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not be topched by any 
hills 6-8 ft. each way 
tb, $1.25 
210 days. Fruits 12 by 14 inches, hard, 
00 ribbed, deep orange, flesh yel- 
. A ver y popular variety especially 
the corn belt and a large producer, 
10e; oz. 5c; Ib. $1.25 
part with a tapering crooked 
endi in a ball. Color ligh green with 
white striping intermingled. This is very 
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‘ —— in the Ohio Valley and south- 
a large yielder. 
Large Cheese 
’ Pkt. 10c; oz. lSe; Ib. $1.25 
210 days. Fruits are 6 by 12 inches, 
flat, ribbed, cream color, flesh deep 
orange. ‘This is a popular canning and 
Pie variety. 
Sugar or 
Pie 
Pkt. 10c; oz. 2c; Ib. $1.45 
Fruits are 8 by 10 inches, 
smooth, ribbed, thick flesh, 
. This is the best all around 
especially for the home gar- 
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Pkt. lOc; 
Medium top, roots round to 
scarlet, tops about 4 inches 
for early plantin. 
Ib, $1.00 
Sparkler. Roots 
with the tip white, 
popular variety, 
Pkt. 10; oz. lic; Ib. 90c 
Roots 5% inches long tapering 
best for summer grow- 
or Swede Turnips require a 
season than turnips and _ should 
to 
covering seed 44 inch and thinning 
6-8 inches apart in the row. 
som 50 ft.; oz. 250 ft. 
Top 
Roots, 5 inches thru, 
days. top- 
shaped with small neck, skin yellow with 
‘ple top, flesh light yellow, The most 
pular variety. 
Pkt. 10c; oz. 15¢; Ib. 80c 
SALSIFY or OYSTER PLANT 
Salsify is so easily grown and such a 
delicious vegetable that it shouki be in 
every Sow the seed in rows 1% ft. 
apart, very early im the spring, covering 
the seed about %4-1 inche deep and when 
seedlings are 2 in, high thin to stand 
4-5 inches apart, The roots can be used 
late in the fall, stored for winter use or 
ean be left in the ground over the 
_ winter and dug real early in the spring. 
when used in soups, pancakes, 
fritters, diced or mashed or fried same as 
Parsnips. The flavor is much like that of 
oysters. Pkt. will sow 20 feet; oz. 100 ft. 
Sandwich Island Mammoth 
Pkt. 102; oz. 45c; Ib. $3.90 
120 days. Smooth thick roots 9 inches 
with shoulder 1-13 in. diameter, flesh 
and of the very best quality. 
a 
Spinach is oine of the very best greens 
and should be in every gadcn. It is also 
for quick freezing. It grows 
best im the cool part of the season, early 
Jate fall. Sow sced very early, 
18-24 in. 
covering seeds 1 inch, and thin 
inches apart. Make odditional 
every 10-14 days till June; for 
again in August and where 
are mild, sow in the fall with 
inehes of hay or straw for very 
crop. Pkt. plants 25 ft.; oz. 
Bloomedale Savoy 
Pkt. 10c; oz. 15e; Ib. 5A 
“and very heavy texture. Valuable for 
spring or fall planting. 
King of Denmark 
Pkt. 10c; oz, 15¢; Ib. 50> 
46 days. Medium smooth, broad, dark } ing time. 
@reen yariety, leaves slightly crumpled, ex- 
ceptionally lang standing. 
SQUASH—Summer Varictics 
All squash should be planted when dan- 
ger of frost is over and weather is warm, 
usually planted in hills 6-8 feet apart each 
Way, leaving 3-5 seedlings per hill. The 
summer varieties require less space than 
the winter types. The summer varieties 
are used when immature, usually when 
“very small and especially the White Bush 
Scallop. The bush varieties require iess 
space in the garden and can be planted 4 
ft. apart. Oz. will plant 50 hills. The win- 
ter varieties rekuire 2 fertile soil and an 
0% will plant 30 hills. 
Early Summer 
: Crookneck 
< Pkt. 10c; ex. 20c; Ib. $t.45 
? 52 days, Very popular variety, fruits 
10 by 4 inches. 
