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UEONARD SEED CO^CHICASa

226-230 W.KINZIE ST.

LEONARD’S RETAIL CATALOGUE

PKlNCirAL WAKEHOUISES, LEONARD SEED C03IPAM, IvINZIE and FRANKLIN STREETS, CHICAGO

LEONARD’S SEEDS are sold by merchants generally in all parts of the country. Your home dealer should have them; try there first. In case you cannot get our seeds at home, send your order direct to us.

LEONARD SEED COMPANY

Long Distance Phone

GENERAL OFFICES: Main 2762

226-228-230 WEST KINZIE STREET

Registered Cable Address: “LEONARD,” Chicago Retail Stores:

810 W. Randolph Street 10912 Michigan Avenue 4845 Milwaukee Avenue

Automatic 33222

CHICAGO

WAREHOUSES:

Columbus Wis.

Marshall Wis.

Antigo Wis.

Jefferson Park III.

Avondale Ml.

LEONARD’S RETAIL CATALOGUE

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The Prices We Quote on vegetable and flower seeds will hold good as long as stocks last. The prices on grass seed, grains and all farm seeds are those ruling January 1, 1916, and are subject to change. As far as possible we will fill in full orders for seeds that are quoted subject to variation in price, but if market values will not permit this, we will send all that money remitted will pay for.

Send Cash with the Order. This can be done either in the form of a Money Order, Bank Draft, Express Order, Registered Letter, or cash may be sent by express. Remittances sent in any other way are entirely at the sender’s risk. Small amounts may be sent in postage stamps.

Sign Your Name. Name and address should be written as plainly as possible and care exercised to have Postoffice, County and State in full. If your express office or freight depot has a different name from your postoffice, give that also. This is very important, as we cannot send goot s if we do not know where to send them.

Notice Carefully the Prices. Be sure to know whether we or you are to pay the freight or express, and bear in mind that we do not pay the express of freight charges on pecks or bushels, nor on any tools or plants, nor on potatoes, grass seeds, field seeds or fertilizers, except where we so state on the pages where the goods are priced.

In Case of Delay, Write Us. It sometimes happens that an order is lost in coming to us, or the goods in going to the customer. Therefore, if any who order do not hear from us within a reasonable length of time, they should send a duplicate order, naming the date on which the former one was sent, and the amount of money enclosed, and in what form. This will enable us to investigate the matter and fill the duplicate order quickly.

Order Elarly. We are prepared to fill your order as soon as this catalogue reaches you. So please order early. You will aid us and ge't quicker service by doing this.

We Pay Postage or Expressage on all seeds quoted by the packet, ounce, quarter pound and pound, also on pints and quarts of Peas, Beans and Sweet Corn, and on plants and bulbs except where noted otherwise, and upon all goods quoted in our catalogue where it says; Prepaid by mail or Express.

We Aim to Give Satisfaction. We make our catalogue as plain as possible, both as to descriptions and illustrations.

f ' ^ERMS OF SALE 'We Gf^S- No Warranty, express or implied, as to purity, description, quality, productiveness or any other matter of any Seeds, Bulbs, or Plants we send out, and we will not be in any way responsible for the crop.

Leonard Seed Co.

Offices and Headquarters: 226-228-230

W. Kinzie St. V/lllCagO

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LEONARD’S RETAIL CATALOGUE

WE RESPECTFULLY SUBMIT THE FOLLOWING SUGGESTIONS FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION:

1. That a larger vegetable diet instead of much meat possibly might be of bene- fit to your health and that of your family.

2. Tbat a diet of vegetables is more economical than a meat diet.

3. That the kitchen garden is the surest way of securing fresh vegetables, as the purchased vegetable is most frequently old and inferior.

4. That if you do not plant your yard and care for it, the weeds will grow and become ugly and offensive.

5. That you plant your vegetables in long rows instead of little beds and do without stooping, the work of six hoes with our wheeled garden cultivator.

6. That the work of making a garden is as healthful a physical exercise as golf and as mentally stimulating as chess, the work for ladies and gentlemen.

7. That no house can be complete in its setting without well-kept gardens, lawns and flowers.

8. That no place can possibly be mean that has about it gardens, lawns, and flowers grown from our vegetable, grass and flower seed.

9. THAT THE LEONARD SEED COMPANY ARE SEED GROWERS.

10. THAT THE LEONARD SEED COMPANY SELLS SEED IN BULK ONLY. SEED THAT IS FRESH AND TESTED. THEY DO NOT HANDLE OLD AND RETURNED, COMMISSION SEED.

11. THAT THE PRICE OF LEONARD SEED COMPANY’S BULK SEED IS AS REASONABLE AS GOOD SEED CAN BE SOLD.

12. That you buy at once before some varieties of seed, made scarce by the war and bad climatic conditions, be exhausted.

ONION SET WAREHOUSE No. 7, AVONDALE, CHICAGO

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WAREHOUSE NO. 4, COLUMBUS, WIS.

The LEONARD SEED COMPANY has made every effort possible to have seed of such quality as the most discriminating buyer would require. The appreciation of a high order of merit in seed and in seed service lead natural ly to purchasing from the LEONARD SEED COMPANY. The proportions of the Company is the result.

Seed Warehouse No. 4, located at Columbus, Wis., capacity 50,000 bushels. A view of this warehouse is shown at the top of this page.

Seed Warehouse No. 5, located at Antigo, Wis., capacity, 15,000 bushels.

Seed Warehouse No. 6, located at Marshall, Wis., capacity, 50,000 bushels.

Seed Warehouses at Chicago, capacity, 175,000 bushels. A view of some of our Chicago Warehouses is shown on the inside of the first cover.

Onion Set Warehouses No. 7, located at Avondale, capacity, 40,000 bushels. A view of this warehouse is shown at the bottom of the opposite page.

Onion *Set Warehouse No. 8, Chicago, 60,0 00 bushels.

Onion Set Warehouses A and B, Jefferson Park, Chicago, 60,000 bushels.

Besides our General Offices in Chicago, the LEONARD SEED COMPANY maintain four retail stores, located at

810 West Randolph St./ on Haymarket Square. 4845 Milwaukee Ave.

11033 Michigan Ave. 230 West Kinzie St.

Our experimental trial gardens are located at Avondal, Chicago, 111. Antigo, Wis.

LaGrange, 111. Marshall, Wis.

Columbus, Wis.

More than ten thousand growers who garden for profit buy LEONARD’S Seeds at these retail stores each year in Chicago. In no county in the United States are there so many market gardeners buying seed of one firm as buy seed of LEONARD SEED COMPANY in Cook County. The men who buy these seeds, and many of them buy in great quantities, are equal in gardening ability to any gardener that exists.

LEONARD’S Seed are purchased by seed dealers in every state in the Union.

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LEONARD’S RETAIL CATALOGUE

HOKSrORD’S MARKET GARDEN PEAS IN BLOSSOM

The above is a close view of Horsford’s Market Garden Peas in blossom at Columbus, Wis. The purpose of these experimental gardens is to establish a stock of seed that will be true to type when planted for a crop. Very much as in the breeding of live stock the results may not be all that is desired, but it is an advance. It is not alone in Peas that we are work- ing, but on Beans, Radishes, Cucumbers, Beets and all other stocks of garden seeds.

The views in the inside of the rear cover are of Test Gardens at Avondale, and the two kinds of gardens have very different purposes. The Test Garden of course tells us what any particular lot of seed should be for our trade when they buy it or plant it, but it tells us by comparing the tests many other things. It tells us what seed does that has been grown on clay or loam, or muck, what seed will do planted early or late, harvested when less or more mature, harvested in wet weather or dry, and answers the seeming endless number of questions a pro- fessional seedsman asks himself about his crop.

Our effort in stock improvement is more than repaid by the appreciation of our customers and the increased volume of business we are receiving.

The view below is of one of our Onion Set fields, so our work gardening must be thought of as both intensive and extensive.

WORKING CULTIVATORS IN ONION SETS AT JEFFERSON PARK FARM

LEONARD’S RETAIL CATALOGUE

LEONARD’S SWEET CORN, NARROW GRAIN

OJ e

^ <o

^ 13 t

THE GRAINS SHOWN AT THE SIDE ARE TAKEN OUT OF THE ROW WHICH APPEARS VACANT

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LEONARD’S RETAIL CATALOGUE

Large Green Globe

Tubers (Jerusalem)

Conover’s Colossal

Barr’s Mammoth

Palmetto

Columbian Mammoth White

Giant Argenteuil

Bonvallets Giant

1 year old roots

2 year old roots

3 year old roots

ARTICHOKE. Pkt. Oz. % Lb. Lb.

$0-05 $0 40 $125

Per bu., $4.00

ASPARAGUS— Seed.

05

10

20

$0 60

05

10

25

75

05

10

20

€0

05

10

25

75

05

10

25

75

05

10

30

80

ASPARAGUS— Roots.

4 50 per 1000

6 00 per 1000

BEANS — Dwarf, Bush or Snap.

Green Podded Varieties.

Beans are 60 lbs. to Bu., except Limas and Broad Windsor, which are 56 lbs., and Flageolets and Red Kidney, which are 58 lbs. to Bu.

Hopkin’s Improved Red Valentine

Early Improved Red Valentine

Early Mohawk

Long Yellow, Six Weeks

Round Yellow

Extra Early Refugee

Refugee or 1,000 to 1

Giant Stringless

Burpee’s Stringless Green Pod

Bountiful

Longfellow

Tenn Green Pod or Brown Bunch

Black Valentine

Pheasant Eye Stringless Green Pod

Dwarf Horticultural

Goddard, or Boston Favorite

Improved White Kidney

White Marrow

Prolific Tree

Vineless Marrow

Navy

Boston White Pea Bean

Red Kidney

Broad Windsor Bob, Fava, or Horse Bean

BEANS — Bush Lima Varieties.

Burpee’s Bush Lima

Henderson’s or Dwarf Seiva

Dreer’s Bush Lima

Wonder Bush Lima

Fordhook Bush Lima

BEANS — Dwarf, Bush or Snap. Wax Podded Varieties.

Davis White Wax

Improved Golden Wax, Rust Proof

Black Wax

Pencil Pod Black Wax

Challenge Black Wax

Prolific German Black Wax

Bismarck Black Wax

Currie’s Rust Proof

Jones Stringless Wax

White Wax

Pkt.

Pt.

Qt.

$0 10

$0 25

$0 40

10

25

40

10

25

40

10

35

50

10

35

60

10

25

40

10

20

30

10

40

60

10

45

75

10

35

50

15

30

50

. 10

35

60

10

25

50

10

25

40

. 10

.25

40

10

25

40

10

25

40

10

25

40

. 10

25

40

. 10

25

40

. 10

25

40

. 10

25

40

. 10

25

40

10

25

40

10

25

45

. 10

25

45

. 10

25

45

10

25

45

10

25

45

15

40

60

10

35

50

10

35

50

15

40

60

15

40

60

15

40

60

15

40

60

10

35

50

15

40

60

15

40

60

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BEANS — Dwarf, Bush or Snap — Continued.

Pkt.

Pt.

Qt.

Detroit Wax

$0 35

$0

50

Black Eye Wax

35

50

Webber Wax, a very superior Wax bean

35

50

Yosemite Mammoth Wax

40

60

Round Podded Kidney Wax

40

60

WardweM’s Kidney Wax

15

60

1

00

Golden Eye Wax or Yeilow Eye Wax....

10

35

50

Scarlet Flageolet Wax

Sold

Out

Violet Flageolet Wax

Sold

Out

Refugee Wax

35

50

Valentine Wax

Sold

Out

Hodson Wax

.... 15

40

60

.

BEANS — Pole or Running.

White creaseback

10

30

45

Red Speckled Cut Short or Corn Hill

10

25

45

Kentucky Wonder or Old Homestead

10

25

45

Lazy Wife

Sold

Out

Horticultural Cranberry or London Horticultural

25

45

Early Golden Cluster Wax

Sold

Out

Siebert's Early Lima T.

25

45

Jersey Extra Early Lima

25

45

Dreer's Improved Lima or Challenge

25

45

Large White Lima

20

35

Carolina Small White Lima or Seiva

10

25

45

King of the Garden Lima

.... 10

25

40

Scarlet Runner

10

25

45

Early Dutch Case Knife

.... 10

25

40

MAULES NOXALL OR MISSOURI WONDER

Sold

Out

Mammoth Podded Horticultural

.... 10

25

45

BEETS— For the Table.

Pkt.

Oz.

Lb.

Lb.

Leonard’s Egyptian

... .$0 05

$0 20

$0 50

$1

25

Early Egyptian Blood Turnip

.... 05

15

35

1

00

Early Eclipse

.... 05

20

40

1

00

Lentz Early Blood Turnip

15

35

90

Crosby Egyptian

05

20

50

1

25

Early Crimson Globe

.... 05

20

40

1

00

Edmand’s Blood Turnip

20

40

1

00

Dewing’s Blood Turnip

20

35

90

Bastlan’s Blood Turnip

05

20

35

90

Early Flat Bassano

.... 05

20

35

90

Detroit Dark Red Turnip

.... 05

20

50

1

50

Early Blood Turnip, Improved

.... 05

15

35

1

00

Long Smooth Dark Blood

15

35

1

00

Half Long Blood

15

35

1

00

Swiss Chard

15

35

1

00

Columbia

05

15

35

1

00

Arlington

05

15

35

1

00

Early Dirigo

05

15

35

1

00

Elertrir

05

15

35

1

00

Ruby Dulcet

05

15

35

1

00

BEETS — Mangel Wurzels.

Long Red

10

20

50

Leonard’s Improved Mammoth Long Red

10

20

50

Norbiton Giant Long Red

10

20

50

Giant Intermediate or Ovoid Yellow

.... 05

10

20

50

Golden Tankard

10

20

50

Yellow Globe

05

10

20

50

Orange Globe

10

20

50

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LEONARD’S RETAIL CATALOGUE

BEETS — Sugar.

Lane’s Imperial Sugar

French White Sugar, Red Top

Vilmorin’s Improved Sugar

French Very Rich

Klein Wanzieben

Giant Rose Half Sugar for Cattle

Giant One-Half Sugar Winter

White Red Top

BROCCOLI.

White Cape

Purple Cape

BRUSSELS SPROUTS.

Dwarf Improved .*

Tall French

CABBAGE.

We

can put Cabbage Seed uj) in Vi -lb. %-lb. and 1-lb. Packages if desired

Extra Early Etampes

Extra Early Express

Early Jersey Wakefield

Early York

Charleston Large Wakefield

Early Spring, Earliest Flat Head

Henderson’s Early Summer

All Head Early

Leonard’s Faultless

All Seasons

Succession

Early Dwarf Flat Dutch

Early Large York

Early Winnigstadt

Glory of Enkhuizen

Acme Flat Dutch

Stein’s Early Flat Dutch

Early Drumhead

Early Deep Head

Fottler’s Early Brunswick Blue Stem

Copenhagen Market

Premium Late Flat Dutch

Surehead

Louisville Drumhead

Stone Mason Drumhead

Large Late Drumhead

Leonard’s Bridgeport Drumhead

Marblehead Mammoth Drumhead

Leonard’s Luxemburg

Leonard’s Winter Cabbage (new)

Danish Ball Head, Imported Stock

The Holland, Leonard’s Strain, Imported Stock

Holland Short Stem Strain, Imported Stock

Holland Cabbage, Domestic Stock

The Lupton

Autumn King .

Early Bloo'd Red Erfurt

Mammoth Rock Red

Large Red Drumhead

Red Dutch

Houser Flat Dutch

Volga

Improved American Savoy

Chinese Cabbage or Pe Tsai

Pkt.

Oz.

1/4 Lb.

$0 05

$0 10

$P 20

05

10

20

05

10

20

05

10

20

05

10

20

05

10

20

05

10

20

. , 05

10

20

05

45

1 25

05

45

1 25

05

35

80

05

35

80

05

20

60

05

20

60

05

30

90

05

25

75

05

30

90

05

30

90

05

30

90

05

35

1 00

05

35

1 00

05

30

90

05

30

90

05

25

75

05

25

' 60

05

25

75

05

30

90

05

25

75

05

25

75

05

25

75

05

25

75

05

25

75

05

40

1 00

05

25

75

05.

25

75

05

30

90

05

25

75

05

25

75

05

30

90

05

25

75

05

30

90

05

30

1 00

05

30

90

05

40

1 00

05

40

1 00

05

30

90

05

25

75

05

25

75

05

25

75

05

25

75

05

25

75

05

25

75

05

25

75

05

25

75

05

30

90

05

35

1 25

Lb. $0 50 50 50 50 50 50 50 50

4 25

5 00

2 50

2 50

2 00 2 00

3 00

2 50

3 00 3 00 3 00 3 50 3 50 3 00 3 00 2 50 2 00

2 50

3 25 2 50 2 50 2 50 2 50 2 50

4 00 2 50

2 50

3 25 2 25

2 25

3 25

2 25

3 25 3 50

3 00

4 00 4 00 3 50 2 50 2 50 2 50 2 50 2 50 2 50 2 50

2 50

3 00

4 00

LEONARD’S RETAIL CATALOGUE

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CARROT.

Early French Forcing

Early Scarlet or Short Horn

Half Long Nantes

Chantenay

Geurande or Ox Heart

Danvers

Half Long Scarlet Carentan..

Saint Vallery

Long Red Altrjngham

Improved Long Orange

Large Orange Belgian

Long White Belgian

Improved Short White

Large White Vosges

Coreless

CAULIFLOWER.

Leonard’s Early Snowball

Earliest Dwarf Erfurt

Early Snowball, Danish

Danish Dry Weather

Early Erfurt

Extra Early Paris

Early Paris or Nonpareil

Lenormand’s Short Stem

Autumn Giant

Late Algiers

CELERY.

