D. M. FERRY & GO'S DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 



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VILMORIN'S inPROVED IMPERIAL SUQAR.- 



A medium sized white sugar beet, brought by tlie most care- 

 ful selection to the highest perfectiou, both in the constancy 

 of shape, size and color of the roots and their high sugar con- 

 tent. Greatly esteemed by sugar manufacturers. 



LONG RED HANQEL WURZEL.-A large, long vari- 

 ety, grown for stock feeding. It stands a good deal out of 

 the ground; color light red; flesh white and rose colored 



D. M. FERRY & COS IMPROVED MAMMOTH 

 LONG RED MANGEL WURZEL.— An improvement on 

 the old variety. The roots are uniformly straight and well 

 formed and deeper colored than the common sort. Highly 

 recommended for stock feeding. 



NORBITAN GIANT LONG RED MANGEL WUR- 

 ZEL.— Very large, growing well out of the ground. The 

 roots are well formed, straight, smooth and of a fine scarlet 

 color, with comparative!}^ small top and neck. 



YELLOW GLOBE MANGEL WURZEL.-A large, 

 round, orange colored variety, of excellent quality, which 

 keeps better than the Long Red, and produces better crops 

 on shallow soil. 



ORANGE GLOBE MANGEL WURZEL.-This is, we 

 think, one of the best varieties of Mangel Wurzel grown for 

 stock feeding. It has exceedingly small tops and few leaves 

 and the leaves on falling leave no scar on top of the root; leaf 

 stalks and blades green; roots medium size, uniformly globe 

 shape, having a very small tap and few side roots; color of 



Orange Globe Mangel Wurzel. 



skin deep orange yellow; flesh white and of excellent qual- 

 ity. The roots grow almost entirely above ground, making 

 them admirably adapted to shallow ground and very easy to 

 harvest. ' 



YELLOW LEVIATHAN MANGEL WURZEL.- 

 Roots long, olive shaped, large, growing over one-half out of 

 the ground; flesh white, sweet and tender; tops bright green, 

 comparatively small; neck small, short Owing to the fine 

 flesh never becoming woody, to the small neck and top, and 

 to the roots growing so well out of the ground, making them 

 very easy to harvest, we think this is perhaps the best of the 

 yellow field beets. 



YELLOW OVOID, OR INTERMEDIATE MAN= 

 GEL WURZEL.— Root ovoid, intermediate between the 

 long and globe varieties; flesh solid, usually white, zoned 

 wnth yellow ; hardy, vigorous and productive. 



GOLDEN TANKARD MANGEL WURZEL.— Tops 

 comparatively small, with yellow stems and mid-ribs; neck 

 very smal) : roots large, ovoid, but filled out at top and bot- 

 tom so as to approach a cylindrical form. Flesh yellow, 

 zoned with white. A great improvement and worthy of use 

 on every farm. 



RED GLOBE MANGEL WURZEL.— Similar to Yel 

 low Globe, except in color, which is a light red or pink. 



BROCOLI. 



French, Chou Brocoli. German. Spargel-Kohl. 



Although originating from a very distinct type, the modern 

 improved sorts of brocoli can scarcely be distinguished from 

 cauliflower; the points of difference being that they are gen- 

 erally taller and the heads more divided. By some con- 

 sidered more delicate than the Cauliflower. 



Culture.— The same as that given for cauliflower. 



EARLY PURPLE CAPE.— This is the best variety for 

 our climate. It produces large heads, of a brownish-purple 

 color, very close and compact, and of excellent flavor. 



Brussels Sprouts. 



French, Chou de Bruxelles. German, Spr onsen- Kohl. 



The plant grows two or three feet high, and produces from 

 the sides of the stalk numerous little sprout.s one or two- 

 inches in diameter, resembling cabbages. The leaves should 

 be broken down in the fall, to give the little cabbages more 

 room to grow. 



Culture.— They should be treated in all respects like win- 

 ter cabbage or kale. 



CABBAGE. 



French, Choux Pommes. German, Kopfkohl. 



