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MAMMOTH 
Rlanteceto 2% feet high, with leaves cut into thread-like segments. Seeds 
very flat, having strong, bitter flavor. Used for flavoring pickles. 
EGG PLANT 
CuLTurE. Treat the Eggplant like a tender tomato that requires 
even a longer period to mature. After cabbage plants are out of the 
hotbed or greenhouse, which is April, sow eggplant, keeping even the 
night temperature abcve 70 degrees. One ounce of seed gives 2,000 plants, 
and 4 ounces plant an acre. Transplant later to pots or to a 3- or 4-inch 
stand, anc when corn is shoe high, put eggplant outside on rich, well- 
drained land. Set the plants 2 feet apart in 4-ft. rows, shading or wa- 
tering the plants if it is sunny or dry. Number of days given is time 
required from setting plants to marketable fruit. 
BLACK BEAUTY 90 
The fruit is a rich, dark purple, large and symmetrical, maturing a little. 
earlier than Improved New York Purple but usually not quite so large. 
A very desirable sort for the market as the fruit holds its color a long 
time. 
FLORIDA HIGH BUSH 94 
Plant, upstanding in growth, bears the fruit off the ground. Fruit, elon- 
gated and cylindrical, is purple in color. Highly resistant to blight and 
drought. 
NEW YORK IMPROVED PURPLE SPINELESS 93 
Plant makes a 2-foot growth, rather inclined to spread. Fruit oval, 6 x 8 
inches, and tapered some towards top. Good color though not so dark as 
Black Beauty. It is a very heavy producer of large fruits. 
ENDIVE 
CuLturE. Endive, or winter lettuce, used as a salad, as greens or 
garnishing, is usually planted one-fourth inch deep in al seed bed in mid- 
summer, and when convenient after a month transplanted. to stand 1 foot 
apart in 18-inéh rows. When almost grown and about 2 weeks before 
ready to use, it is blanched by tying the leaves together with soft cord, or 
the blanching is done by turning a flower pot or tile over each plant, or 
by blanching with earth, like celery. The blanching removes the green 
plant’s acrid taste. The plant may be, but seldom is, used as an early 
spring crop. Three to five pounds of seed plant an acre. Number of 
days is from planting seed to edible stage. 
BROAD LEAF BATAVIAN — ESCAROLE 90 
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 95 
Plant 16 to 18 inches in diameter, tufty and full in center; mid-rib an inch 
broad, white, thick, tender and fleshy; blanches readily. Good fall variety. 
GREEN CURLED PANCALIER 98 
Plants are large, late, coarsely toothed variety similar to Ruffec, but with 
midrib rose tinted and foliage darker shade of green. 
MOSS CURLED 95 
More finely curled, with a heavier and more dense plant than Green 
Curled. 
WHITE CURLED 100 
The divided leaves are of a very light yellowish-green color which 
blanches almost white. 
FULL HEART BATAVIAN 88 
An improved strain of Broad Leaved Batavian, with larger leaf and broad- 
er. thicker. head at eating stage; earlier in maturity. The plant is medium 
large with compact, well-blanched heart of infolded broad leaves, thick 
and buttery in texture. Excellent for market gardeners and shippers. 
FRENCH ENDIVE. See Witloof Chicory. 
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