
These are Nantes Carrots, Our Strong Top Strain, Often Called ‘’Coreless’—We Betieve It’s the Very Best Kind for Your Garden 
Any good land, thorougnly worked, will produce a satisfactory crop of Carrots. Sow as early 
In spring as possible, though good crops may be grown from seed sown as late as the middle 
of June. For table use, sow smaller kinds early, in rows 16 inches apart; for field growing, in 
drills 18 to 24 inches apart. Cover one-half to one inch deep and press soil down firmly above 
the seed. Thin 2 to 6 inches apart, according to size of variety. When preparing Carrots for the 
table, wash and scrape them, never peel; the best flavor and color are near the skin. 
One package of seed will sow 30 to 40 feet of row; 1 ounce, 300 feet; about 3 pounds, am acre 
CARROTS for FARM and GARDEN 
Chantenay, Long Type. Our strain of this 
long, smooth Carrot with bright orange skin, 
orange flesh and very little core, is particularly 
good. We had it in 8 trials on upland and on 
the muck in New York State this past season 
and it was Number | on the list in every single 
trial. This Carrot will make tonnage for it 
grows 7 to 8 inches long and 214 to 2% inches 
in diameter at the shoulder. A good kind to 
sell in baskets on the market or to canners. 
Pkg. 10c; Y oz. 20c; oz. 35c; 1% Ib. 95c 
*Chantenay Red-Cored. this is the 
best large coreless Carrot for both the home 
garden and for market and the strain we offer 
you here is absolutely tops for uniformity of 
shape and size, for smoothness, and for both 
exterior and interior color. The roots are about 
6 inches long and 2 inches thick at the shoul- 
ders, smooth, reddish orange, tapered and blunt 
ended. The bright, clear orange flesh is fine- 
grained, tender and sweet, with practically no 
core. Grown for sale at roadside stands, public 
markets and to canners who ‘‘dice’’ them. We 
are particularly proud of this strain of Red- 
Cored Chantenay. 
Pkg. 15c; W% oz. 25c; oz. 45c; Yq Ib. $1.25 
imperator. (Long type.) A new variety of the 
bunching type, with roots from 8 to 10 inches 
long. The skin is very smooth, deep orange in 
color—a color which extends clear through the 
root. The core is very small and tender. Ex- 
ceptionally fine for market and for home gar- 
dens. 
Pkg. 15c; % oz. 25c¢; oz. 45c? V4 Ib. $1.25 
Tendersweet. We had a dozen or more trials 
of this Carrot in home gardens again last sea- 
son, and without exception, every gardener was 
enthusiastic about the tenderness and sweet- 
ness of its flesh. The roots in the majority of 
gardens were about 7 inches long, tapering 
from a shoulder to a rather blunt point, deep 
orange-red colored skin and fine grained orange 
flesh with practically no core. You may like 
Tendersweet better than the Carrot you have 
been growing. 
Pkg. 15c; YW oz. 30c; oz. 55c; 14 Ib. $1.45 
Red-Cored Chantenay Carrots—We are very proud of our stock of this popular large Carrot. 

«Nantes Improved (Coreless) . one 
of the best and certainly the most poputar 
long, slender-shaped Carrots for the garden. 
We believe this Strong Top Strain of ours to be 
unexcelled either for back-yard garden grow- 
ing or for market. Roots 7 to 8 inches long, 
smooth and blunt-pointed, just about cylin- 
drical in shape and bright orange in color. Flesh 
is bright orange and of the highest quality. 
This Carrot is often called ‘‘Coreless’’ Carrot. 
Small tops make jt desirable for bunching. 
Commercial Carrot growers insist on a strong 
top strain of Carrot, so when they pull and 
bunch for market, the tops wont break away 
from the root. It’s a great asset to a Carrot 
(n your home garden also. 
Pkg. 15¢; V2 oz. 30c; oz. 55c; V4 Ib. $1.45 
«Touchon. Similar to Nantes Improved, but 
preferred by some market and home gardeners 
for its greater length. We specially recommend 
that market growers try this variety. It may be 
just the Carrot their market wants. 
Pkg. 15c; Y2 oz. 30c; oz. 55c; 14 Ib. $1.45 
To help make Carrots grow long, smooth and 
straight, make a cut spade depth on each side 
of the row 2 inches from the roots. 
FROM VICK’S ILLUSTRATED 
MAGAZINE, JANUARY, 1879 
“Good choice Onion seed is cheap at almost 
any price, and cheap, poor seed is dear as a 
gift, with a premium thrown in. Charles 
Spencer, of Mohawk, New York, appreciates 
this fact, and wrote to know if we could advise 
where he could get good true Onion seed that 
would grow. We recommended seed that we 
assured him would produce ninety good Onions 
for every one hundred seeds sown. Mr. Spencer 
wrote January 16th: “You spoke of ninety 
per cent of the Onion seed producing nice 
bulbs. It did better than that, | think, as | 
raised two hundred and twelve bushels of 
Yellow Danvers on one quarter of an acre.” 




Tendersweet Carrots—Splendid Quality 
Chicory 
Large-Rooted or Long Madgeburg. Extro 
large, long roots. The young leaves make an 
excellent salad. Feed to poultry as a tonic and 
the dried roots may be used as a substitute 
for coffee. A package of seed will sow 25 feet 
of row. 
Pkg. 15c; V2 oz. 35¢; oz. 60c; Ys Ib. $2.00 
Witloof or French Endive. Sow seed in 
spring in open ground, V2 inch deep, in rows 
18 inches apart, thin to 6 inches apart. Allow 
plants to grow until November. Take up roots 
and trim off leaves to about 1% inches from 
the neck. Plant roots in trench 12 inches 
apart and cover with 8 inches of fine soil. 
Here they produce blanched leaves for winter 
salad and cooking as greens. A pkg. of seed will 
produce about 350 plants. 
Pkg. 15c; V2 oz. 45c; oz. 75¢; Yq Ib. $2.25 
Asparagus or Celery. Also known as Italian 
Chicory, Radichetta (Catalogna), and Italian 
Dandelion. Rapid growing salad plant with dan- 
delion-like leaves often used for early greens. 
The leaves and flower shoots are very tender 
and have a faint Asparagus flavor and can be 
cut several times during the season. Very easily 
grown. A pkg. of seed will sow 35 ft. of row. 
Pkg. 15c; V2 oz. 45c¢; oz. 75c; Y% Ib. $2.25 
Cardoon 
Large Smooth. A perennial grown for the 
fleshy leaf stalks or midribs which are cut in 
the fall and grow up again the following 
spring. Grows about 3 ft. tall and is often tied 
up to hurry blanching of the leaves. 
Pkg. 15c; Y% oz. 65c; oz. $1.20 
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