CATALOGUE OF CHOICE GARDEN SEEDS 
EGG PLANT 
Culture :— The Egg Plant will thrive in any good 
garden soil, but will repay good treatment. The seeds 
should be sown in hotbed or warm greenhouse in March 
or April, and when about an inch high, potted in 2-inch 
pots. Plant out about June 1, 2 Yi feet apart. If no 
hotbed is at hand, they can be grown in any light room 
where the temperature will average 75°. 
One ounce for 2,000 plants 
Black Beauty. Earlier and nearly as large as New York 
Purple; fruit very dark purple, which color it holds 
for a long time. 
Early Dwarf Purple. The earliest Egg Plant; fruit 
small, ovoid-shaped, 3 to 4 inches long by 2 inches in 
diameter; deep dull purple in color. 
Early Long Purple. One of the earliest and most 
productive sorts; fruits club-shaped, 6 to 8 inches 
long, rich purple and fine quality. 
New York Improved Purple (Spineless). The favorite 
market variety. Plant large, spreading and spine¬ 
less, producing four to six large oval fruits of dark 
purple color. 
KOHL RABI Cabbage) 
Culture .— This vegetable, the popularity of which is 
rapidly increasing, combines the virtues of the turnip 
and cabbage, but excels both in nutritive, hardy and 
productive qualities. The seed may be sown in June, 
in rows 18 inches apart, and the plants thinned out 
to 8 or 10 inches in the rows. 
One ounce will sow 300 feet of drill 
White Vienna Kohl Rabi 
Early White Vienna. Extremely early, with distinctly 
small tops; bulbs medium size, very light green or 
nearly white and of best quality. 
Early Purple Vienna. Early and with small top; bulbs 
medium size and purple in color; flesh white. 
Large Green, or White. Quite hardy and most pro¬ 
ductive; grown mostly for stock feeding; bulbs often 
weigh 8 to 10 pounds and are of a greenish-white color. 
Black Beauty Egg Plant 
KALE, or BORECOLE 
Culture .— Sow from the middle of April to the begin¬ 
ning of May in prepared beds; transplant in June and 
treat in the same manner as for cabbage. Of all the 
cabbage tribe, this is the most tender and delicate, and 
would be much more extensively grown than it is if 
its excellent qualities were generally known. 
One ounce will produce 3,000 plants 
Dwarf Purple, or Brown Curled. Similar to Dwarf 
Curled Scotch, excepting in color of foliage, which 
is a rich purple; very hardy. 
Dwarf Curled Scotch. A handsome, very finely curled, 
dwarf spreading variety; foliage long and of an 
attractive bright green; very hardy. 
Dwarf Curled Siberian (German Greens). A most 
vigorous and spreading variety; leaves are large and 
rather plain in the center, but cut and frilled at the 
edges; color is a bluish-green. 
Tall Curled Scotch. Plants of this variety grow two to 
three feet in height, bearing long, plume-like, light 
green leaves which are much cut and deeply curled 
at the edges; very hardy. 
GOURDS 
Culture :— Gourds are tender annuals, and should not 
be planted until all danger of frost is over, and not less 
than 6 feet apart each way, in good, rich loam. Three 
plants in a hill will be sufficient to leave at the last 
hoeing. 
One ounce will plant 25 hills 
Dipper. Grows in the form of a dipper and thus is 
useful as well as ornamental. 
Dish Cloth. The peculiar interior is used as a sponge 
or dishcloth. 
Fancy Varieties Mixed. A collection of the fancy and 
ornamental gourds. 
Hercules’ Club. Distinctly club shaped; the longest 
of the family. 
Japanese Nest Egg. Fruit small and creamy white, 
much resembling a hen’s egg. 
Sugar Trough. Grows to hold from 5 to 10 gallons 
and makes useful household containers. 
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