126 EVERT WOMAN HER OWN FLOWER GARDENER. 



Okra. 



The Improved Dwarf Green is better for home culture than the com- 

 mon variety usually grown ; it is also earlier, and is equally productive. 

 The green pods of this vegetable are used in making the famous " Gumbo" 

 of the southern States ; and are always desirable for every kind of soup. 



Onions. 



Yellow Danvers has long held first rank for family use; but now the 

 seedsmen offer us rare imported varieties from Italy. Early White Naples 

 is a distinct variety, of mild flavor ; often the bulbs will weigh a pound; 

 white skins, and very tender. New Giant Rocca, of Naples, has a brown 

 skin, delicate flavor, and bulbs were exhibited in England which weighed 

 three and a half pounds. Large Italian Eed Tripoli, flavor mild and 

 pleasant ; bulbs have grown to weigh two and a half pounds. 



Peas. 



Landreth's Extra Early is said to be the earliest for garden use, and 

 the best. Philadelphia Extra Early is also desirable ; but with some 

 seedsmen only another name for Landreth's. Little Gem is very dwarf, 

 and of fine flavor; grows only one foot high. Hundred-fold, or Cook's 

 Favorite, is a first-class variety; early, and very prolific. Laxton's 

 Supreme is the earliest wrinkled pea, and has the largest pods of any 

 kind. The Champion is a late variety, but very luxuriant, and much 

 the best family sort raised. 



Parsnips. 



A new variety of these vegetables, called the Student, is much sweeter, 

 and pleasanter in flavor, than the older kinds. 



Potatoes. 



Early Rose is as yet unsurpassed for table purposes, both in its early 

 ripening, and its prolificness. Peerless is decidedly the best late potato 

 in cultivation ; grows a very large size, is of pearly whiteness, and very 

 delicious flavor; it surely is the ne plus ultra of Potatoes. Jersey 

 Peach Blows are always good, but do not yield so plentifully. 



Peppers. 



Sweet Mountain Peppers should be grown in every garden, to flavor 

 the pickles. Large Bell are early and not as acrid as other kinds. 



Cayenne are quite small, cone-shaped, coral-red when ripe. Good for 

 pepper sauce. 



