Vegetable Garden Seeds for Sale - 1813

DAVID OTT & CO.

In addition to their former supply of

GARDEN SEEDS,

have received the following which they

warrant of good quality, viz.

Early York Cabbage

Early [B]auliflowers,[1]

Late      do[2]

Early Sugar Load,

Large Battersea,

Red Dutch,

                                                     Radishes

Early Scarlet, Salmon, Purple, and Mixed

                                        Carrots

               Orange, Purple, Blood Red.

                              Lettuce Seed

Leaf Lettuce,                  Grand Admiral,

Cabage Lettuce               Dutch Lettuce,

Musk Melon,

Nutmeg  do.

Cluster Cucumber,

Bush Squash,

Leek Seed

And as usual, Drugs and Medicines, wholesale

and retail.

Pennsylvania avenue, Washington.

April 1-st[3]

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[1] Perhaps: Cauliflower

[2] ditto  1620s, Tuscan dialectal ditto "(in) the said (month or year)," literary Italian detto, past participle of dire "to say," from Latin dicere. © 2001-2012 Douglas Harper, On Line Etymology.

[3] Daily National Intelligencer; Date: 04-01-1813; Volume: I; Issue: 78; Page: [3]; Location: Washington (DC).

Transcribed by John Peter Thompson April1, 2013.