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CURTIS & COBB S 



ENGLISH FRAME CUCUMBERS. 



Varieties best adapted for forcing. Each, per packet, 25 cts. 

 These are deserving a more extended cultivation. The varieties are 

 very choice, and, when once introduced, become general favorites. 



Curtis's Boston prize. A very 

 superior, black-spined variety ; fine 

 flavor, solid flesh. 



General Grant. 



Cuthill's black spine. 



Manchester prize. 



Minster Abbey. 



Sion House Improved. 



Gladiator. 



Pike's defiance. 



And many other varieties. 

 DANDELION (Leontodon Taraxacum). 

 German, Lowenzalin. French, Dent de Lion. Spanish, Dent de Leon. 

 The D ndslion will thrive in almost any description of soil. The prod- 

 uct, 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 cul- 

 tivated for spring greens, or for blanching, for salad, the seed must be 

 sown in May or June. Thin out the plants in July, and cultivate in the 

 usual form ; and, in April or May of the ensuing spring, the plants will be 

 fit for the table. 



Hatch's market prize. Per pkt., 10 35 



EGG-PLANT. 



French, Aubergine. German, Cierpflanze. Spanish, Berengena, 



Sow thickly on a hotbed for early crops, or early in the spring, in a warm, 

 sheltered, dry situation, in open ground, where they can be protected by 

 hand-glasses. When the plants are three or four inches high, and the 

 warm weather has set in, transplant them into well-enriched ground, about 

 thirty inches apart each way. Draw earth to the plants as they advance in 

 growth. At the South, it is called " Guinea Squash." 



Per oz. 



Early long purple. The earliest and most productive. Fruit long, and 



of superior quality. Per pkt., 10 . . 50 



Improved New-York purple. This variety is generally cultivated. 

 It grows to a large size ; oval shape, and dark-purple color. A supe- 

 rior market variety. Per pkt., 10. . . 75 



Guadaloupe Striped. Fruit nearly ovoid, smaller than the Long Pur- 

 ple ; skin, white and variegated with purple ; very delicate for culinary 

 purposes. Per pkt, 10. 



Pekin black. A new variety, from Pekin, producing very remarkable, 

 large, round fruit, weighing six to eight pounds each. Per pkt., 25. 



New green. A giant variety, from Thibet, the fruit attaining above a foot 

 in length. Per pkt., 25. 



White ornamental. Per pkt, 10. 



Scarlet « " 10. 



ENDIVE. 



French, Chicoree-endive. German, Enaiven. Spanish, Endibia. 



For a summer crop, sow at intervals during the season, making the first 

 sowing about the first week in May ; when the plants are three to four 

 1 inches high, thin out, or transplant them ; blanch by tying up as for Cos 

 Lettuce. For winter use, sow in August, in a sheltered situation ; trans- 

 plant into a frame where they can be protected from frost, and blanch by 

 covering with a flower-pot 



