People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1897 — Page 7 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

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None better to be had, either as to quality or variety. Bean*—Black Lima. Best variety. Burpee’s Bush Lima. Large beans; an immense yielder. Pole or Climbers. Golden Cluster Wax. A prolific bearer. Golden-Eyed Wax. Hardy, prolific, rustproof. Beets— Early Eclipse. None better; universal favorite. Lane’s Imperial Sugar. The richest. Cabbage— rßrlll's None such. The best of the new varieties. True Jersey Wakefield. The old reliable. Henderson's Succession. An all season cabbage. Stonemason. The old reliable late cabbage; very large. Carrots— The New Chantaney. We offer but one sort because it is the best. CaullfUnrer—The Early Paris. One of the easiest to grow. Celery - Kalamazoo Market or Broad Bibbed. Large, crisp. Cucumber— We offer one variety of cucumbers only this year; it Is called ThoG burn's Ever Bearing; It will produce the entire season. Cress— Fine Curled. Crisp and cjioice. Egg Plant— New Jersey improved Large Purple. The best beyond question. Leek— The New Giant. Unsumossed. Lettuce— Old reliable Black Seed Simpson. Fine quality. Chartier’s Mammoth Head. Fine quality. Mangel— Golden Giant, a great prize taker. The newest and best. Has weighed Uy t lbs. Musknielon—tien Superior. A Cantelope of extra line quality. Little Gem. Popular in Chicago nyarket. Onions— Fellow Globe Danvers, Standard crop. The Prize Taker. This is American grown seed; immense size. Extra Early Barletta. or English radish. Parsley— New Moss Curled. The finest. M*arsnip— lmproved Guernsey. The best. Peas— The Strategem. Tills is, perhaps, the most prolific pea In existence. American Wonder. The earliest and bast crinkled dwarf varieties. Early Prize. A fine new sort. Extra choice. Pepper— Mixture of the vety best sorts—the Kuby King, Bed Etna and New Celestial. Pumpkin-r Quaker Pie. It is early and keeps late. . Dunkard Winter. It will keep good nearly all winter. Radish— White Tipped Scarlet Ball. Extra early. *• Improved Chartier. Best market radish. Rutabaga— Vellow Purple Top. The best yellow variety. White Sweet German. For table use.

FLOWER SEEDS. Our collection of Flower Seeds Is especially designed for the farmers' flower garden. We have selected only such varieties as are easily grown. .4/«*»ii»ii-Tliii old favorite should be largely used in every garden. A novelty Little Gem. Verydwarf. Asters— We have selected the best variety that can be found. Large and beautiful flowers. Dalsum (Lady Slipper)—The variety we . offer is the superb Camellia Flowered. tVaHlopsis— Very handsome and showy plants. Candytuft— Perfectly hardy. A mixture of varieties Including White Kocket, Dark Crimson and New Carmine. Cauuas, or Indian Shot— All varieties, mixed. (Wosia (Cockscomb)—One of the most brilliant. of annuals. Superb dwarf varieties mixed. Chrysanthemum— Showy, garden favorites; splendid mixed double. Cypress Vine— One of the most elegant climbers. Mixed varieties. Dianthu* r—China and Japan pinks. Many distinct and most beautifully marked varieties. They are the best. Miniature Sunflower (Helianthus cucumerifollus)—A novelty of great merit, Three feet high. Small flowers. Marrel~of-Pe.ru (Mlrabilis)—The Marvel-of-Peru, or Four o’clock. We offer a dwarf variety, a great novelty, called The New Tom Thumb. Mixed colors. Mignonette—The seed should be scattered liberally in sunny situations. Many flue new varieties, mixed. Myosotis (Forget-Me-Not)—These charming little favorites succeed best in damp, sandy situations, but will thrive well in almost any soli. Gourds— Dish cloth and ail other ornamental varieties mixed. Ipomma— Bapld-growing, tender annuals, climbers. Nasturtiums— tire among our most popular plants. Our packets contain a mixture of all colors of the superb Tom Thumb varieties. Pansies— Our packet contains a mixture of all colors and shades of superb large flowering varieties. Petunia— Most valuable plants. Our packets contain a mixture of superfine varieties of all different colors. Phloar Drummond U The improved Grandifloru varieties are exceptionally beautiful. Our packet contains all colors of the grundiflora or large flowering strain. Sweet Peas— Finest mixed varieties; new large flowering. Verbenas— Flower very quickly from the seed and thrive much better than from cuttipgs. Our packet contains a fine collection of all shades of color. Xumias— Superb double, mixed. VEGETA RLE SEEDS. The seeds we offer are select, fresh and warranted, to be grown from select stock.

Spinach—Sew Longstanding. None better. Sguash— Glaut Orooknock. A great Improvement on the old variety. Pike’s Peak or Bibley Hard Shell. Just aa good a keeper us the Hubbard. Mammoth White Bush Scallop. Best early summer squash. Pure Hubbard. Standard winter. Tomato- Dwarf Upright Champion. Undoubtedly best. Golden Sunrise—Yellow variety. Unsurpassed. Turnip- Purple Top. Strap Leaf, Best garden turnip for either early or late. Watermelon A luscious now variety called The White Gem. Jordan's Gray Monarch—A large sort; deep red in color and of very fine quality. FIELD HEEDS. Alfalfa- -Abundant fodder crop. Corn—The Bobinson Yellow Dent-Large oars, extra early, light yellow. 12 to 18 rows on ear. Of this corn Mr. Barnard writes: Waskpi, Midi., Sept. 22.1898. J. W. Wilson: l have just corneln from my two corn fields, where the men are finishing cutting up corn. The field of that sort marked Hohlnson's Seedling, in package sent you to-day, is a very superior corn. You see the dates on the cards, showing time of growth-and the King on new ground Is No. 1; not as early as the .Robinson on older gr und. The first three hills of the latter which l stepped up to test had three stalks In each hill, and there wore nine ears oji the three hills, every ear as fine as the two sent you (10 Inches long). 1 c >mo near sending the nine ears, hut decided to get two of the King that you might examine and compare. The Bobluson has been raised on my place now for four years and will be the only kind planted next year. Of course as we have not liegun busking 1 can only estimate relative amounts, liyt it seems to promise at least 26 per cent more yield than the King. If you wish to use on seed list, let me know, as I can select choice seed and dry It well. King of the Earlles, one of the best and most prolific of the earliest Yellow Dent varieties of corn The Famous Climax. A later variety ot Yellow Dent. Undoubtedly the very best all uround corn for middle latitude. It will materially Increase your corn crop to plant this variety. SPECIAL OFFER. For your own clubbing renewal and one new subscriber to each paper we will send a quart of either variety of the above corn by mail, prepaid, or a peck by express at your expense. For further Information about this splendid corn address K. C. Baknakd, Wasepi. Mich. Crimson Clorer— Best. Kaffir Corn —A non-saccharine sorghum, H as thequalfty of resisting drought; early. Popcorn- We confine our distribution this year to the new Mapledale Prolific. Sweet Corn—We confine our distribution to one unsurpassed new Variety, the new Country Gentleman. Mammoth Prolific—A splendid late variety. The largest grown.