Early White Bush Scalloped 
Pkt. 10c; ote 20c; HD. $1.35 
50 days. The white Patty Pan or Cym- 
; skin creamy white, very good; use 
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SQUASH—Summer and Winter 
Acorn er Table Queen 
Pkt. 10c; oz. 20¢; Mb. $1.45 
58 days. Also called Table Queen; very 
dark green skin, 6-7 in, long and 4 in, in 
diameter. Flesh orange and a very good 
squash for fal} and early winter use. The 
fruits are just right fir individual servings. 
SQUASH—Winter Varieties 
Blue Banana 
Pkt. 100; og, 20c; Ib. $1.90 
105 days. Fruits 20 in. long by 5 in, in 
diameter, slate-gray color; flesh yellowish, 
thick and fine grained, excellent quality, 
Blue Hubbard 
Pkt. 10¢; ox. 25; Ib. $1.85 
110 days. Fruits are large round and 
pointed at both ends, hard blue gray shell 
and excellent winter keeper and of the very 
best quality, 
Golden 
Pkt. 10¢; oz. 25¢; Ib. $2.10 
102 days. Fruits 11 x 8 inches, top-shap- 
ed, skin orange, flesh orange and thick; 
best quality. 
Green Wartted Hubbard 
Pkt. 10c; oz. 25c; Ib, $1.85 
110 days. Fruits 13 x 9 inches, pointed 
at each end, dark green shell, flesh orange 
and the very best of keepers. 
TOMATOES—Ked Fruited 
Tomatoes can be started in the hot-bed 
or indoors in shallow box, allowing 6-8 
weeks to produce plants for setting out, 
which should be early in June, after dan- 
ger from frost igs pase. Transplant the 
seedlings when they are 2 inches high, 
spacing them 2 inches in ‘flat or they can 
be potted into 3 inch pots. In the corn 
belt seed can be planted in cold frames or 
directly in the out-door seed bed as early 
as April. Pkt. will produce 200 plants; oz. 
2000, Maturity days given are field set 
plants to first ripe fruits; add 6-8 weeks 
from seed. 
Beefsteak 
Pkt. 10c; oz. 85c; Ib, $7.50 
80, days. Known also as Crimson Cush- 
fon, the largest red fruited tomato, scarlet 
red skin, sub-acid flavor, and a favorite 
with home gardeners, 
Bonny Best 
Pkt. 10c; oz. 60c; Ib. $5.20 
66 days. Most popular second early sort 
for both home ‘gardening or for market 
and canning; fruits scarlet, flattened globe 
shape, and a fine northern section variety. 
Chalks Early Jewell 
Pkt. 10c; oz. 80c; Ib. $6.00 
66 days. Open spreading plant, fruits 
flattened, medium size, red and the first 
early general purpose tomato, 
Earliana 
Pht. 10c; oz. 80¢; Ib. $7.50 
82 days, Large robust plant, red fruits, 
large and solid, weighing 7-8 oz. Is very 
resistant to heat and thus popular in the 
corn belt. 
Greater 
Pkt. 10e; oz. 50c; Ib. $5.50 
76 days. Vigirous, heavy foliage, resis- 
tant to blight, fruit red, medium large, 
semi-globe shaped, solid, the most widely 
used main crop tomato. 
Margiobe 
Pkt. 10c; oz. 60c; Ib. 5.50 
81 days. A favorite late main crop to- 
mato; fruits deep flattened, weighing 6-7 
oz, It is am old favorite for the home gar- 
dem and for canning, yielding large crops. 
New Stone 
Pkt, 10c; oz. 60c; Ib. $5.50 
88 days. Large spreading plant, fruits 
pink, large flat with small seed cells, A 
favorite slicing sort for the home garden. 
Pritchard 
Pkt. 10c; oz. 65c; Ib. $5.70 
76 days. Scarlet Topper. Self topping, re- 
sistant to fusarium and nail head; fruits 
red with thick walls, semi-globe, Popular. 
Rutgers 
Pkt. 10c; oz, 55c; Ib. $4.70 
86 days, Plant large with thick stems; 
fruits red, globe shaped, excellent for can- 
ning; fruits ripen from the interior out- 
wards. 
