GARDEN MANUAL FOR THE SOUTHERN STATES. 
Yellow Summer Turnip or Golden Globe. 
Yellow Summer Turnip or 
Golden Globe This stands the heat better 
than the foregoing kind. 
It is of an oblong shape, and of a beautiful bright 
yellow color. UH should be sown verythinly. Best 
adapted for summer and fall sowing. 
Early Scarlet, Olive Shaped. 
This is similar to the Half Long French, but shorter 
and not quiteso bright incolor. It is early and of 
geod quality. Top short. 
Brightest Scarlet or %% Long. 
A decided improvement in earliness and color over 
Roquette. 
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other varieties of its class. Fit for use in about 
twenty-five days, when planted:outdoors; has a small 
top, and no neck, bright searlet color. 
scarlet, Olive-Shaped, White 
Tipped or French Breakfast. 
A handsome Radish of the same shape as the Scarlet 
ber Long French, with end and root white. Quite 
ender. 
>| (Winter.) This is sown 
Black Spanish. during falland early win- 
ter. Itis oval in shape, solid, and stands considera- 
ble cold weather without being hurt. It can be 
sown broadcast betwéen turnips or planted in rows 
afoot apart; thinned out from three to four inches 
in the rows. 
> = (Winter.) This is of a half 
Chinese Rose. long shape, and bright rose 
coior. It is as hardy as the last described, not so 
popular, but superior to the foregoing kind. Con- 
sider it the best winter variety. 
White California -Mammoth. 
This is a winter variety of large size, but can be 
sown here in early spring. Itisthe largest of all 
Radishes, and grows from 8to12 inches long, 2to3 
in diameter. 
> 2 Root white, very smooth 
White Vienna. and clean skinned, straight 
spindle shaped, from 2 to nearly 3 inches long, and 
from 4-5 to 1 inch broad at the top; neck short 
rounded; tinged with green and very narrow at the 
insertion of the leaf stalk; leaves rather large, 
broad and light green. An early variety. 
For PRICE LIST SEE RED PAGES IN BACE OF BOOK. 
Roquette (Fr.) 
CULTURE. 
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of the flavor of oysters. 
than November. 
and thin out to three or four inches in the rows. 
Sandwich Island. 
Sorrel. 
For PrRIcE LIST SEE RED PAGES IN BACK OF BOOK. 
Sorrel. 
Sow from September to March. 
salad; resembles the Cress in taste. 
Salsify or Oyster Plant. 
For PRICE LIST SEE RED PAGES IN BACK OF BOOK. | 
Salsifis (Fr.), Haferwurzel (Ger.), Ostra Vegetal (Sp.), Sassefrica (Ital.) 
A vegetable which ought to be more cultivated than 
It is prepared in different ways, and partakes 
It should be sown in the fall of the year, not later 
The ground ought to be manured the spring previous, 
deeply spaded and well pulverized. Sow in drills, about 10 inches apart, 
(Mammoth.) This is a sort that grows 
much quicker than the old varieties. 
tains a large size; can be called with right mammoth. 
the old kinds and has come into general cultivation, 
Oseille (#r.), 
ampfer (Ger.), Ace- 
CULTURE. 
Plant in drills a foot 
apart, during the fall 
of the year, 
e— thinned out from 3to 
=— 4inches in the drills. 
Sorrel is used for vari- 
ous ptirposes 
kitchen. It is used the 
sameas Spinach, also 
in soup and as salad. 
Tt is used as a 
It at- 
It is superior. to 
Sauer- 
dera (Sp.), 
Acetosa (Ital.) 
and 
in the 
Sandwich Isiand Mammoth 
‘Plant Tobacco Seed for Your Own Consumption. 