Golden Self-blanching, French Stock

Golden Self-blanching, American Stock

Rose Ribbed Paris, Self-blanching

Pink Plume, Self-blanching

White Plume, Self-blanching

Winter Queen

Dwarf Golden Heart

Boston Market

Giant Pascal

Giant White Solid

Evans T riumph

Crawford’s Half Dwarf

Giant Golden Heart

Perfection Heartwell

Dwarf White Kalamazoo

New Rose

Apple Shaped, Celeriac

Large Smooth Prague, Celeriac

Erfurt Large Early, Celeriac

Soup or Cutting Celery

Celery Seed, for flavoring

Curled

Common

Large Rooted

Witloof or French Endive

CHERVIL.

CHICORY.

CARDOON.

Pkt.

Oz.

i^Lb.

$0 05

$0 25

$0 75

05

25

75

05

25

60

05

25

60

05

15

40

05

25

60

05

25

75

05

15

45

05

15

45

05

15

45

05

10

30

05

10

30

05

10

30

05

10

30

05

25

60

15

2

25

9 00

15

2

25

9 00

15

2

00

8 00

15

2

25

9 00

10

1

75

7 00

10

75

2 50

10

75

2 50

10

75

2 50

10

75

2 50

10 '

75

2 50

15

1 50

5 00

'10

75

2 25

10

50

1 25

10

50

1 25

05

25

90

05

25

75

05

25

75

05

25

75

05

25

75

05

25

75

05

25

75

05

25

75

05

25

75

05

25

75

05

25

75

05

25

75

05

25

75

05

25

75

05

25

75

05

15

40

05

10

20

05

20

50

05

20

50

10

25

70

10

25

70

05 •

30

80

Lb. $2 50 2 25

1 75

2 00 1 50

1 75

2 00 1 25 1 25 1 25 1 00 1 00 1 00 1 00 1 75

32 00 32 00 2S 00 32 00 24 00

18

00

7

50

4

50

4

50

3

50

2

50

2

50

2

50

2

50

2

50

2

50

2

50

2

50

2

50

2

50

2

50

2

00

2

00

2

00

1

25

80

1 75

1 75

2 25 2 25

Large Solid

2 50

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LEONARD’S RETAIL CATALOGUE

COLLARDS.

True Georgia

Southern or Creole . ..

CORN SALAD.

Large Seeded, Large Leaved

SWEET CORN.

Sweet Corn Is sold by measured bushel.

Golden Bantam (Yellow)

Cory

White Cob Cory

Chicago Market or Ballard

Mammoth White Cory

Premo

Peep o’Day

Extra Early Adams

Perry’s Hybrid........

Early Adams

Early Minnesota

Kehdall’s Early Giant

Early Crosby

Champion

Moore’s Early Concord

Stabler’s Early

Shaker’s Early

Early Mammoth

Shoe Peg

Country Gentlemen

Zig-Zag Evergreen

HIckox Improved

Old Colony

Egyptian

Stowell’s Evergreen

Early Evergreen

White Evergreen

Leonard’s Sweet Corn, Narrow Grain

Mammoth

Black Mexican

White Mexican

Malakoff .’

Early Iowa

CORN— Field.

Big Whiskey. A large new yellow dent

Improved Learning

King of the Earliest

Reid’s Yellow Dent

Pride of the North

Iowa Gold Mine

Iowa Silver Mine

Early Sanford.

Boone County White

Champion White Pearl

Early 8-Rowed Canada Flint

Improved King Philip (Flint)

Longfellow (Flint)

Red Cob Ensilage

Southern Horse Tooth

Wisconsin White Dent

Evergreen Sweet Fodder

Pkt. Oz. lA Lb. Lb. $0 05 $0 10 $0 30 $1 00 05 10 30 1 00

. . 05

10

Pkt.

Pt.

$0 25

20

20

10

15

15

20

20

15

15

15

10

15

10

15

.. 10

15

10

20

10

-15

10

15

10

15

.. 10

15

. . 10

15

10

20

. . 10

15

10

15

10

15

15

10

15

10

15

10

20

15

35

. . 10

15

10

15

10

15

10

15

. . 10

15

Qt.

Pk.

. .$0 15

$1 00

15

1 00

15

1 00

15

1 00

15

1 00

15

1 00

15

1 00

15

1 00

15

1 00

15

1 00

.. 15

1 00

15

1 00

.. 15

1 00

15

1 00

15

1 00

15

1 00

1 00

20 75

Qt.

$0 40 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 25 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 30 35 30 30 30 30‘ 30 30 30 50 30 30 30 30 30

Bu.

$3 00 3 00 3 00 3 00 3 00 3 00 3 00 3 00 3 00 3 00 3 00 3 00 3 00 3 00 3 00 3 00 3 00

LEONARD’S RETAIL CATALOGUE

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CORN— Pop.

White Rice, Shelhed

Pearl, Shelled

Red Rice, Shelled

Golden Queen, Shelled

Popping Corn (not for seed)

Pkt.

Pt.

Qt.

$0 10

$0 20

$0 30

10

20

30

10

20

30

10

20

30

10

15

20

CRESS.

Curled or Pepper Grass

True Water

CUCUMBER.

A small, burr-shaped variety ....

West India Gherkin.

Early Cluster ^

Green Prolific or Boston Pickling

Early Frame or Short Green

Chicago Pickle, Westerfield’s, Leonard’s Strain

Chicago Pickle, not our growing

Jersey Pickling..'.

Everbearing

Cumberland

Improved Long Green

Nichol's Medium Green

Parisian Pickling

Livingston's Evergreen

Fordhook Pickling

Leonard’s Greenhouse Cucumber

Early Improved White Spine

Peerless White Spine .

Evergreen White Spine ,

Arlington White Spine

Cool and Crisp

Emerald

Japanese Climbing

Fordhook Famous

Davis Perfect

Snow Pickle

Klondyke

Write

for

Special

Price

in

100-lb.

lots

DANDELION.

Improved Large Leaved

Cultivated or French Common,

EGG PLANT.

Leonard’s Improved New York, Purple. Spineless

New York Improved Purple

Black Pekin

Early Long Purple

White Pearl

Green Curled

White Curled

Moss Curled

Broad Leaved Batavian

Bulbs

ENDIVE.

GARLIC.

Pkt.

Oz.

1/4 Lb.

Lb.

$0 05

$0 10

$0 20

$0 60

05

35

1 00

3 50

05

15

40

1

50

05

10

30

1

00

05

10

30

1

00

05

10

30

1

00

05

10

35

1

10

05

10

30

1

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05

10

30

1

00

05

10

30

1

00

05

10

30

1

00

05

15

35

1

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05

10

30

1

00

05

10

30

1

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05

10

30

1

00

05

15

35

1

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05

15

40

1

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15

40

1

25

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15

40

1

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15

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1

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1

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40

1

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10

30

1

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1

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1

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15

40

1

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05

10

35

1

10

05

10

30

1

00

10

50

10

50

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10

45

1 25

4 50

10

30

1 00

3 50

10

45

1 25

4 00

10

30

90

3 50

10

50

05

15

40

1

50

05

15

40

1

50

05

15

40

1

50

05

15

30

1

25

Market price

GOURDS.

Dipper 05

Fancy Varieties, Mixed 05

Japanese Nest Egg 05

Sugar Trough 05

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LEONARD’S RETAIL CATALOGUE

HORSE RADISH.

Small Roots. (Doz., 25c; 100, $1.00; 1000, $6.00) Pkt. Oz. % Lh. Lb.

HERBS.

Anise $0 05 $0 15

Balm

05

30

Basil Sweet

05

25

Borage

05

15

Catnip

05

25

Caraway, for Planting

05

10

Coriander

05

10

Dill — Mammoth

05

10

Dill — Common

05

10

Fennel, Sweet

05

15

Florence Fennel

05

25

Horehound

05

25

Hyssop

05

25

Lavender

05

20

Sweet Marjoram

05

40

Rosemary

05

25

Rue

05

30

Sage — Broad Leaved

05

20

Saffron

05

30

Summer Savory

05

15

Thyme . ,

10

50

Wormwood . . .

05

25

KALE.

Dwarf Curled Scotch

05

10

$0 30

$1 00

Half Dwarf Moss Curled

05

10

30

1 00

Siberian, Dwarf German Greens or Sprouts

05

10

30

1 00

Tall Curled Scotch

05

10

30

1 00

Dwarf German Purple

05

10

30

1 00

Thousand Headed Kale

05

10

25

75

KOHL-RABI.

Early White Vienna Forcing

10

20

50

2 50

Early White Vienna

10

20

50

2 50

Large Green

05

15

40

1 25

Early Purple Vienna

20

50

2 50

Early Purple Vienna Forcing

10

20

50

2 50

LEEK.

London Flag

....... 05

20

40

1 50

Large American Flag

05

20

40

1 50

Rouen — Large Winter

05

20

40

1 50

Large Musselburg

05

20

40

1 50

Monstrous Carentan

20

40

1 50

LETTUCE.

Black Seeded Simpson

05

15

40

1 25

Early Curled Silesia, W. S....^.

05

15

40

1 25

Grand Rapids, B. S

15

40

1 25

Early Curled Simpson, White Seeded

05

15

40

1 25

Tilton’s White Star, W. S

15

40

1 25

Boston Curled, B. S

15

40

1 25

The Morse, W. S., similar to Black Seeded

Simpson

05

15

40

1 25

Denver Market, W. S

15

40

1 25

Prize Head, W. S

15

40

1 25

Improved Hanson, W. S

15

40

1 25

Boston Market

15

40

1 25

LEONARD’S RETAIL CATALOGUE

13

LETTUCE— Continued.

Tomhannock, W. S

Iceberg, W. S

Early Tennis Ball, White Seeded. The best head variety for forc- ing. This is also called Boston Market

Tennis Ball, B. S

Silver Ball, W. S

Buttercup, W. S

St. Louis Butter, W. S

All Season

Royal Summer Cabbage, B. S

Big Boston, W. S

White Summer Cabbage, W. S

Defiance

Hubbard’s Market, W. S

Wonderful, same as New York

New Yoick, W. S

California Cream Butter, B. S .

All Year Round, B. S

Salamander, B. S '

Golden Stonehead, W. S

Chartier Head, W. S

Blonde Blockhead, W. S

Philadelphia Butter or Early White Head, W. S

Mammoth Black Seeded Butter

Brown Dutch, B. S

Large Drumhead or Victoria Cabbage, W. S

Speckled Dutch Butter, W. S

Tom Thumb, B. S

Mignonette, W. S

Deacon

May King

Marblehead Mammoth

Winter Lettuce, W. S

Tender Heart

COS OR BLANCHING VARIETIES.

Paris White Cos, W. S

Romaine Cos, W. S

MUSKMELON.

Burrell’s Gem

Ordway Gem

Osage Gem

Admiral Togo

Hoodoo

Paul Rose

Emerald Gem

Princess

Osage

Jenny Lind

McCotter’s Pride...

Banquet » . . .

Delmonico

Tip Top. .

Surprise

Banana

Ornamental Pomegranate

Rocky Ford

Eden Gem

Netted Gem

Delicious Gold Lined

Early Nutmeg ^..

Skillman’s Netted •

Early Hackensack

Large Hackensack

Defender ....!

Pkt.

Oz. Lb.

Lb.

$0 05

$0 15 $0 40

$1

25

05

20

60

1

50

05

15

40

1

25

05

15

40

1

25

05

15

40

1

25

05

15

40

1

25

05

15

40

1

25

05

15

40

1

25

05

15

40

1

25

05

20

55

1

50

05

15

40

1

25

05

15

40

1

25

05

15

40

1

25

05

25

80

2

50

05

25

80

2

50

. 05

15

40

1

25

05

15

40

1

25

05

15

40

1

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05

15

40'

1

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15

40

1

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05

15

40

1

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40

1

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15

40

1

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15 X

40

1

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40

1

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05

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1

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15

40

1

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05

15

40

1

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05

15

40

1

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05

15

40

1

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15,

40

1

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15

40

1

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15

40

1

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50

1

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40

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1

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30

1

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1

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1

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30

1

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1

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10

20

50

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1

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30

1

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35

1

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05

15

35

1

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35

1

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LEONARD’S RETAIL CATALOGUE

MUSKMELON— Continued.

Chicago Market Nutmeg

Melrose

Jersey Belle

Long Island Beauty

Early Green Citron

Shumway's Giant

Montreal Market

Acme or Baltimore

Cosmopolitan

Improved Cantaloupe

Champion Market

White Japan

Bay View

Vine Peach, Mango Melon

Garden Lemon

Casaba

Pine Apple

Norfolk Button

WATERMELON.

Phinney’s Early .'

Vick’s Early

Cole’s Early

Harris’ Early

Excell, new, the coming variety, the best shipping melon. ,

Gypsy or Rattlesnak'e

Peerless

Sweetheart

Dixie .'

Florida Favorite

Kolb’s Gem

Seminole

Black Diamond

Halbert Honey

Tom Watson

Pride of Georgia

Ironclad

Alabama Sweet ;

Light Icing

Dark Icing

Jumbo

Cuban Queen

Success

Mountain Sweet •

Ferry’s Iceberg

Ice Cream

Monte Cristo

iTriumph

Mclver’s Sugar

Kleckly Sweets, same as Monte Cristo

Hungarian Honey

Eden

Bradford

Duke Jones

Red Seed Citron, for preserving

Green Seed Citron, Colorado preserving

Girardeau Favorite

The Boss

MUSTARD.

Brown (Wild)

White, London

Southern Giant Curled, Ostrich Plume, Fordhood Fancy.. Chinese, Smooth Leaf, or Bloomsdale Large Leaved

Pkt.

Oz.

^Lb.

Lb.

$0 05

$0 15

$0 30

$1 00

05

15

30

1 00

05

15

30

1 00

05

15

30

1 00

05

15

30

1 00

10

15

35

1 25

05

15

40

1 25

05

15

30

1 00

05

15

40

1 25

05

15

40

1 25

05

15

30

1 00

05

15

40

1 25

05

15

35

1 10

10

20

50

2 00

10

20

50

2 00

10

20

50

2 00

10

20

50

2 00

05

15

30

1 00

05

10

25

80

05

10

25

80

05

10

25

80

05

10

25

80

05

10

35

1 00

05

10

25

80

05

10

25

80

05

10

25

80

05

10

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80

05

10

25

80

05

10

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05

10

25

80

05

10

25

80

05

10

25

80

05

10

30

1 00

05

10

25

80

05

10

25

80

05

10

25

80

05

10

25

80

05

10

25

80

05

10

25

80

05

10

25

80

05

10

25

80

05

10

25

80

05

10

25

80

05

10

25

80

05

10

30

1 00

05

10

25

80

05

10

25

80

05

10

30

1 00

05

15

30

1 25

05

10

25

80

05

10

25

80

05

10

25

80

05

15

25

1 00

05

15

25

1 00

05

10

25

80

05

10

25

80

05

10

15

40

05

10

20

50

05

15

25

60

05

15

25

75

LEONARD’S RETAIL CATALOGUE

15

MUSHROOM SPAWN.

Pure Culture — in bricks....

English — in bricks

French — in 3-lb. boxes (Per box 75c)

Pkt. Oz. Lb.

Oak Park Tall.. Dwarf Mixed . . . . Oak Park Dwarf.

Perkins Mammoth Long Pod

Dwarf Green, Improved

Long Green

White Velvet

NASTURTIUM.

OKRA.

ONION SEED.

popularity with them. This is the surest indication of merit.

Leonard's Early Yellow Cracker

Early Flat Yellow Danvers

Yellow Dutch or Strasburg

Australian Brown. Skin Brownish Yellow

Yellow Globe Danvers...,

Michigan Yellow Globe

Ohio Yellow Globe

Leonard’s Yellow Globe. A true globe-shaped variety; the best yellow sort for muck lands; the best market gar- deners’ variety; the handsomest yellow-skinned onion

Prize Taker. A popular variety for fall marketing; very showy and a prolific yielder; ordinarily not a real good

keeper

Extra Early Flat Red

Large Red Wethersfield

Leonard’s Red Globe. True globe-shaped, bright red col- ored; the best red skinned variety for market pur- poses; well adapted for all soils; the best red sort for

muck land

Southport Red Globe

Red Victoria

Extra Early White Pearl

Leonard’s White Globe. True globe-shaped; the best white skinned variety for market; the best white sort for muck land

Red Bermuda... White Bermuda, Crystal White W White Barletta., White Queen ... White Welch...

Red Rocca.

ONION — Imported Sorts.

.$0 05 $0

10

$0 20

05

10

25

05

10

20

. 05

10

25

05

10

20

05

10

20

. 05

10

20

05

10

20

lere. Each

year adds

. 05

20

60

. 05

20

60

05

25

75

05

20

60

05

25

75

05

25

75

05

25

75

. 05

30

90

05

30

90

05

25

75

05

25

75

05

25

75

05

30

90

05

30

90

. 05

40

1

25

05

40

1

25

. 05

30

90

05

45

1

25

05

40

1

10

05 •

30

90

05

35

1

00

05

40

1

00

05

25

75

05

30

90

05

30

90

05

30

90

05

25

75

05

25

75

05

25

75

05

25

75

05

25

75

Lb. $0 25 20

50

60

50

60

80

60

60

60

to its

2 00 2 00 2 25 2 00 2 25 2 50 2 50

3 00 2 75

2 50 2 50 2 50

3 00

2 75

4 00 4 00

3 00

4 50 4 25

3 00 3 25 3 50 3 00 3 00 3 00 3 00 2 25 2 25 2 25 2 25 2 25

16

LEONARD’S RETAIL CATALOGUE

HEADQUARTERS FOR ONION SETS.

We are now and for many years have been the leading Onion Set Growers.

We claim a superiority for our product, which comes from superior knowledge in planting, harvesting, storing and shipping, as a result of long continued experience and large operations.

Red Bottom Sets

White Bottom Sets

Yellow Bottom Sets

Yellow Globe Sets

Prizetaker Sets

Crystal White Wax Sets

Pearl Sets

Genuine Top Sets

Winter Top Sets or Perennial.

