. Burpee's farm annual for 1900. Nursery stock Pennsylvania Philadelphia Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Catalogs. ; â â â : â RICHTED IBS "TRIUMPH" RADISH This dainty little Radish from Holland is peculiar and pleasing in appearance. The pure white skin is distinctly striped and dotted with bright scarlet most showy contrast. The smooth, round roots, of finest quality when from iree-fourths of an inch to an inch in diameter, are ready to pull almost as early as Burpee's Earliest. They have very thin g^'. skin and only a few small leaves. T
. Burpee's farm annual for 1900. Nursery stock Pennsylvania Philadelphia Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Catalogs. ; â â â : â RICHTED IBS "TRIUMPH" RADISH This dainty little Radish from Holland is peculiar and pleasing in appearance. The pure white skin is distinctly striped and dotted with bright scarlet most showy contrast. The smooth, round roots, of finest quality when from iree-fourths of an inch to an inch in diameter, are ready to pull almost as early as Burpee's Earliest. They have very thin g^'. skin and only a few small leaves. Their ggj. novel appearance will attract attention j§§ni: everywhere. Equally good for open ground or under glass. Per pkt. 10 cts.; oz. 25 An " Expert" Opinion of Burpee's Trial System at Fordhook. Herbert Myrick, Esq., President of The Orange Judd Company, of New York, and also of The Phelps Publishing Company, Springfield, Mass., after a visit to Fordhook, complimented our trial system as follows: " Seedsmen would not be so often blamed if more of them conducted their business along the lines adopted by Burpee. And farmers would be less prone to complain of seed if they would visit the leading testing grounds and seed farms. At Fordhook Farm, for instance, we find Mr. Burpee testing more than 6000 varieties of plants and flowers. Only about one-third this number may finally go into his catalogue, but the tests enable him to sift the good from the poor, both from seed of his own production or that is grown for him by experts under contract, or that he imports. How important such tests are is realized more by the market gardener and florist than by many farmers. This kind of work enables our lead- ing American seedsmen to furnish seeds which exceed in quality the stock furnished by the oldest houses in England or on the continent. . There are scalawags in every trade, but American agriculture in all its branches owes most of its improved fruits, v
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