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well grown, are as straight as an arrow. They are called frame varieties, be- 

 cause much cultivated in frames or under glass. Some of the hardiest do 

 well in America, if coaxed a little early in the season under boxes covered 

 with glass, as recommended for our hardy sorts. The Long Green Southgate 



and the Stockwood we have found the best for the garden in this latitude, but in 

 the south we have no doubt all would succeed admirably. Some persons think 

 because these foreign sorts are large, that they are coarse and scarcely eatable. 

 This is a mistake. They are fine-grained and very solid, having very few seeds, 

 sometimes not more than half-a-dozen perfect seeds in a fruit. Seed, there^ 

 fore, is always scarce and dear. 



EGG PLANT. 



A tender plant, requiring starting in the hot-bed pretty early to mature its 



fruit in the northern states. The seed 

 may be sown with tomato seed ; but 

 more care is necessary at transplanting, 

 to prevent the plants being chilled by 

 the change, as they seldom fully recover. 

 Hand-glasses are 



useful for cover- 

 ing at the time 



of transplanting. 



Those who have 



no hot - bed can 



sow a few seeds in 



boxes in the house. 



There are various 

 modes of cooking, but the most common is to cut in 

 slices, boil in salt and water, and then fry in batter or 

 butter. There are several varieties, but the largest and 

 best of all is the Improved New York Purple, an engraving of which we give. 

 The Early Long Purple is the earliest, and valuable on that account, and aljout 

 eight or nine inches in length. There is an early round variety called Kound 

 Purple, and there are several very pretty sorts more ornamental than useful. 



KOHL EABI. 



Intermediate between the cabbage and the turnip we 

 have this singular vegetable. The stem, just above the 

 surface of the ground, swells into a bulb something like 

 a turnip, as shown in the engraving. Above this are the 

 leaves, somewhat resembling those of the Ruta Baga. 

 The bulbs are served like turnips, and are very delicate 

 and tender when young, possessing the flavor of both 

 turnip and cabbage, to some extent. In Europe they 

 are extensively grown for stock, and are thought to keep better than the tur- 

 nip, and impart no unpleasant taste to milk. Seed sown for a general crop, 

 in the spring, like the turnip, in drills ; or may be transplanted like cabbage. 

 Eor winter table use, sow middle of June. One advantage claimed for the 



