CARTER AND CO.’S GARDENER’S VADE-MECUM FOR 1862. 
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KITCHEN-GAEDEN SEEDS, ETC. 
In submitting (annexed) to the notice of our Customers and the Public generally our Twenty-seventh Annual List of Vegetable 
Seeds, we beg leave respectfully to announce that it has been subjected to a most careful revision ; all sorts in any way ques- 
tionable have been expunged, several novelties of merit have been added, and kinds most to be recommended are printed in 
black letters. As a heading to each kind of Vegetable, we have made a few general observations, which we trust may be 
found useful ; for further information respecting cultivation, &c., reference may be made to the Calendar of Operations, com- 
mencing at page 73. The quality of our Seeds we are confident cannot be surpassed, as they are genuine and of the best 
growth. The harvest has been unusually good, and some articles are consequently cheaper than last year. 
A 1 lb. may be bad at the same rate as a lb. j j an oz. at the same rate as an oz. ; a pint at the same rate as a qt. i and a 
i bushel at the same rate as a bushel. 
ARTICHOKE. 
Propagate by seed when plants are scarce ; to be sown early in April : but the quickest method is by plants either in October 
or March (see page 69) : the ground should be deeply trenched and well manured. 
s. d. I s. d. 
Green per oz. 1 0 j Purple per oz. 1 0 
ASPARAGUS. 
Sow the seed in drills by the end of March, and at one year old the roots will be fit to transplant into prepared beds, which 
should be liberally manured and salted. One-, two-, and three-year old plants may be had (seo page GO). 
Giant per lb. 2 0 | Large early Batavian per oz, 6 
BEANS. 
Plant Mazagan and Earliest Dwarf Fan in November in strong ground, commence again at the end of February, and in 
succession until the beginning of June. 
Earliest Dwarf Fan per qt. 8 
Early Mazagan 6 
— long-pod 6 
Green Nonpnreil 8 
Beck’s new Dwarf Green Gem 2 0 
Johnson’s Wonderful per qt. 8 
New Emperor „ 8 
Largest Windsor „ 1 0 
Taylor’s do „ 10 
Green do., /me 1 0 
BEET. 
Sow Spinach Beets by the middle of ApriPin good ground. Red Beets for the main crops the last week in April or the 
first in May : all the varieties will be much improved by the application of saline manure in a liquid state ; trench the ground 
deeply i and if dung is added, let it he at the bottom of the trenches. 
Carter’s St. Osyth per pkt. 1 0 
New Pine-Apple Short-top per oz. 9 
New German G 
Bailey’s blood-red 1 0 
Silver or Spinach Beet „ 6 
Small selected blood-red per oz. G 
White „ A 
Garnishing, in variety per pkt. 3 
Nutting’s selected dwarf red 1 0 
Perpetual Spinach „ G 
BORECOLE OR KAIL. 
Sow in March for early, and in April for main crops. 
Dwarf green curled Scotch per oz. 
Tall do. do. do „ 
Asparagus (true) 
Buda „ 
Delaware „ 
Cottager’s (true) „ 
Knoll 
New feathered Scotch 
Variegated . 
BROCCOLI. 
Most of the sorts should be sown about the first week iu April, for late Spring use 
May ; sow Walcberen in May and August, and transplant into richly-manured ground. 
Carter’s Champion per pkt. 1 0 
Early Cape, pur ple per oz. 1 G 
— Cape, white per pkt. 1 0 
Dancer’s late pink Cape per oz. 1 G 
Early Grange’s per pkt. 1 0 
— Sprouting per oz. 1 0 
Early Walcheren ,, 1 G 
— white Malta 1 0 
Adams’s early white „ 1 0 
Dalmeny white 
Dwarf Russian or Siberian 
Large Spring white or Cornish 
Late close-headed purple 
— white 
9 
6 
G 
9 
G 
1 0 
the middle of 
1 0 
1 0 
1 0 
1 0 
1 0 
1 6 
1 0 
1 0 
1 0 
