FOR TABLE INTEREST 
Just a selected few of vegetables and herbs are here, less 
usual ones chosen for piquant relish, for zestful tang or savor, 
for early season, or again, because certain of them may still be 
a bit on the rare side, and deserve better knowing. Then there 
are herbs for flavor, a gamut to inspire any chef. It’s a group 
altogether that will make for more interesting eating—as a 
part of more interesting living. Try these garden delights. It 
may surprise you to find how many of them you can fit into 
odd corners and spaces. 
ASPARAGUS 
No space can give more real 
table pleasure than that devoted 
to Asparagus. And it isn’t a 
planting you have to do over each 
year, for an Asparagus bed once 
under way is good for perhaps 
some twenty years of cuttings. 
Even a few hills may yield enough 
for the smaller family. We offer 
strong, one-year roots (the best 
planting size) of the delicious, 
rust-resistant Mary Washington 
variety at 25 roots for $1.35; 
50 for $2.50, 100 for $4.50. 
SALAD—SANDWICH 
—GARNISH 
CURLED CRESS—A azestfully 
snappy, piquant salad plant of § 
easiest culture, ready to use 
within 40 days from sowing, or | 
often sooner. Try it with lettuce 
in a tossed salad. It will add the 
tang that lettuce needs. Just by 
itself, it will make an appetizing 
sandwich filling, and it is curly 
and finely cut enough to be good 
for garnishing. Make first sowing early; another in mid- 
summer. Pkt. 15c; % oz. 25c. 
CHIVES—The leaves have delicate onion flavor, and may be 
used in salads, mixed with cream cheese, chopped for sand- 
wiches and the like. A winter-hardy, enduring, tuft-forming 
perennial, and foliage may be cut repeatedly. Quite ornamental 
when in flower. Sow it in early spring. Pkt. 20c; 3 pkts. for 50c. 
LETTUCE SALAD BOWL-—It quickly makes close, decorative 
rosettes of deeply cut, wavy leaves that are exceedingly tender, 
crispy and sweet, just the right texture and flavor for bowl- 
tossed salads. Stands long, even in heat of summer. Pkt. 20c; 
% oz. 40e. 
PARSLEY DWARF EMERALD CURLED—Masses of deep 
green leaves, much crisped and moss-curled. For flavoring, 
and decorative garnishing. Pkt. 10c; 1 oz. 30c. 
CHICORY WITLOOF—The blanched sprouts or heads make 
an appetizing, tangy, winter salad. In autumn, pack the lifted 
roots upright in boxes, after cutting tops back an inch from 
crown. Sift sandy soil in to fill spaces between roots. Then 
water, and place in medium warm cellar. When new growth 
begins, blanch by inverting another box over top to exclude 
light. Pkt. 15¢e; % oz. 50c. 
AN EXTRA EARLY SWEET CORN 
GOLDEN MIDGET—Extra quick, 65 to 68 days usually. The 
8-row ears run to about 41% inch lengths, the plants to 3-foot 
heights. A true, tender Sweet Corn, richly sweet and fine- 
flavored, and remember, to have any Sweet Corn at its superb 
best, you must be able to pick it fresh from the garden, and 
cook it within the half hour. Pkt. 30c; 44 Ib. 50c; % Ib. 90ce. 
GIANT SUNFLOWER 
The great, golden flowers are showy, and they are followed 
by immense heads of seeds that are valued for poultry. Pkt. 
10c; 14 Ib. 30c; 14 Ib. 50c; 1 Ib. 80c. 
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NINE TASTE DELIGHTS 
SEA KALE—Crambe maritima. A delicious perennial vege- 
table, grown in gardens of England. Full winter hardiness. In 
spring the crispy, blanched shoots are prepared in Asparagus 
ways, the blanching accomplished by putting boxes, baskets 
or straw over the plants. General culture is that of Rhubarb. 
Pkt. 25c; 3 pkts. for 70c. 
