RELIABLE VEGETABLE SEEPJ 



EGG PLANT ^^.ger. 



Aubergine, Fr 

 Berenjena, Sp. 



One ounce will produce about 1000 plants. 

 Culture — Egg Plant seed requires a higher temperature for germination 

 than any other vegetable, and this temperature should be maintained right 

 along in order to maintain strong and healthy growth. Sow the seeds in 

 hotbeds, early in March. When 3 inches high, pot the young plants, using 

 small pots, and plunge them in the same bed, so that the plants may become 

 stocky. They can be planted out from the pots when the season becomes 

 sufficiently warm, in May or June. The soil can hardly be made too rich. 

 Set the plants in open ground, allowing 3 feet space between the rows, and 2 

 feet space between the plants in the row. Watch for the potato beetle. This 

 pest, as well as blight, may be controlled by spraying with Bordeaux Arsenate 

 of Lead Mixture or by dusting the plants with Slug Shot. 

 404 Early Black Beauty. Spineless, with rich purplish black skin; 

 very attractive and of best quality. This beautiful Egg Plant is 

 improved to the limit, but is exacting in its call for rich, warm soil. 

 The plants are remarkably healthy in their growth and produce an 

 abundance of large fruit, earlier than the New York Improved. 

 The favorite sort for show purposes. Pkt., 15 cts.; § oz., 40 cts.; 

 oz., 70 cts.; \ lb., $2.00. 

 407 New York Improved Large Purple. Produces the fruits in 

 great quantities, plants averaging from 4 to 6 fruits each. They 

 are large, nearly round, dark purple, free of thorns and of excel- 

 lent quality. Pkt., 10cts.;£oz.,40cts.;oz., 70 cts.; J lb., $2.00. 

 406 Early Long Purple. Earliest, hardiest and very productive. The 

 fruits are long and of good quality, measure 6 to 10 inches long and 

 best for very early use. Flavor is in the opinion of many, finer than 

 the two large sorts offered above. Pkt., 10 cts.; f oz., 40 cts.; oz., 70 

 cts.; i lb., $2.00. 



Plants of Egg Plant are offered on page 196. 



Black Beauty Egg I'lant 



ENDIVE 



Chicoeer, Fr. Endibia o Escarola, Sp. Endivie, Ger. 



One ounce of seed to 200 feet of row. 



CULTURE — Endive is one of the best and most wholesome salads for fall and winter use. Sow in shallow drills in April for early 

 use or for late use in June or July. When 2 or 3 inches high transplant into good ground or thin out to 1 foot apart. When nearly full 

 grown and before they are fit for the table they must be bleached. This is done by gathering the leaves together and tying with yarn or 

 raffia to exclude the light and air from the inner leaves which must be done when quite dry or they will rot. Another method is to cover 

 the plants with boards or slats. In three or four weeks they will be blanched. After a shower the boards must be taken off or the plants 

 untied, to allow drying. 



Broad-leaved Batavian Endive 



410 Broad-leaved Batavian (Escarolle). A fav- 

 orite salad variety, with wide, wavy leaves edges 

 of which are cut and irregular. Inner leaves 

 blanch nicely to a creamy-white, tender, and of 

 very agreeable flavor. Pkt., 10 cts. ; oz., 25 cts.; 

 i lb., 65 cts. 



412 Dreer's Giant Fringed. (See Specialties, 



page 2.) Pkt., 10 cts. ; oz., 25 cts. ; | lb., 65 cts. 

 414 Green Curled Winter. Standard sort for 

 fall and winter crop. Very hardy and vigorous. 

 Easy to blanch. Pkt., 10 cts.; oz., 25 cts.; 

 \ lb., 65 cts. 



4 1 6 White Curled {Self-blanching). Plants 14 to 

 16 inches across, leaves pale green, finely cut, 

 crisp and very tender. Pkt., 10 cts.; oz., 25 

 cts.; \ lb., 65 cts. 



FINNOCCHIO 



or Florence Fennel 



418 A vegetable which should be more widely 

 grown. It is extensively used in Italy as a 

 salad, but is particularly palatable when served 

 boiled, with a cream dressing. When the en- 

 largement of leaf stalk at base of stem is about 

 the size of a hen's egg it should be earthed up 

 so as to cover half of it, and in about ten days 

 cutting for use may be commenced and con- 

 tinued as the plants grow. Pkt., 10 cts.; oz., 

 25 cts.; 1 lb., 75 cts. 



Cheap seeds produce poor quality vegetables 



