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preference over the black-seeded sorts. It is also very prolilic, the vines being 
literally covered with pods. Per qt., 40 cents.10 
BEET. 
Dark Red Egyptian Beet. This new beet is of the turnip shape; very deep red, with a 
small top, and very slender tap-root, and is the earliest kind in cultivation ; on which 
account it lias become very popular with the best market-growers, for an early and 
prolitable crop. Per lb., §2.50; per oz.. 25 cents . 
Dustbin's Extra Early Turnip Beet. We can highly recommend this new variety 
for its handsome shape, deep-red color, and tine quality for family use. Being of 
quick growth, it is extra early, and one of the most prolitable kinds for the market- 
gardener. Per lb., §1.50; per oz.. 20 cents . 
Dell’s New Crimson. A new English half-long beet, of a rich deep red color throughout, 
very tender and sweet; leaves compact; very dark black-red with a metallic bril¬ 
liancy. Per oz., 30 cents. 
German Black-Leaved Long; Blood Beet. A very choice variety of the Long Blood 
Beet, for table use. Leaves short and black, and the root very dark blood-red fleshed; 
line grained and sweet. Per lb., §1 50; per oz , 20 cents. 
Hatch’s Exti a Early Blood-Turnip Beet. An improved variety, both in earliness, 
smoothness, ana line quality for table-use, and a favorite with the growers of line 
early vegetables for the Boston market. The seed we offer is from the stock which 
received the first premium awarded by the Massachusetts Horticultural Society 
for beets exhibited on or before the first Saturday in July. Per lb., §1 25; per oz., 
15 cents ... . 
Lane’s Improved Imperial Sugar Beet. This superb variety is the result of a careful 
selection for several years past, of the French Imperial Sugar Beet, by Mr. Henry 
Lane, an experienced farmer of Cornwall, Vt. We can recommend it with the 
greatest confidence as being hardier, more productive, and better adapted for cul¬ 
tivation in this country, than the ordinary variety. It is the best beet for cows or 
young stock. From thirty to forty tons raised to the acre, at a cost of from five to 
eight cents per bushel, its immense product, cheapness of raising, and its great 
value for cattle, sheep, and swine, make it the most prolitable root to grow. The 
seed we oiler is received direct from Mr. Lane, and of his own growing. Per lb., 
§1.00; peroz., 10 cents . 
Mangel Wurtzel, Garter’s Mammoth Long Red. Messrs. Carter & Co., of London, 
say of this variety, “ At the Smithtield Club Cattle Show', this season, the gigantic 
specimens we exhibited (some of them weighing 50 lbs.) were universally allowed 
to be the finest in the exhibition, both for weight and quality.” Per lb., fcO cents; 
per oz., 10 cents . 
Mangel Wurtzel, Norliiton Giant. Extra fine Long Bed, very large, and grows well 
above ground, with small top. Recommended as the best Long-lied Mangel in 
cultivation. Per lb., 80 cents; per oz., 10 cents . 
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CABBAGE. 
Bottler's Improved Brunswick- This has proved the bo6t Early Market Drumhead 
Cabbage ever introduced, and has given great satisfaction. It is a rapid grower and 
uniformly productive, nearly every plant forming large handsome solid heads with 
few outside leaves, and often weighing twenty to thirty pounds, and upwards. 
Planted early, it is ready for use in July and August, and by later planting is in 
use throughout fall and winter. It is universally grown for market in this vicinity; 
and for general culture it has no superior. Home-grown seed per lb., §8.00; per oz., 
75 cents...15 
Carter’s Little Pixie Savoy. Recommended as the best of all the Savoy Cabbages for 
family use. It is very early; and, if planted out sixteen inches from plant to plant, 
the ground will be literally covered with small but delicious heads of from one and 
a half to two pounds each. Per oz., 30 cents.10 
Early Wyman. This is already mentioned in our Catalogue; but we call attention to it 
again on account of its superiority, as the best and most profitable early market 
cabbage in cultivation. It is almost the only kind of early cabbage cultivated 
for the Boston market, and again took the first prize, the past season, at the 
weekly exhibitions of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. Peroz., §1.00 . . .20 
Wheeler’s Coeoamit. Anew and very early cabbage. Conical-formed heads, and very 
60 lid. A perfectly distinct variety, and of excellent flavor. A decided novelty and 
fine acquisition. Per oz., 50 cents.‘. . .10 
Large Early Sohweinfart. We recommend this in preference to all other varieties for 
family use It is the earliest of all the larger sorts, and grows to the size of from 
ten to eighteen inches diameter. Heads very symmetrical and handsome, and re¬ 
markably crisp and tender, and when cooked is sweet and delicious; quite free 
from any strong cabbage flavor. See page 86. Per lb., §0.00; per oz., .50 cents. . .10 
CARROT. 
Early Scarlet Nantes. A new and distinct variety of the half-long carrots, growing larger 
than the Early Horn, and of finer foim, being blunt-pointed, and of nearly equal .size 
from top to bottom. Highly recommended for an early market carrot, and for 
family use. Per lb., §1.50; per oz., 15 cents.05 
CAULIFLOWER. 
Earliest Algiers. Extra line sort for forcing and for early crops. The celebrated variety 
of which large quantities are annually imported into Europe from Algiers . . .20 
