Painesville, Ohio 
RELIABLE GARDEN SEEDS 

SALSIFY 
VEGETABLE OYSTER 
Sow early in the spring in drills 1 foot 
apart and 1 inch deep, thinning the young plants 
to 4 inches. The roots will be ready for use in Octo- 
ber, when a supply should be taken up and stored in 
moist sand in a cool room, the balance left in the 
ground until spring. One ounce to 100 feet. 
MAMMOTH SANDWICH ISLAND. 150 days. The 
standard variety for home, market garden and 
shipping. Produces uniform long tapered white 
roots of rich flavor.” 
Pkt. 10¢; oz. 45¢; 14 Ib. $1.50 
RADISHES 
CULTURE. One ounce will drill 100 feet. In drills 
10 to 12 inches apart, 10 pounds will seed an acre. 
The best soil is aq warm sandy loam, worked fine 
and heavily manured. For first crop, sow as early 
as ‘the ground can be worked; repeating every two 
weeks for succession throughout the season. Quick 
uninterrupted growth is essential for best quality, 
if they come tough, blame the weather, not the 
seed. ; 
Price, all varieties, Pkt. 10c; oz. 20c; 4 Ib. 45¢; 
14 Ib. 80c; Ib. $1.50, postpaid. 
CRIMSON GIANT. 29 days. Superior home and 
market garden sort. Tops medium small. Roots 
spherical to slightly top-shaped; deep scarlet; the 
largest of the early turnip-rooted radishes; com- 
monly attain diameter of 1% in. before becoming 
pithy; of unexcelled quality. 
EARLY SCARLET GLOBE. Medium Top. 23 days. An 
excellent strain for general home and market garden. 
Especially desirable for use out of doors under normal 
growing conditions. Color rich bright scarlet; flesh 
white, mild and crisp. A very popular strain with 
shippers. 
EARLY SCARLET GLOBE, Short Top. 23 days. Our 
strain of this standard very early sort is superior and 
is equally valuable for out of doors culture and for 
forcing. Tops small, ideal for bunching. Roots 
.slightly elongated globe so-called “‘broad-olive’’ shape; 
11% in. long wken ideal for use; slender, well defined 
tap root; uniform rich bright scarlet; flesh white, crisp 
and of splendid quality. 
FRENCH BREAKFAST. 25 days. Standard home and 
market garden sort; also suitable for forcing. Tops 
small. Roots oblong, blunt, with slender well-defined 
taproot; about 1% in. long and 5% in. through; rich 
scarlet with white bottom; flesh white, crisp and of 
splendid quality. 
CULTURE. 

EARLY SCARLET GLOBE 
ICICLE. 27 days. The best early white variety. Par- 
ticularly popular in home and market gardens. Tops 
small. Roots long, tapered; very white throughout; 
brittle as ice; of splendid quality until 5-6 in. long 
and 1% in. thick or larger; mild and of splendid flavor. 
Superior to Lady Finger or White Vienna. 
SCARLET TURNIP, WHITE TIPPED. 25 days. Handsome 
popular variety of fine outstanding quality; much 
used in home and market gardens. Tops small. Roots 
deep turnip shape, almost globular, with slender tap 
root; bright scarlet (rosy carmine) with well defined 
white area about the tip; remain.crisp and of splen- 
did quality until 114 in. diameter or greater. 
CAVALIER. 25 days. A highly colored and very at- 
tractive variety for all purposes, and especially for 
shipping. Tops small; roots oblong-globe.. slightly 
longer than broad, very firm, and of bright, almost 
true scarlet color. Especially adapted for growing 
on muck land. 
PLANT A GARDEN FOR BETTER LIVING 
TURNIPS 
PURPLE TOP WHITE GLOBE. 
home, market garden and shipping sort for table use 
CULTURE. Turnips do best in a highly enriched sandy, 
gravelly or light loamy soil. Commence sowing the 
earliest varieties in April, in drills from 12 to 15 in. 
apart, and thin out early to 6 or 8 inches in rows. For 
a succession, sow at intervals of a fortnight until the 
last week in May. The early varieties are often broad- 
casted between corn rows or sown as a catch-crop to 
succeed the early potatoes. From the last of July to the 
end of August sowing may be made for the fall and 
main crops. One ounce sows 100 feet of drills. Two 
pounds per acre in drills 12 to 15 inches apart; one 
pound 2 feet apart; 3 Ibs. broadcast. 
All Turnips: Pkt. 10c; oz. 15¢; Ylb. 50c; V2 Ib. 90c; 
Ib. $1.65, By Mail, Postpaid 
SNOWBALL. 40 days. 
turnip of outstanding quality. 
white, both interior and exterior. 
sweet and tender 
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A very attractive medium size 
Roots round; clear 
Flesh fine-grained, 

55 days. The standard 
and splendid for field culture. Tops medium large, 
compact, cut-leaved. Roots globular, smooth, bright 
purplish-red above, white below; becomes 5-6 in. in 
diameter; flesh white, firm; fine grained and tender 
when young. 
WHITE EGG. 55 days. Splendid home and market 
garden sort. Tops erect, fairly compact; cut-leaved. 
Roots white, smooth, grow one-half above ground, egg- 
shaped, become 3 in. long and 21% in. through; flesh 
white, firm, fine-grained, sweet and tender. 
PURPLE TOP YELLOW ABERDEEN. 75 days. The best 
keeper and of high quality. Tops large- cut-leaved. 
Roots globular or slightly flattened; large, commonly 
about 5 in. diameter; smooth; upper part purplish- 
red, lower, pale yellow; flesh pale yellow, firm, but 
sweet and tender. 
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