64 BARR & SUGDEN'S COMPENDIUM 



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James' Scarlet Short Top, a good useful sort , 



Altringham, selected, grows to a. large size, and is prized for garden and field culture 



Large White Belgian, best for cattle, produces an immense crop 



Large Orange Belgian, considered superior to the white variety 



OUR OWN SELECTION. 



12 ounces in 6 best varieties 3 616 ounces in 6 best varieties 



LEEK. 



Ayton Castle New Giant (Syn. Henry's Prize Giant), a very superior large variety. . . . 

 Rouen, a first-class very large-growing variety .« 



Musselburgh, very superior, may be grown to the weight of 3 or 4 lbs 



ONION. 



White Spanish {true Reading), the mildest in flavour, and most useful for main crop. 

 Deptford, or Brown Spanish, similar to the above but brown, a good keeping variety. 



Brown Globe, a hardy useful kind 



White Globe, a mild -flavoured and a good keeping variety 



Giant Madeira, a fine variety, grows to a great size, and very mild flavoured 



Blood Red, a very useful hardy kind 



Strasburgh, a very hardy brown skinned variety 



Covent Garden Small Silver Skinned, the best for pickling 



„ „ Silver Skinned, a larger form of the above, and the very best variety for 





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„ New White, very fine, mild, much prized variety 



Danvers' New Yellow, a large brown skinned variety, an excellent keeper, highly 

 recommended. Our specimens of this valuable onion were awarded a First 

 Class certificate at the International Fruit Show of the Horticultural Society, 1865 0 4. .1 0 



Trebons, a very large brown-skinned mild-flavoured variety. From the quarter at the 

 Royal Horticultural Gardens, Chiswick, devoted to proving Onions 4 in 186G, Ave 

 selected bulbs from this variety, which were so similar to Nuneham Park that 

 the best judges failed to distinguish the difference. There are two forms of this 

 fine Onion, one being globular, and the other flat 0 4..1 0 



Nuneham Park, a very large brown-skinned variety. In the Royal Horticultural So- 

 ciety's grounds, at Chiswick, we saw this variety growing by the side of the White 

 Spanish, which it exactly resembled; and the Fruit Committee of the Royal Horti- 

 cultural Society, judging both from the roots grown at Chiswick, and from the 

 various collections shown at the meetings of the Committee, pronounced this to be 

 identical with the White Spanish. Mr. Stewart, who introduced the Nuneham 

 Park, showed very large specimens of it, which he reported to haA r e been grown 

 side by side with the White Spanish, and on his land yielded double the weight of 

 the White Spanish in original packets 2 6. . . . 



Welch, or Two-bladed . . 0 G 



White Lisbon, the variety sown in autumn by market gardeners for spring onions 0 4 



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12 ounces in 6 best varieties 6 0|6 ounces in 6 best varieties 3 G 



PARSNIP. Per pkt. peroz. 



" The Student," a superior flavoured variety, with clean handsome roots 0 4..0 6 



Hollow Crown Improved, the most useful for main crop 0 3 . . 0 4 



True Jersey Marrow, a large valuable sort 0 4 



New Parsnip Chervil, much esteemed by some 0 6..1 0 



RAMPION. 



Rampion 0 6.. 2 0 



SALSIFY. 



Salsify, or Vegetable Oyster, so called from the peculiar oyster-flavour of this much 



esteemed root 0 4..0 9 



SCORZONERA. 



Scorzonera 0 4..0 9 



SKIRRET. 



Skirret 0 4..1 0 



TURNIP. y pint pgr oz< 



Early White Dutch, early, sweet, and juicy when young, but soon loses this quality . . 1 6. .0 3 

 American Strap-leaf, superior flavour, rapid growth ; crisp and sweet for a long time . 1 9 . . 0 3 

 Covent Garden Snowball, a very early, small, compact variety of superior quality .... 1 9 . . 0 3 



