Grape Culture calls for plenty of humus in the soil. 
Old manure is far the best form, to produce vigorous 
spring growth. Extra moisture is needed as fruits fatten 
in summer. 
Hybrid Grapes 
High quality grapes on far less vigorous 
(and less troublesome) vines. 
No permanent canes needed; only a short 
trunk or shank. Grapes grow on new wood, 
which is pruned away each year. 
Most kinds bear about Concord time. 
Bacco, Florence, Angele are perhaps two 
weeks earlier. Siebel 14 and Jacques Wolf, 
a week later. 
North American grape vines yield an unpleasant foxy 
flavor, tough skin, coarse seeds, and other inferior quali- 
tigs that make them undesirable either as table or wine 
grapes. 
The European Grape (Vitis vinifera) is far superior to 
our native grapes. However, it has not the stamina to 
withstand sub-zero weather and succumbs disastrously to 
diseases, while our hardy native grapes remain immune. 
Breeders have produced varieties that combine the best 
qualities of both species to produce the ideal grape vine: 
namely, resiliency to our cold climate and diseases; ab- 
sence of all foxiness, as with the old Concord. These 
Hybrid Grapes possess a pleasant sweetness and a cer- 
tain native fruitiness, that makes them in many respects 
far superior to the California as either fine table or ex- 
cellent wine grapes. 
They lend themselves to Spur pruning. This quality sim- 
plifies the pruning and care of the vines and permits one 
to easily train them into permanent pleasing patterns. 
They can be grown even on a six foot pole, to produce 
from 10 to 30 pounds of luscious grapes. The clusters 
are of immense size, some of the varieties have as many 
as 150 big clusters the second year planted. 
NARCISSU 
STURDY, WELL ROOTED VINES — Zone V. 
2 Year No. 1 $2.75 each postpaid 
BACCO No. 1—Fine strong growing olant, excellent for trellises, dark 
red, medium size berries, good wine and table grape. 
SEIBEL No. 1—Black, long clusters, tart, fine for wine and jelly. 
SEIBEL No. 14—Enormous big clusters, shouldered cluster, big berries, 
good table and wine grape. Black. 
~WESTEHESTER—Roseate white, long clusters, very sweet, finest for table 
and wine, very abundant bearer, absolutely free of foxiness. 
~ MADELEINE—White Muscat, big berries, long clusters, finest of table 
grapes. 
~FLORENCE—Pink, loose cluster, big berries, extremely sweet, very pro- 
lific, fine table grape. 
“ANGELE—Black medium berries, loose cluster, very sweet, absolutely 
vinifera, finest table grape. 
~“JACQUES WOLF—Black grape, big cluster, fine for wine and jelly. (Aestivalis 
X St. Jacques.) Vinifera. 
~SEIBEL No. 5860—Good table and wine grape, white, good all around 
aualities. 
~ MARGUERITE—Black grape, big cluster, good for table. 
ELLEN SCOTT—Red, very sweet, fine table grape. 
A bag of 25 double-nose bulbs of 
any one kind below priced at $3.75 
20 FRUITS, BULBS 
Trumpets 
Dawson City—Golden yellow, large trumpet, 
flat perianth. 
Emperor—Rich yellow trumpet, primrose 
perianth. Old favorite. 
King Alfred—Bold golden trumpet. Sturdy. 
Deeply frilled. Popular. 
Short Cups 
Stolberg—Pure white cup on cream. 
Carlton § (‘‘Nimrod’’)—Outstanding — giant. 
Clear yellow, huge frilled cup, almost a 
trumpet. 
Lady Diana Manners—Orange-red cup on 
creamy white perianth. 
Nette O’Melveney—Tall white. Crown yel- 
low, orange picotee edge. 
Scarlet Elegance—Scarlet on yellow. 
Poetaz 
Several flowers on each stem, tall, extra 
hardy, vigorous, fragrant. 
Ssarlet Gem—Primrose-yellow and deep 
orange. Good forcer. 
L’Innocence—White perianth, large soft 
orange cup. 
10 EACH OF 5 NEWER, BETTER NARCISSUS 
the bag of 50 double-nose bulbs ....$10.00 
R. 0. Backhouse—The pink daffodil. 
Fortune—Copper red, huge. 
Rembrandt—Big golden trumpet. 
Geranium—Many, fragrant orange on white 
flowers. 
Texas—Huge double-red. 
