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SELECT GENERAL LIST OF VEGETABLE SEEDS. 
Mr. william BULL’S 
SELECT GENERAL LIST OF VEGETABLE SEEDS. 
In the following General List of Vegetable Seeds, Mr. William Bull has excluded 
all varieties of doubtful origin and quality, only the most distinct and useful varieties 
in each section being quoted. The Stocks of all seeds have been carefully selected 
from the most eminent cultivators at home and on the Continent, and their growth 
having been effectually tested, they are confidently offered as being the very best 
that can bo procured. 
ARTICHOKES. 
s. d> 
GKEEN GLOBE . per ox. 1 0 
PURPLE GLOBE „ 1 0 
Sow in .April in rich soil, and transplant ic/un strong. In making a plantation, procure in 
March xcell-rooted suckers, trim the straggling tops and roots, but do not shorten the perfect leaves ; 2 >lant 
in rotas i feet apart, ami 30 inches from plant to plant. 
ASPARAGUS. 
s. d. 
COLOSSAL (Connover^s) per oz. 0 8 
READING GIANT or BATTERSEA per Ib., 3s. U. „ 0 3 
During the third week in March, sow the seed in drills J2 or 15 inches apart, on well-drained 
light ground that has been heavily manured the previous autumn; the seed may be covered to the depth 
of half an inch ; when the plants are up thin out to 6 inches apart. 
BEANS. 
Per qt. — s. (1. 
DWARF GREEN GEM {Deck’s), 1 foot high, branching habit, and abundant cropper . .10 
EARLY LONG-POD, a good early sort 0 8 
EARLY MAZAGAN, very hardy best for eai-ly crop O'# 
GREEN LONG-POD NONPAREIL, early, and mild in flavour 10 
MONARCH LONG-POD, large, an excellent bearer ; one of the best for main erops . . 0 10 
AVONDERFUL LONG-POD (Johnson's), very prolific 0 10 
AVINDSOR, BROAD, pods broad and short ; is considered the best for summer crop . .13 
WINDSOR, GREEN, rather smaller than the preceding, but of a deep green colour . .10 
For succcssional ami nuiin cro})s, sow in February and every month umtil June. The later kinds 
.should be ylanJted in drills 3 inches deep, i to 5 inches apart in the rmes, the rows to be 3 feet ajmrt. A 
deep, strong, tenacious soil is most suitable, trenched 2 feet deep, arul liberally tnanured. 
BEANS, CLIMBING or RUNNING. 
Perqt.— s. d 
CHAMPION SCARLET RUNNERS, a fine vaiiety, producing very large pods . .28 
SCARLET RUNNERS 10 
AVHITE DUTCH or CASE KNIFE, pods long and of excellent flavour 2 0 
These are planted in the open ground in rows 3 or 4 feet apart, about the beginning of May. If ’hcn 
3 inches high, earth and stake ; the stakes used to be about 8 feet high, and when the plants have 
reached, the required height, they should be stopped to cause thorn to produce laterals. 
