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A SELECTION OF KITCHEN-GARDEN SEEDS 

 AND ROOTS. 



Asparagus. — There is but one sort, no 

 matter under what name it is offered. 



Broad Beans. — Mazagan for the first crop ; 

 Heck's Green Gem and Royal Dwarf Cluster 

 1- for growing in frames and pots ; Common 

 Long-pod for a great crop ; Taylor's Broad 

 sort for finest quality ; Monarch for exhibition. 

 .Beef.— Nutting's Dwarf Red, Stuart and Mein's Short-top. 

 For the flower-garden, Osborn's Dark, and Barr and Sugden's New 

 Crimson. 

 Brussels Sprouts. — Roseberry, Scrymger's Giant. 

 Borecole. — Common Green Scotch is fine ; Gibbs's Parsley-curled is extremely 

 handsome ; Cottagers' Kale, very hardy and productive ; Albert Sprouts come in 

 when other sorts are scarce. 



Broccoli. — For a succession, Snow's Winter White, Early Penzance, Beck's 

 Dwarf White, Hammond's Imperial Hardy, Cattell's Eclipse, Walcheren. 

 Cauliflower. — London White, Asiatic. 



Carrot. — For frames, French Short Horn ; for early sowing on slopes, Common 

 Scarlet Shoit Horn ; for main crop, Surrey ; for shallow soils, James's Intermediate ; 

 for a great crop, Altringham. 



Callage. — Little Pixie and Rosette Colewort are the best to sow at all seasons, 

 and to plant anywhere, to cut any size ; the best for long standing and heavy crops 

 are Enfield Market, Nonpareil, and Cattell's Reliance. 



Celery. — Ivery's Nonsuch, Red ; Turner's Incomparable White, for fine quality ; 

 for large crops take Manchester Red and Cole's Crystal White. 



Cucumber. — One of the best for winter and early spring use is Rollisson's Tele- 

 graph ; for general usefulness, Cuthill's Black Spine and Hamilton's Market 

 Favourite ; for exhibition, Kirklee's Hall Defiance, Hamilton's Invincible, Model of 

 Perfection, and Abbey's Garden Prize. 



Capsicum. — Long Red and Long Yellow are the two most useful. A pretty 

 group of six for exhibition are Long Red, Long Yellow, Red Giant, Green Giant, 

 Yellow Giant, and Tomato-shaped Red. 



Endive. — Green Curled, White Batavian, and New Moss-curled. 

 Kidney Beans. — For pot culture the best are Fulmer's Forcing and Newington 

 Wonder ; for main crop, Newington Wonder, Negro, and Red Speckled. The best 

 Runners are common Scarlet and White Dutch. 

 Leek. — Musselburgh, Ay ton Castle. 



Lettuce. — For autumn sowing to cut in winter and spring, Hammersmith and 

 Brown Cos ; for summer use, Tom Thumb Cabbage, Ne Plus Ultra Cabbage, Bath 

 Cos, Sugar-loaf Cos. 



Melon. — For pot culture, Sutton's Tom Thumb and Turner's Scarlet Gem ; for 

 frame and house culture, The Sultan, Ward's Scarlet Flesh, Trentham Hybrid, 

 Cuthill's Scarlet ; for size, Ciiencester Favourite must take the lead. 



Onion. — For frames and warm slopes, also for pickling. Early Nocera, Paris 

 Silver Skin ; main crop for storing, Deptford, James's Keeping, Bedfordshire 

 Champion ; for exhibition, White Spanish, Trebons, Giant Madeira, Red and White 

 Tripoli, Blood Red, Globe Tripoli. 

 Parsnips. — Hollow Crown. 



Feas. — First and second early, Sutton's Ringleader, Sangster's No. 1, Advancer 



(rather tender in constitution, but invaluable), Nelson's Vanguard, Paradise Marrow ; 



main crop and long gathering, Fortyfold, McLean's Wonderful, Veitch's Perfection, 



Ne Plus Ultra, British Queen ; for pot culture, Little Gem, Tom Thumb. 



Parsley. — Dickson's Treble-curled and anybody's Imperial. 



Radish. — For frames, Early Forcing Turnip (red and white), Wood's Early 



