20 
CROSMAN BROTHERS’ CATALOGUE. 
COLLARDS 
German, 38Iatter«&o!)t. French, Chou. 
A variety of cabbage known in different sections as “Cole” and “Colewort.” 
It is extensively used in the South for “ greens,” where it continues in luxuriant 
growth all winter. 
Pkt. Cts. 
Georgia, Southern, or Creole, this is the variety so extensively used in the South, 
where it furnishes an abundance of food for both man and beast; forms a 
large, loose, open head, or a mass of leaves on a tall* stem. Freezing im¬ 
proves their quality. Sow thick in drills, in rich ground, transplanting when 
four inches high, or sow in drills where the plants are to remain, and thin to 
two or three feet apart in the row, when the proper size. In the South sow 
from January to May and August to October : lb. 80c., oz. 10c. 5 
DANDELION. 
German, ^arbeblume. French, Pisse-en-lit. 
The Dandelion resembles Endive, and is sometimes cultivated for spring greens 
or for blanching for salad. The roots, when dried and roasted, are often employed 
as a substitute for coffee. Seed should be sown in May or June, in drills half an 
inch deep and twelve inches apart. Plants will be ready for use the following spring. 
Common, oz. 25c . 5 
Improved French, thick leaved ; oz. 50c . \ . 5 
ENDIVE. 
German, (SubiDten. French, Chicoree. 
Endive is one of the best salads for fall and winter use. Sow, for an early sup¬ 
ply, about the middle of April. As it is used mostly in the fall months, the* main 
sowings are made in June and July, 
from which plantations are formed 
at one foot apart each way, in Au¬ 
gust and September, It requires no 
special soil or manure, and after 
planting is kept clean of weeds until 
the plant has attained its full size, 
when the process of blanching begins. 
This is effected by gathering up the 
leaves and tying them by their tips 
in a conical form with bass matting. 
This excludes the light and air from 
the inner leaves, which, in the course 
of three to six weeks, according to 
temperature at the time, become 
blanched. Another and simpler 
method consists in covering up the 
plants, as they grow, with slates or 
boards, which serves the same pur¬ 
pose, by excluding the light, as the 
tying up. Pkt. Cts. 
Moss Curled, a beautiful curled 
variety of fine quality ; oz, 20c... 5 
White Curled, fine for table use 
when young ; pale green in color; 
oz. 20c. . 5 ENDIVE, WHITE CURLED. 
Green Curled, Winter, popular both as a salad and for garnishing; oz. 15c. 5 
Broad-Leaved Green Batavian, (Escarolle) has broad, thick, plain or slightlv 
wrinkled leaves, forming large heads ; oz. 15c. 5 
Broad-Leaved White, or Lettuce-Leaved, similar toabove, except in color; oz. 15c. 5 
