FOR THE SOUTHEKN STATES. 



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New Orleans Market. 



L,arge Pwrpfie, or New Orleans 



Market. Tliis is tlie only kind grown here ; 

 it is large, oval in shape and of a dark purple 

 <?olor and very productive. Southern grown 

 seed of this, as of a good many other tropical 

 or sub-tropical vegetables, is preferable to 

 Northern seed, as it will germinate more readi- 

 ly, and the plant will last longer during the 

 Jiot season. It is the best variety for shipping, 

 superior to the Northern raised kinds. It cai'- 

 xies better. The cut is made from three com- 

 mon specimens and represents the true form. 



EarBy I>'^varf Oval. This variety is 

 very early and productive; the fruit is not so 

 large as the New Orleans Egg-Plant, but equal 

 in flavor. For market it will not sell as well 

 as the former; desirable for family garden. 



Tine New York Market. Is rounder 

 in shape than the New Orleans ; it has spines 

 on leaves and stems, not very popular here. 

 Shippers and gardeners always give the New 

 Orleans Market variety the preference. 



END9VE. 



Chicoeee (Fr.), Endivien (G-er.), Endibia (Sp.). 



A salad plant which is very popular and much cultivated for the market, princiiDally for 

 summer use. It can be sown in drills a foot apart, and when the plants are well up, thinned 

 out till about eight inches apart. Or it can be sown broad-cast thinly and transplanted the 

 same as Lettuce. When the leaves are large enough, say about eight inches long, tie them up 

 ior blanching, to make them fit for the table. This' can only be done in dry v/eather, otherwise 

 the leaves are apt to rot. For summer use do not sow before the end of March, as if sown sooner, 



