

Borage Basil 
HERBS FOR YOUR GARDEN 


Sweet Marjoram 
Mammoth Dill 






Broad Leaf Sage 
Sweet, Pot and 
Medicinal 
Grow a few Herbs in your garden. You will find them useful in many ways. They do best in a rich, meflow soil. Sow seeds early in the spring, in 
rows | foot apart, and thin out or transplant when up a few inches. For winter.storing, cut before they come into full blossom and 
where they can dry. 
Anise. Used for garnishing and flavoring. The 
seeds are used in cakes, bread,soup. Perennial. 
18 inches high. Pkg. 20c 
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. 15c; YW oz. 40c; oz. 75c 
Borage. An annual used for bee-pasture and 
as a pot-herb. Pkg. 15c; Vo oz. 30c; oz. 55c¢ 
Coriander. For garnishing. 
Pkg. 15c; %4 oz. 30c 

Mushrooms 
Mustard 
Long Standing (Southern Curled). An early 
maturing bright green, broad, large, curled- 
leaf variety of mild and pleasing flavor. Highly 
nutritous and may be eaten asa salad or cook- 
ed. 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 pack- 
age of seed will sow 15 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. 
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 
VY inch deep. Thin to stand 8 inches apart 
in the row. The leaves and flowers are used 
for flavoring soups and fish. 
Pkg. 10c; oz. 20c; 14 Ib. 65c 
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. One brick will plant 16 sq. ft. 
of bed surface. 50c a brick, postpaid. By 
express, 5 bricks $1.65; 10 bricks $3.00; 
100 bricks $27.50. 

Herbs, How to Grow Them and Use 
Them. (By Helen Noyes Webster.) A 
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 


ang 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 feet high. Pkg. 15c; 14 oz. 40c 

This is Witloof Chicory or French Endive 
You will find it described on page 8 


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, tapefed, dark green, 
fleshy, tender pods. Mature in 55 
days. Pkg. 15c; oz. 30c; 1% Ib. 95c 
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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Long Pod Dwarf Okra—Splendid for Making Soups 

