JAMES J. H. GREGORY & SON 1 S RETAIL CATALOGUE. 
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gjggp -Robert Groves, Lowell, Mass., writes: **For 32 years your seeds have grown me fine cabbage ." 
BEANS, Pole or Running- — Continued. 
Scarlet Runner. The largest for eating; fine for ornament.. 
Wilkins’ Pole Cranberry. (New.) See page 11. 
Lazy Wives. A late white pole sort; fine for a succession, coming late. For shelling or baking.package only 
Extra Early Liima. This is, as the name indicates, really earlier than the common sorts. 
King of the Garden Lima. See page 11...... 
Early Lima, Sieva, or Frost. Two weeks earlier than Large Lima. Requires the entire season in the North 
Large Lima. As a shell bean, surpasses all in quality; late for the extreme North. 
Dreer’s Improved Lima. Rather later j but more prolific than Large Lima; round in shape.. 
Waxen Podded Pole Varieties. 
Golden Butter Wax. Very early; very prolific; very handsome; in fact, ven/first-class, a standard, 
Carmine Wax. One of the earliest of the pole sorts. Pods green, then yellow, then carmine... 
Flageolet Wax. Handsome long pods having a transparent look; later than Golden Butter. 
Early Golden Cluster Wax. . (New.) See page 11. In the front rank of wax pole varieties. 
Indian Chief, or Black Algerian Wax. Always in order for stringing; pods yellowish white. 
ENGLISH BEAN, Broad Windsor. Large and excellent. Valuable for ripening unevenly 
These thrive best in rich, moist soil and cool situation. Plant in early spring, two or three weeks earlier than 
the common beans, in rows two feet apart, and six inches apart in the row, covering two inches deep. Pinch off 
the tops of the plants when the young pods first appear. 
BEET. (German, Runkel Rube; French, Betterave.) Table Varieties. 
Select a deep, rich, sandy loam, and manure with well-decomposed compost. Sow in drills fourteen to sixteen 
inches apart and cover one inch deep. When the young plants appear, thin to four or five inches apart. For early 
use, sow as soon as ground can be worked in the spring; for autumn use, about the middle of May; and for winter 
use, from the 10th to the 20th of June, according to variety,—the long varieties requiring more time to mature 
than the round, early kinds. When sown late increase the quantity of seed. To preserve during winter, cover 
with earth to keep from wilting. When cooking, boil new beets one hour, and old ones two hours or more. The 
Mangold Wurtzels are grown principally for stock, and, as they grow larger, require more room. They should be 
sown in drills about two feet apart, and be thinned to twelve or fifteen inches in the row. (See our work on Mangold 
Wurtzels, etc.) One ounce to fifty feet of drill. Five pounds per acre. 
DETROIT DARK RED. (New.) See page 3. 
ARLINGTON FAVORITE. (New.) See page 2. 
Egyptian. Earlier than Bassano. Tops remarkably small. We heartily recommend this valuable variety to 
the attention of market gardeners who seek above everything else earliness. 
Crosby’s Early Egyptian. See page 11. 
Eclipse. See page 11. Quite as early as the Egyptian. Now a standard variety.. 
Early Bassano. One of the earliest, fine in quality. 
Faust’s New Crimson, or Mitchell’s Perfected. (New.) See page 12.. 
Edmands’. See page 12... 
Lentz’ Hybrid. (New.) See page 12. 
Bastian’s Early Blood Turnip. As early as the Bassano, but of much darker color; small top, handsome 
shape; one of the standards for early market... 
Early Blood Turnip. A standard sort; good for summer or winter. 
Dewing’s Early Blood Turnip. Very symmetrical; free from fibrous roots; dark red. A first-class beet 
Yellow Turnip. A very early sort, of a beautiful golden-yellow color, the best for quality. 
Long Smooth Dark Blood. Excellent for winter use; smooth skinned; flesh dark red. 
Mangold Wurtzel. 
The Globe Mangolds succeed better than the long sorts on sandy soil. Farmers should begin to feed them 
towards the close of winter and in the spring. 
Norbiton Giant. The Standard Long Red; very extensively used. 
Carter’s Orange Globe. The best variety of Yellow Globe... 
Giant Yellow Intermediate. (New.) See page 12.. 
Red Tankard. Tankard shaped, with small tap-root; handsome. 
Golden Tankard. Tankard shaped; flesh deep yellow, with colored rings; good cropper. 
Webb’s New Kinver Mammoth. Considered by some the best of the Yellow Globes. 
Improved American Sugar, or Lane’s. A long white variety of Mangold Wurtzel, for stock. 
Vilmorin’s Improved French White Sugar. The variety cultivated by the French for making of sugar.. 
White Silesian Sugar. Raised in France for sugar, excellent for feeding stock, a heavy copper. 
Red Giant Ovoid. Very large, oval shape; pulls up very free from dirt. 
Red Globe.... 
Yellow Globe. 
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BERBERRY ... 
One of the best shrubs for hedges. Perfectly hardy. Never winter-kills, and grows on any soil; makes a thick, 
close, impenetrable hedge that will turn cattle, and promises to become the hedge-plant of North America. The 
berries make excellent preserves. As the seeds of the berberry do best when planted in the berry, we will receive 
orders and file them to be filled in the fall, as soon as the fruit is matured, when we will send the berries at prices 
named above, with a page of full directions for making a hedge, and for preserving the fruit. 
BORAGE...,. .. 
This is a profuse flowering plant, which is grown principally for bees. Sow in early spring in rich soil, and thin 
plants to one foot apart. Readily bears transplanting, and, when thus treated, flowers more abundantly. 
BRUSSELS SPROUTS. (German, Kopfkohl; French, Chou de Bruxelles.) 
A class of plants allied to the cabbage family, producing great numbers of small heads or sprouts on the main 
stem of the plant, which are used in the manner of cabbages. Plant in rich soil, in hills two feet apart each way, 
and thin to one plant to the hill. 
Dalkeith, (New.) More dwarf and compact than the old sorts and produces larger sprouts. 
Serymger’s Giant Dwarf. In habit, close-headed and compact.package only 
Dwarf Improved. The standard variety.... 
Dalmeny Sprouts. A hybrid between Drumhead Savoy and Brussels Sprouts. 
BROCCOLI. (German, Spargel Kohl; French ,Chou Brocoli.) 
The Broccoli are closely allied to the Cauliflower family, so nearly so that the Walcheren variety is sometimes 
classed with Cauliflower. They require similar cultivation and treatment to Cauliflower. 
Walcheren White. One of the very best varieties. 
Large White Early French. A standard French variety. 
Purple Cape. Late, large, compact. 
Early Purple. Early, excellent; color, deep purple... 
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