CATALOGUE OF CHOICE GARDEN SEEDS 
Egg Plani 
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% 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 spineless, producing four to six large oval 
fruits of dark purple color. 
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IxOMI KdDI 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 dis¬ 
tinctly 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 
productive; grown mostly for stock feeding; 
bulbs often weigh 8 to 10 pounds and are of a 
greenish-white color. 
New York Improved Purple 
Kale, or Borecole 
Culture. —Sow from the middle of April to the 
beginning 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 
foilage, which is a rich purple; very hardy. 
Dwarf Curled Scotch. A handsome, very finely 
curled, dwarf spreading variety; foilage 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 gal¬ 
lons and makes useful household containers. 
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