JAMES J. II. GREGORY’S SEED CIRCULAR AND RETAIL CATALOGUE. 
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SWISS CHARD. 
Plant and cultivate as Beets. The tops while young are boiled as greens and the centre leaf cooked and served like asparagus. 
Ornamental Varieties. These leaf vines are white or brilliant scarlet-and yellow, and are planted in England scattered through 
flower plots with fine effect.....package only 
Common Chard....... — ........ 
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TOMATO, “With the single exception of Tomato De Laye all of the varieties of Tomatoes are of my own growing from carefully 
selected stock. 
Sow the seeds in March or April in the hot-bed or in pots in a sunny exposure in the bouse. If it is desired to make very healthy, 
stocky plants, they may be transplanted or repotted when about two or three inches high, to dwarf and give them more room. When live 
or six"inches high, if the ground has become warm, transplant them to the open ground, on a rainy or cloudy day if possible, if not, the 
young plants should be liberally watered and shaded from the hot sun. The richer the soil the more handsome and plentiful the fruit will 
be, but i£ it is desirable to have the fruit ripen as early as possible select rather light, poor soil and a sunny location. Trimming off the 
laterals, training to a stake and propagating by slips, are believed by many to promote earliness. Set the plants four feet apart each way, 
upon mounds of earth, to allow the foliage to open and let the sun in amongst the fruit. A cheap trellis made by driving three stakes 
around the plants and encircling them with three or four barrel lioops makes a very nice support for training them on in the garden. 
Checking the growth of the vines by pinching off the ends will be found beneficial, after the fruit has begun to set. 
Alliance. A large purple tomato, resembling “Lester’s Perfected” in type, but an improvement on that fine old variety, pk. only 
Early Dwarf Red. A new French variety, about as early as Dwarf Scotch .package only 
Paragon. (New.) (For description see j>age 12.) .package only 
Robert. (New.) (For description see page 12. )... 
Canada Victor. (New.) For full description of this fine, new tomato see page 8 . 
Canada Vtictor. Extra selected seed . 
Hathaway’s Excelsior. The best of the spherical, round tomatoes, being quite early, uniformly round, very solid, of excellent 
quality and very productive .... . 
Arlington. (New.) Of large size, quite smooth ; late. (See page 14.) . 
Charter Oak. (New.) .A very handsome, large round variety ... .. 
Wonder. Remarkably dwarf ; yines very stalky ; shy hearer ; allied to De Laye. . .package only 
Essex Early Round. Very early, round and solid. A capital .sort for early market; very popular in eastern Massachusetts, j 
Hubbard’s Curled Leaf. This tomato so closely resembles Early York that 1 consider it but a strain of that variety.J 
Purple Musk. Resembles Alkekengi, but is several times as large and more acid in its flavor .package only I 
Trophy. A magnificent new variety. Particularly valuable in the home garden ....\ j 
Alger. Mr. F. R. Elliott claims this to be the best among twenty varieties ; middling early.j 
Gen. Grant. Remarkably smooth, symmetrical and solid. A popular market sort around Boston.. 
Mammoth Cluster. Tins is a remarkably large, round tomato, growing in clusters ; closely resembles the Mexican. Is apt to 
he a.little hollow if not very fully ripe ... . .... 
Crimson Cluster® Grows-in large clusters, yielding handsome fruit, oftentimes flecked with gokl-like spots. 
Orangefield. A new English variety of a rich fruity flavor . 
Early York. Very early, dwarf and productive . 
Dwarf Scotch. Early ; the most dwarf of all excepting De Laye and Wonder ... 
Keyes’ Early Prolific. One of the earliest ; bears its fruit in large clusters of medium sized tomatoes . 
Yellow Fig. Pear shaped, and used to preserve as figs. ...package only 
Maupay’s Superior® Large, smooth and symmetrical .package only 
Cherry. Flavor unsurpassed. Fruit small, hut a wonderful cropper ..package only 
Rising Sun. New, of large size, round in shape, very productive ... 
