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Iowa Seed Company, Des Moines, Iowa. ... 3

[Image: Drawing/Scratchboard Illustration, ground cherry]

Iowa Seed Co.'s Improved Ground Cherry.
Another year only adds to the popularity of this already very popular little fruit which we introduced to our customers in 1887, and it is now listed in the catalogues of the leading seedsmen of the country to whom we supply seed. It is a great improvement on the wild Ground Cherry. They grow well on most any dry soil, are easier raised than the tomato, and are prolific bearers, and oh! such luscious fruit. For sauce they are excellent, and for pies nothing can equal them in flavor and taste. They are delicious as preserves, and when dried in sugar are much better than raisins for cake or puddings and they will keep, if put in a cool place in the shuck, nearly all winter. Cooking directions accompany each packet. No one after raising them once will ever make a garden again without devoting a small portion at least to the Ground Cherry. A leading Market Gardener writes us on Aug. 28, 1888:-"Your Improved Ground Cherry is certainly an improvement on the old Garden Ground Cherry. I have one-fourth acre of them, but have not enough to supply the demand." Gardeners here market them in quart fruit boxes, and they are sold by leading fruit dealers here. Per pkt. 10 cts.; 1/2 oz. 30 cts.; oz. 50 cts.

New "Dignity" Mangel.
No crop pays the farmer or stock raiser better than Mangels. The Dignity stands head and shoulders above all others; unequalled for yielding and feeding qualities. Grows to a very large size, weighing thirty to fifty pounds, and will yield forty-five tons per acre with good cultivation.

If you want large crops of large Mangels of good quality, don't fail to try the Dignity. By express 5 lbs. for $2.00; by mail per lb. 60 cts.; 1/4 lb. 20 cts.; oz. 10 cts.; pkt. 5 cts.

[Image: Drawing/Scratchboard Illustration, Mangel. Caption-New Dignity Mangel.]

Page's New Striped Rice Pop Corn.

This splendid novelty, which is the result of a cross between the best White and Red varieties of Rice Pop Corn, we have been at work improving for several years, until now we have undoubtedly the best, handsomest and most attractive variety of Pop Corn in existence. We offered it to our customers in 1887, and it has proved to be an acquisition with which all are pleased. "Beautiful." "Splendid." "It takes the cake," is what they say of it. The color is a clear translucent white, and each kernel is beautifully striped with bright crimson, as shown in our illustration on the cover of this catalogue. The ears are of good size and well filled out; kernels are long and pointed, resembling rice.

It ripens earlier than any other variety with which we are acquainted; is unsurpassed in productiveness, extremely tender when popped, bursting out very large, white as snow, and of finest quality. All should try it. Per pkt. 10 cts.; pt. 35 cts.; qt. 65 cts.; all by mail prepaid.

Copper King Onion.
Undoubtedly the largest variety in existence, having been grown to the enormous weight of five pounds and six ounces, and notwithstanding their large size they retain their perfect shape and fine quality and do not become ungainly monstrosities. To obtain some idea of how large this really is, just weigh the largest onion you can obtain and compare weights, or weigh out five pounds and six ounces of common onions and imagine them all in one. They are of a beautiful copper color; flesh pure white, fine grained and mild. Per pkt. 10 cts.; oz. 50 cts.