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Long Green White Spime. This isa variety seiected from an 
imported forcing cucumber. It is good for foreing or open ground: 
very productive, keeps its green color, and has few vines. A limited 
supply offered. 
West India Gherkin. This is an oval variety, small in size. 
It is used for pickling 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. 
EGG-PLANT. 
AUBERGINE (Fr.), EIERPFLANZE (Ger.}, BERENGENA (Sp.). 
The seed should be sown in hot-bedsin the early part of January. 
When a couple of inches high they should be transplanted into another 
frame, so that the plants may become strongand robust. When warm 
enough, generally during March, the plants ean be placed in the open 
ground, about two and a half feet apart. This vegetable is very pop- 
ular in the South, and extensively cultivated. 
Large Purple Egg-Plant. 
Large Purpie or New Grieans 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 of 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. 
ENDIVE. 
CHICOREE (Fr.), ENDIVIEN (Ger.), ENprBIA (Sp.). 
A salad plant which is very popular and much eultivated for the 
market, principally 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 for blanching, to make them fit for 
the table. This can only be done in dry weather, otherwise the leaves 
are apt to rot. For summer use co not sow before the end of March, 
as, if sown sooner, the plants will run into seed very early. Sow 
