GERMAI NS 
VEGETABLE SEEDS 
CUCUMBERS —Continued 
ENGLISH FORCING, or FRAME 
VARIETIES 
Superior in every way to the American va¬ 
rieties. Single specimens average 24 inches and 
over in length. Fruit is crisp and tender, with 
very few seeds, which makes the price high. 
They are grown in Europe in the greenhouse, 
hut can be successfully raised out of doors in 
Southern California. Do not fail to plant some 
this season, as no home garden is complete 
without a few hills. 
Improved Telegraph. Unquestionably one of the 
best winter cucumbers; indispensable for 
forcing. Pkt. 25 cts. 
LookieVi Perfection. A remarkably productive 
variety, bearing fruits 15 inches in length, 
perfect models in shape, and of high quality. 
Pkt. 25 cts. 
ENDIVE 
Escarola 6 Endivia Endivein 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 carefully 
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 re¬ 
quired to thoroughly blanch. One ounce of seed 
will sow a bed of about 80 square feet, or 150 
feet of row. 
Ilroad-Ienvcd Ilntnvian. 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 
Berongena 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 sufficiently warm, transplant into thor¬ 
oughly worked and well-enriched soil about 3 
CUCUMBER. IMPROVED TELEGRAPH 
feet apart each way. Draw the earth up to the 
stems when about a foot high. Eggplant seed 
will not vegetate freely without substantial 
heat, and if the plants get the least chilled in 
the earlier stages of their growth they seldom 
recover. Repeated sowings are sometimes nec¬ 
essary. One ounce of seed will produce 2000 
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 
for gathering about two weeks earlier than 
other larger sorts. Pkt. 10 cts., oz. 40 cts., 
lb. $4.00. 
New Jersey Improved Large Purple. This is a 
select strain of the New York Egg Plant, de¬ 
veloped by the gardeners of New Jersey, who 
have by their long experience brought this 
variety to perfection. It commands the high¬ 
est prices in the markets of the large eastern 
cities. The plants are large and vigorous, 
fruit early, very large, oval and deep purple, 
flesh white, tender and of excellent quality. 
Pkt. 10 cts., oz. 40 cts., lb. $4. 
Now York Improved Spineless Large Purple. 
The leading variety, known by market-men 
everywhere; fruit large, smooth, deep purple; 
flesh white, of good quality. The stock we 
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. 
$2.50. 
EGG PLANT, BLACK BEAUTY 
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