Keywords: Everything for the garden (16024773344).jpg 12 <br> I <br> VEGETABLE SEED IMOVELTIES <br> ii enders ons <br> Early Spring Gabbage <br> The only Extra Early Round Flat-Headed <br> Cabbage in the World <br> Coming in with the Wakefield and yielding <br> one-third more than any other Extra Early <br> This variety is of the Early Summer type but <br> about one-fifth smaller and has only four to five <br> outside leaves and these so small that it may be <br> planted twenty-one inches apart 13 500 to the acre <br> Eemembering that tiiis is a first early flat <br> variety the shape that is so popular on all <br> markets and that it is ready fully a week earlier <br> than any sort like it its value can be reiid- <br> ily appreciated The stem is short mak- <br> ing almost the whole filant edilile It is <br> finely bred the veining of the loaves l eing <br> particularly fine There is no cabbage <br> we know of having a more solid head ; it <br> has also the peculiarity of heading <br> firmly at an early stage in its growth so <br> that the finest cabbage though small <br> can be obtained long before it has at- <br> tained its mature size Its shape and <br> laige yield per acre make it particularly <br> valuable for truckers and its good quality <br> will render it the finest early cahl age for <br> private gardens See cut Price 15c <br> pkt 60c oz 2 00 lb 6 00 lb <br> llMetropolitan <br> Sweet Corn <br> The BEST and the <br> Sweetest EARLY <br> SWEET CORN <br> And the biggest yielder of all early varieties <br> / flnitii a smnll qii iiitity of yniir MetropoHtitn <br> Swift III Inyt St ison 1 1 \Hlf Kpiiilel's Eiirly Giant <br> ion an I P rr\ s If \ I nil Ml Tfieived ei/ual atten- <br> tion iinil Ml tropolitiin n ja punier tliiin any bad <br> lar/ i r i i;s tlllid liittrr at tip anil was vastly <br> uir in tonhn si and flavor Jt is <br> tlppd III I II itinii and I hope to <br> plantain I iiility next leason � <br> C I I j ilN' N I'utcrson N J <br> We bave hundreds of other testi- <br> monials of similar purport <br> about Metropolitan <br> Sweet Corn <br> tienderson's <br> New <br> Metropolitan <br> There aie tluee sciious de- <br> fects to winch eaily \aiieties <br> of Corn aie liable viz weakness of <br> plant inferior fla\ot and smut It is <br> safe to say that theie has ne\er been on <br> the market any one \aiiety of Coin that <br> combined the es'-ential featuies of eaili- <br> ness and good flavot in a satisfactory _ <br> degree In these impoitmt character- <br> istics METROPOLITAN ceitainly <br> outclasses any othei \arietv It is only two days <br> later than Cory wlucli until now has been the <br> earliest sort <br> The plant is distinct being eiy strong in stalk <br> growing 5 feet in height Th loaves aie numer- <br> ous nariow and \ ry daik green in olor The ears <br> are all set low not o\ei li feet fioin the giound <br> producing from two to tluee to the plant Ihey <br> are uniformly 9 inches long 10 to 12 rowed well filled to the tip with large deep grains <br> which are very tender It is not merely sweet but possesses in a remarkable degree <br> that exquisite richness so well known in the larger and later sorts We should add that <br> an ample husk fully insures its value as a shipping variety indeed the combination of <br> good qualities possessed by it makes it the most desirable of all for early trucking <br> See cut Price 15c i pt 25c pt 40c qt 1 50 pk 5 00 bushel <br> / find your Metropolitan Sn'eet Corn to he very early very sweet and a great yielder I do not know <br> of any early sweet corn that can compare with it � A P RoscoE New Haven Ct <br> BEHIEIDBEQ you caqnot procuie pendeisoq's Seeds etc excepting from us direct We do not supply tlien tlirougt storeKeepers etc 42383151 133997 66553 Page 12 Text http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/42383151 1902 10 5962/bhl title 66553 Henry G Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection ; Peter Henderson Co Biodiversity Heritage Library Everything for the garden 1901 Garden Stories Catalogs Flowers Peter Henderson Co Plants Ornamental Seed industry and trade Seeds Trade catalogs Vegetables U S Department of Agriculture National Agricultural Library bhl page 42383151 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/42383151 BHLinbloom bhlGardenStories peter henderson co plants ornamental u s department of agriculture national agricultural library bhlinbloom bhlgardenstories Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2015-02-25 Check categories 2015 August 24 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/16024773344 2015-08-24 22 52 14 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 Everything for the garden 1902 Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script |