The Illustrated Guide for Amateur Gardeners. 
Spinach. 
Cultivation. — Round Spinach should be sown for Spring and 
Summer use at intervals from February to May; Prickly Spinach in July 
and August for Winter use. The New Zealand variety requires to be raised 
on a gentle hot-bed in April, and planted out in May on a good rich soil in 
a warm situation. Sow the Round and Prickly varieties in drills about an 
inch deep and a foot apart in good rich soil, the richer the better for the 
Summer crop. Abundance of moisture and an occasional dose of weak liquid 
manure will improve the crop. 
. per 02 .— s. d. 
Long Standing. A most valuable variety for Summer use, as it 
stands the dry weather, and keeps longer fit for use than any 
other sort ... ... ... ... per qt. 3s. 6d., per pt. 2s. 0 6 
Monstrous Italian or Viroflay. Large and superior; leaves 
dark green, and extremely thick and fleshy 
per qt. 2s., per pt. Is 3d. 0 4 
0 6 
... 0 8 
per qt. Is. 9d., per pt. Is. 0 3 
„ Is. 9d., „ Is. 0 3 
per pkt. 6d. — 
„ Gd. - 
„ Gd. — 
New Zealand. Large and succulent 
Perpetual or Spinach Beet ... 
Prickly. For Winter use 
Round. For Summer use 
Orach or Mountain. Green ... 
,» ,, Red 
„ ,, White ... 
Salsafy and Scorzonera. 
Cultivation.— To grow nice plump, straight roots of Salsafy, the ground should be prepared in Autumn in a similar way to that 
recommended for Parsnips. Sow in April in drills fifteen inches apart, and thin out the plants to eight or ten inches apart in the row. 
Keep clean by hoeing, &c., during Summer, and take up for storing in November in same way as Carrots. The roots are scraped and 
boiled in the same way as Parsnips, and are of a mild sweetish flavour. Much esteemed on the Continent. 
Scorzonera will thrive uuder similar treatment to that recommended for Salsafy, which it somewhat resembles, but should be 
allowed a little more room in the drill. 
per oz. — s. d. 
Scorzonera ... ... ... perpkt. 3d. 0 9 
„ Russian Improved ... ... 1 o 
per oz.— s. < 1 . 
Salsafy. Common ... ... per pkt. 3d. 0 9 
„ Sandwich Island Mammoth. Splendid 
variety, lately introduced ... per pkt. Gd. f 6 
Vegetable Marrow. 
Cultivation. — This esteemed vegetable is so nearly related to the Gourd that we may say 
but little in regard to it. Its treatment as regards sowing and the early transplanting, &c., should 
be identical therewith. Few plants delight more in copious manurial waterings than do these. Teo 
generally the produce is permitted to become much too large before it is cut for use. This is 
excusable in the case of growers for market. Where, however, persons are enabled to grow their 
own, it seems strange that the same method should be followed. Every Marrow should be cooked 
whole, and this fact should alone suggest the most desirable size to grow them to. By cutting 
young a more abundant supply will be constantly forming than is possible when all are permitted 
to become more or less “ seedy.” 
-pj , , per pkt.— s. d. 
x^en-y-Dyd ( The best in the World). Awarded two First Class Certificates. This 
distinct variety is enormously prolific and a continuous hearer. The vine is extremely 
short-jointed, setting a fruit at every joint. The fruit is of handsome appearance, 
almost globular iu form, sometimes very slightly ribbed, averaging about six inches in 
diameter, and is of a delicate creamy white colour, with thick firm flesh, which when 
cooked is of finest quality and delicate flavour ... ... ... . . . 6d. and 
per pkt.- 
Yery 
DANIELS’ GOLDEN CREAM. 
fine and prolific ... ... . , 06 
DANIELS’ LARGE CREAM. Best for 
general use, fine-flavoured ... ... ... 0 6 
Custard-shaped. Prolific, ornamental-shaped variety 0 6 
Long Green. Good variety, forms a striking contrast 
with other kinds ... ... ... ... o 4 
Long White-ribbed, or Bush, 
kind ... 
Moore’s Vegetable Cream. 
flavour 
Pine-apple Squash (new). 
A useful and prolific variety 
Vegetable Marrow and Squash. 
mixed 
Good; a prolific 
Very prolific, delicious 
From America. 
... Gd. and 
Various sorts 
1 0 
0 4 
0 4 
1 0 
0 3 
EVIDENCE 
“ Lost Spring yon sent me a packet of Mixed Marrow. I have 
grown a line green one 1 1 lbs. iu weight, and a white one 28 lbs., iu the open 
garden.”— Mr. W. OHOYCE, Sheepy. 
OF QUALITY. 
“I showed two of your Long Green Vegetable Marrow at our 
Show, held ou July 30th, and I took First and Second Frizes with them."— 
I Mr. A. TAYLOR, Chesham. 
