26 
GENERAL REMARKS. 
TABLE AND EXPLICATION. 
In order to aid the novice in gardening, the following 
brief classification of such species and varieties as comprise 
our catalogue of vegetable seed is submitted, and it is pre- 
sumed that the connecting links, and explication of this table, 
will not be altogether uninteresting to the experienced gar- 
dener and seedsman. 
CATALOGUE. 
Hardy; 
Half-Hardy. 
Tender. 
Quick g 
in Germinating, g 
Medium g 
in Germinating. || 
Tardy 
in Germinating, g 
Capable of being 
transplanted. 
Most 
essential 
Nutriment. 
Heat. 
Moisture. 
Artichoke 
Asparagus 
. .0. . 
..0.. 
Beans (English Dwarfs) 
..0.. 
..0.. 
Beans (Kidney do) 
Bpans (pole) 
Beet 
. .0.. 
Borecole, or Kale, &c 
Broccoli 
. .0. . 
Cauliflower.. 
. .0. . 
Cabbage 
Carrot 
Celery 
Corn Sa*lad 
Cress 
Cucumber. 
Egg Plant 
Endive. ....... ............ 
Indian Corn ....... 
Leek 
Lettuce. ....... .. ......... 
Melon (musk) 
Melon (water). ............. 
Okra.. .... .... .... .... .... 
Onion 
. .0. . 
..0.. 
Pars lev 
. .0.. 
Parsnip 
. .0. . 
Peppers 
. 0 
Peas 
. .0.. 
Pumpkin 
. .0. . 
Radish 
..0.. 
..o.. 
Salsify 
..o.. 
Spinach 
. .0. . 
..o.. 
Squash 
. .0. . 
Tomatoe 
. .0. . 
. .0. . 
Turnip 
..0. . 
. .0. . 
In explication of the table, it may be necessary first to 
premise, that in the classification, as regards the germinating 
powers of different kinds of seed, it is conceded that if some 
of those denominated medium were put upcr an equal foot- 
ing with some of the class denominated quick-growing, they 
would vegetate in about the same time. For instance Pfyis 
