DUPUY & FERGUSON, 38 JACQUES CARTIER SQUARE, MONTREAL 
SWISS CHARD OR SPINACH BEET 
Giant Lucullus. 
_The leaves of this spinach beet are crumpled similar to 
the Bloomsdale or Savoy Leaved Spiaach. If cut when 
about 6 to 8 Inches high, it can be used the same as spinach. Its habit of growth is 
such that you can cut it at intervals throuRhout the entu-e season till frost. If allowed 
to grow, the plant will attain the height of 2 H feot and consist, when fully developed, 
of about a dozen creamy white 8tall<s. about 12 Inches long, that can be cooked like 
asparagus and is very tender and delicious. It yields an abundant supply of delicious 
greens and should be in every garden. It ta the one vegetable that is alwa.vs ready 
to use. One ounce will sow about 100 feet of drill. Pkt., 10 ets.; oz.. 30 cts.; 
>i lb.,. 80 cts. 
CURLED CHERVIL 
Used for flavoring and garnishing dishes of meats and vegetables. The leaves 
are ready for use in six to ten weeks from sowing the seed. Sow in early spring in 
rich, well prepared soil, and when plants are well-established transplant to about one 
foot apart. One ounce will sow about 100 feet of drill. Pkt., 10 ets.; oz., 50 cts.; 
^ lb.. $1.50. 
WHITLOOF CHICORY OR FRENCH ENDIVE 
Is an easily grown crop for salad In winter. 
This makes one of the most delicious of all winter salads. The seed is sown in 
good rich soil in May or June and then transplanted to 9 inches apart. In autumn 
the roots are taken up, those which have divided, or too narrow leaves being thrown 
aside, if any such are met with, as well as any wlilch bear several heads. The leaves 
of all the selected roots are then trimmed off about 1 H inch from the neck, and any 
secondary shoots tliat may appear on the sides of the roots are picked out. the lower 
end of the roots being also shortened so as to bring them all to a uniform length of 
8 to 9 inches. The roots are then planted in earth in a dark, cool place in the cellar 
or under a greenhouse bench. Finely blanched crisp leaves are thrown out, and 
when cut, new leaves form. The leaf growth furnishes a delicious salad or it may 
be cooked in the same manner as Sea Kale. Pkt., 10 cts.: oz.. 50 cts,; a lb., SI. 50. 
Large Rooted. — Requires similar treatment to carrot. The root is used to mix 
with coffee, and the leaves as a salad. Pkt.. 10 cts.: oz., 50 cts.: a lb., SI. 40. 
Fried Egg Plant 
Peel and cut> an egg plant into one-quarter inch slices, dust with salt and 
pepper, roll in beaten egg yolk, then in fine bread crumbs, and fry in deep fat. 
Stuffed Egg Plant 
1 egg plant, 1 cup softened stale bread crumbs. 2 tablespoons butter, H 
tablespoon finely chopped onion, 1 beaten egg, salt, popper and paprika to' 
taste. 
Cook egg plant fifteen minutes in enough boiling salted water to cover. 
Cut a slice from the top and remove pulp, taking care not to come too close 
to the skin. Chop pulp and add crumbs. 
Melt butter in frying pan, add onion and fry five minutes. Add chopped 
pulp, crumbs and seasoning and cook five minutes. Let cool slightly, add 
beaten egg and refill egg plant. Covet with buttered bread crumbs ( H table- 
spoon melted butter to i4 cup crumbs) and bake twenty-flve minutes in a hot 
oven. 
Whitloof Chicory 
Egg Plant New York mproved. 
EGG PLANT 
Sow the seed thickly in 
a hot bed in March. When 
three inches high pot the 
young plants, using small 
pots, and plunge them in the 
same bed, so that the plants 
mav become stocky. They 
can be planted out from the 
potswhen theseason becomes 
sufficiently warm, in rows 
two feet apart and one foot 
in the rows. One ounce will 
produce about 1,000 plants. 
The soil can hardly be made too rich. After settled warm weather 
has set in, set the plants in open ground, allowing .3 feet space between 
ttie rows, and 2 feet space between the planis In the row. Watch for 
the potato beetle. This pest as well as blight may be controlled by 
spraying with Arsenate of Lead 
M "Vr^flr In-inrrxrarl This is the Very best type of this standard 
111. I urK impruvcu. variety. Absolutely spineless; the plants 
grow low, stocky and brandling; early and almost continuous bearer. 
The fruits are very large, smooth and have a rich satiny purple colour. 
I'kt., 10 cts.; oz., $1.50. 
Black Beauty. — From 10 to 12 days earlier than New York improved. 
The fruits arc broad, thick, of most attractive form and finest flavor. Its 
rich, lustrous, purple-black colour is very uniform. Fine for the home 
garden. Mot so good a ylelder as New York. Pkt., 10 cts.; oz., $1,50. 
Long Purple. — Very hardy; early and productive. Per pkf.. 10 cts.; 
oz.. $1.50. 
Early White Bound. — Per pkt., 10 cts.; oz.. $1.50. 
Egg Plants. — (See page .'lO)- 
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