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/ANNUAL CATALOG 38th YEAR1
Special Offer £15-
TEN BEAUTIFUL FLOWERS — All annuals that we recommend will olease you.
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Giant Antirrhinumsv^$rlFip^M( or Snap Dragon Giant Mixea '
2171 Cosmos, Condon’s Mammoth Flowering Prize Mixed 2249 Four O’Clock, All Colored Choicest Mixed 2349 Marigold, Condon’s Giant Sunburst Mixture 2400 Pansy, Condon’s Giant Flowered Prize Mixture 2407 Petunias, Condon’s Giants of California Fancy Single Mixed Colors. 1
2120 Chinese Woolflower, Deep Crimson Scarlet 2376 Nasturtiums, Condon’s Georgeous Dwarf Mixed Colors 2462 Salvia, Splendens Large Flowering Scarlet Sage 2458 Salpiglossis, Velvet Flower
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Three Generations of Seed and Plant Growers
“Condon’s Seeds Satisfy’ 9 A Trial Will Make You a Permanent Customer
Prices
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Over 250,000 ! Planters Use Condon’s Seeds, Plants and Bulbs Annually 1 GUARANTEED TO PLEASE
FATHER, SONS AND GRANDSON
How Our Seed Business Began
I TV O TTCF story below is old to our thousands of satisfied old customers and we apologize to them for printing it again, but
[■*■ '* 1 1 J-i it is new to the thousands of new customers we hope to serve this season, and it honestly tells just why our busi-
Ibess grows and how very carefully it is conducted; so we are printing it again for their benefit. We believe our old customers will _;enjoy reading it again also.
lof- Beginning in the ages of the old Cradle and Rake when everything on the farm was done by hand and
i o L VJCUCI allUIl back work, Dad started farming with Mr. Greenlee, a pioneer farmer of old reliable Scotch parents. In those days land of course was cheap, but money was scarcer than hens’ teeth and crops very poor on account of inferior seed and lack of proper cultivation, so you may know it was mighty hard sledding for a good many years: still I guess it was a good thing, for those lean seasons, when it was hard to produce enough to pay the interest on the mortgage set Dad to thinking and figuring how to make both ends meet, and he concluded the best way out was to use extra care in selecting his seed, breeding it up to the highest standard possible and to spare no labor in preparing and cultivating the seed beds after planting. This worked out well and really was the motive or incentive instilled in him in pioneer days, transplanted to us boys a few years later, which makes it possible to serve ■you today in a pleasing and particular manner.
J f prtPmtmn was during those early days that John and Leonard were born and as we grew up under Dad’s careful £iI1U VJCHC1 dLlUIl instructions we naturally followed his trend of thought, so at the age of 13 we both started working out on a small truck farm at the enormous wage of 40c a day. Well do I remember my first day: The boss started John picking peas and I weeding asparagus, and honestly the rows looked a mile long. We stuck to it though, even if it was hard work, and I’ll never forget if I live to be a hundred how proud we were when we took our first pay home to mother. She, too, was proud of us, for while we ^worked hard and were dirty, she knew it was honest work and Dad needed the money, and we were glad to help even though it was ■ only a little.
<<Ao Vnn Q/n CLnl] Vmi 99 Well, this went on for a few years, Mother insisting we go to school
| I OU OUW OU oricili I UU rs.eap. winters and garden in the summer. As time passed we realized
V more fully the necessity of planting good seeds to produce good crops, for we saw many failures from poor seed; consequently we went into the seed-growing business on our own account, and today we personally grow on our own farms and rented ones thousands of ■ bushels annually of beans, peas, corn, radishes and other seed crops, so we are still actual farmers and really more so than ever before, I and we know full well the necessity and wisdom of planting only the best seeds that grow, for the old proverb, “As you sow so shall you reap,” is more pronounced than ever. Being actual producing farmers and gardeners, we know your needs in seeds and understand your wants, your trials and your troubles, so please don’t hesitate to inquire for any information not given in this book. It’s yours for the asking and it’s free whether you buy our seed or not, although we think you will buy our seeds now that you know how carefully ■ they are grown, for there’s none better at any price and few as good.
TLa TVial C* i ry rl c fUa TVnfV* In going through our list you may not find as many'new names as
1 ne 1 rial urounas 1 eil me 1 rum you find in some catalogues, for we don’t believe in so many new i things unless absolutely better than the standard varieties and our trials and experiments convince us that the old reliable strains that * are known to gardeners and farmers that have proved true are better, surer and safer for you to plant than many of the so-called new named sorts, and in consequence we use a large portion of our farm to improving and perfecting types that have proven true to the pref¬ erence of new sorts, except in cases where new ones are positively superior.
O rr| Tl anavo -I- 5 In'closing, we want to introduce Leonard Condon, Jr., tofthe new customers, for he is the lad that will be 4,1 u VJC11CI ailuu serving you later on, and he wishes to thank his old friends for the many kind letters and orders sent f last year. Trusting all to remember us this year with your valued orders, and no matter how large or how small they may be, you will get quick service, honest seeds, and a big lot of extras free for trial purposes.
Be friendly — write occasionally.
(Tell your neighbor about us.)
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Condon’s 1929 Greeting and Motto
Honesty and a Square Deal to All
YOUR MONEY BACK IF NOT SATISFIED WITH GOODS UPON ARRIVAL Condon’s Seeds are “Guaranteed to Please” or Replace Free of Charge
Dear Customers and Friends:
Here is your Free Copy of our 1929 Seed and Plant Catalog.
It is Bigger and Better than ever and the prices are lower than ever. This book contains all the latest improved varieties of Garden and Flower Seed. The most complete list of Spring Bulbs, Shrubs and Plants, besides "Everything in Fruits for the Home Planter or Market Glower." All varieties listed in this catalog represent the very fittest in their respective classes. They have all been carefully bred and selected for many years to produce the largest, most profitable crops; and we recommend them to you with confidence that A TRIAL will ] make you a permanent customer.
Every season we serve more than a quarter of a million planters, some, of course, only buy a dollar's worth, while others who grow for market buy annually of us as much as a thousand dollars’ worth of Garden Seeds, and the fact that they come back to us every year for their Seed (FROM WHICH THEY PRODUCE THEIR LIVING) is the best RECOMMEND we can offer new customers that our Seeds and Plants will please you. No matter where you live, if any extensive gardening or farming is done, we can refer you to satisfied customers of long standing .
Let me suggest that you and your family, in the quiet of your own home with no one to disturb you, look through this book from cover to cover, one of the family checking in the catalog the items you need and the other writing the order on the special blank enclosed, after which add it up, slip it and your remittance in the self-addressed envelope, and in 24 hours' time after reaching us it will be correctly filled with the HIGHEST QUALITY SEEDS AND PLANTS and be on the way back to you.
Come and see us some time. We'd be mighty glad to show you all through the seed house and around the farm — it would be a day well spent. If you can't come, write us anyway, whether you order or not, maybe we can help you. Our advice is absolutely free for the asking.
Yours very sincerely, /7) f
| IA117 TO ORDFR Use encl°seci order sheet and envelope if possible; if not, any kind of nv-J W 1 w paper will do, only Be Sure to Sign Your Full Name and Address, giving
your Post Office, County and State, your rural Route, Box or Street Number. Be sure to state just how you wish order shipped, and remember if you order part from Postpaid Prices in body of Catalog and part from Wholesale Farm Seed List or from pages 188 to 192 which are not postpaid prices we will ship All Not Prepaid by Express or Freight unless instructed differently, as the charges would not be increased any. For this privilege we add extras to well satisfy our customers.
HOW TO Post Office Money Order, Bank Draft, Express Order or U. S. Postage Stamps
« in g°°d condition. Register your letter when sending stamps; this protects you
SEND MONEY against any loss. No goods shipped C. 0. D. TERMS Cash with order.
Everything Listed at Postpaid Prices Unless Stated Otherwise .
NOTICE — We cannot ship Plants, Shrubs or Nursery Stock to Canada REMEMBER — We cannot accept Canadian Postage Stamps
OUR GUARANTEE
We guarantee our seeds and plants to be just as represented. If they prove otherwise, we will refill the order free of charge, or return your money, but it must be understood we do not guarantee the crop, thereby, in common with all reliable seedsmen, we give no Warranty, Express or Implied, as to Purity, Description, Quality, Productiveness or any other matter of any Seeds, Bulbs or Plants we send out, and we will not be in any way responsible for the crop. If the purchaser does not accept the goods on these terms, they are at once to be returned. — CONDON BROS., Seedsmen.
SEND YOUR PERSONAL CHECK IF IT’S EASIER
Please order by number as well as names , It will help us to serve you quicker
CONDON’S BIG FREE PREMIUMS FOR 1929
Every Order, Large or Small, Re* 1? TO ITT? ceives Some of These Valuable Seeds "
Complete Culture on all Packets
With orders amounting to 25c you may select any one of the rare seed premiums offered, two with 50c orders, 3 with 75c orders, or the entire assort¬ ment of 5 on orders for $1.00 or more. These premiums may be selected with orders for Plants and Shrubbery as well as all Seed or¬ ders. We cannot send any Plants as premiums.
NASTURTIUM EMPRESS OF INDIA. Very beautiful new dwarf Nasturtium with rich sal¬ mon-scarlet flowers and deep purplish green leaves. Excellent for solid beds or borders.
Nasturtium Empress of India
Asparagus
Ribbed
Chard
Poppy American Legion Mixed
Schizanthus Butterfly Flower
POPPY AMERICAN LEGION FINEST MIXED. A greatly improved strain of Flanders Poppies, comprising all shades and colors. The bright colored blooms are most brilliant in full sunshine. Blooms profusely all summer long.
SCHIZANTHUS BUT¬ TERFLY FLOWER. This is one of the airiest and daintiest flowers imagi¬ nable, especially adapted to bordering beds of taller flowers and those of a heav¬ ier growth. Many range of colors, butterfly like blooms.
Compact bush form.
ASPARAGUS RIBBED CHARD. A
grand new variety from Holland. The rich green leaves all much crinkled. The stalks are pearly white, and may be served in the same manner as Asparagus, or used like Spinach.
RADISH ALL YEAR AROUND. This special mixture will give you an even pro¬ portion of all the leading sorts from the very first earlies to the late sorts for winter.
CONDON ’S Common Sense Culture Book and Canning Guide — Sent FREE on all or¬ ders amounting to $1.50 or more if rc- cpiested when ordering. THIS IS IN AD¬ DITION TO SEED PREMIUMS.
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in the picture at the left you see a partial view of our mammoth trial grounds where everything is fried for purity and productiveness. These safeguards mean millions to our customers annually. Why chance unknown seed?
This is the way we grow our superior Onion Seed. If you grow Onions for mar¬ ket you should use Condon’s Model Globe Onion Seed.
R. Condon mak¬ ing a selection of Con¬ don’s Earliest Red Bird Radishes.
Hoeing His Own Row.
Young Condon spending the summer in his Rhubarb Patch at the farm. It’s a money making crop for any boy or girl. Try it.
L. R. Condon working to im¬ prove our wonderful strain of Condon’s Royal Blood Turnip Beet. The market gardeners’ stand-by.
John O’Malley, one of our big¬ gest market gardeners, showing Mr. Condon his wonderful crop of Condon’s Cannon Ball Cab¬ bage — The Big Money Maker.
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"Preparing Soil for the Seed Box.”
Use any good garden soil free from weeds; put in a little fertilizer, thor¬ oughly mixing together, and screen into seed box as pictured above. Press the soil down firm and smooth with small flat piece of board. This will give you a fine fertile seed bed.
"Sowing the Seed.”
Simply scatter the seed thinly over surface of soil as pictured above. When these seedlings come up this method requires transplanting them at uniform distance in another flat to grow larger before setting in the garden or field. It’s a little more work this way but you always get better and more stockier plants.
"Another Method of Sowing the Seed.”
After firming soil take your marking stick and draw straight furrows across the top and sow seed at a uniform distance as pictured. If this method is followed you may let them grow full size before setting in the garden or field. In other words, it's only one transplanting.
Start Your Garden Right
Grow Your Own Vegetables and Flower Plants
ReduceYourTable Expenses
A 10c Packet of Seed Will Produce More Plants than you could huy for $10.00 at the stores.
A Pleasant, Profitable and Healthful Recrea¬ tion That You Will Fully Enjoy.
When you raise your own plants you are always sure of getting just the varieties you want; besides it’s worth a great deal to have the plants growing in boxes in your own home so you can set them out right before or after a shower. You can’t have this privilege un¬ less you raise your own.
The illustrations here will give you a com¬ plete idea how to prepare the soil, plant the seed, transplant the seedlings and reset in ’the garden or field.
This page applies mostly to customers who don’t have hot beds or cold frames, but it’s just as important for you folks to grow your Cabbage, Celery, Cauliflower, Egg Plants, To¬ mato, Aster, Salvia, Verbena, Pansy, etc., as it is for Big Market Gardeners, and believe me, all our Market Gardeners grow their own plants. They do it to be sure of the type and in order to have the plants ready to set at the proper time, avoiding disappointment of hav¬ ing them delayed and damaged when shipped in. Try it this year. If you need further ad¬ vice just ask for it. You’re always welcome.
CONDON BROS., Seedsmen
"Covering the Seed.”
After sowing seed as pictured in photographs 2 and 3, take your screen again and screen over the top of seed some nice fine soil, covering seed with soil % to % inch deep, according to size of seed. Press top of soil down firmly again.
"Transplanting Seedlings to Perma¬ nent Box.”
Prepare soil as outlined in photof graphs Nos. 1 and 3 and set your plants about 4 inches apart each way. Keep in sunny exposure and expose to cool air gradually to instill a hardy growth.
"Seedlings Are Now Up Ready to Transplant.”
See photograph No. 7 for proper method of transplanting.
"Getting Seed to Start Quickly.”
We now cover top of box with a damp burlap bag which gives a uni¬ form moisture and as the sprouts be¬ gin to show remove the bag and place a pane of common window glass over it. Place in sunny exposure and partly remove glass from box every day to harden the seedlings.
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Last year thousands of growers added to the value of their vine crops hy using Germaco HOTKAPS. 7
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are Miniature Hothouses and Make Crops Mature Earlier
A Revolutionary Device that Saves Farmers Much in Time, Labor and Money
Earlier Crops Mean Higher Prices!
This Proved Method of Plant Protection Means Big Profit to You Next Year Use Them on All Your Garden Crops and Receive Top Prices for Early Vegetables
“HOTKAPS” are made of a specially prepared waxed paper and are cone-like in shape, measuring about 11 inches in diameter at the base and coming to a point at the top. When placed over the plants and held firmly in place by the soil around it, “Hotkaps” become individual miniature hothouses. They are reinforced by a strip of heavily waxed paper.
‘ ‘ Hotkaps ’ ’ are packed one thousand to the package, wSich weighs twenty-two pounds.
In placing the “Hotkaps” over the plants the “Hotkap Setter” will prove very helpful. This is a small steel cone, the exact shape of the “Hotkap” itself, with a handle at the top. The cost of the ‘ ‘ Hotkap Setter ’ ’ is nominal and it can be used a lifetime.
“Hotkaps” are placed in the Setter, and the Setter is then placed on the ground over the plant. Slight pressure on the handle at the top will force both Setter and “Hot¬ kap” into the ground from % to y2 inch. The edge of the “Hotkap” protruding from around the rim of the Setter, is then heaped with just enough soil to weight the edges down. The Setter is then lifted, and the “Hotkap” is in its permanent place.
3. Press Setter NOTE — To insure proper ground ventilation , it is
Inch in important that “Hotkaps” are not set more than from 34 to 34 inch in ground.
In planting the field the ground should be hilled up and the “Hotkap” set on a slight slope. This gives proper drainage to the ground around it, and eliminates the pos¬ sibility of water settling under or around the plant.
Note the illustrations on this page carefully. iSee how easily “Hotkaps” are used.
One man can set 3,000 “Hotkaps” in one day.
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In ventilating- the “Hotkaps,” judgment should be used. When the “Hotkap” is set over the seed, the only ventila¬ tion needed is the air circulation through the ground underneath.
After plants are up about one week, slit the “Hotkaps,” about iy2 inch long up and down, on the leeward side.
When the plant has reached the point where the top of the “Hotkap” retards the progress, simply cut the top of. the “Hotkap” open and allow the plant to grow through. The “Hotkap” will still afford a great deal of protection at the base of the plant. In planting Tomatoes under “Hotkaps,” the “Hotkap” should be slit on the leeward side as soon as it is set. with. HOT-
a fraction over a penny each. HOTKAPS per day. They prices, but are a method of crop insurance — against the danger of the ele¬ ments.
Special Low Prices for Home and Market Gardeners
If you need HOTKAPS for your backyard gar¬ den, note these prices: 50 with garden setter, $1.50; 100 with garden setter, $2.25; garden setter alone, 50 cents. 250 trial package, including special type composition garden setter, $4.00. All above post¬ paid.
Following large quantities F. O. B. Rockford. Shipped by express. Not prepaid. Shipping weight, 25 lbs. per 1000. Packed 1000 to a roll. 1,000 lots at $10.00 per 1000; 5,000 lots at $9.75 per 1000; 10,000 lots at $9.50 per 1000; 25,000 lots at $9.26 per 1000.
792 Standard Germaco HOTKAP Steel Setter, $2.50 Each.
I used Hotkaps on Cucumbers, Melons and Tomatoes. They worked fine. Fred Peterson, Kalamazoo, Mich.
NOTICE: We give Free Premium Seeds with every order.
GREATEST SEED Values on Earth
SPECIAL BARGAIN
Collections — Made up Early. Before the big Spring Rush comes on. That’s why we can sell them for so little money. These cannot be broken.
CONDON’S BIG PROSPERITY HOME GARDEN COLLECTION of Vegetable SEEDS
20 Separate Packages # UC
GUARANTEED TO PLEASE— Postpaid
One Large Package
BEANS — Golden Wax BEANS — Giant Stringless Green Pod
BEET — Blood Turnip CABBAGE — Early Summer CARROT — Select Danvers CELERY — Whit© Plume CUCUMBER — Long Green CORN, SWEET — Early Minnesota , ,
LETTUCE — Early Curled MELON — Musk, Rocky Ford
Each of the Following:
MELON — Water, Sweetheart ONION— Yellow Glob© Danvers
PARSNIP — Hollow Crown PEAS — Nott’s Excelsior RADISH — Scarlet Turnip RADISH — Icicle SPINACH — Long Standing SQUASH — Hubbard TURNIP — Purple Top TOMATO — Beauty
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Junior Vegetable Collection
Made up especially by Leonard Condon, Jr. (picture to the right), for your Boys and Girls. Over 5,000 planted this Big Collection last year and made money. Young Condon sold $19.75 worth of Vegetables from this same collection.
Here it is, just like I planted Ten best money makers sent postpaid anywhere in the U. S. A. for only.
FULL DIRECTIONS HOW AND WHEN TO PLANT PRINTED ON EACH PACKAGE
One Large Package Each of the Following :
40c
BEANS— EARLY WAX BEET— EARLY CABBAGE— LATE CARROT— TABLE SWEET CORN— EARLY
LETTUCE— CURLED MUSK MELON— GEM Radish — Mixed, Early and Late SPINACH— SUMMER POPCORN— WHITE RICE
Send for Our Seed and Grow Vegetables Like These
T. FONT ART) CONDON. JR.
Please order by number as well as names.
It will help us to serve you quicker.
Condon Bros., Seedsmen, Rock River Valley Seed Farm, Rockford, Illinois.
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CONDON’S Delicious
ASPARAGUS
Most Profitable Vegetable lor Market Gardeners and Home Use.
