A $ 1.90 Vegetable Seed Collection for the Home Garden — ^ 1.00 
This popular collection will plant a garden about 25 x 40 feet. 11 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 the 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 Red Carrot, Nantes Onions, Riverside Sweet Spanish 
Beans, Pencil Pod Black Wax Sweet Corn, Extra Early Bantam Parsnips, Harris’ Model 
Beans, Tendergreen 
Cabbage, Golden Acre 
Cucumber, Harris’ Perfection 
Sweet Corn, Buttercup 
Lettuce, Cosberg 
Lettuce, Black Seeded Simpson 
Radish, Comet 
Radish, Icicle 
Summer Squash, Giant 
Summer Straightneck 
Simply ask for Collection No. 7 —$ 7.00 postpaid. 
Spinach, Special Summer Savoy 
Swiss Chard, Fordhook Giant 
Turnip, Purple Top 
White Globe 
Ruta Baga, Macomber 
Vegetable Seeds (General List) 
Spargel (Ger.) ASPARAGUS Sparagio (It.) 
One ounce of seed will sow 75 feet of row 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 either when one or two years old. The asparagus may be cut 
the third year after setting out the roots. 
MARY WASHINGTON. The Best Variety. This is the best of several rust resistant 
-- strains originated a number of years ago by the U. S. 
Department of Agriculture at Washington. The shoots are larger and grow more rapidly than 
the other kinds. The stalks are very thick, of an attractive deep green color with purple tops and 
grow unusually tall without breaking. Even the largest and thickest shoots of this variety are 
tender and delicious. 
This is still decidedly the best variety for either the home garden or commercial 
planting. 
Pkt. 10c; Oz. 20c; X Lb. 45c; Lb. $1.40. 
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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 30 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. 
MARY WASHINGTON ASPARAGUS. One year roots: Doz. 50c; 50 roots, $1.75; 100 roots, 
$2.50 transportation paid. Not paid: 100 roots, $2.00 (weight 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 about 4 feet apart, 100 roots 
make a good bed, but more should be set out for a 
large family. Cutting may commence the third 
year after setting out the roots. A small cutting Alar/ Washington Asparagus 
may be made the second year if not continued ffetfc from your gorde „, these are unexce „ed for flavor, 
more than two weeks 
Full directions for growing asparagus are contained in our Cultivation Pamphlet which will be sent on request. 
A well grown one year old root of 
Mary Washington Asparagus 
Artischoke (Ger.) ARTICHOKE Carciofo (It.) 
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 sown 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. 50c; X Lb. $1.35; Lb. $4.50. 
No asparagus you can buy can possibly compare with the fresh succulent shoots right out of 
your garden. Anyone with 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 what 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 season for years. 
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. 
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