Potato Onions

White Multipliers or Shallots.

Yellow Multipliers or Shallots

Buyers of onion sets should write for prices, as the values are always changing.

J/2 Pints $0 10 postpaid

Pints 15 postpaid

Quarts ....• 25 postpaid

Any Variety

Bu.

and Peck Write for

Market

Prices

PARSLEY.

Plain or Single

Double Curled

Champion Moss Curled

Fern Leaf

Triple Curled or Myatt’s Garnishing

Hamburg or Rooted

PARSNIP. '

Improved Hollow Crown

Guernsey Improved

Long White Dutch

PEAS — Smooth Seed.

Smooth Seed Peas, 60 lbs. to bu.

Alaska

Ameer

Bountiful

Blue Imperial

Blue Beauty

Blackeye Marrowfat

Claudit

D’Anoney Amelior

Early May

Extra Early :

Essex Star

Early Morn Suttons

First and Best

French Canner

Fillbasket

Giant Lightniivg

Giant Blue Express

Improved Sugar Marrow

Long Island Mammoth

Mauritania

Maud S. . '

Mammoth Melting Sugar *

Prolific Early Market

Primo

Peter Pan

Pilot

Pride of Market

Saxonia or Saxa

Telegraph

Tom Thumb

Velocity

White Marrowfat

Pkt.

Oz.

i^Lb.

Lb.

$0 05

$0 10

$0 30

$1 00

05

15

35

1 25

05

15

35

1 25

05

15

35

1 25

05

15

35

1 25

. 05

15

40

1 25

05

10

25

75

05

10

25

75

05

10

25

75

Pkt.

Pt.

Qt.

.$0 10

$0 20

$0 30

10

20

30

10

20

30

10

20

30

10

20

30

. 10

20

30

10

20

30

10

20

40

10

20

30

10

15

30

10

15

25

.* 10

20

30

. 10

20

30

. 10

15

25

. 10

20

30

. 10

20

30

. 10

15

30

. 10

30

45

. 10

15

30

10

25

35

10

20

40

. 10

20

30

10

20

40

10

20

30

20

30

LEONARD’S RETAIL CATALOGUE

17

PEAS— Wrinkled Seed.

Wrinkled Seed Peas, 56 lbs. to bu.

American Wonder '

Advancer

Admiral

Abundance

Autocrat

Alderman

Admiral Dewey

Boston Unrivaled

British Wonder

Buttercup

Clatawa, Leonard’s

Champion of England

Chelsea Gem

Dwarf Telephone or Daisy

Dwarf Defiance, Sutton’s.

Danby Stratagem y ,

Duke of York

Duke of Albany

Duchess

Dwarf Gray Sugar

Exonian •

English Wonder

Everbearing

Forty Fold...

Gems, Premium

Gems, McLean’s Little.'

Green Gem • . •

Gradus

Gladstone

Golden King

Heroine

Horsford’s Market Garden

King Edward VII

Laxtonian

Little Marvel

Lincoln

Nott’s Excelsior

Potlatch, Leonard’s ‘

Prince of Wales

Richard Seddon

Surprise or Eclipse

Suttons Excelsior i

Suttons A-1

Suttons Peerless

Suttons Pioneer

Shropshire Hero

Stratagem

Sharpes Queen

Sherwood

Senator

Stanley

Thomas Laxton

Telephone

Witham Wonder

Wm. Hurst

World’s Record

Yorkshire Hero

Pkt.

Pt.

Qt.

$0 10

$0 25

$0 35

10

15

30

10

15

30

10

15

30

10

30

50

10

20

30

10

20

30

10

20

40

10

20

40

10

25

40

10

25

40

10

20

30

10

25

45

. 10

25

40

. 10

20

40

10

25

35

10

25

35

10

25

35

10

25

35

10 ‘

20

30

. 10

25

40

10

20

30

. 10

20

30

10

20

30

10

25

45

10

25

40

10

20

30

10

20

30

10

20

30

10

35

50

10

25

45

10

20

40

10

20

40

10

20

30

10

20

30

10

25

40

10

20

30

20

30

10

25

35

10

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35

10

20

30

10

25

40

10

20

30

10

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40

10

25

40

10

20

30

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LEONARD’S RETAIL CATALOGUE

FIELD PEAS.

60 lbs. to Bu.

Common White or Canada.

Common Blue or Green

Scotch Green Field

PEPPER.

Red Chili.. .. Red Cluster.

Celestial

Coral Gem.. .

Bell or Bull Nose.

Pimento

Chinese Giant

Procopp’s Giant.

Golden Dawn. Golden Queen.

Tabasco

Red Cherry. . .

PUMPKIN.

Small Sugar

Japanese Pie

Large Cheese or Kentucky Field

Connecticut Field

Mammoth Tours

Mammoth Potiron. Called also King Mammoth and Mammoth Prize,

Cushaw or Crookneck

Winter Queen or Luxury

Golden Oblong

Pie

Calhoun

Tennessee Sweet Potato

• RADISH.

Leonard’s Three Leaf; excellent forcing sort; color, bright scarlet;

shape, olive

Olive Shaped Leafless forcing

Ne Plus Ultra, or Deep Scarlet Turnip Forcing

Scarlet Turnip White Tipped Forcing

White Tipped Scarlet Turnip

Early Scarlet Globe. The best forcing variety

We put

Crimson Giant Forcing \ Radish Seed

Long Scarlet Short Top \ up in 14-lb.,

1/2-lb. or 1-lb. Packages if desired.

Wood’s Early Frame Cincinnati Market..

Colorado Glass

White Icicle

Early Scarlet Turnip Deep Scarlet Turnip

Scarlet Olive

Carmine Turnip I Write for

Rosy Gem I Special

French Breakfast / Prices in

100-lb.lots

Early White Turnip or White Box

White Olive

Small Early Yellow Turnip

Golden Globe

Subject to Market Changes.

Pkt.

Oz.

^Lb.

Lb.

.$0 05

$0 30

$0 90

$3 00

. 05

30

90

3 00

. 05

30

90

3 00

. 05

30

90

3 00

. 05

30

90

3 00

. 05

30

90

3 00

. 05

30

90

3 00

. 05

30

90

3 00

05

30

1 00

3 25

05

30

90

3 00

05

30

1 00

3 50

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30

1 00

3 50

. 05

30

90

3 00

. 05

30

90

3 00

05

30

90

3 00

05

35

1 00

4 00

05

30

90

3 00

05

10

25

75

05

10

25

75

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10

20

50

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20

50

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30

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10

30

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25

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70

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25

75

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30

80

05

10

30

80

05

10

20

70

05

10

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10

20

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20

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20

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20

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05

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05

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LEONARD’S RETAIL CATALOGUE

19

Half Long Deep Scarlet

Long Brightest Scarlet White Tip.,

Improved Chartier

Long White Vienna or Lady Finger

Long White Pearl

White Strasburg

White Summer Turnip

•White Stuttgart

Yellow Summer Turnip

Gray Summer Turnip

Rose China Winter

White China or Celestial

California Mammoth

Large White Spanish

Round Black Spanish

Long Black Spanish

RADISH — Continued.

Write for Special price in 100-lb. lots.

RHUBARB.

Victoria

Linnaeus

Roots of Either Variety. .Per Doz., 75 cts. Per 100, $5.00

SALSIFY.

Large White

Mammoth Sandwich island

Large Leaved French

SORREL.

SPINACH.

Savoy Leaved

Large Leaved VIroflay or Thick Leaf

Round Leaved

Prickly, or Winter

Long Standing

Broad Flanders

Victoria

New Zealand

SQUASH.

Summer Varieties.

Leonard’s Giant Straigntneck

Leonard’s Giant Crookneck

Summer Crookneck

Leonard’s Mammoth White Bush

Early White Bush

Yellow Bush

White Summer Crookneck

Strickler’s Summer

Italian Veg. Marrow (Cocozelladi-Napoli)

Long White Italian Squash (Yucca de Pergola or Cucuzzi Caravazzi)

Winter Varieties.

Colvin’s Orange Marrow

English Marrow

Boston Marrow

Sibley or Pike’s Peak

Essex Hybrid

Red or Golden Hubbard

Mammoth Chili

Hard Shelled Marrow “

Pkt.

Oz.

i^Lb.

Lb.

$0 05

$0 10

$0 20

$0 70

05

10

20

70

05

10

25

75

05

• 10

25

75

05

10

25

75

05

10

25

75

05

10

25

75

05

10

25

75

05

10

25

75

05

10

25

75

05

10

25

75

05

10

25

80

05

10

25

80

05

10

25

75

05

10

25

75

05

10

25

75

05

15

40

1 50

05

15

40

1 50

05

25

75

2

00

05

25

75

2

00

05

20

60

1 75

05

10

15

35

05

10

15

35

05

10

15

35

05

10

15

35

05 '

10

15

35

05

10

15

35

05

10

15

35

05

10

30

1 00

10

15

35

1

25

10

15

35

1

25

05

10

25

1

00

05

10

25

1

00

05

10

25

1

00

05

10

25

1

00

05'

10

25

1

00

05

10

25

1

00

05

10

25

1

00

2

00

05

15

25

90

05

15

25

1 00

05

10

25

90

05

15

30

1 00

05

10

25

1 00

05

10

25

1 00

05

10

25

1 00

05

10

25

90

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LEONARD’S RETAIL CATALOGUE

SQUASH — Winter Varieties— Continued.

Fordhook

The Delicious

Hubbard

Marblehead

Leonard’s Warty Hubbard

TOBACCO.

Connecticut Seed Leaf

Havana . . . -r

Pkt.

10

05

10

.. 05*

10

Oz. $0 10 15 15 10 15

25

35

i^Lb. $0 25 40 40 25 40

White Burley

05

25

Yellow Pryor

.. 05

25

TOMATO.

Leonard’s Early Market

.. 05

25

60

Atlantic Prize

05

25

60

Early Michigan

05

25

60

Royal Red

.. * 05

25

. 60

Early Optimus

25

60

Dwarf Aristocrat

. . 05

35

75

Dwarf Stone

.. 05

35

75

Volunteer

05

35

75

Favorite

05

25

60

Perfection

We put To-

05

25

60

Chalk’s Early Jewel

mato Seed

05

25

60

Ignotum

up in 1-4 -lb.,

05

30

75

New Stone

Vz-lh. or 1-lb

. . 05

25

60

Packages

05

25

60

Troohv

^ if desired.

05

25

60

Honor Bright

. . 05

- 35

75

Matchless

Write for

05

25

60

Earliana

Special

05

35

75

Crine’s June Pink

Price for

05

35

75

Early Detroit

100-lb. lots

05

25

60*

Trucker’s Favorite

05

25

60

Success

25

60

Coreless

35

70

Acme

25

60

Beauty r

05

25

60

Livingston’s Globe

05

35

1 00

Dwarf Champion

30

75

Mikado

25

75

Essex Hybrid

"

25

60

Imperial

25

60

Dwarf Giant

35

1 00

Greater Baltimore

05

35

75

Red Rock. Grown from original strain

35

1 00

Buckeye State

05

35

75

Ponderosa

05

40

1 00

Tenderloin

. .. 05

30

1 00

Magnus

. .. 05

30

75

Crimson Cushion

05

30

1 00

Red Currant

05

30

Red Cherry

05

30

Red Pear

05

30

Red Peach

05

30

Yellow Cherry

W

For Preserving

05

30

Yellow Plum

05

30

Yellow Pear

05

30

Yellow Peach

05

30

Golden Queen

30

Golden T rophy . .

30

Husk or Ground Cherry

30

Lb. $1 00 1 25 1 25 1 00 1 25

2 10 2 10 2 10 2 10 2' 10 3 00 3 00 3 00 2 10 2 10 2 10

2 50 2 10 2 10 2 10

3 00 2 10 3 00 3 00 2 10 2 10 2 10 3 00 2 10 2 10 3 00 3 00 3 00 2 10 2 10 3 00

2 75

3 50 . 3 00

3 50 3 00 3 00 3 00

LEONARD*S RETAIL CATALOGUE

21

TURNIP.

Pkt. Oz. Lb. Lb.

Extra Early White Milan

$0 05

$0 10

$0 25

$1 00

Extra Early Purple Top Milan...

05

10

25

1 00

Early Snowball

05

10

20

80

Early White Flat Dutch, Strap Leaved

05

10

20

60

Early Purple Top, Strap Leaved.

05

10

20

60

Purple Top White Globe ^

Can put

05

10

20

60

Cow Horn or Long White

Turnip Seed

05

10

20

60

Large White

up in 1/4 lb.,

05

10

20

60

Large Red Top Norfolk

1/2-lb. or 1-lb

05

10

20

60

Whitp Fnn

Packages

;..... 05

10

20

60

Prt n VVhitp Clnhp

^ if desired.

... 05

10

20

60

05

10

20

60

r - ■ -

Seven Top for Turnip Greens. . .

Write for

05

10

20

60

Southern Prize

Special

05

10

20

60

Golden Ball

Price for

05

10

20

60

Purple Top Yellow Aberdeen...^

100 lb. lots

05

10

20

60

Amber Globe

10

20

60

Orange Jelly

10

20

60

Green Top Yellow Aberdeen

. . 05

10

20

60

Yellow Stone

10

20

60

Yellow Globe

10

20

60

RUTABAGA.

Improved American Purple Top

10

20

60

English Purple Top

05

10

20

60

Laing’s Improved

10

20

60 .

Skirvings

05

10

20

60

Carter’s Imperial Purple Top

05

10

20

60

White Rutabaga

. '. 05

10

20

60

Monarch or Tankard

05

: 10

20

60

Budlong’s White Rock

05

10

20

60

BIRD SEEDS— Net Cash.

Canary

Hemp '. -.

Lettuce

Maw

Millet

Rape. German Bird

Mixed Bird Seed

Sunflower

10 25

10 20

15 50

15 50

10 20

10 20

10 20

10 20

SEE PAGE 32 FOR PRICES OF

Field Seeds Grass Seed Fertilizer

Insecticides and Fungicides Tools

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LEONARD’S RETAIL CATALOGUE

CHOICE FLOWER SEEDS

Our Flower Seed Department is fully equipped for efficient service. The stocks we offer are the product of the best European and American speicialists. We call particular attention to our ASTERS, PANSIES, PHLOXES and other popular flowers, being in posi- tion to meet the requirements of those who take especial pride in their flower garden.

Abronia Umbellata, lilac

Abutilon, mixed

Acroclinum, Alba White

Roseum

Mixed

Adonis, aestivalis

Ageratum, Blue Perfection, dwarf

Imperial Dwarf, White

Mixed, White

Agrostemma, mixed

Ailanthus or Tree of Heaven

Alyssum maritimum Sweet Alyssum

Little Gem, white, very dwarf

Saxatile compactum, hardy, spring blooming

Amaranthus caudatus, Love Lies Bleeding

Tricolor, Joseph's Coat

Mixed

Ampelopsis Veitchii Boston or Japanese Ivy

Anemone Coronarian

• Antirrhinum, tall mixed, snap dragons

Yellow

Queen Victoria

Delila

Giant Flowering Brilliant

Aquilegia or Columbine, double finest mixed colors

Single mixed

Arctotis Grandis

Asparagus, plumosus nanus

Sprengeri, trailing

Asperula

ASTERS.

Perfection Paeony Flowered, dark blue

Brilliant Rose

White, pure

Azure, Blue

Queen’s scarlet, fiery scarlet

Surprise

Finest mixed

Giant Comet, crimson

Snow White '

Lavender

Deep Blue

Bright Rose

. Mixed •

Late Flowering, Branching (Semple’s Branching), white

Crimson

Lavender

Purple

Shell pink

Mixed colors

Vick’s Branching, pure white

Vick’s Branching, mixed

Pkt.

Oz.

$0 10

. 10

. 05

05

05

$0 20

05

05

50

05

40

05

40

05

05

05

30

05

50

05

40

05

05

30

05

30

05

50

05

05

05

05

05

10

05

05

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

10

LEONARD’S RETAIL CATALOGUE

23

ASTERS — Continued. Pl^t. Oz.

Queen of the Market, white $0 10

Dark blue 10

Scarlet 10

^Pink 10

Mixed 10

Daybreak, soft pink (Vicks) 10

' Purity, pure white (Vicks) 10

Vick’s Branching, Carmine . . 10

Crimson 10

Lavender 10

Purple 10

Rose 10

Deep Violet 10

White 10

Fine Mixed - 10

Victoria, finest mixed colors '. 10

Scarlet 10

White, pure 10

Purple 10

Peach blossom pink 10

Sky blue , 10

The Carlson Aster, white 10

Pink 10

Lavender 10

Blue 10

Daybreak pink 10

Mixed 10

Dwarf, Mixed, many classes and colors 10

Tall, mixed, many classes and colors 10

Bachelor’s Button, see Centaurea Cyanus 05 $0 25

Balsam Apple (momordica balsamina) 05 25

Balsam Pear (momordica charantia) 05 25

Balsam, premium mixed. Camellia 05 1 00

Camellia, flowered crimson 05 65

Lavender • 05 65

Lilac 05 65

Purple 05 65

Scarlet 05 65

White 05 65

^ Mixed 05 65

Double rose flowered, mixed 05 65

Carnation-striped, finest mixed 05 65

Balloon Vine T 05

Bartonia aurea 10

Browallia (elata), mixed 10

Beilis, perennis, double daisies, mixed colors 10

Double Giant rose, Longfellow 10

Double Grant snowball, white 10

Brachycome iberidifolia, mixed. Swan River Daisy 05

Cacalia, mixed .' 10

Calendula, Meteor, double yellow, striped orange 05

Calliopsis. Golden Wave. Drummondi 05 25

Campanula (Canterbury Bell), finest mixed single 10 30

Double mixed 10 1 00

Canary Bird Flower 10

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• LEONARD’S RETAIL CATALOGUE

Pkt. Oz.