Everybody receiving- this catalog who owns or has a lea.se on any land should plant, at least a hundred roots of this delicious vege¬ table. It yields the first returns in the spring when vegetables are expensive and so highly relished. $500.00 per Acre Profit is a com¬ mon yield. Perfectly hardy and when once established lasts for years. For immediate returns we recommend purchasing our two- year-old thrifty roots setting in the sprihg and the following spring you can market a good crop and bigger ones each succeeding year. Asparagus seed is sown in the spring; cultivated two years, then the roots are transplanted and the second year following you have a good crop. By all means start your bed this year. Don’t put it off any longer. Our free culture Leaflet furnished with every ojder gives you full instructions how to grow Asparagus profitably. v
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Mary Washington
By far the best strain and the Most Vigorous of the Famous Washington Asparagus
There are several strains of Asparagus originated by Prof. Nor¬ ton, of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. The original strain was called Washington, another selection Martha Washington, and an¬ other Mary Washington. The Mary is considered the best strain, as the shoots are larger and grow more rapidly than the other kinds. The stalks are very thick and grow unusually tall without branching. The color is deep green with purple tips. This is de¬ cidedly the best variety for either the home garden or commercial planting. Pkt., 10 cts.; oz., 22 cts.; *4 lb., 55 cts.; % lb., $1.00'; lb., $1.90, postpaid.
203 Bonvallet’s Giant
“A Mighty Good Sort”
With the single exception of Mary Washington it is superior in every way to all others, being larger, earlier, quicker in growth, more continuous in bearing and more uniform in size. Pkt., 7 cts.; oz., 12 cts.; *4 lb., 35 cts.; ya lb., 55 cts.; lb., 90 cts., postpaid.
206 Palmett
A very early maturing and prolific variety, producing an abun¬ dance of very large, deep green shoots of good quality. Pkt., 5 cts.; oz., 10 cts.; *4 lb., 25 cts.; ya lb., 40 cts.; lb., 75 cts., postpaid.
Strong Healthy 2-Year-Old Asparagus Roots
Some dealers offer one-year-old roots at lower prices, but it always pays to plant 2-yr.-old. They produce a crop the following spring and are used always by the Big Market Growers.
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io9 Artichoke Large Green Globe
The best strain of this favorite French delicacy. In the lati¬ tude of Rock¬ ford the Globe Artichoke is grown as a bien- nial, namely, the seed is sown one year, the plant develops during- the grow¬ ing- season and is carried through the winter with a slight protection of leaves or straw. The fol¬ lowing season the large globes or flower heads are produced. Pkt., 10 cts.; oz., 70 cts.; *4 lb., $3.25; % lb., $4.00; lb., $7.50, postpaid.
199 Artichoke
200 Conover’s Colossal
The largest and most extensively used green variety. Quality very tender. Abundant yielder.
Pkt., 5 cts.; oz., 10 cts.; % lb., 25 cts.; ya lb., 40 cts.; lb., 75 cts., postpaid.
207 Italian Green Sprouting
New Delicious Vegetable. Dietary experts claim this the Greatest of All fat-reducing foods. Cook and serve like Cauliflower, or cook and serve with dressing. Sow in early spring, mid-summer or fall same as you would Cabbage. It thrives everywhere. Set plants 2 feet apart each way. Pkt., 10 cts.; ya oz., 50 cts.; oz., 90' cts.; *4 lb., $2.75; ya lb., $5.00; lb., $9.50', postpaid.
207 Broccoli — Italian Green Sprouting
Free Culture Leaflet sent with all Asparagus Root Orders. Tells how to grow them.
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BEANS— Dwarf Green
Podded Varieties— Continued
228 Giant Stringless Green Pod
Fully as Good as Burpee’s Stringless and 25 Per Cent Bigger Yielder.
Seven to ten days later, with round, slender pods, fully one-third longer. Plant very robust, strong grower, excellent for canning, for market or home consumption. We recommend it as one of the very best for all purposes as the quality is excellent and it yields enormous crops. Plant every two weeks for succession of crop. Pods brittle and stringless at all times. (See photograph.) Packet, 10 cts.; % lb., 22 cts.; lb., 40 cts.; 2 lbs., 75 cts.; 5 lbs., $1.70, post¬ paid.
224 “Bountiful”
Flat, Green-Podded Bush Bean
A prolific and continuous bearer. Stringless, very tender.
A green pod Bush Bean, which comes into bearing very early and continues throughout the season.
Pods beautiful rich green, very thick, broad, long and uniform; meaty, tender, fine quality; abso¬ lutely stringless. Good shell Bean for winter use. A splendid market variety. Packet, 10 cts.; lb., 22 cts.; lb., 40 cts.; 2 lbs., 75 cts*; 5 lbs.,
$1.70, postpaid.
224 “Bountiful”
229 Improved Refugee, or 1000 to 1
Excellent Shipper or Canner
Our strain is extra fine, of true bush growth, fifteen inches in height, branching freely. The pods are nearly round, light green, five inches long, tapering to a slen¬ der point; fleshy, brittle and mild in flavor, with slight strings. Rather later than the other green-podded sorts, but extremely prolific. Packet, 8 cts.; % lb., 20 cts.; lb., 35 cts.; 2 lbs., 65 cts.; 5 lbs., $1.50, postpaid.
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225 Burpee’s Stringless Green Pod
Round podded early stringless sort. Very tender and delicious flavor.
One of the best Early- String¬ less Round Podded Green Snap Beans for market or home use. Extremely early, very produc¬ tive, unusually hardy, handsome appearance, entirely stringless, finest quality, dwarf bushy va¬ riety, bearing immense quanti¬ ties of long, thick fleshed round pods. Excellent for spring, sum¬ mer or fall planting. Our seed is of the true strain; originator’s stock. (See photograph.) Packet, 10 cts.; Vz lb.* 20' cts.; lb., 38 cts.; 2 lbs., 72 cts.; 5 lbs., $1.60, post-
Long Yellow 6 Weeks
A Standard Variety
Vines large, vigorous, branching, productive, with large leaves and lilac blos¬ soms; pods long, straight, narrow, handsome; Beans long kidney¬ shaped, color yellow¬ ish-drab. Very hardy and extra early. Pack- „ , i et, 8 cts«? % lb., 22 cts.;
Burpee’s Jitringless Ib<> 40 cts.. 2 lbs., 75
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Stringless
Dwarf Green Podded Varieties
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The Best and Earliest Stringless Green Pod.
Long Podded Everbearing Variety — absolutely stringless. Very early, excellent quality, delicious flavor, big yiclder. Ready to pick in 45 to 50 days. This extra early variety, although comparatively new, has been widely distributed, and we have yet to hear anything but praise about its fine quality and other merits; it is an ideal Snap Bean, producing a fine crop of round, straight, solid, fleshy pods averaging 6% inches long, wonderfully tender and brittle, without a trace of tough interlining, and having no string when broken. The flavor is most delicious, while the delicate green color of the pods is retained after cooking, adding to its attractiveness when served. The plants are of robust, compact habit, unexcelled in bearing quali¬ ties, maturing the crop very regularly. It is extra early, the pods being fit to pick three to four days before other varieties of equal size. Packet, 10 cts.; y2 lb., 25 cts.; lb., 45 cts.; 2 lbs., 85 cts.; 5 lbs., $1.90, postpaid.
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r uli Measure podded stringiess
In great demand in the eastern states. Fine string¬ less medium green pod of high quality. The pods are straight, 6 inches long, very fleshy, almost round, crease-backed, and are tender. It is a prolific sort, the heavy pods producing throughout a. long season. We consider this one of the very best stringless green pod bush Beans for early and main crop planting. On ac¬ count of the superior quality, it is especially recom¬ mended for the home garden. Packet, 10 cts.; y2 lb., 25 cts.; lb., 45 cts.; 2 lbs., 85 cts.; 5 lbs., $1.90, post¬ paid.
00_ ¥ Attractive Long Green Round
237 LOngfellOW Pods of Excellent Quality
This perfectly round, green podded bean is tender and prolific, and is one of the standard varieties for market and canning. The pods are of fine quality, al¬ though stringy and exceedingly handsome. In pro¬ duction, very prolific; exhibits a profusion of highly beautiful, rich green pods 7 to 8 inches long, straight and round. Packet, 8 cts.; % lb.> 17 cts.; lb., 32 cts.; 2 lbs., 60 cts.; 5 lbs., 81*40, postpaid.
223 Black Seeded Valentine
The Great Southern Shipper
This Bean possesses much of the merits of the Red Valentine, and in addition the pod is fully one-third longer, perfectly round and straight, and of a beautiful green color. Of fair quality, although stringy. It is equally as hardy in every respect as the Refugee, while the Beans are produced in enormous quantities. Suited for both early and late planting; its great hardi¬ ness withstands light frost. Market gardeners find the Black Valentine a profitable sort. Packet, 8 cts.-; i/2 lb., 20 cts.; lb., 35 cts.; 2 lbs., 65 cts.; 5 lbs., $1.40, postpaid.
248 Tennessee Green Pod
Very Early — Long Podded Southern Favorite.
32 days. The Earliest and Largest Podded Dwarf Sort
This early snap bean is very popular in some sec¬ tions of the south and where known in other parts of the country is considered of exceptional merit. The plants are large, somewhat spreading and prolific. The pods are very long, often seven to eight inches, fiat, irregular in shape, dark green and of exception¬ ally fine flavor. Not absolutely stringless. It is a hardy, vigorous mid-season sort, very productive.
20 cts.; lb., 38 cts.; 2 lbs., 68 cts.;
Please order by number as well as names. It will help us to serve you quicker.
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BEANS
Condors Improved Earliest Red Valentine
“America’s Standard Green Podded Dwarf Snap Bean” |
This grand variety is a great im¬ provement over the original Red Val¬ entine, which it has now entirely sup¬ planted, and is very much earlier; often ready to pick in 45" days from planting. The healthy, vigorous plants are usually hardy, successfully with¬ standing early frosts; it may there¬ fore he planted very early. This with its quick development, makes it the earliest large-podded variety; and on this account it is extensively grown | by truckers over wide sections of the i country, though it is equally desirable ® for home gardens.
It will always yield a large crop of handsome long, round, fleshy pods, rich green in color and unsurpassed tenderness when gathered young, when it is practically stringless. It is the Standard Snap Bean, not only for the earliest but for successive plant¬ ings, bearing up to frost. See cut. Packet, 8 cts.; y2 lb., 18 cts.; lb., 34 cts.; 2 lbs*, 65 cts.; 5 lbs., 81.45, post-
226 Condon’s Imp. Earliest Red Valentine
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Beans for Dry Shelling and Baking
These Are Grown Exclusively to Use as Shell Beans, Either Green or Dried for Winter
234 White Marrow
Vines slender, spreading, with short runners and small leaves; very prolific; pods broad, green, changing to yellow; seed large, ovoid, clear white; cooking very dry and mealy. Packet, 8 cts.; y2 lb., 18 cts.; lb., 34 cts.; 2 lbs«, 64 cts.; 5 lbs., $1.35, postpaid.
233 Red Kidney
The good, old-fashioned baking bean. Our stock is extra select Northern grown. Packet, 8 cts.; y2 lb., 18 cts.; lb., 34 cts.; 2 lbs., 64 cts.; 5 lbs., $1.35, postpaid*
236 Royal Dwarf Kidney
236 Royal Dwarf White
Kidney
The plants of this late variety, also called White Kidney, are up¬ right, very large, branching, with large, broad leaves. The pods are coarse, dark green and about six inches long. Seed large? white, kidney shaped, slightly flattened and of excellent quality, for fam¬ ily use either green shelled or dry. Packet, 8 cts.; y2 lb., 19 cts.; lb., 35 cts.; 2 lbs., 68 cts.; 5 lbs., $1.42, postpaid.
23i Dwarf Horticultural or Cranberry
Vines very productive, compact, upright, with large leaves. Pods medium in length, broad and thick, curved, with splashes of bright red on a yellowish ground. Packet, 8 cts.; y2 lb., 22 cts.; lb., 40 cts.; 2 lbs*, 75 cts.; 5 lbs., $1.60, postpaid. _ _ _
r You will increase your yield and improve the quality by inoculating seed before planting. Garden Size Bacteria No. 775 for Peas, Sweet Peas and Beans. Sufficient quantity to treat 5 lbs. of the above items. Same Bacteria for all three. Price, 20 cts.; .postpaid.
232 CONDON’S Improved White Navy or Michigan Robust
The Greatest Money Maker of All. $100.00 per Acre Profit Not Uncommon
Our Improved Strain of White Navy Beans are second to none. All northern grown from re-selected true seed, care¬ fully milled and hand picked; very uniform size seed that will plant evenly and reproduce a quality of Beans that will sell always at good prices. Plant at least enough for your own use next winter. Packet, 8 cts.; y2 lb*, 17 cts.; lb., 30 cts.; 2 lbs., 58 cts.; 5 lbs., $1.30, postpaid.
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258 Burger’s Stringless Green Pod
263 Mammoth Podded
Horticultural or Speckled Cranberry
The mammoth pods are striped and splashed with brilliant crim¬ son. The Beans are of immense 1 size and of the finest quality, used either green or dry. They are by many preferred to Limas. Best suited for cool climate. Packet, 10 cts.; y3 lb., 20 cts.; lb*, 38 cts.; 2 lbs., 70 cts.; 5 lbs., $1.50, postpaid.
265 White Dutch Caseknife
A Good Corn Hill Bean
Vines moderately vigorous, T climbing well, but twining more loosely than some, and so may be used for corn hill bean of medium season. Pods become creamy white as they mature. Of excellent quality, whether used green or dry. Packet, 10 cts.; % lb*, 20 cts.; lb., 38 cts.; 2 lbs., 70 cts.; 5 lbs., $1.50, post¬ paid.
POLE BEANS
Famous Kentucky Wonder or Old Homestead
Tlie Old Reliable Standard Green Pod Pole Bean
Very early and enormously productive, the long green pods hanging in clusters from top to bottom of pole; entirely stringless. Pods of a silvery green col¬ or. Packet, 10 cts.; % lb., 18 cts.; lb., 34 cts.; 2 lbs., 65 cts.; 5 lbs., $1.35, postpaid.
Burger’s Giant Green Podded Stringiess Pole
White Seeded Kentucky Wonder or St.
Louis Perfection
The best Green Pod Pole Bean for the North. The vines are not very long, and can be grown on brush instead of on a pole. The pods are borne in clusters and average 6 to 8 inches in length; are very uniformly straight, and of dark green color. They are absolutely stringless, very meaty, tender, and sweet in flavor. The dry beans are small and white, be¬ ing good for baking after the pods have become too ripe. Equally desirable for the market and for the home gardens. Packet, 10 cts.; y2 lb., 22 cts.; lb., 40 cts.; 2 lbs., 70 cts. ; 5 lbs., $1.50, postpaid.
259 Golden Cluster Wax
The Earliest Grandest Yellow-Podded Pole Bean in Cultivation. Well Re¬ pays the Trouble of Procuring Poles
We know of no bean that will please you more than this remarkable new sort. We have grown pods from this variety 10 inches long, and a most beautiful golden waxy color, and where they have been exposed in market have readily brought a better price than any other sort. Pods are produced in clusters of from 4 to 6 the entire length of the vine. While this variety is nearly as early as any of the Dwarf Beans, it will continue to produce pods until cut down by frost. Packet, 10 cts.; y2 lb., 20 cts.; lb., 36 cts.; 2 lbs., 68 cts.; 5 lbs, $1.55, postpaid.
264 Red Speckled Cut Short or Corn Hill
A very popular variety for planting amongst corn. It will give a good crop without the use of poles. Pods short, fleshy and of fine quality. Packet, 10 cts.; % lb., 18 cts.; lb., 34 cts.; 2 lbs., 65 cts.; 5 lbs., $1,35, postpaid.
260 Kentucky Wonder
262 Kentucky Wonder Wax
The Best Pole Wax Beans for Northern Planting
It is similar in habit of growth to “Kentucky Wonder Green Pod,” and bears as early, or when about as high as the average bush bean. Pods are beautiful golden yellow, and so fleshy that often the thickness surpasses the width; make delicious eating. A heavy yielder and bears a long season. Packet, 10 cts.; y2 lb., 25 cts.; lb., 45 cts.; 2 lbs., 80 cts.; 5 lbs., $1.75, postpaid.
261
Lazy Wife
Enormously Productive. Excellent Quality
The pods are produced in great abundance, and measure 6 inches in length. They are broad and thick, fleshy and entirely stringless. The pods re¬ tain their rich, tender and stringless qualities until nearly ripe, and at all stages are peculiarly lus¬ cious. Each pbd contains from 6 to 8 white beans, which make excellent winter shell beans. Packet, 10 cts.; y3 lb., 18 cts*; lb., 34 cts.; 2 lbs., 65 cts.; 5 lbs., $1.35, postpaid.
Common Sense Culture Directions printed on all packages,
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Dwarf Yellow Podded or Wax Varieties
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CONDON’S Rust -Proof Golden Wax
One of the Finest Wax Beans in Cultivation; Enormous Yielder; of Robust Growth; Handsome Yellow Stringless Flat Pods of Unsurpassed Quality; the Standard Flat Wax-Podded Variety.
Although this is not the earliest Dwarf Wax Bean, yet it is so sure to produce heavy crops of large, attractive pods, no mat¬ ter whether sown early or late, that it has found a very high place in the estimation of both home and market growers. The pods are exceedingly handsome, being of large size, very thick, and unusually fleshy. The quality is tender, brittle and entirely without strings or fibers at all stages until maturity, while the color is rich golden-yellow. There is no strain of Golden Wax that will excel the stock we offer. Packet, 10 cts.; y2 lb., 20 cts.; lb., 37 cts.; 2 lbs., 65 cts.; 5 lbs., $1.45, postpaid.
241 CONDON’S Prolific Black Wax
First Early Round Podded Yellow Stringless Wax
Standard early for home or market gardening. Produces mar¬ ketable crop 50 days from planting. Hardy and productive; absolutely stringless and of delicious flavor. Pods 4% inches long, slightly curved and very fleshy. Color of pods light golden yellow remaining a long time in condition for table use. Packet, 8 cts.; y2 lb., 20 cts.; lb., 37 cts.; 2 lbs., 70 cts.; 5 lbs., $1.45, postpaid.
243 Curries Rust-Proof Black Wax
Great Favorite with Southern Truckers
This is a standard market garden sort. The vine is a very vigorous grower and about the hardiest of the wax sorts. A very early variety, bearing an abundance of handsome yellow pods of excellent qual¬ ity and delicious flavor. The pods are 5 y2 inches long, flat, straight and stringy; color light -yellow, practically rust-proof. Not recommended for home gardens. Packet, 8 cts.; % lb., 19' cts.; lb., 36 cts.; 2 lbs., 68 cts.; 5 lbs., $1.42', postpaid.
238 Pencil Pod Black Wax
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243
Condon’s Rust- Proof Golden Wax
One of The Earliest and Longest Round Podded Stringless Wax Beans
We consider this the best round pod wax bean. The pods are 6 to 7 inches long, straight, as round as a pencil. Clear yellow, very brittle, stringless and of the finest quality# Matures early and the plant is vigorous and productive. The seed is black. Packet, 10 cts.; y2 lb., 22 cts.; lb., 40 cts.; 2 lbs., 70 ct^.; 5 lbs., $1.45, postpaid.
CONDON’S Sure Crop Stringless Wax
A most Prolific Variety of Fine Quality
The handsome rich yellow pods are slightly curved, averaging 6 to 7 inches in length. They are almost round, % inch wide, very meaty and sweet, and perfectly stringless at all stages. The habit of the plant is free branching, but sturdy and upright, every branch carrying a heavy crop of the magnificent nods. Valuable for its productiveness and disease-resisting qualities. It is classed as an early variety. Packet, 10 cts.; ys lb., 23 cts.; lb., 40 cts.; 2 lbs., 75 cts.; 5 lbs., $1.70, postpaid.
