DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 
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PARSNIP. 
Fr. Panais. —Ger. Pastinake. 
The value of the Parsnip as a culinary vegetable is 
well known, but it is not generally appreciated at its 
full value for stock feeding. On favorable soil it yields 
an immense crop of roots, which are more nutritious 
than carrots or turnips, and particularly well adapted 
for dairy stock. 
Culture. — They do the best on a deep, rich, sandy 
soil, but will make good roots on any soil which is deep 
and mellow and moderately rich. Do not enrich with 
fresh manure, as it is apt to make the roots coarse and 
ill-shaped. Sow the seed as early in the spring as pos¬ 
sible, and it is a good plan to sow a few radish seeds 
with them, as the seed is sometimes very slow in germi¬ 
nating ; cover one-half inch deep, and press the soil 
firmly over the seed : give frequent cultivation, and thin 
the plants to six or eight to the foot. In digging field 
crops, they may be thrown out so as 
to be easily gathered, by running a 
subsoil plough along on one side of 
the row. 
Long White Dutch, or Sugar. 
—Roots very long, white, smooth, 
tender, sugary and most excellently- 
flavored Very hardy, and will keep 
through winter without protection. 
Hollow Crown.— Roots oblong 
ending somewhat abruptly, with a 
small tap root ; grows mostly below 
the surface : has a very smooth, 
clean skin, and is easily distinguish 
ed by the leaves arising from a cav¬ 
ity on the top or crown of the root. 
PARSLEY. 
Fr. Per sil . —Ger. Pet erst lie . 
A very useful vegetable for flavor¬ 
ing soups and stews, and for gar¬ 
nishing. For flavoring, the green 
leaves are used, or they' may be dried 
crisp, rubbed to a powder, and kept 
in bottles until needed. 
Culture.— It requires rich, mel¬ 
low soil, and the seed is slow to ger¬ 
minate. Sow the seed as early in 
.. _ the spring as possible, and when the 
Hollow Crown plants are two inches high, trans- 
Carter’s Fern-Leaved. 
plant. The oftener the plants are transplanted and cut 
I back, the finer and more perfect the leaves will be. 
! When well grown, each plant will form a handsome 
rosette eighteen inches or more in diameter. 
S* rter S ^ ern ' Leaved ‘—A new variety, introduced 
y Messrs. Carter, of London. It is of most beautiful 
form and coloring, and is well adapted for garnishing 
is es on the table, and also makes a vcrj' ornamental 
plant in the flower garden. 
Fine Triple Curled. — A fine, dwarfish, ruried vari¬ 
ety, ong cultivated in England. In some gardens it is 
grown in such perfection as to resemble a tuft of finely 
curled moss. It is hardy, and slow in running to seed, 
but liable to degenerate, as it constantly tends to in¬ 
crease m size, and to become less curled. 
Myatts Garnishing 
Myatt’s Garnishing.— This variety is larger, and 
the plant of stronger habit than the preceding, with 
foliage as finely curled. The leaves are bright green 
above paler beneath. Admirably adapted for garnish¬ 
ing purposes. 
PEAS, 
Fr. Pois. —Ger. Erbsen. 
The Pea is so generally used that it is needless to give 
any description of it The varieties are numerous, and 
every year adds to their number. These new varieties 
are tested upon our trial grounds, and a full stock of 
anything which proves to be superior to those on out 
list is secured at once, but the great mass of them are 
found to be no better than the older sorts. The list we 
offer we believe includes nearly every pea of distinctive 
merit now in cultivation. 
Culture. — For early peas, the soil should be light, 
warm and sheltered, but for general crop, a moderately 
heavy soil is better. Sow as early us possible a few of 
the earliest variety on warm, quick soil prepared the fall 
before. The general crop can be delayed until later, 
but we have met with-better success from sowing all the 
varieties comparatively early, depending for succession 
upon selecting sorts that fo.low each ether in ripening. 
The very eailiest may be covered only one inch deep, 
and will be the earlier for it the other sorts should be 
covered from two to six inches deep, the deep planting 
preventing mildew, and prolonging the season. Fresh 
manure or wet. mucky soil should be avoided, as they 
cause the vines to grow too rank and tall. 
The crop should be gathered as Just as it becomes 
/it /or use. 1/ even a /ew p'ods begin to ripen , young 
pods ill not only cease to /orm , but those partly ad¬ 
vanced ■will cease to enlarge. 
All Wrinkled Peas are superior to , and more del¬ 
icate in Jlavor than , those that present a full and 
per/ect /orm ; like the sugar corn , the saccharine 
matter which they contain causes them to shrivel 
when dried , and they will remain much longer in 
reason than other kinds. 
