8 PERFECTION BRAND SEEDS—Since'1906 



Perfection Brand Mustard for Health 
Mustard is grown for greens and requires a loamy, rich soil, preferably a sandy loam. It is sown either broadcast or in drills; if it is sown 
broadcast about 8 quarts of seed are required per acre, if in drills, 3 pounds per acre. 
MUSTARD SPINACH—Sometimes known as 
Tender Greens. This new vegetable, which is 
all its name implies, is a very mild mustard 
with a creamy spinach flavor. Mustard Spinach 
grows fast. The leaves are ready for cutting 
three to four weeks after planting. Dry, hot 
weather does not injure the crop. Pkt., 5c; oz., 
10c; %4 Ib., 20c; Ib., 70c, postpaid. 
SOUTHERN GIANT CURLED MUSTARD— 
Long Standing type. This is a decided improve- 
ment over the old curled mustard as it will 
stand ten to fourteen days later before bolting 
to seed. Pkt., 5c; oz., 10c; lb., 80c, postpaid. 
OSTRICH PLUME—Most beautiful variety 
and of very superior flavor. The leaves are 
beautifully ruffled and curled and curve out- 
ward like graceful ostrich plumes. They are 
excellently adapted for garnishing. Pkt., 5c; 
0z., 10c; lb., 80c, postpaid. 

LGESERS| 

Southern Giant Curled 
H&LEPHANT EAR—Desirable kind. Each 
plant produces extra-large leaves of good sub- 
stance and of most appetizing pungency. It 
succeeds well also from spring sowings, but 
does not make so large a plant during the 
warm summer as it does in the cooler fall or 
winter months. When they are grown in rich 
soil, the leaves attain sixteen to twenty inches 
in length; they are of light green color, with 
large white ribs or leaf stalks. Pkt., 5c; oz., 
10c; %4 Ib., 25c; Ib., 80c, postpaid. 
FLORIDA BROAD LEAF—Plants are rather 
tall and upright growing, and produce consid- 
erable more leaf growth than other varieties. 
The leaves are large, broad, comparatively 
smooth and have broad, distinct midribs. This 
variety is quite distinct in that it stays in 
condition without bolting to seed considerably 
longer than most other sorts. Pkt., 5c; oz., 
10c; %4 lb., 25c; lb., 80c, postpaid. 
Perfection Brand Onion Seed 
SEED CROP VERY SHORT 
One ounce will sow 100 feet of drill, 4 pounds will sow an acre, 
CULTURE—Sow in the early spring, in 
in rows 12 inches apart, and cover half inch 
moist soil, as soon as the weather will permit, 
deep. If the onions grow too thick, thin to 1 
inch apart, or only a very few onions will be 
the result. Manure highly (twenty loads to the 
acre being used by many market gardeners 
with profit), and if manure is not plentiful, 
some good phosphate, at the rate of 400 to 800 
pounds per acre will give good results. A top 
dressing of wood ashes, applied after the sec- 
ond weeding, is very beneficial. 

Valencia or Sweet Spanish © 

GIANT YELLOW PRIZETAKER—The 
American-grown Giant Yellow Prizetaker is 
far the handsomest, most productive, most pop- 
uar, and best of the yellow skin onions. The 
flesh is pure white, firm and fine-grained, and 
mild in flavor. It is of immense size, some- 
times measuring from 10 to 12 inches in cir- 
cumference. Pkt., 10c; 0z., 50c; 14 Ib., $1.75, 
postpaid. 
CRYSTAL WHITE WAX BERMUDAS— 
Genuine Teneriffe grown. A beautiful crystal 
white with the decided waxy appearance. It is 
the earliest of the Bermuda varieties, and 
makes large flat onions; so mild and sweet 
that they can be eaten like an apple. Pkt., 
10c; oz., 50c; %4 Ib., $1.75, postpaid. 
LARGE RED WETHERSFIELD—The most 
widely cultivated of the red varieties; the 
standard winter onion in many Northern 
States. The bulbs are well flattened, thick 
through and grow to a good size. A most ex- 
cellent keeper. Pkt., 10c; oz., 40c; %4 Ib., 
$1.25, postpaid. 
Valmeyer, Ill., April 15, 1942 
Binding-Stevens Seed Co., 
Tulsa, Oklaboma. 
Dear Sirs: : 
In seed book I saw the letter from C. A. De- 
lancy of Afton, Oklahoma, saying he hadn’t moved 
too far away to think of your good seeds. Well, 
neither have we. Last year, our first year to garden 
up-here, your seeds grew just as well for us here 
as they did when we lived in Oklahoma. In fact 
we had a better garden than any we saw here. 
Son is a F.F.A. member and is growing his ‘‘de- 
fense garden’’ as one of his projects in agricul- 
ture to make his credit. I know with seeds and 
plants from Binding-Stevens he will come out 
ahead. Sincerely, 
Carl H. Morrison. 
Giant Yellow Prizetakers 
YELLOW GLOBE DANVERS—Handsome, 
nearly globe-shaped bulbs of pale yellow color; 
crisp, pure white flesh of mild flavor. Pkt., 
10c; oz., 40c; 14 lb., $1.25, postpaid. 
VALENCIA or SWEET SPANISH—It is a 
large, well-shaped, brown onion, weighing 
from 1 to 8 pounds. It is unusually mild but 
still retains its genuine onion flavor. Planted 
at the proper time and thoroughly cured, it is 
a good keeper and will ship as good as any 
other shipping onion. It requires about 2 lbs. 
to plant an acre. Pkt., 10c; oz., 50c; %4 Ib., 
$1.75, postpaid. 

Onion Sets 
Onion Sets 
We Will Gladly Quote Prices on Large 
Quantities. 
DARK RED SETS—Lb., 30c, postpaid; by 
freight or express, not prepaid, Ib., 20c; 10 
Ibs., $1.60. 
YELLOW SETS—Lb., 30c, postpaid; by 
freight or express, not prepaid, lb., 20c; 10 
Ibs., $1.60. 
WHITE SILVERSKIN SETS—LDb., 30c, post- 
paid; by freight or express, not prepaid, Ib., 
20c; 10 Ibs., $1.60. 
WHITE MULTIPLIER SETS—They are of a 
pure silvery-white color, enormously productive, 
frequently producing*as many as twenty shoots 
for bunching from one bulb planted; of excel- 
lent quality and size for bunching. Lb., 45c, 
postpaid; by freight or express, 35c per Ib. 
Garlic 
Used for flavoring soups, sausage, etc. It is 
propagated by division of the roots into small 
parts. The bulbs are gathered in August in the 
same manner as onions. 1% Ib., 25c; lb., 45c, 
postpaid. 

Discovery of hormones which stimulate root 
formation has made it easier to propagate plants 
from cuttings. These hormones in powder form 
may be applied to seeds, a pinch in the packet, 
well shaken, and they will speed up growth, as 
well as having a disinfectant effect. 
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