20S Condon’s Sure Ct*op Stringless Wax
238 Pencil Pod Black Wax
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Beans 239 Condon’s Earliest Market
“Mammoth Podded Stringless Wax”
The Earliest, Hardiest, Most Prolific Flat Podded Wax Bean We Have Ever Seen — ABSOLUTELY RUST-PROOF.
Our Own Origination. A Hybrid Selection from the Fa¬ mous Rust-Proof Black Wax.
Very robust, bushy plant bearing enormous crops of handsome flat golden yellow pods 6 to 7 inches long. Without doubt this bean is the hardiest of all wax beans, consequently may be planted very early and will yield an abundant crop far ahead of any known sort. Quality is delicious, pods long, thick and meaty, and absolutely stringless.
For FIRST CROP, either for home or market, we recom¬ mend this as the BEST and BIGGEST MONEY-MAKER.
Packet, 10 cts.; y> lb., 22 cts.; lb., 40 cts.; 2 lbs., 70 cts.,
5 lbs., $1.60, postpaid.
247 Unrivaled Wax
One of the Latest Introductions in Wax or Yellow Podded Snap Beans
The plants are vigorous, healthy growers, producing an abundance of pale yellow pods about 5V2 inches long. Pods are narrow and somewhat flattened but very fleshy and of excellent quality. It is extremely early and recommended for Market or Home Gardens. Pkt., 10 cts.; y2 lb., 25 cts.; lb.. 45 cts.; 2 lbs., SO cts.; 5 lbs., $1.75, postpaid.
244 Round Pod Kidney Brittle Wax
A bean of superb quality, extreme earliness and sur¬ prising productiveness. The pods are nearly straight and often attain a length of 6 inches. Are very tender, entirely stringless and very fleshy. The plants are of vigorous growth, with large foliage, and are completely loaded with the handsome pods. Packet, 10 cts.; y2 lb., 25 cts.; lb., 45 cts.; 2 lbs., 80 cts.; 5 lbs., $1.75, postpaid.
246 Wardwell’s Kidney Wax
It is a very early variety, ripening only a little later than Golden Wax and yields a larger crop. Pods, 6V2 to 7 inches long, straight, flat, waxy-yellow, brittle and stringless. Desir¬ able for every climate. Can be grown with great profit in the South for early shipment North. They always command a ready sale in every market. Packet, 8 cts.; y2 lb., 20 cts.; lb., 37 cts.; 2 lbs., 70 cts.; 5 lbs., $1.45, postpaid.
266 Cracker Jack or Webber Wax
A very early and very productive sort. Vines strong, holding pods well up from the ground. Pods six inches long, half round, straight, stringless, and deep yellow in color. Excellent for home, market or canning. Pkt., 10 cts.; y2 lb., 22 cts.; lb., 40 cts.; 2 lbs., 70 cts.; 5 lbs., $1.60, postpaid.
240 Davis Kidney Wax
Vines vigorous and very prolific, bearing handsome yellow waxy white pods 7 to 8 inches long. This is an excellent shipping Bean, also very desirable canning sort. When young the pods are crisp and tender. The dry Beans are excellent for baking. Packet, 8 cts.; y2 lb., 20 cts.; lb., 37 cts.; 2 lbs., 70 cts.; 5 lbs., $1.50, postpaid.
245 Stringless Refugee Wax
The stock which we offer is much superior to that commonly sold, being very true. Every plant can be depended upon to produce thick, fleshy, round, strfngless wax-like pods of fine quality and of a clear creamy white color. Pods four to five inches in length. Packet, 8 cts.; y2 lb., 20 cts.; lb., 37 cts.; 2 lbs., 70 cts.; 5 lbs., $1.50, postpaid.
220 White Creaseback — Pole Bean
The pods are deep green 6 inches long, perfectly round, fleshy and stringless. Seed White, Excellent Corn field variety. Packet, 10 cts.; y2 lb., 18 cts.; lb., 34 cts.; 2 lbs., 65 cts.; 5 lbs., $1.40, postpaid.
221 Striped Creaseback, or Scotia Pole Bean
Identical with White Creaseback except color of Bean, which is mottled putty color with dark strip¬ ing. Packet, 10 cts.; y2 lb., 18 cts.; lb., 34 cts.; 2 lbs., 65 cts.; 5 lbs., $1.40, postpaid.
209 McCaslan — Pole Bean
A wonderfully prolific bean, absolutely stringless, white seeded, green podded, buttery, rust-proof, and very early. Vines continue to bear throughout the season if kept closely picked. Packet, 10 cts.; y2 lb., 24 cts.; lb., 43 cts.; 2 lbs., 80 cts.; 5 lbs., $1.70, post¬ paid.
219 Carolina or Sieva
Very early small seeded Pole Lima or Butter bean. Especially adapted for the Southern States. Packet, 10 cts.; y2 lb., 10 cts.; lb., 37 cts.; 2 lbs., 65 cts.; 5 lbs., $1.50, postpaid.
We invite comparison of our Seed Beans. There are none better.
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Do not plant Lima Beans until the ground is dry, weather warm and danger of frost is over.
Two Wonderful Beans That Everybody Should Plant
255 Fordhook Bush Lima Beans
Improved Selected Seed
“The Earliest Giant Podded Bush Lima”
This newest and best Bush Lima represents the highest achievement in bean breeding and we offer our patrons, in our Improved Strain of Fordhooks, a Bush Lima that has attained the acme of perfection, surpassing any other strain or type on the market. It is the best possible Bush Lima Bean, possessing every quality so long known and es¬ teemed in the older pole varieties, and can be grown as easily as any Snap Bean. It is the earliest of the large bush sorts, and may therefore be had on the table weeks ahead of the old pole varieties. The strong, rugged plants of true bush form, 1 y2 feet in height, are of healthy, sturdy, upright growth — requiring neither poles nor stakes — and bear, from July until frost, almost unbelievable quantities of 5 to 6 inch pods, each con¬ taining usually four large, thick beans averaging as large as those of the large pole Limas, and whether used green or cured, they are of superb quality — tender, rich and buttery, the true lima flavor. Market gardeners mil find this one of their most profitable crops. Packet, 10 cts. ; lb., 27 cts. ; lb., 50 cts. ; 2 lbs., 90 cts. ; 5 lbs., $1.95, postpaid.
257 CONDON’S Extra Early “Leviathan” Pole Lima
This is the Earliest Large White Seeded Pole Lima in Cultivation. Especially suited to Northern States where growing season is short.
The plant is strong and takes to the poles more readily than .any other sort. It is fully a week earlier than any other pole variety, therefore can be grown successfully where other sorts would be caught by frosts of early autumn. Moreover, it is a prodigious cropper, producing its pods in large clusters from base to top of pole, frequently from 5 to 10 together. These are well filled with large, fleshy Beans of excel¬ lent quality, delicate, pale green iri color, and possessing in a superlative degree that rich, buttery flavor so highly esteemed by all. Packet, 10 cts.; </2 lb-> 22 cts.; lb> 40 cts-> 2 lbs-> 70 cts.; 5 ,bs-> $1-60, postpaid.
This year plant a few Lima Beans. They’re Delicious. Plant Limas with seed “eye” down.
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he Best LIMA or BUTTER BEANS
249 King of the Garden Pole Lima
Giant Podded — Biggest Yielder of All and Finest Quality — Our Seed Re-selected
A strong grower and uniformly large podded. The pods fre¬ quently contain 5 to 6 very large beans. Beans of excellent quality, easily shelled; of large size and handsome appearance. Packet, 10 cts.; y2 lb., 22 cts.; lb., 40 cts.; 2 lbs., 75 cts.; 5 lbs., 5>1.60; postpaid.
251 Seibert’s Early Pole Lima
Earliest of All Pole Limas
In earliness, ease of shelling, size, beauty and quality of the green beans, this variety leads all other early limas for either the home garden or market. The vines are vigorous and remarkably produc¬ tive. The pods are medium green, large, flat, about five inches long, moderately curved. The green shell beans are very large, very tender and of finest quality. This standard early pole lima was in¬ troduced in 189 5. Seed ovoid, flat with slight greenish tinge. Packet. B cts.; Vz lb., 20 cts.; lb., 38 cts.; 2 lbs., 70 cts.; 5 lbs., $1.55; post¬ paid.
250 Large White Pole Lima
“An Old Standard Favorite”
Vine tall growing, vigorous, but slender; leaves medium sized, smooth, light green; pods borne in clusters, long, broad, very thin, dark green; seed very large, flat, greenish white. Packet, 8 cts.; </2 lb., 22 cts.; lb., 40 cts.; 2 lbs., 75 cts.; 5 lbs., $1.60; postpaid.
BUSH LIMAS
252 Burpee’s Improved Bush Lima
Very Earliest Large Seeded Bush Limas
The plants are vigor¬ ous and productive. The pods are medium green, very large, about five inches long, thick and usually contain four beans, which are unusually thick, of largest size and of ex¬ cellent quality. Seed very large, thick and usually shows a green¬ ish white tinge which is generally considered an indication of supe¬ rior quality. One of the best and most ex¬ tensively used bush limas 'for the market as well as home garden. Packet, 10 cts.; '/2 lb., 24 cts.; lb., 42 cts.; 2 lbs., 80 cts.; 5 lbs., $ 1 .80; postpaid.
252 Burpee’s Improved Bush Lima
253 Burpee’s Bush Lima — seeled
A bush form of the large white Lima, growing about 20 inches high, the pods and Beans are nearly the same size as the latter. While not as early as the “Henderson” its large size commends it to many. Packet, 10 cts.; y2 lb., 22 cts.; lb., 40 cts.; 2 lbs., 75 cts.; 5 lbs., $1.60; postpaid.
254 Dreer’s Bush Lima
A bush form of Dreer’s Pole Lima. Beans thick, sweet and suc¬ culent, growing close together in the pods. Growth vigorous, about 18 inches high, with abundant foliage. Grows well even in dry sea¬ son. Packet, 8 cts.; y2 lb., 22 cts.; lb., 40 cts.; 2 lbs., 75 cts.; 5 lbs., $1.65; postpaid.
256 Hendersons Bush Lima— s7eLd
Valuable variety on account of its earliness and wonderful produc¬ tiveness, continuing to grow and set pods until stopped by frosts. Its popularity increases every year. Rich, buttery Limas — the true flavor — even better. Vines are without runners, small, bright green and Lima-like; flowers small, yellowish white, borne in clusters and often above the foliage. Pods short, flat and contain from three to five beans, which are of delicious quality. Packet, 8 cts.; '/2 lb., 18 cts.; lb., 34 cts.; 2 lbs., 65 cts.; 5 lbs., $1.40; postpaid.
Henderson’s Bush Lima
249 King of the Garden Pole Lima
Earliest
of all
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Sow Condon’s Early Dawn Beet for First Early ana Condon’s Royal Blood for Main Crop
CONDON’S “Sure Crop” Table BEETS
By far the earliest of all turnip-shaped beet we have ever seen. Makes marketable crop in 5< days’ time. For first early to bunch and sell, marl*
ket gardeners will find this the big money makei
Gardeners will find this a wonder M„os. either for
large beets, or to bunch when about one inch size and sell for greens
Actual
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268 Condon’s Early Dawn Beet
The color is a rich, dar red, and nearly glob shape. It is free from sid roots, every beet being a smooth as a whistle. Whe cooked, it still retains tha rich, blood red color; very sweet, crisp and ten der. For a First Extr Early forcing variety for early outdoor plantinj to bunch and sell fo greens, it’s got ’em all bea a mile. For main cror “Condon’s Royal Blood” i better. A few years ag we distributed for tria free several thousan< packages of this Extr Early Variety so when w had seed enough to list i generally thousand market gardeners an( home planters would hav no other. Our comparativ Trial Ground Test thi; year again proved it be yond a doubt the earlies of all turnip-shaped beet: and the greatest money maker in the list. Try it Packet, 10 cts.; ounce, 1 cts.; V4 lh., 40 cts., y2 lb. 70 cts.; lb., $1,25; 2 lbs $2.30; 5 lbs., $5.25; post paid.
CONDON’S
Early Dawn *
First in the Market 1
276 Early Eclipse
An early beet, especially desirable for the home garden. Tops small. Root bright deep red, smooth round or slightly top-shaped, with a small tap and small collar. Flesh bright red, zoned with pinkish white, very sweet, crisp and tender, espe¬ cially when young. Packet, 6 cts.; ounce, 10 cts.; au lb., 25 cts.; y2 lb., 40 cts.; lb., 75 cts.; postpaid.
267 Bastin’s Early Blood Turnip
An early, bright red turnip-shaped beet of yen good quality. Tops' medium sized; leaves briglr green Root thick, slightly top-shaped, medium- lized tap. Flesh light purplish red, zoned almosi white; crisp and tender. Packet, 6 cts.; ounce 10 cts.; % lb., 25 cts.; y2 lb., 40 cts.; lb., <o cts. postpaid
276 Early Eclipse
275 Improved Early
Blood Turnip
Standard Early Variety
Our select strain of this old reliable is good and true. Medium early — globe-shaped roots — rather coarse tops. Flesh deep red, zoned with lighter shades. Sweet, crisp and tender. Packet, 5 cts.; ounce, 10 cts.; 14 lb., 30 cts.; y> lb., 50 cts,; lb., 90 cts.; 2 lbs., $1.70; 5 lbs., $3.75; postpaid.
275 Early Blood Turnip, Improved
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Beets are easily grown and can be used in so many ways, they should he in every garden.
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BEET-CONDON’S
ROYAL BLOOD TURNIP
The World’s Greatest Main Crop Variety ntroduced by us in 1912 and now used mnually by 75,000 Satisfied Customers
This grand Beet has given universal satisfaction for 15 years to our cus- omers all over the country. It is jsed most exclusively by the large olanters who grow for market as well is home gardens. Many of our cus- ;omers plant as much as 15 to 20 acres of it annually.
Tops small, upright growth. Leaves lark green, shaded with red. Root medium sized, globular, or nearly round, very smooth and of dark blood- red color. Flesh is deep vermilion ,red, zoned with a lighter shade of the same color. Careful comparisons with all the prominent varieties on the market in this country and in Europe prove that Condon’s Royal Blood Beet is the most uniform in shape and size, and the most attractive in color. It is unsurpassed in quality. Packet, 10 cts.; ounce, 15 cts.; % lb., 40 cts.; Yz lb., 70 cts.; lb., $1.25; 2 lbs., $2.30; 5 lbs.,
$5.25, postpaid.
278 Improved Long Dark Smooth Blood
This is the best long, red beet on the market and a great favorite in the country, as it is of unexcelled quality, both as a table beet and for stock feeding. Packet, 6 cts.; ounce,
14 cts.; % lb., 25 cts.; Yz lb., 45 cts.; lb., 85 cts.; postpaid.
277 Edmand’s Early Blood Turnip
Tops short and rather spreading; ribs and leaf stalks dark red; blade of leaf bright green, often with wavy edge. Root nearly round or slightly flattened; exterior color dark red, interior color purplish red with little zoning; crisp, tender, sweet, and an excellent keeper. Packet, 7 cts. ounce, 13 cts.; % lb., 30 cts.; Yz lb., 50 cts.;
90 cts.; 2 lbs., $1.70; 5 lbs., $3.75, postpaid.
279 Market Gardeners Half
The root is deep red, very symmetrical, two or three times as long as thick, and always smooth and handsome.
The flesh is rich, very dark red, sweet, crisp and tender,
never becoming ground. It is a store for winter 30 cts.; Yz lb., 50
A Wonderful Cropper for Bunching, and of the Highest Qual¬ ity.
Market Gardeners See Special Whole¬ sale Prices on Large Quantities, Pages 188 to 192.
281 Condon’s Early Wonder or Model
woody even in the portions above the late variety and particularly valuable to use. Packet, 6 cts.; ounce, 13 cts.; Y± lb., cts.; lb., 90 cts., postpaid.
270 Extra Early Egyptian Blood Turnip
The strain we offer you of this grand beet has been bred to perfection by our French grower, who enjoys a handsome trade on it by the most critical European gar¬ deners. You will find the quality and type far superior to that offered by many dealers. The best variety for forcing, and excellent for first early crop out of doors, being very early, with small tops. Leaves dark green, shaded and veined with dark red. Root very dark red, moderately thick, a little rounded on top, distinctly flat on bottom, and about 2 inches in diameter when mature. Flesh dark purplish red, zoned lighter shade; firm, crisp and tender. Packet, 7 cts.; ounce, 13 cts.; 14 lb., 25 cts.; Yz lb., 47 cts.; lb., 90 cts.; 2 lbs., $1.70; 5 lbs„ $3.75, postpaid.
28i Condon’s New Early Wonder or Model
A selection from Crosby’s Egyptian but a few days later. The small-top roots are nearly globe shaped and uniform in size. The skin is a fine deep red and the flesh is also a rich dark color, with very little zoning. Packet, 10 cts.; oz„ 15 cts.; !4 lb., 40 cts.; Yz lb., 70 cts.; lb., $1.25; 2 lbs., $2.30; 5 lbs., $5.25, postpaid.
Common Sense Culture Directions printed on all packages,
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Plant Beets Liberally. What you can*t eat can or store for Winter
CONDON’S “Sure Crop” BEETS
272 Crosby’s Egyptian “Extra Selected Strain”
The name of this variety is misleading, as it re¬ sembles the Egyptian only in its extreme earliness. Tops small. The roots are nearly round, or slightly flattened, and very smooth. Exterior color of root bright red. Flesh bright vermilion-red, zoned with a lighter shade; very sweet, tender and of excellent quality. One of the best for early planting outdoors. It becomes fit for use sooner than any other variety, but it is not as well suited as the Egyptian for forcing in hotbeds or for transplanting. Our stock is excep¬ tionally uniform in shape and color. Packet, 7 cts.; ounce, 14 cts.; y4 lb., 35 cts.; y2 lb., 60 cts.; lb., $1.10; 2 lbs., $2.00; 5 lbs., $4.50; postpaid.
27i Crimson Globe
Excellent Table and Market Beet
Of fine shape, very small tap-root, deep crimson flesh of fine grain, surprisingly sweet flavor and unsurpassed quality. The foliage is small — leaves all grow from a very small crown in the top of the bulb. The beets are entirely free from fibrous rootlets, having only a^ slender tap-root. This
272 Crosby's Egyptian
beet is extensively plant¬ ed for second early and main crop purposes, it is a splendid mid-season va¬ riety. Does well here and in the South. No up-to- date grower can afford to be without this most ex¬ cellent sort. Packet, 6 cts.; ounce, 12 cts.; V 1 lb., 30 cts.; y2lb., 55 cts.; lb., $1.00; 2 lbs., $1.80; 5 lbs., $4.00; postpaid.
280 New Dark Stinson
if
271 Crimson Globe
Dark Red Color; Long Keeper
Excellent for the open gar den. This is particularly val¬ uable for forcing because if produces less foliage than any other variety, and can be grown close together. The roots are smooth and regular in form; the skin is dark blood-red. Flesh fine grained and cooks dark blood-red. Re mains in fine condition for i long time. Packet, 7 cts. ounce, 14 cts.; y4 lb., 30 cts. y2 lb., 55 cts.; lb., $1.00; 2 lbs. $1.80; 5 lbs., $4.00; postpaid.
274 Detroit Dark Red
Main Cropper
274 Detroit Dark Red
Detroit Dark Red beet has long- been regarded as the standard of excellence. It is very early, nearly as early as Egyptian, and greatly passes that variety in flavor. The color is rich, dark red, and the shape is globular. It is fine-grained in texture and has a small top. It is free from side or fibrous roots, being always smooth. It is excel¬ lent for forcing; for a main spring and summer crop, or for use in win¬ ter, as it is a good keeper. It cooks sweet, tender and crisp, and is in every way a standard sort for the mar¬ ket or home gardener.