SQUASH COCOZELLE BUSH-—lItalian Marrow. Long and 
slender, deep green fruits, of delicious, delicate flavor when 
used young. We like it better than the Zucchini. It won’t take 
up much room, and it yields heavily. Pkt. 10c; 1 oz. 35c. 
SWEET PHYSALIS—Ground Cherry. It yields prodigally of 
small, bright yellow fruits, each in its own easily removed 
husk. Flavor is pleasant, richly sweet, much liked for eating 
out of hand. Also makes good pies or sauce, a bit of lemon 
then being usually added. Easily grown and yields heavily. 
Sometimes known as Husk Tomato. Pkt. 20c; 3 pkts. for 50c. 
RHUBARB VICTORIA—Pie Plant. Thick succulent stalks, 
usually deeply red-tinged, always tartly juicy. Long-lived and 
easily grown. 3 for $1.10; 10 for $2.90. 
ONION JAPANESE BUNCHING—It is just for delicious green 
onions (scallions). It makes no bulb, but instead grows as a 
cluster of slender, silvery, tender stalks of delightful, appetiz- 
ing flavor. Grown only from seed. Sow in early spring for 
green onions in autumn. Any not used then, will live over 
winter in the garden and be ready to pull early the next 
spring. Pkt. 15c; 4% oz. 50c. 
FINOCCHIO—Florence Fennel. The bulb-like enlargements 
of the succulent stem-bases are enjoyed as fresh salads, or 
when boiled and served with butter or cream sauce. The 
“‘bulbs’’? may be blanched by hoeing earth up about them. Sow 
early and thin. Pkt. 15c; 1% oz. 40ce. 
MINHYBRID DWARF POPCORN—So early it ripens crops 
in even short-season areas. Deep, white kernels that pop 
large, white and crispy. Pkt. 20c; 1% lb. 60c; 1 lb. $1.10. 
TOMATO VICTOR—An extra early of very good eating 
quality, firm, smooth, meaty fruits, scarlet, of good size and 
excellent flavor. Plants are of short-jointed, determinate 
growth, right for the smaller garden. Pkt. 15c; 1%4 oz. 50c. 
SWEET CHERRY or COCKTAIL TOMATO—Bright red, 
shining fruits, shape and size of a big cherry. Sugar-sweet. 
Pkt. 15c; 3 pkts. for 40c. 
THE SUGAR PEA 
Here you eat pods and all, no shelling, just prepare them 
as you would snap beans. The pods are succulent, sweet, 
brittle and stringless. Use when young, while the peas in the 
pod are about half the size of those you would shell. 25 inches. 
No support needed. DWARF GRAY SUGAR variety. Pkt. 
15c; % lb. 35c; 1 Ib. 65c. 
AN UNUSUAL SWEET PEPPER 
AVALON SWEET BUTTON— 
A miniature Pepper of even 
smooth, form, somewhat but- 
ton shaped, about 2 inches wide 
by one inch through, but in 
very rich soils may grow a bit 
larger. The glossy red fruits 
are exceedingly uniform, with 
meat thicker than in any other 
Pepper we have grown or 
seen; skin thin and _ tender; 
flavor and eating quality sweet, 
juicy, crisp, delicious. Won- 
derful for salads or for pickling or canning whole. Illustrated 
opposite. Pkt. 20c; 14 oz. 50c. 
STRAWBERRIES FROM SEED 
Here are Runnerless Everbearing Strawberries, no run- 
ners to cut away, and fruits continually ripening from spring 
into late autumn. Since they make no runners, they must 
be grown from seed. Seeds sown in earliest spring, while 
soil is cool, usually give bearing plants by mid-August. The 
fruits are of medium size, smaller than in standard Straw- 
berries, but of delicious flavor and decorative appearance, the 
fruiting plants ornamental enough for edging or even a 
rock garden. Seeds fine; culture “kt.’’ Variety Harzland. Pkt. 
25c; 3 pkts. for 70c; 10 pkts. for $2.00. 
SEEDS OF HERBS—See page five for offering of seeds of 
flavoring and seasoning Herbs in wide assortment. 
