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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. . ; 
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 seeds should be sownin 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 androbust. When warm 
enough, generally during March, the plants can be placed in the open 
eround, about two and a half feet apart. This- vegetable is very 
popular in the South, and extensively cultivated. 
Large Purple Ege—Plant. 
Large Purple or New Orleans Market. This is the only 
kind grown here; it is large, oval in shape and of adark purple color 
and very productive. Southern grown seed of this, as of agood 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.), ENprIBra (Sp.). 
A salad plant which is very popular and much cultivated 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 