Has made a good crop in seven weeks from sowing.
Packet, 8 cts. ; ounce, 15 cts.; % lb., 35 cts.; % lb.,
(SO cts.; lb., $1.10; 2 lbs.,
$2.00; 5 lbs., $4.50', postpaid.
For Quantity Prices See Wholesale Pages 188 to 192
2S0 New Dark Stinson Very Dark Red Dong Keeper
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NOTICE: We give Free Premium Seeds with every order.
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SWISS CHARD for Greens
The Cut and Come Again Spinach Beet
Provides “Greens” from Early Spring Until Frost
The outside leaves of Swiss Chard are used as “boiling greens” and are excellent for this purpose; They closely re¬ semble spinach in flavor, but are declared by connoisseurs to be even finer. The large white stalks are used like aspara¬ gus; they are boiled and served in melted butter or milk dressing and are fully as delicious as asparagus. Swiss Chard grows well even during hot weather when spinach fails.
282 Lucullus or Silver Ribbed
A strong growing Swiss Chard with extra large leaves which are thick and heavily crumpled. It yields an enormous amount of greens, and has thick white stalks. The most pop¬ ular variety so we have discontinued growing other varied ties. Packet, 7 cts.; ounce, 15 cts.; XA lb., 38 cts.; % lb., 65 cts.; lb., $1.25; 2 lbs., $2.30; 5 lbs., $5.25* postpaid.
CONDON’S World Beating Mangel
Any land that will grow a good crop of Corn will produce a good crop of Mangels or Sugar Beets, which are surer crops than any other root. Sow 6 to 8 lbs. per acre.
- CONDON’S
Enormous
The Largest Yielding Highest Feeding Value of any Mangel we Know of. Grows well above the ground, easily harvested, very nutri¬ tious. In color is a rich cardinal red, very cylindrical in shape. Flesh is white, firm and very sweet. Feed cows 25 to 50 pounds a day, depend¬ ing on taste. Average yield 25 to 30 ton per acre. Ounce, 10 cts. ; % lb., 30 cts.; y2 lb., 55 cts.; 1 lb., $1.00; 5 lbs., $4.50 ; 10 lbs., $8.50, postpaid.
282 Swiss Chard Lucullus
The value of Sugar Beets and Mangels for stock feeding is clearly seen In the improved health and condition of the animals, the increased flow and quality of milk from cows, and the saving in fod¬ der. They yield enormously and can be grown at trifling cost. Everyone who keeps even one cow should grow a patch of either Mangels or Sugar Beets for winter feed. They make excellent and rich feed for poultry.
An Acre of Roots will Winter Your Stock. Relished by All Stock.
Keeps Animals Healthy. Good Tonic. As Digestible as Grain.
Takes the Place of Silo. Roots as good as Grain Pound for Pound without Water. Saves One-Half Grain Feed without Reducing Milk Yield.
288 Condon’s Enormous — The Jumbo Mangel
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Condon Bros., Seedsmen, Rock River Valley Seed Farm, Rockford, Illinois.
CONDON’S World Beating Stock
MANGELS and SUGAR BEETS
284 Giant Feeding Sugar Beet, or Half Sugar Mangel
This magnificent Sugar Beet, while giving nearly as large a yield of easily grown and harvested roots as a crop of Mangels, supplies a food of very much higher nutritive value, the roots for feeding purposes being really more valuable, pound for pound, than those of the very best strains of Sugar Beet, and the yield Under equally favorable conditions being more than double. The roots grow partly out of the ground, and because of this and their shape, the crop can be harvested and stored at less expense than any other root crop. We are certain that every one who plants this variety and grows it with care will be much pleased with the crop. Every farmer should try it. Ounce, 8 cts.; y4 lb., 20 cts.; i/2 lb., 34 cts., lb., 62 cts.; 2 lbs., $1.10; 5 lbs., $2.50, postpaid.
285 Klein Wanzleben Sugar Beet
(For Sugar Making)
This variety yields 14 to 18 per cent of sugar and is considered the best for sugar making, both in Europe and America. A heavy yielder. Ounce, 8 cts.; '/4 lb., 19 cts.; «/2 lb., 35 cts.; lb., 60 cts.; postpaid.
286 Vilmorin’s Improved White Sugar
Of medium size and brought by careful selection to the highest perfection, both in shape and color of roots. Greatly esteemed by sugar manufacturers, and one of the finest for stock feeding, owing to the high percentage of sugar. Ounce, 8 cts.; J4 lb., 19 cts.; */2 lb., 35 cts.; lb., 60 cts. postpaid.
290 Improved Mammoth Long Red Mangel
Our stock is a great improvement on old variety. The roots are very large, uniformly straight and well formed. Color deep red, roots solid, tops small. Roots attain a large size. We received several reports last season of Mangels weighing 20 to 23 pounds each. Produces an im¬ mense bulk and tonnage. Ounce, 8 cts.; % lb., 18 cts.; ys lb., 30 cts.; lb., 55 cts.; 2 lbs., $1.00; 5 lbs., $2.25, postpaid.
289 Improved Golden Tankard Mangel
The Best Yellow Mangel Grown — Dairymen’s Friend
It combines apparently all the fine points possible to condense into a Mangel. The color is a deep rich yellow. The flesh is firm and solid and a rich golden yellow in color. On account of its shape, enormous crops are grown, and it is easily lifted from the ground. Ounce, 8 cts.; % lb„ 18 cts.; y2 lb., 30 cts.; lb., 55 cts.; 2 lbs., $1.00; 5 lbs., $2.25, postpaid.
the
284
Giant Feeding Sugar Beet, or Half Sugar Mangel
If you have never grown Cauliflower do so this year. It's delicious.
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CONDON’S “Sure Crop” CAULIFLOWER
336 Henderson’s Genuine True Early Snowball
It Heads Where Others Fail
Unquestionably the earliest maturing strain of the true, short-leaved snowball type of Cauliflower. It is admirably adapted for forcing or wintering over for early crop and is the most popular sort for these purposes, also one of the best sorts for late summer and fall crops. Early Snowball is, moreover, a most de¬ sirable sort for the home garden. The plants are compact, with few short, out¬ side leaves and are well suited for close planting. The heads are of medium to large size, solid, compact, round, very white and curd-like and are developed earlier than those of . any other sort.
The seed we offer you is of the highest possible quality “Grown in Denmark,” the country from which it was first intro¬ duced. The strain we offer is the result of thirty years breeding and perfecting by the most honorable and responsible grower in Denmark. Packet, 15 cts.; *4 ounce, 65 cts.; Y2 ounce, $1.20; ounce, $2.25; % lb., $7.50; % lb., $14.00; lb., $25.00; post¬ paid.
335 Early Dwarf Paris
While less expensive, this will give quite good results in suitable localities.
Packet, 5 cts.; % oz., 45 cts.; oz., 75 cts.j 14 lb., $2.50; postpaid.
336 Henderson’s True Early Snowball
334 Extra Early Favorite
Early dwarf variety. Heads are solid, but are not so large nor sure-heading as the Erfurt type. Packet, 10 cts.; *4 ounce, 75 cts.; ounce, $1.35; % $4.25; postpaid.
333 Extra Early Dwarf Erfurt
A remarkably sure heading Cau¬ liflower. Of dwarf habit with short outside leaves. The heads when ready for market are of medium to large size, curd white, exceptionally deep and of finest quality. It will give excellent results either in the home garden or for market use. Packet, 10 cts.; % ounce, $1.10; ounce, $2.00; i/4 lb., $7.00; i/2 lb., $13.00; lb., $23.00; postpaid.
NOTICE
Picture to Right
5 acre field of Con¬ don’s Select Strain of Early Snowball Cauli¬ flower that made our customer over $500.00 per acre profit. Grown on Muck Land. Our Mr. Condon is seen in¬ specting the field. You can do as well — Try it.
337
Extra Early Dwarf Erfurt
333
New Dry W eather
Especially Adapted to Resist Drought. Reaches Perfec¬ tion When Ordinary Sorts Fail
* This new strain originated in mark, but has been fully tested America, producing large, solid, white head, maturing a little than Early Snowball. It is in all re¬ spects a first-class Cauliflower, and is especially adapted to dry situation and to resist droughts. Like all other Cauliflowers, it requires manure and culture; but it will succeed with less rainfall than any other variety..
Packet, 12 cts.; y2 ounce, $1.16; ounce, $2.00; % lb., $7.25; ^ lb., $13.00; lb., $24.00; postpaid.
337 New Dry Weather
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24 Grow your own Cabbage Plants: Ready to transplant six weeks after sowing the seed.
CONDON’S Cannon Ball CABBAGE
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Fully as Earlj as Wakefield and Twice as Large
Heads Average 10 to 12 Pound.4
Customers Report $1,000 per Acre
The Earliest Cabbage in Existence
Quick as Lightning
Hard as Stone
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3oi Condon’s “Cannon Ball”
Introduced by us in 1913, and now used annually by 50,000 satisfied customers
D J| jl TL Q “The ‘Cannon Ball’ Cabbage I got from you last j
JlX0cLCi W fiat 1 ney oay* spring produced the finest early cabbage in Rock ■ him mm — — w— — ■ Island county.”
WE HAVE HUNDREDS HIKE THIS " —FRANK SUMAN, 1607 7th Ave., Moline, Ill.
READY FOR MARKET 65 DAYS AFTER SETTING PLANTS
BEYOND QUESTION THE BEST
301 Condon’s Cannon Ball represents the highest achievement in Cabbage breeding, and is the best extra f early round headed Cabbage we have ever grown or seen. In uniformity to type and evenness in early! , maturing it is a marvel. Every row and every head in a row look nearly alike as if all had been turned! 2 out of a mold. Its evenness in maturing lias proved it a great favorite with all Cabbage growers asj jj they appreciate the great importance of being able to clear off the ground at one cutting, especially where P room is required for a second crop. The plants are of compact, stocky growth, producing large, solid. ■ ball-shaped heads, which average about ten pounds in weight, and are of the very finest quality, smooth j with fine veins and small core. Cannon Ball Cabbage is fully as early as the Wakefield types. Will 1 yield a greater crop per acre than other Cabbage of which we know. For both private gardens and marketing this is the One Best Early Cabbage and the Greatest Money Maker of all. Its remarkably fine quality and tenderness, whether cooked or sliced for slaw or salad wins friends wherever tried, while for* j marketing its handsome salable appearance and uniformity in maturing the crop has caused it to be in great ; demand. Last year we sold out our entire supply and received hundreds of unsolicited testimonials from 2 customers from all over the country, from Maine to California and from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, j Send your orders early for some of this grand Cabbage. Packet, 10 cts.; ounce, 35 cts.; % lb., $1.25;! i/2 lb., $2.30; lb., $3.95; 2 lbs., $7.50; 5 lbs., $17.50, postpaid.
308 Extra Early Express
Good sized pointed or oval heads frequent¬ ly weighing- 10 pounds. Extra early, com- ri - pact, solid and of fine flavor. Packet, 8 cts. 1U ounce, 20 cts.; % lb., 65 cts.; % lb., $1.20; lb. $2.25; 2 lbs., $4.25; 5 lbs., $10.00, postpaid. I
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309 Extra Early Winningstadt
A very fine header and will grow a hard head under circumstances where most sorts would fail. Plant very compact, with short, thick leaves. Heads regular, conical and very hard. Packet, S cts.; ounce, 20 cts.; % lb., 65 cts.; y2 lb., $1.20; lb., $2,25; 2 lbs., $4.25; 5 lbs., $10.00, post¬ paid.
NOTICE: We give Free Premium Seeds with every order.
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EXTRA
EARLY
307 Condon’s Selected Extra Early Jersey Wakefield
“THE BIG MONEY-MAKING FIRST EARLY OBLONG HEADED CABBAGE”
The photograph above represents an identical sample of the product of our select seed of this grand old standby. Note the uniformity of heads. We have bred it for years and feel safe in saying our strain today is vastly superior to the old parent stock. The heads are uniformly hard and solid. They are pyramidal in form, generally pointed at the end, with but few outside leaves. The outer
leaves are usually thick and heavy, and it is thereby enabled to stand more cold weather than any other sort without injury when carried through the winter, either in the open ground in the South or in cold frames in the North. Packet, 10' cts.; oz., 25 cts.; 44 lb., 70 cts.; lb., $1.30; lb., $2,50; 2 lbs., $4.75; 5 lbs., $11.25, postpaid.
320 The Golden Acre
Latest introduction from Denmark. A Big Money Maker for Gardeners and Home Planters.
A very small round head, Extra Early Variety, maturing 5 lb. heads in 8-0 days from time of sow¬ ing. Very uniform in size and growth, dwarf, com¬ pact head with small leaves, short stem laying close to ground allowing close planting. Heads are very firm and solid with white flesh of excellent quality. This New Wonderful Cabbage matures a full uniform crop that can all be marketed at one cutting at a time when Cabbage is selling at very high prices. Our seed is direct from the originator in Denmark and can be relied upon as the Genuine Golden Acre. Packet, 10 cts.; 44 ox., 25 cts.; ox., 45 cts.; *4 lb., $1.50; 44 lb., $2.00; lb., $5.65; 2 lbs., $11.00; 5 lbs., $26.25, postpaid.
299 Charleston Wakefield
A third larger than Jersey Wake¬ field, about a week later and much heavier cropper. Packet, 10 cts.'; ox.,
25 cts.; *4 lb., 70 cts.; 44 lb., $1.30; lb.,
$2.45; 2 lbs., $4.50; 5 lbs., $10.50, post¬ paid.
311 Glory of Enkhuizen
The heads are of medium size, globe shaped, handsome, with few outer leaves and just right for market; very productive and ex¬ cellent in quality; surpassing in flavor most of the other varieties.
Packet, 7 cts.; ox., 25 cts.; % lb.,
75 cts.; 44 lb., $1.40; lb., $2.50;
2 lbs., $4.75; 5 lbs., $11.25, postpaid.
303 Copenhagen Market
Extra Select Originators Strain A New Variety Very Popular with Market Gardeners
The heads average about ten pounds eacn in weight, are hard and solid with small core.
The quality is extra fine and sweet. It ma¬ tures as early as the Wakefields and will yield more to the acre in weight. It is a short stemmed variety, the heads nearly resting on the ground. The leaves are light green, rather small, and tightly folded, making it possible to set them close together in the field. Pkt., 10 cts.; oz., 30 cts.; 14 lb., 80 cts.; 44 $12.50, postpaid.
303 Copenhagen Market ; lb., $2.75; 2 lbs., $5.25; 5 lbs.,
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Largest and Best Flat Headed Cabbage Is What Our Customers Saj “
“America’s” Favorite for a second early variety — over a hundred thousand satisfied planters testify it to he the very finest quality, best yielder and biggest Money Maker of all the early flat headed varieties. Try it yourself this year. ! Sl
Prosperity is yours if you plant an acreage of this grand cabbage. Very EARLIEST, LARGEST and - BEST FLAT HEADED CABBAGE we have ever seen. It forms large flat heads, solid as marble, weighing 16 to 20 pounds each. The most popular of all Summer Cabbage. Truly this might be termed THE ALL YEAR ^ AROUND CABBAGE. Condon’s Prosperity is a dwarf, compact grower with few outer leaves, allowing w very close planting, a sure header, very uniform in growth, beautiful appearance, free from coarse leaves and far superior in quality to the Big Winter varieties. For boiling, slaw, sauerkraut, etc., it is un- £ surpassed, being crisp, tender and sweet, flavor unexcelled, color beautiful creamy white that com-u. mands the buyeFs attention wherever offered. Whether you grow a dozen heads or a dozen acres for mar- ;; ket and regardless of where — North, East, South or West — Condon’s Prosperity is the one to Plant for ^ Quantity and Quality as a second early Money Maker. Packet, 15 cts.; x/2 oz., 35 cts.; oz., 60 cts.; *4 lb., i $2.00; i/2 lb,., $3.50; lb., $6.00; 2 lbs., $11.50; 5 lbs., $27.50, postpaid. £
317-Wisconsi n All Season
“ Improved Yellow Resistant’ ’
This new strain was developed at the Wisconsin Ex¬ periment Station and has proven a wonderful help to Kraut Growers and Shippers where “yellows” is prev- i alent. It is one of the most valuable mid-season or £ kraut varieties. It differs slightly in color from other £ strains, being a little darker and showing a resemblance f, to the color of Hollander. This strain shows a little 1 shorter stem. The heads are rounding or slightly flat- g tened and are solid and fine quality even in weather r unfavorable to other late varieties. The seed we offer v is of the true “yellows resistant” strain. Packet, 15 J cts.; i/2 oz., 25 cts; oz., 40 cts.; V4 lb., $1.25; y2 lb., | $2.40; lb., $4.50; 2 lbs., $8.75; 5 lbs., $21.25, postpaid. \
296 Bugner’s Ballhead
“Pure Bred” Yellow Resistant
A very wonderful hard headed winter variety of short stem ballhead, which is now used almost exclusively for winter cabbage in and around Chicago, Illinois. Packet, 15 cts.; oz., 40 cts.; oz., 75 cts.; *4 lb*, $2.00; % lb., $3.75; lb., $7.00; a lbs., $13.75; 5 lbs., $33.75, postpaid.
302 CONDON’S “Proj
An ounce of Cabbage Seed will grow more plants than you can buy for $25.00.
All Season
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Condon Bros., Seedsmen, Rock River Valley Seed Farm, Rockford, Illinois.
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:0ND0N’S
306 Stein’s
larly Flat Headed Varieties
“Sure Crop” CABBAGE
Early Dwarf Flat Dutch
A Good Reliable Cabbage
Stein’s Early Dwarf Flat Dutch
297 All Head Early
Often Coming in Before Early Summer
It is at least one-third larger than this popular va¬ riety, and therefore much more profitable to the mar¬ ket gardener, who has in this
riety a Cabbage 'the
Lbs., $4.35; 5 lbs., $10.00; postpaid.
298 Burpee’s Surehead
Sureness in heading and regularity in rowth have placed this at the top of ip list and we have no fear of using ords of praise too high for its memts.
; forms large, hard, solid, flattened eads, uniform in shape and color, and f handsome appearance. It has a ery short stem, and is a compact rower. It is as natural for this cab - age to form a head as to form leaves, nd reports of 99 marketable heads •om 100 plants are of frequent occur¬ ence. Nobody will be disappointed i our strain, for it represents the best rinciples of seed culture applied.
"acket, 7 cts.; ounce, 22 cts.; !4 1 »•»
ts.; V2 lb., $1.35; lb-, $2.50; postpaid. 297 All-Head Early
310 All Season’s
An excellent second early cabbage, produc¬ ing large, solid heads of uniform shape, flat¬ tened on top as shown in the illustration.
Fully developed heads frequently measure 10 to 12 inches across, and weigh 12 to 15 lbs. each. It is also fine r grained and of dainty flavor. It succeeds ev- siy erywhere. Some of the r largest Cabbage raisers in this country, who grow especially for kraut factories, use -our special strain of All Seasons, and claim it far superior to all oth¬ er varieties for kraut purposes. Packet, 7 cts.; ounce, 20 cts.; % lb.,
65 cts.; y2 lb., $1-20; lb., $3.25; 2 lbs., $4.25;
5 lbs., $10.00; postpaid
For Uniformity of Heads, for Tonnage and Earliness combined, our Select Strain of this Won¬ derful Cabbage has no equal. Average heads 16 to 25 lbs. each, excellent quality, always com¬ manding the highest mar¬ ket prices. Yields as high as twenty tons per acre. You can’t beat this any¬ where on earth. Try it. Packet, 8 cts.; ounce, 20 cts.; % lb., 65 cts.; Yz lb., $1.20; lb., $2,25; 2 lbs.,
$4.25; 5 lbs., $10.00; post¬
paid.
