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CUCUMBERS— Continued. 



Giant Pera. The largest long 

 green cucumber in cultivation; grows 

 seventeen to twenty-two inches long; 

 clear white flesh; peculiarly crisp, ten- 

 der and brittle, with lew seeds. Pkt. 

 5 cts.; oz. 10 cts.; \ lb. 30 cts. 



Long G-recian. Grows to a great 

 length — fully equal to the English 

 frame varieties. It grows very straight, 

 smooth and uniform, of perfect shape, 

 and has very few seeds. Pkt. 10 cts.; 

 3 pkts. 25 cts. 



West India Gherkin. Not a cu- 

 cumber proper. It is used, however, 

 for pickling. It bears small, rough, 

 prickly fruits in abundance. Pkt. 5 

 cts.; oz. 15 cts. 



Early Russian. Early, hardy and 

 prolific. Fine for table use, growing 

 about three inches long; also good for 

 pickles. Pkt. 5 cts.; oz. 10 cts.; { lb. 

 25 cts.; lb. 80 cts. 



New Everbearing. It is of small 

 size, very early, enormously produc- 

 tive, and valuable as a green pickler. 

 The peculiar merit of this novelty is 

 that the vines continue to flower and 

 produce fruit until killed by frost 

 whether the ripe cucumbers are picked 

 off or not, uiffering in this respect 

 from all other sorts in cultivation. Pkt. 

 25 cts. 



English Frame Varieties. These 

 are some of the English sorts used for 

 forcing, attaining a length of twenty to 

 thirty inches, can be grown in hot-beds 

 or houses where the temperature does 

 not fall below 65° at night. Each 25 

 cts. per pkt. 



Giant or Arnstadt 

 Due of Edinburg. 



CORN SALAD. (Lammer Salat.) 



The seeds are thickly sown in September in shallow drills one-fourth 

 of an inch deep. If the weather be dry, the ground should be compress- 

 ed with the feet or the back of a spade. It requires no other-culture ex- 

 cept to keep the ground clear of weeds. In a high northern climate it 

 requires protection during the winter with a slight covering of straw. 

 If the soil is good and rich the flavor of this plant will be greatly im- 

 proved. 



flc§=One ounce will sow twenty feet square. 



Large Seeded. The variety generally cultivated. Pkt. 

 5 cts.; oz. 10 cts.; } lb. 25 cts. 



Green Cabbaging. New rosette shaped. A great im- 

 provement on the older kind. Pkt. 5 cts.; oz. 15 cts. 



CARDOON (Kardonen.) 



This plant is grown for the mid-rib of the leaf, which re- 

 quires to be blanched in the same manner as celery. Sow 

 early in the spring where the plants are to remain in drills, 

 three feet apart and one and one-half inches in depth. Later 

 on thin out the young plants to one foot apart in the rows. 

 Pkt. 10 cts.; oz. 35 cts. 



CHICORY. (Chicori.) 



Sow in spring in drills half an inch deep, lu good, mellow soil; the 

 after culture is the same as recommended for carrots. Chicory is culti- 

 vated chiefly for its roots, which are dried and used as a substitute or 

 flavoring ingredient for coffee. 



Large Rooted or Coffee. The leaves when blanched 

 are esteemed as an excellent salad. The dried roots form 

 the chicory of commerce. Pkt. 5 cts.; oz. 10 cts.; lb. 30 

 cts.; lb. 51. 



Witloef. Somewhat resembling chicory, and excellent 

 used as a salad or boiled as a vegetable. Pkt. 5 cts. ; oz. 30 

 cts ; i lb. Jil. 



COLLARDS. (Blaetter-Kohl.) 

 Sow for succession from June to August, and treat as cab- 

 bage, in rows one foot apart Cultivate frequently and lib- 

 erally. Pkt. 5 cts.; oz. 20 cts. 



CRESS. (Kresse.) 



Peppergrass is extensively grown and used as a small salad. Sow 

 early in the spring and at intervals throughout the season for a succes- 

 sion, thicklv in shallow drills, as it soon runs to seed. The Cresses are 

 excellent salad plants. The Water Cress reqi " 



The W 



, ditch or pond, in which it will gro 

 to keep weeds from interfering with it. I 

 ing along the margin of ditches or stream 



i stream of running 

 ithout care, except at first 

 s easily introduced by plant- 

 and increases rapidly by the 

 spreading of the roots or seed. The leaves are eaten with salt, and are 

 of an agreeable, pungent taste, relished by most people. 



Extra Curled or Peppeigrass Fine flavor, and can 

 be cut several times. Pkt. 5 cts.; oz 10 cts.; } lb. 25 cts. 



Erfurt Water. True. A perennial aquatic plant, with 

 small oval leaves and prostrate habit. Pkt. 10 cts.; oz 40 cts. 



Native or Upland. A broad leaved perennial variety, 

 used for salads in the spring. Sow the seed in the open air 

 in the spring or fall; loves to grow in moist places. Pkt. 10 

 cts.; oz. 30 cts. 



DANDELION. (Lowenzahn.) 



The dandelion resembles endive, and affords one ot the earliest, as 

 well as one of the most healthful, of spring greens The roots, after 

 being dried, constitute an article of considerable value, being extensive- 

 ly used as a substitute for coffee. Sow as early as the weather will per- 

 mit, in good, well-enriched soil, in rows twelve inches apart, covering 

 seed one-fourth of an inch deep, and firming the soil well over them. 

 Thin to two or three inches apart in the rows, by so doing the roots will 

 be larger and a great amount of time will be saved the next spring in 

 trimming or gathering the crop. One pound per acre is sufficient. 



tj=a,One ounce will sow 100 feet of drill. 



French, Tnick-Leaved. Pkt. 10 cts.; oz. 40 cts.; } lb. 

 $1.50. 



EGG-PLANT. (Eierpflanze.) 



Sow the seed in hot-beds early in March. When three inches high pot 

 the young plants, using small pots, and plunge them in the same bed, 

 so that the plants may become stocky. Thev can be planted out from 

 the pots when the season becomes sufficiently warm, in Ma3 - or June, or 

 they can be transplanted into a second bed' to make them strong until 

 the weather is warm enough to transplant, about three feet apart each 

 way, in thoroughly worked and well-enriched soil Draw the earth up 

 to their stems when about a foot high. Egg-plant seed will not vege- 

 tate freely without a strong uniform heat, and if the plants get the least 

 chilled in the earlier stages of growth they seldom recover. Therefore 

 repeated solving is sometimes necessary. Care should be observed in 

 cutting the fruit so as not to disturb the plants. 



ft^One ounce will produce 1,000 plants. 



New York Improved. The leading variety grown by 

 market men; large in size and deep purple in color, smooth 

 and free of thorns; flesh white and of excellent quality; very 

 prolific. Pkt. 10 cts.; oz. 60 cts. 



Egg Plant. 



Earlv Long Purple. Elongated in shape. Hardier and 

 earlier than the New York, succeeding further north. Fruit 

 from six to ten inches long. Quality good. Pkt, 5 cts.; oz., 

 40 cts. 



