KALE or BORECOLE 
Loose, curly-leaved types of cabbage 
family, very hardy, which make excel- 
lent tender greens for winter use. Cul- 
tivate same as cabbage. Staffel’s Tall 
Green Curled Scotch grows 3 to 4 feet 
high, bearing long, plumelike, light- 
green leaves, deeply cut and finely 
curled at edges. 
KOHL-RABI 
Grown for its thick, bulb-shaped stalks. 
Prepared in same manner as turnips 
while quite young. The Early White 
Vienna are grown for forcing or cul- 
tivation in open ground. Very short 
tops. Flesh is sweet and tender and 
of top quality. 

LETTUCE 
Staffel’s New Chicken Lettuce will 
yield as much or more than any other 
chicken or rabbit greens. Cut once, it 
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begins to grow again. Does not make 
a head but sends up stalk three or 
four feet high, loaded with crisp, ten- 
der leaves. ° 
Staffel’s Imperial No. 847 produces 
immense heads as solid as cabbage. 
Blanches beautifully; crisp, tender and 
free from bitterness. Perfect heads 
measure 12 to 15 inches across and 
frequently weigh 2 and 3 lbs. 
Big Boston is a popular seller. The 
plants are large and vigorous, leaves 
light green faintly tinged with reddish 
brown. Can be grown in the open 
ground in the spring or fall, or in 
frames for early spring planting. Does 
particularly well in cold weather and 
is highly recommended for San An- 
tonio and vicinity. Highly popular with 
gardeners and truckers because it al- 
ways produces large, solid, salable 
heads. 
Simpson’s Early Curled is extensively 
used. Early, loose-leaved or clustering 
variety, the leaves are light green, 
slightly frilled and much blistered, 
crisp, sweet and tender. Especially 
adapted to sowing thickly and cutting 
when the plants are young. 
Iceberg is large, crisp and _ tender, 
stands hot weather splendidly and is 
a well-known and large planted stand- 
ard summer cabbage-heading lettuce 
of superior quality. 
Cos or Romaine, White, Paris forms 
long, upright heads of narrow leaves, 
very crisp and sweet, self-closing and 
quite solid. A favorite with housewives 
who pride themselves on their salads. 
MUSKMELONS 
(Cantaloupes) | 
Staffel’s Improved Perfecto is a 90 
day melon, an excellent shipping and 
gardener’s melon. Fruit 5! inches long, 
almost round and solidy covered with 
grayish netting; no indication of ribbing. 
Flesh over-thick, colored rich deep 
salmon-orange. A fine grained, juicy, 
sweet and aromatic melon. 
Hale’s Best is early, prolific and a good 
shipper about 10% larger than the 

THE OLD GARDENER reminds you 
Carrots are mighty useful vegetables. Use them fresh out 
of the garden—especially the finger-sized thinnings that 
commercial growers throw away, but that are the choicest 
morsels of flavor the garden produces. Or can or freeze 
them. For using fresh, for canning or freezing, use 
Chantenay Red Cored or Nantes Improved Coreless. 
These new coreless types have less 
fiber, taste sweeter. For storing in the 
root cellar or outdoor barrel, you want 
something a little firmer, like Danvers 


Half Long. On stiff clay, where the 
longer sorts “corkscrew” or “‘dogleg’’ as 
they try to grow into the unyielding soil, 
use Oxheart, a stumprooted type that 
will grow straight. 
Plant your first carrots as soon as 
soil can be worked, using the coreless 
types. Plant your last batch sixty days 
before you expect killing frost. In be- 
tween, plant every three weeks. 
The carrots illustrated here, for com- 
parison of actual sizes, are: 1—Chante- 
nay; 2—Imperator; 3—Danvers Half 
Long; 4—Red Cored Chantenay; 5— 
Oxheart. 



Rocky Ford types. Flesh salmon and 
exceptionally thick. 
Honey Ball is a Honey Dew type but 
smaller and earlier than that variety. 
Fruit is round, smooth and free from 
ribbing; yellowish white when ripe. 
Flesh is sweet and silvery-green in col- 
or and has a distinct, tangy spiciness. 
Netted Gem or Rocky Ford—One of 
most popular small or crate melons. A 
desirable medium, early sort for the 
home and market garden. Vines are 
vigorous and highly productive; fruit is 
oval, slightly ribbed and densely cov- 
ered with fine netting. 
Texas Cannonball No. 114 is a green- 
fleshed melon especially adapted for 
home garden and near-by markets. 
Produces medium-sized melons in about 
75 days. The fruit is round, medium in 
size, heavily netted. Flesh is very solid, 
melting and of superior flavor. Suc- 
ceeds in soils and conditions where 
others might fail. 
SALSIFY or 
OYSTER PLANT 
Sow in March, in rich, light, deeply 
worked soil, in rows about 2 feet 
apart. Thin out plants to 6 inches 
apart, cultivate frequently to keep 
tree from weeds. Very hardy and can 
remain in ground all winter. One 
ounce will sow 100 feet of drill. Staf- 
fel’s Mammoth Sandwich Island 
grows very large here and resembles 
a good sized parsnip. It’s well-fla- 
vored . . . and very mild. 
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