Jerome B. Rice Seed Co. 
about June 1st, 23^ feet apart. If no hotbed is at hand, they can be grown in 
any light room where the temperature will average 75°. 
One ounce for 2,000 plants. 
BLACK BEAUTY (120 days)—Earlier and nearly as large as New York 
Purple; fruit very dark purple, which color it holds for a long time. Has 
become the most popular variety for both home and market gardens. 
NEW YORK IMPROVED PURPLE—SPINELESS (130 days)—The fa¬ 
vorite market variety. Plants large, spreading and spineless, producing 
four to six large oval fruits of dark purple color. 
Endive 
CULTURE—Endive is one of the best salads for fall and winter use. Sow for 
an early supply about the middle of April. As it is used mostly in the fall 
months, the main sowings are made in June and July. Plant in drills 15 to 18 
inches apart and when the plants are ready thin to 1 foot apart in the row. 
When the plant has attained its full size, gather up the leaves and tie them by 
the tips in a conical form. This excludes the light and air from the inner leaves, 
which, in the course of from three to six weeks, become blanched. 
1 ounce will sow 300 feet of drill. 
BROAD LEAVED BATAVIAN—ESCAROLE (90-95 days)—One of the 
best varieties for salads. Leaves of upright growth, broad, more or less 
twisted and waved, bright deep green, with a nearly white mid-rib. 
Inner leaves form a fair head which blanches a creamy white. 
GREEN CURLED WINTER (100 days)—The most hardy and vigorous 
sort; leaves bright, deep green with the outer midribs usually showing a 
trace of rose; readily blanches a creamy white. 
MOSS CURLED (100 days)—Grows more compact than Green Curled and 
the medium green leaves are finer cut; leaf stems often tinged purple; 
blanches creamy white. 
WHITE CURLED (100 days)—The divided leaves are of a very light 
yellowish-green color which blanches almost white. 
Fennel 
CULTURE —This vegetable is used for its thickened leaf stalks which develop 
a bulb like form at the base of the plant. The seed is sown in rows 2 feet apart 
early in the season, the young plants later being thinned to a distance of 1 
foot apart in the row. After the plants develop the earth is hoed up against 
the lower part of the leaf stalks in order to blanch them and make then tender, 
after which they are used much in the same manner as Celery, or used for 
seasoning, for their delicious flavor much resembles that of Anise, to which 
this plant is closely related. 
FLORENCE—FINOCCHIO, also called SWEET ANISE— A bulb-like veg¬ 
etable formed above ground at base of leaf-stalk. 
