DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 



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PARSNIP. 



Fr. Panais. — Ger. Pastinake. 



The value of the Parsnip as a culinary vegetable is 

 well known, but it is not generally appreciated at its 

 full value for stock feeding. On favorable soil it yields 

 an immense crop of roots, which are more nutritious 

 than carrots or turnips, and particularly well adapted 

 for dairy stock. 



Cllture.— They do the best on a deep, rich, sandy 

 soil, but will make good roots on any soil which is deep 

 and mellow and moderately rich. Do not enrich with 

 fresh manure, as it is apt to make the roots coarse and 

 ill-shaped. Sew the seed as early in the spring as pos- 

 sible, and It is a good plan to sow a few radish seeds 

 with them, as the seed is sometimes ver>- slow in germi- 

 nating ; cover one-half inch deep, and press the soil 

 firmly over the seed : give frequent cultivation, and thin 

 the plants to six or eight to the foot. In digging field 

 crops, they may be thrown out so as 

 to be easily gathered, by running a 

 subsoil plough along on one side of 

 the row. 



Long White Dutch, or Sugar. 

 — Roots very long, white, smooth, 

 tender, sugary and most excellently 

 flavored Verj- hardy, and will ke€p 

 through winter without protection. 

 Hollow Crown. — Roots oblong, 

 ending somewhat abruptly, with a 

 small tap root ; grows mostly below 

 the surface ; has a ver>' smooth, 

 clean skin, and is easily distinguish- 

 ed by the leaves arising from a cav- 

 ity on the top or crown of the root. 



PARSLEY. 



Fr. PersiL—GitT. Petersilie. 



A very useftd vegetable for flavor- 

 ir/g soups and stews, and for gar- 

 nishing? For flavoring, the green 

 leaves are used, or they may be dried 

 crisp, rubbed to a powder, and kept 

 in bottles until needed. 



CuLTCRE.— It requires rich, mel- 

 low soil, and the seed is slow to ger- 

 minate. Sow the seed as early m 

 the spring as possible, and when the 

 plants are two inches high, trans- 



Hollow Crown 



Carter's Fern-Leaved. 



plant. The oftener the plants are transplanted and cut 

 back, the finer and more perfect the leaves will be. 

 When well grown, each plant will form a handsome 

 rosette eighteen inches or more in diameter. 



Carter s Fern-Leaved.— A new variety, introduced 

 by Messrs. Carter, of London. It is of most beautiful 

 form and coloring, and is well adapted for garnishing 

 dishes on the table, and also makes a very ornamental 

 plant in the flower garden. 



Fine Triple Curled.— A fine, dwarfish, curled vari- 

 ety, long cultivated in England. In some gardens it is 

 grown in such perfection as to resemble a tuft of finely 

 curled moss. It is hardy, and slow in running to seed, 

 but liable to degenerate, as it constantly tends to in- 

 crease in size, and to become less curled. 



Myatt s Garnishing 



Myatt's Garnishing.— This variety is larger, and 

 the plant of stronger habit than the preceding, with 

 foliage as finely curled. The leaves are bright green 

 above, paler beneath. Admirably adapted for garnish- 

 ing purposes. 



PEAS, 



Fr. Pais. — Ger. Erbsen. 



The Pea is so generally used that it is needless to give 

 any description of it. The varieties are numerous, and 

 every year adds to their number. These new varieties 

 are tested upon our trial grounds, and a full stock of 

 anything which proves to be superior to those on our 

 list is secured at once, but the great mass of them are 

 found to be no better than the older sorts. The list we 

 offer we believe includes nearly every pea of distinctive 

 merit now in cultuation. 



Culture. — For early peas, the soil should be light, 

 warm and sheltered, but for general crop, a moderately 

 heavy soil is better. Sow as early as possible a few of 

 the earliest variety on warm, quick soil prepared the fall 

 before. The general crop can be delayed until later, 

 but we have met with better success from sowing all the 

 varieties comparatively early, depending for succession 

 upon selecting sorts that follow each ether in ripening. 

 The very earliest may be covered only one inch deep, 

 and wili be the earlier for it • the other sorts should be 

 covered from two to six inches deep, the deep planting 

 preventing mildew, and prolonging the season. Fresh 

 manure or wet, mucky soil should be avoided, as they 

 cause the vines to grow too rank and tall. 



The crop should be gathered as fast as it becovies 

 fit for use. If even a feiv pods begin to ripen, young 

 pods -duill not only cease to form, but those partly ad- 

 vanced will cease to enlarge. 



All Wrinkled Pe.\s are superior to, and more del- 

 icate in fiaz'or than, those that present a full and 

 perfect form : like the sugar corn, the saccharine 

 matter tvhich they contain causes them to shriT-el 

 when dried, and they zvill remain much Umger in 

 leason than other kinds. 



