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VEGETABLE SEED SPECIALTIES 
LONG WHITE FRENCH SALSIFY 
HENDERSONS THICK-LEAVEJ) SPINACH 
BOSTON MARROW SQUASH 
SWISS CHARD 
COMPLETE 
LIST OF 
Vegetable Seeds 
PRICES 
Delivered free in the U. S. 
(excepti?ig otherwise noted.) 
SALSIFY, or OYSTER PLANT. (/ oz. to 75 feet of drill.) 
Long White French. A most nutritious and delicious winter vegetable. Dig i 
November and store the roots in sand or earth for winter use. {See cut.). 
Mammoth Sandwich Island. {See Specialties, page 60.) . 
SCORZONERA, or BLACK OYSTER PLANT. 
The skin is black, flesh white; properly cooked it is most delicious. 
SEA KALE. 
The blanched leaf stalks are eaten boiled as Asparagus, having a fine, agreeable 
flavor. From seed they will be fit to cut the third year, continuing to bear 
for 8 or 10 years. The roots may be forced in a warm cellar for a winter supply 
SORREL. Broad-Leaved French. The best of the Garden Sorrels; large, pale 
green leaves of mild, acid flavor; esteemed as salad, cooked as "greens,” etc 
SPINACH. {1 oz.for 100 feet of drill; 10 to IS lbs. in drills for an acre.) 
{Varieties prefixed * maybe sown in the fall in latitude of New York for 
spring crop.) 
♦Hardy Winter, Henderson’s. A superior Spinach, either sown in spring for 
early summer use or fall sown for winter use, being very slow to run to 
seed and very hardy; plant compact-growing, with short-stemmed, thick 
and rich green fleshy leaves. 
Long Season, Henderson’s. {See Specialties, page 50.) . 
Long-Standing. An excellent, compact variety; thick, fleshy, dark green 
leaves; grows slowly but remains a long time fit to use before going to seed. 
New Zealand. Grows a 3 foot bush, from which leaves and shoots may be 
picked all summer. Easily grown, and yields abundant greens. May be sown 
under glass in March, and transplanted after frost. Soak seed in tepid water 
Norfolk, Savoy-Leaved. The best for early spring or fall 
Round-Leaved or Dutch. {See Specialties, page 50.) . 
♦Thick-Leaved, Henderson’s. Produces large, thick, crumpled leaves of fine 
quality; very slow in running to seed. {.See cut.) 
Victoria. Stands in prime condition long after other varieties have bolted to 
seed, rendering it especially valuable for spring sowing and summer use. 
♦Viroflay, Large Round-Leaved. A large, very hardy variety. 
SQUASH. SUMMER VARIETIES. {Bush varieties, 1 oz.for 60 hills; 5 to 0 lbs 
per acre. Running varieties, ,7 to 4 lbs. in hills per acre.) 
Golden Custard, Henderson’s. A very large golden, scalloped bush Squash 
often 1 foot in diameter; wonderfully productive and of extra quality 
Long Island White Bush. {See Specialties, page 50.) . 
Mammoth Bush Summer Crookneck. {See Specialties, page 50.) . 
Vegetable Marrow Bush. A favorite English variety, bearing freely oblong, dull 
yellow fruits 10 to l.S inches in length; flesh, tender, marrowy and delicious. 
Should be used before fully grown 
White Bush Scalloped. The white "Patty Pan” or "Cymling”; creamy-white 
skin; fine quality, free cropper. . 
Yellow Bush Summer Crookneck. A bush variety, early and prolific; sur¬ 
face deep yellow, densely warted; quality and flavor good. 
AUTUMN AND WINTER VARIETIES. 
Boston Marrow. A popular second-early Squash for autumn use; skin thin, 
reddish-yellow; flesh dry, fine-grained and delicious, cut.) 
Delicata, Henderson's. {See Specialties, page 51.) . 
Delicious. Resembles Hubbard; it excels in flavor. 
Early Prolific Marrow. A very popular second-early Squash for autumn and 
early winter use 
Essex Hybrid. One of the best for fall and winter use; a good keeper, of good 
size, bright orange; flesh thick, dry and most delicious 
Golden Hubbard. Similar to the old Hubbard excepting the skin is of a rich 
orange-red and heavily warted; flesh of extra fine quality 
Heart o’ Gold, Henderson’s. {See Specialties, page 51.) . 
Hubbard. {See Specialties, page 61.) . 
Large Warted Hubbard. {See Specialties, page 61.) . 
Mammoth Chili. The largest of all Squashes, often weighing 200 lbs. or over; 
flesh rich and fine flavored . 
SWISS CHARD. {See Specialties, page 16.) {See cut.) . 
Crumpled-Leaved. {See Specialties, page 16.) . 
TOMATO. {1 oz. for 1,500 plants; }i lb. for an acre.) (for pl.\nts, see p.-vge 182 .) 
Acme. An old. well-known, early variety, medium in size, smooth, solid and 
prolific; color, purplish-pink . 
Beauty. Early, prolific; medium-sized, smooth and solid; color, purplish-red; 
fruits until late in the season . 
Chalk s Early Jewel. One of the best early varieties; about a week later than 
Earliana. The fruit of Jewel, however, averages larger, is uniform, smooth 
solid, of fine quality, and brilliant scarlet; a heavy cropper . 
Crimson Cushion, Henderson’s. {See Specialties, page 65.) -. . 
Dwarf Champion. Of dwarf, stiff, upright growth, scarcely needing support; 
early and prolific, smooth, medium-sized fruits of red-purple color . 
Earliana. {Sec Specialties, page 55.) . 
Freedom. {See Specialties, page 55.) . 
Golden Sunrise, Henderson’s. Large, smooth fruits, of a beautiful golden 
color; quality excellent; attractive for mixing sliced, with red sorts . 
June Pink. An extra-early selection from Earliana, differing chiefly i 
outside color, which is of the purplish-red preferred in some sections to 
scarlet. The fruit runs uniform in shape and size, about 3 inches in 
diameter, almost round, and borne in clusters. Flesh solid and fine 
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