. Spring 1902 annual catalogue improved northern grown farm and garden seeds, hardy shrubs, roses, and small fruit plants / Farmer Seed Nursery stock Minnesota Catalogs; Grasses Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs. Farmer Seed Company, Faribault, Minnesota. NEW ASPARAGUS - BONVAL- LET'S GIANTâThis new Asparagus is Dound to be generally grown as soon as its superiorfiualitiesarelcnown. Itorigin- ated with Mr. Bonvallet, a noted French Asparagus grpwcr, who has shipped his fxceilent Asparagus to Chicago
. Spring 1902 annual catalogue improved northern grown farm and garden seeds, hardy shrubs, roses, and small fruit plants / Farmer Seed Nursery stock Minnesota Catalogs; Grasses Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs. Farmer Seed Company, Faribault, Minnesota. NEW ASPARAGUS - BONVAL- LET'S GIANTâThis new Asparagus is Dound to be generally grown as soon as its superiorfiualitiesarelcnown. Itorigin- ated with Mr. Bonvallet, a noted French Asparagus grpwcr, who has shipped his fxceilent Asparagus to Chicago for a great many years, where it always brought higher prices than local "; It has been selected on the fol- lowing points: Extra large size, vigor- our growth, and, above all, great resist- ance to blight, which is now attacking Asparagus plantations all over the country. It is a cross between Palmetto and Early Giant Argenteuil, combining the good qualities of both. The culture of Asparagus from s^ i i by no means as slow as many r Ihink. To be sure the seed re i quite some time to germinate, but ⢠it has been pro\H n by exhaustive « x- periments that one-year-old plants are by far the best for an Asparagus bed, and since the culture of Asparagus from seed is much cheaper than if roots are IJurchased, an ounce containing over 1,000 seeds, it is far the most profitable way to raise Asparagus from seed. We cannot furnish i>lants of this new kind, put., lOc. '. HORNED AFRICAN CTJCXJMBER âThe vine is handsome and exceedingly luxuriant. One hill will cover a trellis at least 10 feet square with a solid sheet "f dark green through which the sun cannot pen-etrate. It Is the fruit, how- â ver, which is the most curious and dis- tinct feature. It averages, when ma- ture, about. 4 inches long by 2V2 Inches in diameter", and is covered with strong protruding points or horns. The skin is |)orfectly smooth and of a very deep dark green, except around
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