SALSIFY or 
VEGETABLE OYSTER 
CULTURE. Salsify succeeds best 
in a light, well enriched soil, which 
should be stirred to a good depth. 
Coarse and fresh manure should be 
avoided as it will surely cause the 
roots to grow uneven and ill-shaped. 
Sow early and quite deep, giving 
the general culture recommended 
for Parsnips. The roots are perfectly 
hardy and may remain out all win- 
ter. Store a quantity for winter use 
in a pit or cellar in damp earth or 
sand. 
MAMMOTH SANDWICH ISLAND 
—Roots 7 to 8 inches long, 1 to 1% 
inches thick; skin almost white; 
flesh mild and delicately flavored. 
SPINACH 
CULTURE. As early as the soil 
can be worked, sow it one-half inch 
deep in fourteen-inch rows, using 
one ounce of seed to one hundred 
feet, and in the second week will 
appear a tiny plant with two very 
narrow leaves that do not resemble 
the true leaves that follow. Cutting 
should begin forty-five days from 
sowing. It is impossible to put spin- 
ach on too rich soil, and nitrate of 
soda is used on it with profit. 
AMERICA (48 Days)—A new va- 
riety from a cross between Viking 
and Bloomsdale Long Standing. 
Leaves dark green, savoyed and 
thick. Withstands heat better than 
others of this type and is slower 
to bolt. 
GIANT NOBEL THICK LEAF (42 
Days)—Plants large, vigorous and 
slow to run to seed. Very heavy 
yielder. Leaves medium green, 
thick and tender. The best thick 
leaved variety. 
KING OF DENMARK (44 Days) 
—The best long season spinach, 
remaining two weeks longer than 
others before bolting to seed. Plant 
vigorous and spreading; leaves 
large, rounded, crumpled and blist- 
ered, deep green in color. 
NEW ZEALAND —tThis branching 
plant—a spinach in its use but not 
in its growth — frost-kills but 
grows luxuriantly in the summer 
heat. Plant these large seeds three 
in a hill, 3 x 2 feet apart or start 
the plant under glass and trans- 
plant. 
SAVOY LEAVED BLOOMSDALE 
(89 Days)—One of the best to 
plant in autumn for early spring 
use. Plant of upright growth with 
narrow, pointed leaves, which are 
curled like those of the Savoy Cab- 
bage. It grows quickly to suitable 
size for use but soon runs to seed. 
SQUASH 
CULTURE. The directions for the 
planting of Cucumbers can be fol- 
lowed with slight modifications for 
Squash or Cymling. Plant the Sum- 
mer Squash in hills 4 feet apart and 
use before mature. Plant the Winter 
Squash in hills 6 to 8 feet apart; 
handle without bruising and store 
in a dry, moderately warm place for 
winter. Plant the seed generously 
and thin to 2 or 3 plants to a hill. 
One ounce of seed plants 25 hills 
and 2 to 4 pounds plants an acre. 
The Squash is recommended either 
for the table or the feed lot. Num- 
ber of days given is from planting 
to ripe fruit. 
SUMMER VARIETIES 
SUMMER CROOKNECK (50 
Days)—A standard early and pro- 
ductive summer variety. Fruits 
about a foot long, moderately 
warted and of a bright yellow 
color. 
EARLY WHITE BUSH, SCAL- 
LOPED (55 Days) — Also called 
Cymling and White Patty Pan. It 
is the most popular of the white 
summer types of squash. The fruits 
are rather small, quite flat with 
ridged or scalloped edges. The 
vines are extremely prolific and 
disease resisting. 
ITALIAN VEGETABLE MAR- 
ROW (60 Days)—A distinct vari- 
ety of squash of bush form. Fruit 
grows to length of about 20 inches, 
with diameter of 3 to 4 inches; 
skin smooth, dark green, marbled 
with yellow or paler green. All 
through Italy, where the squash is 
grown, the fruits are eaten when 
quite young, sometimes even be- 
fore the flower has opened. 
ZUCCHINI, SMALL SHORT CoO- 
COZELLA (60 Days)—Fruit weigh 
3 to 4 pounds, nearly cylindrical, 
straight. Color medium green mot- 
tled, with stripes; flesh very firm 
and of delicate flavor. 
WINTER VARIETIES 
ACORN, OR TABLE QUEEN (90 
Days)—A trailing variety produc- 
ing acorn-shaped fruit with a thin, 
distinctly ribbed, dark green shell; 
6 inches long by 4% inches in di- 
ameter. Flesh light yellow and 
bakes well. 
JUMBO OR MAMMOTH TABLE 
QUEEN (95 Days)—Fruits are 7-8 
inches long and 5 to 5% inches in 
diameter, weighing 2 to 3 Ibs. 
Flesh is medium thick, pale or- 
ange, tender, dry, sweet, flavorful. 
BUTTERNUT (90 Days)—Fruits 
8” to 10” long, bulbous at blossom 
end. Rind thin and tough, creamy 
yellow in color. Flesh very thick, 
fine grained, nutty and of excel- 
lent quality. 
WARTY HUBBARD (100 Days)— 
Somewhat larger than well-known 
Hubbard. Of equal quality but 
more heavily warted. Shell is very 
dark green, almost black. 
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