Oxheart 
Pkt. 10c; oz. $1.00; If. $10.00 
90 days. Fruit heart-shaped, thick flesh, 
meaty, pink color and with few seeds; fa- 
yorite for table use. 
TOMATOES—Yeliow, Orange 
Jubilee 
Pkt. 10c; oz. 90c; Ib. $8.00 
90 days. Deep orange flesh, thick and 
mild non-acid flavor. It is a very excellent 
variety, 
Golden Oxheart 
Pkt. 10c; oz. 90c; Ib. $12.00 
88 days. Fruits egg-shaped, orange in 
color, thick flesh and of the very best 
quality, This is high in vitamin C, 
TOMATOES—Small Fruited 
Yelow Plum 
Pkt, 10c; oz. 75c; Ib. $6.50 
70 days. Piants dwarf but with an 
enormous amount of fruits about 144 inches 
through; used in preserves, 
TURNIPS 
Turnips are very easily grown, especial- 
ly when most of their growth is made in 
the cool part of the fail, frost even im- 
proving tueir flavor, Sow the Milan and 
soliage types in the spring as soon as tne 
soil is in snape in rows 12-15 inches apart, 
seediings to 3-6 inches apart and 
make succession plantings every two weeks. 
For the fall and winter crop, sow in rows 
or broadcast, 3 months before your first 
hard frost. The foliage type, mainly Sever 
Tops, makes excelicnt turnip greens and is 
widely used. Pkt, will plant about 50 ft. 
oz. 250 ft. 
Purple Top Strap Leaf 
Pkt. ite; oz. I5e; Ib. 80¢ 
46 days. White ilesa, tops med.um small, 

upright, roots flat with purple top and 
white below; most popular flat purple 
top turnip. 
Purple Top White Giobe 
Pht. 102; oz, 15c; Ib, 80e 
57 days. This is the most popular tur- 
nip and probably plant.d 909% of the time. 
sh while, tops dark green; roots globe- 




shaped purple at top and white below. The 
best fall end winter varicty. 
Seven Top 
Pkt. L0e; oz, 20¢; Ib. 60 
Hardy vyariely grown esprciaily for its 
ps, ior greens. Grown mainly in the 
Market. Glossy green leaves, much crinkled | south, roots not usable, 
WATEKMELON 
Watermelons shouid be plaated after 
frost is over, @ il{tie later-than corn plant- 
Piant 6-8 seeds per hill and the 
6-8 ft apart each way if you wish 
to cultivate them both ways, or thew can 
be planted in 8 ft. rows making the hills 
1 Lttie closer. Cover seeds % inch and af- 
ter the seedlings are well started thin Lo 

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2-3 per hill. Rich, rather sandy soil is 
the idea] Watermelon patch. Pkt. -» ‘ll plant 
6 hills; oz. 30 hills; 2 Ibs. per secre. First 
ia size is length, 2nd, distance 

lafe’s Karly 
: Pkt. 10c; oz. 20e; Ib. $1.35 
60 days. Also colled Harris Barly. i0 
inches. long -by &%4 throrvgah, ficsh ted, 
seeds black and a top rate home garden 
variety, especially for North. 
Dixie Queen 
Pit. 10c; oz. 25¢; lb. $2.25 
8 days. 15 by 12% Inches, skin light 
Green alternately striped with dark geen, 
thin rimd, tough, flesh dark pink with a 
few white seeds; food ‘shipper. 
Early Kansas 
Pie. L0c;-0z. 26c; Ib. $2.25 
8 days. Also called Russian Red, Kan- 
From Good Seed 

sas Queen. 15 by 13 inches, dark green 
with alternate stripes of lighter shade, flesh 
red with brown seeds. A favorite in the 
South. Fruits average 30-35 lbs. each. 
