D. M. Ferry & Go's Descriptive Catalogue. 



Lane's Improved Imperial Sugar. — This superb 

 variety is the result of a careful selection for several 

 years of the French Imperial Sugar Beet. After careful 

 trial we recommend it as being hardy, productive and 

 very sweet. 



Long Red Mangel 'Wurzel.— A large, long variety, 

 grown for stock feedinsf. It stands a good deal out of 

 ground ; color IJght red ; flesh white and rose colored. 



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D. M. Ferry &. Co"s Improved Mammoth Long 

 Red Mange' Wurzel. 



D. M. Ferry & Co's Improved Mammoth Long 

 Red Mangel V/urzel. — 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 W^urzel.— 

 Very Iari,'e, growinsr well out of ground. The roots are 

 well formed, straight, smooth, and of a fine scarlet color, 

 with coraparativeiy 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. 



Carter's Warden Prize Yellow Globe Mangel 

 Wurzel. — A most e.xcdllent, yellow fleshed, globe \an- 

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ety. The tops are small, and the roots, although large, 

 are of excellent quality. Average weight fifteen to 

 eighteen pounds. Highly recommended for shallow 

 soil. 



Yello^v Ovoid. — Root ovoid, intermediate between 

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

 zoned with yellow ; hardy, vigorous and productive. 



Red Globe Mangel Wurzel. — Similar to Yellow 

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



BROCOJLI. 



Fr. Ckojt Broco/i. — Ger Spargel Kohl. 



Although originating from a very distinct type, the 

 modern improved sorts of Brocoli can scarcely be dis- 

 tinguished from Cauliflower ; the points of difference 

 being that it is generally taller and the heads more 

 divided. By some considered more delicate than the 

 Cauliflower. 



Ci/LTCRE. — The same as that given for Cauliflower 

 on page 20. 



Early Purple Cape.— This is the best variety tor 

 our climate. It produces large heads, of a brownish 

 purple color, very close and compact, and of excellent 

 flavor. 



BRXJSSKI^ SPROUTS. 



Fr. Choti de Brnxelles. — Ger Sprossen Kohl. 

 Culture. — The plant grows two or three feet high, 

 and produce%irom the sides of the stalk numerous little 

 sprouts one or two inches in diameter, resembling cab- 

 bages. The leaves should be broken down in the fall, 

 to give the little cabbages more room to grow. They 

 should be treated in all respects like winter cabbages or 

 kale. 



CABBAGB. 



Fr. Choux Pomtnes. — Ger. Kop/kohl. 



There is no vegetable which may be cultivated with 

 more certainty of success than this, and few if any that 

 are so generally useful, as it may be made to follow 

 other crops, and will give some return no matter how 

 poor the soil or how negligent the cultivation, while it 

 resp£)nds so readily to better care, that it claims a place 

 in the finest garden, and the attention of the most skill- 

 ful gardener. 



Culture. — The requisites for complete success are 

 First, good seed ; there is no vegetable where the seed 

 has more influence on the quality of the product than 

 in this, and gardeners should invariably select the best 

 procurable. .SVr^;/^/. rich, well prepared ground. Third, 

 frequent and thorough cultivation. A heavy, moist and 

 fresh loam is most suitable, which should be highly ma- 

 nured and worked deep. The early sorts should be 

 ] sown very early in hot-beds, hardened off, and trans- 

 planted eighteen to twenty-four inches apart, early in 

 the spring. At the south, sow from the middle of Sep- 

 tember to middle of October, and transplant into cold 

 frames to preserve through winter, setting into open 

 ground as early as possible. 



The late autumn and winter varieties may be sown 

 from the middle to the last of spring, and transplanted 

 when about six inches high, three feet apart each way. 

 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 stumps. In trans- 

 planting, they must be set in the ground up to the jirst 

 leaf, no matter ho-u long the stem may be. 



Cabbages should be hoed every week, and the jfround 

 stirrwd deeper as they advance in growth, drawing up .x 



