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Spinach. 
One ounce will sow 100 feet of drill; ten pounds required for one acre. 
Spinach is very hardy, e.vtremely wholesome, and makes most delicious greens, and is of the easiest culture. 
Sow in drills one foot apart, and commence thinning out the plants as soon as the leaves are an inch wide. Cut before 
hot weather, or it will become tough and stringy. ITor early Spring use, the seed should be sown early in the 
Autumn; and the plants protected through the winter by a slight covering of leaves or straw. 
Round Thick Leaved Leaves largo, thick and 
fleshy; the variety generally grown for market, and 
equally good for spring or Fall sowing. 
Round Leaved Viroflay. 
A splendid variety, with 
leaves long and broad, round, 
thick and fleshy, dark green. 
Young plants transplanted 
into a rich soil will grow to 
an enormous size. 
Bound Leaved Viroflay. 
Prickly, or Fall. Best suited for Fall planting, as it 
is the hardiest variety and will withstand the severest 
weather with only a slight protection of leaves or straw. 
The seed is prickly, leaves triangular, oblong or arrow- 
shaped. 
Long Standing Spinach. 
Long Standing. An improved strain; stands three 
weeks longer without going to seed than any variety we 
know of. This valuable property will be appreciated by- 
market gardeners. 
Savoy Leaved. A very hardy and productive sort; 
leaves handsomely curled; a valuable variety for market 
or family use. 
Salsify or Vegetable Oyster. 
Salsify. 
Long, white, tapering roots, re.sembling somewhat 
the small white parsnip, and when cooked, have a 
flavor similar to oysters, Cultivate same as Parsnips. 
Large White. The standard variety; tender and 
very fine. 
Sci irzonera, or Black Oyster Plant. Similar 
to the White Salsify, save in color. 
Squashes. 
Squashes should be planted in a warm, light, rich soil, after the weather has become settled and wai-m. Plant in 
well-manured hills, in the same manner as Cucumbers and Melons — the bush varieties three or four feet apart each 
way, and the running kinds six to eight feet. Eight to ten seeds should be sown in each hill, thinning out, after they 
have attained their rough leaves and danger from bugs is over leaving three or four of the strongest plants per hill. 
Early Yellow Bush Scallop. An early, flat, 
scallop-shaped variety; color yellow; flesh pale yellow 
and well flavored; very productive; used when young and 
tender. 
Early White Bush Scallop. Similar to the pre- 
ceding, except in color, which is white. 
Summer Crooknock. One of the best; very early 
and productive. It is small, crooked neck, covered with 
warty excrescences; color bright yellow; shell very hard 
when ripe. 
Boston Marrow. A fall and 
winter variety, very popular. Of 
oval form; skin thin; when ripe, 
bright orange mottled with light 
cream color; flesh rich salmon 
yellow, dry, flue grained, and for 
sweetness and excellence, unsur- 
passed. 
Boston Marrow. 
Cocoanut. Very prolific, producing six to twelve on 
a vine. Outer color light yellow, the bottom of the fruit 
being of a rich green hue. Quality first-class. 
Hubbard Squash. 
Hubbard. This is a superior variety, and the best 
winter squash known; flesh bright orange yellow, fine 
grained, very dry, sweet and rich flavored; keeps perfect- 
ly good throughout the winter; boils or bakes exceeding- 
ly dry, and is esteemed by many to be as good baked as 
the sweet potato. 
