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Germain Seed Company, 326-330 South Main St., Los Angeles, Cal. 
CUCUMBERS, Continued 
Early Russian, Early Siberian, Early Frame, 
Japan Climbing, etc. 
ENGLISH FORCING, or FRAME 
VARIETIES 
These produce remarkably long and very firm, 
solid fruits with few and small seeds; adapted 
for open ground culture in California. Our seed 
is from the best English strains. 
Improved Telegraph. Unquestionably one of the 
best winter Cucumbers; indispensable for 
forcing. Pkt. 25 cts. 
Lockle’s Perfection. A remarkably productive 
variety, bearing fruits 15 inches in length, 
perfect models in shape, and of high quality. 
Pkt. 25 cts. 
WATER CRESS 
Berro Brunnenkresse Cresson de Fontaine 
The plant is cultivated by sowing the seed by 
the side of running water or near springs. The 
leaves are universally used and eaten as an 
early and wholesome salad in the spring. Pkt. 
5 cts., oz. 30 cts., lb. $3. 
DANDELION 
Amargon Kuhblume Pissenlit 
This vegetable has become very popular as 
an early healthful green, and the roots are 
used, when dried, as a substitute for coffee. 
Commou Variety. Pk. 5 cts., oz. 20 cts. 
Improved. Large-leaved. Pkt. 10 cts., oz. 50 cts. 
ENDIVE 
Escarola 6 Endivia Endivien Chicoree 
This vegetable is highly esteemed as a salad. 
When the plants are 3 or 4 inches high, trans¬ 
plant 1 foot apart each way, and keep free 
from weeds, until leaves are 6 or 8 inches long; 
then blanch the leaves by gathering them care¬ 
fully together when perfectly dry and tying 
them at the tips in a conical form with Raffia 
to exclude light and air. From three to six 
weeks is required to thoroughly blanch. One 
ounce of seed will sow a bed of about 80 square 
feet, or 150 feet of row. 
Broad-Icnved Batavian. Leaves broad, nearly 
plain, light green; best for soups. Pkt. 5 cts., 
oz. 15 cts., lb. $1.25. 
French Moss Curled Green. Moss-like appear¬ 
ance, beautifully curled. Pkt. 5 cts., oz. 15 
cts., lb. $1.50. 
Green Curled Winter. Standard sort for fall 
and winter crop. Pkt. 5 cts., oz. 15 cts., lb. 
$1.25. 
EGGPLANT 
Berengena Eierpflanze Aubergine 
Sow seed in frames if possible. When 3 inches 
high transplant into small pots, so that the 
plants may become stocky and be readily 
planted out from the pots. When the season 
becomes sufficently warm, transplant into 
thoroughly worked and well-enriched soil about 
3 feet apart each way. Draw the earth up to 
the stems when about a foot high. Eggplant 
seed will not vegetate freely without substan¬ 
tial heat, and if the plants get the least 
chilled in the earlier stages of their growth 
they seldom recover. Repeated sowings are 
sometimes necessary. One ounce of seed will 
produce 2,000 plants 
Black Beauty. A handsome, extra-early, large 
variety of great merit; a prolific producer of 
uniformly large purple-black fruit of fine 
quality, developing with rapidity and ready 
EGG PLANT, BLACK BEAUTY. 
for gathering about two weeks earlier than 
other larger sorts. Pkt. 10 cts., oz. 40 cts., 
lb. $4. 
New Jersey Improved Large Purple. This is a 
select strain of the New York Eggplant, de¬ 
veloped by the gardeners of New Jersey, who 
have by their long experience brought this 
variety to perfection. It commands the 
highest prices in the markets of the large 
eastern cities. The plants are large and vigor¬ 
ous, fruit early, very large, oval and deep 
purple, flesh white, tender and of excellent 
quality. Pkt. 10 cts., oz. 40 cts., lb. $4. 
New York Improved Spineless Large Purple. 
The leading variety known by marketmen 
everywhere; fruit large, smooth, deep purple; 
flesh white, of good quality. The stock wo 
offer is fine New Jersey grown. Pkt. 5 cts.. 
oz. 35 cts., lb. $3.50. 
Early Long Purple. An earlier, hardier variety, 
with club-shaped, dark purple fruit 6 to 8 
inches long, a shape preferred by some for 
slicing; flesh firm. Pkt. 5 cts., oz. 35 cts., 
lb. $3. 
KOHLRABI 
Colinabo Kohlrabi Chou-rave 
Sow in rows 2 feet apart; thin the plants to 
1 foot apart. One ounce of seed will produce 
about 2,000 plants. 
Early White Vienna. Flesh white and tender; 
very productive. Pkt. 5 cts., oz. 15 cts., 
lb. $1.50. 
Early Purple Vienna. Very hardy; flesh bluish 
purple. Pkt. 5 cts., oz. 15 cts., lb. $1.50. 
KALE, or BORECOLE 
Col Blatterkohl Chou Vert 
Sow the seeds in beds, covering lightly. 
Transplant into rich mellow ground, and culti¬ 
vate the same as cabbage. They are rendered 
very tender and delicious by moderate touches 
of frost. One ounce of seed will produce about 
2,000 plants. 
Dwarf Curled, or German Greens. Very hardy, 
excellent for spring use. Pkt. 5 cts., oz. 10 
cts., lb. $1. 
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