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Title: Seed annual 1906
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: D.M. Ferry & Co Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Seed industry and trade Michigan Detroit Flowers Seeds Vegetables Seeds Nursery stock Gardening Equipment and supplies
Publisher: Detroit, Mich. : D.M. Ferry & Co.
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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f sorts can be planted muchcloser in hills two to three feet apart or in drills two feetapart thinning the plants to about one foot apart in the row.Gather the pods when quite green and about an inch and ahalf long. Whii^ Vi>l%;^i ^ great improvement on the old White TTllllC V«;iV*;i or the Green. The plant is of medium height, bearing a large crop of white, smooth pods which retain their tenderness until nearly fuU size. Pkt. 5c; Oz. 10c; 2 Oz. 15c; % Lb. 20c; Lb. 60c. Perkins Mammoth Lon^ Pod liJr/^.TproS tive. The pods are long, slender, deep green and remain tender much longer than most sorts. Pkt. 5c; Oz. 10c; 2 Oz. loc; H Lb. 20c; Lb. 60c.DWARF WHITE. The longest podded variety; vines two feet high and very productive. Mature pods long, very thick and fleshy. Pkt. 5c; Oz. 10c; 2 Oz. 15c; h Lb; 20c; Lb. 50c.DWARF GREEN. An early and very productive sort. Pods dark green, thick and fleshy. Pkt. 5c; Oz. 10c; 2 Oz. 15c; h Lb. 20c; Lb. 50c. Ferrys Iceberg, KING DF SHIPPING MELDN5
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SEE OPPOSITE PAGE THE CALVERT tlTH.CO-.DETRCHT 40 D. M. FERRY & CO., DETROIT, MICH. Onion not only contains considerable nutriment and has valuable medicinal properties, but is most useful in counter-he bad effects of sedentary life. The disagreeable odor it imparts to the breath may be avoided in a great measui-e Theacting theby thorough cooking, or by eatinga few leaves of parsley. In onion culture, thorough preparation of the ground, careful sowing and the best of after culture, though essential fora full yield, will avail nothing unless seed of the best quality be used. Given the same care and conditions, the product fromtwo lots of onion seed of the same variety but of different quality niay be so unequal in the quantity of merchantable onions,that it would be more profitable to use the good seed though it cost twenty times as much as the other. Our thorough equipment and long experience in growing onion seed of the very best quality, enables us to say withouthesitation that

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