Fejee. Very similar to Lester’s Perfected . 
Mammoth Chihuahua. Grows to weigh as nigh as two pounds each. More curious than useful.package only 
Cook’s Favorite. Roundish in shape and quite solid when fully ripe .. 
Boston Market. “Unsurpassed as a large smooth variety for market purposes ; the standard in Boston market. 
New White Apple. Sweet, with a rich, fruit-like flavor. (Seepage 14.) .package only 
Large Yellow. Large and of- a sweetish and peculiar flavor ....\ 
Lester’s Perfected. Large, very solid and has few seeds ; a great favorite ; one of the purple varieties. 
Large Smooth Red. The standard kind ; good for market purposes . 
Tomato De Laye. The new French upright variety; large and of superior quality, hut a shy hearer.package only 
Tildeii. First class on low, rich soil; of large size, thick ineated, smooth and of high flavor. ..j 
New Mexican. New, large, round ; a good variety for the South .j 
Strawberry, or Ground Cherry. (Alkekengi.) Grows enclosed in a husk ; excellent for preserves; will keep with husks all 
winter ...package only! 
Yellow Plum. Small, elegant. Nice for preserves .... . .package only! 
Currant. Very elegant; resembles long bunches of currants; very ornamental .package only 
TURNIP. 
For early use sow the small sorts as soon as tlxe ground can be worked in the spring, in drills fourteen inches apart—the Rutabagas 
thirty inches. As the seed is very fine it should be covered but slightly, excepting in very dry weather. Select light, and if possible, new 
soil, and manure with plaster and ashes, or phosphates. Should the young plants be troubled with insects, a sprinkling of the same will be 
found beneficial. Of the early varieties thin the plants to six inches apart and the Rutabagas to one foot. For fall and winter use the 
early kinds should be sown from the middle of July to the middle of August, and the Rutabagas from tho middle of June to the first of 
July, using from one to one and a half pounds of seed to the acre. Turnips are very extensively used as winter feed for cattle and sheep. 
“ Swede ” and “ Rutabaga ” being synonymous terms, the names below, given as they are generally used, will be readily understood. 
American Rutabaga. Popular among our market gardeners both for table and for feeding stock. Flesh very solid. A first- 
rate keeper . 
White Tankard. One of the English varieties—in shape resembling a tankard. “White-fleshed ; a very heavy cropper. 
Early Red Top. Fine, sweet, mild, rapid grower ; very early and popular. .... 
Early White Top. Differs from Red Top only in color . 
Yellow Finland, Very elegant; less eaten by worms than most sorts . 
Orange Jelly. A round, yellow English turnip of finer quality than Golden Ball. 
Improved Yellow Globe. Fine for family use or for field culture. An excellent American variety. 
Jersey Navet. A new English variety of white turnip ; an underground turnip ; early, very sweet. 
Carter’s Imperial Swede." Messrs. Carter & Co. rank this as the best of their swede turnips. 
Long White Co whom. Matures quickly, carrot shaped, line grained and sweet.. 
Green Top Aberdeen. Round, yellow-fleshed and firm ; a good keeper. This variety in earliness and for stock^mrposes is 
half way between the early varieties and the Rutabaga . 
Sweet German. Large, white, sweet, excellent—a first rate keeper. . 
Skirving’s Purple Top Rutabaga® A standard field variety for stock and fine for family use. Yellow fleshed. 
Devonshire Grey Stone. A fine English kind for fall use for stock . 
London Ptirp'e Top Swede. Short neck and round in shape ; grows to a larger size than Skirviug’s and lias a shorter neck. 
Yellow fleshed. ... A ...‘..’ 
Shamrock Swede. A popular English sort. Short neck and oblong in shape. Yellow fleshed . . 
Laing’s Improved S wede® One of the eoxUesU swedes; a handsome variety of excellent?quality. Yellow fleshed. For the table 
Barg’d White Iramw A white market rutabaga; > n . >. i. j t . t , .. t r : ; ,. t. ,... ,,, f ( 
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