE. 
I grew a head last season (Marblehead Mammoth Cabbage) weigh¬ 
ing o5£ lbs., and took the premium at our County Fair.” 
Beaver Dam, Wis., March 16, 1870. R. Y. Bogert. 
u I received last year the seed of your Marblehead Mammoth Cabbage, 
and was much pleased with them. I raised one weighing 41 lbs.” 
Levanna , N. Y., Feb. 4, 1870.” Wm. R. Grinnell. 
“ I raise 10,000 to 20,000 Cabbages a year. 
tier's were No. 1 with me last year. Pixie i 
York side by side.” 
Hanford’s Landing, 1ST, Y., April 2, 1870. 
Your Little Pixie and Fot- 
ten days earlier than Early 
Hermon Glass. 
From one package of your Winnigstadt Cabbage last year I raised 
more good cabbages than for twenty years before of all other kinds. All 
your seeds were good and true." Jesse F. Bailey. 
, Washington, N. II., Feb . 12, 1870. 
Stone-Mason is the most excellent cabbage I have ever seen. 
The Schweinfurt Quintal is No. 1 for an early cabbage, being white, 
crisp and tender, and heads remarkably well.” . K. W. I^oyes. 
South Haven, Mich., April 24, 1870. 
“ Mr. H. J. Yan Pelt, of Mandarin Point, Florida, has been very suc¬ 
cessful in vegetable raising. Yesterday he deposited in our office a cab¬ 
bage which weighs 38 pounds. It is solid and perfectly formed, of the 
Marblehead Mammoth variety. The seed were sown in September last, 
transplanted in October on an area of three-fourths of an acre, fertilized 
with 500 pounds of Fish Guano, procured of Mr. J. "VY. Hawkins, of 
this city, composted with swamj) muck, and applied broadcast and in 
the hill. He commenced marketing the first of April and finished yes¬ 
terday. The cabbage have varied from 10 to 20 pounds in weight. Total 
receipts from three-fourths of an acre, over $400. The seed was pro¬ 
cured from Mr. Gregory, of Marblehead, Mass., who makes cabbage a 
specialty .”—Jacksonville [ Florida ] paper, May, 1873. 
“ I think it would be a difficult matter to find a finer lot of Cabbages 
than those I have growing from the Little Pixie, Cannon Ball and Win¬ 
nigstadt seeds obtained from you in the winter.” 
Walterboro, S. C., May 17, 1872. W. S. Harley. 
“The paper of your Mammoth Cabbage seed sent me last summer 
was duly received, and from them I raised the largest and finest cabbages 
that I have ever grown, in a trial of about 40 years.” 
Griffin, Ga., Feb . 24, 1871. J. S. Jones. 
I© 21 * My customers at the South will please observe 
the following: 
“ Your Stone Mason cannot be beat for early Spring. I have raised 
them to weigh 16 lbs. Our inhabitants never saw such large ones grow 
South before.” j. s. Stebbins. 
Biceboro, Ga., Aug. 8, 1874. 
From the Pensacola (Florida) Express, May, 1873. 
“ I send you to-day, a cabbage grown on pine land, weighing six¬ 
teen pounds, and that you may not think this has been grown only for 
exhibition, *1 would be happy to have you come out to my farm, and 
take a look at my “ crop,” where I can show you a great many vegeta¬ 
bles of just as fine quality. This cabbage was grown from seeds from J. 
J. H. Gregory, of Marblehead, Mass., which were sown in July last, and 
planted out in November, the ground thoroughly broken up and subsoiled.” 
“ I send enclosed a slip from the ‘ Galveston News,' showing the style 
of Cabbage your Mammoth produced this winter. The heaviest weighed 
20 lbs., which far exceeds anything raised here before.” 
Gloucester , Texas , Jan. 6, 1870. H. M. Stringfellow. 
“Your Marblehead Mammoth Cabbages are wonderful; they grow to 
the size of an umbrella.” Thomas Flanigan. 
Palermo, Kansas. 
“The Mammoth Cabbage was the largest and best I ever saw,—a 
great many came from miles around to see them. Both this and the 
Mammoth Sweet Corn proved first rate. I bought one paper of common 
drumhead cabbage seed at the store, and sowed this and your seed both 
the same day, set out the plants all one day, cultivated and hoed all 
alike, and the result was that every plant from your cabbage seed headed 
well, some so large you could hardly squeeze them into a bushel basket, 
while of others not more than one in ten ever headed at all, and what 
did were of very inferior quality. Jacob A. Schofield. 
Hancoclc,Mo. 
Season before the last I had the pleasure of introduc¬ 
ing to the public this choice, new tomato. This tomato 
will be found to excel in the most desirable characteris¬ 
tic, of having much of the fruit ripen at once, so that 
it is not only remarkably early in presenting ripe fruit 
before other varieties, but remarkable also, in excell¬ 
ing others Jfgpm earliness of ripening the great bulk 
of the crop. 
What the public have very generally found it, will 
be pretty conclusively shown from the testimonials that 
follow which I have extracted from letters of commenda¬ 
tion which my customers have sent me. The result of 
a third year’s test of its merits on a large scale, has 
been a thorough endorsement of the good qualities 
shown in former trials, when I found it the earliest of 
twenty fve varieties . The fruit was not only the earliest 
of all, but of large size, symmetrical and handsome, 
while in ripening it had no green left around the stem, a 
great fault with many kinds otherwise good. The fruit 
was heavy, full meated and rich, between round and oval 
in shape, and red in color • it was distributed very evenly 
on the vines. 
I offer headquarters seed this season by the package, 
ounce and pound. For seed of my own growing, saved 
from selected specimens—per package, 15 cents.; per 
ounce, $1.00 ; per lb,, $10. I have again had a special 
selection of seed stock made for me, from a crop grown 
in Canada, by the originator j a few bushels of the very 
earliest being selected for seed from a field of two acres, 
dhis seed is 25 cents per package, and $2.00 per ounce. 
Healers supplied at a discount. 
I invite attention to the very general stress made'in 
these extracts not only to the earliness but also to the 
line flavor of our new tomato. I first invite attention to 
a communication from the gentleman who originate the 
Canada Victor Tomato, Mr. S. H. Mitchell ‘ 
wXd e -l VICl ?Vomato now tor 8 years. It is a cross be 
tween Cook s Favorite and Large Red. I have taken special pains t< 
sa\ e no seed except from the earliest and very best shaped tomatoes 
this has made a decided imrovement upon it. With me, it is fullv i 
S iec l and I have tried nearly all kinds 
ihe Early York and Hubbards Curled are the earliest with me, butar< 
tally a week behind Victor. I have tried Orange Field, Maupay’f 
Superior, Cedar Hill, Key’s Prolific, Cook’s Favorite, Hathaway’. 
ly c( tY. 10 , r ’ aa , ■ 111 fact, every kind that I thought was likelv to succeed 
lhe Victor lomato is a very solid tomato, weighing 60 lbs. to the bushel 
plump weight. It is first class in point of flavor. Moreover it has the 
remarkable quality of keeping its flavor late in the season ; what ] 
mean is, that when ripened in cool, wet weather, it is of fair flavoi 
when other varieties are quite insipid, and almost or quite useless, 
1 ins, in part, is accounted for from the fact that it seldom cracks 
open like other tomatoes, but keeps sound. This is a very valuable fea 
ture to _ us here, where our seasons are short, and are troubled witt 
frosty nights, sometimes every month in the summer. If you wish tc 
