GARDEN MANUAL FOR THE SOUTHERN STATES. 



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The Hubbard. This is a winter squash 

 highly esteemed in the East. If planted here 

 can be kept from one season to another, and 

 is superior in flavor to the other kinds. 



Long Green or Summer Crook-Neck. 

 This is a strong grower, and continues in 

 bearing longer than the first named 

 kind. It is of good quality. 



Boston Marrow. Cultivated to a 

 lar^e extent North and East for winter 



use, where it used for custards, etc. It keeps 

 for a long time and is of excellent quality. 



London Vegetable Marrow. A variety 

 producing large, oblong fruits, dark green 

 at first, but becoming marbled with yellow 

 and lighter green in stripes as they mature. 



Early Bush or Patty Pan. 



Long Green or Summer 

 Crook Neck. 



TOMATO. 



The Hubbard. 



Tomate (Fr.), Liebesapfel (Ger.), Tomate (Sp.), Pomo D'Oro (Ital.) 



King of the Em-lies. 

 Extra Early Dwarf. 

 Dwarf Champion. 

 Early Large Smooth Red. 

 Selected Trophy. 

 Large Yellow. 

 Livingston s Favorite. 

 Livingston s Beauty. 

 Livingston s Acme. 



Livingston s Paragon. 

 Livingston" s Perfection. 

 Tree Tomato. 

 Ponder osa. 

 New Early Freedom. 

 Cleveland's Extra. 

 Livingston' s Stone. 

 New Purple Cluster. 

 Spark's Earliana. 



CULTURE. — Seed should be sown in January, in hot beds, or in boxes, which must be 

 placed in a sheltered spot, or near windows. In March they can be sown in open ground. 

 Tomatoes are generally sown too thick and become too crowded when two or three inches 

 high, which makes the plants thin and spindly. If they are transplanted when two or three 

 inches high, about three inches apart each way, they will become short and sturdy, and will 

 not suffer when planted into the open ground. Plant them from three to four feet apart. 

 Some varieties can be planted closer; for instance, the Extra Early, which is of very dwarfish 

 habit, two and a half feet apart is enough. They should be supported by stakes. When 

 allowed to grow up wild, the fruit which touches the ground will rot. For a late or fall crop 

 the seed should be sown toward the latter part of May and during June. 



King of the Earlies. This variety was 

 introduced here by the late Richard Frotscher. 

 It is very early and productive; color bright 

 red, of good size and quite solid. The vine 

 is medium, stout and branching. The buds 

 appear soon, blossoms as a rule adhere and 

 produce fruit. It is so much earlier than the 

 Livingston varieties, that it should be planted 

 for the first. The latter kind are so handsome 



in shape that they will sell better than any 

 other, when the market is once well sup- 

 plied. 



Extra Early Dwarf. This is the earliest 

 in cultivation. It is dwarfish in habit, fruit 

 larger than the following kind and more 

 flat; bright scarlet in color and very produc- 

 tive. For an early market variety it cannot 

 be surpassed. 



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