

NEW HAMPSHIRE HYBRID EGGPLANT 
National Pickling— Rich dark green. 
Straight and rather blunt at ends but 
not chunky. Best all-around pickler. 55 
days. 
Stays Green—An early, popular va- 
riety. Grown extensively in the South 
for Northern markets. Symmetrically 
shaped, with square-like ends. 60 days. 
Straight Eight—Unsurpassed as slicing 
cucumber. All-America Selection. 2'- 
lb. fruits, rounded at ends, medium 
green. 68 days. 
EGGPLANT 
Requires continuous warm weather for 
best results. Seed should be started 
in a hotbed, as it is slow to germinate. 
Set plants in open ground when 2” 
tall and protect from hot sun when 
young. Be sure to keep young plants 
developing rapidly. Cultivate freely. 
To produce large fruits, remove lateral 
branches so as to reduce number of 
fruits per plant. Spray to protect from 
potato bugs. 
Black Beauty (fr)—Large, egg-shaped, 
smooth, very dark purple fruits. Keep 
well. Plant bears 4 to 5 fruits. Early. 
New Hampshire Hybrid—Developed for 
short season areas. Round to olive shape 
fruits, growing low on the bush. 
ENDIVE 
Sow at intervals for continuous sup- 
ply. When well started, transplant or 
thin to 1’ apart. To blanch, tie outer 
leaves together over the center when 
plant is nearly grown. Just before kill- 
ing frosts in fall, dig the plants, tak- 
ing plenty of soil with roots—pack 
closely together and store in dark 
cellar for winter use. 
Full Heart or Escarole—A strongly 
bunched mass of thick, slightly crum- 
pled leaves, well blanched heart. Up- 
right growing plant about 12 inches in 
diameter. 71 days. 
Green Curled Ruffec—Plants 16 to 18- 
in. in diameter. Fine fall variety. White, 
tender, fleshy. 95 days. 
KALE OR BORECOLE 
Requires moist, well enriched soil. 
Pick leaves as wanted,or pull whole 
plant. Leaves are best after a frost. 
Dwarf Blue Curled Scotch — Wide 
spreading, fine curled blue-green plant, 
plume-like leaves. Use as a vegetable 
and for ornament. Exceptionally uni- 
form. 55 days. 
Dwarf Siberian—Hard and productive. 
Bluish green foliage. Leaves large and 
spreading. 65 days. 
N 
NVALKADI 
Sow early as possible in light, rich 
soil. When plants are in the third leaf, 
thin to 6” apart. Plant at intervals of 
10 days for succession of bulbs until 
hot weather—after which they do not 
grow. Use while still young and 
tender, before skin hardens. 
White Vienna Early (fr)—8 to 10-in. 
leaves on slender stems. Bulbs 2 to 
3-in., globular, light green. Crisp, ten- 
der, clear white flesh. 55 to 60 days. 
LEEK 
Large American Flag—An early, popu- 
lar variety, with thick, long white stems. 
Leaves large and drooping, medium 
green. 130 days. 
HERBS 
Every garden has a place for herbs. 
In the vegetable garden for seasoning 
or salads; or for their ornamental 
appearance in the flower garden. 
Anise—Garnish or seasoning. 
Borage—Salad or to flavor drinks. 
Caraway—Seeds and leaves for flavor. 
Coriander—Flavor for candy. 
Chives—Flavor for soups, stews. 
Dill—Flavor for pickles. 
Fennel, Sweet—Garnish or salad. 
Margoram, Sweet—Seasoning. 
Rosemary—Odor or seasoning. 
Sage—Seasoning, fresh or dried. 
Thyme—Aromatic seasoning. 

LETTUCE 
Keep lettuce growing rapidly for best 
results. A light, rich soil needed for 
this. Earliest varieties must be started 
from seed in cold-frame. As soon as 
open ground can be worked trans- 
plant. For later use, sow seed in open 
ground as soon as weather is favor- 
able. Keep rows 12” to 18” apart. 
Thin plants in rows 4” to 8/’ depend- 
ing on variety. 
Heading or Cabbage 
Bibb—Early, small headed lettuce of 
excellent quality and flavor. Perfect for 
home gardens. Very smooth, dark green 
leaves, bleaching to a rich yellow. 
Big Boston or Mammoth Boston—Pop- 
ular for cold frame forcing and outside 
culture. Medium, compact heads with 
creamy yellow Nneart. omootn, glossy 
leaves, edges wavy, and slightly tinged 
with reddish brown. 75 days. 
Great Lakes—All-America award. An 
outstanding new Iceberg or Crisp-head 
type. A summer lettuce that stands heat 
well and is very resistant to tip burn. 
Heads medium size, solid, crisp. 
Iceberg—Late, large variety. Compact 
heads, crumpled, crisp and _ sweet. 
Leaves light green, slightly brown on 
edges. 85 days. 
Imperial No. 847 (Florida Iceberg)— 
Heads are of good size and solid. Does 
well in hot weather and is resistant to 
tip burn. Very hardy. 83 days. 

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NEW YORK LETTUCE 
New York No. 12—The standard crisp- 
head lettuce. Large globular shaped 
head, dark green with blanched, silvery 
white heart. Successfully grown out- 
doors spring, summer and fall. 85 days. 
White Paris Cos or Trianon—Medium 
large selffolding, dark green loaf 
shaped heads. Greenish-white, well 
blanched interior. 66 days. 
Loose Leaf Varieties 
Black Seeded Simpson—Light green, 
frilled and crumpled. 45 days. 
Grand Rapids—FErect, compact plants. 
Light green, broad heavily fringed. For 
forcing or early planting outside. 43 
days. 
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“There ought to be a law!” 
"Yessir, there ought to be a law that 
would make everybody grow a garden! 
Considering the state the world is in 
nowadays, a law like that would be a 
wonderful thing! 
“Here we all are, grumbling and growl- 
ing about food prices. And just outside 
our doors is the good earth, that can 
give us the finest of all answers to the 
situation! Here is Nature’s age-old 
weapon for fighting hunger, just wait- 
ing to be used. If only enough people 
would use this weapon, a lot of our 
worries would melt away! 
“After all, what wiser thing can a 
family do than get back to the soil for 
a part of its sustenance? 
bargain in the 
of garden seed. 
the greatest 
is a handful 
‘Surely, 
world 
—says the Old Gardener 
Here’s one of those rare things that can 
still be bought for a few pennies, yet 
brings the buyer a golden return. 
“It's a mighty good thing, then, that the 
seedsman is still on the job, ready to 
sell his amazing bargains to all comers 
. and ready too, to be a friend, guide, 
and counsellor to all who buy. There 
aren't many merchants like this left in 
the modern world! 
“So here’s 
Spring: 
the all-party platform for 
“Now is the time for al! good men to 
rally to the principle that 2 and 2 still 
make 4, that a man owes it to himself, 
his family, and his nation to grow food, 
grow health, and fight inflation right in 
his own back yard!“ 
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