312 Early Summer
312 Henderson’s
Early Summer
Standard Mid-Summer Variety
This variety is deservedly pop- . ular with the market gardeners. It tforms large, solid, round, flat¬ tened compact heads of excellent quality. The heads average more than double the size of the Jersey Wakefield, while it matures only ten to twelve days later. Packet, 7 cts.; ounce, 22 cts.; % lb., <•> cts.; % lb., $1.35; lb., $3.50; 3 lbs., $4.75; 5 lbs., $11.35; post¬ paid.
Burpee’s Prize Surehead
Common Sense Culture Directions printed on all packages.
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NOTICE: We give Free Premium Seeds with every order.
CABBAGE— Late Flat Headed Varieties
^CONDON’S Mammoth Prize Late Flat Dutch
This cabbage is as widely grown as any other in the whole country. Continued care and critical selection have secured a perfectly true stock of seed. The heads of our Prize Flat Dutch are very large, heavy, solid, flat on top, and of a bluish-green color. Our strain is a low grow¬ ing variety, with short stem and comparatively few outer leaves. The Quality is fine and the fla- Vor excellent, the heads being white when cut and the inside leaves crisp and tender. Our seed has always been American grown, coming from the cele¬ brated Long Island districts, and whoever purchases Prize Flat Dutch may be assured of getting the best. It is everywhere a favorite market variety. It ma¬ tures slightly earlier than Drum¬ head; perhaps three to five day^ sooner. Prize Flat Dutch is com¬ paratively free from a disposition to burst, and is one of the most reliable winter keepers. Packet, 10 cts.; oxince, 25 ets.; lb., 75 cts.; % lb., $1.35; lb., $2.50; 2 lbs., $4.75; 5 lbs., $11.25, post¬ paid.
304 Condon’s Mammoth Prize Late Flat Dutch
319 Wisconsin JVo. 8
319 Wisconsin No. 8
A “Yellow” Resistant Strain of Hollander
Developed out of Hollander under the direction of Dr. L. R. Jones of the University of Wisconsin. At Ra¬ cine, Wisconsin, where for several years many of the commercial crops of cabbage were badly infected or entirely destroyed by the disease called the yellows, this strain has proven to Ire practically immune from attack. Packet, | 5 cts.; '/2 oz., 25 cts.; oz., 40 cts.; '/4 lb., SI. 25; '/a !b., $2.40; lb.,
$4.50: 2 lbs., $8.75; 5 lbs., $21.25; postpaid.
315 Mammoth Red Rock
One of the finest red cabbages on the market. Heads average over 10 pounds each, and are always of rich color. Try it. Packet, 10 cts.; oz., 2 5 cts.; lA lb., 75 cts.; i/a lb., $1.35; lb., $2.50; postpaid.
318 Dutch Winter or Hollander
As a winter keeper and for spring market this cabbage can hardly be ex¬ celled. In many cabbage growing sections it is the leading winter sort. Very hardy; heads are medium size, averaging about eight pounds, very solid, round, of white color. Quality the very best. Packet, 7 cts.; oz., 2 5 cts.; >/4 lb ,
75 cts.; i/2 lb., $1.35; lb., $2.50; 2 lbs., $4.75; 5 lbs., $11.25; postpaid.
313 Improved American Savoy
313 Improved American Savoy
Very Valuable Variety
Adapted for private use. Grown in fall and allowed t be touched by frost; it is one of the most delicious of a! vegetables. Packet, 7 cts.; oz., 22 cts.; /4 lb., 75 cts '/a lb., $1.35; lb., $2.50; postpaid.
314 Large Late Drumhead
It makes a large, round, firm head, uniform in shape an color, which seldom bursts or rots. It is a standard soi for winter keeping and sells readily in the winter and sprin markets. One of the most profitable varieties to grow, an will give unbounded satisfaction. Packet, 7 cts.; oz., 2i cts.; 'A lb., 60 cts.; '/2 lb., $1.10; lb., $2.00; post
318 Dutch Winter or Hollander
314 Large Late Drumhead
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Condon Bros., Seedsmen, Rock River Valley S*eed Farm, Rockford, Illinois.
CONDON’S “Sure Crop” CABBAGE H
305
r 305
Condon’s
Genuine
Danish Ball Head
Condon’s True Genuine
Danish Ball Head
Originator’s Extra Select Seed. Direct from Grower. The Hardest Headed,
Longest Keeper,
Best Shipper,
Greatest Money Making Late Cabbage in the World
W. A. W1SK1N,
N. Y., writes:
“Your Danish Ball Head Cabbage is certainly won¬ derful. Had 3 lbs. this year and sold entire crop early at a fine price.”
3os Condon’s True Genuine Danish Ball Head
Direct from the Grower
316 New
Market Gardeners Can Rely on This Strain
This celebrated Cabbage is now recognized the world over as the Hardest Headed, Longest Keeper, Best Shipping and Biggest Money Maker of all winter varieties. It is now grown almost exclu¬ sively in the large Cabbage growing sections north of/ the Ohio River. It is not especially suited to the south, but for northern states and in cold climates it beats all other varieties a mile. It is a strong, vigorous grower, producing large, round, compact heads, almost as hard as lead, weighing when trimmed, one-third more than any other sort of equal size (excepting Cannon Ball). Flesh is pure white, sweet, crisp and tender. Our strain of this excellent variety is highly bred to resist such diseases as “Yellows” and “Black Rot” and from our repeated trials as well as from the experience of our many customers purchasing this seed annually we are convinced Our Strain Surpasses in even growth and heading, as well as in uniform size and solidity of heads, any other strain we have ever seen of the so-called “Hollander Cab- ” Packet, 10 cts.; ounce, 32 cts.; % lb., 90 cts.; % lb.,
; lb., $3.00; 2 lbs., $5.75; 5 lbs., $13.75, postpaid.
3i6 New Danish “Round Head”
A few days earlier, shorter stemmed type of the famous Danish “Ball Head.” Packet. 101 cts.; ounce, 321 cts., % lb., 90 cts.; % lb., $1.65; lb., $3.00; 2 lbs., $5.75; 5 lbs., $13.75, postpaid.
300 Chinese Celery Cabbage
“Wnncr Role” Very Earliest
VV ong DUK Dwarf Sure Header A new vegetable introduced into this country from China. Its appearance is attractive, resembling Cos lettuce in shape. When bleached it is almost clean white, and is very crisp. It has a mild cabbage flavor and can be eaten raw or cooked like cabbage or spin¬ ach. Grows very quickly and is more easily grown than ordinary cabbage. We offer only imported Chin¬ ese grown seed, which is reliable for good bunching Round heads. Packet, 10' cts.; ounce, 35 cts.; % lb., $1.05; y2 lb., $1.90; lb., $3.50; postpaid.
Common Sense Culture Directions printed on all packages.
300 Chinese Celery Cabbage
You
can
make
$500.00
an acre
this
year
growing
carrots
Whether you grow for market to ship Dy the carload or for private home con¬ sumption, this is the ONE BEST CAR¬ ROT to plant# * 4 SWEET and JUICY#**
326
©xheart
Carrot
30 "c^ndonBros., Seedsmen, Rock River Valley Seed Farm, Rockford, Illinois _ .
«• CONDON’S Select Danvers
For Critical Market Gardeners and Private Planters-— The Earliest and Sweetest of All Table Carrots Used Annually by the Largest Planters
Read What They Say —
“I have grown and marketed Carrots for 40 years, but I never had any that were as tender and sweet and sell so readily as your Private Strain or Select Danvers.” October 25,
My entire crop of Condon’s Select Danvers Car¬ rots averaged over 600 bushels per acre nt£lseJine and every one a marketable size. „ That ® SS5? some, don’t you think? Book me for 50 pounds more of this same high quality seed f HARNESS^*
Danvers carrots have been the standard Jpr over
fifty years and we need not try to offer any Pjootf as to their popularity. Carrot-breeding is ia a£out the same class as stock-breeding, and if same is not kept true, will deteriorate very quickly. We have endeavored to do more than keep the old parent sort true, and have actually bred up the * ity of Danvers Carrot to such perfection that the old parent sort would be ashamed of itself. To dis tingufsh our sort from others, we have termed our strain Condon’s Select Danvers. Same has been bred for quality and for yield and on a given acreage it will produce a larger crop of marketable roots than anv other kind. The roots are of a rich orange color, and about 6 inches long, with blunt point; adapted to all classes of soil. Packet, 10 cts.; ounce, 17 cts., % lb., 37 cts.; ¥■> lb., 65 cts.; lb., $1.25; 2 lbs., $2.2 5, 5 lbs., $5,25, postpaid.
326
Ox-Heart or Guerande
An Excellent Sort For Shallow Soils— Very Fine Quality— Thick Shoulder
Grows 5 inches long and very blunt at the lower ex¬ tremity. It grows very rapidly and the roots attain a weight of more than a pound. It is tender, of good flavor and of a deep red color, and is a variety we can recommend for the home garden as well as to all mar¬ ket gardeners. Packet, 7 cts.; ounce, 14 cts.; % lb., 34 cts.; Vt. lb., 55 cts.; lb,, $1.00; 2 lbs., $1.85; 5 lbs., $4.25, postpaid.
Common Sense Culture Directions printed on all packages.
Sow Carrots any time from April on. Recommended as the best health vegetable for babies and grown folks.31
CONDON ’S Selected Strains of Table CARROTS
325 New Early Chantenay or Model
“Ready For Market 60 Days From Sowing”
A very fine variety for bunching. This is a very choice strain, producing thick roots of the finest quality. Will aver¬ age three inches in diameter at the shoulder, gently tapering throughout the broad stump-root, and measuring five inches in length. Flesh tender, fine grained, free from hard core, and of a deep golden orange. An excellent variety to grow for winter use, as they can be harvested easily and are im¬ mensely productive. Packet, 7 cts.; ounce, 14 cts.; *4 lb., 30 cts.; y2 lb., 55 cts.; lb., $1.00; 2 lbs., $1.85; 5 lbs., $4.25, postpaid.
Improved Long Orange The Lcagrer*tTable
A well-known sort; roots long, thickest near the crown, tapering regularly to a point; color deep orange. It is a good keeper of fine quality for winter use. Packet, 7 cts.; ounce, 14 cts.; % lb., 25 cts.; V2 lb., 45 cts.; lb., 85 cts.; 2 lbs., $1.60; 5 lbs , $3.75, postpaid.
»» Half Long Danvers
Grown largely on account of its great productiveness and adaptability to all classes of soil. It is a desirable second early carrot for the home garden and is also suitable for field culture. The tops are of medium size. The mature roots are of medium length, six to eight inches long, tapering uniformly to a blunt point. The flesh is deep orange, tender and of good quality. Al¬ though the roots of this variety at maturity are comparatively short, they often produce as large a bulk as the longer field sorts and are more easily harvested. Packet, 8 cts.; ounce, 1G cts.; *4 lb., 34 cts.; y2 lb., 55 cts.; lb., $1.00; 2 lbs., $1.85; 5 lbs., $4.25, postpaid.
322 Early Scarlet Horn
One of the earliest varieties in cultivation, and very desirable for forcing. Tops very small. Roots nearly round and of red¬ dish orange color. When fully matured, about 2 inches long, but should be used before fully grown, while young and tender.
Packet, 8 cts.; ounce, 16 cts.; *4 lb., 34 cts.; % lb., 55 cts.; lb., $1.00'; postpaid.
327 Condon’s Early Coreless
Absolutely Free From Heart or Core
This comparatively new variety is by far the earliest of its type, but its earliness does not affect in any way its size or quality. It is a half-long, cylindrical, lblunt -pointed variety, with a very small tap-root and small, fine top. The shape and size are extremely uniform, averaging 6 to 7 inches in length and 1% inches in diameter, clean-skinned, smooth, and easily pulled. The flesh is very fine-grained, absolutely without any woody heart or core, and entirely free from stringiness and coarseness. The red-orange flesh is of the finest flavor. Packet, 10 cts.; ounce, 18 cts.; y4 lb., 45 cts.; y2 lb., 80 cts.; lb., $1.50; 2 lbs., $2.85; 5 lbs., $6,75; postpaid.
327
Condon’s
Early
Coreless
Extra Early Very Sweet, Smooth and Coreless
NOTICE
Foxboro, Mass., July 22, 1927. Condon Bros., Rockford, Ill.
Dear Sirs: Last spring I ordered twenty (20) quarts of Notts Excelsior Pea Seed. Six¬ teen of the quarts I planted in 875 feet of drill. I was told or read it somewhere that a bushel to a hundred feet was a fair yield. I have picked slightly over thirteen (13) bushels. I am very well pleased with the re¬ sult of this seed as well as all other seed that I received from your house.
Sincerely yours, Arthur W. Kallom.
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II Mammoth Yellow Belgian
2 lbs. of Carrot Seed will sow one acre
Sufficient to produce on good soil 25 Tons of Carrots
Equal in feeding value to 300 Bushels Oats
330 Mammoth White Belgian
A Standard Early Sort
A variety with long slender root, about one -third of which grows above the surface of the ground, thus making it easy to pull. Ii is very productive, highly nutritious and a good keeper. Packet 5 cts.; ounce, 10 cts.; *4 lb., 20 cts.; Yi lb., 35 cts.; lb., 60 cts.; 2 lbs., $1.10; 5 lbs., $2.45, postpaid.
331 Mammoth Yellow Belgian
Best Long-Keeping Yellow
This sort is very similar to the White Belgian except in color Its strong point is its keeping quality, making it of special valu< for late feeding. Packet, 5 cts.; ounce, 10 cts.; % lb-, 20 cts.; y2 lb., 35 cts.; lb., 60 cts.; 2 lbs., $1.10; 5 lbs., $2.45, postpaid.
Tell your friends about us. We would do as much for you.
NOTICE: We give Free Premium Seeds with every order.
STOCK CARROTS
for Cattle Feeding
Greatest Horse and Cattle Food. Wonder¬ fully Productive ; 15 to> 25 tons per acre. One acre equal to 2 acres of corn. Sow 2 lbs. of seed per acre on any ordinary soil.
329 Condon’s Prize Winner
This is the heaviest cropping carrot grown, yielding more tons to the acre than any other sort. The flesh is white, solid, crisp and very sweet; the roots are short and very heavy at the shoulder, which allows them to be harvested very easily. They do not break easily in pulling or storing, owing to their solidity and shape. This is not a carrot for gardeners, but is for farmers and cattle men. The roots frequently measure 12 to 25 inches in circumference, and 15 to 25 tons is not an uncommon yield. A few of these carrots should be grown by everyone, even if they only have one cow. Packet, 10 cts.; ounce, 16 cts.; % lb., 32 cts.; i/2 lb., 55 cts.; lb., $1.00; 2 lbs., $1.85; 5 lbs., $4.25, postpaid.
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620 CONDON’S “Silver Queen” or White Bantam
SWEET CORN
The best, the largest, the sweetest and the biggest yielder of all Extra Early Sweet Corn is what our customers say.
First introduced by us in 1913 and is better today than ever.
Try it.
Market gardeners will find this a big money maker
In this locality ready for market in early July.
620 Condon’s Silver Queen or White Bantam
Since the Pilgrims settled Massachusetts, Sweet Corn has been one of the most relished vegetables. In early days our forefathers used the old-fashioned Indian Corn, picking same just as it came into the milk, and termed it Roasting Ears. Ever since, man has striven to produce a better quality suited to the advanced tastes and requirements of the time. By crossing the various types, wonderful improvements have been made, until one would think we had reached our zenith; especially after tasting those delicious types of Henderson’s Golden Rod and Burpee’s Golden Bantam. True, these grand types were far supe¬ rior to any previously introduced, “but the color was against them.” Once again Nature proved a won¬ der, for we found in our field of Golden Bantam several ears containing a few white grains. These were selected, planted by themselves, and today we have a distinct type of WHITE BANTAM, known as our SILVER QUEEN. Think <pf it, a WHITE BANTAM CORN, which contains all of the sweet lusciousness I of the yellow sort, and yet invitingly silver white- in color. Truly, this grand new variety should reign supreme in every garden. Do not associate it with any other kind; it is alone in its class, the SILVER QUEEN. In habit of growth it excels all other early varieties, being stocky and exceptionally vigorous. The quality is most superior, very excellent and surpassingly sweet. Ears 6 to 7 inches long, frequently bearing four and five good ears from a single stalk. Packet, 10 cts.; y2 lb., 22 cts.; lb., 40 cts.; 2 lbs., 75 cts.; 5 lbs., $1.65; postpaid.
6,8 CONDON’S Golden Sunburst
The sweetest;, largest and best of all yel¬ low Sweet Corn is what our customers say. Our own origination. This is the celebrated corn we distributed for trial a few years ago that everybody praised so highly. Better to¬ day than ever. Try it
Cross between Burpee’s Golden Bantam, Country Gentleman and Evergreen, retaining the color of Golden Bantam and its delicious flavor, combined with the other two, and the sturdy yielding qualities of the Evergreen. This is truly a remarkably fine sort, and is destined to become a great favorite in every market. Don’t miss this. It’s certainly a good thing, and we want you to try it. Packet, 10 cts.; ^ lb., 22 cts.; lb., 40 cts.; 2 lbs., 75 cts.; 5 lbs., $1.65, postpaid.
Early Minnesota Reliable
A standard variety. Has held its position in the list for a long period of years as a dependable sort. The ears are of good size and well flavored. Valuable for either private or market use. Eight to ten rowed; excel¬ lent quality; large white grain and extremely productive. Packet, 6 cts.; y2 lb., 15 cts.; lb., 28 cts.; 2 lbs., 50 cts.; 5 lbs., $1.15, postpaid.
618
Condon’s Golden Sunburst
NOTICE
OrangeCcnter,Fla.
I received a sample of your Golden Sunburst Sweet Corn and it was the best corn we ever ate and I want more of it. I used to live in Northern Iowa, so I know good corn.
Yours very truly, Mrs.
A. W. Flathers.
you quicker.
To have good roasting ears all season plant seed every ten days.
SWEET CORN
CONDON’S Early Columbia
Market Gardeners Big Money Maker for a Second Early V
Only few days later than the extra early sorts and nearly as large. Selection from the famous early champion, and today stock of Columbia so surpasses the old parent there is no compai Condon’s Early Columbia is an acquisition of rare value. This and valuable variety of, Sweet or Sugar Corn has eclipsed all sorts. It is as early as the Cory and nearly twice as large,
12 -rowed and of great length. The color is a beautiful creamy In quality, sweetness and flavor it is superior to any second sort known and a very heavy yielder. Early Columbia Corn is best and largest early sweet corn ever offered. Packet, 7 cts.; y2 18 cts.; lb., 32 cts.; 2 lbs., 60 cts.; 5 lbs., $1,30, postpaid.
627
Howling Mob
617 Condon’s Early Columbia
When this new sweet corn was first introduced at market by the originator, it became so popular that crowds gathered about his stand. Really, a mob howled for this delicious corn, and so it was named Howling Mob.
Howling Mob is one of the best flavored and most tender of all second-early white sweet corns. It matures right after Golden Bantam and makes a perfect succession to this fine variety. Ears of Howling Mob measure from 7 to 9 inches in length and they are closely set with 12 or 14 rows of large, pearly white grains. Packet, 8 cts.; Vi lb., 17 cts.; lb., 32 cts.; 2 lbs., 60 cts., postpaid.
627 Howling Mob Sweet Corn
Please order by number as well as Names. It will help us to serve
To have good roasting ears all season plant seed every ten days.
