. E. Fred Washburn's amateur cultivator's guide to the flower & kitchen garden for 1880 . N again presenting our Catalogue of Vegetable Seeds, we embrace the opportunity to add that our stock, as heretofore, has been selected with a view to secure only the freshest and most reliable seeds. Most of the staple seeds are raised expressly for us by experienced groov- ers ; and such as are imported are purchased from the most reliable seedsmen in Europe, with whom we have long dealt, and from Avhom we have I'eceived only such as we could with pei-fect confidence rec- ommend. It is our invariabl
. E. Fred Washburn's amateur cultivator's guide to the flower & kitchen garden for 1880 . N again presenting our Catalogue of Vegetable Seeds, we embrace the opportunity to add that our stock, as heretofore, has been selected with a view to secure only the freshest and most reliable seeds. Most of the staple seeds are raised expressly for us by experienced groov- ers ; and such as are imported are purchased from the most reliable seedsmen in Europe, with whom we have long dealt, and from Avhom we have I'eceived only such as we could with pei-fect confidence rec- ommend. It is our invariable rule to test all our seeds oixrselves, and never to send out anything but what we are certain will vegetate freely, and prove true to name. Nothing causes greater disappoint- ment than poor seeds; for not only is the season lost if they fail to gi'ow, but an inferior crop will not pay for the trouble of planting. American-grown seeds always have our pref- erence; but some kinds it is impossible to obtain in sufficient quantity to fill our orders, and those are obtained only from reliable dealers abroad. Our prices are affixed by the ounce, quart, and packet; but no quantity is sold less than tlie ounce or quart at these prices: when less is ordered, they will be supplied in packets at that rate. All the kinds can be supplied by the pound or bushel at the lowest market rate for prime seeds. Prices of seeds vary, to some extent, from the time of harvesting to the time of planting, and we do not feel bound by these prices unless orders are sent in early. We can only ad- vise our customers to give their orders in go' d 9oc^-son tc the most favorable terms. ARTICHOKE (Cynaka Scoltmus). German, Artischoke. — French, Artichaut. — Spanish, Akacu^fa, The Artichoke is a native of the south of Europe, and is principally cultivated in the gar- dens of the French- by whom it is considered more as a luxury than as a profitable escu- lent. The heads, in their immature state, a)i
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