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WM. ELLIOTT & SONS' GENERAL CATALOGUE FOR 1S‘J4. 
EARLY CANADA FIELD CORN. 
FIELD CORN. 
Early Yellow Canada. A very early small-eared variety. 
Per qt., 15 cts.; peck, 60 cts.; bush., $2.00. 
Large Yellow Flint. A popular and productive variety 
of good quality. Per qt., 15 cts.; peck, 60 cts.; 
bush., $2.00. 
White Flint. Similar to the preceding except in color. 
Per qt., 15 cts.; peck, 60 cts.; bush., $2.00. 
Chester County Mammoth. The largest and most pro¬ 
ductive variety in cultivation. Per qt., 15 cts. ; 
peck, 60 cts.; bush., $2.00. 
Longfellow. A variety well adapted for the Northern 
States. It is an eight-rowed yellow flint sort, with 
ears from 10 to 15 inches long, of an average dia¬ 
meter of \'/i inches. Cob small, grain large and 
broad. Per qt., 15 cts.; peck, 60 cts.; bush., $2.00. 
Learning. Ears of good size, cob red and small, with a 
deep large grain of bright yellow. It is an early 
variety, a strong grower, and its leafy character 
enables it to stand until ripe, thus making it espe¬ 
cially valuable in dry seasons. Per qt., 15 cts.; 
peck, 60 cts.; bush., $2.00. 
Blunt’s White Prolific. An eight-rowed white flint 
variety, with short, uniform, well-shaped ears. 
Remarkably prolific, frequently producing six and 
eight good-sized ears on each stalk; has been used 
successfully for ensilage. Per qt., 15 cts.; peck, 
60 cts.; bush., $2.00. 
Southern Prolific. Very desirable for ensilage ; used 
almost exclusively in the South. Per peck, 50 cts.; 
bush., $1.50. 
Ears of all the above sorts, 5 cts. each ; 50 cts. pei 
dozen; $3.50 per 100. 
CRESS OR PEF'PER GRASS. 
A well-known pungent sal id. Requires to be sown 
thickly and covered very slightly, at frequent intervals, 
to keep up a succession, as it noon runs to seed. 
Extra Curled. Per pkt., 5 cts.; oz , 10 cts.; X lb., 20 
cts.; lb., 60 cts. 
CORN SALAD OR FETTICUS. 
One ounce will sow 20 square feet; 6 founds will sow an 
acre. . 
Corn Salad, Fetticus or Lamb’s Lettuce, is used to a 
considerable extent as a salad. It is sown on the first 
opening of spring, in rows 1 foot apart, and is fit for 
use in six or eight weeks from the time of sowing. If 
wanted to come in early in spring, it is sown in Septem¬ 
ber, covered up with straw or hay as soon as cold weather 
sets in, and is wintered over the same way as Spinach. 
Large-Seeded. The best variety. Per pkt., Sets.; oz., 
10 cts.; X It)-. 25 cts.; lb., 75 cts. 
WATER-CRESS. 
Water-Cress may be grown in any moist situation, but 
more successfully by the edge of a running brook. The 
seed may be sown in May, on the ground where it is in¬ 
tended to be grown, and the thinnings transplanted. 
The plants should be set not less than a foot apart. The 
Cress will be fit for gathering the second year. 
Water-Cress, Common. Per pkt., 10 cts.; oz., 40 cts.; 
X lb., $1.25. 
- —— Erfurt. More highly esteemed than the ordi¬ 
nary variety, being less pungent and of a more 
agreeable flavor. Per pkt., 15 cts.; oz., 75 cts. 
CARDOON. 
The ground upon which Cardoons are to be grown 
should be deeply trenched and liberally manured. Sow 
the seed in April in rows 4 feet apart, and when up, 
thin out singly 12 to 18 inches apart. Before earthing up 
as for Celery, which should be done on a dry day, tie up 
and surround each plant with straw to keep the soil from 
contact with the sides. In dry weather give plenty of 
water, and occasionally a supply of liquid manure. 
Large Spanish. Pkt., 10 cts.; oz., 40 cts.; Xlb.,$1.25; 
lb., $4.00. 
CUCUMBER. 
One ounce will plant fifty hills; 2 pounds will plant one 
acre. 
Plant, for general use, in the open ground about June 
1, in hills 6 feet apart each way, and thin to three 
plants in a hill; the hills should be previously prepared 
by mixing thoroughly with the soil in each a shovelful of 
well-rotted manure, or, better still, plant on land that a 
crop has been taken off from, 
which was heavily manured 
for that crop. Plenty of 
water is the most important 
point, except for earliest, 
where the temperature must 
be looked to as well as the 
watering. A sprinkling of 
dry plaster will keep off the 
striped bug. For earliest use 
sow the seed in the hot-bed 
or greenhouse in March, in 
warm loam, where the tem¬ 
perature is about ninety de¬ 
grees ; cover half an inch 
deep, and, when the plants 
are of fair size, transplant 
into hills (made in the green¬ 
house), four plants in a hill, 
so that, when the weather 
permits, the whole hill can 
be moved to the open ground. 
New Everbearing Cucum¬ 
ber. It is of small size, 
very early,enormously pro¬ 
ductive and valuable as a 
green pickier. Pkt., 5c.; 
oz., 10c.; X lb., 25c.; lb..75c. 
IMPROVED WHITE SPINE. 