Georgia Rattlesnake 
Pkt. 10e; oz. 20¢; Ib. $1.35 
92 days. 21 x 9 inches, light green with 
dark stripes, flesh pink, seed white. A fa- 
vorite market melon for southern growing; 
fine shipper. a 
Iee Box 
Phe. 10c; oz. 25; Ib. $2.25 
78 days: Nearly round fruits 6 inches 
through, dark skin with faint stripings 
with very thin rind and they ripen very 
quickly. Flesh is especially sweet, seeds 
black. They are especially valuable in 
the small garden and for use where they 
can be placed in the refrigerator similar 
to Muskmelons. Tryt hem, they are all 
right. 
trish Gray 
Pkt. 10e; oz. 20c; Ib. $1.45 
99 days. 22 x 11 inches, skin tough, 
light gray-green, flesh dark pink, seeds 
white, A favorite for southern growing. 
Imp. Kleckley Sweet 
Pit. l0c; oz. 20c; Ib, $1.45 
88 days. Also known as Wondermelon. 
24 x 12 inches, weighing as much as 40 
lbs. Skin attractive bluish green, flesh 
dark red, seeds white with some brown. 
It is tops for the home garden as well as 
for the market, 
Klondike No. 7 B. 8. 
Pkt, 10c; oz, 20e; Ib. $1.60 
90 days. 14 x 10 inches, dark skin, flesh 
thisk, blood red, seeds small and black, A 
resistant strain. 
Peerless or Ice Cream 
Pkt, 10c; og. 15c; Ib. $1.45 
85 days. A very early medium sized mel- 
on, short oblong form, Rind light green, 
thin, mottied and finely veined with darker 
shade, flesh bright scarlet and very sweet; 
sceds white, One of the best varieties for 
the North, 
Stone Mountain 
Pkt. 10c; oz. 20c; Ib. $1.45 
88 days. 17 x 14 inches, darkg reen skin, 
flesh bright crimson, seeds white tipped 
with black. Very prolific and one of the 
best shipping varieties. 
Tom Watson 
Pkt. 10c; oz, 20c; Ib. $1.45 
92 days. 22 x 12 inches, rind is dark 
green, tough, sced brown with some mot- 
tling; grows to a very large size; flesh 
red and of good quality and is one of the 
best shipping varieties, 
Fordhook 
Pkt. 10c; oz. 30c; Ib. $2.10 
95 days. Orange flesh, large oval fruits 
weighing 4-5 Ibs. each; flesh is thick and 
sweet; excellent home garden variety. 
Where Oz. prices are 50c or more, % OZ. 
at same rate; where $1.00 or more 4% and 
% oz, at same rate. 
SWEET CORN 
Sweet corn for green ears can be planted 
as soon as the soil is warm and frost dan- 
ger igs passed and succession plantings can 
follow every week for 1) days for a month 
at least. Plant in hills about 3 ft. apart. 
4-5 seeds per hill; 3 good plants per hill 
is about right; or they can be drilled in 
rows, with one stalk every foot. Three or 
four varieties with different maturing dates 
can be planted at the same time for a 
cuccession of green ears. Try to plant in 
blocks of 4-5 rows, rather than in one long 
row so as to better the pollination and thus 
have well filled ears. Pkt, will plant 200 
nillsy; 8-10 Ibs. per acre, 
Country Gentleman 
Pkt. 25c; Ib, 45c; 5 Ibs. $2.00 
92 days. Known also as Shoe Pig; a 
productive mid-season sweet corn and of 
very high quality; ears 7-8 in. long, filled 
with irregularity. 
Golden Bantam 8-rowed 
Pkt. 25c; Ib, 45¢; 5 Ibs. $2.00 
80 days. The most popular Sweet Corn, 
Slants 5-7 ft. tall, ears 544-6%4 inches long, 
8 rows, golden kernels of the very best 
quality Our opinion is that it is a better 
Swect Corn than any of the hybrids. 
Stowell’s Evergreen 
Pkt, 25¢; Ib, 450; 5 Ibs. $2.00 
The most popular Jate white 
Sweet Corn, both for canning and for the 
home garden; ears 744-8 inches long, 16- 
290 rows of deep, mcaty kerne!s of the very 
best quality; 7-8 ft. tall; used very much 
for canning, 
Adams Early 
Pkt. 25¢; Ib. 40¢; 5 Ibs. $1.80 
75 days. White dent roasting corn, used 
mainiy south of the. Chilo River and 
throughout the South. Hardy ears 7-8 in. 
long, 12-14 rows, stalk 6% ft. tall. 
