Egg Plant 
IMPROVED LARGE PURPLE (Spineless)—A 
general favorite both for market and home 
garden. The plant is spineless, large and 
spreading, with light green foliage. Produces 
four to six large, oval fruits of a splendid 
dark purple color. The vigor and productive- 
ness of the plants and the large size, earli- 
ness and fine quality of its fruits make it a 
most profitable variety for market gardeners. 
Ounce 50c; 1% pound $1.25. 
BLACK BEAUTY—Fruit large, symmetrical in 
shape and uniformly of a rich, dark purple 
color. Very desirable for the market. From ten 
days to two weeks earlier than the purple 
varieties; is a distinct sort and a favorite 
where known. The plants are healthy in their 
rowth and yield an abundance of large fruits. 
eoite are very attractive in appearance. Spine- 
less. Packet 5c; ounce 50c; 1% pound $1.25. 

EGG PLANT 
Kohl-rabi 
Grown for its thick, bulb-shaped stalks, 
which, while young, are prepared in the 
same manner as turnips. One ounce will 
drill 200 feet. 
EARLY WHITE VIENNA—Grown for forc- 
ing or cultivation in open ground. Very 
short tops. Flesh is white, tender and of 
excellent table qualities. Ounce 50c; 4 
pound $1.50. 
Garlic 
This is extensively used in many places 
for flavoring soups, stews, etc. The sets 
should be planted early in spring. Culti- 
vated like onions. Pound 40c postpaid. 
Endive 
LARGE GREEN CURLED—A hardy, vigor- 
ous growing endive with bright deep green 
leaves. The midribs of the outer leaves 
are usually tinged with rose. The dense 
mass of deeply divided leaves formed in 
the center blanches very rapidly to a rich 
cream color. This sort is highly esteemed 
for the market and home garden, and is 
much used for salads. Packet 5c; ounce 
15c; % pound 40c. 
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Staffel’s Tender Lettuce 
NEW CHICKEN LETTUCE —Here is a 
genuine Lettuce which will yield as much 
or more chicken or rabbit feed as any 
“greens’’ plant. When once cut it starts 
to grow again. The leaves can be pulled 
off each stem like a kale. Chicken Let- 
tuce does not make a head, but sends up 
a stout stalk three or four feet high, just 
aS with leaves. Ounce 15c; 14 pound 
40c. 
EARLY WHITE VIENNA—Grown for forc- 
ing. More reliable and easily grown during 
summer than other varieties. Very crisp, 
bunching large, late intermediate sort. 
Plant compact, with firm, well blanched, 
rounded cluster of leaves, which are broad, 
blistered and crumpled thick and coarse. 
Color light green, never spotted. Sweet, 
somewhat hard and coarse in texture. 
Ounce 15c; 1% pound 40c. 
BIG BOSTON—Our strain of this very 
popular variety is unsurpassed. Plants are 
large and vigorous, leaves light green, 
slightly tinged with reddish brown; stands 
very long before shooting to seed. Can be 
grown in the open ground in the spring 
or fall, or in frames for early spring plant- 
ing; does particularly well in cold weather 
and is especially recommended for fall 
planting in this section. Is very popular 
with gardeners and truckers, because it 
always produces large, solid, saleable 
heads, up at all seasons of the year and 
is of crisp, tender quality. Ounce 15c; 
Y4 pound 40c. 
SIMPSON’S EARLY CURLED (Seed white) 
—A very extensively used early, loose 
leaved, or clustering variety. The leaves 
are light green in color, slightly frilled 
and much blistered crisp, sweet and ten- 
der. This sort is especially adapted for 
sowing thickly and cutting when the 
plants are young. Packet 5c; ounce 15c; 
Y pound 40c. 
ICEBERG—A large, crisp Lettuce, always 
tender; stands hot weather remarkably 
well. Well known and largely planted 
standard summer cabbage-heading Lettuce 
of very best, crisp quality; sure heading 
and reliable. Large, late in season. Leaves 
very broad, fairly blistered, crumpled, 
very thick. Color light green, except faint 
brown along extreme border. Ounce 15c; 
VY pound 40c. 
WHITE PARIS COS OR ROMAINE—This 
type of Lettuce forms long, upright heads 
of narrow leaves. Very crisp and sweet; 
self-closing and quite solid. Ounce 15c; 
Y4 pound 40c. 


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Kale or Borecole 
TALL GREEN CURLED SCOTCH—Plant grows 
to 3 or 4 feet high, bearing long, plumelike, 
light green leaves which are deeply cut, also 
finely curled at edges. Very ornamental and 
so hardy that a moderately heavy frost im- 
proves rather than injures its quality. Ounce 
15c; % pound 40c. 

KALE—SCOTCH CURLED 
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