Candytuft. Empress, Giant Hyacinth Flowered, white spike $0 05 $0 40

White rocket, long spikes of white flowers 05 40

Dwarf Hybrids 10 50

Umbellata Crimson 05

Lilac 05

White Hyacinth flowered 05

Mixed colors 05

Canna, crozy sorts 10

Large Flowering, mixed varieties 05

Carnation, choice double mixed, extra fine strain 15

Chabaud 15

Giant Margaret, extra choice mixed 25

Margaret, mixed colors 20

Celosia, Dwarf, mixed 10

Dwarf, Glasgow Prize 10

Centaurea, New Margaret, large, white Sultan 10 1 00

Giant Imperialis, mixed colors 10 75

Cyanus, blue (Ragged Sailor or Corn flowers) 05 25

Emperor William 10

Candidissima 10

Gymnocarpa 10

Chrysanthemum Coronarium, mixed 05

Double, white 05

Cineraria, Hybrida, fine mixture 25

Clarkia, single, mixed 05

Double, mixed 05

Cobaea, scandens, blue, beautiful tender climber, white, grows 20 to 30 ft 05

Coix Lachrymae, Job’s Tears 05

Columbine (aequilegia) single, mixed 10

Double, mixed 05

Coleus, choice mixed 25

Large leaved hybrids, finest mixed 25

Convolvulus Major. See morning glory 05 10

Convolvulus Minor. See morning glory 05 10

Coreopsis, lanceofata, grandiflora 10

Cosmos, large flowering, mixed colors 05 30

Dwarf early, mixed colors 05 40

Early Flowering Crimson 05 50

Pink 05 50

White 05 50

Mammoth Flowering Crimson 05 60

Pink 05 60

White 05 60

Lady Lennox 10

Cyclamen, Persicum, finest mixed 25

Giganteum mixed 25

Cypress Vine, mixed colors 05

Daisy. See Beilis 10

Daisy, New Shasta 15

Dahlia, double mixed 15

Single mixed 10

Delphinium, Blue 15

Hybridum single mixed 10

Hybridum double mixed 15

LEONARD’S RETAIL CATALOGUE

25

Pkt.

Dianthus HeddewigI, single, mixed $0 05

Double, mixed 05

Diadematus fl. pi 05

Lacinatus, single mixed ' 05

Lacinatus, double Snowball 10

Hybridus, double Fireball io

Digitalis or Fox Glove, mixed 10

Dolichos (Hyacinth Bean) mixed 05

Echinocystis, lobata, Wild Cucumber 05

Eschscholtzia Yellow California Poppy 05

Golden West 10

Mixed 05

Mandarin 10

Bush Eschscholtzia 10

Euphorbia variegata. Snow on Mountain 05

Heterophylla, Mexican Fire Plant ** 10

Forget-Me-Not. See myosotis 05

Four O’clock. (Marvel of Peru), mixed 05

Foxglove. See digitalis 05

Fuchsia, single and double mixed 25

Gaillardia, mixed, single annual varieties 05

Grandiff, Hardy Perennial, splendid cut flower 05

Lorenziana, double mixed, annual 05

Geranium Zonale, large, single, mixed 25

Gilia, mixed .' ! 10

Globe Amaranth, mixed, fine everlasting 05

Godetia, mixed 05

Gourds, Dish Cloth 05

Dipper 05

Japanese Nest Egg 05

Sugar Trough 05

Hercules Club 05

Bottle 05

Mock Orange 05

Apple shaped 05

Calabash •. io

Pear shaped 05

Many sorts, mixed 05

Gypsophila paniculata, fine cut flower : 10

Helianthus. See sunflower 05

Helichrysum, double mixed 05

Heliotrope, finest mixed, dark sorts 10

Finest mixed, light sorts 10

Hibiscus, sunset, yellow 05

Crimson eye 05

Hollyhocks, double white 10

Finest double German mixed 10

Annual mixed 05

Allegheny, double fringed 10

Single, mixed 10

Humulus, japonicus, Japanese annual hop 05

Japonicus, variegated, mottled foliage 05

Ice Plant (mesembryanthemum) 05

Impatiens Sultani 25

Ipomoea setosa, Brazilian Morning Glory 10

Grandiflora, moon flower vine, white 10

Heavenly blue, light blue, yellow throat 10

Japanese Imperial Morning Glories, mixed colors, choice 10

Oz.

$0 30

26 LEONARD’S RETAIL CATALOGUE

Pkt. Oz. Lb.

Job’s Tears $0 05

Kochia, Tricophylla — Summer Cypress is becoming very popular 05

Lantana, finest mixed 05

Larkspur, Double Dwf. German Rocket 05

Emperor, fine mixed 10

Lathprus latifolius (everlasting pea) 05

Linaria Cymballaria (Kenilworth Ivy) 10

Linum (Flowering Flax), scarlet 05

Blue 05

White 05

Mixed 05

Lobelia, Crystal Palace 05

Emperor William 05

Gracilis light blue, trailing 05

Mathlola, bicornis 05

Matricaria Capensis fl, pi. — double white Feverfew 05

Marigold African double mixed 05 $0 30

Legion of Honor 05 30

Dwarf French mixed 05 50

Eldorado 05 40

Mignonette, Grandiflora, mixed 05 20

Machet ' 05 75

Golden Machet 05 75

Parsons white 05

Maurandia Vine, mixed 10

Mimosa pudica. Sensitive Plant 05 40

Mimulus, tigrinus, spotted mixed. Monkey Flowers 10 1 50

Moschatus, Musk Plant 10 2 00

Mirabilis. See four o’clock 05

Moon Flower. See Ipomea Grandiflora 10

Morning Glory, all colors mixed 05

Dwarf mixed 05

Japanese. See Ipomea 10 30

Myosotis, alpestris, blue (Forget Me Not) 05

Alpestris, white 05

Alpestris, Victoria blue '. 05

Palustris, semperflorens 10

Nasturtium, Dwarf — New Chameleon, mixed 10

Aurora, deep yellow, blotched carmine 10

Beauty, scarlet, splashed canary 10

Bronze . . . .* 10

Crystal Palace Gem, sulphur, spotted maroon 10

Deep scarlet 10

Empress of India, deep crimson, dark leaved 10

Golden King, rich color 10

King Theodore, rich red, bluish foliage 10

Lady Bird 10

Pearl, whitish 10

Prince Henry, yellow, marbled with scarlet 10

Rose 10

Ruby King, blue, tinted red 10

Spotted King 10

Vesuvius 10

Lilliput Flowers, small rich colors 10

Finest mixture 10 $0 75

Leonard’s Oak Park, choicest bedding mixture 10 1 00

LEONARD’S RETAIL CATALOGUE

27

Pkt.

Nasturtium, Tall or Climbing — Butterfly ..$0 10

Fashion 10

Jupiter 10

Salmon Queen. 10

King Theodore, darkest red 10

Mixed, all colors 10

Nasturtium, Lobb's — Asa Grey, yellowish white 10

Brilliant, dark scarlet 10

Lucifer, very dark scarlet 10

Firefly, dark orange, spotted red, dark foliage 10

Madam Gunther, mixed 10

Roi des Noirs, king of blacks 10

Mixed sorts 10

Nicotlana Sanderae 10

Affinis 10

Nigella Damascena 05

Hippanica

Mixed 05

Pansy, Giant, Trimardeau, mixed, finest strains 10

Meteor 10

Leonard’s Fancy Mixture, the finest mixture of Pansy offered, large

flowers of brilliant colors and fine texture 10

French, large flowering, finest mixed 10

Odier, or five blotched, choice 15

Striped and mottled 10

Bugnot’s superb blotched, extra choice 15

English mixed, very fine 05

Named sorts, mixed 10

Good Mixture 10

Fire King, very fine^ 10

Emperor William, blue 10

Faust, king of the blacks 10

Gold margined 10

Havana brown 10

Masterpiece 25

Azure blue 10

Lord Beaconsfield, purple shading to white 10

Mahogany color 10

Giant Peacock, blue, claret and white 10

Violet margined with white ^ 10

Snow Queen, pure white 10

Victoria, wine red, very fine 10

White, black center, showy 10

Yellow, black center, showy 15

Yellow Gem, pure yellow 10

Perilla, nankanensis 05

Petunia, hybrida inimitable, dwarf 10

Hybrida, striped and blotched 05

Hybrida, finest mixed, first quality 05

Double, large flowered, extra fine mixed 25

Single fringed, very fine 25

Double fringed, very fine 25

Giants of California 25

Ruffled Giants, mixed 25

Phlox Drummondi, finest mixed, all sorts 05

Grandiflora, white 10

Grandiflora, finest mixed 10

Decussata perennial varieties, mixed ,...., 10

Oz.

$2 00 1 50

1 50 1 50

1 50

Lb.

$0 75

28 ‘ LEONARD’S RETAIL CATALOGUE

Phlox Drummondi — Continued Q2

Semi-double, white.. 10

Semi-double scarlet -jQ

Star of Quedlinburg

Poppy— American Flag 05

Carnation Flowered 05

Glaucum (Tulip Poppy) 10

Shirley (Improved) 10

Peony fl. scarlet 10

White 10

Yellow 10

Double mixed 10

Single, finest mixed 10

Portulaca, single, large flowering, mixed 05

Double, large flowering, mixed 10

Primula, Chinese Fringed — Choicest mixed,_very fine 25

Veris (Cowslip), mixed 25

Japonica, fine mixed 25

Pyrethrum aureum (Golden Feather) 05

Selaginoides 05

Single, large flowering, mixed 10

Double, large flowering, mixed 25

Rodanthe, mixed, excellent market plants 05 $0 50

Ricinus, Borboniensis 05 25

Sanguineus 05 25

Zanzibariensis 05 25

Gibsoni 05 25

Rudbeckia, Newmanni 15

Salpiglossis, grandiflora, finest mixed 10

Salvia splendens, scarlet sage 10 2 00

Splendens, Bonfire 10

Splendens, Burning Bush 10

Salvia splendens. New Silver pot

Scabiosa, dwarf double, finest mixed 05

Large flowered, double, white 05

Large flowered, double, finest mixed 05

Schizanthus, fine mixed 15

Smilax, new crop...' 05

Silene armeria (catchfly) 05

Sunflower, multiflores double ,. 05

Globosus Fistulosus T 05

Californicus double 05

Nanus, double dwarf 05

Miniature flowered 05

Stocks, large flowering, German 10

White 10

Crimson 10

Canary Yellow 10

Light blue 10

Dark blue "^O

Good mixed ^0

Finest mixed - 15

LEONARD’S RETAIL CATALOGUE

29^

MIXED SWEET PEAS

Pkt. Oz. Lb.

Choice Mixed. A very good mixture of all the standard sorts $0 05 $0 10 $1 00

Eckford Mixed. A very fine mixture of the standard Grandifiora sorts 05 10 1 00

Leonard’s Fancy Mixed. This mixture contains the cream of the stand- ard sorts, including the Unwin and Spencer varieties. It is the

best mixture to be had 05 15 1 25

Leonard’s Florists’ Mixture. This mixture contains the varieties suita- ble for cut fiower trade 05 15 1 10

Leonard’s Named Sorts Mixed. A complete, mixture of the Grandifiora

and Unwin types blended in proper proportions 05 15 1 10

Spencer Varieties Mixed 10 50 1 50

Bush Varieties Mixed

Christmas Flowering Mixed

SWEET PEAS— SPENCER VARIETIES.

Apple Blossom Spencer, bright rose '>>05 25

Asta Ohn, lavender tinted with mauve 05 25

Aurora Spencer 05 25

Blanche Ferry Spenoer 05 25

Captain of the Blues, Spencer 05 25

Constance Oliver 05 25

Countess Spencer 05 25

Dainty Spencer t... 05 25

Elfrida Pearson 10 30

Florence Morse Spencer, delicate pink 05 25

George Herbert, rosy magenta, shading to carmine 05 25

Helen Lewis, orange, shading to buff 05 25

John Ingman, rosy magenta 05 25

King Edward Spencer 05 25

King White

Le Marquis Spencer, violet, shading to navy blue

Loyalty Spencer

Margaret Madison

Mont Blanc, pure white '. 05 25

Mrs. Routzahn, apricot, shading to pink 05 25

Othello Spencer, deep maroon 05 25

Primrose Spencer, true primrose 05 25

Stirling Stent

Thomas Stevenson

Vermilion Brilliant

White Spencer, pure white 05 25

White wonder , 05 25

CHRISTMAS OR^WINTER FLOWERING. •

Christmas White, pure white. .. '

Christmas Pink, pink and white

Earliest of All, pink and white .'

Earliest White, pure white

UNWIN AND GRANDIFLORA TYPES.

Admiration, rosy lavender ." 05 15

Agnes Eckford, light pink 05 15

America, blood red striped white 05 15

Aurora, orange rose, striped white 05 15

Blanche Ferry, pink and white 05 15

Black Knight, dark maroon 05 15

30

LEONARD’S RETAIL CATALOGUE

SWEET PEAS — Unwin and Grandiflora Types — Continued. Pkt. Oz.

Captivation, rosy purple, large $0 05 $0 15

California Sunbeams, cream color, fine 05 15

Coquette, primrose yellow, shaded lavender 05 15

Countess of Cadogan, reddish mauve, wings blue 05 15

Dorothy Tennant, rosy mauve 05 15

Dorothy Eckford, one of the best whites. ., 05 15

Duke of Westminster, deep rose maroon 05 15

Earliest of All, pink and white 05 15

Earl Cromer, claret magenta 05 15

Emily Eckford, reddish mauve 05 15

Emily Henderson, pure white 05 15

Evelyn Byatt, fine orange salmon 05 15

Extra Early Blanche Ferry, pink and white 05 15

E. J. Castle, rich carmine shaded salmon 05 15

Gorgeous, bright orange salmon 05 15

Henry Eckford, of extraordinary orange color 05 15

Janet Scott, fine pink 05 15

Jeanie Gordon, bright rose, shaded cream 05 15

Katherine Tracy, fine soft pink 05 15

King Edward VII, bright scarlet, large flower 05 15

Lady Mary Currie, orange pink, shaded lilac 05 15

Lady Nina Balfour, delicate mauve 05 15

Lottie Eckford, white, suffused lavender 05 15

Lovely, soft shell pink 05 15

Maid of Honor, white edged lavender 05 15

Miss Willmot, richest orange pink 05 15

Mrs. Alex. Wallace, delicate lavender. 05 15

Mrs. Collier, primrose, delicate shades 05 15

Mrs. Joseph Chamberlain, white, flaked rose 05 15

Mrs. E. Kenyon, primrose 05 15

Navy Blue, deep blue 05 15

New Countess, delicate lavender 05 15

Othello, dark maroon 05 15

Prima Donna, pure pink 05 15

-Prince of Wales, bright rose, self color 05 15

Queen Alexandria, bright scarlet red 05 15

Royal Rose, rosy pink 05 15

Sadie Burpee, large, pure white 05 15

Senator, chocolate, striped white 05 15

Shasta, pure white * 05 15

Stella Morse, rich primrose, flushed pink 05 15

Sunbeam, delicate cream 05 15

Sybil Eckford, creamy buff 05 15

Triumph, standard rose, wings veined with scarlet 05 15

Venus, salmon buff 05 15

Sweet Violet, semper florens blue 10

Sweet William, single, mixed 05

Double, mixed 05

Thunbergia, mixed 10

Verbena, hybrida. Defiance, scarlet 10

Mammoth purple 10

Pink 10

White 10

Hybrida, finest quality, mixed 15

LEONARD’S RETAIL CATALOGUE

31

Vinca, rosea, very fine

Rosea, white, rose center

Fine mixed

Wallflower, single mixed

Double mixed

New annual red

Wild Cucumber

Wild Flower Garden Mixture

Zinnia, double Giants Crimson

Flesh color....

Purple

Scarlet

Sulphur Yellow

Mixed

Semi-Dwarf, finest mixed

Pkt. Oz.

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ZINNIAS

Our position as MARKET GARDENERS’ SEEDMEN is well and favorably known both at home and throughout the country. Our pre-eminent standing in this line of the Seed Business.has been long established. The Mar- ket Gardener, when he plants LEONARD’S SEEDS, may therefore feel reasonably sure that he is planting the best seed obtainable.

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MISCELLANEOUS PRICES.

LAWN GRASS SEED. Pound.

Leonard’s Chicago Park Mixture 5 lbs. for $1.00 $ 0.25

Shady Nook Mixture .25

Terrace Mixture ; .25

GOLF MIXTURE.

Leonard’s Putting Green...,. .35

Leonard’s Fair Green .35

Each.

PERFECTION GARDEN CU LTI VATOR— See page 106 $ 3.50

“Planet, Jr.”

No. 4, Hill and Drill Seeder and Single Wheel Hoe 10.50

No. 4, Hill and Drill Seeder, Plain (as a Drill only) 8.50

No. 25, Combined Hill and Drill Seeder 13.00

No. 31, Combined Hill and Drill Seeder 6.50

No. 3, Seed Drill 10.00

No. 5, Hill and Drill Seeder 12.50

No. 21, Hill and Drill Seeder and Fertilizer Drill 18.50

No. 11, Double Wheel Hoe 8.50

No. 12, Double Wheel Hoe 6.50

No'. 13, Double Wheel Hoe ’. 4.50

No. 16, Single Wheel Hoe 5.35

No. 17, Single Wheel Hoe 4.50

No. 18, Single Wheel Hoe 3.25

No. 19, Single Wheel Hoe ; 3.00

12 Tooth Horse Cultivator, complete 8.75

Matthews’ New Universal Model Garden Drill. 6.50

Hill and Garden Seeder 7.25

New Universal Double Wheel Hoe, Cultivator, Rake and Plow 5.25

Plain Double Wheel Hoe 3.75

Single Wheel Hoe, Cultivator, Rake and Plow 4.75

Plain Single Wheel Hoe 3.00

Expansion Double Wheel Hoe, Cultivator, Rake and Plow 6.25

High Arch Expansion Wheel Hoe, Cultivator, Rake and Plow 7.75

No. 2 Single Wheel Hoe, Cultivator and Plow 4.25

Standard Midget Seeder 2.50

No. 22, Single Wheel Cultivator 4.25

NOr 2, Spring Beam Double Wheel Cultivator 4.75

New Model Drill ... 8.00

Matthews’ Hand Cultivator . ' 6.00

McGee Hand Cultivator 5.00

No. 22 Iron Age Seed Drill with Fertilizer Attachment 18.00

Cahoon Hand Broadcast Seeder. 3.50

Cyclone Hand Broadcas;t Seeder... 1.50

Chicago Fiddle Bow Broadcast Seeder.

