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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1921
Page
5
A seed catalog blurb promotes GIANT PASCAL CELERY and WINTER QUEEN CELERY varieties for fall and winter use, highlighting large stalks and crisp textures. It also touts other vegetables including DRESS OR PEPPERGRASS, WATER DRESS, and various sweet corn types with notes on flavor, tenderness, and size, plus pricing details.
A catalog-style listing describes cucumber varieties for planting including AVIS PERFECT CUCUMBER and EXTRA EARLY WHITE SPINE. Notes emphasize color retention, crisp flesh, uniform shape, high yields, and suitability for pickling and forcing in outdoor or indoor beds.
The ad lists multiple seed corn varieties including Howling Mor Sweet Corn and Peel Day Sweet Corn with prices per packet and bulk options. It also promotes Golden Bantam Sweet Corn and White Rice types, plus several popcorn hybrids and vegetable seeds such as New York Improved Purple Egg Plant and Black Beauty Egg Plant. Seeds are described with plant height, ear counts, and flavor characteristics, alongside herb seeds and dwarf curled kale recommended for year round garden use.
Seeds and cultivation notes for Kohl Rabi and Leeks from Keister-Hall Seed Company Waterloo Iowa. Details include spacing drills 16 to 18 inches, thinning 4 to 18 inches, sowing when ground can be worked, 8 to 10 weeks maturity, and seed quantities per drill or plant counts. Includes advertising line for garden supplies and Big Boston Head Lettuce.
A catalog-style listing advertises numerous lettuce varieties including Hanson Head, May King, Waxhead, Northern King, Black Seeded Erle, Grand Rapids Leaf, Prizehead Leaf, Northern Queen, Paris White Color Celery Lettuce, Peerless, and other heirloom types. It notes headings, leaf colors, hardiness, and suitability for glass forcing or open-ground growth, with prices and packet sizes. Old-fashioned garden seed notes emphasize flavor, yield, and market appeal.
A catalog snippet describes darker shade melons with red flesh and white seeds, offering seed packets at 5 cents and price per ounce, plus a red seeded citron melon noted for jam use with small dark ring and excellent flavor priced similarly.
Advertises mustard plant varieties with vigor and leaf quality, South market seed color, and prices. Describes Long Green Okra pods 3 to 4 inches long with stringless texture, urged for home gardens and market use. White Velvet Okra noted for attractive white color and tender pods with pricing details.
Watermelons Cole's Early Watermelon listed as a hardy cropper with large oblong fruit, dark green skin and bright scarlet flesh. Prices shown per packet and ounce. Honey Water Melon praised for rich flavor, vigorous vines, good for home gardens, ripening in northern areas with glossy dark green skin and flesh flavor noted as good.
Ornamental gourds for arbors and walls with curved shapes. Bliss American Peas and several dwarf and large-podded varieties—Gem Peas, Laxtonian, Little Marvel, Peter Pan, Nott’s Excelsior—offer tall productivity, early maturity, and high flavor. descriptions note plant height, pod size, and pea quality.
Burrell's Gem muskmelon is a superior orange fleshed shipping melon with dark green rind, deep salmon-orange flesh, six by four inch fruit, highly aromatic and sweet. Banana muskmelon grows 15 to 20 inches long with 4 to 6 inch diameter, mon-colored flesh and rich flavor. Both offered in seed packets with prices.
Catalog notes on extra early peas including Hice’s Extra Early and Alaska, with large smooth white seeds and robust vines. Describes Gradus Prosperity and First and Best Frost Resisting peas, detailing heights, pod sizes, pea counts, and pricing for various pack sizes.
A catalog listing DWARF TELEPHONE OF DAIS and other pea varieties with descriptions, sizes, and prices. It also promotes Hoodoo and Montreal Green Nutmeg muskmelons, Tip Top and Golden Heart melons, and related notes on growth, flavor, and shipping suitability.
A trade-list style overview covers Red Wethersfield, Prizetaker, Southport Globe onions and the Mammoth Silver King, Danvers Yellow Globe, White Portugal. It notes large yields, early maturity, color, skin and flesh quality, storage ability, and typical prices per packet, ounce, and pound.
The Danish Giant cauliflower matures ten to fourteen days after Snowball and Dwarf Erfurt, forms large stone white heads, persists in dry heat, and suits open-ground culture for high yields. Keersons Early Snowball and Early Dware Erfurt offer extra early and large white heads, suitable for close planting and profitable market use. Prices: 5 cts., 02 lb $1.50. 7 oz $1.50. 5 cts., oz $2.50.
A Waterloo farmer learns daily quotations on his products by reading the Waterloo Evening Courier. He has found regular reading costs six dollars for six months or six dollars for a year, claiming the best value is the cheapest option.
Popular Havana type of imported seed for cigars and home growing. 377H Pkt. 5 ets. 378B Pkt. 5 ets. Connecticut seed leaf advertised with fine Havana note and packet numbers.
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