102 BARR & SUGDEN'S SPRING SEED CATALOGUE, 



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Cuthill's Higliland Mary, an excellent bearer, and very early, medium size 1 0 



Dickson's Newton Hero, a very excellent white spine variety , I 0 



I>r. Iiivlng'StOIie, the best of the black spine varieties 1 0 



Ellesmere Black Si.iue, very handsome fruit 1 0 



Godfrey's White Spine, a very sui)erior handsome sort, of a fine dark green colour 1 0 



Hamilton's Market I'avourite, a very handsome and superior kind 1 0 



Himalaya White Spine, a very handsome variety 1 0 



Zmproved Blanchester Prize, a very superior and useful white spined variety .. 1 0 



Iinproveii Sion House, a very frec-bearinj; early variety 0 6 



K.enyon's Zmproved, ihc very best of the white spined Sion House varieties 1 0 



ZLirkless Kail Defiance, a verv tine white spine variety 1 0 



Mill's Jewess, Black Spine, a very fine kind 1 0 



Ne plus Ultra, very long, and a favourite sort 1 0 



Phenomenon, a very hantisorae and superior flavoured variety 1 0 



Sug-den's Aldershott, a splendid long handsome fruit, iine for exhibitors, may be 



grown to the length of 3 feet 1 0 



Webb's Imperial White Spine 1 0 



And many other varieties. 



RIDGE CUCUMBERS. 



Prepakajuon of the Soil. — Select a sheltered situation, and dig oat trenches about two feet 

 deep and three feet wide, filling them with a mixture of leaves and stable manure in a state of 

 fermentation, or with any other material at command wliich will furuish a gentle warmth. If stable 

 manure and leaves are used they should be thrown up in a heap in order to induce a brisk fermenta- 

 tion by the time they arc wanted, and should be trodden into the trenches rather firmly, so as to 

 prevent their heating too much. Cover with soil to the depth of a foot or a little more, and if the 

 ground is of a .stiff clayey nature, the soil for covering should be mixed with decayed leaves, or well 

 rotted manure, so as to make it light and rich. 



Ti.MK AND ]Ma>nki£ OF SowiKG. — The seed should be sown in the first or second week in 

 April, in j ots or j aus tilled with light soil, covering it about half an inch. Place in a cucumber 

 frame, or dther place where a most gentle heat is maintained. As soon as the plants have made their 

 seed leaves, and before t|iey get drawn or weakened, shift them into five inch pots, putting two plants 

 in each, and replace them in a warm moist situation, and to keep them dwarf and stocky place them 

 near the gUiss, and when the plants get established and moderately strong gradually expose them to 

 a freer admission of air, and endeavour to have them well prepared for planting out by the middle or 

 end of ^lay. 



Planting and after •Ccltdre. — Wlien the soil is well warmed, without any danger of its 

 becoming too hot, put in the plants, allowing two feet si.K inches or three feet between each pair, 

 and cover with hand glasses, or any substitute which will admit light and afford shcltv'r. When 

 the plants begin to grow raise the glasses every fine day to admit air, then place them upon 

 bricks so as to allow the shoots to grow from under them, and when the plants are well established 

 and the weather is warm they may be removed altogether. Carefully regulate the shoots, stopping 

 them if necessary to get the ground properly covered with wood, and not allowing rhem to grow 

 too closely together. 



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Henderson's A 1, (new), a very superior black spine variety, the best of this section. 



hardy, of robust growth, growing from ten to fifteen inches long 1 0 



ZlSanderin {new), a very superior variety from Chiua, fruit short, smooth, and thick; we 



recommend it I 0 



Stockwood's Selected Ziong* Ztidg'e, a very productive black spine variety, 



having tliree to four fruit, twelve to eighteen inches long at each joint 0 4 



Wood's Selected Ziong' Zlidg'e, a very excellent [jrolific black spine vai-iet)', with 



long handsome fruit 0 4 



Long Priekley 0 3 



Girkiiis for pickling 0 3 



EGG PLANT (AUBERGINE). 



Time and Mannek of Sowing. — The sccil should be sown in March, or early in Aiiril, in a well 

 drainetl pot of light rich soil, and covered lightly. Place the pots in a cucumber or melon frame, or 

 where a moderate heat is maintained, and keep the soil moist. Wlieu the ])lants are fairly up place 

 them singly in small pots, using rich soil, and replace in the same temperature near to the glass. 

 When they have started into growth, induce a bushy habit by pinching out the poiuts as frequently 

 as may be necessary. 



Aftkk Managkment. — As soon as the plants have well fillc<l the first pots with roots shift them 

 into others two sixes larger, using rich light soil, and keep them well snpiilied with water at the roots. 

 If thev are intended for decorative purposes, they should be sliilted into eight or ten-inch pots before 

 the roots become matted. Stop the shoots at tlie first joint beyond tlic fruit as soon as this is set, and 

 keep them in a moist warm situation until the fruit attains a fair si/,e, wh.Mi they may be placed in a 

 cool house. But if tlic plants are lo be grown with (he view of obtaining the largest possilde croj) of 

 fruit, they shoulil in favourahle loculilies be jilanted out \\ hen the weather becomes warm in prcjiared 

 trenches, such as recommended for ridge encumbers, atl'ording the protection of hand glasses until 