Excelsior Weeding Hook .10

Hazeltine Weeding Hook....^^^ ...pv.r -20

Lang’s Weeding Hook .20

Combination Weeding Hook. . . i .. . . . _. . . . v . . . . i .25

Whitewash Sprayer No. 28 1.50

Compressed Air Sprayer No. 30r.'. ......!. 2.00

Eagle Corn Planter 1.25

Where Tools and other Supplies are described in the Catalogue and not priced in the price list the values vary and special prices will be given upon application.

Bug Death, 1 Ib. pkg., 15c; 3 lb. pkg., 35c; 5 lb. pkg., 50c; 121/2 lb. pkg., $1.00; 100 lb. keg, $7.50 in bulk.

Slug Shot, 5 Ib. pkg., 25c; 100 lbs., $4.50 in bulk.

Tobacco Dust, 1 Ib. pkg., 10c; 5 Ib. pkg., 25c; 10 Ib. pkg., 45c.

Tobacco Stems, 3 lbs. for 25c; 10 lbs. for 45c.

PERFECTION GARDEN CULTIVATOR

A machine which in a simple form without attachments, does all the work that can be done by the complicated attachments and combinations needed by others.

The lightest garden tool on the market.

Easiest to adjust.

Strongest in workmanship.

Easiest to operate.

Is a complete machine within itself.

Needs no extra parts.

The only garden tool made that throws the soil to or from the plants without extra attach- ments.

The disc and knife working together leaves a perfect dust mulch.

This mulch retains the mois- ture, while it kills the weeds.

No attachments are necessary to make it do the work needed. By a simple changing of the bolts it automatically adjusts itself to suit the occasion. It can be worked in gravel soil, through sticks and coarse straw or stubble of any kind. In stony land it works as well as in the softest loam.

See Inside Pages for Different Ways to Adjust Machine

The two photographs show it complete. It is simple, durable, made of the best material and within the reach of all in price. It is adjust- able to different angles, each change adapting it to differ- ent modes of work. Different soils require different adjust- ment, and dry weather needs a deeper mulching than when the ground is moist.

Is made in three sizes, viz:

No. 1. With two discs, on which 6 inch or 7 inch knives may be used.

No. 2. With four discs, on which 7h inch, inch or 8f inch knives may be used.

No. 3. With four discs, on which 10 inch or 11 inch knives may be used.

The No. 1 will work rows 9 to 11 inches wide. No. 2 will work rows 11 to 14 inches wide, No. 3 will work rows 13 to 16 inches wide.

LEONARD SEED CO., Manufacturers - CHICAGO, ILL.

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PERFECTION GARDEN CULTIVATOR

MARKET GARDENERS BUY IT ON SIGHT

The Chicago Market Gardeners are quite enthusiastic about the good points of this new tool. They are satisfied that it will do better work than any garden cul- tivator that has ever been sent out. We have had thirty years experience selling tools to these gardeners and have never shown a tool to them which has met with such ready sales. These gardeners know what thej want, they plant all kinds of garden crops, they have tried all the hand cultivators that are known to the trade, and this one they concede comes nearest to their idea of perfection.

INVENTED BY A PRACTICAL TRUCK FARMER

The inventor of this tool is a practical onion grower and truck- er. During his thirty years in truck farming and onion grow- ing, he has tried out all of the garden cultivators that have been made and recommended during that time. He knows tae good Proper Adjustment of Discs for Hard Soil. points ^ well ^ the defects of

^ ‘ ‘ each. From this knowledge he

has perfected, after repeated ef- forts, this new tool which, in a simple form, does all the work that can be done by the complicated attachments and combinations of the others.

Cultivating the soil Should mean a thorough stirring of the soil and the tool that stirs the soil the best should mean the best cultivator. There is no tool on the market todaj’ that stirs the soil equal to the “Perfection.”

You will notice in the cut f

the stiff w'ire leaf guards. '

These are necessary when the ’ crop gets larger to prevent the discs or knife from cut- ting off the tops of the plants.

The guards are put on the bolts' of the knife and the long clip placed on top of the guard through the notch in front and fastened by nuts. You will notice a slot at the back end of the clip, which makes the guard adjustable to suit the height of the person using the cultivator. After putting t on the guards and before : using the cultivator, bend the j ends of the guards in about even with the front end of the discs a little and this will throw back all the tops and you can go on cultivating to — - - — - —

the finish. The Proper Adjustment of Leaf Guards.

A short time of experimenting will show you how to get the best work from the Tool. A proper adjustment is necessary for perfect work.

PERFECTION GARDEN CULTIVATOR

Notice the Thumb Screw that Adjusts the Discs.

You will notice the

thumb screw on top and in front of the handle. This thumb screw can be loosened and the discs can be adjusted to any angle. This is for the purpose of making the discs take hold of the soil more or less as desired and for deeper or shallow- er cultivation as desired. If the soil is loose run the discs nearly straight, if the soil is packed throw the discs more to take hold of it, just the same as the discs pulled by horses.

In using the Perfection, the hands should always be in about the same position in cultivating deep or shallow, that is, as low as the tool can be pushed easily.

You will notice that there are two bolts that fasten the handle to the cultivator.

These bolts pass through slots in the handle for the purpose of adjusting the handle up or down to suit the height of the person using the cultivator and also to regulate the depth of cul- tivation. By loosening the bolts and tipping the handle down you raise the knife and the cultivator will run shal- lower. By tipping the handle up you lower the knife and get deeper cultivation.

Notice the Bolts in the Handle, They are set in a Slot Hole that Permits Adjustment.

The Tool works perfectly when properly set and properly worked

PERFECTION GARDEN CULTIVATOR

The Perfection Garden Cultivator is constructed on up to date principles of cultivation of the soil, viz.: to let the air into the soil, to conserve the moisture and to destroy the weeds.

This can onl}’ be done by thoroughly stirring the soil. The discs in com- bination with the knife does this completeh' any depth desired.

The Disc is the best tool devised by man for thoroughly stirring the soil. The knife that runs behind the discs draws the discs into the soil and also holds them steady, not allowing them to dodge sideways into the rows of vegetables.

PERFECTION GARDEN CULTIVATOR

Is made in three sizes, viz.:

No. 1. AVith two discs, on which 6 inch or 7 inch knives ma\' be used.

No. 2. With four discs, on which 7^- inch, 8^ inch or 8f inch knives may be used.

No. 3. With four discs, on which 10 inch or 11 inch knives may be used.

The No. 1 will work rows 9 to 11 inches wide. No. 2 will work rows 11 to 14 inch- es wide. No. .3 will work rows 13 to 16 inches wide.

Mention what size knives you wish when ordering. The price is the same for any of the sizes. 50

Price

Each

EITHER SIZE

LEONARD SEED CO., Manufacturers - CHICAGO. ILL.

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ARTICHOKE

GREEN GLOBE ARTICHOKE

The Globe Artichoke is grown for the use of its unexpanded flower heads that are cooked like asparagus. If started in a hot bed and handled like a tomato it matures the first year. Oftenest it is treated like a perennial, that is, given slight covering in winter it remains in bearing several years. Give the plant two to three feet space in three-foot rows and cut all flower buds before opening to continue to plants blooming.

Large Green Globe. The standard variety.

The Jerusalem Artichoke, distinct from the Globe, is grown from the tubers for its tubers, as are potatoes. Its value is as a stock food, be- cause of its fattening prop- erties.

ARTICHOKE JERUSALEM

Columbian Mammoth White. A new and entirely distinct variety that produces shoots that are white, and remain white as long as fit for use.

Conover’s Colossal. The standard variety; of large size, tender and of excellent quality.

Barr’s Mammoth. The stalks are very large, frequently one inch in diameter, with few scales; the stalks retain their thickness com- pletely up to the top of the shoots, and have close, round heads.

Palmetto. It is of very large size, even and regular in growth and appearance. It is a very early sort, and immensely productive and of the best quality.

Giant Argenteuil. Is a selection from imported French Argenteuil stock. An improvement upon the original. In the south it is regarded as distinctly superior to Palmetto. One experienced grower says that Argenteuil is as much larger than Palmetto as Palmetto is larger than Conover.

Bonvallet’s Giant. Becoming very popular with large growers. Preferred by many over all other kinds.

ASPARAGUS PLANTS

Asparagus Roots can be supplied from November 1st to May 1st, but the best time for planting in the North is in the early spring.

Columbian Mammoth White. 2 -year- old roots.

Conover’s Colossal. 2-year-old roots.

Barr’s Mammoth. 2-year-old roots.

Palmetto. 2-year-old roots.

Giant Argenteuil. 2-year-old roots.

Bonvallet’s Giant. 2 -year- old roots.

ARGENTEUIL

ASPARAGUS

Complete cultural direc- tions furnished on request. As some cutting may be be- gun only in the third year from planting the seed the use of roots or plants prove an expediency.

ASPARAGUS SE]^

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BUSH BEANS GREEN POD VARIETIES

Culture. Beans are easily frost killed, so plant them at corn planting time on light dry land. Cold wet weather will rot the seed in thfe ground and fresh manure causes a rank growth of vine with a lack of pods. If hand cultivated beans can be drilled in poor soil as close as eighteen inches, but in rich soil with horse cultivation thirty inches is required. Drill six beans to the foot and cover one inch deep; or plant four beans to the hill eighteen by twenty-four inches apart. One quart of seed should plant 200 feet and five pecks plant an acre. Plant every third week for a succession up till Aug. 1st in the latitude of Chicago. Pick beans before the bulge of seed appears and pick beans clean to continue the plants bear- ing. Give beans shallow cultivation and do not till the soil when the plant is in bloom or the plant in self defence will drop its blossoms. To cultivate when wet is to invite rust.

Extra Early Red Valentine. Hardy, pod light green, and semi-transparent, round and slightly curved. Succulent, prolific, and quite free from strings, continuing long in an edible condition; 46 days from planting to first picking.

Burpee’s Stringless Green Pod. This new bean produces a vine similar to Red Valen- tine, but develops pods to an edible condition in 42 days, about four days earlier than Valen- tine. The pods are green, not quite so round as Valentine and less curved. The pods are string- less, absolutely so, this quality' at once plac- ing the variety at the top of the list among table beans, while the early maturity is of great merit. This stringless quality is of particular value, the pods breaking as short and free as pipe stems.

Giant Stringless. A very hardy, stocky vine, pods long, round and green in color, of exceptionally fine quality and stringless throughout its entire growth. About a week earlier than Red Valentine and much more prolific.

Tennessee Green Pod. This dwarf snap bean, although new to the Seed Trade, has for several years been grown in the South, and wherever known is freely spoken of in term.s of highest praise. Vine prolific, foliage dark green with leaves large and crumpled. Pods long, flat, irregular in shape, bright green and of most excellent quality. Seed medium size, oval, flat, yellowish brown in color.

Leonard’s Pheasant Eye. Is a valuable new green podded variety. Vines hardy, sturdy, well leafed. Pods long, meaty, string- less and of excellent quality. Originated from plants found in Bountiful; it retains all the good points of that ^■ariety, with added sym- metry of pod. Seed white, splashed more or less at eye side with yellowish brown, which coloring also surrounds eye.

Boimtifid Beans. This new, green podded Bush Bean is a heavy cropper and very early, of fine shape, stringless, and good quality. Its hardiness and great productiveness make it one of the very best Bush Beans.

Dwarf Horticultural. Vines very produc- tive, compact, upright, with large leaves. Pods medium length, cylindrical, curved, with splashes of bright red on a yellowish ground. Seed large, oval, plump and nearly covered with splashes of bright red.

Long Yellow Six Wee’rs. The vine is large, vigorous, branching and productive, with large leaves. Pods long, straight, thick, flat in shape, green in color, of good quality when young and fair as they near maturity. Is ready for picking 45 days from planting.

Round Yellow Six Weeks. Very similar to Long Yellow Six Weeks as to vine, with pods shorter and much more thick and fleshy, about one week later, being ready for table 5 7 days from planting. Seed round, yellowish drab with a slightly darker marking about the eye.

IN THE FRONT OF THIS BOOK ARE THE PRICES OF ALL VARIETIES DESCRIBED HERE WITH OTHER LESS FRE- QUENTLY REQUIRED KINDS. THESE PRICES ARE AS REA- SONABLE AS GOOD SEED CAN BE SOLD.

LEONARD SEED COMPANY, CHICAGO

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LONGFELLOW BEAN

BUSH BEANS — Green Pods — Continued

Longfellow. This new bean has long green pods, is exceedingly prolific, al- ways solid, a delicious flavor, is tender and remarkably early. It matures its crop very regularly and withstands adverse conditions well. A good bean for market or home use.

Black Valentine. This excellent variety is a great improvement over the standard' early Red Valentine, being one-third longer than that variety, with pods perfectly round and straight and of excellent quality. It also has the additional advantage of being suitable for both early and late planting and is extremely hardy. It will withstand early and late frost, is an excellent shipper, a large yielder, and of very handsome appearance.

Extra Early Refugee. Very much earlier than the Old Style Refugee, or 1000 to 1, being fit to eat in 48 days from plant- ing. More dwarf and compact in growth, while the pods are round, solid, tender, and of excellent quality, suitable for table use, canning or pickling.

Refugee, or 1000 to 1. The vines large, spreading, exceed- ingly hardy, with small, smooth leaves, very late and bear long, cylindrical green pods of excellent quality. ‘ Highly esteemed for late planting and for use as pickles.

Early Mohawk. One of the oldest and best known sorts.

The pod is green, thick, flat in shape, of fair quality, developing a slight string as it matures. Is ready to pick 48 days from planting, and will resist a slight degree of frost very successfully.

Best of All. The hardy, vigorous vine produces an abun- dance of very straight, handsome pods which when fit for use as snaps, are very brittle and of a peculiar deep green color.

Improved Tree or Dwarf White Navy, A variety developed In western New York. Is a sure cropper, and not only more prolific than the common white bean, but also of better quality.

Large White Marrow or Mountain. Vines are large, slender, spreading, with short runners and small leaves; very prolific; pods medium, broad, green, changing to yellow; beans large, clear white, ovoid, cooking very dry and mealy.

Red Kidney. Well known shell bean.

White Kidney. A slender white bean of superior quality; used shelled, green or mature.

Broad Windsor. The standard English horse bean.

THE SEED SHORTAGE

So urgent has become the European demand for food due to the war that very frequently the seed crops have had to give way to the growing of such crops as may be utilized for food. In many cases, the majority of employes of the best foreign seed growers have been called to the war, leaving behind only those who are either too young or too old for war service to look after the growing and harvesting of seed crops. This will of necessity mean a lessened production and perhaps a production of some inferior seed. In America adverse weather conditions from planting until harvest time, early frost, anthracnose in beans, etc., joined with the unusual foreign situation to make the seed production for this year much less than normal. Therefore we advise the early buying of seed before some of the varieties wanted are exhausted.

BEACK VALENTINE

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BUSH BEANS— Wax Pod Varieties

REFUGEE WAX

ous bush than the Improved Prolific Black shaped very much like a pencil.

Prolific Black Wax. The old stand- ard Black Wax Bush Bean. It is so good that it is worthy of special notice.

The pods are round, brittle, of handsome golden yellow color, and of buttery flavor when cooked.

Detroit Wax. A distinct variety of recent introduction, which is worthy of a p^ace in every garden. The waxy, yellow pods are produced in great abun- dance and the quality is extra fine.

Flageolet Wax. A large bush wax variety; seed large, purplish red; excel- lent as a snap bean, and in great favor as a dry shell bean.

Refugee Wax. A perfect Refugee with wax pods. Pods long, round, and of a golden yellow color. One of the earliest, quality excellent and is fit for picking 57 days from planting. A very fine canning bean.

Hodson Wax. An excellent sort, later than some of the others, but hav- ing many superior points.

Round Podded Kidney Wax. A round podded variety of great merit.

White Wax. The old standard white seeded wax bean, very prolific.

Deonard’s Webber Wax. A new Wax Bean of distinct character. This bean has been in the hands of a few Chicago gardeners for some years back. Several years ago we secured a small lot which we have nursed along and this year we have enough seed to offer it in limited quantities to our customers. The vine is strong, holding the pods well up. The pods are of an exceedingly bright yellow color, handsomer in this respect than any other wax bean; in shape they resemble Wardwell’s wax but are rounder and more meaty. The color of the seed is yellow.

Davis White Wax. This bean is adapted alike for the canner, market gardener, shipper or amateur. The dry bean is large, kidney shaped, and white in color, making it one of the best for cooking in a dry state. Pods are long, meaty, fiat in shape, and of a beautiful yellow color and fair quality.

Currie’s Rust Proof Wax. An excellent Wax Bean in every respect. Rust proof, tender, thick, fiat pods of very good quality. Very lit- tle string in early stages, developing a little when nearing maturity. Fit for table use 47 days from planting.

Improved Golden Wax. Rust proof, an im- provement on the old style Golden Wax. Pod is semi-round, yellow, of good quality and has no string. Ready for picking 47 days from plant- ing.

Wardwell’s Kidney Wax. Hardy and pro- ductive, pods long, broad, thick, fiat, and of a delicate waxy yellow, of excellent quality and with no string in the early growth, ready for table 48 days from planting.

