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HYBRIDIZED POTATO SEED 
a 257 From the Seed- Balls: Growing new and dis- 
tinct Seedling Potatoes from the Seed-Ball Seed 
is intensely interesting. This seed will positively 
produce innumerable new kinds, colors, shapes, 
sizes, and qualities. Some may be of immense 
value and bring you a golden harvest. Every 
farmer, gardener, and bright boy should plant a 
few packets. Full directions on every pkt. 
Pkt., 10c. 
-GURNEY’S NEW 
BUG DUST 
It gets ’em. Powerful, Efficient, 
SAFE-TO-USE. See Page 45. 
Special Offer 
2 Ibs. & Dust Gun onty$l. 00 
Postpaid 




DOREY STO 

FROM PLANTS AND SETS 
Take advantage of our Prices 
on Onion Seed, Plants, and Sets 
For early green onions, plant either sets or plants. 
They are easy to raise and very profitable, either 
sold as green onions or left to mature. 
40,000 onion plants or 12 bu. of sets will plant 
one acre with rows 16 inches apart. 
ONION PLANTS 
You are sure to get fresh onion plants from Gur- 
ney’s, as our big, vigorous plants are shipped to you 
the day they are pulled. They can be planted very 
early because light freezes will not harm them. 
The onions are very large and very mild, thin 
skinned, white fleshed, sweet and tender. A crate 
of 6000 plants should produce from 50 to 75 bush- 
els of immense sweet onions. 
We can furnish the following Aa 
three varieties of onion plants: 6000 
Yellow Bermudas oN jee 
Yellow Globe Valencia Express Paid 
White Bermuda $6.00 
5 Bunches (about 500 plants) Postpaid $0.85 
10 Bunches (about 1000 plants) Postpaid 1.57 
30 Bunches (about 3000 plants) Postpaid 3.85 
1 Crate, 60 Bunches (about 6000 plants) 
All One Variety, Express Paid...... $6.00 
EVERGREEN & TREE SEEDS 
260 MOTHER GURNEY MULBERRY: The 
first tree was planted many years ago by Mother 
Gurney, and is now 18 inches through and 30 
feet high. Each year it bears an immense crop of 
extra large and extra good quality fruit. 
Professor Hansen says seed from this tree will 
produce trees identically the same as the parent 
tree. 
In addition to the fruit, Mulberries are drouth 
resistant, make good windbreaks and fine long- 
lived fence posts. Easily grown. Planting direc- 
tions on every package. 
Pkt., 10c. 

262 CARAGANA, or Siberian Pea Tree: A 
very hardy hedge or low growing tree from Siberia. 
Foliage dark green while the bark is light green, 
making a very ornamental hedge plant. 
Oz., 15c; % lb., 60c. 
263 HONEY LOCUST THORNLESS: A native 
American tree of large ‘size and rapid growth. 
Valuable for timber and posts. 
QOz., 15c; % Ib., 45c. 
264 BULL PINE—Ponderosa: 
raise of all the Evergreens. 
hardy Evergreen. 
Pkt., 7c; 1 oz., 25c; % lb., 70c. 
The easiest to 
A very rapid growing 
266 COLORADO BLUE SPRUCE: The silvery 
blue foliage makes this the most striking of the 
Spruce family. 
Pkt., 10c; 2 0z., 30c; 1 0z., 55c. 
267 BLACK HILLS SPRUCE: One of the best 
and hardiest ornamental Evergreens. 
Pkt., 10c; % 0z., 40c; 1 oz., 75c. 
GURNEY’S INC., YANKTON, S. DAK. 

Plant sets for early green and large onions 

ONION SETS 
Everyone should plant onion sets for early green 
onions, and many prefer to grow their large onions 
from sets instead of from seed, as they can market 
them much earlier while the price is high. 
“A quart’s a pound, the world around.” 
PRICES: Postpaid 
lib. 41bs. 8Ibs. 
Yellow Bottom Sets...... 23c 75c $1.35 
White Bottom Sets....... 23c 80c 1.45 
Multiplier Sets.......... 30c 
Write for prices on larger quantities. 
INOCULATE 
Beans, Peas, Clovers, Sweet Clovers and Alfalfa 
with NITRAGIN Bigger and Better Crops. 
Prices page 30. 
PARSLEY 



Parsley seed is slow to germinate and should be 
soaked in warm water 24 hours before planting. 
Sow }% inch deep in early spring. 1 ounce for a 
150-foot 10W. 
217 CHAMPION MOSS CURLED: A beautiful 
curled variety, fine for garnishing and for season- 
ing soups and salads. 
Pkt., 7c; 0z., 15c; % lb., 40c. All Postpaid. 
221 TURNIP-ROOTED PARSLEY: This vege- 
table has the same flavor as the regular parsley, 
but it produces small turnip-shaped roots that are 
used for flavoring soups. 
Pkt., 7c; 1 oz., 15c; %1b., 40c. All Postpaid. 
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