
Large Dasheen 
5 Ibs. each 

































GARDEN HUCKLEBERRY 
A new fruit that cannot be 
It is very prolific, yielding 
It is an annual and must be planted 
each year from seed. Grows and thrives in all climates and on 
The fruits grow larger than the common 
Blueberry and will remain on the plant two 
If cooked with apples, lemons or 
You will be 
Grows from seed the first year. 
excelled for Pies and Preserves. 
an immense crop of fruit. 
all kinds of soil. 
Huckleberry or 
months after they are ripe. 
anything. sour, they make the very finest jelly. 
delighted and astonished with this easily grown and wonderful 
novelty. Pkt., 0c; 1% oz., 50c; oz., 90c, postpaid. 
Tubers like this often grow from 3 to 
and sometimes to more than 6 Ibs. 
ground. 

GROUND ALMONDS 
Coconut ‘or Almond. 
shell or skin of brown color. 
do well in any kind of soil. 
crop can be expected about potato harvest time. 
but have an excellent flavor either raw or roasted. 
California.) Pkt., 
200 TO 300 NUTS IN A HILL 
The Ground Almond, or Chufa, has a fine flavor, resembling the 
The meat is snow-white, covered with a thin 
It grows close to the surface. Is very 
prolific, a single nut yielding from 200 to 300 nuts in a hill and will 
If nuts are planted in the spring a big 
$2.25; 10 lbs., $6.00, postpaid. 
20 
Burgess Seed & Plant Co. 
GALESBURG, MICHIGAN 

and on their different ap grounds have secured yields of 450 bushels to 
to the plants and the ground kept free from weeds, but require little cultivation after large enough to shade the 
or perennial border, 
While we do not recommend the Dasheen as a root crop in Northern sections where the stason is short, we surely 
consider it worthy of a place in every garden. If you live in a locality where the growing season is not long enough 
to mature a satisfactory crop of tubers, the blanched asparagus-like stems and spinach-like leaves alone will many times — 
repay you for the small garden space occupied by a few hills of Dasheens. If you haven’t the room in your garden 
to give them a trial, you can at least plant a few for ornamental purposes and food. In addition to being one of the: — 
finest vegetables, you will also find them one of the most showy ornamental foliage plants, the leaves resembling 
closely the Caladium Esculentum, or Elephant’s Ear. As our stock of tubers is limited, we recommend that you send — 
your order early. 
Choice seed tubers, 3 for 40e: 6 for 75c; 12 for $1.25; 25 for $2.00; 50 ion i 
$3.75; 100 for $7.00, delivered to you prepaid. Pamphlet giving cultural direc- 
tions and recipes for preparing and cooking the Dasheen free with each order, 
GIANT CABBAGE-LEAVED DANDELION 
WITH A FAIR AMOUNT OF VITAMIN G, CALCIUM AND IRON 
GIANT CABBAGE-LEAVED or IMPROVED THIE€K LEAF is an improved type which should COFFEE 
not be confused with the wild Dandelion. It is one of the earliest spring vegetables, and is : 
_ much prized as a blood purifier and for its other health-giving qualities. Unsurpassed for early SUBSTITUTE 
spring greens, and esteemed-for making salad when the leav es are young and tender. The 
leaves are of a dark green color, but can be blanched by sheltering from light with inverted 
pots, covering with boards or tying up the same as Cos Lettuce. Cultivate same as. Lettuce. 
It remains over winter and is ready for cutting the following spring. If the roots are not : 
disturbed, they will grow again, affording another supply the next year. Pkt., 15¢; 1% oz., Grow your own Coffee 
40c; 0z., 75c; % Ib., 
Garden Huckleberry - 
Usually eaten raw 
(Unable to ship to 
(0c; 3 pkts., 25¢; % Ib., 50c; lb., 90c; 3 Ibs., 

