Pencil Pod Black Wax. Pencil Pod Black Wax grows a taller, stronger and more vigor- Wax, long, slender, straight, handsome pods.

PENCIL POD BLACK WAX

GOOD SEED CANNOT BE SOLD MORE REASONABLY THAN WE ARE SELLING SEED. THE PRICES FOR THESE VARIE- TIES ALONG WITH VARIETIES LESS FREQLFENTLY RE- QUIRED IS FOUND IN THE FRONT OF THIS BOOK.

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DWARF LIMA VARIETIES

Culture. As the lima requires even more heat than other beans, a failure will follow a too early planting. The bean when favorably planted throws out from what we term the bean’s eye a stout root; this root in turn lifts the bean aboy.e the ground. The bean then opens its halves or false leaves, or cotyledons, and the true leav^es soon follow. If in planting the bean is thrust into the soil eye down, and just below the surface, the bean is in a favorable position to begin its growth. However, the crop can be secured though with a lesser percent of germination by dropping the bean in any position.

Bush or Dwarf Limas are earlier than pole limas and are planted in twenty-four to forty inch drills, three to six inches apart in the row, according to varieties. One quart plants one hun- dred and twenty-five to one hundred and fifty feet.

Burpee’s. The only bush form of the true, luscious, large lima. It is pronounced by all good judges as unquestionably the real Bush Lima. The bushes grow eighteen to twenty inches high, of stout growth and always erect. It is an immense yielder.

Dreer’s. The true bush form of the chubby Dreer’s or Potato Lima. The pods are heavy and thick. It is quite productive and of excellent quality.

Fordhook Bush Lima. Vines strong, erect and true Bush Lima growth. Foliage heavy and very dark green in color. The stalks that produce the blossoms are thrown out from the lateral and main stalks. The pods resemble Dreer’s Bush Lima, but average more than double the size and contain from 3 to 5 beans to the pod.

Henderson’s. This is a bush form of the small Sieva pole bean. It is the original bush form of the pole beans. It is the most productive of any, and on the whole is a vegetable of great merit.

New Wonder. This gives the largest and best returns — a big crop from a small space — and is a decided improvement on the original type of Burpee’s Bush Lima. The beans are of flat shape and fully equal in flavor to the famous Dreer’s Bush Lima, so well and favorably known.

POLE BEANS

Culture. The pole bean climbs, sometimes needing a little training over any support given it. A good practice is to set firmly in the ground every three or four feet each way, poles that are, when set, about six feet high. Some time after bunch beans are planted, six or eight pole beans are planted one inch deep near the base of each stake and latter thinned to three or four plants to the pole. One half bushel of pole beans generously plants an acre and one pint plants one hundred hills. The pole bean bears over a longer period than the bunch bean and is generally considered of superior quality, but it requires more labor, longer time to mature, and is more sensitive to adverse climatic and soil conditions. Note that the vine turns only one way around its support.

When too old for use as a green snap bean, use any bean shelled, or still later, when it is hard and dry, it remains equally serviceable.

Kentucky Wonder. Vines vigorous, climbing well, and very productive, bearing its pods in large clusters; blossoms white; pods green, very long, often reaching 9 to 10 inches. Nearly round when young and very crisp, although as they reach maturity they become irregular and spongy. Dry Beans long, oval, dun-colored.

Lazy W’^ife. One of the most productive and easily gathered of the Pole Beans, hence its very discourteous name. A most excellent bean for the home garden.

Scarlet Runner. Height, -10 feet, with dazzling scarlet flowers from July to October; both ornamental and useful. It is used either as a string or shelled bean.

London Horticultural, or Speckled Cranberry. Vines moderately vigorous, bearing short, broad, pale green pods, becoming streaked with bright red as they near maturity. Beans large, ovate and splashed with red. Used either green or in thfe dry state.

Red Speckled Cut Short (or Corn Hill). This is the best sort of plant in hills of corn. A great cropper.

Dutch Case Knife. Vines moderately vigorous, climbing well and excellent for a corn hill bean; leaves large, crumpled, and pods very long, flat, green in color, becoming creamy white later. Beans broad kidney shaped, flat, and white in color.

Early Golden Cluster Wax. One of the very finest pole beans. Very early, being only a week later than Golden Wax.

White Creasebaek. An extremely early Pole Bean. Vines small to medium and wonderfully productive. Bearing pods in clusters of from 4 to 12, and medium in length. An excellent shipper.

Early Jersey Lima. 10 days earlier than any other Lima. Recommended as a most profit- able Lima Bean.

Dreer’s ImproA^ed or Challenger Lima. This is a bean of rather peculiar shape, being thick and plump, rather than flat and oval.

King of the Garden Lima. The old standard market and family sort. The vine begins to produce pods at the foot of the pole, and the bearing season continues until frost. Pods large, and well filled with beans of mammoth size.

Large WTiite Lima. The large Lima is a general favorite wherever it can be cultivated, on account of its excellent flavor and productiveness.

Small White Lima, Carolina or Sieva. Vines vigorous with many short branches, so that they are sometimes grown without poles; very early and productive, bearing short pods, which are thin and curved.

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TABLE BEETS

Cultui’e. As soon as the soil can be worked in spring-, sow beet seed in twelve to eighteen-inch •drills for hand hoeing or eighteen to thirty-inch drills for horse cultivation, dropping twelve seed to the foot. Cover the beet seed, which is really a beet fruit containing one or more seeds, one- half inch deep. Later, thin the beets to stand five to the foot. Planted April 1st the early vari- eties should be marketable June 1st or the crop may be advanced several weeks by starting under glass and transplating to the open, first giving the beet tops a severe pruning. Use one ounce of seed to one hundred feet of row and five or six pounds to the acre. Beets sown in early July should be ready to store in pits or in sand in the cellar when freezing weather begins.

Leonard’s Egyptian. This is the earliest and best bunching beet for market gardeners. It has been grown for many years by the gardeners of Chicago, and now they prefer it above all others.

Crosby’s Egyptian, This variety resembles the Egyptian only in its extreme earliness. The stock we offer is of a distinct vermilion color, which is very attractive not only in the beets as pulled, but after they have been cooked. They are also more spherical than the Extra Early Egyptian and we think of better quality.

Early Turnip Bassano. Tops large; leaf stems light red; leaves light green; roots large, flesh pink, zoned with white.

Crimson Globe. This is one of the finest beets yet introduced. Roots are not large, but very handsome. Round, and a clean, smooth surface. L'eaves very small, with slender stems.

Detroit Dark Red Turnip. Quality good, sweet and tender; color deep red; roots are turnip shaped, with small tap roots.

Dewing’s Early Blood Turnip. A good variety, for main crop. Keeps well. Like Edmand’s, but lighter color.

Edmand’s Early Blood Turnip. The best sort for general crop. In quality one of the finest, exceedingly dark, shape globular, having only one tap root. Very popular with market men.

ImproA^ed Blood Turnip. An improved variety of the Early Blood turnip of deep, blood-red color; fine form and flavor. An excellent market sort.

Bastians. An extra early variety, much esteemed by market men East and South. Color light.

Ruby Dulcet. Globe-shaped; in every respect a handsome market sort; small top, small tap- root; skin and flesh deep, rich, purplish crimson.

Half Long Blood. One of the best for winter use. The roots are only half as long as the Long Blood, but weigh as much on account of their thickness.

Long Smooth Blood. The standard long late sort. Very dark, blood-red flesh; quality fine.

Electric. A fine early beet. The color is dark crimson, with rings of a lighter red.

Shape, round and smooth; leaves, small and compact.

Columbia. Round and smooth, with deep v red flesh; early and very tender.

Aldington ImproA^ed. Early; deep round form; medium size; color, dark blood red; does not become stringy.

Early Egyptian. The well-known early variety. Color, extra dark; shape, flat; qual- ity, excellent.

Early Eclipse. A choice early variety; well known and popular. Shape, globular; quality, good; color, light.

Lentz Extra Early Blood Turnip. A fav- orite market-gardeners’ beet around Phila- delphia. Very early and sweet; ringed red and white.

Saauss, Chard, or SilA^er. This robust growing variety is often referred to as the Spinach Beet and is grown for its leaf, not for its root. The thick rib may be stripped from the leaf and used as in Asparagus while the rest of the leaf is served as “greens.”

SWISS CHARD

CROSBY’S EGYPTIAN

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BROCCOLI

BRUSSELS SPROUTS

TANKARD MANGER

Nearly allied to the cauliflower, but more hardy. The seed should be sown in this district in the early part of May, and transplanted in June; further south the sowing should be delayed until June or July, and the transplanting accordingly from August to October. In parts of the country where the thermometer does not fall below 20 or 25 degrees broccoli may be had in perfection from November until March. It succeeds best in a moist and rather cold atmosphere.

White Cape. Heads medium size, close, compact and of creamy white color. One of the most certain to head.

Pui'ple Cape. Differs only in color.

This is one of the best vegetables for winter use, producing from the axils of the leaves an abundance of sprouts, resembling small cab- bages, of excellent, mild flavor.

Tall French. Very flne.

Dwarf Improved. A variety producing coni- pact sprouts of excellent quality

BRUSSELS SPROUTS

MANGEL WURZELS

Mangel Wurzel, called also stock beet or cow beet, is a very large beet growing mostly above the ground and all stock eats it greedily. Plow deep for this crop and in May or June plant six Mangel seed to the foot in two or three foot rows, later thinning to a ten inch stand. One ounce sows generously one hundred feet of row and an acre requires flve to six pounds.

When a light frost has occurred, lift the roots and store in pits or cellars.

Leonard’s Improved Mammoth Long Red. The largest and most productive vari- ety. Immense crops can be grown from it.

Norhiton Giant Long Red. Very large, excellent variety for feeding stock.

Yellow Globe. Globular shaped roots.

More productive than Long Red in shallow soil. Very nutritious and a good keeper.

Golden Tankard. Shape cylindrical, color deep rich yellow, flesh yellow circled with white. Unequaled for feeding stock.

Orange Globe. We think this one of the best varieties of mangel wurzel.

SUGAR BEETS

The Sugar Beet, grown for the manufac- ture of sugar and frequently used for stock feeding, is a yellowish-white beet smaller than the mangel but containing a much greater percent of sugar. In growing the sugar beet is treated like the mangel except that only six or eight inches of space is given each beet in the row.

Vilmorin’s Improved Sugar. In general, the n^ost desirable beet for the factory is the one containing the largest percentage of sugar.

Klein Wanzlehen. A little largep'than Vilmorin’

Improved, yielding from twelve to eighteen tons per acre, and containing about the same amount of sugar.

It grows below the surface, and the green leaves are rather large and spreading.

Lane’s Imperial Sugar. Good for making sugar, also stock feeding. A hardy and productive sort.

Yields fourteen to sixteen tons per acre, and contains about 16 per cent of sugar.

Giant Half- Sugar. This unites the large size of the mangel with the greater feeding value of the sugar beet. The roots average ten to twelve inches, "and the outline is that of a broad thick wedge. The upper portion is of a soft bright pink, shading lighter toward the bottom where the lower portion for about one-third the length is white.

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CABBAGE

Culture. Cabbage grows successfully on a wide variety of soils and experience points to liming, deep plowing and heavy manuring as successful practices.

Cabbage plants when properly hardened by gradually being brought to a low temperature and the quantity of water in them diminished, will stand any frost and some considerable freezing. Yet, a cabbage plant raised at a high temperature and full of water will be killed by even a light frost. Cabbage can be grown by planting the seed heavily where the crop is to grow and thinning the plants, but a better practice is to raise the plants, without crowd- ing, in a seed bed, whiph is not richer than the field to which the plants go. Transplant if possible on a cloudy day, watering the plants if the soil is dry. South of the Ohio seed is frequently planted out of doors in September and wintered in cold frames or in very Southern localities the plant is Fall set on a shady side of the furrow to avoid as much as possible the deadly freeze and thaw. For early cabbage north of the Ohio, sow seed in hot beds in February, transplant to cold frames in March, and set outside in April, or sow seed out of doors as soon as the soil can be worked in spring, covering the seed one-third inch deep. All vegetable plants are best when grown without check, so let as much soil adhere to the roots of the plant in transplanting as will hold, and set up to the first leaf. At this time the plant should have four or five pairs of leaves and be four to six inches high.

Set small varieties to be worked by hand as close as eighteen inches each way, while large late varieties, horse cultivated, need thirty or more inches each way.

Nitrate of soda will hurry the crop and if heads are so early as to begin bursting, push the head to one side far enough to tear off the roots on one side.

When club root appears, lime the soil heavily and do not plant brassica, that is, turnips, caulifiower and kindred crops upon this sick soil for two or three years.

Fight cabbage worms with Paris Green, Hellebore, or other good stomach poison.

For cabbage maggots, pour kerosene emulsion about the roots or cut tarred paper in three- inch squares, split the square to the center, and place this collar on the ground about the plant when the plant is set. For plant lice or aphis use tobacco tea or kerosene emulsion.

Early Jersey AVakefield Cabbage. We have exercised great care in the growing of this very important variety. Its uniform excellence is con- tinually a source of gratifica- tion to us.

EARLY

.lEKSKY

WAKEFIELD

Large or Charleston Wake- field. This is a selection from the best early Jersey Wake- field which will average about 50 per cent larger.

Early York.

Heads small, heart - shaped, firm and ten- der. Can be planted 15 to 18 inches apart.

Early Win- ningstadt. • An early variety of excellent qual- ity, not as early as the Wake- field.

Extra Early Express. An extra early sort, in which the plants are compact, with round thick leaves that form an oval head, which is astonishingly large for the size of the plants.

Early Spring Cabbage. The earliest flat head, as early as Jersey Wakefield. Yields one- third more than the early pointed heads. Solid, uniform and finely grained heads. Stem is short and extends but little into the head.

All Head Early. One of the finest early flathead cabbages.

Early Dwarf Flat Dutch. An early cabbage of good size. Heads are flat and very solid.

The Lupton. The Lupton Cabbage is the result of an effort to combine in one variety the best qualities of the second-early and the late sorts. It is a little earlier than any one of the various strains of Flat Dutch and Drumhead.

Henderson’s Early Summer. A standard summer variety. We have the true stock.

Henderson’s Succession. A good summer cabbage; also makes a good cabbage to suc- ceed itself.

Fottler’s Early Brunswick. An early fall variety, well known and popular.

Fottler’s Improved Brunswick. An excellent shipping sort, as it does not burst or rot. Well thought of by all gardeners of Chicago.

All Seasons. A fine variety for any season, of good shape and size.

Vandergaw or Chicago Market. The Vandergaw is a very good second early cabbage. It is popular with many of the Chicago market gardeners. It comes in with the Succession and All Seasons, and forms a nice solid head.

Louisville Drumhead. This fine cabbage is very popular with the kraut makers. It is a medium late variety, forming a large solid head, which seldom bursts, It is used largely by shippers in the vicinity of Chicago who ship cabbages south.

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CABBAGE

COPENHAGEN MARKET

A new early variety, popular with market gardeners. It is one of the finest early round- headed cabbages in cultivation. It is desirable on account of the remarkable characteristic of tna- turing the heads all at the same time, enabling the grower to gather his crop with less expense and permitting the cleaning of the land at the first cutting. The heads average about ten pounds each in weight, are hard and solid with small core. The quality is extra fine and sweet.

It is a short stemmed variety, the heads nearly resting on the ground. The leaves are light green, rather small, saucer-shaped and tightly folded, making it possible to set them close together in the field.

Volga. One of the earliest main crop cab- bages of superior quality. Very desirable where a .large, uniformly round head with short stem arid compact growth is wanted. Matures very early for a variety furnishing such large heads of excellent shape. Very hardy, good keeper.

Early Drumhead. A second early, sure heading cabbage of good quality. Plant of com- pact growth. Head large, thick, flattened on the top, solid, crisp and tender.

Premium Flat Dutch. This variety of late cabbage is a standard in all sections for winter use. It makes a large solid head which keeps COPENHAGEN MARKET

long without bursting, and is adapted to a more varied climate than probably any other variety we grow.

Leonard’s Luxemberg. This cabbage will retain its fine green color until late in the spring, and is often sold for new cabbage after being covered all winter.

Leonard’s Improved Bridgeport Drumhead. This is a standard winter variety on the Chi- cago markets, and is used largely for shipping south.

Sure Head. A fine variety for main crop. A good shipper and sure header.

LEONARD’S FAULTLESS

IS NOW AND FOR YEARS HAS BEEN THE FAVORITE SECOND EARLY CABBAGE AT CHICAGO

The product of this seed outsells any other second early cabbage two to one on the home market. It can be marketed in the early summer, during midsummer, in the fall and early winter, making it the best all purpose variety ever introduced. It is popular alike with the grocer, kraut maker and shipper. It is possessed of earliness, large size, compactness and will produce more salable heads to the acre than any other stock we know of. It is of the succes- sion type, but is earlier, head is rounder, sets out of the under leaves higher, has a darker color of leaf and can be planted closer.

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CABBAGE

GLORY OF ENKHUIZEN

This is an excellent mid-summer variety. It comes in about a week earlier than All Seasons, makes a nice large head, has few outer leaves and can be planted close. Our tests show it to be worthy of a place among the new varieties of merit and we

can r e c o m - mend it as a good addition to the list.

Stonemason Drumhead. A late large heading va- riety; but not as fine grained as others.

3Iarblehead Mammoth. A large late va- riety of fairly good quality.

Large Late Drumhead. A late variety of large size.

Danish Ballhead Cab-

GLORY OF ENKHUIZEN bage. For a

winter cabbage for early spring

sales some of our local gardeners consider this variety excel- lent. It has been selected and perfected for more than fifty years by the Danish gardeners, who prize it so highly that they grow it almost exclusively for winter cabbage, and annually export large quantities of it. It is hard heading, and long keeping cabbage. Heads round as a ball, solid, fine grained, has' few outer leaves, tender, crisp and of unex- celled flavor.