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Four Leading Varieties of Very Early Sugar Corn
630 Alpha Extra Early White Corn
629 Mammoth White Cory
629 Mammoth White Cory
We consider this one of the best extra early varieties for the market and home garden. The ears are very large for so early a variety. The stalks are about four feet high, each generally bearing two large, finely shaped ears which become fit for use very early. They are twelve rowed, six to seven inches long, very sym¬ metrical and handsome, seldom with any opening be¬ tween the rows at the base. The grain is large, broad, very white and of remarkably good quality for such an early sort. Pkt., 8 cts. ; y2 lb., 17 cts. ; lb., 30 cts.; 2 lbs., 55 cts.; 5 lbs., $1.25, postpaid.
*« Crosby’s Early
quality. The ears are five and one-half to six and one- half inches long, fourteen rowed or more, with short nearly square grains which are very white, sweet and tender. The stalks are about four and one-half feet high. This variety is desirable for the home garden and market. It is a sort largely grown in Maine for canning. Pkt., 8 cts.; y2 lb., 17 cts.; lb., 30 cts.; 2 lbs., 55 cts.; 5 lbs., $1.25, postpaid.
Alnha The earliest sweet corn. Matures a week to ten days ahead of Mammoth White Cory. The ears average six to seven inches long, are uniformly eight rowed, fully equal in quality to Mammoth White Cory with skin a trifle more tender. The stalks are very uniform in height averaging about four feet. Ears are set low and close to the stalks. For the market grower who reaps an extra profit by getting his produce on the market ahead of his com¬ petitors this will be a money-maker; for the home gardener it will produce desirable ears for the table a week ahead of any variety except Silver Queen. Pkt., 10 cts.; % lb., 20 cts.; lb., 38 cts.; 2 lbs., 70' cts.; 5 lbs., 81.50, postpaid.
616 Golden Bantam
Extra Selected Seed The Worlds favorite for 20 years, and bet¬ ter today than ever: BIG MONEY MAKER for gardeners and excellent for home plant¬ ing.
This is an early sweet corn with, golden yellow grain, very tender and of excellent quality. The ears are eight rowed, six to seven inches long and of the medium size found most suitable for the table. The flavor is exceptionally rich and delicious. The stalks are four to five feet high. Our stock of this splendid home garden and market variety has been very carefully se¬ lected and is decidedly superior to much that is offered. Pkt., 8 cts.; 1/2 lb., 17 cts.; lb., 30 cts.; 2 lbs., 55 cts.; 5 lbs., $1.25, postpaid.
American Favorite
Pick Sweet Corn when the milk will fly when pinched for best quality.
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Pick Sweet Corn when the milk will fly when pinched for best quality.
631
Country Gentlemen Sweet Corn
626 Condon’s Early White Evergreen
Sweet Corn 62i Country Gentlemer
f/i
70 Day Corn, an Improvement on the Old Favorite Shoe Peg Sweet Corn Used Extensively by Canners for Their Best and Highest Priced Canned Corn
Is a late main crop variety, which should find a place with every grower fo home or market. The ears which are 7 to 9 inches long are borne on stalk: 6 to 7 feet high. Unlike other sorts the grain is small and rather round ant crowded together on the cob, instead of forming in defined rows. Deliciously tender and sweet this corn is regarded by many as the highest quality of al White Sweet corns. Condon’s strain has been especially selected for smal deep kernels and high sugar content and represents the highest bred type Packet, 10 cts.; Vs lb., 20 cts.; lb* 33 cts.; 2 lbs., 60 cts.; 5 lbs., $1.25, postpaid
622 Early Adams
Earliest Corn in Cultivation
Very early, and used extensively for a first-early table corn in the South.
Stalks about 4 feet high, with small tassel, very few leaves, and without suckers. Ear short, very full, often nearly as thick as it is long, well cov¬ ered with coarse husks; kernels white, smooth. An extremely hardy variety which can be grown closer together than most sorts. Packet, 5 cts.; Vz lb.,
15 cts.; lb., 25 cts.; 2 lbs., 42 cts.; 5 lbs*
$1.00, postpaid.
614 Black Mexican
70 days. Considered the Sweetest of All
Grains when first perfected are pure white, and are then at their best for table use. Very tender and sweet; bluish black when ripe, but when cooked, grains are white with a bluish tinge. Fit to eat in 70 days.
One of the best for home use. Packet,
10 cts.; V2 lb., 20 cts.; lb., 35 cts.; 2 lbs.,
65 cts.; 5 lbs., $1.35, postpaid.
628 Mammoth Late Sugar
This tall growing sugar corn is one of the very sweetest known. It ma¬ tures a little later than Stowell’s Ever¬ green, and is large in both stalk and ear. In quality it is delicious, being sweet and tender. The ears remain long in the green state, and it is par¬ ticularly good for canning purposes. An excellent late sort for the garden. Packei cts.; 2 paid.
Earliest of All Evergreens
Has ears fully as large as those of the regular Stowell’s and is about five days earlier, while the grains remain tender for a longer period. Its most valuable feature, however, is the extreme paper whiteness of the grains, which makes not only a more attractive ear when served on the table, but is most important for the can- ner. It retains its whiteness when put up in cans as distinct from the yellowish tinge of the still popular original Stowell’s Evergreen. Packet, 8 cts.; Vz lb., 18 cts.; lb., 32 cts#; 2 lbs., 60 cts.; 5 lbs., $1.30, postpaid.
Condon’s Early White
Evergreen
Please order by number as well as Names. It will help us to serve you quicker.
uondon Bros., Seedsmen, Rock River Valley Seed Farm, Rockford, Illinois.
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CONDON’S “Private Strain”
White Evergreen Sweet Corn
The Finest Quality, Largest Eared Sugar Corn W onderful Sort for Canning Sweet as Honey, Tender Until Frost Comes
Enormously productive, averaging 3 to 5 fine Big Ears from a sin¬ gle stalk. Ears 8 to 10 inches long, 16 to 18 rows on the cob. Every ear runs uniform, well rounded out both on the tip and the butt. The ears are compactly filled with long, plump, purity white kernels, lusciously tender and sweet. Another great feature is the length of time the ears remain “in the milk,” the thick husk giving it splendid protection, making it marketable for a longer period of time than any other known sort. In color it is the most perfect Purity White grain corn you ever saw, making it the most attractive ear when served on the table and the most valuable variety for canning, re- j taining when canned that distinct purity whiteness which makes a big demand for it at good prices even when the markets are loaded with other varieties. DON’T FAIL TO PLANT' SOME OF IT. Packet, 10 cts.; */2 lb., 20 cts.; lb., 35 cts.; 2, lbs., 65 cts.; 5 lbs., i $1.50; postpaid.
631
Stowell’s Evergreen
The Standard Main Crop Variety
Late maturing sort, producing strong and vigorous stalks, 7 to 8 feet high; produces ears 8 inches long with 16 or more rows of the finest sugary grains. This variety has gained and maintained a reputa¬ tion for productiveness, fine rich flavor, sweetness and deep set tender hite grains. Packet, 7 cts.; y2 lb., 17 cts.; lb., 32 cts.; 2 lbs., 60 cts.; 5 lbs., $1.30; postpaid.
Yeager’s
Sunshine
e Earliest, Largest Eared, Sweetest Yellow Corn Introduced to Date
This is a brand new distinct va¬ riety of Early Yellow Sweet Corn; offered to the general public last year for the first time. We were sold out last year long before plant¬ ing time. Reports from hundreds of customers as well as our own trial ground experiments prove it to be just what the originator said about it; “namely,” “The Earliest of all Yellow Sugar Corn and the finest quality for market, home or can¬ ning.” 3 to 10 days ahead of Golden Bantam and much larger. Ears 6 to 8 inches long, generally 12 rows of kernels to a cob. Stalk grows 5 y2 feet tall bearing the ear one foot from the ground. We recommend this as a big money maker for gar¬ deners, and a most satisfying variety for home planters. ORDER EARLY PLEASE. SUPPLY LIMITED. Packet, 15 cts.; y2 lb., 30 cts.; lb., 50 cts.; 2 lbs., 90 cts.; 5 lbs., $1.85; postpaid.
PLANT A FEW ACRES OF EVERGREEN CORN FOR YOUR COWS
Plant Sweet Corn every 10 days and have roasting ears until frost.
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Grow your own Celery for your Thanksgiving Dinner.
*1 CONDON’S Golden Self Blanching CELERY
A-No. 1 Extra Select Strain for Large Market Growers and Critical Planters
Without doubt the very finest celery in culti-i vation and the Biggest Money Maker. Stalks Thick, Crisp and Brittle. No Hollow Centers.
Blanches itself to a Beautiful Golden Yellow. We supply it annually to the largest and most critical planters in America and this is what they say about it.
Dear Sir: Newark, N. Y„ Sept. 20.
I am writing in regard to the Celery Seed I purchased from yon. It has proven one of the best of seeds. So much of the Celery planted here has turned out to he the Green Celery. I can use another pound of Condon’s Golden Self Blanching Celery Seed and would like to know j if you will send me 1 lb. for the same price as‘ last year. If so send me 1 lb. of Condon ’s Golden Self Blanching Celery Seed as soon as you cam by Parcel Post, C. 0. D., and oblige
James H. Van Derbilt, R. F. D. No. 3.
The plants are of medium size, compact and stocky, with yellowish green foliage. As they mature the inner stems and leaves turn beautiful golden yellow so that blanching is effected at a minimum expenditure of time and labor. Its handsome color, crispness, tenderness, freedom from stringiness, and fine nntty flavor have es¬ tablished it as a superior first early sort. Equally desirable for muck or upland farms. Try it* I Packet, 12 cts. ; ounce, 60 cts. ; *4 H>., $1.80; y2 lb., $3.25; lb., $6.00; postpaid.
341 Condon’s Golden Self- Blanching Celery
NOTICE
We can sup- p 1 y limited amounts of Genuine French Grown Hand Selected Seed on varie¬ ties listed be¬ low at the following uni¬ form prices : Pkt., 15 cts.; y2 oz., 75 cts.; oz., $1.25; % lb., $4.00, postpaid.
339A — Golden Self Blanch¬ ing;
339B — Hen¬ derson’s Easy Blanching ; 3390 — Select Early White Plume;
339D —New Golden Plume.
Please order by number as well as Names. It will help us to serve you quicker.
xsTirtfr
Condon Bros., Seedsmen, Rock River Valley Seed Farm, Rockford, Illinois.
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CONDON’S “Sure Crop” CELERY
348 Henderson’s Easy Blanching Celery
Originators True Stock. Absolutely New Distinct Sort
The Easiest ami Quickest to Blanch The Earliest and the Latest in One Row
A valuable celery of recent introduc¬ tion and is now extensively grown by the most progressive celery growers throughout the United States. The stalks are stocky in growth and of medium height and are the easiest and quickest to blanch and keep better in the trench than other sorts. The tender, brittle, sweet, nutty flavored stalks are attrac¬ tive in appearance. Ready for the table or market in about 115 days. Grows equally well on muck or upland. Packet,
10 cts.; ounce, 50 cts.; y± lb., .151.75; x/2 lb., $3.25; lb., $6.00, postpaid.
342 CONDON’S Extra Select White Plume
The Very Finest for Fall and Early Winter Use “ Crisp as Ice.”
It is a truly beautiful type. No other celery naturally turns white upon reaching maturity. All others require blanching with boards or with earth. The Golden Self- Blanching naturally turns yellow, but this |one turns white. Not only does. the stem \\C’ whiten, but the leaf itself, especially every ''■Vinner leaf, assumes the attractive white color. This makes the White Plume Celery one of the most showy ornaments that can 1'be put upon the Thanksgiving or Christmas ijdinner table. Packet, 10 cts.; ounce, 30 cts.; \XA lb., 90' cts.; ya lb., $1.65; lb., $3.00; postpaid.
346 Celeriac
Large Smooth Prague
An improved form of turnip-rooted celery, excellent for soups and stews. Produces roots of nearly globular shape and comparatively smooth sur¬ face. Packet, 10 cts.; ounce, 30 cts.; 346 XA lb., 90' cts.; postpaid.
Turnip-Rooted Celery
34S Henderson’s Easy Blanching
343 Giant Pascal
The Largest Ribbed Celery
This is a green-leaved variety developed from the Golden Yel¬ low Self-Blanching, and we rec¬ ommend it as being of the best quality for fall and early winter use. It blanches to a beautiful yellowish white color; is very solid and crisp and of a fine nutty flavor. Packet, 10' cts.; ounce, 30' cts.; % lb., 90 cts.; ya lb,, $1.65; lb., $3.00, postpaid.
340 Columbia
Second Early Winter Sort
An early-maturing sort unsur¬ passed in shape and quality. The plant is of medium height, but very stocky and heavy. The stalks are thick, almost round, resembling in shape those of Giant Pascal; the color has in it more of the rich yellow tint of Golden Yellow Self-Blanching, which variety it resembles very much in appearance when trimmed and bunched for the market. Packet, 10 cts.; ounce, 50 cts.; XA lb„ $1.50; Ya lb., $2.75; lb., $5.00, postpaid.
344 Goldeu Plume
34s Kalamazoo
Extra Select Strain for Critical Planters
We consider our Kalamazoo absolutely and without exception the very best celery grown. It is late; it is not self-blanching, but it is worth many times over all the extra trouble and labor involved in growing it. Packet, 10 cts.; ounce, 25 cts,; XA lb., 75 cts.; ya lb., $1.40; lb., $2.50; post¬ paid.
347 Winter Queen
This very desirable variety is considered the most attractive in color and the best in quality of any of the late-keeping sorts. The plant is dwarf. Packet. 10 cts.; ounce, 20 cts.; Yt lb., 65 cts.; Ya lb., $1.15; lb., $2.00, postpaid.
344 Golden Plume
Early-Self Blanching
An outstanding new variety of Celery. The plants are of strong growth and produce thick and heavy stalks with a well-blanched solid heart. It is considered by many gardeners the best early Celery. Early and quite resist¬ ant to blight and rot. A very de¬ sirable variety, with good stor¬ ing qualities; crisp and of excel¬ lent nutty flavor. Packet, 15 cts.-; y2 oz., 55 cts.; oz., 90 cts.; XA lb., $3.25; % lb., $6.00; lb., $11.00,
postpaid.-
Common Sense Culture Directions printed on all packages.
361 Condon’s Early Wonder— -Earliest of All
36i CONDON’S Early Wonder
Earliest, Smoothest, Greatest Yielder and the Most Crisp. The Best and Most Profitable Extra Early Sheer We Have Ever Seen. Notice Small Seed Cavity Which Tells the True Story.
As an extra early Cucumber there is no strain to equal this. It is of a most handsome shape and holds its deep green color better than any other White Spine type. Fruits grow very even in size and regular in form. Color is dark olive green with lighter spines running from blossom end. It is smooth, tender and crisp. Remains green on the vine, and after picking it never turns yellow. It is very hardy, robust and free from disease. We have not seen a strain more uniform in size, color and evenness than our Earliest of All. Market gardeners and large planters who value earliness, will find this the most profitable sort in cultivation. Packet, 16 cts.; ounce, 20 cts.; % lb., 50 cts.; % lb„ 85 cts.; lb., $1.50; 2 lbs., $2.85; 5 lbs.
$6.75, postpaid.
364 Extra Long White Spine
The Extra Long White Spine, or “Evergreen,” as it sometimes called, is the standard and most popular of the Long White Spine varieties. In season it is early, vigorous and prolific, more blight-proof than the ordinary long sorts The shape is straight; smooth, dark, shiny green in color; 8 to 12 inches in length, and, compared with “Davis’ Per¬ fect,” is larger in diameter. The flesh is crisp, tender and of superb flavor. For general market and home use it is with out a superior in this variety. The seed we offer is the re suit of a number of years of exhaustive trials and a scientific selection from the pick of different strains of many growers Select stock. Packet, 7 cts.; ounce, 14 cts.; % lb., 32 cts. Va lb., 55 cts.; lb., $1.00; 2 lbs., $1.85; 5 lbs., $4.25, postpaid
37i Snow’s Early Pickling
371 Snow’s Early Pickling
This is a selection made from the “Chicago Pickle” by veteran pickle grower, Mr. Snow, of the famous Snow Pickle Farm, Rockford, Ill. The type is shorter when ripe than the Chicago Pickle and is broad at the stem end, tapering slightly to the tip. The small pickles are dark green, cyl¬ indrical and square ended, average 4 to 5 inches in length when large enough for slicing, and are of excellent quality; but it is chiefly for producing medium-sized pickles, that this variety is so highly esteemed. If the fruits are gathered as soon as large enough, the vines will continue bearing through a long season. Packet, 7 cts.; ounce, 14 cts.; *4 lb., 32 cts.; Vs lb., 55 cts.; lb., $1.00; 2 lbs., $1.85; 5 lbs., $4.25, post¬ paid.
Grow your own Cucumbers and make your own Pickles.
CONDON’S “Sure Crop” CUCUMBER:
Seed Saved From Hand Selected Fruit of Uniform Type
Please order by number as well as Names. It will help us to serve you quicker.
Condon Bros., Seedsmen, Kock Kiver Valley Seed barm. Kocktord, Illinois
ONDON’S “Sure Crop” CUCUMBERS
362 Davis Perfect Select
Original strain. As now selected, the long- even fruits are of fine form, with an intensely dark, rich green skin. With very few seeds, the solid white flesh is of superb quality for slicing. So handsome and regular are the fruits that they bring an extra price on market, often being taken for “hot-house grown.” The vines are of strong growth and quite prolific.
Mr. Davis, the originator, says: “This new variety beats all others in points of beauty, quality and productiveness. More fruit can be cut from it than from any other we ever tried in the greenhouse, while for outdoor growing they seem to yield even better than under glass, and even experts cannot tell the outdoor fruits from the hot-house product.” Packet, S cts.; ounce, 15 cts.; % lb., 40 cts.; V2 lb., 70 cts.; lb., $1,25; 2 lbs., $2.30; 5 lbs., $5.45, postpaid.
372 Condon’s Everbearing 3eo Condon’s Extra Early
Improved Long Green
Vines very vigorous and productive.. The fruits are very long, often 12 inches; slender and uniformly dark green color. Furnishes some fruits early, but matures the bulk of its crop rather late. Excellent for slic¬ ing and very largely used for pickles. The fruits are often used for making sweet pickles. We offer a carefully selected strain, uniformly long, of good form and with the large warts and spines well distributed over the surface instead of being clustered at one end, as in inferior stocks. See cut. Packet, 10 cts.; ounce, 18 cts.; % lb., 45 cts.; Vs lb., 75 cts.; lb., $1.35, 2 lbs., $2.50; 5 lbs., $5.00, postpaid.
This is a unique and highly meri¬ torious pickling variety; meritorious because of its quality, and unique in its ability to go right on bearing, whether the ripened cucumbers are picked or not. It is enormously pro¬ ductive and a general favorite. Fruits of every age and also blossoms may be found on a single vine and bear¬ ing continues until the coming of frost. A favorite for pickles. Also an excellent home garden variety.
Packet, 8 cts.; ounce, 15 cts.; Yt lb.,
32 cts.; y3 lb., 55 cts.; lb., $1.00; 2 lbs.,
$1.85; 5 lbs,, $4.25, postpaid.
