. Catalogue 1899 : Pacific Seed and Plant Company. Nursery stock California Sacramento Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Grasses Seeds Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. Mammoth Red"Etampes. PUMPKINS—Continued for stock feed rather than for table use. Price, per packet, 5c; per ounce, 10c; per pound, 75c. Jonathan—A large bottle-shaped variety, with a crookneck; an excellent keeper, fine, sweet flavor. Price, per packet, 5c; per ounce, 10c; per pound, 40c. Tennessee Sweet Potato—Of medium size, pear- shaped, color creamy-white, lightly striped with green, flesh thick, creamy-white,
. Catalogue 1899 : Pacific Seed and Plant Company. Nursery stock California Sacramento Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Grasses Seeds Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. Mammoth Red"Etampes. PUMPKINS—Continued for stock feed rather than for table use. Price, per packet, 5c; per ounce, 10c; per pound, 75c. Jonathan—A large bottle-shaped variety, with a crookneck; an excellent keeper, fine, sweet flavor. Price, per packet, 5c; per ounce, 10c; per pound, 40c. Tennessee Sweet Potato—Of medium size, pear- shaped, color creamy-white, lightly striped with green, flesh thick, creamy-white, fine-grained, dry. Price, per packet, 5c; per ounce, 10c; per pound, 50c. Cushaw, or Crookneck—Very productive and of good size; color light cream, sometimes lightly striped. Price, per packet, 5c; per ounce, 10c; per pound, 40c. Japanese—Extremely small seed cavity—all the balance being solid meat throughout. The seeds are curiously sculptured in the manner of Chinese letters. Very productive, ripen early, good keepers, and weigh fifteen to twenty pounds each. An enthusiastic grower. Price, per packet, 5c; per ounce, 10c; per pound, 50c. RADISH One ounce will sow one hundred feet of drill; eight to ten pounds will be required for one acre. Radishes do best in a light, rich soil. Sow in drills about ten inches apart, covering about half an inch, and thin the plants to two inches apart. A rapid growth is essential to produce showy, crisp radishes of a mild flavor. Sow every ten days for a succession of crops. Early Scarlet Turnip—For first and successive sowing in the open ground, we can strongly recommend this old favorite. The root is of medium size, bright scarlet in color, and in quality is certainly unsurpassed, being always mild and pleasant in flavor. Price, per packet, 5c; per ounce, 10c; per pound, 50c. Earliest Carmine Olive-Shaped Rad- ish—One of the handsomest and best of all the extra early radishes. The root is regu- larly olive-shaped, very even,
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