A $ 1.90 Vegetable Seed Collection for the Home Garden — ^ 1.00 
This popular collection will plant a garden about 25 x 40 feet. It is sold at a reduced price because it is put up ready to mail before the busy 
season when time is not so valuable as it is later. The seeds are Ihe very best we have, and the packets full size. 
We Cannot Make Any Changes in This Collection. The collection is put up ready to ship, so we cannot change it in any way; but, of course, 
anyone may order additional seeds to go with the collection. 
The collection is composed of one packet each of the following seeds: 
Beet, Detroit Dark lied 
Beans, Pencil Pod Black Wax 
Beans, Tendergreen 
Cabbage, Golden Acre 
Cucumber, Harris’ Perfection 
Carrot, Nantes 
Sweet Corn, Extra Early Bantam 
Sweet Corn, Buttercup 
Lettuce, New York No. 847 
Lettuce, Black Seeded Simpson 
Onions, Riverside Sweet Spanish 
Parsnips, Harris’ Model 
Radish, C omet 
Radish, Icicle 
Summer Squash, Giant 
Summer Straight neck 
Spinach, Special Summer Savoy 
Swiss Chard, Fordhook Giant 
Turnip, Purple Top 
White Globe 
Ruta Baga, Macombcr 
Simply ask for Collection No. 1 — $1.00 postpaid. 
Vegetable Seeds (General List) 
This is decidedly the best variety for either the home garden or commercial planting. 
Pkt. 10c; Oz. 20c; X Lb. 45c; Lb. $1.40. 
One ounce of seed will sow 75 feet or roiv and produce about 250 plants. 
From Seeds. Asparagus seed, should be sown as early as possible in the spring. The plants 
should be set in the permanent bed when one or two years old. The asparagus may be cut the 
third year after setting out the roots. 
MARY WASHINGTON. Th » B ”‘ v " ie ‘r- This is the best of several rust 
-1 resistant strains originated a number of years ago by the 
Lb S. Department of Agriculture at Washington. The shools are larger and grow more rapidly 
than the other kinds. The stalks are very thick, of an attractive deep green color w r ith purple 
tops and grow unusually tall without breaking. Even the largest and thickest shoots of I his 
variety are tender and delicious. 
t^avUi' jbua AdJXGSuuutd Raoid. 
No asparagus you can buy can possibly compare with the fresh succulent shoots right out of 
your garden. Anyone w r ith a little space can have an asparagus bed. It’s not difficult to start and 
requires but little care. 
The thing to do is to start with good fresh dug roots. 
There is nothing so important about raising asparagus as the quality of the roots. Many 
roots sold are small and stunted. People who do not know wdiat really good roots look like, 
accept these worthless things, and of course do not get good results. Then they think they cannot 
raise good asparagus. As a matter of fact if they got really well grown roots they would have no 
trouble in establishing a good bed which would yield an abundance of fresh asparagus every year. 
We sell only fresh dug asparagus roots which are selected especially for their size and vigor and 
are superior in every way. They are carefully sorted and any small or stunted roots thrown out. 
MARY WASHINGTON ASPARAGUS. One year roots: Doz. 50c; 50 roots, $1.75; 100 roots, 
$2.50 transportation paid. Not paid: 100 roots, $2.00 (w'eight 9 lbs.); 1000 roots $8.50 (weight 
70 lbs.). 
We recommend one year asparagus roots. They are usually more healthy and vigorous and will make a 
better bed. 
To start a bed it is only necessary to set out 
the roots on good soil and give them ordinary 
care to keep weeds down, etc. No special prepa¬ 
ration of the land is necessary. It should be 
plowed or spaded deep and worked down well 
and should be enriched by applying a heavy 
dressing of manure, which should be plowed or 
spaded in. The roots are set out 18 to 24 inches 
apart in the rows which should be 4 feet apart. 
100 roots make a good bed, but more should be 
set out for a large family. Cutting may com¬ 
mence the third year after setting out the roots. 
A small cutting may be made the second year if 
not continued more than two weeks. 
Full directions for growing asparagus are contained in our Cultivation Pamphlet which will be sent on request. 
Mary Washington Asparagus 
Fresh from your garden, these are unexcelled for flavor. 
Artischoke (Ger.) ARTICHOKE Carciofo (It.) 
The prices in this list are subject to change without notice and include 
delivery by parcel post or otherwise, except as noted. See also inside 
front cover. 
Half ounces of seed priced at 80 cents or more per ounce are supplied at 
the ounce rate. No half ounces of seed priced under 30 cents per ounce can 
be supplied. 
Spargel (Ger.) ASPARAGUS Sparagio (It.) 
A well grown one year old root of 
Mary Washington Asparagus 
LARGE GREEN GLOBE. (The Best Strain.) The Globe Artichoke is a perennial which produces 
the flower buds that are used for food the second year after sowing the seed. North of Virginia the 
plants require protection in winter. The seed is sow r n early in the spring. Cover the crowns of the 
plants with a mound of coal ashes as soon as the ground freezes. 
Pkt. 10c; Oz. 55c; X Lb. $1.60; Lb. $5.50. 
HARRIS’ SEEDS —1939 
JOSEPH HARRIS CO., Inc., COLDWATER, N. Y 
