JAMES J. H. GREGORY’S SEED CIRCULAR AND RETAIL CATALOGUE. 
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g@“The following varieties still claim a place in the list of Rare, Novel or particularly desirable. 
Black Hawk Pole Bean. Several persons residing in 
different sections of the West have sent me this bean with the 
statement that it was the earliest pole bean they had ever 
raised. 1 find it, with the exception of a sort I tested this past 
season, to be earlier than any variety I have thus far raised.... 
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Yard Long Bean. A curious bean of very dark and glossy 
foliage. The pods grow two feet and upwards in length. 
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Berberry Seed. For details, see page 16. 
Egyptian Beet. This new beet is probably the earliest 
kind yet known ; is dark in flesh. It is highly esteemed by our 
best gardeners for a first early. A week earlier than Bassano. 
30 cents per oz..,.. 
Bastian’s Early Biood Turnip Beet. A new Philadel¬ 
phia Beet, which is earlier than Bassano with a beautiful blood- 
red color when boiled. Very handsome in shape. Market 
gardeners had better try this.. .20 cts. per oz. 
Sandringham Sprouting Cabbage. The English seeds¬ 
men introduce this new variety as forming an abundance of 
close growing miniature cabbages up the stem, as in the Brus¬ 
sels Sprouts. Of delicious flavor, and a valuable new vegetable 
Carter’s Little Pixie Savoy. This closely resembles the 
Little Pixie in earliness and size, while it has the rich, marrow- 
like flavor of the Savoy. 
Wheeler’s Cocoanut Cabbage. This is conical in shape 
and one of the best of the English early market varieties. In 
this country it makes hard, solid heads... 
Marblehead Mammoth Cabbage. For a description please 
see fifth page. 
Early Wyman Cabbage. This new cabbage has had the 
monopoly of the Boston Market for several years, all the seed 
being in the hands of one person. It is the largest of all the 
early conical sorts, larger even than Early Wakefield or Early 
Oxheart, and is highly popular with market gardeners. 
Scrymger’s Giant Brussels Sprout. This new English 
variety is recommended as a fine, dwarf-growing, close-headed 
and compact. . 
Carter’s Dwarf Mammoth Cauliflower. A new prize 
English sort, very large and quite early . 
Cauliflower, Dwarf Early La Maitre. (New.) A 
new French variety sent out by Vilmorin as a very fine large 
heading sort.. ’. 
Lenormand’s Short-Stemmed Mammoth Cauliflower. 
A very fine large variety, considered by the French gardeners 
one of the very best for general cultivation. 
Extra Early Dwarf Erfurt Cauliflower. (Seed 
specially selected.) Very early, hardy, dwarf and compact ; 
larger than Walcheren. The best for forcing and for general 
purposes as an early variety. Its compact habits admit of a 
large number being raised on a given area. 
Boston Market Celery. This is the short, bushy, com¬ 
pact, solid celery, for which Boston Market is so famous. 
Chufas or Ground Nuts. These very closely resemble in 
sweetness and richness of flavor a cocoa nut. Very prolific, a 
single one yielding over two hundred. 
Golden Sweet Corn. I grew this peculiar corn some years 
ago ; lost the seed by accident, and have now re-found it. It is 
early, ears of good size. It is perfectly unique and differs in 
appearance and flavor from every other variety, having the 
peculiarity of combining the richest flavor of the field corn with 
the best qualities of the sugar corn. Sweet, tender and delic¬ 
ious ; xireferred by many to every other- kind. 
Pratt’s Early Corn. This is the earliest corn of market¬ 
able size. It is an acquisition for marketmen as a first early to 
come in before Crosby’s, Moore’s or Narragansett. The ears are 
of a fair market size, well filled. 
Mammoth Field Corn. A white field corn claimed to be 
the largest kind raised in the Western States. From twenty 
to forty rowed. Ears, when dry, weigh a pound and a half_ 
Mexican Sweet Corn. I send this out, after athorough 
trial of several years and a rigid comparison with all standard 
sorts, as one of the sweetest and tenderest of all varieties of 
sweet or sugar corn. 
