


Almanac and Garden Manual 

Richard Frotscher’s 

Mountain Sweet Water. This is a very popular variety, is of 
oblong shape, flesh bright scarlet and of good fiavor. It is very pro- 
ductive. Ade . 
NEGumtaim Sprewut Waiter. Thisis similarin shape tothe fore- 
going variety, but rather later. itis light green with irregular stripes 
of dark green. Flesh bright scarlet 
Improved Gipsey. This is a Datel, introduced variety which 
has become the favorite of the market-gardeners. It is very large, ob- 
long and of a dark green color, striped and mottled with light green. 
Fiesh searlet, and of delicious flavor. This is without any exception 
the best market variety. ee 
Eee-Cream. (WHITE SEEDED.) A medium sized variety of excel- 
lent quality. It is early and very productive. Being thin in the rind 
it is not so well adapted for the market as the other kinds: notwith- 
standing this, it is grown exclusively by some for that purpose, on ac- 
count of its earliness. it has come into general cuitivation more and 
more every year, as it is very sweet, and sells readily in the market. 
Grange Water. Quite a distinct variety from the others. The 
rind can be peeled off the same as the skin of an orange. It is of me- 
inc Size, fair quality.- Very little cultivated. 
Battie Snake. An ua Southern variety which has come = 
notice since a few years; it is of large size, the green not quite so darl 
as the Gipsey, but the Sines larger; tine market variety. The ae 
season, when other varieties failed, it stood the wet weather well, and 
sold more readily than others, not having been injured in looks. Jt 
stands transportation better than any other; has become the stand- 
ard market variety, and taken the place of the Mountain Sweet and 
Mountain Sprout, which were planted in former years. The seed f 
offer of this variety is grown for me by one oi the best growers in 
Georgia. Itis of the purest strain that can be found. 
Cubam Queen, Astriped variety highly reeommended by North- 
ern seedsmen ; said to reach from fifty to seventy pounds. Sweet and 
of delicate flavor, but does ‘not grow so large here as said it does North. 
MUSTARD. 
MovrTarbDe (Fr.), Senr (Ger.), Mostaza (Sp.). 
WHITE oR YELLOW = EDED. | IARGE-LEAVED. 
This is grown to quite an extent in the Southern States, and is 
sown broad-cast during fall, winter and spring. It may be used the 
ame as spinach, or boiled with meat as greens. The White or Yellow 
Seeded is very littie cultivated, and is used chiefiy for medical pur- 
poses, or pickling. The Large-leaveder Curled has black seed, a dis- 
tinct kind from the Northern or European variety. The seed is raised 
in Louisiana. it makes very large leaves; cultivated more and more 
every year. 
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