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Title: Farquhar's catalogue : spring 1904
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: R. & J. Farquhar Company Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nurseries (Horticulture) Massachusetts Boston Catalogs Nursery stock Massachusetts Boston Catalogs Vegetables Seeds Massachusetts Boston Catalogs Flowers Seeds Massachusetts Boston Catalogs Aquatic plants Massachusetts Boston Catalogs Trees Massachusetts Boston Catalogs
Publisher: Boston, Mass. : R. & J. Farquhar
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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e sort, almost every plant producing / a fine, large, white head; plants are low with small leaves ^ Early Snowball. Of dwarf habit; heads white and solid; largely grown for early crops.AUTUMN Giant. The finest late variety in cultivation. Vigorous and very large Tilden Bros., Scituate, Mass., write, January 18: The Cauliflower Seed we bought of you last spring did remarkably well, the best in Scituate, and were consideredas good by good judges as any on the street in Boston market. Pulsifer, Savage Cff Co. handle a good many op them. W. II. Teele, West Acton, Mass., writes, October 30: I grow my best Cauliflower year after year from your seed. This year again your seed 7cas the best I hadand I took the special Cauliflower Prize, also the first prize at the Exhibitions of the Mass. Horticultural Society P CAULIFLOWER PLANTS. Ready in June. .25 per dozen: $1.50 per 100. ,85 .20 •75 2.50 7-5o .20 ■*5 3.00 10.00 •05 •15 ■35 1.00 R. & J. FARQUHAR & CO.S SEED CATALOGUE. 9
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Pkt. Oz. M lb. CELERY. (Selert.) Sow the seeds in March or April in a hot-bedor cold frame. As soon as the plants are threeinches high, transplant into a prepared border,setting them four inches apart. When grown sixinches, and fine stockv plants, set in richly man-ured, deep soil, in rows three and a half feetapart, and about nine inches from plant to plant.Water, if dry weather follows transplanting.During the next two months all the attention re-quired is to keep down weeds. Afterwards earthup a little, and continue doing so at intervalsuntil only the tops of the leaves are visible late inautumn. Never hoe or earth up when the plantsar^ wet. One ounce of seed produces about fourtnozisand plants. * Crosbys Original Boston Mar-ket. The finest-flavored varietyin cultivation; solid, crisp, andof excellent, nutty flavor; dwarf,branching habit; blanches per-fectly white; a splendid keeper;fine home-grown seed. The purity and quality of ourseed may be relied upon. Cel-ery is an important

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