24 D. M. FERRY & CO'S DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 



Danvers. — One of the most productive and best for 

 field culture. Tops medium; roots dark 



Improved Long Orange. 



colored, large, but of medium length, 

 tapering abruptly at the point, very 

 uniform and handsome; flesh deep 

 orange with yellow center, sweet and 

 tender. 



Long Orange. — A well known 

 standard sort. Roots long, thickest 

 near the crown, tapering regularly 

 to a point; color deep orange. It 

 requires a deep soil, and the plants 

 should stand eight inches apart, in 

 eighteen inch dri Is for the roots to 

 attain their full size. 



Improved Long Orange. — An 

 improvement on the preceding, ob- 

 tained by careful selection for years 

 of the best formed and deepest 

 colored roots. Roots proportionately 



Large White Belgian. Large White Vosges. 



shorter than the Long Orange, and smoother, but so 

 uniform and true that the bulk of crop will be greater. 

 The most desirable sort for farm use on mellow soils. 



Large White Vosges.— Roots very large, similar in 

 shape, although more pointed than the Guerande. Skin 

 and flesh white, and the latter is of much better quality 

 than that of the other white varieties, so that it is often 

 used for the table. Easily dug, and a very distinct, 

 valuable variety. 



Large White Belgian.— Grows one-third out of the 

 ground. Root pure white, green above ground, with 

 small top. Flesh rather coarse, but the roots on light, 

 rich ground grow to a large size, and are extensively 

 grown for stock feeding. 



CHULIFLOMER, 



Fr., Chou-fleur. Ger., Blume7t-Kohl. 



The Cauliflower, although one of the most delicious 

 of vegetables, is little known outside of our large cities. 

 It needs, to bring it to perfection, a cool, moist atmos- 

 phere, and if this condition occurs when the plant is 

 about to head, fine, large heads will result, while if the 

 air is hot and dry, failure will result in spite of the best 

 of seed and cultivation. The seed we offer is the finest 

 procurable, and is obtained from the most careful 

 growers in Europe. 



Culture. — For the spring and summer crop, sow the 

 early varieties about the last of winter, in a hot-bed, 

 and transplant into the open air as soon as the ground 

 can be worked. For the late, autumn crop, sow the late 

 kinds about the middle of spring, and transplant like 

 winter cabbages. In dry weather water freely, and as- 

 they advance in growth, hoe deep, and draw earth to 

 the stems. After they begin to head, they should be 

 watered every other day, and the leaves gathered and 

 pinned together over the heads to protect them from the 

 sun and keep them white. On the approach of frost, 

 those plants which have not headed may be set out in a 

 cellar, where they can be aired in mild weather. In two 

 or three weeks the strongest will begin to form flower 

 heads, which should be cut for use while the " curd " 

 is close and compact. It is then tender and delicious, 

 but later the head opens, separates into branches, and 

 soon becomes coarse, fibrous, strongly flavored and unfit 

 for use. 



In Cauliflowers very much depends upon the quality 

 of the seed, and we have expended a great deal of time 

 and money to satisfy ourselves where we could obtain 

 the best, and believe the seed we offer this year to be 

 the best in the world. It is the product of very care- 

 fully selected heads, and grown in the sections where 

 the best cauliflowers in the world are produced, and 

 consequently is high priced, but we think it really the 

 most economical and best to buy, as every plan with 

 good culture will produce a good head. 



Ferry's Early Puritan. — We have givenagreat deal 

 of attention to the matter of securing an extra early, 

 sure keadiitg; large, white cauliflower and think we 

 have secured in this by far the best forcing and extra 

 early variety in cultivation. The plants are wonderfully 

 compact and upright growing. We have not found a 

 single plant among all that we have grown which did not 

 produce a large, fine head. Compared with the Snow- 

 ball, Extra Early Erfurt and other sorts, the crop from 

 this was mc stly in the market before we commenced to 

 cut heads from the others, and for density, evenness and 

 purity of color, the heads were fully equal to the best. 

 We cannot recommend this variety too highly for forc- 

 ing or for early crop in private gardens, and as in most 

 cases the earliest plants produce tin finest heads, we 

 would recommend it for those who plant but once and 

 may not have succeeded with other sorts. 



