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FERRY-MORSE SEED CO. 



ENDIVE 



Code Word 



Broad Leaved Batavian or Escarolle egotist 



Grown in market gardens and for shipping. Plants large; leaves 

 broad, thick, somewhat twisted; heart very compact and blanches 

 readily. 



Green Curled, green ribbed emblaze 



A variety with deeply cut leaf margins but not ciu-led as is Moss 

 Cm-led. It is medium large in size and blanches well at the heart 

 in late summer and fall. The mid-ribs or stems are pme green. 



Large Green Curled, pink ribbed emergent 



A late, coarsely toothed variety of good size, wliich forms a good, 

 blanched heart in the late fall. The mid-rib or leaf stem is tinged 

 with rose. 



FENNEL 



Code Word 



Florence (Sweet Anise) farler 



Grown in home and market gardens. Plant S^ 2 — i ft- tall. Chiefly 

 grown for the bulb-hke structure formed by the enveloping thick- 

 ened bases of the stalks of the lower leaves. This is aromatic and 

 of a dehcate sweet flavor. Sweet Fennel is quite different and 

 forms no "bulbs." 



GARLIC 



Bulbs GARLIC 



The bulbs are composed of numerous "cloves" or di^dsions in- 

 closed in a common base by papery- husks. These "cloves" are 

 used in the manner of onion "sets'" for propagation. Extensively 

 grown in some sections for shipment, particularly to areas of 

 large foreign-born population where the bulbs are used for flavor- 

 ing and as an ingredient of many meat dishes. 



HORSE RADISH 



Code Word 



Small Roots, Maliner-Kren haxch 



Never propagated from seeds. Very generalh* grown in home 

 gardens and gi'o-^Ti on a large scale in certain sections for the 

 manufactm-e of rehsh. Mahner-Kren is an improved variety 

 which produces thriftier, larger plants v<rit\i larger roots than 

 common horse-radish. 



1 lb. 



25 lbs. 



or more 



or more 



per lb. 



per lb. 



so.so 



.SO.7.5 



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.80 



1 lb. 



5 lbs. 



or more 



or more 



per lb. 



per lb. 



SI. 00 



SI. 00 



Per 100 roots 

 SI. 25 





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Leek Trials 



Otu- seed stocks are retained or rejected on the basis of their behavior in trial. Here one of 

 our expert plant breeders is judging trials of Leek stocks. 



