Drumm Seed and Floral Co drummseedfloral1895drum_0 Year: 1895 2 Specialties. ALL HEAD ( ABHAUE. In offering this sort last season we gave the intro- d u c e r's descrip- tion, which stated that it was a week earlier than Early Summer. We made a very care- ful comparative test on our trial grounds of this variety laBt sum- mer, in compari- son with a number of other sorts, and can fully endorse all the claims made for it, ex- cepting we did not find it earlier than our strain of Early Summer. Cus- tomers also, so far as heard from, were well pleased w i t h i t. 11 i 8 rightly called a tho
Drumm Seed and Floral Co drummseedfloral1895drum_0 Year: 1895 2 Specialties. ALL HEAD ( ABHAUE. In offering this sort last season we gave the intro- d u c e r's descrip- tion, which stated that it was a week earlier than Early Summer. We made a very care- ful comparative test on our trial grounds of this variety laBt sum- mer, in compari- son with a number of other sorts, and can fully endorse all the claims made for it, ex- cepting we did not find it earlier than our strain of Early Summer. Cus- tomers also, so far as heard from, were well pleased w i t h i t. 11 i 8 rightly called a thoroughbred sort on account of its remarkably uni- form size and shape, and its re- liability for head- ing Efforts in se- lecting stock seed have constantly been made'with'a'view of securing the largest earlylheads with the',fewest loose leaves. The deep flat heads are remarkably solid and uniform in color as well as shape and size. The main feature of a good Cabbage is tenderness, and in this respect it is not surpassed. While it is all that can be desired for earliness. it is also valuable as a late cab- bage, if sown in July, and plants set out about the middle of August. Set plants 1h inches apart in rows, w ith three feet be- tween the rows for cultivation, and 9,680 plants can be set on the acre, ninety-five per cent, of which, in an ordinary sea- son, and with reasonable cultivation, will make good merchantable heads. Packets, 10c: Ounce. 'â :'><â : i-i Pound. 70c; Poundj to. BUCKEYE STATE TOMATO 'No. 10.' What Livingston Says About This Tomato. The New Buckeye State To- mato, which we now offer for the second time, has been grown here the past three years as No. 10, ami is the largest fruited variety we have ever sent out. It averages at least double the size of Livingston's Beauty. We have always held that no matter how large a sort may be, if it is rough and uneven it is of lit- tle, if any, value nowadays. Many mammoth sorts have been intro- duced of late, but
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