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SEED CATALOGUE AND GARDEN GUIDE.

ASTRO CUCUMBER.
A novelty of the highest merit, and one which has greatly pleased our market garden customers, some claiming that they made more money from a crop of these grown early in the hotbeds than from any other crop, as they sell quickly at $1.00 per dozen. They do excellently well under glass, yielding a continual daily picking of large, perfect shaped fruits, eight to twelve inches long, almost solid throughout. Excellent for slicing. Solid and crisp. With common outdoor culture in the summer, it produces large cucumbers fifteen to eighteen inches in length with very few
seeds. Seed will always be expensive, as it produces only eight to twelve pounds per acre, while the White Spine and other common sorts produce two hundred to five hundred pounds. In packets only, containing twenty seeds each. Per pkt. 10c, 6 for 50c.

September 19, 1895.- The Astro Cucumber is all you claim for it. They grew twelve to eighteen inches long and were fine. The Banquet Melons were as fine as I ever ate.
R. V. HENDRIX, Limestone Co., Tex.

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The seeds I bought of you were first class and have done well in Texas. As to the Astro Cucumber, it was a wonder to everyone who saw it. I raised several that were extremely long.
T. P. RICHERSON, Hall Co., Tex.

PERFECTED DELMONICO MUSK MELON.
This improved type of the Delmonico melon is almost a perfect globe in shape; the skin is a peculiar grayish green until ripe, when it changes to a bright yellow. The ribs are wide and covered thickly with a prominent netting. The melons average six inches in diameter, have a very small seed cavity, and are exceedingly thick and heavy for their size. The fiesh is a deep, rich, orange yellow color, and is of very fine grain, without the slightest stringiness. This variety produces melons of uniformly high quality and is likely to displace all other red or yellow fieshed sorts. It is a strong, hardy grower and very prolific. We can recommend it either to the market gardener or amateur. Per pkt. 10c, oz 20c, 1/4 lb. 50c, lb. $1.50.

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OLD HOMESTEAD POLE BEANS.
This is an improvement on the Kentucky Wonder. and we regard it as far ahead of any other green podded pole variety, and the best as well as earliest sort, being fit for the table August 1st. It is enormously productive, the pods hanging in great clusters from top to bottom of the pole. It is entirely stringless, and the pods are a silvery green color. The pods, though large, cook tender and melting. and we can recommend it as the best green pole bean. Pods are often to twelve inches in length. and instead of picking them into a basket, it is customary to pile them up on one arm like kindling wood when gathering a mess for family use. The dry beans are long, oval, duncolored, and of fair quality as a shelled bean. Can be grown with corn to good advantage, and thus secure two crops from the same ground. Per pkt. 5c, 1/2 pt. 20c, qt. 65c.

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OLD HOMESTEAD BEANS.

SCARLET KASHMYR TURNIP.
This new, extra early, bright scarlet colored turnip has a striking resemblance to a large radish, being as round and uniform in shape. The flesh is as white and crisp as a radish, and of most excellent cooking qualities. It matures almost as quickly as the
earliest radishes, being far ahead in this respect of any other turnip, and when cooked is of unsurpassed quality. Also a good keeper, and with its beautiful scarlet color, early maturity and fine quality, it is enti tied to a place among our garden favorites, and will please everyone who gives it a trial. Per pkt. 5c, oz, 14c, 1/4 lb 50c, lb. $1.50.

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SCARLET KASHMYR TUHNIPS.