EGG PLANT 
1 ounce will produce 1,000 plants. 
Sow in March in hotbeds, and transplant when 2 inches high into a second 
hotbed, or let them remain and thin out to 4 inches apart. When the weather 
becomes settled, transplant into the open ground $ feet apart each way. Good 
culture is quite as important as good seed. Work the ground deep, make it rich 
with well-rotted manure and hoe often. 
Black Beauty The most beautiful and earliest of all large Egg Plants. 
Florida High Bush 
Very vigorous and productive; of upright growth 
purple of oblong shape. 
New Hampshire Hybrid 
an extra early, yet good size, Black Beauty type. 
All American Silver Medal 1939. 
uniform and yields a heavy crop of extra early fruits. 
CHIVES 
Chives are a small hardy perennial plant, resembling the 
onion in appearance and growing in clusters. They are 
grown for the young leaves, which are produced freely from 
early in the spring and give a mild onion flavor to sausage, 
salads and various dishes. 
CORN SALAD 
1 ounce will sow 20 square feet; 6 pounds to the acre. 
Ackersalad Large Seeded Dutch. A vegetable used as 
a salad. It is sown in the opening of 
spring in rows 1 foot apart, and is fit to use in 6 or 8 weeks 
from sowing. If wanted in early spring, sow in September; 
cover with straw as soon as cold weather sets in. Can be 
grown in cold frames, covered with straw mats or shutters, 
and used any time during the winter. 
Endive—Full Heart 
18 J. MANNS & CO., Baltimore, Md. 
holding the fruit well off the ground; color light 
The New Hampshire Agricultural Experi- 
ment Station developed 
hybridizing Black Beauty and Early Dwarf Purple for the purpose of obtaining 
The resulting hybrid won the 
It is nearly as large as Black Beauty, very 
this variety by 
Black Beauty Egg Plant 
DANDELION 
Arlington Strain forming a tuft of large, stocky, 
thick-leaved plants, white-ribbed. 
1 ounce to 100 feet of drill, 3 pounds to the acre. 
, Plants moderately dense; leaves 
Ever White Curled coarser than those of the Green 
Curled, but the mid-rib is yellow and the leaves almost white. 
Broad-leaved Batavian 
light green. 
The most 
Full Heart Batavian (Escarolle ) idclomncen 
variety of Endive; an improved Broad Leaved Batavian with 
thicker and broader heads; matures slightly earlier, requir- 
ing only 90 days from sowing of seed to heading. 
Green Curled desirable for the home and market gar- 
den. The deep green leaves are beautifully cut and curled, 
easily blanched, and become very crisp, tender and fine- 
FENNEL 
(FLORENCE) 
(Finocchia) In great demand with Italian trade and de- 
serves to be more generally used. The leaf stalks are clus- 
tered in a bulb-like formation, and when these are about 1% 
inches wide, the plants should be hilled up to about half 
their height. 
(Escarolle) Leaves broad 
and almost plain; color 
This is the hardiest variety, and very 
PRICES 
Variety 
CHIVES 
CORN SALAD 
Ackersalad 
DANDELION 
EGG PLANT 
Black Beauty 
Florida High Bush 
Long Italian .... ; 
New Hampshire Hybrid 
ENDIVE 
Broad-leaved Batavian 
Ever White Curled 
Full Heart Batavian 
Green Curled 
Florence 
Superior Seeds 
