. Burpee's farm annual, 1892. Nursery stock Pennsylvania Philadelphia Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Vegetables Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs. In the entire Catalogue of Seeds no item is more important to the Farmer and ^Market Gar- dener than Cabbage,—for upon the quality of the seed primarily depends the marketable value of the crop. It is a fact that California Grown Seed or Imported Seed (of American varieties), so largely sold by dealers because it is cheap— cannot be relied upon to produce good crops throughout America. The best cabbage seed is grown in Bucks County, Pa., and upon Long Island. H
. Burpee's farm annual, 1892. Nursery stock Pennsylvania Philadelphia Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Vegetables Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs. In the entire Catalogue of Seeds no item is more important to the Farmer and ^Market Gar- dener than Cabbage,—for upon the quality of the seed primarily depends the marketable value of the crop. It is a fact that California Grown Seed or Imported Seed (of American varieties), so largely sold by dealers because it is cheap— cannot be relied upon to produce good crops throughout America. The best cabbage seed is grown in Bucks County, Pa., and upon Long Island. Here our crops are annually raised by experienced and conscientious growers—subject to our personal inspection each season,—w^hen every rogue is rigidly discarded and only first- class, well-developed heads saved for seed,— heads such as would bring the highest prices if sent to market. By a special system of stock selection, developed after long continued study of the Cabbage and its tendencies, the strains we offer have become remarkable for both their SuEE-HEADixa and Haed-Headixg char- acter. So inbred are these qualities that the Gardener can rely absolutely that no failure of the crop can result from anv fault of the seed if he uses Buepee's High-Beed Seed of the BEST AMERICAN GROWN CABBAGE. BURPEE'S SUREHEAD. The illustration above was accurately engraved from a photograph of an average seed head of this world-famous main-crop cabbage. See description on third page cover and testimonials for lU years on yellow inset opposite page US. BURPEE'S ALL-HEAD EARLY CABBAGE. ACME FLAT DUTCH, BURPEE'S First introduced last year and still exclu- sively controlled by us. So complete iras our confidence in the unusual merits of this distinct new cabbage that we paid the originator a bonus of one thousand dol- lars for the ownership, besides contracting with him to grow for seven thousand pounds of the, seed. We had, of course, previously thoroughly tested it o
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