D A S - = E A Delicious Veget 
Ornamental Foliage 
Large Tuberous Roots Used Like Potatoes, Blanched Stems Like Asparagus, and 
Leaves Used for Greens. Large Tropical-like Ornamental Foliage Similar to ee 
Elephant’s Ear Caladium. : 
The Dasheen is popular in various parts of Europe and Asia, where it is, grown prin pally 
as a root crop, the tubers being used the same as potatoes. The tubers sometimes reach 
weight of more than 6 pounds each. One hill will produce on good rich soil 6 to 8 pound 
more of tubers, and in rare instances 20 to 26 pounds of Dasheens have been taken from a 
single hill. Crops of 600 to 900 bushels per acre have been produced, 
The U.S. Department of Agriculture reports 1,400 bushels from less than 5 re 
more protein and ‘fifty per cou more starch. The flavor of the Dasheen is decidedly 
and more tempting than that of the potato. 
The Dasheen can be used in almost any way that Irish Potatoes or Sweet Potatoes ean be used. I 
excellent when baked, boiled, fried, creamed, stuffed, meat filled or scalloped, and for Saratoga Dasheen ‘ Chi 
and Fritters they are delicious. Sip 
Dashéen crisps, made from raw Dasheen with a fluted vegetable slicer and fried in deep fat, are de 
by some epicures to be the most delicious of all Dasheen dishes. The delicate, nutty flavor of the vee 
accentuated by this method of preparation. 
The young leaves of the Dasheen make excellent greens, used like Spinach. 
The stems, when grown under a box or barrel, so as to be blanched, are equal to Asparagus, and 5 to 
erops of these shoots can be harvested. The_ Department of Agriculture says: “‘The shoots are very tend 
and have a delicate flavor, suggestive of mushrooms. There are probably few plants so well suited for forci 
purposes as the Dasheen.’’ First cutting can be made in about 35 days after tubers are set in: etouud, and 
Subsequent ones at intervals of 10 to 14 days. 
Land that is too wet for ordinary crops can be used to-advantage in growing Dasheens. They can Gexeeowe 
on lands that are subject to short overflows that would ruin most other crops, thus making much land avail- — 
able for food crops that is now considered worthless. They may also be successfully grown in hot, dry — 
regions as,has been demonstrated by tests in Arizona and Southern California. An abundance of humus in 
the soil is essential for successful Dasheen culture. A liberal quantity of well-rotted barnyard manure at 
planting time is very. beneficial. : 
Dasheens require a rather long growing season in order to produce large size tubers, so planting should — 
be done as early in the spring as conditions of soil and climate will permit. The United States Department of 
Agriculture recommends planting two weeks or more before the last spring frost is expected. Where the frost- | 
less season is short, the tubers can be started a month earlier inside and the plants set out when danger from — ; 
frost is past. For field culture the tubers are planted singly and entire, not more than 2 to 3 inches deep 
in hills 3 feet apart, the distance between rows being 4 feet. In cultivating, the soil should be gradually drawn 
ifs 
For ornamental purposes, they produce a gorgeous, effect when planted with Cannas or used in the sRrUbDGay cs 
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One Ounce Will Sow 100 Feet of Row SOY BEAN 
DANDELION !S HIGH IN VITAMINS A AND C ; j 
Substitute at an expense of 
less than one cent per 
pound. This variety of Soy 
FLORENCE FENNEL OR and as eet" found be 3 
ear i) 
Fi N ,e) c CHIO good crop in most. all sece_ 
tions of the country, and 
$2.50, postpaid. 

MORE EASILY has proms to ts ideal for 
a coffee substitute. It 
GROWN aTAN . , makes a delicious nourish-— 
CELERY ing drink, to take the place 
5 of coffee that is injuriou 
The flavor is some- to so many. It makes a 
what like celery, but non-harmful pure food 
sweeter. A delicious _ drink that ives health and 
vegetable which should strength to young and old. 
be more largely grown. The best coffee substitut 
It is extensively used ever discovered, and man 
“as a salad in some pronounce’ it as good | 
parts of Europe, and better than the best coffec 
is particularly palata- When properly roasted, it 
ble when served boiled, has the rich, dee bro 
with a cream dressing. color of old Java One 
Very distinct from See 
Sweet Fennel, easily 
cultivated, and ma- 
tures quickly from 
seed sown in. early 
plants. As oe gro m 
corn or beans, and do 
summer. The thick- well Ones Et Soils. 
grow some of the ec 
substitute this year 
save your health and mo 
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stalks form a. bulb- 
like growth, which is 


Soy Bean Coffee Substitu’ 
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Fi Shee Full directions with 
quires less blanching ket. Pkt., 10 I 
ae celery. Pkt., 10c; eee cs Ye 
,40c; 44 Ib., St. 25, 8c; Ib., 450, postpaid 
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