365 Green Prolific, or Boston Pickling
This is a very prolific cucumber; largely planted for pickles. The fruits average 4 to 6 inches in length when large enough for slicing, and are of excellent quality. It is, how¬ ever, for producing medium-sized pickles that this variety is so highly esteemed, as it is enormously produc¬ tive, and if the fruits are kept gath¬ ered as soon as large enough, the vines will continue bearing through¬ out a long season. Packet, 5 cts.; ounce, 10 cts.; ^4 lb., 30 cts.; Ys lb.,
55 cts.; lb., $1.00; 2 lbs., $1.85; 5 lbs.,
$4.25. postpaid. 367 Klondike “White Spine”
A medium early, white-spined cucumber of handsome, very dark green color and of excellent quality for slicing. The vines are very hardy and productive. The fruits when mature are about 8 inches long, and are uniform in size and shape. Color dark green, slightly striped at the ends. The dark green color is retained much longer and is affected less by the hot sun than any other sort with which we are familiar. Its uniform size and shape and splendid color are making this variety very popular as a shipping sort. Packet, 8 cts.; ounce, 15 cts.; % lb.-, 40 cts.; Yi lb., 70' cts.; lb., $1.25; 2 lbs., $2.30; 5 lbs., $5.45, postpaid.
CONDON’S
Bug Finish Gets the Cucumber Beetle
373
West India Gherkin
367. Klondike White Spine
373 West India Gherkins
A small fruited variety, very prolific, and used only for pickling as it has no slicing value. Fruits are thick and rounded in shape, ranging from 2 to 3 inches in length, and covered with spines. Makes a strong growth of slender vines, wfith small foliage. Prices, packet, 10 cts.; ounce,- 20 cts.; *4 lb., 50 cts., postpaid.
.?* ”
360 Condon’s Extra Early Improved Pon g Green
Common Sense Culture Directions printed on all packages.
urow Cucumbers. The market is never fully supplied.
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Condon’s “Pure Bred” Cucumbers!
Big Money Crop”
Grow Plenty of Large Fruit; for Slicing and Smal Ones for Pick ling
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375 Early Fortune * ot'Vhne
Spine yet produced. Early, very productive and disease resistant; fruits 9 inches long-, slightly tapering; flesh white, very firm and crisp, with few seeds. The color is a rich, dark green, which does not fade when shipped a long distance. On account of its earliness, handsome shape, medium size, dark glossy green color and prolificness, it has become one of the most popular varieties with commercial truckers who plant acres for shipment to Northern markets. Matures in about 50 days. It is one of the earliest and finest dark-black, green-white spine cucumbers. Our seed is of originators “True Stock” Extra Selected Annually — None better. Packet, 8 cts.; oz., 15 cts.; *4 lb., 40 cts.; y2 lb., 70 cts.; Ib., $1.25; 2 lbs., $2.30 ; 5 lbs., $5.45, postpaid.
358 Arlington White Spine
The young fruits are crisp and tender, and are o dark green color. The mature fruits are about 6} to 7 inches long. Considered by many to be th best sort for small pickles. Excellent also for slic ing. Packet, 6 cts.; ounce, 12 cts.; *4 lb., 30 cts. % y2 lb., 50 cts.; lb., 95 cts.; 2 lbs., $1.80; 5 lbs., $4.0<| postpaid.
366 Japanese Climbing
370
Early Green Cluster f^fsVi
tra strong
being a climbing sort; can be grown on trellises o other supports, valuable in small gardens. Ver; prolific, from 40 to 50 fruits having been countei on single plants. The cucumbers are long and o fine flavor. Packet, 7 cts.; ounce, 15 cts.; 14 lb, 45 cts.; Yz lb., 75 cts.; lb., $1.40, postpaid.
form are desirable for pickling. It is extra prolific, frequently setting in clusters of two or three. These are desirable for small pickles. If- the fruits are kept gathered, the vines will continue bearing.
Packet, 7 cts.; ounce, 12 cts.; 14 lb., 32 cts.; y, lb., 55 cts.; lb., $1.00; 2 lbs., $1.85; 5 lbs., $4.25, postpaid.
368 The New Lemon
Round Like a Lemon
Its flavor is de licious, neve bitter. Excel, lent for slicing) and for salads and pickles surpasses them all; al ways tender, crisp and juicy. Packet, 10 cts.; ounce 20 cts.; 14 lb., 55 cts.; y2 lb., $1.05; lb., $2.00, postpaid
363 Early Short Green
This variety is known also as Early Frame, and is an early, bright green cucumber of medium size, very extensively used for slicing and pickling. Packet, 5 cts.; oz., 10 cts.; % lb., 32 cts.; y2 lb., 55 cts.; lb., $1.00; 2 lbs., $1.85; 5 lbs., $4.25, postpaid.
359 Chicago Pickle, or Westerfield
General favorite everywhere and is used almost exclu¬ sively by pickle factories throughout the country. The fruit is of medium size, wonderfully even in growth, slightly pointed at both ends. Extra early and the whole crop can be depended upon to make fine shaped pickles. Color deep green, begins to set its fruit when quite young. You will find this variety valuable for slicing also, being of fine flavor, crisp and delicious. Packet, 7 cts.; oz., 12 cts.; *4 lb., 32 cts.; y2 lb., 55 cts.; lb., $1.00; 2 lbs., $1.85; 5 lbs., $4.25. uostuaid.
374 White Wonder
Beautiful clear white, not even chang¬ ing color when fruits are matured. Fruits 8 to 10 inches long, very uniform. Won¬ derful flavor. Excel¬ lent as a slicer or for pickles. Packet, 8 cts.; oz., 15 cts.; *4 lh., 40 cts.; i/2 lb., 70 cts.; lb., $1.25; 2 lbs., $2.30; 5 lbs., $5.45, postpaid.
Use Condon’s Bug Finish for Cucumber Insects.
Herbs are so valuable for medicinal purposes, all should grow ^ome'. ' T>'fy and save for winter use. 43
HERBS
Save a corner of the garden for a few Pot and Sweet Herbs (for flav-
Pot, Sweet and oring, soups, meats, etc.) they are indispensable to every garden, while Medicinal some of the Medicinal Herbs will be found very useful. They thrive
nicely along the sunny side of the fence, in a deep and fairly rich soil.
400 Lavender
396 Caratvay
Rosemary
406 Thyme
HERBS
401
Marjoram
Sweet
397
405 Savory Summer
Every kitchen garden should have a few herbs. They are easily grown and are al¬ ways pleasant and desirable for flavoring, perfuming and medicinal purposes.
Culture — Sow in early spring, at the time when the trees begin to leaf, in ordinarily good and well-drained garden soil, in rows 12 to 24 inches apart. Cover seed lightly. Thin or transplant to stand 6 to 12 inches apart in the rows. Cultivate frequently and keep free from weeds.
Herbs — All Postpaid
* Anise — Packet, 5 cts.; ounce, 15 cts. **BaIm — Packet, 10 cts.; ounce, 35 cts. *Basil, Sweet — Packet, 10 cts.; ounce,
30 cts.
*Borage — Packet, 10 cts.; ounce, 20 cts. ** Caraway — Packet, 5 cts.; ounce, 101 cts.;
% lb., 28 cts.; i/3 lb., 50 cts.; lb., 90 cts. ***Dill — Packet, 5 cts.; ounce, 10 cts.; % lb., 28 cts.; y2 lb., 50 cts.; lb., 90 cts.
* *Fennell, Sweet — Packet, 10 cts.; ounce, 15 cts.
**Horekound — Packet, 10 cts.; ounce, 35 cts.
**Lavender — Packet, 10 cts.; ounce, 40c. *Marjoram, Sweet — - Packet, 10 cts.; ounce, 50 cts.
**Rosemary — Packet, 10 cts.; ounce, 75c. **Rue — Packet, 10 cts.; ounce, $1.00. **Sage — Packet, 10 cts; ounce, 25 cts.; i/4 lb., 65 cts.; y2 lb., $1.10; lb., $2.00, postpaid.
* Summer Savory— Packet, 10 cts.; ounce, 35 cts.
* * Thyme — Packet, 10 cts.; ounce, 60 cts. **Winter Savory — Packet, 10 cts.; ounce,
35 cts.
** Wormwood — Packet, 10 cts.; ounce, 50 cts^
(Herbs marked * are annual; marked ** are perennial; marked *** are biennial.)
394 Basil, Sweet
395 Borage
406
407
408
397 Dill
403 Rue
ENDIVE OR WINTER LETTUCE
Endive or Winter Lettuce
352 FINE GREEN CURLED. Hardiest variety; the most desirable for home use or market garden. Deep green leaves beautifully cut and curled; easily blanched and becomes crisp, tender and very fine flavored. Packet, 8 cts.; ounce, 15 cts.; y<y. lb., 35 cts.; y2 lb., 6O1 cts.; lb., $1.10, postpaid.
353 WHITE CURLED. Does not need blanching, the midribs being naturally of a pale golden yellow, and the finely cut and curled leaves almost white. Packet, S cts.; ounce, 15 cts.; y± lb., 35 cts.; y2 lb., 60 cts.; lb., $1.10, postpaid.
3S1 GIANT FRINGED, or “OYSTER.” When fully grown, the center portion can be blanched to a creamy white by tying up, and con¬ trasts finely with the deep green tips of the outer leaves. It is of excellent flavor served as salad. Packet, 10 cts.; ounce, 18 cts.; 14 lb., 38 cts.; y2 lb., 65 cts.; lb., $1.25; postpaid.
380 BROAD LEAVED BATAVIAN. Broad, thick and slightly wrin¬ kled leaves; form very large heads, which are much used in soups.
Packet, 8 cts.; ounce, 15 cts.; *4 lb., 35 cts.; y2 lb., 60 cts.; lb., $1.10, postpaid. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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Specialties for the Garden That All Should Plant
GOURDS
389 Nest Egg
Resemble — in color, form and size — the eggs of hens; do not crack, and are uninjured by cold or wet. They make the very best nest-eggs. Packet,
10 cts.; ounce, 25 cts.
390 Sugar Trough
By sawing off the upper portion, large dishes or buckets may be made, which are useful for many household purposes. The shell when dried .is thick and hard, extremely light but very durable. Packet,
10 cts.; ounce, 25 cts.
386 Dipper
When grown on the ground the stems will be curved, while if raised as a climbing vine the weight of the blossom end will cause the stem to grow straight. Packet, 10 cts.; ounce, 25 cts.
387 Dishcloth or Luff a
A natural dishcloth, and a most admirable one, is furnished by the peculiar lining of this fruit, which is sponge-like, elastic and durable. Packet, 10 cts.;
“ 30 ^ 388 Finest Mixed
Combination of the most curious, interesting and useful varieties of gourds. Packet,
10 ets.; ounce, 25 cts.
388 Finest Mixed Gourds
EGG PLANT
376 Black Beauty
As large as the New York Improved, but about ten days earlier. The skin is a rich, lustrous purplish black — the satin gloss and rich coloring add greatly to the beauty of these “eggs.” The intensely bril¬ liant coloring is uniform over the whole fruit. Packet, 10 cts.; Vs ounce, 25 cts.; ounce, 45 cts.; % lb., 81.40; y2 lb., 82.70; lb., 85.00; 2 lbs., 89-75, postpaid.
378 New York Improved Spineless
This is an entirely spineless strain of the large purple-fruited, which is the well-known stand¬ ard. The plants are equally as productive, fruits as large and well colored, but stems and calyx are ientirely free from spine. Packet, 10 cts.; Vs ounce, 22 cts.; ounce, 35 cts.; Vl lb., 81.25; Vs lb., 82.35; lb., 84.50; postpaid.
377 CONDON’S New Colossal
It is of large size and extremely good shape, being particularly adapted to slicing, and for flavor it cannot be surpassed. It resists drought, blight and bad weather to a wonderful degree, on account of its strong, upright growth. The fruit often measures 18 to 24 inches in circum¬ ference (6 to 8 inches in diameter) and is borne well above the ground. Packet, 15 cts.; Vs ounce, 40 cts.; ounce, 75 cts.; *4 lb., 82.25; Vs lb., 84.00; lb., 87.50, postpaid.
EGG PLANT
377 Condon’s New Colossal
546 Monarch White Rice
POP CORN
545 Australian Hulless
Also known in some sections as Japanese Rice, Tom Thumb, or Bumble Bee Popcorn. The Australian Hulless
is a dwarf-growing corn, a heavy yielder of attractive ears, peculiar in form, be¬ ing nearly as thick as long. The kernels are similar to the best strains of White Rice, only longer and slimmer and pearly white in color, but its crowning merit lies in its popping quality, fine flavor and absence of hull or shell. Most tender and delicious flavor when popped. Packet, 18 cts.; % lb., 13 cts.; Vs lb., 20 cts.; lb., 35 cts.; 2 lbs., 60 cts.; 5 lbs., 81-25, postpaid.
546 Monarch White Rice
Everybody knows the old variety named White Rice. Our strain is an improvement, with large ears, and the ears are more abundantly produced. Packet, 5 cts.; *4 lb., 10 cts.; Vs lb., 18 cts.; lb.. 30 cts.; 2 lbs., 55 cts.; 5 lbs., 81-20* postpaid.
547 Queen’s Golden
This is perhaps the handsomest of all the popcorns when on the ear, surpassing all others in size and color. It pops perfectly white. A single kernel will expand to a diameter of nearly one inch. Packet, 5 cts.; *4 lb., 10 cts.; Vs lb., 18 cts.; lb., 30 cts.; 2 lbs., 55 cts.; 5 lbs., 81-20, postpaid.
545 Australian Hulless
Pop Corn is a big seller at good prices — Plant some this year.
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Specialties for the Garden That All Should Plant
Brussels Sprouts 295 New Danish Prize
BRUSSELS SPROUTS
A variety of cabbage producing small heads or knobs along the stem, which are cooked like cab¬ bage. Very popular in some mar¬ kets 295 New Danish Prize
This new variety has proven to be a decided advance on anything yet offered, being of half-dwarf, sturdy growth and producing abun¬ dant large solid dark green sprouts which are of excellent quality.
Packet, 10 cts.; ounce, 25 cts.; % ll>.»
85 cts.; y2 lb., $1.40; lb., $2.50, post¬ paid.
294 Half Dwarf Paris Market
This is the most popular Brussels Sprouts on the Parisian market, scarcely exceeding 2 feet in height.
It is of straight habit, with a slight purplish tinge on the leaf stalks, and sometimes on the sprouts them¬ selves when young. Packet, 10 cts.; ounce, 25 cts.; *4 lb., 65 cts.; y2 lb.,
$1.15; lb., $2.25, postpaid.
BORECOLE or KALE
292 Dwarf Green Curled
This is hardier than Cabbage and makes excellent greens for Winter and Spring use. The leaves are as curly as Parsley, tender, and of very fine flavor. It is improved by frost. Sow the seeds in May or June, transplant in July and treat same as Cabbage. Immense quantities of this are grown in the South and shipped to Northern markets. Packet, 5 cts.; ounce, 10 cts.; *4 lb., 32 cts.; y2 lb., 55 cts.; lb., $1.00, postpaid.
COLLARDS ^
349 CHERVIL
Borecole or Ivale
293Tall Green Scotch Curled
This variety is very hardy and is improved by a moderate frost. About thirty inches tall, with an abundance of green leaves, which are densely curled and crinkled. Stands the Winters in the Middle States without protection. Packet, 5 cts.; ounce, 10' cts.; XA lb., 32 cts.; y2 lb., 55 cts.; lb., $1.00, postpaid.
351 Georgia, South¬ ern, or Creole
A variety of cabbage extensively used in the South. We offer the true white or green stemmed sort so exclusively used in the South. Forms a large loose open head, or a mass of leaves on tall stems. Freezing does not injure, but rather im¬ proves their quality. Packet, 5 cts.; ounce, 10 cts.; 3/4 lb., 25 cts.; y2 lb., 45 cts.; lb., 85 cts., post¬ paid.
349 Chervil, Curled
Hardy an¬ nual, worthy of more general use for flavor- i n g and garnishing. Curled va¬ riety more beautiful than parsley. Packet, 10 cts.; ounce, 25 cts., post¬ paid.
353 Peppergrass
CRESS
353 Curled or Peppergrass Cress
This small salad is much used with lettuce* to the flavor of which its warm, pungent taste makes a most agreeable addition.
Packet, 5 cts.; ounce, 10 cts.; *4 lb., 35 cts.; y2 lb., 65 cts.; lb., $1.25, postpaid.
355 True Water Cress
This is quite distinct from the last, and only thrives when its roots and stems are submerged in water. It is one of the most de¬ licious of small salads, and should be plant¬ ed wherever a suitable place can be found. Packet, 10 cts.; ounce, 50 cts., postpaid.
354 New Upland Cress
Has the highly prized flavor of Water Cress. It is so hardy as to be green nearly the whole year, and is ready for use before any other salad in Spring. Its usage should be more general, as it is of as easy culture
spinach. It is a perennial plant and can be grown for several years ewal. Packet, 8 cts.; ts„ postpaid.
352 Corn Salad
CORN SALAD
352 Fetticus or Lamb’s Lettuce
This delightful salad, known as Mache-Steck Salot, is used during the Winter and Spring months as a substitute for lettuce, and is also cooked and used like spinach. In warm weather the plants will mature in four to six weeks. Perfectly hardy, sow in fall for early spring use. Packet, 6 cts.; ounce, 12 cts.; *4 lb., 35 cts.; y2 lb., 65 cts.; 1 lb., $11.25, postpaid.
433 The Mango Melon
Or Vegetable Peach
Another splendid novelty of late introduc¬ tion, very striking in color, most wonderful yielder. Fruit is about the size of an orange, orange-shaped; and a bright orange-yellow color, somewhat russeted. For sweet pickles, pies or preserving they are splendid. Packet, 10 cts.; ounce, 35 cts., postpaid.
384 New Garden Lemon
Certainly one of the greatest novelties of recent introduction. Resembles the Vine Peach in manner of growth, but is distinct in that the unripe fruit is striped with very dark green spots, nearly black, and when ripe is not russeted like the Vegetable Peach. Packet, 10 cts.; ounce, 35 cts., postpaid. _ _
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To have fresh crisp Lettuce all season sow seed every ten days.
CONDON’S “Sure Crop”
418 Condon’s Market
Gardeners’ Early Forcing
LETTUCE C
417 Condon’s l Cabbage Head
Bi§ , ;
Money Maker p»
Gardeners’ * Market King
Originated on our Rock T River Valley Seed Farm and at introduced in 1913. Thousands j of customers will have no other kind. S1
Recommended by critical oi market gardeners as the very best solid heading variety for v Spring or Summer months. It will not scald or burn and will make solid heads where all other sorts fail. Very crisp and tender.
Produces immense heads, 8 to 10 inches across, and as solid as a Cabbage. It blanches beautifully. Crisp, Tender and Delicious. Abso¬ lutely Free from Bitterness.
The Largest-Heading Let¬ tuce of all. It frequently weighs two or three pounds. The head is very solid, of pleasing light green color. As an example of its “standing” properties, perfect Lettuces j were cut from the same bed for upwards of seven weeks.
It is pronounced the finest in cultivation for exhibition pur¬ poses, and for an outdoor all season variety it stands un¬ rivaled. Packet, Id cts.; ounce,
20 cts.; % lb., 60 cts.; y3 lb., 81.10; lb., 82.00; 2 lbs., 83.75;
5 lbs., 88.75, postpaid.
The Great Outdoor Forcing Variety Withstands Extremes of Weather Better Than Any
The earliest, largest, hardiest, crisp, tender, curled Lettuce in cultivation. Quick money maker for the gardener, and for back yard home gardens. We recommend this as the very finest early curled variety. ■
This grand new variety, which we intro¬ duced in 1912, has become very popular with our gardeners. They claim it is superior to the old varieties for green -house forcing, and is equalled by none for outside culture. Makes quick growth, forms large, loose heads, leaves thin, exceedingly tender and very curly. Color light green to golden yellow. Best sort for gardeners. Packet, 10 cts.; ounce, 20 cts.; % lh., 60 cts.; *4 lb., 81.10; lb., 82.00; 2 lbs., 83.75; 3 lbs., 88.75, postpaid.
