Catalogue of Vegetable Seeds. 
Early Sugar Loaf, an excellent early variety for the Northern States. It has 
conical heads of medium size. 
Early French Oxheart, a most excellent variety. It grows low on the stump, 
and heads very close and firm. 
Fottler’s Improved Brunswick, this is without exception, the best Early 
Drumhead variety in the market, and is almost universally used by the 
Boston market gardeners to succeed the earliest varieties, also for a late 
crop. Sure to lead, often weighing from twenty to thirty pounds. The 
quality is excellent. 
Large Late Drumhead, this is a large fall and winter variety, with broad, 
flat, or round heads ; very compact. 
Stone Mason, an improved variety of the Mason Drumhead. Head flat and 
solid, stem short and small, quality sweet, tender and rich; a profitable 
home or market variety.. 
Marblehead Mammoth Drumhead, this is without doubt the largest variety 
of cabbage. Its size ranging from that of a half bushel measure up to 
that of a two bushel basket, and even larger. Heads have been grown 
weighing from forty to sixty pounds. Cultivate in rows four feet apart, 
and allow ahou* four feet between the plants. 
Red Dutch or Pickling, this is an esteemed sort for pickling. It is also 
shredded, and eaten raw in vinegar. 
Premium Flat Dutch, the most popular variety for the winter market. It 
has n > superior, and is more extensively grown than any other; is tender 
and well-flavored. It is a fall and winter variety, and one of the very 
best to keep. 
Drumhead Savoy, grows to a large size; heads nearly round, or flattened like 
the Drumhead, and quite firm; very tender, fine flavored, and excellent 
for winter... •. 
American Improved Savoy, of finer quality than the Drumhead sort, and sure 
to head . 
Curled Savoy, (for greens). 
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CARDOON. 
German, Kardon. —French, Cardon. —Spanish, Car do Hortense.. 
Cardoon is grown for the mid rib of the leaf, which requires to be blanched in the same 
manner as celery. Sow early in spring, where the plants are to remain, in drills three feet apart, 
an inch and a half deep, and thin out the young plants to a foot apart in the drills. 
Pkt. Oz. Lb. 
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CARROT. 
German, Moehre. —French, Carotle. —Spanish, Zanahoria. 
The Carrot requires a sandy loam, deeply tilled. It should never be sown on newly manured 
ground, as forked roots are apt to be the resu't. Sow on ground that has been well manured the 
previous yearforsome other crop, such as potatoes or on.ons. For early and main crops sow as 
soon as the ground is in workable condition; lor later crops they may be sown any time until the 
beginning of June. Sow in rows about fifteen inches apart, and half an inch deep, thinning out 
to three or four inches between the plants. 
Early Horn, a favorite sort, fine flavored and much esteemed for early summer 
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Danvers Half-Long, a variety intermediate in size, of excellent quality and a 
great yielder (stump rooted).05 
Early French Forcing, very < arly and valuable for forcing.05 
Early Half Long Scarlet Carentan, a new early forcing variety, also highly 
recommended for planting in open ground; has no heart or core.10 
Long Orange, Improved, roots of large size; a decided improvement on the 
old- ashioned orange sort.. 
Large White Belgian, a very productive kind, grown extensively for stock; 
grows one-third out of the ground ; lower part of the root white, that 
above ground, green... 
Altringham, similar in form to the Long Orange, but of a bright red color, 
growing with the top an inch or two above ground. F’esh bright orange 
red, crisp and breaking in its texture; the heart, in proportion to size of 
root, smaller than in other varieties ; a very fine sort.05 
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