95 days. 
PAGE TWENTY-NINE 
Podophyllum 
Emodi 
Plant hunters, especially King- 
don Ward, led by the lure of 
strange and beautiful plant forms, 
have found the Himalayas an ex- 
citing hunting ground, Through 
their eforts our gardens have been 
enriched and made spicy. 
Transported over precipitous 
mountain trails, their slopes spark- 






Traucker’s Favorite 
Pkt. 25; Ib. 40c; 5 Ibs. $1.85 
75 days. Not a sugar corn but a white 
roasting ear type, very much planted in 
the South. Ears 9-10 in. long, seed white 
and dented, stalk 7-8 ft, tall. 
Hickory King 
Pkt. 25c; Ib. 35c¢; 5 Ibs. $1.80 
100 days, This is strictly a southern 
roasting ear corn, late large yielder, ears 
very large but 8-rowed. It is very exten- 
sively planted in the South. 
HYBRID SWEET CORN 
The hybrid corns have a great many 
claims and are very popular all over the 
country; they seem to be more uniform, 
ripen more evenly and yield good. We be- 
lieve, though, that the regular varieties 
in most cases woukd be equally as good 
if as much attention was paid to their se- 
lection and growing. 
Golden Cross Bantam 
Pkt. 25c; ib. 75¢; 5 lbs. $3.30 
85 days. Most widely used of the hy- 
brids, for canning, market, freezing or 
home garden. Bars 7%4-8% in, long, 10-14 
rows, stalk 6-7 ft. tall. Extra good quality. 
GARDEN PEAS 
There is one important point in growing 
peas and that is they should be planted as 
early in the spring as possible. The wrinkl- 
ed varieties are usually grown, but for 
the very earliest planting when danger of 
freezing may be had, the smooth seed 
varieties will stand better, where’ the 
wrinkled sorts will rot in the ground. The 
packets offered hold about a half pound, 
Early Alaska 
Pkt. 25c; Ib. 40c; 5 lbs. $1.90 
55 days. The most popular’ earliest 
smooth seeded pea; of special] value where 
jummers are short. It is excellent for can- 
ning or for the early market. Grows 214 
ft. tall, and ripens very evenly. Pods are 
2% in. long, medium light green. 
Little Marvel 
Pkt. 25c¢; Ib. 45¢c; 5 Ibs. $2.10 
The outstanding early dwarf 
ft. tall, pods 3 in. long 
with 7-8 peas; is the most popular for 
home, market and for freezing, being the 
most important winter and spring shipping 
pea in the South, 
Improved Gradus 
Pkt. 250; Ib. 45c; 5 Ibs. $2.20 
68 days. A tender sweet variety with 
large pods, 4 in. long filled with 8-1) peas, 
grows 3 ft, tail, 
Alderman or Telephone 
Pkt. 25c; tb. 45c; 5 lbs. $2.20 
74 days. This is the best variety of the 
tal growing peas or pole peas. Vine grows 
63 days. 
pea; grows 1% 
4%-6 ft., requiring support; pods 4%%4-5 
in. filled with 8-10 extra large peas, very 
productive and over a long season. We 
would especially recommend this variety 
where a small space onty can be had for 
peas. 
Dwarf Gray Sugar or Edible Pod 
Pkt. 25c; Ib. 45c; 5 Ibs. $2.25 
65 days. Pods are cooked like snap beans 
when young, being stringless, brittle and 
succulent; if passed at this stage, they 
can be shelled same as the regular peas, 
This variety ig the earliest and most popu- 
lar. Pods 2%-3 in., plamt grows 2-244 ft., 
very prolific, 
Dwarf Tel 
Pkt. 25¢; lb. 50c; 5 Ibs. $2.20 
76 days. Also called Daisy. Plant grows 
2 ft. tall, pods 4% in. long, medium light 
green. A stocky grower. 
