


Borage Basil 
HERBS FOR YOUR GARDEN 
Grow a few Herbs in your garden. You will find them useful in many ways. They do best in a rich, mellow soil. 
rows | foot apart, and thin out or transplant when up a few inches. For winter storing, cut before they come 
where they can dry. 
Anise. Used for garnishing and flavoring. The 
seeds are used in cakes, bread,soup. Perennial. 
18 inches high. Pkg. 15c 
Basil. The pleasant clovelike flavor of the 
leaves and flowers is a delightful addition to ~ 
all Tomato cookery, as well as to salads and 
soups. The leaves and flowers may be cut and 
dried for winter use. Sow the seed outdoors 
where the plants are to remain. Grows 18 
inches tall and branches profusely. 
Pkg. 15¢; Ya oz. 45c; oz. 85c 
Borage. An annual used for bee-pasture and 
os a pot-herb. Pkg. 15c; YW oz. 35c; oz. 85c 
Coriander. For garnishing. 
Pkg. 10c; Y% oz. 20c 

Mushrooms 
Mustard 
Giant Southern Curled. An early maturing 
bright green, broad, large, curled-leaf variety 
of mild and pleasing flavor. Highly nutritious 
and may be eaten as a salad or cooked. Sow 
the seed in the early spring and every 10 days 
until hot weather. For fall use sow seed several 
times in succession beginning in mid-August. 
Thin to stand 6 inches ‘apart. A package of 
seed will sow 50 feet of row. 
Pkg. 10c; oz. 20c; Y% Ib. 65c 
Okra or Gumbo 
The pods are used in making soups and 
stews. Cut up, they give them flavor and 
body. Pick the pods when they are small and 
tender. When the ground is warm in the spring 
sow the seed in the garden. Thin the 
plants to stand about 2 feet apart. 

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Sweet Marjoram 

Sage, Broad Leaf. An important flavoring 
for meats, dressings, sausages and cheese. A 
perennial whose seed is sown in the spring or 
may be increased by cuttings or plants. Cut the 
leaves before the last of September, dry and 
store in jars for winter use. : 
Pkg. 15c; Y% oz. 30c; oz. $1.00 
Dill, Long Island Mammoth. The seed heads 
are cut at the time the seeds begin to ripen 
and are used in the making of ‘‘dill’’ pickles. 
Sow seeds outdoors as early as possible 
Y2 inch deep. Thin to stand 8 inches apart 
in the row. The leaves and flowers are used 
for flavoring soups and fish. 
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Mushroom Spawn 
Any ordinary cellar not heated by a fur- 
nace, an old shed, under benches in the 
greenhouse—all are ideal places to grow 
Mushrooms. It is easily done and there is 
not great amount of work to it. Why not 
start .a bed this year? There is always a 
good market for Mushrooms. We send full 
directions for making the bed and growing 
Mushrooms with every Mushroom order. 
‘American Pure-Culture Spawn. This 
spawn produces large Mushrooms of splen- 
did quality. 
Brick Spawn. One brick will 
sq. ft. of bed surface. 
50c a brick, postpaid. By express, 5 bricks 
$1.65; 10 bricks: $3.00; 100 bricks $27.50 
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How to Grow Them and Use 
(By Helen Noyes Webster.) A 
Herbs, 
Them. 
practical book: for those who want to create , 
an old-fashioned herb garden and who want 
to know how to use the herbs they grow. 
| $1.50; postpaid $1.65 

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Giant Southern Curled Mustard 

A package of seed will sow about 
20 «feet. 
Long Pod Dwarf. A very good kind 
for the home garden as the plants 
are much more compact growing and 
take up less room. Very heavy bearer 
of 7- to 8-inch, tapered, dark green, 
fleshy, tender pods. Mature in 
days. Pkg. 10c; oz. 20c; Y% Ib. 45c 
Clemson Spineless. Big, thrifty 
plant 4 feet tall, bearing prolificly, 
rich green pods; straight and moder- 
ately ridged, and of very good qual- 
ity. Similar to Perkins’ Mammoth but 
spineless. Pkg. 10c; oz. 20c; 
VW Ib. 45c 

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Mammoth Dill 
Long Pod Dwarf Okra—Splendid for Making Soups 




Broad Leaf Sage 
Sweet, Pot and 
Medicinal 
Sow seeds early in the spring, in 
into full blossom and hang up 
Savory, Summer. Used in cooked dishes and 
in meats and dressings. Sow seed in poor soil, in 
the garden, in early spring. The aromatic quali- 
ties are more pronounced when grown in poor 
soil. Gather the stems and leaves in midsummer 
and dry for winter use. 
Pkg. 15c; YW oz. 40c; oz. 75c 
Sweet Marjoram. Used for seasoning sau- 
sages and in other dishes, when either fresh or 
dried. Very rapid growing, the leaves may be 
used 6 to 8 weeks from time of planting. This 
is a biennial treated as an annual that makes a 
bushy plant 2 ft. high. 
Pkg. 15c; Y4 0z. 45¢; oz. $1.50 
This is Witloof Chicory or French Endive 
You will find it described on page 8 





