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SELECT GENERAL LIST OP VEGETABLE SEEDS. 
CUCUMBER. 
Per pkt. — s. 
BERKSHIRE CHAMPION, a very fine fruiting white-spined variety 
BLACK SPINE (Cuthill’s), one of the best for general use, an abundant bearer . 
CHAMPION (Carter’s), a good winter sort, and an excellent bearer ; fruit solid and firm 
Dr. LIVINGSTONE, a black-spined variety, fruit fine dark green colour, 18 inches long 
EMPRESS EUGENIE, an excellent white-spined variety, fruit 18 inches long 
GLORY OP HANTS, vide page 56 
HIGHLAND MARY, a good bearer and early ; black spine .... 
INVINCIBLE (Hamilton’s), vide page 56 
KIRKLEES HALL DEFIANCE, a very handsome free-fruiting variety, white spine ; excel- 
lent for summer and winter use ............ 
LORD KENYON’S FAVOURITE, a well-known variety, fine for winter ; whito spine . 
MARKET FAVOURITE (Hamilton’s), fruit about 16 inches long, of uniform thieknoss 
throughout ; a very handsome variety ........... 
NEWTON HERO (Dickson’s), a handsome white-spined variety, about 18 inches long, round 
and even 
PRINCE ALBERT (Cuthill’s), black spine ; a first-rate winter sort 
SION HOUSE IMPROVED, a greatly esteemed variety of the white-spined section ; excel- 
lent for winter. ............... 
d. 
0 
0 
0 
0 
0 
6 
0 
6 
6 
0 
1 0 
1 0 
STAR OF THE WEST (Lynch’s), a first-rate winter variety, very prolific; the fruit is quite 
round, and free from any ribs or roughness of the skin ; white spine 10 
TELEGRAPH, true ; a very handsome long-fruited, black-spined variety, of first-rate quality 1 6 
RIDGE VARIETIES. 
A 1 RIDGE (Henderson’s), an excellent variety for opon-air culture, possessing hardiness of 
constitution, robust growth, and a most abundant and continuous bearer . . . .06 
SHORT PRICKLY, for pickling 0 3 
STOCKWOOD LONG RIDGE, very fine for open-air culture 0 6 
Cucumbers to be successful/!/ forced must have a brisk bottom heat, of 75° , and a moist atmosphere 
ranging from 65° to 75°. Sow the seal in pots or pans, and when the plants have produced their seed 
leaves , pot them of, either singly , or two or three round the sides of a pot ; when the pots are filed with 
roots , and the led at a proper temperature, carefully turn them out, and plant on mounds of rich turfy 
loam, and give them a gentle matering. Keep up a steady growing heat, and attend to stopping, thinning, 
and setting the fowers. 
The seed of Ridge Cucumbers is usually sown in pots or pans, and placed on a gentle heat, ; the plants 
when strong enough are potted of, and about the nul of May should be planted out into prepared trenches 
filed with manure in a state of fermentation, over which a layer of rich light soil 0 inches deep has been 
placed. After planting, protect with hand-glasses lentil the plants are established. 
EGG PLANT. 
Per pkt. — s. 
d. 
Per i)kt. — s. 
d. 
GIANT WHITE 0 
6 
LARGE PURPLE . 
. 0 
3 
GIANT STRIPED, from Guadaloupe . 0 
6 
SCARLET 
. 0 
6 
GIANT PURPLE 0 
6 
WHITE . 
. 0 
6 
Egg Plants when well cultivated are curious and interesting objects in the greenhouse or conservatory, 
and are also usef ul as garnishing plants. The time of solving and treatment is the same as recommended 
for Capsicum. 
ENDIVE. Peres.-,, a. 
BATAVIAN GREEN, a smooth broad-leaved variety 10 
BATAVIAN, IMPERIAL WHITE, a very superior broad-leaved variety . . . .10 
DIGSWELL PRIZE, vide page 56 per pkt. 1 0 
GREEN CURLED, very hardy, blanches readily ......•••10 
MOSS CURLED, beautifully curled like moss .......••• 1 0 
WHITE CURLED, very tender when cut young, but grows tough and bitter with ago . .10 
For first, crop sow about the middle of May, and for succession in June and July. When the plants 
are 2 or 3 inches high thin them out , or transplant into moderately rich and rather light soil , 
1 foot apart. It is not necessary to transplant, for very fne plants may be produced in the seed bed. 
Water freely in dry weather. When the plants arc nearly full grown they must be prepared for the 
table by blanching , as otherwise they would be too bitter for use ; this is done in different ways, some 
tying them up, others using tiles, slates, or flower pots. 