There is no vegetable which is more universally cultivated 

 than this. It is found in the poorest and smallest yard, and 

 it responds so readily to better care that it is also entitled to- 

 a place in the finest garden, and merits the attention of the 

 most sRillf ul gardener. 



Culture.— The requisites for complete success are; First, 

 good seed; there is no vegetable where the seed has more- 

 influence on the quahty of the product than in this, and 

 gardeners should invariably select the best procurable. 

 Second, rich, well prepared ground. Third, frequent and 

 thorough cultivation. A heavy, moist and rich loam is most 

 suitable, which should be highly manured and worked deep. 

 Cabbage is so universally grown all over the country that 

 specific directions regarding the time and methods of plant- 

 ing for all localities cannot be given. In general, north of 

 the 40th parallel, the early sorts should be sown verj- early in 

 hot-beds, hardened off by graduallj" exposing them to night 

 air, and transplanted to open ground, setting eighteen to 

 twenty-four inches apart as early as possible in the spring. 

 South of the 40th parallel sow from the middle of September 

 on according to latitude, transplant into cold frames, if 

 necessary, to keep through winter, setting into open ground 

 as early as possible. 



The late autunm and winter varieties may be sown from 

 the middle to the last of spring, and transplanted when about 

 six inches high, one and one-half to three feet apart in the 

 row owing to the size of the variety. Shade and water the 

 late sowings in dry weather to get them up. It is important 

 that the plants should stand thinly in the seed bed, or they 

 will run up weak and slender, and be likely to make long 

 stems. 



One of the most successful eastern market gardeners rec- 

 ommends sowing cabbage for family use as follows: At the 

 desired time sow the seed in drills, or in hills, thinly, and after 

 the plants are of sufficient size thin to the proper distance 

 in the row. or to a single plant to the hill, and cultivate as 

 usual. This is a very simple method and in some cases is 

 most successful. 



Cabbages should be hoed every week, and the ground stirred 

 as they advance in growth, drawing up a little earth to the 

 plant each time until they begin to head, when they should 

 be tfioroughly cultivated and left to mature. Loosening the 

 roots will sometimes retard the bursting of full grown heads. 



Of late years many crops of early cabbage have been des- 

 troyed by maggots at the roots. The best remedy seems to 

 be to remove the earth from around the stem and apply an 

 emulsion of kerosene made as follows: Add one quart of 

 kerosene oil to two quarts of boiling soft soap which has been 

 thinned to the consistencj^ of cream. Stir the oil thoroughly 

 by churning or other method until it has united with the soap- 

 and forms a butter-like substance. Then dilute with five 

 times as much water. 



Ashes, slacked lime and coal dust are all recommentle<l as 

 preventatives. These are scattered about the plants, leaving 

 one here and there untreated for the flies to congregate aroimd 

 and deposit their eggs upon, when they should be pulled up- 

 and destroyed. 



The cabbage worms which destroy the leaves and heads 

 later, may be killed by dusting with pyrethrum powder. 



If the disease called club root should get a foot-hold do not 

 plant the land in any crop of the Brassicu family for a year 

 or two. This is usuallj' an effective remedy. 



To preserve cabbage during the winter, pull them on a dry 

 day, and turn them over on the heads a tew hours to draiii. 

 Set them out in a cool cellar, or bury them with the heads 

 downward, in long trenches, in a dry situation. In the Miildle 

 States, bury the head and part of" the stump in the open 

 ground, and place over them a light covering of straw or 

 boards, to protect them in severe weather. 



A great many of the varieties of Cabbage are simply strains 

 rather than disti)tct sorts and are prncticallij the same as 

 some older and better known kind. We do not think there is 

 a single variety offered in this country which we have not 

 seen both in trial and in fields, and we are confident that 

 every good quality can be found in as high degree in someone 

 of tlie list we offer as in any kind in existence. 



EXTRA EARLY EXPRESS.-This is probably the 

 earliest cabbage grown. The plants are compact with round, 

 thick leaves and form an oval head, which is astonishingly 

 large for the size of the plants. The heads are proportion- 

 ately thicker and less pointed than those of the Etami>es and. 

 Jersey Wakefield. 



