LANDRETHS’ SEEDS—STILL GROWING AFTER 155 YEARS 
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PUMPKIN 
Native of Tropical America. Four Pounds of Seed Will Plant an Acre. Hills 8 x 8 if Planted in 
the Open. Breaks ground in 4 days. One inch high in 8 days under most favorable 
circumstances in greenhouse 
Brother Jonathan or Green Striped Gashaw— 
115 Days. Fruit large, bottle shaped, early, with 
very slight crookneck. Color creamy white, with 
irregular stripes of green. Flesh light yellow and 
thick. Average weight about 12 pounds.—Pkt. 5 
Connecticut Field or Big Tom—115 Days. A 
large, rich, somewhat ribbed, orange yellow, slight 
oval or cylindrical fruit, flat on end. Very produc¬ 
tive, used extensively for canning. Popular for pies. 
Average weight about 20 pounds.—Pkt. 5 
Japanese Pie—115 Days. Seed large, marked in 
an irregular way like Chinese letters. \ ellow fleshed, 
fine quality. Dark green skin. Similar in shape to 
Cashaw, but not nearly so crooked a neck. Average 
weight about 10 pounds.—Pkt. 5 
Kentucky Field—110 Days. A poor selection of 
our famous Cheese Pumpkin. Many variations in 
shape.—Pkt. 5 
Landreths’ Large Cheese 
LANDRETHS’ LARGE CHEESE—108 Days. An 
excellent kitchen variety. Shape flat like a Cheese 
box, from which it derived its name, although it is 
slightly ribbed on edges. Outside color lemon, no 
stripes, fine quality and keeper. Often 15 inches 
across the top and 6 to 7 inches thick, top and 
bottom indented. Don’t confuse this stock with the 
Kentucky Field offered by many seedsmen as 
Cheese. Average weight 17 pounds.—Pkt. 5 
Small Early Sugar or New England Pie_115 
Days. This is a very fine, small, sweet, fine grained 
productive sort for pies, of good keeping qualities. 
Fruit oval, or globular, flattened at both poles, 8 to 
10 inches in diameter, slightly ribbed. Flesh a deep 
rich yellow or orange. Weight 6 to 8 lbs.—Pkt. 5 
Tennessee Sweet Potato—110 Days. Smooth, 
pear shaped, with a slightly crooked neck, white skin 
slightly mottled with green. Weight about 14 lbs. 
Landreths’ Yellow Cashaw 
LANDRETHS’ YELLOW CASHAW—115 Days. 
Our stock of this cannot be excelled by any. It is a 
mammoth prolific Pumpkin, frequently weighing 
30 pounds, with a very large, full, meaty, curved 
neck, with the best colored meat to make fine pies. 
Both outside and inside color very rich cream yellow. 
No stripes of any kind.—Pkt. 5 
Yellow Monster, King of the Mammoth or 
Pitron—120 Days. This is the largest Pumpkin on 
the market and in reality is a monster. For many 
years fruits of this sort have been awarded every 
prize in State and County Fairs for the largest 
Pumpkins. It is not only an exhibition sort but is 
a very profitable variety for raising for stock feeding. 
Bright lemon in color, mottled with orange. Round 
with a trace of ribbing. Weight 60 to 100 pounds. 
—Pkt. 5 
LANDRETHS’ SEEDS 
It was one hundred and fifty-five years ago (1784) 
that David Landreth, an English Seed Grower, 
established a Seed Farm in Philadelphia, and since 
that date the business of the establishment has 
annually increased, until now its Seed supplies 
are drawn from all parts of the United States and 
a proportion from Europe. 
The land devoted to growing Landreths’ Garden 
Seeds comprehends many thousand acres, owned, 
rented, or in crops contracted for by the Seed 
Company. 
The distribution of Seeds by this Establishment 
extends not only all over the United States but 
abroad, as in the West Indies, South Africa, China, 
Japan, British India, in which latter country 
Landreths’ Seeds are as well known in Calcutta as 
in an American city, shipments being made for over 
100 years to India, to which place, last April, twenty 
tons in tin lined boxes were shipped. 
During the World War ten tons of Landreths’ 
Seeds, in air tight tin lined boxes, on their way from 
Philadelphia to Calcutta were sent to the bottom 
of the Mediterranean, as the ship carrying the 
Seed was torpedoed by a German Submarine. 
