PETER HENDERSON & CO'S CATALOGUE OF SEEDS. 



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SQUASH. 



German, Kurliss. — French, Courge. — Spanish, Calabasa Tontanera. 



Squashes are of luxuriant and vigorous growth, and although they will grow readily 

 on almost any soil, they will well repay generous treatment. Like all vegetables of this 

 class, it is useless to sow until the weather has become settled and warm. Light soils are 

 best suited for their growth, and it is most economical of manure to prepare hills for the 

 seeds in the ordinary manner, by incorporating two or three shovelfuls of well-rotted 

 manure with tlie soil, for each hill. For the bush varieties, from three to four feet each 

 way, and for the running sorts, from six to eight feet. Eight or ten seeds should be 

 sown in each hill, thinning out after they have attained their rough leaves, leaving 

 three or four of the strongest plants. 



Per oz. ,V lb. Lb. 



Yellow Bush Scolloped. An early market variety, excellent for 



shipping 10c. $0 30 $100 



White Bush Scolloped. A sub-variety of the above, principally 



differing in color 10c. 30 100 



Bush Summer Crook-Neck. Early, productive, and of good 

 quality ; fruit, orange-yellow, covered with warty excres- 

 cences 10c. 30 100 



Boston Marrow. A much-esteemed variety, coming in about ten 

 days later than the bush and crook-neck sorts. A good 



keeper, aud of unsurpassed flavor 15c. 50 150 



Hubbard. A general favorite, and more largely grown as a late 

 sort than any other ; of large size ; flesh, fine-grained, dry, 



and of excellent flavor 20c. 60 2 00 



Mammoth Chili. Grows to a large size, often weighing ovei" two 



hundred pounds ; excellent for pies or stock 40c. 1 25 4 00 



Winter Crook-Neck, A variety largely grown in some of the 

 Eastern States ; flesh, close-grained, sweet, and fine-flavored ; 



plant in hills nine feet apart 10c. 30 100 



Turban or Turk's Cap. Flesh, orange-yellow, thick, fine-grained, 

 and well-flavored ; an excellent variety for use in Fall and 



early in Winter 30c. 100 3 00 



Vegetable Marrow. A favorite English sort ; skin, greenish- 

 yellow ; flesh white, soft, and of rich flavor ; quite distinct 

 from all the preceding 25c. 80 3 00 



TOBACCO SEED. 



Per oz. 



Connecticut Seed Leaf 40c. 



Imported Havana 75c. 



Virginia 40c. 



Kentucky 50c. 



Xlb. 



Lb. 



il 25 



$4 00 



2 50 



8 00 



1 50 



5 00 



1 75 



6 00 



TOMATO. 

 German, Liebesapfel. — French, Tomate. — Spanish, Tomate. • 



This delicious vegetable is one of the most important of all garden products. The 

 seed should be sown in a hot-bed about the first week in March, in drills five inches 

 apart, aud half an inch deep. When the plants are about two inches high they should 

 be set out four or five inches apart in another hot-bed, or removed into small pots, 

 allowing a single plant to a pot; they are sometimes transplanted a second time into 

 larger pots, by which process the plants are rendered more sturdy and branching. 

 About the middle of May the plants may be set in the open ground ; they are planted, 

 for early crops, on light, sandy soil, at a distance of three feet apart, in hills, in which 

 a good shovelful of rotted manure has been mixed. On heavy soils, which are not 

 suited for an early crop, they should be planted four feet apart. Water freely at the 

 time of transplanting, and shelter from the sun for a few days until the plants are 

 established. Sufficient plants for a small garden may be started by sowing a few seeds 

 in a shallow box or flower-pot, aud placing it in a sunny window of the sitting-room or 

 kitchen. 



lb. 



Lb. 



Early Smooth Red. Very smooth and round ; an excellent market 



variety 30c. 



$1 00 $3 00 