LEONARD’S WINTER

EAST PRAIRIE SPECIAL

DANISH BAUUHEAD

This new cabbage originated in that part of the Xiles Center trucking region known as the East Prahue, which is one of the best cabbage growing sections of Chicago.

It is a direct cross of the Leonard Luxemberg and the Leonard Strain of Holland and combines the good points of both. It has the shorter stem and more lasting color of the Luxemberg with the rounder head of the Holland. The combination gives a cabbage that is superior to either. Three years ago we obtained from one of our best growers enough se- lected heads to give us stock seed, and from this stock we raised, during the past year, a good crop of seed.

LEONARD’S WINTER (EAST PRAIRIE SPECIAL)

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Improved American Sa- voy. Closely approaching the cauliflower in delicacy and d e 1 i ci o u s flavor. The best of all the Savoys for general mar- ket or home use. It has a short stump, grows to a large size, is compact and solid, and is a sure header.

M a mmotli Rock Red. The largest heading of any red sort. Heads are hard, of deep- r e d c o lo r , quality excel- lent.

Red Drum- head. The standard pick- ling variety. A good keeper.

CABBAGE

IMPROVED

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SAVOY

LEONARD’S HOLLAND CABBAGE ^“e^vS^

For shipping or for storing for the late spring market, this cabbage is unsurpassed. The popularity and paying qualities of this cabbage itself when it is true are points long ago de- cided. True Holland seed is produced at a few points only and seed grown elsewhere fails to show the proper characteristics. Since 18 96 we have been fortunate in selling the seed crop o-f one grower of this cabbage and it has met the requirements of exacting cabbage growers of Chicago, Racine and other Holland cabbage shipping points. We do not hesitate to say that Leonard’s strain of Holland cabbage is the best seed purchasable.

HOLLAND CABBAGE, SHORT STEM STRAIN

LEONARD’S STRAIN OF HOLLAND The Heaviest Cabbage for the Size of Head* Ever Found

This strain of Holland Cabbage dif- fers from the original Leon- ard Strain in the height of the stem only. In all other respects it is the same. It has been bred up to meet the require- ments of the grower who works heavy, rich land. The long stem of the original strain in extra heavy soil has been thought to be some- thing of a fault and the grow- ers have been calling for a stock that would retain all the good points of the original with the additional advantage of dwarfer habit.

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Oxheart Carrot

CARROTS

Culture.— The carrot, whether used raw, fried, boiled or stewed used alone or combined with other vegetables or meat is not surpassed in nutritious healthfulness by any vegetable catalogued Plant carrots in the latitude of Chicago from the timd the soil can be worked in spring till July, in one to two foot rows for hand cultivation or in thirty inch rows where a horse drawn tool is used. Lse one ounce of seed to one hundred feet of row three to four pounds to the acre, covering one-half inch deep and later thin to a four inch stand. To cultivate the rows at an early date sow radish seed which germinates quickly uith cS?ot seed, which germinates slowly. Do not overlook', the value of this crop as a stock food.

Early French Forcing. The earliest variety in cul- tivation and the best suited for forcing.. finely divided. The reddish-orange colored roots are nearly round. When fully matured they are about 2 inches in diameter, but should be used before they are

full grown and while young and- tender.

Half Dong Nantes. Tops of medium size; roots cylin- drical, smooth, bright orange; flesh orange, becoming yellow in center, but with no distinct core. Of the finest quality and one of the most symmetrical and handsome of the medium sized sorts; excellent for the market or home garden.

Early Short Horn. Excellent for early planting out of doors. Tops small, coarsely divided; roots top-shaped, but tapering abruptly to a small tap; skin orange-red.

Coreless. A fine half-long early carrot. Medium sized, even shaped and productive. Blunt base and small tap root. Small fine tops and a nice smooth skin. The flesh is a rich orange red, finely grained and very free from the woody yellow heart or core usually found in most red fleshed carrots.

Guerande, or Ox Heart. Tops small for the size of the roots which are comparatively short but often reach a diam- eter of 5 inches, terminating abruptly in a small tap root. Flesh bright orange, fine grained and sweet. This variety is especially desirable for soil so hard and stiff that longer rooted sorts would not thrive in it. When young excellent for table use, and when mature equally good for stock.

Chantenay. Tops medium sized; necks small; roots taper- ing slightly but uniformly stump rooted and smooth; color deep orange-red; flesh very crisp and tender. Although this is a .medium early sort, it furnishes roots of usable size as early as any, is a heavy cropper and is undoubtedly one of the best for both the market and private garden, while its great productiveness makes it very desirable as a field sort.

Danvers. Grown largely on account of its great pro- ductiveness and adaptability to all classes of soil. Tops of medium size, coarsely divided. The smooth and handsome roots are deep orange, of medium length, tapering uniformly to a blunt point; flesh sweet, crisp, tender and of a deep orange color. Although the roots of this variety are short, they produce as large a bulk as the longer field sorts and are more easily harvested.

James Intermediate. A variety intermediate between the Danvers and Long Orange. It tapers to a point not so blunt as the Danvers and is more symmetrical and not so long as the Long Orange.

Long Orange. The most popular of the older sorts for farm use on mellow soil. An improvement obtained by years of careful selection of the best formed and deepest colored roots.

St. Valery. A good late variety. It grows long, shape uniform, taper- ing from a wide shoulder to a poifit.

COKELESS CARROT Grows one-third out of

the

WTiite Belgian.

ground. Root white, green above ground, with small top. Flesh rather coarse. The roots are of large size and the variety is extensively grown for stock feeding.

Improved Short White. We think this distinct variety is destined to take first rank as a field car- rot, owing to its enormous productiveness and the ease with which it can be harvested.

Price List of all Varieties in Front Pages of Catalogue.

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CAULIFLOWER

Culture. Cauliflower, while it resembles cab- bage and requires very much the same treatment as outlined under and for cabbage, is not so hardy as cabbage, needs more water, needs more culti- vation and requires generally treatment superior to cabbage. Cauliflower cannot be expected to mature satisfactorily in hot, dry weather, and as it requires one hundred ten to one hundred fifty days for different varieties to mature, its planting- should be correctly timed. Start cauliflower un- der glass or where cabbage plants can be wintered, winter cauliflower. One ounce gives two thousand five hundred plants and one-fourth to one-half pound of seed plants an acre. When the head or heart of cauliflower, as you may think or feel of it, called the “curd,” appears, tie the outer leaves over the head or pin these leaves with wood pins or beef skewers so the leaves will shade and blanch the curd and then cut the curd before it starts to branch. Remember that all the enemies of cabbage emphatically attack cauliflower and are to be combated in a like manner.

Danish Dry Weather. We take pleasure in introducing this Cauliflower to our customers. It is from one of the best, growers in Denmark and we recommend it highly to market gardeners for trial. It is claimed to be a splendid strain for a dry season and equally good in allweathers. Prom the reports we have regarding this stock from gardeners who have tried it we consider it a valuable addition to the list and a worthy companion to Our Famous Snowball.

Leonard’s Earliest Erfurt. A variety that has given excellent satisfaction to our home gar- deners. It is snow white and a sure header. Gardeners will be amply repaid by giving this va- riety a fair trial.

Extra Early Paris. This is a good early sort, and in a good season does well. Not as sure a header as the higher priced varieties.

Autumn Giant. A late sort of fairly good quality. Will do well under favorable conditions.

LEONARD’S SNOWBALL

The leading Cauliflower at Chicago and unquestionably the purest strain of “Snowball” Cauliflower seed to be had. Heads uniform; of desirable market size and of snowy whiteness.

After many years’ competitive tests it is pronounced by expert cauliflower growers to be the best for both early and late planting. Successful frame growers of cauliflower say that under glass culture our Snowball outclasses any strain of cauliflower seed known to them. There are many expert cauliflower growers at Chicago, none better anywhere that we are aware of. Other strains of snowball seed are well known to them and this strain of ours is their favorite for early, for late and for forcing. Strong recommendations surely.

DANISH DRY WEATHER CAULIFLOWER

CAULIIXOWER— LEONARD’S SNOWBALL

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CELERY

Pres^ celery seed into the ground, do not try to cover it, and when seed is kept wet and not above 60° F, germination occurs in ten to twenty days. Celery needs four to five months from seed to use, so very early celery should be started in hotbeds after January, and when two inches high transplanted or thinned to a space of two inches. Later trim the tops to produce stocky plants and when five inches high set where plants are to mature, first trimming off one-third of the roots and leaves. Celery seed may be planted out of doors north of the Ohio in April and treated as outiined above. Given sufficient water, celery can be grown on any good garden soil and one ounce of seed gives about 6,000 plants.

When almost grown, celery must be blanched; that is, the light is excluded from the edible stock by the use of boards, earth, paper or other covering. If boards are used rows can be set as close as thirty inches, if earth blanched forty- eight inches or more is better. Set the plants six inches apart in the row and press the soil firmly about the roots. Again celery is set in solid beds eight inches each way, and the shade of the crowded bed does the blanching. With a few stalks in a garden a tile set over the plant or a wrapping of paper answers the purpose. If earth is used in blanching it should be drawn about the plant to one-third, its height and repeated twice a few days apart till leaves only are exposed. Do not cultivate, hill or disturb celery when damp or rust may occur. In this hilling with earth called handling place a peg at end of row -with string to it and pass string about each plant so as to prevent earth from falling into the heart during the work. To store, celery should be only partly blanched.

Celery matures best in cool moist weather, so the grower farther south may delay this plant- ing calendar to fit his own market and convenience.

Golden Self Blanching. The best of all early self- blanching varieties. First introduced in America in 1884, this is decidedly better in quality than the White Plume. It is ready for use nearly as early, blanches as easily, and is larger in size as well as finer in quality.

It is of dwarf compact habit, with thick, solid, heavily ribbed stalks which blanch easily to a clear waxen yellow.

WThte -Plume. This is the earliest and most easily blanched, but does not keep well taken from the trenches. The plants grow rapidly and blanch easily during the sumrner months. Later in the fall the cen- tral stalks and leaves are of pure snowy whiteness even without earthing up.

Crawford’s Half Dwarf. When blanched is of rather yellowish-white color, and is quite solid and well flavored.

Evans’ Triumph. One of the best of late sorts.

This variety has a very strong and vigorous plant with large, very white, crisp, brittle, tender and fine flavored stalks. It is late and requires the whole season to develop, but will keep well for a very long time.

Boston Market. For many years one of the most popular sorts in the markets of Boston. Instead of a single large heart it forms a number of smaller ones, which are very white, and remarkably tender and crisp.

The best variety for light soils.

Winter Queen Celery. This is, without doubt, the most valuable variety of celery for winter and spring use ever introduced, even excelling the celebrated Per- fection Heartwell as a late winter keeper. It is also much stouter, thicker and heavier, with double the amount of heart of any known celery.

Giant Pascal. This is a green lep.ved variety developed from the Golden Yellow Self Blanching, and is an excellent sort for fall and winter use. It blanches to a beautiful yellowish- white color, is very solid and crisp and of a fine nutty flavor.

Perfection Heartwell. A fine flavored, crisp and tender varietv. The plants are a litMP taller than Crawford’s Half Dwarf and a little later in maturing. The stalL are of medium size, round, very solid, crisp, tender, white and of exceedingly fine and nutty flavor This has long been a standard variety and is yet one of the favorite sorts.

GOLDEN SELF BLANCHING

Dwarf Golden Heart. A variety of sturdy, dwarf habit. It is solid, an excellent keeper, and of fine, nutty flavor.

Dwarf White Kalamazoo. Dwarf, white; stiff close habit; solid, crisp.

Giant Golden Heart. This variety attains a large size, but still remains crisp and tender. It is a fine keeper and is a favorite on the Chicago market.

Soup or Cutting Celery. This variety is adapted to sowing thick in row’s and cutting when three or four inches high, to use for soup flavoring.

GERMAN CELERY OR CELERIAC

Large Smooth Prague. Has a large smooth root, and is the finest of all celeriac.

Apple Shaped. Not as smooth as the above, but of good form.

Tm-nip Rooted. This is the ordinary and well- known variety.

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EVERGREEN WHITE SPINE CUCUMBER

Culture. Not before corn planting time plant cucumbers out of doors in drills or hills one-half inch deep. The crop may be advanced two weeks by starting in the hot bed or green- house on inverted four-inch sods covered with leaf mold. The plant will appear in four to eleven days and in three weeks from seeding, when the plant has two to four leaves it is ready to transplant outside.

Mark the field up and down hill, then furrow across its face in a four-foot check and at each intersection drop manure or fertilizer or, better, both. Throw earth to this intersection to form an elongated hill four inches high. Plant the seed like a short drill, not haphazard; then later two strokes of the hoe cleans this short drill.

Be generous. Use a dozen seed to a hill, and after the striped beetle has his toll, thin to ' three plants to’ a hill.

To check the beetle, use on foliage, but not too heavily, road dust, ashes, soot, air slaked lime, bone flour, tobacco dust or arsenate of lead; pull earth about the stem or cover the hill with net- ting.

Cultivate as long as possible. Cut the cu- cumbers. Do not pull , or bruise them and to keep the plants bearing, cucumbers must not be permitted to ripen.

Chicago or Wester- field Pickling. A variety esteemed and grown ex- tensively for the large pickling establishments.

West India Gherkin. A very small, oval, prickly sort, distinct from all others.

Early Russian. Solid, with few seeds.

Early Cluster. Vines vigorous, producing the bulk of the crop near the root and in clusters.

Japanese Climbing. While all cucumbers are running vines, yet this variety is much more creeping or climbing in its habit.

Improved Long Green. Fruit long and slim, not surpassed in quality by any variety.

Evergreen White Spine. An improved strain of the well known White Spine, and a favorite with market gardeners, both for forcing and outdoor culture.

Green Prolific or Boston Pickling. A favorite with pickle growers and commercial garden- ers, and good for table use.

Nichol’s Medium Green. A valuable and handsome variety, in shape between White Spine and Long Green.

Early Frame or Short Green. An excel- lent sort for table use and for pickling. Fruit straight, handsome, smaller at each 6nd, bright green; flesh ten- der and crisp and makes fine pickles.

J ersey Pickle.

Sixty days to make pickles. It is produc- tive, and is said to “green” better than any other variety, and to “hold color.”

Davis Perfect. In color, a dark glossy green; shape slim and symmetrical, with an average length of 10 to 12 inches.

Thorburn’s Everbearing. Small size, very early and enormously productive, and valuable as a green pickle. It continues to flower and produce fruit until killed by frost.

Leonard’s Greenhouse. This is a stock of cucumber upon which we have spent rr.uch time. The seed we offer is of our own growing and the selection is from the finest types only. The value of it to market gardeners and greenhouse men who desire a uniform, deep green, extra long cucumber, will be appreciated as soon as tried.

The Emerald. It is strictly an evergreen.

Fordhook Famous. Of the true White Spine type. Vines produce an enormous crop, being of unusually vigorous growth.

Early \\liite Spine. One of the best sorts for table use. Vines vigorous, fruiting early and abundantly.

Arlington. A selection from the White Spine, being more pointed at each end.

Giant Pera. _ An exceedingly large growing sort, of excellent quality.

Cool and Crisp. A strain of White Spine somewhat like the Arlington, but larger and less symmetrical.

D.4VIS PERFECT CUCUMBER

CUCUMBER

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SWEET CORN

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well filled to the tip with large, deep cellent variety for market gardeners.

Culture. Plant corn every two weeks for a continuous supply and north of the Ohio from late April to late July. Plant corn in three or four foot drills, dropping a grain every eight or sixteen inches, or plant in hills three or four feet each way, giving six grains to the hill and later thinning to three stalks. Corn should be planted about one inch deep, planted deeper in sand than in heavy clay, planted deeper later in the year when the soil is warm; dwarf varieties closer together than the larger ones and a given quantity of seed of a small grained variety plants a larger area than does a like quantity of the large grained. One quart generally plants two hundred fifty hills and one peck is necessary to the acre. Plow deeply for corn, cultivate shallow and pick corn before it is too old. If the goodness of new corn tempts a too early planting, do not blame the resulting failure on your seedsman.

Golden Bantam Sweet Corn. A very early sweet corn with golden yellow grain, very tender and of excellent quality. The ears are six to seven inches long and of the medium size found most suitable for the table. The flavor is exceptionally rich and delicious. Our stock has been very carefully selected. Height about four feet.

White Cob Cory. This is an improvement over the Early Cory, as the cob is white, which gives it a finer appearance. It is as early as the Early Cory and of excellent quality.

Mammoth White Cory. The ears are twelve rowed, much larger than the old Cory, white cobbed, and covered with very large white grains of good quality.

Early Cory Red Coh. This variety is the favorite for first early, and no other variety has proved earlier.

Chicago Market or Ballard. This is the largest and best early corn in existence, twelve rowed, white cobbed and of exceedingly fine quality.

Premo. It is a “sixty-day” sweet corn. It not only combines all the merits of the leading early varieties, but it is also really superior to them all in size, quality and yield.

Extra Early Adams. This is an extra early field variety, but it is much used as an early market variety, being sweet and juicy.

Peep o’ Bay Sweet Corn. This new variety is claimed to be the Earliest Sweet Corn. It is of Minnesota origin and has been offered in the Minneapolis market from five to seven days earlier than any other well-known kind in the trade. Ears five inches long.

Early Evergreen. The ears of this new corn grow 8 inches long, are mostly 14 to 18 rows. This is a magnificent kind for market gar- deners and for main crop in every home garden. It ripens 10 to 12 days in advance of Stowell’s Evergreen and is equally as good for all purposes. The kernels are very sweet and tender, and when eaten from the cob break off free from husky tips so common to some otherwise fine table corns.

Stowell’s Evergreen. This standard main crop variety excels all other late sorts in sweetness and productiveness. It is more popular than any other for canning, for marketing and for the home garden. Great care has to be exercised in the selection ofstock to grow seed from, as this va- riety has a tendency to deterioration and a shorter grain, which makes it less sugary and desirable.

