Pea Chieftain Muskmelons Pepper Woodruff's Colossal 
CUCUMBER, Early White Spine. Best early, the 
small fruits can also be used for pickles, the 
older ones are fine for slicing. Sets. 1-2 oz. 10c. 
Woodruff's Hybrid. Best for a full crop; blight free, 
the fruits are large, come early, and are abundantly 
produced. Sets. 1-2 oz. 10 cts. 
Improved Long Green or London. This is known in 
some localities as mustard cucumber. It is of the 
black spine type, long and slightly warted. A fine 
second early or main crop sort. S c., 1-2 oz. 10 c. 
Jersey Pickling. Best for pickles, cut the fruits reg¬ 
ularly and a few plants will give you an immense 
crop. The finest most productive Cucumber for 
pickling. Sets. 1-2 oz. 10 cts. 
EGG PLANT, Black Beauty. Earliest, very large, ele¬ 
gant dark purple; the finest sort. Sc. § oz. 20 c. 
ENDIVE, Large Green Curled. A fine salad used 
with Mayonnaise Dressing. Stimulates digestion 
and is beneficial in liver and kidney troubles. Can 
be boiled or used raw. Sets., oz. Sets. 
KOHL RABI, Early V/hite Vienna. Prolific. A vege¬ 
table between a turnip and a cabbage. When boil¬ 
ed and seasoned makes a fine dish. 
LEEK, American Flag. A kind of onion, considered 
superior in flavor to onion and used accordingly. 
Sow in rows and hill up the soil to blanch the tops 
Sets. 2 OZ. IS cents. 
LETTUCE, Hot Weather. Best all-round sort for 
spring, summer, fall, winter; heads big, blanch¬ 
ed, buttery, finest flavor, tender, sweet, luscious; 
no sun too hot, no cold too severe for it; sure crop. 
Sets. 3 OZ. Sets., oz. IS cts. 
Curled Simpson. Earliest, finest leaf-lettuce, oz 10 
Select Big Boston. Sure heading, solid. Sc. |oz. 8 c. 
New York. Huge heads, tender, sweet. Sc.ioz. 8 c. 
Iceburg. Large, late, solid, tender. Sc. oz. 10, ilb 30 
Romaine Cos. Self-closing, blanched. Sets. oz. 10c 
Above kinds in fine special mixture. Scf2. oz. 10. 
MUSKMELONS. The five best. Packet Sc., oz. IS c. 
Bender's Surprise. Slightly oval in shape, distinctly 
ribbed, skin light greenish yellow when ripe, and 
coarsely netted. Excellent flavor, sweet, with 
thick salmon flesh. 
Delicious. A recent introduction, best described as 
an early Bender, though slightly smaller. 
Hale's Boat. One of the most popular of the shipping 
varieties, and one of the earliest of the Rocky Ford 
type. The flesh is thick, sv/eet, salmon colored. O- 
val in shape, heavily netted and distinctly ribbed. 
Orange Flesh. An unexcelled shipping variety,rich 
orange color right to the skin. Flavor and sweet¬ 
ness unsurpasse^d, and a very small seed cavity 
Sugar Rock. Medium sized, nearly round melon of 
fine flavor and great sweetness. The flesh is a deep 
salmon color, the skin gray-green, coarsely netted. 
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MUSTARD, Giant Curled. A plant with beautiful 
large fern-like leaves, pungent and a favorite to 
use as a salad, or boiled and served like spinach. 
The seeds are also used for flavoring. 5c., oz. 8 cts- 
OKRA Perkin's Mammoth, 3 ft. Pods 4 in. long, 
very tender, deep green. Oz. 5 cents. 
White Velvet, 4 ft. Vigorous, bearing and abun¬ 
dance of smooth very tender silvery pods. Oz. 5 c. 
ONION, Denver's Yellow Globe. Large, early, 
sweet, sure crop first season; keeps well;the best 
commercial onion. 5 cts., oz. 20 cts. 
Australian Brown. Early, mild, productive. 5c,oz 20 
Ailsa Craig. Largest of onions, mild, sweet, grows 
quickly from seed; keeps well. 5c., i oz. 10 cts. 
White Portugal. Medium, best for pickles, 5c,| oz. 8 c 
Weathersfield Large Red. Sure-crop. 5c., oz. 15 c. 
Southport White Globe. Early, mild, firm. 5c,oz. 15c 
PARSLEY, Parterre Beauty. A beautiful plant for 
garnishing or to use as a table plant. A few sprays 
in soups add a delicious flavor. Sets., 1 oz. lOcts. 
PARSNIP, Large Sugar. A delicious hardy vegeta¬ 
ble; sow in rows in spring or summer, cultivate 
and let them remain in the ground. Lift the roots 
in winter or spring when wanted for use. They are 
fine to boil with potatoes or carrots or parboil 
and fry. Productive. 5 cts., oz. 8 cts. 
PEA, Extra Early Alaska. Hardy, earliest pea; sow in 
Fall or early Spring; productive, long-bearing,fine, 
comes in 50 days, 2oz.,5c sib. 15c. 
Model Extra Early, 15in. Masses of pods of 8 to 10 
wrinkled Peas, sweet, delicious; several crops, no 
stakes needed, 2oz., about 225 peas, 5c., ilb 15c. 
Laxtonian, 18in. Medium early, productive, lus¬ 
cious, 2oz., about 225 peas, 5c., ^Ib. 15c. 
Chieftian, 2ft. Best wrinkled Pea, best in quantity 
and quality, a wealth of huge sugary Peas, 10 to a 
pod; follows Laxtonian; the best pea for the table, 
or market, 2 oz., about 225 peas 5c. §lb. 15cts. 
Other Peas: Alderman, Blue Bantam, Woodruff's 
New Telephone, Little Marvel, Potlatch, White 
Marrowfat, Giant Melting Sugar, 2oz., 5c. lib. 15c. 
PEPPER, Harris Early Giant. Best sweet pepper, 2 
weeks earlier, very productive. 5c. 4 OZ. lOcts. 
Woodruff's Colossal. A pepper of the Ruby King 
typ©/ kut superior to that variety. The fruit is 
large, rather long and thick-meated. 5 cts. 
California Wonder. A blocky,almost square pepper 
which has unusually thick flesh, very produtive. 5 
World Beater. A fine variety combining earliness 
with good size and thick flesh. Extensively grown 
in the south for shipping. 5 cts. 
Cayenne, Long Red. Fruits 5 in. in length, point¬ 
ed; bright red and very hot. 5 cts. 
Red Chili. Bears a profusion of small, pointed, 
very hot peppers, used in pepper sauce. 5 cts. 
