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Specialties And Novelties For 1890.

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Red Cross Peanuts.

Peanuts can be grown in Iowa, and everyone should plant a few for themselves and the children. This very desirable variety is as early as the earliest, the most hardy, very prolific, and of the best quality. Boys, here is a chance for you. Think of growing Peanuts in your own garden, and having plenty of them to eat. Plant as soon as the ground becomes warm, from two to three feet apart each way, four or five to the hill, covering two or three inches. The soil should be deep and mellow and well broken up, so as to be ready for planting soon after frosts are over. April is a suitable time. They produce 25 to 70 bushels per acre, and are as easily cultivated as corn. "Splendid to fatten hogs and children." Price, per large package, 10 cts.; lb., postpaid, 50 cts.

Feb. 20, 1889.--The Vine Peaches we got of you last year were very nice. Mrs. J. T. F. Worster, Adel, Iowa.

Page's New Striped Rice Pop-Corn.

This splendid novelty, which is the result of a cross between the best White and Red varieties of the Rice Pop-corn, we have been at work improving for several years, until now we have undoubtedly the best, handsomest, and most attractive variety of Pop-corn in existence. We offered it to our customers in 1887, and it has proved to be an acquisition with which all are pleased. "Beautiful," " Splendid," "It takes the cake," is what they say of it. The color is a clear, translucent white, and each kernel is beautifully striped with bright crimson. The ears are of good size and well filled out. It ripens earlier than any other variety with which we are acquainted; is unsurpassed in productiveness, extremely tender when popped, bursting out very large, white as snow, and of finest quality. All should try it. Per pkt., 10 cts.; pt., 30 cts.; qt., 55 cts.; postpaid.

A New Red-Hot Pepper.
Coral Gem Bouquet.

This is the finest of the small-sized varieties, and makes a very pretty ornamental plant for growing in pots. Its beautiful little pods of shining red color are so thickly set as to give it the appearance of a bouquet of corals, hence its name. As a Pot Plant it has proven a most rapidly selling article. Besides its great beauty, it serves the housekeeper in a most convenient way when pods are wanted for seasoning. In the open ground the plants grow to a height of from 24 to 30 inches, so densely set with pods as to bend its branches down. Flavor hot, and it is most excellent for making pepper-sauce. Each package contains 3 well-cured pods, which contain seeds enough for at least 100 plants. Per pkt., 10 cts.; 3 for 25 cts.

One packet each of the thirty-three vegetable novelties named in our list, amounting to $3.05, for only $2.00.

Wild Cucumber.

A well-known vine, common in many sections, and the quickest climber known, and is undoubtedly the best climber for covering verandas, old trees and houses, trellises, etc.; never suffering from the heat, but retaining its fresh and lively green color; never infested with insects, and very profuse in bloom. It will sow itself and come up every year in the same place. If you want shade for your veranda or porch try a packet of the "Wild Cucumber," and we assure you it will give satisfaction in every particular. Per pkt. 10 cts.