Laxton 
Pkt, 25c; lb. 46c; 5 lbs. $2.00 
62 days. Also called Laxtonian and Hun- 
dredfold, Has the largest pods, 4% in. 
long filled with 7-9 large dark green peas; 
vine grows 1% ft, tall. This is a very 
high quality variety and fine for home or 
market as well as freezing. 
Premium or Little Gem 
Pkt. 25c; Ib. 50c; 5 Ibs. $2.00 
64 days. Grows 22 in. tall, pods 2% in. 
long containing 6-7 peas of best quality. 
This has long been a popular variety for 
the home garden, it being early and of 
high quality and dwarf growing. 
Thomas Laxton 
Pkt. 25c; Ib. 50c; 5 Ibs. $2.00 
65 days. Always a heavy cropped and 
out-ylelding many varieties; grows 2% ft: 
tall, pods 8 in. long filled with 6-8 large 
tender peas of the best quality. A very 
popular variety. 
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Rhododendron 

ling with the jewels of unkown 
blossoms, across 
turbulent torrents swollen by melt- 
ing snow from lofty peaks, the yak 
and pony caravans of these men 
have brought to America and Eng- 
land treasure, bundles of roots and 
seeds. For their multiplication and 
release to our 
thankful, 
One plant to travel this route is 
Podophyllum emodi, exotic Hima- 
layan mandrake, cousin of our na- 
tive Podophyllum peltatum. Hardy 
in Vermont, virtuall yunkown in 
this country, it is a woodland plant 
of perfection in plant form, spring 
flower, and autumn fruit. Grown 
in rich moist woodland soil,~ half 
shade to shade, in early spring its 
interesting bronzy red enfolded 
umbrellag push up on fifteen inch 
tems, then open with the sheen of 
a newly shed Python. Through a 
slit in the palmate leaf the solitary 
upfacing flower opens, a white, 
pink flushed cup with golden sta- 
mens, 
It is autumn, in fruit, however, 
that it really treats the eye. To 
suddenly come upon a colony of the 
bronzy umbrellas sheltering the 
amazing glowing crimson fruit, in 
size and shape of a goose-egg, will 
halt a gardener in his tracks with 
a gasp of disbelief. 
Grown to front for the skinny 
shins of the gracefully arching 
Polygonatum comutum, as a con- 
trast and color spot before a mass- 
ed planting of Pteretis nodulosa, or 
to cluster under Rhododendron and 
Pieris japonica, it is spectacular. 
Fresh seed, planted in autumn to 
freeze, germinate surely, but slow- 
ly. o not disturb the flats, as six 
months or more may find seedlings 
pushing above the surface, Take a 
tip from our Podophyllum palta- 
tum, let the plants colonize helter 
skelter. 
gardens, we are 
On moonlight nights, in the half 
light before dawn, when Datura 
medeloides exhales its heavy frag- 
rance, and the night flying moths 
are busy, visit youd Podophyllum 
emodi plantation. You may hear 
hear the tinkle of yak bells, the 
toneless sing-song ofits driver, or 
words of wisdom from an ageless 
lama. 
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Primula 
Kewensis 

Primula kewensis is a hybrid 
that originated at the Royal Bo- 
taniec Gardens, Kew, Bngland, over 
fifty years ago, and that, unlike 
most hybrids, freely produces fer- 
tile seed which breeds true. It de- 
velopes basal resettes of glossy, 
wavy-edged leaves, and flowers in 
winter. The yellow flowers are 
nearly an inch across, borne in one 
or two whorls on foot-high stems. 
This plant is usually regarded 
as requiring cool greenhouse treat- 
ment, but it can be grown with 
ease by anyone who has a sunny 
basement window where the tem- 
perature will remain above freez- 
ing. Seed should be sown in early 
spring (freezing will not hurt the 
seeds) in rich loam. When the 
seedlings have two or three small 
true leaves they may be potted up 
singly in very smal] pots, or spac- 
ed about an inch apart in flats. As 
the plants increase in size, they 
should be shifted to larger pots; 
a 4” one should be large enough 
for the plant at flowering time. 
During the summer the young 
plants should be kept outside in 
light shade, and of course kept 
well watered; when frost threat- 
ens they may be moved into the 
basement window, where they will 
keep growing and will come into 
flower in late winter, 