Moore’s Early Concord Sweet Corn. This is a new 
early corn from twelve to sixteen rows, said to be earlier than 
Crosby’s. The vegetable committee of the Massachusetts Hor¬ 
ticultural Society thought so highly of it they awarded it a sil¬ 
ver medal. In packages containing seed sufficient for fifty hills 
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Mammoth Sweet Corn. My Mammoth has taken the first 
prize at two of the Annual Exhibitions of the Massachusetts 
Horticultural Society, the ears exhibited weighing, as gathered 
from the stalk, between two and three pounds each. This is a 
very sweet corn for family use. 
General Grant Corn. This is the sweetest of all the late 
varieties I am acquainted with. The ears are very large and the 
kernels shrink wonderfully when dry. 
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Kollisson’s Telegraph Cucumber. One of the longest of 
the forcing varieties. 
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Norbiton Giant Cucumber. This is one of the frame va¬ 
rieties, sent out by the English seedsman as “ The finest, long¬ 
est and most prolific cucumber cultivated”. 
Snake Cucumber. A very long variety, (I have raised them 
six feet in length,) growing coiled up, having much the appear¬ 
ance of a large snake. Fine sx>ecimens will sometimes bring 
<£5.00 each as curiosities. 
Improved Long Green Prickly Cucumber. This is the 
largest of the Long Green varieties; very long and very hand¬ 
some. 
Early White Japan Cucumber. This new Cucumber 
resembles White Spine, but is of a richer creamy white. It is 
exceedingly productive, grows to a good size, and is an earlier 
variety than White Spine. 
Dandelion, New Large Leaved. 
Very Early Dwarf Egg Plant. A new French variety 
of Long Purple. Earliness in the egg plant family is exceed¬ 
ingly desirable, and in this new sort we have an acquisition.... 
Striped Guadaloupe Egg Plant. Long in shape and 
elegantly striped, sometimes of an elegant sulphur yellow. 
Scarlet China Egg Plant. Highly ornamental. 
Ornamental Gourds. The packages contain seeds of 
Apple, Orange, Pear, Quince, Bottle, Egg, and other varieties. 
Peculiar, attractive and ornamental.. 
Sugar Trough Gourds. These grow to the capacity of 
several gallons, and will last years as sap vessels, or for holding 
liquids.. 
Ornamental Kales. These for their great variety in color 
of foliage and the elegant structure of the leaves, with the 
beautiful symmetry of the plants, are elegant ornaments scat¬ 
tered in the flower garden among shrubbery. 
Kingholm Cos Lettuce. Tbe finest form of the Paris Cos 
type; it stands the summer heat after the other varieties have 
run to seed, and heads in without tieing. 
True Boston Curled Lettuce. Good, (but not of the best 
in quality,) and the most elegant of all the Lettuce family in its 
habit of growth. It has the form of a rosette. Very popular. 
Perpignan Lettuce. A remarkably reliable Lettuce for 
heading in summer—some of my heads measured seven inches 
across and were quite compact. 
Shaw’s Golden Superb Melon. This is indeed a superb 
melon, not in size, for it is small, too small in most localities for 
a market sort, but for family use, where quality is the great de¬ 
sideratum, it much excels the green citron and cannot be sur¬ 
passed. It is very prolific... 
Casaba Muskmelon. This new melon is shaped like Large 
Musk, is green fleshed, very sweet, melting and delicious. It 
grows to weigh 15 lbs. A capital melon, succeeding finely in all 
localities. 
Sill’s Hybrid Muskmelon. This has all the earliness and 
sweetness of the White Japan, but is more spicy and delicious. 
Very vigorous and productive. The flesh is of Salmon color. 
No garden should be without it. 
Ward’s Nectar Muskmelon. Editors of “ Hearth and 
Home ” state, “ both this year and last, Ward’s Nectar, in point 
of sweetness and flavor, was the best ,of the several varieties 
tested.”... . 
Phinney’s Watermelon. This is one of the varieties I 
have introduced. Iied-fleshed, early and excellent. Those who 
could not succeed with other kinds of watermelons have suc¬ 
ceeded well with this. It stands transportation,remarkably well 
Sculptured Seeded Cream Fleshed Watermelon. A 
new melon from Jax>an. The flesh, which is very sweet, is of a 
delicate cream color. The seed are singularly sculptured with 
marks resembling oriental characters. 
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