Your 1953 Food Bill can be cut considerably if you raise your own vegetables. With the mounting cost of living making 
inroads on every family budget, a home-garden is a real economy measure and the fresh, health-giving vegetables that you get from it 
are much superior to any you can buy. Besides, gardening is good exercise in the open air, which will help to make you feel your best. 
ASPARAGUS 
Equally good results may be secured by planting seed or roots; 
seed is cheaper but from one to two years’ time is saved by start- 
ing with roots. 
Sow seed early in the spring, in shallow drills 12 to 15 inches 
apart, and when the plants are 4 inches high, thin out to 3 inches 
apart; transplant to the permanent bed the following spring. 
An Asparagus bed should be deeply dug and plenty of manure 
worked in. Set the plants so that the crown is about 3 inches 
below the bed-level, in rows at least 3 feet apart and 11% to 
2 feet apart in the row. Barely cover at first, filling in as the 
plants grow. Do not cut the first year. 
One ounce of seed will sow a 100-foot row; 
5 pounds will sow an acre 
Mary Washington. *% Plants vigorous, very productive and 
nearly rust-free. Shoots dark green with heavy purple overtone 
and of excellent quality. By far the most extensively grown 
variety. Seed, pkt. 15 cts., 0z. 35 cts., 4lb. $1.00, lb. $3.00. 
Two-year-old roots, 85 cts. per doz., $2.50 for 50, $4.60 
per 100, $13.50 for 500, $25.00 per 1,000. 
FRENCH ARTICHOKE 
This highly prized salad can be grown in our climate, provided 
the plants are given light protection over winter. Start the seed 
indoors and give the same treatment as you would tomatoes, 
transplanting to the garden in May. The plants are perennial. 
An ounce of seed will produce 500 plants 
Large Green Globe. The best variety. Pkt. 15 cts., oz. 60 cts., 
oz. $1.00, 4lb. $3.00. 
BEANS 
Everyone Can Grow Beans 
DWARF GREEN-PODDED AND WAX BEANS 
Although the pods of Wax Beans are considered more attractive 
than those of the green-podded sorts, there is no difference in 
quality, and personal choice, or market demand, must decide 
which to grow; both are delicious and both yield bountiful returns 
from limited space. Home gardeners will want some of both types. 
As soon as the ground warms up, plant the Beans 114 to 2 inches 
deep and 2 to 3 inches apart in rows 2 to 21% feet apart. Later 
plantings should be covered 21% to 3 inches deep. For a constant 
supply, plant every two weeks from May to August. 
A pint of seed will sow 150 feet of furrow; 
1 to 112 bushels, depending on variety, will 
be required for an acre when the seed is 
planted in drills. 
For Increased Yield 
Inoculate This Seed 
with LEGUME-AID. 
Dwarf Green-podded Beans 
Bountiful. % 48 days. A splendid variety, well named, for it is 
extremely productive and always reliable. The pods are flat, of 
good size, and handsome appearance, always stringless, tender 
until full grown and of excellent flavor. Pkt. 15 cts., M4pt. 
40 cts., pt. 65 cts., qt. $1.10, pk. $6.45, bus. $24.00. 
Burpee’s Stringless Green-Pod. 50 days. Very productive, 
with pods round, thick, very meaty and perfectly stringless. 
An old favorite with many people. 14pt. 40 cts., pt. 65 cts., 
qt. $1.10, pk. $6.45, bus. $24.00. 
* WHEN IN DOUBT ORDER THE STAR VARIETIES 
