FOR THE SOUTHERN STATES. 
Improved Early White Spine. 
This is a popular variety. Itis of medium 
size, light green, covered with white spines, 
and turns white when ripe. A good kind for 
shipping. It is used by market gardeners for 
forcing as well as outdoor culture. Itis very 
productive. 
New Orleans Market. Thisis a va- 
riety selected from an imported forcing 
cucumber introduced by me. It is good for 
forcing or open ground; very productive, keeps 
its green color, and has few vines. This kind 
cannot be excelled for shipping, as it produces 
very perfect cucumbers and but few culls; the 
largest growers of cucumbers for shipping 
about here plant none but this variety. It is 
quite different from the Long White Spine 
offered by some. 
Early Frame. Another early variety, 
but not so popular as the foregoing kind. It 
is deep green in color, but turns yellow very 
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quickly; therefore gardeners do not plant it 
much. 
Long Green Turkey. A long variety 
attaining a length of from fitteen to eighteen 
inches when well grown. Very fine and pro- 
ductive. 
Early Claster. Early, short and 
prickly; it bears in clusters. 
West India Gherkin. This is an 
oval variety, small in size. It is used for pick- 
ling when young and tender. When grown to 
its full size it can be stewed with meat. In 
fact, this is the only use made of it about New 
Orleans. 
New Orleans Market. 
ECC-PLANT. 
AUBERGINE (Fr.), ErerPrLaNzE (Ger.), BERENGENA (Sp.). 
The seed should be sown in hot-beds in the early part of January. When a couple of inches 
high they should be transplanted into another frame, so that the plants may become strong and 
robust. 
ground, about two and a half feet apart. 
extensively cultivated. 
Large Purple, or New Orleans 
Market. This is the only kind grown here; 
it is large, oval in shape and of a dark purple 
color and very productive. Southern grown 
seed of this, as a good many other tropical 
or sub-tropical vegetables, is preferable to 
Northern seed, as it will germinate more 
readily, and the plant will last longer during the 
hot season. It is the best variety for shipping, 
| in flavor. 
When warm enough, generally during March, the plants can be planted in the open 
This vegetable is very profitable in the South, and 
superior to the Northern raised kinds. It car- 
ries better. The cut is made from three com- 
mon specimens and represents the true form. 
Early Dwarf Oval. This variety is 
very early and productive; the fruit is not so 
large as the New Orleans Egg-Plant, but equal 
For market it will not sell as well 
as the former; desirable for family garden. 
