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The Profitable Culture of Vegetables. 



LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS, &c. (continued). 



Page. 



Hot-bed on Top of Ground . . . 129 

 Hot-bed Sunk in Ground . . . .131 

 Arrangement of Cold Frames . . . 132 



The Cloche 133 



Cloche made from Wire and Paper . . 134 

 Calico Screen laid over Willow Wands . 135 

 .Movable Shield, covered with Calico or 



Mats 135 



Glass-covered Plant Protector. . .136 



Box Plant Protector 137 



Glass-covered Trench .... 137 

 Raised Beds, with slope facing south . 138 

 The same converted into Warm Beds . 138 

 Diagram of Planting Raised Beds . . 138 

 Roughly-made Forcing Pit ... 139 



Globe Artichoke 141 



A Good Sample of Globe Artichoke . . 142 



Jerusalem Artichoke 144 



Bundle of Giant Asparagus . . . 145 



Asparagus Knife 150 



Cradle for Bunching Asparagus . . 151 

 Seville Long-pod Bean .... 155 

 Dwarf French Bean . . . . .157 

 Scarlet Runner Bean . . . .160 

 Dell's Dark Crimson Dwarf Beet . . 162 

 Intermediate Moss-curled Kale . . 163 



Sutton's A 1 Kale 164 



Sutton's Snow-white Broccoli . . .165 



Brussels Sprouts 168 



Sutton's Flower of Spring Cabbage . 170 

 Early Etampes Cabbage . . . .171 



Ivory-white Cardoon 173 



Parisian Forcing Carrot .... 175 



Dutch Horn Carrot 176 



James's Scarlet Intermediate Carrot . 177 

 Sutton's Magnum Bonum Cauliflower . 180, 



Early Dwarf Erfurt 181 



Golden Yellow Large Solid Celery . .184 

 Celery after the Second Earthing . . 188 

 Celery Finally Earthed-up . . .189 

 American Method of Tying Celery . . 189 

 Celery planted in Broad Beds . . .190 

 Method of Earthing Celery on Broad Bed 191 

 Celery Stored in Frame .... 192 

 Method of Blanching Celery with Mats . 193 

 Market Bundle of Celery .... 195 

 Celeriac, or Turnip-rooted Celery . . 196 



Chicory (Whitloef) 197 



Diagram showing intercropping of Cab- 

 bage and Colewort 199 



Rollinson's Telegraph Cucumber . . 200 

 Sutton's Every-day Cucumber . . 201 

 Diagram showing Method of Making 



Cucumber or Melon Bed . . . 204 

 Green Giant Ridge Cucumber . . .207 

 Green Curled Paris Endive . . .209 

 Ruffec Green Curled Endive . . , . 210 



Horse-radish - . 215 



London Broad Flag Leek . . . .216 

 Hammersmith, or Hardy Green Winter 



Cabbage Lettuce 218 



Sutton's Heartwell Cabbage Lettuce . 219 

 Sutton's Whiteheart Cos Lettuce . . 220 

 Large Rock Prescott Canteloup Melon . 225 

 Melons in the open-air, mid July . . 227 



Mushrooms 231 



Ridge-shaped Mushroom Bed . . . 235 

 Movable Mushroom Bed on Flat Board . 240 

 Movable Mushroom Bed against a Wall. 240 

 Mustard and Cress, in Punnets . . 243 



Giant Zittau Onion 244 i 



Double-curled Dwarf Parsley . . . 253 ; 



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 Hollow-crowned Parsnip .... 255 



Gradus Pea 256 



Gladstone Pea 257 



Potatoes, Sprouting in Tray . . . 270 

 Potato Trays, stacked .... 271 

 Seed Potatoes, sprouted .... 271 

 Section of Potato Clamp . . . .280 

 French Breakfast Radish .... 284 

 Scarlet White-tipped Turnip Radish . 284 



Forced Rhubarb 287 



Salsify, or Vegetable Oyster . . .295 

 Sutton's Best of All Savoy Cabbage . 296 



Seakale, blanched 298 



Diagram showing method of intercrop- 

 ping with Seakale . . . .301 

 Forcing Pit for Seakale, partly made . 305 

 The same, showing part of crop . . 305 



True Shallot 309 



Jersey or False Shallot . . . .309 

 Lettuce-leaved Spinach . . . .311 

 Viroflay Giant Spinach . . . .312 

 Large Prickly or Winter Spinach . . 313 

 New Zealand Spinach .... 315 



Spinach Beet 316 



Royal Sovereign Strawberry . . .317 



Strawberry Runner 320 



Right and Wrong Way to Plant Straw- 

 berries . . . . . . .325 



Two Methods of Layering Strawberries 330 

 Proper Method of Re-potting Straw- 

 berries, from small to large pots . 332 



The Tomato 336 



Cold Frames in which Tomato plants 



for the open-air are grown during May 343 

 Typical bunch of Carter's Sunrise 



Tomato 353 



Sunrise Tomato, grown against a fence 354 

 Sutton's Early Snowball Turnip . . 357 

 Half-long White Forcing Turnip . . 358 

 Half-long White Jersey Navet . . .359 

 Early Six-weeks, or Jersey Lily Turnip 360 

 White Trailing Marrow . . . .363 

 Long White Bush Marrow . . .364 



Cabbage Aphis 407 



The Large Cockchafer . . . .408 

 Daddy Long-legs or Crane Fly . . 408 



Diamond-back Moth 409 



Turnip Flea- Beetle 409 



Millipedes and Centipedes . . . 410 



Slugs and Snails 411 



Surface Caterpillars , . . . 413 



Skip-jack Beetles and Wireworm . . 413 

 Asparagus attacked by the Beetle . . 416 

 Bean Aphis or Black Dolphin . . .417 

 Large White Cabbage Butterfly . . 418 

 Carrot Fly and Maggot . . . .420 

 Celery and Parsnip Fly and Maggot . 421 

 Onion Fly and Maggot .... 422 

 Pea and Bean Thrips .... 423 

 Pea and Bean Weevils . . . .423 

 Asparagus affected by Rust . . , 424 

 Bean Pods, showing Canker . . . 425 

 Turnip attacked by Finger-and-Toe . 426 

 Diseased Mushrooms .... 428 

 Onion attacked by Mildew . . . 429 

 Potatoes affected with Black Scab or 



Wart Disease 430 



Diseased Leaf and Tuber of Potatoes . 431 



Potato Leaf Curl 432 



Potato Tubers infected with Scab . . 433 

 Potato Tuber attacked by Winter Rot . 434 

 Sclerotium Disease 434 



