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Long Green Turkey, This is a very distinct sort, 

 slightly curved at the stem, measuring, when full grown, 

 15 or 16 inches ; it is perhaps the firmest and best flavored 

 of alt Cucumbers, and as it has but few seeds, can be used 

 older than most others. 



Early Cluster. A much esteemed early variety, grow 

 ing in clusters and extremely productive ; its color is blue- 

 ish-green, shading lighter at the extremities. 



EGG PLANT. (Solanum Melongena.) 



The cultivation of the Egg Plant, from its extreme ten- 

 derness, is, in its early stage, attended perhaps with more 

 trouble than any vegetable of our gardens. A native of 

 Tropical America, it at all times requires a high tempera- 

 ture ; for this reason, in this latitude, the seeds had better 

 not be sown in the hot-bed until first week in April, and 

 even then a steady bottom heat is necessary to a healthy 

 development, and there should be warm covering at night 

 over the sashes. I have always found that in tender 

 plants of this kind, there was nothing gained by starting 

 early, even though by great care the plants are carried 

 through the cold season. By the time they can be planted 

 in the open ground, about June first, those started first 

 of March, would be no larger than those started first of 

 April, besides being harder both in roots and leaves, in 

 which condition they are far inferior to the younger plants 

 that have been raised with less than half the labor. 



The soil in which Egg Plants are to be grown can 

 hardly be too rich, for it is a plant that will generally re 



