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GENERAL REMARKS. 



TABLE AND EXPLICATION. 



*^* In order to aid the novice in gardening, the following 

 brief classification of such species and varieties as comprise 

 our catalogue of vegetable seed is submitted, and it is pre- 

 sumed that the connecting links, and explication of this table, 

 •\vill not be altogether uninteresting to the experienced gar- 

 dener and seedsman. 



In explication of the table, it may be necessary first to 

 premise, that in the classification, as regards the germinating 

 powers of different kinds of seed, it is conceded that if some 

 of those denominated medium were put upon an e({iial foot- 

 ing with some of the class denominated quick-growing, tliey 

 would vegetate in about the same time. For instance, Peas 



