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VA'.'-'-iiff 



Long Orange, Improved Long Orange, is another good 

 sort for general purposes, and especially adapted to deep soils. 

 Very productive ; roots smooth and 

 handsome. 



Saint Vallery. — Very straight roots, 

 broad at the top. Of superior quality for 

 table use. Of deep orange color. 



White Belgian. — In this we have a 

 somewhat coarse, but excellent variety for 

 stock, attaining largest size, and for this 

 reason the most productive of all sorts. 

 Grows partly above ground and can be 

 gathered by hand. 



Yellow Belgian, another fine variety 

 for stock, resembles the White Belgian, 

 but is perhaps richer, and less productive. 



White Vosges is introduced as an 

 enormously productive field carrot, 

 adapted for shallow soils. Can be pulled 

 up without the use of tools. Not recommended for the table. 



CATNIP. 



Nepeta cataria. German, Katzminze ; French, Ahnthe de 

 Chat. This perennial weed is quite common here, and more 

 generally considered a nuisance than fit for cultivation. The 

 leaves and young shoots are sometimes used for seasoning, and 

 the plant has valuable medical properties. It is also appre- 

 ciated as a honey-bearing plant, and cultivated on that account. 

 It grows easily from seed sown in drills 18 or 20 inches apart, in 

 almost any soil, and will need little or no attention. 



CAULIFLOWER. 



Brassica Olcracea {Botrytis). German, BlumenkoJil ; French, 

 Choii-fleiir ; Spanish, Coliflor. High culture, deep, rich, moist 

 soil plentifully provided with humus, and cool atmosphere, are 

 the chief requisites for best success with this crop. Nice heads 

 cannot be grown in hot, dry weather and soil ; hence gardeners 

 always aim to have the plants head up either in early summer 

 or in late autumn. For early crop the plants are wintered over 

 in cold frames, or grown in greenhouses or hot-beds during the 

 winter, in the same way as already described for early cabbages ; 

 but being less hardy, they need more protection, by mats, 

 shutters, etc. 



Good cauliflowers always find ready sale at paying prices, 

 ;^i 5.00 to $25,00 per one hundred not being an unusual figure; 

 and for this reason it would be very unwise to attempt econo- 



