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D. M. FERRY & CO'5 DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 



EARLIEST SHORT HORN (for forcing).— The earli- 

 est variety in cultivation, and best suited for forcing. Tops 

 small, finely divided; root dark or reddish-orange, globular, 

 two inches in diameter, with slender tap and grooved at the 

 crown. 



EARLY SCARLET HORN.— Best for early planting 

 out of doors. Tops small, coarsely divided; roots top shaped, 

 but tapering abruptly to a small tap; surface dented, skin 

 orange-red. 



EARLY HALF LONG SCARLET CARENTAN.— 

 Tops very small, roots cylindrical with a remarkably small 

 neck; very handsome, deep orange in color, with scarcely 

 any coi'e, and of the best quality. They can be sown very 

 thick and are well adapted for forcing. 



HALF LONG SCARLET NANTES, STUMP 

 ROOTED.— Tops medium; roots cylindrical, smooth, bright 

 orange; flesh orange, becoming yellow in center, but with 

 no distinct core; of the finest quality. This and the preced- 

 ing are the varieties so extensively used in France for culi- 

 nary purposes, and only need to be known to supersede the 

 coarser sorts for garden culture. 



(HANTEN AY, 



CHANTENAY.— Tops medium size; necks small; roots 

 tapering slightly but uniformly stump rooted and smooth; 

 color deep orange red; flesh very crisp and tender. While 

 this is a medium early sort, it furnishes roots of usable size 

 as early as anj'. is a heavy cropper, and is undoubtedly one 

 of the best for both the market and private gardener, while 

 its great productiveness makes it very desirable as a field 

 sort. 



EARLY HALF LONG SCARLET, STUMP ROOTED. 

 —Excellent for early market or for field culture on shallow 

 soils. Of medium size, flesh bright scarlet, brittle and of fine 

 flavor. 



Early Half Long Scarlet, Stump Rooted. 



GUERANDE, OR OX HEART.— Tops small for the 

 size of the root, specimens of which have been grown which 

 were over seven inches across. They are broad, top shaped, 

 the diameter often exceeding the length and terminate 

 abruptly in a small tap root, and by reason of their shape, 

 very easily dug. Flesh bright orange, fine grained and 



sweet. This is a desirable variety on soils too hard and stiff 

 for the longer growing sorts, as it is not over five or six 

 inches long. It frequently grows as thick as long, thus mak- 

 ing it really as large as the longer sorts. When young, 

 excellent fol- table use, and when mature equally good for 

 stock. 



Danvers. 



DANVERS.— Grown largely everywhere on account of 

 its great productiveness and adaptability to all classes of 

 soils. Tops medium size, coarsely divided; roots deep 

 orange, large but medium length, tapering uniformly to a 

 blunt point, smooth and handsome; flesh sweet, crisp, tender 

 and of a deep orange color. This variety produces as large 

 a bulk with as short roots as any, making it cheaper to grow 

 than the longer sorts. 



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 eigeteen inch drills, for 

 the roots to attain their full size. 



IMPROVED LONG ORANGE.— An improvement on 

 the preceding, obtained by careful selection for years of the 

 best formed and deepest colored roots. Roots proportion- 

 ately shorter than the Long Orange, and smoother, but so 

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

 The most desii-able 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 other white varieties, so that it is otten used for the 

 table. Easily dug, and a very distinct, valuable variety. 



