Aubergine, FR. 
Berengena, SP. 
HHS ELTABLE VEGETABLE SEEDS 
EGG-PLANT 
Eierpflanze, GER. 
One ounce will produce about 1000 plants. 
CULTURE — Egg Plant seed requires a higher temperature for germination than any other vegetable, and this temperature should 
be maintained right along in order to maintain strong and healthy growth. Sow the seeds in hotbeds, early in March. When 3 inches 
high, pot the young plants, using small pots, and plunge them in the same bed, so that the plants may become stocky.. They can be 
planted out from the pots when the season becomes sufficiently warm, in May or June. The soil can hardly be made too rich. Set the 
plants in open ground, allowing 3 feet space between the rows, and 2 feet space between the plants in the row. Watch for the potato beetle. 
This pest, as well as blight, may be controlled by spraying with Bordeaux Arsenate of Lead Mixture or by dusting the plants with Slug Shot. 
404 Early Black Beauty. Spineless, with rich purplish black skin; 
very attractive and of best quality. This beautiful Egg-Plant is an 
improvement over the well-known and largely grown New York 
Improved Large Purple, but more exacting than that standard, in 
calling for rich, warm soil. The plants are remarkably healthy in 
their growth and produce an abundance of large fruit, earlier than 
the New York Improved. The favorite sort for show purposes. Pkt., 
15 cts.; 4 0z., 40 cts.; oz., 75 cts.; < lb., $2.00. 
New York Improved Large Purple. Produces the fruits in 
great quantities, plants averaging from 4 to 6 fruits each. They are 
large, nearly round, dark purple, free of thorns and of excellent quality. 
Pkt., 10 cts.; 4 0z., 40 cts.; oz., 75 cts.; 4 lb., $2.00. 
Early Long Purple. Earliest, hardiest and very productive. The 
fruits are long and of good quality, measure 6 to 10 inches long and 
best for very early use. Flavor is probably finer than the two large 
sorts offered above. Pkt., 10 cts.; 4 0z., 35 cts.; 0z., 60 cts.; + lb., $1.75. 
ENDIVE 4 
Endibia o Escarola, SP. Endivie, GER. 
One ounce of seed to 200 feet of row. 
Endive is one of the best and most wholesome salads for fall and winter 
use. Sow in shallow drills in April for early use or for late use in June or 
July. When 2 or 3 inches high transplant into good ground or thin out to 
1 foot apart. When nearly full grown and before they are fit for the table 
they must be bleached. This is done by gathering the leaves together and 
tying with yarn or raffia to exclude the light and air from the inner leaves 
’ which must be done when quite dry or they will rot. Another method is to 
cover the plants with boards or slats. In three or four weeks they will be 
blanched. After a shower the boards must be taken off or the plants untied, 
to allow drying. 
410 Broad-leaved Batavian (Escarolle). A favorite salad variety, 
with wide, wavy leaves edges of which are cut and irregular. Inner 
leaves blanch nicely to a creamy-white, tender, and of very agreeable 
flavor. Pkt., 10 cts.; oz., 25 cts.; + lb., 75 cts. 
407 
406 
Chicoeer, FR. 
BROAD-LEAVED BATAVIAN ENDIVE 
Plants of Egg-Plant are 
BLack BEAUTY EGG-PLANT 
412 Dreer’s Giant Fringed (Sce Specialties, page 6). 
Pkt., 10 cts.; $ oz., 20 cts.; oz., 30 cts.; } lb., 85 cts. 
414 Green Curled Winter. Standard sort for fall and 
winter crop. Very hardy and vigorous. Easy to 
blanch. Pkt., 10 cts.; oz., 25 cts.; 4 lb., 75 cts. 
416 White Curled (Self-blanching). Plants 14 to 16 
inches across, leaves pale green, finely cut, crisp and 
very tender. Pkt., 10 cts.; oz., 25 cts.; ¢ Ib., 75 ct. 
Finnocchio, or Florence Fennel 
418 A delicious vegetable which should be more widely 
grown. It is extensively used in Italy as a salad, but 
is particularly palatable when served boiled, with a 
cream dressing. When the enlargement of leaf stalk 
at base of stem is about the size of a hen’s egg it should 
be earthed up so as to cover half of it, and in about 
ten days cutting for use may be commenced and 
continued as the plants grow. The plants readily re- 
spond to liberal watering. The flavor is somewhat like 
celery, but it has a sweet taste and delicate odor. Pkt., 
10 cts.; oz., 30 cts.; + lb., $1.00. 
Dandelion 
Pissenlit, FR. Amargon, SP. Loewenzahn, GER. 
One ounce to 100 feet of row. 
Culture—Sow seed in good clean loam, in drills 1 
foot apart, and thin to 10 or 12 inches apart in the rows. 
401 Broad-leaved (See Specialties, page 6). Pkt., 
15 cts.; 4 oz., 60 cts.; oz., $1.00; ¢ lb., $3.00. 
402 Common. Yields an abundant supply of large 
succulent leaves. Pkt., 10 cts.; 4 oz., 30 cts.; oz., 50 
cts.; 2 lb., $1.50. 
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