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For 1891 Rice's novelties in vegetables. Marblehead mammoth cabbage



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    Rice’s novelties in vegetables for 1891

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    Image of a young girl clutching a giant bunch of celery in an advertisement for Rice's seeds; large salsify with a label featuring a bunch of salsifies and identifying it as the "Mammoth Sandwich Island" variety; row of celery plants being cultivated at bottom center; man in a jacket and top hat hawking wares next to a partial view of the United States Capitol with "Rice" lettered on the dome at top center.

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  • Try Rice's seeds 99 in 100 warranted to head

    Try Rice's seeds 99 in 100 warranted to head

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    Image of a man with a pipe clutching at an oversized cabbage plant in an advertisement for Rice's seeds.

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  • Rice's popular flower seeds

    Rice's popular flower seeds

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    Image of five young boys and girls playing and gathering flowers in baskets near a small wood table and chair in a field in an advertisement for Rice's seeds; flowers in margins.

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  • "Make no mistake" buy Rice's popular flower seeds

    "Make no mistake" buy Rice's popular flower seeds

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    Image of a woman in a long dress holding a flower seed packet leaning over a basket spilling over with blooming pansies in an advertisement for Rice's seeds.

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  • Try Rice's seeds contended for, by all quarters of the globe : Cambridge Washington, Co. N.Y

    Try Rice's seeds contended for, by all quarters of the globe : Cambridge Washington, Co. N.Y

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    Image of center image plus four vignettes on fans featuring oversized produce in an advertisement for Rice's Seeds; four men of various nationalities, including an American, a man in a turban, and an African-American, all tugging on an oversized basket of fruit and vegetables at center; an elderly woman in a lace cap with her dog reacts with shock at a large "Hubbard Squash" in her house; two men in ancient Egyptian garb examine a huge "New Egyptian Beet" near columns; an oversized "Striped Gypsy Water Melon" (watermelon) is consumed by a group of men and women; two children carry a giant tomato between them in a field.

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    Rice's seeds bring forth the bounty of the earth

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    Image of a woman in diaphanous robes scattering flowers from her arms while seated on a horn of plenty in the clouds in an advertisement for Rice's seeds; fruit and vegetables spill from the cornucopia below; large-scale map of the world showing North America in background.

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