ASPARAGUS 
HOW TO GROW ASPARAGUS.—One ounce of seed will produce 
about 500 plants. I will furnish a special Leaflet with full directions 
for preparing the bed, how to set the roots, etc., free to all my cus- 
tomers who ask for it. Plant in early spring. 
For your home-garden, 50 roots will plant a space 25 feet long and 
6 feet wide; 100 roots, 50 feet by 6 feet; 8,000 roots per acre, 1% feet 
apart, in rows, 3 feet between the rows. 
Mary Washington Rust-Resistant 
Now more popular and more widely grown than any other. It pro- 
duces large, beautiful, straight, dark green, tender shoots of the most 
delicious flavor. 
Large Two-Year-Old Roots of Mary Washington. Doz. roots 
65 cts. (postpaid 75 cts.); 50 roots $2.25 (postpaid $2.65); 100 roots 
$3.75 (postpaid $4.15); 1,000 roots $25; 5,000 roots $110. 
Seed of Mary Washington. Pkt. 10 cts.; oz. 30 cts.; Mlb. 75 cts.; 
lb. $2.50; 5 lbs. at $2.35 per lb.; 10 Ibs. at $2.25 per lb.; 25 lbs. at 
$2.15 per lb. 
; Broccoli 
Mary Washington 
Asparagus 
BROCCOLI 
One ounce makes about 
2,000 plants. 
Calabrese or Italian Green 
Sprouting. Early Strain. 
70 days. You grow it as you 
do cabbage plants, starting 
indoors in February or March 
and transplanting outdoors 
later, or sow outdoorsin May, 
then transplant 30 inches 
apart each way. The plants 
produce from the center 
small green heads about 4 inches across. 
These are cut out and used before the 
flower-buds open, then from the axils of 
the leaves there develops thick, fleshy, 
light green sprouts, each with small buds 
from 1 to 2 inches across. These are cut 
with 5 to 6 inches of stem and prepared 
like asparagus. It is delicious; try it. 
Pkt. 15 cts.; Yoz. 35 cts.; oz. 65 cts.; 
Yb. $1.25; lb. $4. 
De Cicco. Extremely early strain, Ready 
to use in 60 days. Prices same as above. 
“We have had a garden for many years but never had 
Beets so tender or so fine flavored as Schell’s Harrisburg 
Market. I grew them for the first time this year.’-—Mead- 
ville, Pa. 
BRUSSELS SPROUTS 
Improved Long Island. The plants grow 20 to 24 inches 
high. The ‘‘sprouts’’ or miniature cabbage-like balls are 
about 14 inches in diameter, very solid, and so closely 
set that the stem is completely covered. More delicate 
flavor than cabbage. Sow seed in April to June; trans- 
plant to 1 4% feet in the row, and rows 3 feet apart. When 
Schell’s Kale, Dwarf Green Curled the ‘‘sprouts’’ begin to form, break off the lower leaves 
to give the ‘‘sprouts”’ or ‘‘heads’’ more room to develop. 
Prepare like cabbage. Ready to use in about 90 days. 
BORECOLE or KALE. Petey paler hd Sacre clipes One ounce of seed sows 400 feet of row. Pkt. 15 cts.; 
acre. Sow from early spring until August 15; thin to stand 12 inches apart in the 7402. 45 cts.; oz. 85 cts.; 24lb. $1.75; Ib. $6.75. 
rows. Sow in July for fall use and in September for spring use. a af 
Schell’s Dwarf Curled Blue Scotch or Extra Curled (also known as ‘‘Jamaica’’ 
and as ‘‘Bloomsdale Kale’’). 55 days. This Kale is of a dark bluish green color 
without yellowing, even after several days of shipping. It grows to a large size. 
Very hardy and passes through the severest winters without being harmed. 
Pkt. 10 cts.; oz. 30 cts.; 14lb. 75 cts.; Ib. $1.75; 5 lbs. $8; 10 lbs. $15. 
Dwarf Green Curled. Hardy. Grows 15 inches high and 30 inches spread. Deep 
yellowish green, finely curled. Pkt. 10 cts.; oz. 30 cts.; 41b. 75 cts.; lb. $1.75; 
5 lbs. $8; 10 lbs. $15. 
Dwarf Siberian. 65 days. A dwarf grower (15 inches) with large, broad leaves 
lightly curled at the edges, deep green with bluish bloom. Pkt. 10 cts.; oz. 
30 cts.; 141b. 75 cts.; lb. $1.75; 5 lbs. $8; 10 lbs. $15. 
KOHLRABI 
HOW TO GROW THEM. One ounce will sow a row about 200 feet long. 
Ready in eight weeks. As early in spring as possible, sow the seed in light rich 
_ soil in rows 114 feet apart. When plants are well established, thin to 6 inches. 
Early White Vienna. The skin is light green, the flesh white. Ready to use in 
55 days. Pkt. 15 cts.; 2 pkts. 25 cts.; Yyoz. 35 cts.; oz. 60 cts.; lb. $1.25; 
Early Purple Vienna. Outside is purple, the inside flesh an attractive fresh 
green-white. Prices same as Early White Vienna. 
Early White Vienna Kohlrabi 
