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A KITCHEN GARDEN 
furnish an ample supply for a large family. The 
small early variety matures three or even four weeks 
before the ordinary kinds, but as they are hardly 
larger than a good-sized goose egg, it is not worth 
while to bother with them unless you are especially 
fond of the fruit and wish to have it as early as 
possible. 
VARIETIES OF EGG PLANT. 
Extra Early Dwarf Round Purple. — This 
variety is in every respect similar to the New York 
Purple, excepting in size and time of ripening; the 
fully developed fruit being about two inches in length 
and being ready for use a few weeks after planting 
out in the garden. 
New York Improved Large Purple. —This is 
the best and most popular variety. It is of large 
size, very handsome color and appearance, and the 
largest in diameter of any variety, yielding large 
slices for frying. The quality is of the finest. 
horse radish. 
This pungent root is a great favorite as a relish 
in the early spring, and is credited with tonic proper¬ 
ties ; at any rate it is a very pleasant appetizer at a 
season when we have been almost without fresh 
vegetables for several months. It can be raised in 
almost any soil, though preferring a moist situation, 
and is most at home where it is constantly moist¬ 
ened or occasionally overflowed by some stream. It 
is raised from pieces of root, three or four inches in 
length and from J to J inch in diameter. These slips 
