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EVERY WOMAN HER OWN FLOWER GARDENER. 



Ohra, 



The ImproTed Dwarf Green is better for home culture than the com- 

 mon yariety usually grown; it is also earlier, and is equally productiye. 

 The green pods of this yegetable are used in making the famous " Gumbo" 

 of the southern States ; and are always desirable for eyery kind of soup. 



Onions. 



Yellow Danyers has long held first rank for family use; but now the 

 seedsmen ofi'er us rare imported yarieties from Italy. Early White Xaples 

 is a distinct yariety, of mild flay or ; often the bulbs will weigh a pound; 

 white skins, and yery tender. Xew Giant Eocca, of Xaples, has a brown 

 skin, delicate flayor, and bulbs were exhibited in England which weighed 

 three and a half pounds. Large Itahan Eed Tripoh, flayor mild and 

 pleasant; bulbs haye grown to weigh two and a half pounds. 



Peas, 



Landreth's Extra Early is said to be the earliest for garden use, and 

 the best. Philadelphia Extra Early is also desirable ; but with some 

 seedsmen only another name for Landreth* s. Little Gem is yery dwarf, 

 and of fine flayor; grows only one foot high. Hundred-fold, or Cook's 

 Eayorite, is a first-class yariety; early, and yery prolific. Laxton's 

 Supreme is the earliest wrinkled pea, and has the largest pods of any 

 kind. The Champion is a late yariety, but yery luxuriant, and much 

 the best family sort raised. 



Parsnijys. 



A new yariety of these yegetables, called the Student, is much sweeter, 

 and pleasanter in flayor, than the older kinds. 



Potatoes, 



Early Rose is as yet unsurpassed for table purposes, both in its early 

 ripening, and its prolificness. Peerless is decidedly the best late potato 

 in cultiyation; grows a yery large size, is of pearly whiteness, and yery 

 delicious flayor; it surely is the ne jjIus ultra of Potatoes. Jersey 

 Peach Blows are always good, but do not yield so plentifully. 



Pejjjjers. 



Sweet Mountain Peppers should be grown in eyery garden, to flayor 

 the pickles. Large Bell are early and not as acrid as other kinds. 



Cayenne are quite small, cone-shaped, coral-red when ripe. Good for 

 pepper sauce. 



