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JAMES J. H. GREGORY’S SEED CIRCULAR AND RETAIL CATALOGUE. 
Ail seed sent by mail at my expense $ by express, at the expense of the purchaser. <=^ 5 } 
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Early Dwarf Sugar. Grows about three feet high; ears quite small. 
Early Minnesota Sweet, One of the very earliest sorts of sweet corn, with ears of suitable size for market purposes... 
Briggs’ Early Sweet. This is larger than Early Minnesota, but a little later. 
Early Narragansett. One of the earliest; kernels very large; ears large in diameter, and of medium length; popular 
around New York 
Bates’s Early Extra Sweet. A variety good for market or for table use; one of the earliest. An improvement on 
Darling’s Early. . 
Darling’s Early. An old standard. We have better sorts now.. 
Moore’s Early Concord Sweet. A new early corn, from 12 to 16 rows. Remarkably handsome; quite popular 
Crosby’s New Early Sweet. First rate every way, either for market or family use. 
Mexican Sweet. (See page 13.) The sweetest and tenderest for table use of all varieties I am acquainted with. 
Golden Sweet. After having lost my seed stock of this magnificent variety, I have secured a new stock ai?:d can this 
season supply my customers by the package. (See page 13). 
Sto well’s Evergreen Sweet. Excellent; keeps green till cold weather ; ears large ; a standard late variety. 
Marblehead Mammoth Sweet. The largest variety grown. (See page 13).package only 
Sweet Fodder Com. Sweet corn; is preferred to the yellow kinds by our best farmers for fodder. For bushel rates 
see p. 28).... 
Varieties for Meld Cultivation and Popping. 
Adams’ Early. A favorite in the south. The earliest of all the Dent sorts. 
Early Yellow Field. Excellent for northern latitudes. Ears rather small, but exceedingly productive. 
Hundred Days Dent. Early ; ears large and well filled. A capital sort for the Middle and Southern New England 
states.. 
Mammoth Field. (P. 13.) A large white gourd seed variety, claimed to be the largest kind raised in the Western States 
Silver Faced Pop. The handsomest of all varieties of pop corn, and decidedly a growing favorite... 
Nonpareil, or Pop. The popular variety for parching... 
Dwarf Golden Pop. Small, but ornamental, and a favorite with the little folks ; excellent for poppin 
BROOM COUNT. 
Evergreen. Claimed to be superior to the common variety in length and quality of brush. 
Dwarf. Makes better brush than the common tall variety. 
CHESS. 
Piant on rich soil, finely pulverized, in drills six or eight inches apart. That grown in the cool of the season is of the best 
quality. To be used as salad before the flowers appear. 
Curled. The best sort. 
Plain or Common.......^ 
Water Cress. To be planted along the borders of shallow water courses.!. 
CUCUMBER. 
The vines require a warm location. Plant after the ground has become warm, in hills four feet apart for the smaller varieties 
and five feet for the larger sorts. Manure with ashes, guano, or some well rotted compost, working the manure iust under the sur¬ 
face. It is not good policy to bury it m deep, cold holes, as is sometimes recommended. Keep the soil well stirred Snrinkle 
vines with plaster or air-slacked lime to protect it from bugs. The frame cucumbers can be successfully grown in the onen air in 
the country by giving them well sheltered location, plenty of manure, and having hills six by six. 
Russian Netted. (New.) (For description see page 12.). 
Tailby’s Hybrid. (New.) (For description see ptge 12.).‘.Safe 2 
Rollisson’s Telegraph. (New. See page 13.) One of the most prolific of the forcing varieties./packale on!v 
Norbiton Giant. (See page 13). The longest prize frame cucumber known. nackaop rmlv 
English Prize Cucumbers. Carter’s Champion; Sion House. These yield but very few seed,"and are great 
Early Russian. The earliest of all varieties; grows about four inches long.. 
Early Cluster. Bears mostly in clusters; very early and productive..... *’ ‘ * ’ 'J .*. 
White Spined. Great hearer; excellent for early forcing, or for out door cultivation, standard in Boston market 
Fong Green. An old standard sort.. .!.*!'! .. 
Short Green. An old standard.. . 
Improved Fong Green Prickly. (Seep. 13) Excellent variety, growing 18 or 20 inches long;makes a hard brittle nickle 
W Ind OTlt G toget the sted to y i“mh 1 nte gant ’ peCuliar sort ’ for pickles on U. to an ‘extraordinary degree. P Diffi- 
New Jersey Hybrid. The largest of all white spined varieties’. .‘ 
Eight Varieties Mixed... 
S? St ?^i C ^ in& V A n \ ed i m ?> lo ng variety; the standard for'pickling in Boston market 
Short Pickling. Yery desirable for a short pickle... 
Early ^hite Japan. (New). A variety recently introduced "from Japan, exceedingly productive * ’resembles "White 
¥ o ^ t0 a t ncher creamy white color, and appears to be a week 01 mom earlier ’ M 
Fong Green Turkey. A fine long variety, a little larger at seed end than Long Green.. 
Snake. I have grown these six feet m length, coiled up like a snake. (See page 13).’.. uppWa 
DANDELION. .package only 
May m drills one foot apart, covering the seed half inch deep. A rich soil is prefer hie h +m ,2m®. ot the T ver - Sow in 
M cover the bed with straw or other loose litter, which may be removed in early spring, when the leaves wilSooJlSmMvfor\i5f 
New Farge Feaved. (See page 13). von uercuayioruse. 
Common. ... .package only 
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Very Eigly Dwarf. A new French variety of Long Purple ‘extra early H (^page IS? 1 by amateuls -•-Package only 
StripedjGnadaioupe. Very ornamental and edible. (Seepage 13 ) 7 , P ° .package only 
Black Pekin. A new variety of Bound Purple. Blackish violet leates-fruit ve'rv'ialle.package only 
ffow S v 11 L-’i C ‘ Darkerandmoreproduetiye, but smaller, than Round PWle.!.. 7 S .package only 
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