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SALSIFY. 



German, Ilaferwurzel. French, Salsifis, 



Commonly called Vegetable Oyster. Used stewed, boiled or fried. When cooked has an oyster 

 flavor. Sow early in drills fifteen inches apart; cover the seeds with fine soil, an inch and a half 

 deei). An ounce will sow fifty feet ; allow about seven poundu per acre. 



Perpkt. Peroz. Per lb- 



Salsify. Oyster Plant, 05 .20 .S1..50 



Scorzonera. Black Salsify, 05 .30 3.00' 



SEA KALE. 



German, Seekohl Meerkohl. French, Crambe Maritime. 



Sow one inch deep in drills two feet apart; thin to six inches, and the following spring trans- 

 plant to throe feet apart. 



Perpkt. Peroz. Per lb. 



Sea Kale. The blanched shoots are used like Asparagus, . , .05 .30 $3.00- 



SORREL. 



German, Saueranpfer. French, Oseille. 



Per pkt. Per oz. Per lb. 



Broad-Leaved French. Much used as a salLJ, 05 .15 .«3;l.50 



SPINACH. 



German, Spinat. French, Epinard. 



This is best developed and most tender and succulent when gro^vn in very rich soil. For summer 

 use sow- early in spring in drills fifteen inches apart, and make successive sowings every two weeks. 

 For spring use sow in September, and cover lightly in November with light litter. One ounce will sow 

 one hundred feet of drill; ten to twelve pounds per acre. 



Per pkt. Per oz. Per lb 



Round Thick Leaf. One of the very best for early spring or fall 



sowing: leaves large, thick and succulent, 



Long Standing. Does not run to seed in early summer so readily as 



others; unsurpassed in qualitv, 



Savoy-Leaved. Thick, succulent leaves, wrinkled like a Savoy 



Cabbaife ; very productive and hardy 



Prickly Seeded. Very hardy; leaves arrow-shaped, 



New Zealand. Distinct; spreading plant, producing an abundant 



supijly of excellent greens all summer, 05 .15 1.00 



TOBACCO. 



start the seeds in gentle heat, and set the plants out about June 1, three feet apart. In very 

 heavily manured hind, A packet will produce five hundred plants ; one ounce about sixteen thousand 

 pkuits. 



Per pkt. Peroz. Per lb. 



Connecticut Seed Leaf. The variety generally grown in New 



Eniiland 05 .25 $2.50 



Havana. True, imported seed, . . . 10 .50 5.50 



TOMATO. 



German, Liebes Apfel. French, Tomate. 



This is a native of South America. Nearly all of our choice varieties are of recent origin. The 

 eed shouUl be sown thinly, about the first week in March, in a hot-l)ed, greenhouse, or inside the 

 window or sitting-room, whore the temperature is never below sixty degrees. "When the plants are 

 bo.it two inches high, set out in boxes, three inches doei). four inches apart, in the same temperature, 

 or pot singly. If again transplanted before setting out, the i)lants will be still more stocky Set out 

 in the open ground about the first of June, four feet apart each way, using a shovelful of rotted. 



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