
Black Beauty Eggplant 

Aart & Vicks EGGPLANT 
One package of seed will produce 100 plants; 1 ounce 2000 plants. 
Harvest your Eggplant while the skin is still glossy. It is too old when the skin becomes dull. 
Start seed: under glass early in March and bring plants to a good size as rapidly as possible. Transplant, 
when 3 inches high, singly, into 2/2- to 3-inch pots. (Fertile Pots are best, see page 13.) As soon as 
weather is warm set out in open ground, about 2 feet apart each way. Spray or dust for beetle with 
arsenate 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¢; Y% oz. 25c; oz. 75c 
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 qualitv. 
Pkg. 10c; Y% oz. 25c; oz. 75¢ 
New Hampshire Hybrid. The best to grow where the season is short. Matures in 60 days. An extra early 
kind that does well everywhere 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, compact 
growing and bear 10 days before other kinds. Pkg. 10c; % oz. 25c; oz. 75¢ 
_ ENDIVE & fesily 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 
center to blanch the heart. Cover fresh plants every few days for a succession. 
Broad, upright leaves, fringed. Extra deep heart of clear creamy yellow. 
Pkg. 10c; oz. 20c; Y% Ib. 65c¢ 
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; 4 Ib. 65c 
Green Curled Green Ribbed. Very popular 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; YW Ib. 65c¢ 
.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. 65¢ 
Witloof Chicory or French Endive. See page 8. 
Horseradish Roots 
Maliner Kren. Large size white roots and 
very strong growing plants. This is the true 
Bohemian Horseradish. 6 roots 35c; 
12 for 60c; 25 for $1.00, postpaid to you 
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; Y% oz. 20c; oz. 35¢ 
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KALE « Rich in Vitamins 
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. 
Deep Heart Fringed. New and distinct; between Full Heart Batavian and Green Curled. — 
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 va- 
riety. Pkg. 10c; YW oz. 25c; 
oz. 40c; Y% Ib. $1.35 
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. 25c; Y% Ib. 75c¢ 


Hart & Vicks KOHLRABI 
One package of seed will sow 50 feet of row; one ounce 300 feet. 
KohlIrabi should be pulled and eaten when not more than 
. three inches in diameter. 
An edible bulb that grows above ground and combines the good qual- 
ities 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. Matures in 10 to 12 weeks. 
Early White Vienna. The standard for 
market, table, or forcing. The flesh is 
white, tender, and has a greenish white 
skin. Pkg. 10c; 4% oz. 30c; 
oz. 50c: V4 Ib. $1.65 
Early Purple Vienna. A purple-skinned, 
white-fleshed bulb similar to White Vienna. 
Pkg. 10c; Vo oz. 30c; 
oz. 50c; Y% Ib. $1.65 
White Vienna Kohlrabi is a mighty good 
vegetable for your Victory Garden. We have 
some very nice things said about it from 
people who tried it for the past two seasons. 
A Rochester Gas & Electric 
Co. Victory Gardener, Cal- White 
vin Brown and Daughter, of Vienna 
Hopper Terrace. Kohlrabi 
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