. Dreer's garden calendar : 1900. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. DREER'S SEEDS have been for Sixty-two Years a Standard Among the Best Gardeners of this Country for Undoubted Purity and Excellence. Seeds and Plants are noiv taken by leading Express Companies at a reduction of 20 per cent, from regular rates of merchandise. Cultural directions given are for laiitude of Philadelphia. Farther South plantings should be made earlier ; in the North, later. ARTICHOKE. The undev
. Dreer's garden calendar : 1900. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. DREER'S SEEDS have been for Sixty-two Years a Standard Among the Best Gardeners of this Country for Undoubted Purity and Excellence. Seeds and Plants are noiv taken by leading Express Companies at a reduction of 20 per cent, from regular rates of merchandise. Cultural directions given are for laiitude of Philadelphia. Farther South plantings should be made earlier ; in the North, later. ARTICHOKE. The undeveloped flower-heads are used. They are boiled and served with Mayonnaise dressing. Sow seed early in spring, in drills 1 foot apart. The spring transplant to permanent beds, in rows or hills, 3 feet apart and 2 feet between the plants. It likes a deep, rich, moist loam, and the plants should be protected in winter by a covering of leaves or coarse manure. Liarg-e Green G-lobe. The best for general culture. Pkt., 10 cts.; oz., 30 cts.; \ lb . $ Jerusalem Articliolce. Entirely distinct from the Globe variety, and propagated by and for its tubers. An excellent table vegetable; boil, like potatoes, then rub off the skin and serve with white sauce; also used for pickling and for feeding stock ; yield about 300 bushels per acre. Qt., cts.; peck, §; bu., § (2 lbs. by mail, 50 cts.) Special prices on large quantities. ASPARAGUS SEED. One ounce will sow 50 feet of drill; 5 lbs. to the acre. Sow in April or May, in i? rows 1 foot apart, and keep 5=^ clean by frequent hoeing. E?(j When two years old trans-: plant into permanent beds, —'i which should be weU and Z^' deeply manured and trenched to the depth of 18 inches. On the approach of winter cover with manure or compost; fork the beds early in spring, and apply a dressing of salt or kainit at the of 600 lbs. an Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have bee
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