PETER HENDERSON & CO.'S CATALOGUE OP SEEDS. 



SQUASH. 



German, Kilrbiss. — 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 ordinary manner, by incorporating two or three sbovelsfulof well- 

 rotted manure with the 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. i£ lb. Lb. 



Yellow Bush Scolloped. An early market variety, excellent 



for shipping 10c. 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 1 00 



Bostdn. Marrow. A much-esteemed variety, coming in about 

 ten days later than the bash and crook-neck sorts. A 



good keeper, and of unsurpassed flavor 15c. 50 1 50 



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

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



and of excellent flavor 20c. 60 2 00 



Marblehead. An excellent new variety, resembling the Hubbard. 

 The flesh is of rather lighter color than that variety, while 

 its combination of sweetness, dryness, cud delicious flavor 

 is remarkable. It yields equal to the Hubbard, and its 



keepiug qualities are said to be better 25c. 75 2 50 



Mammoth, Chili. Grows to a large size, often weighing over 



two hundred pounds ; excellent for pies or stock 40c. $125 4 00 



Winter Crook-Neck. A variety largely grown in some of tho 

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

 vored; plant in hills nine feet apart 10c. 30 1 00 



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

 grained and well flavored ; an excellent variety for use 



in the fall and early winter 30c. 100 3 00 



Yokohama. Flesh of a deep orange color, very finely flavored, 

 sweet and dry, very fine grained, and without any fibre. 

 It is excellent stewed, and when baked ib much resembles 

 a Sweet Potato in flesh and flavor, and is superior to auy 



Pumpkin for pies 30c. 1 00 3 00 



Vegetable Marrow. A favorite English sort; skin greenish 

 yellow ; flesh white, soft, and of rich flavor ; quite dis- 

 tinct from all the preceding 25c. 80 3 00 



TOBACCO SEED. 



Per oz. }£ lb. Lb. 



Connecticut Seed Leaf 40c. $125 $4 00 



Imported Havana 75c. 2 50 8 00 



Virginia 40c. 150 5 00 



Kentucky. 50c. 175 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, and 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, and placing it in a sunny window of the sitting room or 

 kitchen. 