418 - Condon’s Market Gardeners’ Early Forcing
Please order by number as well as names. It will help us to serve you quicker.
Condon Bros., Seedsmen, Rock River Valley Seed Farm, Rockford, Illinois
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May King; Solid Heading
CONDON’S “Sure Crop” LETTUCE
Grand Rapids
The Standard Variety for Greenhouse Forcing
414 Selected Big Boston —The Old Reliable
Condon’s Special Selected Strain is the Best Obtainable
This variety is especially adapted to greenhouse cul¬ ture in winter. In the great Lettuce-growing centers our strain of this Grand Forcing sort is very largely used, and the product is sold in such large quantities that prices are quoted by the ton. It is superior to and more beautiful in appearance than the Simpson. It is of rapid, upright growth; may be planted close; not liable to rot, standing several days after being ready to cut without injury; retains its freshness a long time after being cut, hence is much sought after by dealers; its quality is very desirable. See photo¬ graph, cut reduced four times. Packet, 7 cts.; ounce, 15 cts.; y4 lb., 45 cts.; y2 lb., 75 $1.40; 2 lbs., $2.70; 5 lbs., $6.25, postpaid.
421 Grand Raimis
May King
Earliest of All Heading Varieties
This is a handsome, extremely early, coin- cabbage or heading variety for the garden and ftiarket, forming very firm heads of medium size and excellent quality. The color is light yellowish green, tinged with reddish brown when mature. The inner leaves blanch rich yellow, very tender and buttery. _ Iant is very compact for so large a head. The variety is exceptionally early tdoors, attaining a size suitable for use other sorts and is also very satis fac¬ tor forcing. Packet, 7 cts.; ounce, 15 y4 lb., 45 cts.; y2 lb., 75 cts.; lb., $1.40; 2 lbs., $2.70; 5 lbs., $6.25, postpaid.
Critical Planters
This market variety is very popular for out¬ door culture and is also in demand as a com¬ pact, large heading, forcing sort for cold- frames. The plants are large, very hardy and vigorous. The leaves are broad, com¬ paratively smooth but wavy at the edge, thin, very hard and crisp. In color they are bright light green, the head slightly tinged with red¬ dish brown. The inner leaves blanch to an attractive greenish white, tinged with light yellow. It heads up under cold weather con¬ ditions better than any other variety, and is grown very extensively in the south for ship¬ ment north in the winter. Packet, 7 cts.; ounce, 15 cts.; V4 lb., 45 cts.; i/2 lb., 80 cts.; lb., $1.45; 2 lbs., $2.75; 5 lbs., $6.30, postpaid.
Common Sense Cultural Directions printed on all packages.
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To grow good crisp Lettuce, soil should be well fertilized.
CONDON’S LETTUCE
Dependable
CONDON’S Improved Hanson
Hot Weather Kind
419 Improved Hanson
Grows to large size and is uniformly sure- heading. Heads v solid and beau blanched, crisp, and tender. One the finest varieties grow for market d ing the summer months. Our stock is unexcelled. Packet, S cts.; ounce, 15 cts.; *4 lb., 40 cts.; % lb., 75 cts.; lb., $1.40; 2 lbs., $2.70; 5 lbs., $6.25, post¬ paid.
TomhannocK
430 Tomhannock
422
Iceberg
Has an unusually solid head. The white main ribs of the leaves curve toward the center, which keep the interior thor¬ oughly bleached. It is quick growing and al¬ ways crisp and tender, whether propagated in early spring or in the hot days of summer. Packet, 10 cts.; ounce, 18 cts.; % lb., 50 cts.; y3 lb,, 95 cts.; lb., $1.75; 2 lbs., $3,35; 5 lbs., $8.00, postpaid.
Handsome Reddish Bronze Edged
This Lettuce does not head — makes a loose bunch of leaves of very fine quality. Edges of the outer leaves are a reddish bronze; within, the leaves are almost white. Very crisp and tender. Packet, 7 cts.; ounce, 15 cts.; % lb., 45 cts.; % lb., 80 cts.; lb., $1.50; 2 lbs., $2.75; 5 lbs., $6.30, postpaid.
424
Immensity
422 Iceberg
416
Batter
This grand Lettuce is claimed to be without exception the very largest lettuce in cultivation. Notwithstanding its great size, it is tender, sweet and crisp. It produces a fine, large, solid head, often 3 feet in circumference and 12 inches in • diameter. It has great heat-resisting qualities, being slow to run to seed, so that it is very reliable for a late crop when many other sorts are unfit for use.
Packet, 5 cts.; oz., 12 cts.; % lb., 30 cts.; y2 lb., 55 cts.; lb., $1.00; 2 lbs.,
$1.90; 5 lbs., $4.50, postpaid.
416
California Cream Butter
Or Royal Summer Cabbage
A very reliable heading sort, with glossy, deep green leaves, the outer ones slightly spotted or splashed with brown. The inner leaves form a large, very solid head, rich light yellow in color, very thick, tender and but¬ tery. Packet, 7 cts.; ounce, 12 cts.; y4 lb., 35 cts.; y2 lb., 65 cts.; lb., $1.25; 2 lbs., $2.40; 5 lbs., $5.60, postpaid.
Los Angeles Market or New York Special
This is the World’s Famous Head Lettuce grown so extensively in the Imperial Valley of California for Eastern markets. Nearly 6000 carloads shipped last season, valued at approximately $23,000,000.00. First introduced in 1906 and continually improved until our present stock of seed is absolutely dependable and un¬ surpassed. New York Special is particularly adapted to California and the Southwest. For Central -Eastern and Southeastern planting use Condon’s Cabbage Head Iceberg and Big Boston. Pkt., 10 cts.; ounce, 20 cts.; i/4 lb,, 65 cts.; y2 lb., $1.20; lb., $2.30; 2 lbs., $4.50; 5 lbs., $10.75, postpaid.
or New York Special
WnTlfC Market Gardeners
llU I ILL Special Prices
pages 188 to 192
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Condon Bros., Seedsmen, Rock River Valley Seed Farm, Rockford, Illinois.
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CONDON’S
Sure Crop” LETTUCE
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415 Black Seeded Simpson
«* Black Seeded Simpson
Extra Selected Strain
One of the best for sowing out¬ doors where an exceedingly tender leaf is desired and for those mar¬ kets which demand a very large loose clustering sort. The color is an attractive light yellowish green. It is used also for growing under glass or in frames. The leaves are ruffled and blistered and even the large outer ones are very tender. This curly and thin-leaved, bunch¬ ing variety is uniformly attractive and remains of excellent quality a very long time. Packet, 8 cts.; ounce, 18 cts.; *4 lb** 45 cts.; y2 lb., 80 cts.; lb., $1.50; 2 lbs., $2.75; 5 lbs., $0.30, postpaid.
429 Simpson’s Early Curled
429 Simpson’s Early Curled
A very extensively used early , loose-leaved, or clustering variety. \ The leaves are light green in color, j slightly frilled and much blistered, 4 crisp, sweet and tender. The sort 1 is especially adapted for sowing vL thickly and cutting when the plants M. are young. Packet, 6 cts.; ounce, 12 cts.; *4 lb., 40 cts.; y» lb., 70 cts.; pPlf lb., $1.30; 2 lbs., $2.50; 5 lbs., $6.00, ^ f\ postpaid.
427 Paris White Cos
428 Salamander
428 Salamander
A Very Desirable Head Lettuce
Very extensively used sort of excellent quality for the home garden and mar¬ ket. The variety withstands hot weather remarkably well. It forms a large, com¬ pact, light green plant. The leaves are broad, thick, somewhat crumpled and closely overlapping so that the inner ones are very finely blanched. Packet, 7 cts.; ounce, 12 cts.; 14 lb., 35 cts.; y2 lb., 65 cts.; lb., $1.25; 2 lbs., $2.40; 5 lbs., $5.75, post¬ paid.
427 Paris White
Cos
Cos Lettuce is distinct from other varieties, in having long, narrow, spoon-shaped leaves, fold¬ ing into loose, sugar-loaf shaped heads which blanch better by having the outer leaves drawn about them and tied. Packet, 7 cts.; ounce, 12 cts.; y4 lb., 35 cts.; y2 lb., 65 cts.; lb., $1.25; 2 lbs., $2.40; 5 lbs., $5.75, postpaid.
425 Black Seeded Big Boston
42s Black Seeded Big Boston
Or Lapp’s Black Seeded Cabbage Head
This new cabbage heading lettuce is an improved black- seeded strain of the famous Big Boston. Producing larger white heads, which are always tender and crisp, more compact and will stand shipping better than Big Boston. Excellent for forcing in the greenhouse, hot bed or cold frames also for growing in the open ground spring or fall. Packet, 7 cts.; ounce, 15 cts.; % lb., 45 cts.; y* lb., 80 cts.; lb., $1.45; 2 lb^.,
$2.75; 5 lbs., $6.30, postpaid.
0 Early Prizehead
Reddish Bronze Edged
A large, clustering, nonhead¬ ing lettuce, most excellent for the home garden and undoubt¬ edly the most easily grown variety in cultivation. It is too tender, however, to stand ship¬ ping or handling on the mar¬ ket. The leaves are finely curled and crumpled, bright green tinged with brownish red, and are very crisp, tender and sweet. Packet, 7 cts.; ounce, 15 cts.; *4 lb., 45 cts.; % lb., 80 cts.; lb., $1.50; 2 lbs., $2.75; 5 lbs., $6.30, postpaid.
420 Early Prizehead (Red Edge) Curled
Common Sense Cultural Directions printed on every package.
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CONDON’S “Perfection” MUSK
The Ideal Melon for Any Market
as
Sweet
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CONDONES Perfection
The King Melon
437 CONDON’S Perfection
The Earliest, Sweetest, Largest and Best Salmon Flesh Melon
You will find in this grand melon the acme of perfection in the salmon flesh varieties. The original type of this new melon was first located in our field of Osage, where we found by close comparison it surpassed this excellent variety, as it did all others. Weighs from 6 to 8 pounds; exceedingly thin skin, deep flesh, ripening very close to rind. Very small seed cavity, firmly netted, distinctly ribbed, very firm and solid both on blossom and stem end. Never known to crack open. Flesh is deep Sal¬ mon color, very thick meat, sweet, sugary and delicious. This grand Melon sold this year on the local market at 25c each when other varieties were selling at 10c and 15c. The gardeners who grew Condon’s Perfection were always sold out and gone before other varieties would sell at any price. Try it yourself. See photograph above. Packet, 10 cts.; ounce, 22 cts.; *4 lb., 60 cts.; y2 lb., $1.10; lb $2.00; 2 lbs., $3.80'; 5 lbs., $9.00, postpaid. *
449 Extra Early Hackensack
Produces melons two weeks earlier than the old Hack¬ ensack; heavily netted, and has light green flesh of most delicious flavor; a splendid Cantaloupe melon. Its shape
and solidity admit of its being packed very closely in crates for shipment, and it will keep in good condition for several days after picking. Large, fine form; grown also for the home garden very extensively. Packet, 5 cts.; ounce, 10 cts.; % lb., 30 cts.; % lb., 55 cts.; lb., $1.00 2 lbs., $1.85; 5 lbs., $4.25, postpaid.
446 Golden Cassaba or Winter
It
“The Great Christmas Melon”
is extensively grown throughout the Southwest for
449 Extra Early Hackensack
shipping to our Eastern markets, and sold at such very high prices during the early winter months. The melons are nearly globular in shape, bright yellow with golden tint and wrinkled skin. Measures 6 to 8 inches in diam¬ eter. Flesh is white, thick, and of delicious flavor. Packet, 10 cts.; ounce, 22 cts.; % lb., 60 cts.; % lb., $1.10; lb., $2,00; 2 lbs., $3.80; 5 lbs., $9.00, postpaid.
Common Sense Cultural Directions Printed on every package.
Condon's Bug Finish, Slug Shot or Bug Death are sure to get the striped beetles.
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434 The Great Banana Melon
The Most Delicious Flavored Melon in Cultivation
It looks and tastes like a Banana. It is not a curiosity, but instead a wonderful Home Melon and a great Money Maker in any market. Fancy specimens often selling at 50c to 75c apiece. The flesh is nearly solid (Orange Color) attaining length of 20 to 28 inches. Put in a small patch this year for your own use and any you don’t eat you can sell at a big price. Pkt., 10 cts.; oz., 15 cts.; % lb., 35 cts.; *4 lb., 65 cts., lb., $1.25; 2 lbs., $2.30'; 5 lbs., $5.50, postpaid.
445 Genuine Tip Top
Market Gardeners’ Big- Money Maker.
! Used almost exclusively as a large “orange flesh” Melon by the large melon growers of Ft. Wayne and Indianapolis, Ind., Columbus and Toledo, Ohio, Rochester, New York, and many other large centers. Our seed is the originator’s strain, highly improved and “Guaranteed” to please the most exacting- planter. The melon is large size, evenly ribbed and fairly well netted, outside color pea green. It is a strong grower, almost blight resistant, heavy yielder and of handsome ap¬ pearance. Flesh is beautiful orange color, very thick and solid, edible almost to the rind. Matures in 80 to 85 days. Our strain produces very uniform fruit, all of which large or small are excellent quality and sell at big prices in the market places. Try it. Pkt., 8 cts.; oz., 15 cts.; % lb., 35 cts.; y2 lb., G5 cts.; lb., $1.25; 2 lbs., $21.30; 5 lbs., $5.50; postpaid.
441 Lake Champlain SFi”h"
One of the earliest melons. Matures in 60 days. Flesh is deep, very sweet, golden yel¬ low color, moderately netted. Excellent for home market or nearby shipping points. Will ripen even in the most extreme north- - ern sections. Our seed is not surpassed by any on the market. Pkt., 10 cts.; oz., 22 cts.; % lb., 60 cts.; y2 lb., $1.10; lb., $2.00; 21 lbs., .$3.80; 5 lbs., $9.00, postpaid.
443
Bender’s Surprise
Oval
Shape
Medium early, thick, deep orange colored flesh, deliciously sweet and of high flavor. Vines very productive, producing crop in 75 to 80 'days. Melons average 10 to 15 pounds each. Pkt., 8 cts.; oz., 15 cts.; 14 lb., 45 cts.; Vz lb., 80 cts.; lb., $1.50; 2 lbs., $2.80; 5 lbs., $6.50, postpaid.
442 Emerald Gem
One of the Very Best for Home Gardens.
Very early. A richly flavored melon, salmon colored flesh, which is almost crystal in appearance, the flavor being rich, very sweet and lus¬ cious. The skin is quite smooth, and of a beautiful deep green color. This variety is very prolific and is one of the most valuable sorts in cultivation. Pkt., 5 cts.; oz., 10 cts.; % lb.,
30 cts.; y2 lb., 50 cts.; lb., 90 cts.; 2 lbs.,
$1.70; 5 lbs., $4.00, postpaid.
444 Famous Honey Dew
Its delicious honey-like flavor makes it the sensational melon of the age; single fruits often selling at $1.00 each. Melons average 10 to 15 lbs., very smooth, nearly round. Flesh pea green 2% inches thick. Sweet as honey and similar flavor. Pkt., 10 cts.; -oz., 18 cts.; % lb., 45 cts.; V2 lb., SO cts.; lb., $1.50; 2 lbs., $2.80; 5 lbs., $6.50, postpaid.
444 Honey Dew
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MU SK MELONS 439 Condon’s Select Osage
(Also Known as Millers Cream)
40 Years a Standard and Better Today Than Ever
439 Condon’s Select True Osage
Condon’s Select Osage Musk Melon needs no introduc¬ tion to melon producing centers, for it is today and has been for many years considered the best all around Mid-Season salmon flesh melon for home or market. It is used almost exclusively in Michigan for shipping to the Chicago Market, and when we tell you we have many growers over there using annually as much as 50 lbs. of this select seed you know the quality is right. Vines vigorous and productive. Fruits slightly oval, dark green, slightly ribbed and partly covered with shallow gray netting. Flesh is rich orange-salmon, very thick, fine grained and highly flavored. No better strain of Osage obtainable anywhere on earth. Pkt., 6 cts.; oz„ 12 cts.; *4 !*>., 35 cts.; lb., 65 cts.; lb., $1.25; 2 lbs., $2.36; 5 lbs., $5.56, postpaid.
447 Hearts of Gold
The Best Early Salmon Flesh Gem Melon and Wonderful Money Maker. Just the right size t cut in halves and serve alone or with Ice Crean Flesh is deep orange, extremely thick, fin grained and as sweet as honey. Always fre from stringiness — closely netted — very solid — al most blight proof. We never have enough this seed to go around so order early please. Pkt 16 cts.; ounce, 15 cts.; *4 lb., 42 cts.; lb., 7 cts.; lb., $1.45; 2 lbs., $2.76; 5 lbs., $6.21 postpaid.
436 Condon's Delicious
436 Condon’s Delicious Gold Lined Cantaloupe
Or Eden’s Gem, slightly oval, heav ily netted, no ribs. Thick meate< very sweet, and as indicated by nam< delicious flavor. Flesh green wit golden lining next to seed cavits Wonderful shipper and fine earl home melon. Our seed is produce from selected melons and will pleas the most critical planter. Try it. Pkt®Pe; 16 cts.; oz., IS cts.; *4 lb.. 45 cts.; y» lb 86 cts.; lb., $1.56; 2 lbs., $2.86; 5 lbs., $6.51 b: postpaid.
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You can make more easy money per acre raising Musk Melons than
on any other crop.
Condon Bros., Seedsmen, Rock River Valley Seed Farm, Rockford, Illinois.
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CONDON’S Superior “Sure Crop” MUSK MELONS
452 Thorobred Rocky Ford
452 Thorobred Rocky Ford
“The Old Reliable"
There are many types and various titles to the “Rocky Ford.” Prices vary as do the titles. We have the Old Reliable Genuine Thorobred Strain, distinctly ribbed, closely netted, uniform mark¬ ings, solid ends to avoid cracking, and recommend it as the best all round green flesh Melon for market or home use. Our seed is grown especially for seed purposes, saved from only the most per¬ fect fruit. Packet, 5 cts.; ounce, 10 cts.; % lb., 30 cts.; ya lb., 50 cts.; lb., 90 cts.; 2 lbs., $1.70; 5 lbs., $4.00, postpaid.
438 New Honey Ball
438 New Honey Ball
One of the Finest Melons Ever Intro¬ duced. Especially Suited to South¬ ern States for Commercial Planters Shipping North.
Recently introduced, this canta¬ loupe comes to us from Texas, but thrives generally where other melons will ripen. Perfectly round, covered with netting, cross between Honey- dew and Cannonball. It certainly has the good qualities of both and with its keeping and shipping quali¬ ties it will play a large part in the cantaloupe industry. The flesh is greenish, seed cavity extremely small, and edible to the very rind. While very sweet, yet there is some of the spiciness of the green fleshed cantaloupes which is lacking in one of its parents, the Honeydew. Edible in 100 days. Size 6% x 6 V2 inches. Weight, 3 y2 pounds. Packet, 8 cts.; oz., 15 cts.; % lb., 50 cts.; % lb., 90 cts.; lb., $1.75; 2 lbs., $3,30; 5 lbs., .00, postpaid.
448 Improved Green Nutmeg
Extra Early, Very Sweet
A greatly improved strain of the old Green Nutmeg. Fruit of a me¬ dium size, very rich, melting and of exquisite flavor; flesh light green. Very productive. Packet, 6 cts.; ounce, 12; cts.; *4 lb., 30 cts.; y2 lb., 55 cts.; lb., $1.00; 2 lbs., $1.80, post¬ paid'.
Pollock’s,
No. 10-25
*35 Pollock’s No. 10-25 Salmon Tinted Eden Gem
This grand melon is the most desirable type of the Rocky Ford melons and a vast acreage