. Burpee's farm annual for 1900. Nursery stock Pennsylvania Philadelphia Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Catalogs. ARTICHOKE. The Globe Artichoke is cultivated for its flower- heads, which are cooked like asparagus. On account of its hardiness, easy culture, and perennial nature, this plant should be more generally grown. Plants set in any good garden soil, two feet apart, with slight covering in winter, will remain in bearing a long time. LARGE GREEN GLOBE. The standard variety. Pkt. 10 cts.; oz. 35 cts.; per % ft § ASPARAGUS. CONOVER'S COLOSSA
. Burpee's farm annual for 1900. Nursery stock Pennsylvania Philadelphia Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Catalogs. ARTICHOKE. The Globe Artichoke is cultivated for its flower- heads, which are cooked like asparagus. On account of its hardiness, easy culture, and perennial nature, this plant should be more generally grown. Plants set in any good garden soil, two feet apart, with slight covering in winter, will remain in bearing a long time. LARGE GREEN GLOBE. The standard variety. Pkt. 10 cts.; oz. 35 cts.; per % ft § ASPARAGUS. CONOVER'S COLOSSAL. 3^ ft 20 cts.; per ft 50 cts. The standard variety. Per pkt. 5 cts.; oz. 10 cts.; One-year-old roots, 50 for 50 cts.; 90 cts. per 100, by mail, postpaid. Sent by express at expense of purchaser: per 1000; two- year-old roots, 50 cts. per 100 : per 1000. BARR'S MAMMOTH. This tine variety has brought in market thirtv-five cents a bunch when other asparagus was selling for ten and fifteen cents. "The stalks are very large, frequently an inch in diameter, with few scales ; the stalks retain their thickness completely up to the- top of the shoots, and have close, round heads. They are very quick growing ; the stalks are very tender and succulent, entirely free from woody fiber, and make shoots fit for market in a single dav. Price of seed : Per pkt. 5 cts.; oz. 10 cts.; % ft 25 cts.; per ft 75 cts. Good, strong roots, one-year-old, 50 for 60cts.; per 100, bvmail, post- paid. By express: One-year-old, 65 cts. per 100; 500 for ; 8450 per 1000; two-year-old roots, by express, 75 cts. per 100 ; per 1000. COLUMBIAN MAMMOTH WHITE. While we personally prefer Barr's Main- moth, others, however, whose taste is for a white asparagus, will prefer the New Columbian Mammoth While, because " it furnishes white shoots which stay white as long as fit for use. without earthing up or any other artificial blanching; and because it can be absolutely depended u
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