



Full Heart Batavian Endive 
ENDIVE is Easily Grown 
One package of seed will sow 20 feet of row; 
1 ounce, 300 feet. 
One of the best salads for fall and winter 
use, for garnishing and flavoring soups and 
stews. Sow in shallow drills, 15 inches apart; 
thin plants to 1 foot apart. For early use, sow 
in April; for late use, in June or July. When 
full grown, tie outer leaves together over cen- 
ter to blanch the heart. Cover fresh plants 
every few days for a succession. 
Deep Heart Fringed. New and distinct; be- 
tween Full Heart Batavian and Green Curled. 
Broad upright leaves, fringed. Extra deep heart 
of clear creamy yellow. 
Pkg. 10c; oz. 20c; 14 Ib. 65¢; Ib. $2.25 
Full Heart Batavian (Escarolle). Broad, 
twisted and waved, bright deep green leaves 
with thick, nearly white midribs. The inner 
leaves form a fairly solid clustering head 
which blanches to a beautiful white; crisp 
and tender. Unsurpassed for salads. 
Pkg. 10c; oz. 20c; 14 Ib. 65c; Ib. $1.90 
Green Curled Green Ribbed. Very popu- 
lar kind, the ‘“Chicoree Frisee’’ of the French. 
Easily blanched by covering with boards or 
building paper. For fall crop make successive 
sowings during July. 
Pkg. 10c; oz. 20c; 14 Ib. 65c; Ib. $1.90 
Green Curled Pancalier. This is the pink- 
ribbed kind grown so extensively by market 
growers. Late maturing, large head, creamy 
yellow heart. 
Pkg. 10c; oz. 20c; 14 Ib. 65c; Ib. $1.90 
Witloof Chicory or French Endive. Sce 
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Kohirabi, White Vienna 
EGGPLANT 
One package of seed will produce 
100 plants; 1 ounce, 2,000 plants. 
Start seed under glass early in March and 
bring plants to a good size as rapidly as pos- 
sible. Transplant, when 3 inches high, singly, 
into 21/2- to3-inch pots. (Fertile Pots are best, 
see page 16.) As soon as weather is warm, 
_ set*out in open ground, about 2 ft. apart 
each ‘way. Spray or dust for beetle with arsen- 
ate of ‘lead. 
Black’ Beauty. (73 days.) An extra early 
variety. The fruits are large, purple-black, 
entirely spineless, and of very high quality. 
Holds its color a long time and is a desirable 
market variety. 
Pkg. 10¢; 14 oz. 30c; oz. 90c; 1/4 Ib. $2.65 ~ 
improved New York Spineless. (76 days.) 
A very productive variety, popular in both 
home and market gardens. Plants produce 6 
to 8 large, spineless, dark purple, oval fruits 
of high quality. 
Pkg. 10c; 14 oz. 25c; oz. 80c; 1/4 Ib. $2.40 
New Hampshire Hybrid. The best to grow 
where the season is short. Matures in 60 
days. An extra early kind that does well every- 
where and is especially valuable in northern 
sections where the season is short. The round 
and oblong fruits are deep purple in color and 
of splendid quality. Plants are sturdy, low, com- 
ret growing and bear 10 days before other 
inds. 
Pkg. 10c; 14 oz. 300; oz. 90c; 1/4 Ib. $2.65 









Black Beauty 
Eggplant 
Fennel 
Florence. Grown in home and market gar- 
den, and produces a bulb at the surface 
of the ground of aromatic and distinctive 
flavor. Sow the seed in rows 20 inches 
apart and thin plants to 10 inches apart; 
when half grown, blanch by drawing up 
the earth. . 
Pkg. 10c; oz. 35c; 4 Ib. 95c; Ib. $2.50 
PLEASE 
Make out your seed order and 
send it in just as soon as you can. 
While we have taken every precau- 
tion to have enough seed to fill ex- 
pected orders, seed throughout the 
country is decidedly on the short side 
and you all know that transportation 
is not what it was. 

If you grow vegetables or flowers to sell, 
ask for our Market Growers’ catalog. Our un- 
usually fine strains of Celery, Lettuce, Onion, 
Beet and Carrot are known to Commercial 
Vegetable Growers throughout the East. 
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Horseradish 
Horseradish Roots 
Maliner Kren. Large size white roots and 
very strong growing plants. This is the true 
Bohemian Horseradish. 
6 roots 30c; 12 for 50c; 25 for 90c, postpaid 
to you. 
Kohlrabi 
One package of seed will sow 50 feet of row; 
1 ounce, 300 feet. 
An edible bulb that grows above ground and 
combines the good qualities of cabbage and 
turnips. Kohlrabi is tender and. delicious, and 
can be cooked in many ways. Sow seed early 
in spring, in rows 1 feet apart, and thin to 
4 inches. Make two sowings 10 days apart in 
the early spring, and again in July for a fall 
crop. Mature in 10 to 12 weeks. 
Early White Vienna. The standard for mar- 
ket, table, or forcing. The flesh is white, 
tender, and has a greenish white skin. 
Pkg. 15¢; 14 oz. 30c; oz. 95¢; 14 Ib. $2.85 
White Vienna Kohlrabi is a mighty good vege- 
table for your Victory Garden. We have some 
very nice things said about it from peopte who 
tried it last season. 
Kale or Borecole 
Used for greens and garnishing. The tender 
young shoots branching from the stalks make 
very delicious greens. Hardier than cabbage 
and is improved by frost. Sow seed from May 
to June. Cultivate same as cabbage. For 
early spring use sow in September and protect 
during winter. 
Dwarf Blue Curled. Bluish green foliage of 
unusually high quality. The plants are hardy, 
compact in habit, and produce an enormous 
amount of foliage, used both for eating and 
for table decoration. A good companion for 
the Dwarf Green Curled variety. Pkg. 10c; 
Y2 oz. 35c; oz. 60c; 14 Ib. $1.75; Ib. $5.25 
Siberian or Sprouts. These plants grow about 
15 inches high, will spread to 3 feet or more 
across, and are the largest of all the Kales. 
Large, light bluish green leaves curled at the 
edges; nearly all are edible. 
Pkg. 10c; oz. 35c¢; 14 Ib. $1.00; Ib. $3.00 

Quite a few Victory Gardeners who 
grew Kale last year have told us that they 
were omitting it from their garden plans 
for 1944, 


Dwarf Blue 
Curled Kale 

