CATALOGUE OF SEEDS. 



DANDELION. 



Per pkt, 



This culinary vegetable has become one of the most popular vege- 

 tables in our markets. As an early, healthful green, it has no equal. 

 Our market-gardeners devote large areas of land and glass to its cul- 

 ture. The roots are also dried, and much used as a substitute for coffee. 

 It will thrive in almost any description of soil : the product, however, 

 is much larger when grown in mellow, well-enriched soil. Sow in 

 drills half an inch deep, and twelve or fifteen inches apart. If culti- 

 vated for spring greens, or for blanching for salad, sow in May or 

 June, thin out the plants in July, and cultivate in the usual form of 

 cultivating other garden productions ; and, in April or May of the en- 

 suing spring, the plants will be fit for the table. 



For early use, select of the bed equal to the supply required, and in 

 November spread it rather thickly over with coarse stable-manure. 

 Early in February, remove the litter, and protect with a hot-bed frame, 

 or any other mode that the plants may be covered with glass, with a due 

 inclination towards the south. Add extra protection by covering with 

 straw or other material in intensely cold weather. Thus treated, the 

 plants will be ready two or three weeks earlier than those in the open 

 ground. 



Hatch's Market Prize. 35 cts. per oz., $4.00 per lb 10 



French. Large-leaved (improved) 25 



" Thick-leaved (improved) 25 



EGG-PLANT. 



Guadaloupe striped. Fruit nearly ovoid ; skin white, variegated with purple ; 



very delicate for culinary purposes 10 



Pekin black. A variety from Pekin, producing very large, round fruit, 



weighing six to eight pounds 15 



LETTUCE. 



Curtis' s summer cabbage. A fine, firm, solid lettuce; very superior . . .15 



Carter's giant white Cos. The best white Cos Lettuce known as regards size, 



crispness, and flavor ; stands the summer well. Per oz., $1.00 . . .10 



LEEK. 



Musselburg. Very superior ; may be grown to the weight of three and four 



pounds. Per oz., 30 . . .10 



MELON. 



Acliapesnoricher. New, hardy, ridge melon ; flavor equal to those grown in a 



frame .25 



Princess Alexandria. A new hybrid, of globular shape, pale-green colored 



l- flesh, with very little pulp ; delicate pine-apple flavor 25 



Jenny Lind. The smallest and earliest variety ; netted and slightly ribbed ; 



nearly round ; of excellent flavor. Per oz. .25 10 



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