JAMES J. H. GREGORY’S SEED CIRCULAR AND RETAIL CATALOGUE. 
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ASP AH A GITS. 
Sow the seed in the seed bed late in the fall or in the early spring, as soon as the ground can be worked, in drills one foot apart, 
covering the seed about one inch deep. Thin the plants to three inches in the row. The roots may be removed to the permanent 
bed when one or two years old. In preparing the ground no pains should be spared, as a well established and carefully cultivated 
Asparagus bed will continue in good condition for twenty-five years or more. Select deep, rich, mellow soil, and trench the 
ground two feet deep, using a liberal quantity of well decomposed manure, with a small admixture of common salt. Set the roots 
so that the crowns will be three or four inches below the surface of the ground. Apply a dressing of manure in autumn (rotten kelp 
is excellent), digging the same into the ground in the spring, taking care not to injure the roots. The bed will produce shoots fit for 
cutting the second or third year after transplanting. An occasional application of salt will be found beneficial. 
Conover’s Colossal, The largest variety grown.. 
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BEANS. Dwarf, Snap or Bush. 
Select light, warm soil, and plant when danger from frost is past in the spring, in drills two to two and a half feet apart, drop¬ 
ping the beans about two inches apart in the drill, and cover one inch deep. Keep the ground clean and loose by frequent hoeing, 
but do not draw the earth around the plants. Avoid working among the vines when they are wet, as it will tend to make them rust. 
White Bean Pea. True. (New.)... 
Yellow Eye. One of the best varieties for baking. Remarkably vigorous, healthy and prolific. 
Dwarf German Wax. Long variety. (New.) Most excellent. More productive than the Round variety. 
Concord Bush. (New.) A fine, early, bush variety... 
Early Fejee. Very early, hardy and prolific; will bear several pickings. 
Early Rachel. A long, straight-podded, early kind; grown for the New York market. 
Early Russian. These beans resemble miniature sparrow eggs. An early, productive sort. 
Dwarf Wax. Pods mostly yellow. Early; for a snap bean, superior. 
York Dwarf Wax. This is remarkably free from all admixture; producing uniformly yellowish-white pods. 
Dwarf German Wax. Round. A great acquisition; white pods, very early, first rate; beans pure white,.... . 
Early Yellow Six Weeks. Very early and productive; a standard sort. 
Early Mohawk. Very hardy, early and productive... 
Early China, or 66 Red Eye.” An old, popular, early variety. 
Early Valentine. Pod long, round and tender; excellent, standard early bean in Middle States. 
Dnn Cranberry. One of the very best for stringing; yield first rate; early, good either as a green or dry shell bean. 
Refugee, or Thousand to One. A very prolific bush sort... 
Intermediate Horticultural. A half bush variety, very prolific; an excellent substitute for the pole Horticultural 
a superior sort for market gardeners. 
Navy or Pea Bean. A small, almost round variety, very productive. A standard sort for field culture. 
White Medium. White bush variety, largely used by government. 
White Marrow. A standard sort for field cultivation; early....... 
Pole, or Running Varieties. 
Set the poles three by four feet apart, and plant six to eight beans, with the eyes downward, around each pole, thinning to four 
healthy plants when they are up. They require the same soil and treatment as the dwarf varieties with the exception that they 
crave stronger soil, and do best in a sheltered location. 
Australian Runner. (New.) Fine. Very early. Pods of an extraordinary length.package only 
Rhode Island Butter. I esteem this bean as one of the very best raised in the North, to eat green-shelled... 
Mottled Cranberry. Long podded, very productive; a very popular bean for garden cultivation. 
Black Hawk Pole. A remarkably early pole bean. (See page 13).package only 
London Horticultural, or Wren’s Egg. Productive, pods elegantly striped—excellent string or shell... 
Early Lima or Sievaf called also Frost Bean. This is two weeks earlier than the Large Lima. 
Large Lima. As a shell bean surpasses all in quality; too late for the extreme North. 
Indian Chief or Black Algerian. Always in order for stringing; pods almost transparent, of a yellowish-white. 
Boston Market Pole Cranberry. The Boston marketmen cultivate this as the most prolific Pole Cranberry Bean 
for market. 
Giant Wax. Always a snap bean; a variety that is never stringy at any stage of growth. Pods of a yellowish-white 
color, very long and remarkably tender. An acquisition.. 
Yard Long. (See page 13). , .package only 
Concord Bean. This new pole bean is the most elegant of all beans. It takes exceedingly well to the poles, is healthy 
and very prolific; excellent either as string or shell, resembling the Horticultural to which it is 
related, though it takes better to the poles than that variety, and is considerably earlier. 
White Dutch Runners. An old standard. Beans of the largest size ; with many popular either for green shelling or 
baking.. 
Caseknife. A white pole bean of great richness either as green shelled or when baked.. 
White Pole Cranberry. A capital late variety, particularly as a string bean.package only 
Purple Podded Edible Pod. (New). Very fine; pods of mammoth size.package only 
Painted Lady. Either for ornament or use.package only 
Marblehead Champion. (New.) To be used as a string bean..package only 
ENGLISH BEANS. Broad Windsor. Large and excellent.. 
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. 
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 tenth to the twentieth of J une, 
according to variety; the long varieties requiring more time to mature than the round, early kinds. When young, the plants 
make excellent “greens”. 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 two and a half feet apart, and the plants be thinned to twelve or fifteen inches in the 
row. One ounce of seed will sow about one hundred feet of row. 
Early Bassano. One of the earliest...... 
Dewing’s Early Blood Turnip. Very symmetrical; free from fibrous roots; dark red. This took the first premium 
at the Massachusetts State Fair, 1867, 1868, 1869.. 
Simon’s Early Turnip. (New). This is a very early variety, size of Blood Turnip, somewhat flat in shape, growing 
very smooth, and of excellent ^quality. It is about as early as Early Bassano, but of a deeper red. 
Early Extra Flat. Short topped, very early; popular with market gardeners.. 
Egyptian. (New. See page 13.) Earlier than Bassano. Tops remarkably small. Excellent for market purposes. 
I heartily recommend this valuable variety to the attention of market gardeners, who seek 
to combine earliness, size and symmetry. 
Bastian’s Early Blood Turnip. Has the earliness of the Bassano, hut is of a much darker color when young. (See 
page 13).... 
Bastian’s Half Long Blood. A new Philadelphia sort of a fine dark color; a good grower. 
Early Blood Turnip. A standard sort ; good for summer or winter. 
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