Hickox Hybrid. Earlier than Stowell’s Evergreen, and makes a large, attractive ear of white and handsome grain. It is one of the best varieties for canners’ use. By planting it at the same time as Stowell’s Evergreen the season will be lengthened considerably, as the Hickox will be about through by the time Stowell’s Evergreen comes in. Very pro- lific; ordinarily every stalk will have two large, fully developed ears. The best sort for drying.

new early sort. The ears are about 9 inches in length, 10 to 12 rowed, kernels, which are very sweet and tender. It is an ex-

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SWEET CORN

Malakolf Sweet Corn. The earliest real Sweet Corn in exis- tence; habits simple like Pee^p o’ Day, with much better quality.

The plant is very dwarf and usually produces three ears to every stalk; ears are short, three and one-half to four inches; eight rowed.

Early Iowa Sweet Corn. This is a very early Sweet Corn, almost as early as MalakofC and of much larger size. The stalks grow three feet high and usually bear two or more ears. Early Iowa is a week ahead of the Early Cory and bears ears nearly as large.

Early Minnesota. One of the standard early sorts Ready for market two weeks later than Cory or Chicago Market.

Perry’s Hybrid. An early variety of splendid quality. Ker- nels tinged with pink when ripe, with white cob.

New Champion. This corn is unsurpassed for market use, owing to its large size and fine appearance. It is medium early, coming in at the same time as Perry’s Hybrid. It is fourteen rowed and a splendid cropper.

Moore’s Early Concord. A well known variety of large size, twelve rowed and of excellent quality. This makes a fine market corn.

Kendall’s Early Giant. A valuable new early sweet corn.

The ears grow to a tremendous size, measuring eight to ten inches long, and having ten to eighteen rows on each cob, the majority having twelve rows; kernels pure white, sweet, tender.

Crosby’s Early. An early corn of large size and choice qual- ity. It has long been a standard variety.

Old Colony. This variety is two weeks earlier than the Ever- green, and almost as large. It is considered the best and sweetest by canning factories. A fine paying variety for market.

Country Gentleman. We have a stock of this excellent sweet corn that is exceptionally good. There is no sweet corn that com- pares with the Country Gentleman for sweetness. It is the variety par excellence where quality is desired. Market gardeners who make a specialty of growing for hotels and high class restaurant trade use this as a main crop variety in preference to any other.

For home use it will be found superior and it is very productive.

The fact that it is a favorite variety with canners proves its merit.

Egyptian or Washington Market. A standard variety, in sea- son between Evergreen and Mammoth Sugar. Very sweet and well adapted for canning.

Mammoth Sugar. A large late variety having ears of mam- moth size, 14 to 20 rows. Quality excellent, not exceeded by any variety. A good canners’ variety, being white grained and very uniform. A week later than Stowell’s Evergreen.

Black Mexican. This corn, when in condition for the table, cooks remarkably white; but the ripe grain is black or bluish- black. It is surpassed by none in tenderness. For family use it is considered by many the most desirable of the medium late sorts. It does especially well for second early in the South.

Zig-zag Evergreen. This fine new strain possesses the dis- tinct characteristics which have made Stowell’s Evergreen so deservedly the favorite for. main crop, but produces ears fit to use from one week to ten days earlier.

White Evergreen. This is a high-bred white type Stowell’s Evergreen. It has been developed by careful work only the finest white-eared product being saved and selected each sea- son. The stalks are of strong, vigorous growth, six to seven feet high.

White Mexican Sweet Corn. White Mexican is a heavy yielding, early maturing Sweet Corn. It ranks in a class with White Cob Cory and is a better yielder. Height 4 feet; ear about six and one-half inches long. Quality good.

Early Mammoth. Closely resembles the Late Mammoth, but is a little smaller, and about two weeks earlier. Of good size and quality.

Leonard’s Sweet Corn, Narrow Grain. See pages 50 and 51.

DOES GARDENING PAY?

How many dollars will you spend this year for vegetables?

How many hours can you spend this year in the garden?

If labor is what you sell, why not sell it to yourself?

Get your pencil. Suppose you begin gardening April fifteenth and spend thirty minutes every work day in your garden till August fifteenth. On August fifteenth your gardening efforts would be over except the joy of a continual harvest and you would have spent about fifty hours at this work. At three dollars a day for your labor the garden has cost fifteen dollars. The seed to plant the garden would not cost more than you would have had to pay to have the weeds cut if you had not gardened. Vegetables can be placed upon your table from this garden every work day and Sunday too from June first till Christmas, — two hundred days. If you use eight cents worth a day from the garden for yourself and family during that time, you have received sixteen dollars. That’s thirty cents an hour for your labor and the gift of a dollar. If your gar- den is 44x100 feet you are growing vegetables on one-tenth of an acre and making land pay at one hundred and sixty dollars an acre. As many gardeners do very much better than these figures you have during a part of each day better than a three dollar a day job in your garden.

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SWEET CORN

SIDE VIEW OF ONE OF OUR DRYING SHEDS, 200,000 EARS

LEONARD’S SWEET CORN, NARROW GRAIN

This New Type of Sweet Corn is a stock worked up by S. F. Leonard after several years of experimenting'. In it we feel that we have something' vastly superior to the old wide grain Ever- green. The ear is as large as the Stowell’s Evergreen and averages more rows to the ear. The cob is small in comparison to the size of the ear, and the kernels are very long, narrow and remarkably free from starch. The rows are uniformly straight and the ear holds its evenness from butt to tip more uniformly than any other type of Evergreen.

FRONT VIEW OF ONE OF OUR DRYING SHEDS

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SWEET CORN

LEONARD'S SWEET CORN, NARROW GRAIN.

Top Row— KKKNKLS OF LEONARD’S SWEET CORN, NARROW GRAIN— Natural Size

Bottom Row— KERNELS OF STOWELL’S EVERGREEN— -Natural Size

As will be seen in the comparative view, the kernels of this Leonard’s Sweet Corn of the Narrow Grain Type are much longer and narrower than the kernels of Stowell’s Evergreen. The natural size of the kernels of each are sho wn in the picture, and a section of the cars of both kinds are shown in the t’iew given below. The comparison is the best method we can think of to show the difference between the two stocks. The ears shown are the average run. The Stowell’s Evergreen has 14 rows and the Leonard Sweet Corn has 24 rows.

This Corn has proved itself ideal for canners’ purposes in place of Country Gentleman, as it packs over a longer period than the Country Gentleman, makes better quality and is more easily contracted with the farmer growing for the factory on account of the size of stalk, which equals Stowell’s in height. Mr. Leonard started selecting and working on this Corn some years ago, having in mind the type he wanted to attain. Each succeeding crop has been selected and worked upon with this end in view. In this way, the desired type was established. In the last three years canning factories throughout the country have in com- petitive tests of Corn found Leonard’s Sweet Corn incomparable for their purposes. These tests have not been in a small way, but vast fields have been grown for superior packing from Maine to Iowa. The canner who ordered, re-ordered — that’s the final test. What you might take at first glance to be a novelty has become for these people a necessity. Leon- ard’s Sweet Corn has become a standard variety.

• The demand for this Corn has been so great that our supply for 1916, though large, has practically been exhausted. The man who buys seed early has with him quite a few advantages.

The canner giving much thought to varieties was the first to recognize the superiority of Leonard’s Sweet Corn, narrow grain. It is also equally serviceable for the trucker or the amateur.

sto\i:ell’s evergreen Leonard’s sweet corn, narrow grain

Natural Size Natural Size

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CARDOON

Smooth, Solid Cardoon. Grown for the mid-ribs of the leaves which possess an unusual delicacy of flavor when thoroughly blanched and used in the same manner as celery. The root is also excellent when properly cooked.

CHERVIL

A hardy annual worthy of more general use for flavoring and garnishing. The curled variety is even more beautiful than parsley.

Curled. Greatly superior to the old plain variety, being earlier, more hand- some, and having fully as flne perfume and flavor.

CHICORY

Witloof Chicory or French Endive. Grown for its use as a salad, the blanched head resembling Cos Lettuce in appearance. The seed planted in late spring give parsnip like roots by late autumn. The roots are then placed in earth where there is some heat, as in the green house boiler room, or a warm cellar. The root then throws out the blanched salad head.

Large-rooted, or Coffee. Our stock is the improved type, with very much larger, smoother, whiter and proportionately shorter roots than the old kind. The dried and prepared roots are used quite extensively as a substitute or adul- terant for coffee and the leaves used as a salad.

CORN SALAD

CORN SALAD

WITLOOr

Fetticus, or Lamb’s Lettuce. This small salad is used during the winter and spring months as a substitute for let- tuce, and is also cooked and used like Spinach. In warm weather the plants will mature in four to six weeks. Sow the seed in shallow drills about one foot apart. If the soil is dry it should be firmly pressed over the seed in order to secure prompt germination. On the approach of severe cold weather, cover with straw or coarse litter. Like most salad plants, greatly improved if sown on very rich soil; indeed, the ground can scarcely be made too rich for them.

COLLARDS

A form of cabbage or kale much grown throughout the south. It produces large leaves and at times a modified head on a tall stout stem. Freezing does not injure but rather im- proves the quality.

Georgia, Southern or Creole. We offer the true white or green stemmed sort.

CRESS

Cultm-e. True Water Cress can be easily grown by sowing the seed broadcast on garden soil and keeping the soil very wet till the plants are big enough to transplant to shallow indenta- tions about five inches deep here and there along the sides of a clean flowing stream. There it will continue to spread by the lengthening of its roots, also by reseeding and requires no further care. The crop can be grown to maturity in wet garden soil, or the seed can be sown directly to the mud along the stream, but with lesser measures of success. April or September is a good time to plant these minute seeds, and this aquatic prefers to stand with its roots and most of its stems submerged. Cutting can begin in about sixty days, and a little later frequent cut- ting, using a sharp knife, will stimulate plant growth.

True Water Cress.

Curled or Pepper Grass. A pungent, quick- growing plant that poorly parodies the water cress flavor, can be grown in any garden soil as one-half inch deep in one foot rows, thinning t

WATER CRESS

soon as the ground can be worked. Plant e plants to four inches.

DANDELION

Cultivated or French Common. This is considered the best by many and is not at all the same as our wild dandelion, being greatly improved by careful selection.

Improved Thick Leaved. One of the earliest and best greens in cultivation.

It Is well known that LEONARD’S SEEDS, both Vegetable and Flower, are standard goods. We have the largest Market Garden trade of any of the Seed Houses. The market gardener is the most critical of all seed buyers and the Seed House that commands the trade of this class of buyers is in the best possible position to suit the requirements of all others.

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EGG PLANT

Culture. Treat the Egg Plant like a tender tomato that required even a longer period to mature. After cabbage plants are out of the hot-bed or greenhouse, which is April north of the Ohio, sow egg plant, keeping even the night temperature above seventy degrees. One ounce of seed gives two thousand plants, and four pounds plants an acre. Transplant later to pots or to a three or four-inch stand, and when corn is shoe high, put egg plant outside on rich, well drained land. Set the plants two feet apart in four foot rows, shading or water- ing the plants if it is sunny or dry.

Leonard’s Im- proved New York Purple ( Spine- less.) Very large and smooth, fine dark color. Ours is the spineless plant, most pre- ferred by our market garden- ers, both east and west. We have made the most careful se- lection possible of our stock plants, and know it to be unsur- passed for the market.

Black Pekin.

A fine variety, bearing large, round deep purple fruits, fine grained, and of

superior quality. LEONARD'S IMPROVED NEW YORK PURPLE EGG PLANT

Early Long

Purple. Early hardy and productive; excellent for the table.

ENDIVE

Culture. Endive, or winter lettuce, used as a salaa, as greens or garnishing, is usually planted one-fourth inch deep in a seed bed in mid-summer, and when convenient after a month transplanted to stand one foot apart in eighteen-inch rows. When almost grown and about two weeks before ready to use, it is blanched by tying the leaves together with soft cord, or the blanching is by turning a flower pot or tile over each plant, or by blanching with earth, like celery. The blanching removes the green plant’s acrid taste. The plant may be, but seldom is, used as an early spring crop. Three to flve pounds of seed plants an acre.

Green Curled. Beautifully curled, tender and crisp.

Moss Curled. More finely curled, and a heavier and more dense plant than Green Curled.

White Curled. Very tender when cut young; blanches readily.

Broad-Leaved Batavian. (Escarrole.) This variety is chiefly used in soups and stews; re- quires to be tied up in blanching.

RADISH f radish produces no seed, but is grown from pieces

^ AiYI A member of the onion family with a strong penetrating odor; not

propagated by seed, but by dividing the bulb.

MEDICINAL, AROMATIC AND POT HERBS

In borders and irregular parts of the garden it will prove profitable and pleasurable to grow a few herbs. Their use gives new and unusual flavors, pleasing aromas and perfumes, and some medicines that are as serviceable as can be purchased. Exact cultural directions suited to them all is impossible. Give them generally the care given vegetables or flowers. Where the foliage is to be used cut the young stems on a dry day, wilt in the sun, dry in the shade and either hang up in bunches or store in air-tight glass jars.

Anise. A hardy annual used for medicinal purposes and for seasoning and flavoring.

Balm. A perennial used for a medicinal tea, and a beverage of lemon-like flavor.

Basil, Sweet. An annual used for seasoning sauces, soups and meats.

Borage. A hardy annual grown for bee pasture; also used as a flavoring;

Caraway. In its second year this biennial produces seed for flavoring pastry, etc.

Coriander. An annual grown for the use of its seed in confectionery and liquors.

Dill. The seed and foliage of this annual is used for flavoring, as in “dill pickles.”

Fennel, Sweet or Common. Foliage used as a salad and the seed for flavoring.

Fennel, Florence. An annual grown for the blanched base of its stem, which when cooked has a sweet taste, a delicate odor and somewhat resembles celery.

Horehound. The leaves of this perennial are used in medicines for coughs and colds.

Hyssop. A perennial grown for the use of its foliage in medicine.

Lavender. A hardy perennial grown for its fragrance.

Sweet Marjoram. Treated as an annual and the younger foliage used for seasoning.

Rosemary. A fragrant perennial used for seasoning and medicinal purposes.

Rue. A hardy perennial to be used with caution medicinally.

Saffron. An annual used for seasoning, coloring and making cosmetics.

Sage. The well known hardy perennial used for seasaning.

Savory, Summer. The foliage and flowers of this annual used for flavoring and seasoning.

Thyme. The leaves of this perennial are used for seasoning and medicinally.

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KALE OR BORECOLE

Culture. In Virginia, kale planted in late August has some of its plants thinned out and sent to market within sixty days and the cut- ting then continues until the field is clean in April. Further north, kale is treated like the cabbage; that is, planted early in spring in hot beds or out of doors, and it is used in the fall when light frosts have improved it.

Kale is sown in two to three-foot drills and then thinned to six to twenty-four inches, ac- cording to varieties. One ounce sows gen- erously one hundred yards and four pounds plants an acre.

Tall Green Curled Scotch. This is very hardy and is not injured by a moderate frost.

About 30 inches tall, with an abundance of dark green leaves which are densely curled and cut, forming a very beautiful plant. It stands the winters in the Middle States with- out any protection.

Dwarf Cuided Scotch. ’ Plant low and compact, but with large, bright, deep green leaves, curled, cut and crimped until the DWARFED CURLED SCOTCH KALE

whole plant resembles a bunch of moss. One

of the best sorts for use, and when well grown and cooked is one of the most palatable of vegetables.

Siberian. Sometimes called Sprouts and German Greens. In this variety the very large, green leaves are comparatively plain in the center but coarsely cut and frilled on the edge. The plant is low but spreading and very hardy.

German Dwarf Purple. Similar to the Dwarf Curled Scotch, but of a rich purple color.

KOHL-RABI

Culture. This relative of the cabbage, that looks like a turnip that grew above the ground, can be treated very much as either cabbage or turnips. One ounce sows one hundred yards and four pounds plants the acre. Sow in eighteen to twenty-four-inch rows, thin to four inches apart and use for the table when small. Like the turnip, we can- not expect good kohl-rabi in the summer heat, but a planting made about August first north of the Ohio will give a crop for winter storage. Do not overlook the value of this plant as a stock food.

Earliest Erfurt. A white, tender variety, with a smooth root and very short top; the best variety for outdoor culture.

Early Wliite Vienna. The finest for market. Flesh white and tender.

Early Purple Vienna. Bluish purple; similar to the above, except in color.

Large Green. Hardy, quite late, and used for feeding stock. Bulbs large, weighing 8 to 10 pounds, whitish green in color; leaves large and numerous.

LEEK

Large Rouen. Stem very large but comparatively short; the leaf is very broad, covered with whitish bloom. Stands a long time in condition for use.

Musselburg. The largest variety, often 3 inches in diameter and becoming very white and tender. A hardy and desirable sort.

Culture. This mild member of the onion family is used in soups and salads. Sow one ounce to one hundred feet of row or four or five pounds to the acre, one-half inch deep, as early as the soil can be worked in spring. Thin the plants to a stand of four to six inches in the twelve to eighteen-inch EARLY WHITE VIENNA rows. It is advisable to throw earth to the plant to blanch

KOHL-RABI it, very much as celery is blanched.

London Flag. This is the variety generally cultivated in this country. It is hardy and of good quality.

' Large American Flag. A variety which has become verj'- popular with some market garden- ers on account of its being larger than the London Flag.

PRICES OF ALL SEEDS ARE LISTED ALPHABETICALLY IN THE FRONT OF CATALOGUE

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LETTUCE

Culture. As lettuce will stand considerable freezing, it may be seeded or transplanted out- of-doors as soon as the soil can be worked in spring. For a succession, replant every three weeks till within sixty days of freezing weather. The soil cannot be made too rich and this crop must be grown quickly and unchecked to be of superior quality. North of the