I). M. FERRY & CO’S DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE. 
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early in the spring as the ground is fit to work, though good 
crops may be grown after the 15th of June in this latitude. 
Prepare the ground thoroughly and sow in drills eighteen to 
twenty-four inches apart, using about three pounds of seed 
per acre. Cover one-half to one inch deep and see to it that 
the soil is well firmed about the seed. As soon as the plants 
appear, start the cultivator or wheel hoe and do not let the 
weeds get a start. Thin to three to six inches apart in tl 
row as soon as the plants are large enough. Gather and sto 
for winter use like beets or turnips, 
vj EARLIEST SHORT HORN (for forcing). —The earli- 
est variety in cultivation, and best suited for forcing. Tops 
small, finely divided; root dark or reddish-orange, globular 
two inches in diameter, with slender tap and grooved at tluk \ 
crown. * 
EARLY SCARLET HORN.— Excellent for early plant¬ 
ing out of doors. Tops small, coarsely divided: roots top 
shaped, but tapering abruptly to a small tap; surface dented, 
skin orange-red. \ 
EARLY HALF LONG SCMLET CARENTANA 
CHANTENAY.- Tops medium size; necks small; roots 
tapering slightly but uniformly stump rooted and smooth; 
color deep orange red; flesh very crisp and tender. While 
'this is a medium early sort, it furnishes roots of usable size 
as early as any, is a heavy cropper, and is undoubtedly one 
, of the best for both the market and private gardener, while 
v its great productiveness makes it very desirable as a field 
sort. 
Tops very small, roots cylindrical with a remarkably small\ 
neck; very handsome, deep orange in color, with scarcely any ^ 
core, and of the best quality. They can be sown very thl 
and are well adapted for forcing. 
HALF LONG SCARLET NANTES, STUMP ROOT¬ 
ED.—Tops medium; roots cylindrical, smooth, bright orange, 
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flesh orange, becoming yellow in center, but with no distinct 
core; of the finest quality. 
EARLY HALF LONG SCARLET, STUMP ROOTED. 
'^-Excellent for early market or for field culture on shallow 
Y\soUs. Of medium size, flesh bright scarlet, brittle and of fine 
flavor. 
GUERANDE, OR OX HEART.—Tops small for the 
size of the root, specimens of which have been grown which 
were over seven inches across. They are broad, top shaped, 
the diameter often exceeding the length, and terminate ab¬ 
ruptly in a small tap root, and by reason of their shape, very 
easily dug. Flesh bright orange, fine grained ana sweet. 
This is a desirable variety on soils too hard and stiff for the 
longer growing sorts, as it is not over five or six inches long. 
It frequently grows as thick as long, thus making it really as 
large as the longer sorts. When young, excellent for table 
use, and when mature equally good for stock. 
