SELECT GENERAL LIST OP VEGETABLE SEEDS. 
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CRESS. 
Per 02 . — s. d. 
AMERICAN or LAND, very Lardy, resembliug Water Cress in flavour 0 6 
AUSTRALIAN or GOLDEN. TMs is a most valuable variety, producing leaves of a delicate 
green colour, and possessing a mild and pleasing flavour 0 4 
COMMON or PLAIN-LEAVED per qt., 2s. 0 2 
CURLED-LEAVED per qt., 2.». 0 2 
WATER CRESS, easily grown in a moist situation per i)kt. 0 6 
Sow the Plain and Cmded-leaved varieties once a week all the summer, on a shady border, and 
during winter and early spring under cover. 
American Cress is a hardy perennial, and is usually sown in May for autumn and winter, and in 
August for spring use, in good rich ground, in linos 12 inches apart, and thin out to about 4 inches 
from plant to plant. 
By successive monthly sowing, Australian Cress may be constantly supplied throughout the sum- 
mer. Sow in drills, and thin out. 
Water Cress is a native plant, and giwvn to most advantage by the edge of a running stream, and 
is easily raised in any moist place. 
CUCUMBER. 
Peri:ikt.— *9. rf. 
BERKSHIRE CHAMPION, a very tine froiting white-spinod variety 10 
BLACK SPINE (CuthilPs), one of the best for general use, an abundant bearer . . .10 
CHAMPION (Carter’s), a good winter sort, and an excellent bearer ; fruit solid and firm . 1 0 
Dr. LIVINGSTONE, a blaok-spined variet}’’, producing fruit of a tine dark green colour, 18 
inches long 10 
EMPRESS EUGENIE, an oxcollont white-spinod variety, fruit 18 inches long ; a capital 
cropper 1 0 
HIGHLAND MARY, a good bearer and early ; black spine . . . . • • .10 
KIRKLEES HALL DEFIANCE, a very handsome free fruiting variety, white spine ; excellent 
for summer and winter use 1 G 
LORD KENYON’S FAVOURITE, a well-known variety, fine for winter ; white spine . 1 0 
MARKET FAVOURITE (Hamilton’s), fruit about IG inches long, of uniform thickness 
throughout ; a very handsome variety 10 
NEWTON HERO (Dickson’s), a haudsomo white-spinod variety, about 18 inches long, 
x'ound and even 10 
PRINCE ALBERT (Cuthill’s), black spine ; a first-rate winter sort 10 
SION HOUSE IMPROVED, agroatly esteemed variety of the white-spined section; excellent 
for winter 10 
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-spincd variety, of first-rate quality 2 6 
RIDGE VARIETIES. 
Al RIDGE (Henderson’s), an excellent variety for open-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 G 
New vaHeties, see page 55. 
Cucumbers to be successfully forced must have a brisk bottom heat of 75°, and a moist atmosphere 
ranging fi'om 65° to 75°. Sow the seed in pots or pans, and when tho plants have produced their seed 
leaves, pot them off, either singly or two or three round tho sides of a pot j when tho pots are filled 
with roots, and the bed at a proixor temperature, carefully turn them out, and plant on moimds of 
rich turfy loam, aud give them a gentle watering. Keep up a steady growing heat, and attend to 
stopping, thinning, and sotting the flowers. 
The seed of Ridgo Cucumbers is usually sown in pots or pans, and placed on a gentle heat ; the 
plants when strong enough are potted otf, and about the end of May should bo planted out into 
prepared trenches filled with manure in a state of fermentation, over which a layer of rich light soil 
9 inches deep has been placed. After planting, protect with hand-glasses until tho plants are 
established. 
