EGG PLANT 



1 onnce 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 3 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. 



Mammoth Smooth Stem ^ decided improvement on the New York 



Large Purple in quality, size and beauty. 

 The plants are large and vigorous, leaves of a light green shade, stem smooth, 

 fruit large, oval, early and of a fine deep purple. 



Black Beauty The most beautiful and earliest of all large Egg Plants. 



Very vigorous and productive; of upright growth 

 holding the fruit well off the ground; color light 



il 



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Florida High Bush 



purple of oblong shape. 



New York Improved Purple ^\^^ 8i>aped, thomiess, dark purpi 



*^ *^ color, and rich flavor. 



Black Beauty Egg Plant 





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 ^■''*f* 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. 



DANDELION 



Aflinntrtn Q-ffnin The best market garden strain, 

 JV^rUngiOn ^irain farming a tuft of large, stocky! 

 thick-leaved plants, white-ribbed. 



ENDIVE 



1 ounce to 100 feet of drill, 3 pounds to the acre. 



Ever White Curled P^^"*^ moderately dense; leaves 



coarser than those of the Green 

 Curled, but the mid-rib is yellow and the leaves almost white. 



Broad-leaved Batavian ^!^f "i^ilf^ ^^^^1^. ^Z^^. 



ana almost plain; color 

 light green. 



Full Heart Batavian (Escarolle) ^^jeiyVsed 



variety of Endive; an improved Broad Leaved Batavian with 

 thicker and broader iieads; matures slightly earlier, requir- 

 ing only 90 days from sowing of seed to heading. 



This is the hardiest variety, and very 

 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- 

 flavored. 



Green Curled 



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. 



Endive— Full Heart 



PRICES 

 Variety Pkt. 



CHIVES 10 



CORN SALAD 



Ackersalad 10 



DANDELION 



Arlington Strain 10 



Italian (Ciccoria Catalogna) . .10 

 EGG PLANT 



Black Beauty 10 



Florida High Bush 10 



New York Improved Purple 10 



Long Italian 10 



Mammoth Smooth Stem 10 



ENDIVE 



Broad-leaved Batavian 10 



Ever White Curled 10 



Full Heart Batavian 10 



Green Curled 10 



FENNEL 

 Florence 



Oz. 



.35 



MLb. 

 1.10 



Lb. 

 4.00 



.15 



.35 



1.25 



.35 

 .20 



1.25 

 .60 



4.50 



1.85 



.30 

 .30 

 .30 

 .30 

 .30 



1.00 

 1.00 

 1.00 

 1.00 

 1.00 



3.50 

 3.50 

 3.50 

 3.50 

 3.50 



.15 

 .15 

 .15 

 .15 



.30 

 .30 

 .30 

 .30 



1.00 

 1.00 

 1.00 

 1.00 



l.T 



.35 



1.25 



18 



J. MANNS & CO., Baltimore, Md. 



Superior Seeds 



