Title: 29th annual seed catalogue & price list of everything for the garden, farm and orchard : season 1898
Identifier: CAT31294447 (find matches)
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Otto Schwill & Company; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nursery stock Tennessee Memphis Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Grasses Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Agricultural implements Catalogs
Publisher: Memphis, Tenn. : Otto Schwill & Co.
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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USE SLUG SHOT FOR CUT WORMS. 26 Improved Late Flat Dllteli.—As a variety for win- ter market it has no superior and is more extensively grown than any other. Head lar e, blueish-green, round, solid, broad and flat on top, and often tainted with reddish brown after being touched with frost , they open white and crisp, are tender and well flavored. It is a fall and winter variety, and one of the very best to keep. "With good cultivation, on moist, rich ground, ninety-five in a hun- dred will head up hard and fin*. Oz., 20c; 2 oz., 35c; % lb., 50c; 1 lb., $1.50. Genuine Surehead, — This popular Cabbage is rightly named Surehead. It never fails to make a remarkably fine, solid, large head, with few outer leaves. A strong, vigorous grower, ripening late for a main crop, and very uniform in size and color. 1 oz., 20c; 2 oz., 35c; )i lb., 60c; 1 lb., $2.00. Luxemburg. — Makes a very hard head of good size and extra- ordinary weight, and is remarka- ble for its keeping qualities when buried over winter. The best sort for late spring sales after all other sorts are gone. Oz., 20c; 2oz., 35c; X lb., 60c; lib., $2.00. Green Glaze.—Glossy green; withstands the ravages of the cut worms better than the other sorts. Oz., 20c; 2 oz., 35c; % lb., 60c; 1 lb., $2.00. Xew Winter Hollander Cabbage.— This is the favcritt winter sort with market gardeners. The heads of this valuable sort aro of medium size, averaging a weight of eight pounds, are very solid and deep, and of a fine white color, ma- king them entirely distinct from any othsr strain. Oz., 20c; 2 oz., 35c; X !b., 60c; 1 lb., $2.00.
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Luxemburg Cabbage. Red Dutch Cabbage. Ounce, 25c. Forms solid red heads, nsed mostly for pickling. Remember, cheapness invariably depreciates quality, and in nothing more does this apply than in seed.

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