Our Vegetable Department embraces almost every article of value known. We have 
excluded everything our experience has proved unworthy of culture, as also some untried and 
not very promising kinds. As fast as new Vegetables establish their good character we add 
them to our list, but exercise our usual caution in introducing new candidates for public favor, 
submitting all to thorough trials on our grounds. Much of our Vegetable seed, and the most 
important, are grown upon our seed farms ; other kinds we obtain of the most reliable and respon¬ 
sible growers of England, France, Germany, and other countries, and we have no hesitation in 
saying that altogether our Vegetable seeds are not excelled, if equaled, by any collection in the 
world. Everything is tested before being packed, so that we know all will grow if treated well. 
ARTICHOKE. 
The Jerusalem Artichoke is a wonderfully hardy and 
productive plant, yielding roots in immense quantities 
They are like potatoes in appearance, and if we had no 
potatoes would not 
make a bad substi¬ 
tute. It is good for all 
stock and is not bad 
for the table. Plant 
the tubers like pota¬ 
toes, and enough is 
usually left to seed the 
ground for the next 
crop. 
There is another 
Artichoke , very little 
grown in America, 
the Globe Artichoke. 
The portion used is the flower-head in an undeveloped 
Slate. See last engraving. 
f Artichoke, Jerusalem, per bushel, $4.00; per 
peck, $1.50, by freight or express, charges not 
prepaid ; per quart, by mail or express, prepaid, 50 
Globe, true, seed ; per lb., $3.75 ; per oz., 35 < 5 ls. ; 
per packet,. 15, 
ASPARAGUS. 
To grow Asparagus plants from seed, sow in drills, 
about one inch deep, and the rows wide enough apart 
to admit of hoeing—about a foot. An ounce of seed is 
sufficient for a drill thirty feet in length. Keep the 
soil mellow and free from weeds during the summer, and 
in the fall or succeeding spring the plants may be set 
out in beds, about a foot apart each way. The beds 
should be narrow, so as to permit of cutting to the center 
without stepping upon them. The plants may remain 
in the seed-bed until two years old, if desired. Before 
winter, cover the transplanted beds with about four 
inches of manure. Salt is an excellent manure for As¬ 
paragus. Sow a little on the surface in the spring, and 
it will keep down the weeds. By purchasing plants a 
year at least of time is saved. The young tops may be 
cut for the table the second summer, but not very freely 
until the third. Cut when six inches in height, a little 
below the surface. 
Asparagus, Conover’s Colossal, large, and of 
rapid growth ; per lb. 75 cents ; per oz. 10 cents 5 
Roots—1 year, by mail, per 100, prepaid, . . .$1.50 
2 years, by mail, per 100, prepaid, . . . 3.50 
2 years, by express, per 100, not paid, . 1.50 
