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Gypsy, or Georgia Rattlesnake. 



Mountain Sweet. — A large, long, oval variety; flesh 

 scarlet, and quite solid to the center ; very sweet and 

 delicious. 



Mountain Sprout. — A large, long, striped variety, 

 with bright scarlet flesh and drab colored seeds ; it dif- 

 fers from the Mountain Sweet in color and shape, is 

 rather late, and will keep longer in the fall. 



Excelsior. — Resembles Mountain Sprout, being 

 beautifully marked with bright green stripes; flesh 

 bright red, delicate and sweet; in size one of the largest. 



Orange. — An oval melcm • skin green; flesh scarlet, 

 of good quality, and is peculiar in that the flesh maybe 

 easily separated from the rind, like an orange. 



Ice Cream. — Medium size, scarlet flesh, and very 

 sweet ; a good variety for main crop. 



Citron. — Employed in making preserves. Grows 

 uniformly round and smooth, striped and marbled with 

 light green. Flesh white and solid ; seeds red. 



about six weeks. Water with luke 

 warm water, and only when quite 

 dry. 



MUSTARO. 



Fr. Montarde. — Qtx. Sen/. 

 Mustard is not only used as a 

 ( ondiment, but the green leaves 

 are used as a salad, or cut and 

 lioiled like spinage. 



Culture. — Should be same as 

 th.at of cress. 



Southern Giant Curled. — 

 This mustard is very highly es- 

 teemed in the south, where the 

 seed is sown in the fall, and the 

 plants used very early in the spring as a .salad. The 

 seed is brown and produces plants which grow about 

 two feet high and form enormous bunches, sLv o/ 

 %uhich ivill fill an ordinary barrel. 



White English.— The leaves are light green, mild 

 and tender when young ; seed light yellow. 



Brown Italian. — This is a larger plant than the 

 preceding, with much darker leaves ; seed brown, and 

 more pungent. 



NASTURTIUM. 



Fr. Cap u cine. — Ger. Kapiiziner Kress. 

 Culture* — Sow after the ground is warm, in drills 

 one inch deep, by the side of a fence, trellis work, or 

 some other support to climb upon. They will thrive in 

 good ground, in almost any situation, but are more pro- 

 ductive in a light soil. 



Tall Mixed.— Cultivated both for use and ornament. 

 Its beautiful, orange colored flowers serve as a gar- 

 nish for dishes, and the young leaves are excellent 

 for salads. The flower buds, scarcely formed, and 

 ^ the green seed pods preserved in vinegar, make a 



pickle greatly esteemed by many. 

 For other varieties, see Flower Seeds. 



OKRA. 



Mushrooms. 



MUSHROOMS. 



The Mushroom is an edible fungus, of a white 

 color, changing to brown when old. The gills are 

 loose, of a pinkish red, changing to liver color. It 

 produces no seed, but instead, a white, fibrous sub- 

 stance in broken threads, called spawn, which is pre- 

 served in horse manure, being pressed in the form of 

 bricks. Thus prepared, it will retain its vitality for 

 years. 



CuLTUKE. — Mushrooms can be grown in the cellar, in 

 sheds, or in hot-beds in open-air, on shelves, or out-o^- 

 the-way places. Fermenting horse manure, at a tem- 

 perature of about 70 degrees, is made into beds the size 

 required, eighteen inches deep. In this bed plant the 

 broken pieces of spawn si.'c inches apart, covering the 

 whole with two inches of light soil, and protect from 

 cold and severe rains. The mushrooms will appear in 



Fr. Goiiibo.— Gev. Oc/ier. 

 lis is an annual from the West Indies, cultivat- 

 eu lor its green seed pods, which are used in soups 

 or stewed and served like asparagus. It is highly 

 esteemed at the south for making gumbo soup. 

 The pods when young and tender should be sliced 

 in sections, strung on a thread and hung up in the 



shade to cure like 



dried apples. In this 



condition it can be 



used for soup at any 



time. 

 Culture. — Sow the 



seed thinly in dry, 



warm soil, in shallow 



drills two feet apart. 



Cover the seeds light- 

 ly. After the plants 



are up, thin them out 



to nine inches apart ; 



hoe frequently and 



draw a little earth to 



the stems as they con- 

 tinue to grow. Gather 



the pods when quite 



half long. 



Okra 

 and about an inch and 



