. Florence Fennel deserves wider cultivation GIANT LUCULLUS SWISS CHARD An excellent and most useful vegetahle, a row or two of which should be in every garden. This variety will quickly pro- duce plants from which leaves may be cut all summer, as you can cut right down to the ground, and new shoots will soon spring up and make a f ;ist growth. Those plants which are allowed to grow will make large curly leaves, with thick light-colored mid-ribs, which are delicious when cooked and served like asparagus, while the leafy parts make excellent "; Pkt., 10 cts.; oz., 25 cts.; ilb.
. Florence Fennel deserves wider cultivation GIANT LUCULLUS SWISS CHARD An excellent and most useful vegetahle, a row or two of which should be in every garden. This variety will quickly pro- duce plants from which leaves may be cut all summer, as you can cut right down to the ground, and new shoots will soon spring up and make a f ;ist growth. Those plants which are allowed to grow will make large curly leaves, with thick light-colored mid-ribs, which are delicious when cooked and served like asparagus, while the leafy parts make excellent "; Pkt., 10 cts.; oz., 25 cts.; ilb., 50 cts.; lb., $ CARROT DREER'S PERFECT FORCING Easily one of the most popular of the early carrots, equally useful for the outdoor garden as well as growing under glass. It is a fine, half long variety of most symmetrical shape, uniform size, and has a remarkably small top. Of attractive bright scarlet color, crisp, and with a singularly small core, so small in fact that in the young product it is hardly noticeable. It is not particular as to soil and yields splendid crops under ordinary home garden conditions. Illustrated on page 20. Pkt., 10 cts.; J oz., 15 cts.; oz., 25 cts.; i lb., 70 cts.: lb., FINOCCHIO, OR FLORENCE FENNEL A delicious vegetable which should be more largely grown. It is extensively used in Italy as a salad, but is particularly palatable when served boiled, with a cream dressing. When the enlargement of leaf stalk, at base of stem (see illustration alongside), is about the size of a hen's egg it should be ea-rthed up so as to cover half of it, and in about ten days cutting for use may be commenced and continued as the plants increase in growth. The flavor is some- what like celerj', but it has a sweet taste and delicate odor. Pkt., 10 cts.; oz., 30 cts.; 1 lb., FRENCH UNRIVALED LETTUCE Easily one of the handsomest of the early butterhead varieties and quite distinct in its character of leaf. Each individual leaf shows undulations peculi
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