. Descriptive catalogue of field, garden and flower seeds. Nurseries (Horticulture), New York (State), Rochester, Catalogs; Seeds, Catalogs and collections; Horticulture, Catalogs; Gardening, Catalogs; Flowers, Catalogs and collections. CRESS OR PEPPERGRASS. To bring out its real merits as a mildly pungent salad, cress should be grown rapidly and cut before it begins to run up to seed. Make the land rich and sow in shallow drills, wide enough apart to admit the use of the. hoe. Sow as soon as the frost is out of the ground and at intervals of a week or ten days. Cress, Extra Fine Curled. This
. Descriptive catalogue of field, garden and flower seeds. Nurseries (Horticulture), New York (State), Rochester, Catalogs; Seeds, Catalogs and collections; Horticulture, Catalogs; Gardening, Catalogs; Flowers, Catalogs and collections. CRESS OR PEPPERGRASS. To bring out its real merits as a mildly pungent salad, cress should be grown rapidly and cut before it begins to run up to seed. Make the land rich and sow in shallow drills, wide enough apart to admit the use of the. hoe. Sow as soon as the frost is out of the ground and at intervals of a week or ten days. Cress, Extra Fine Curled. This is the best variety. If the land is rich and moist two or three cuttings may be ob- tained from one sowing. Per oz. 10 cents. Per paper, 5 CUCUMBERS. Select a warm, well-drained, sandy soil, and if it is somewhat of a mucky character all the better. Plow the whole land early in the season and keep it well cultivated or harrowed to keep down the weeds. Then when the soil is well warmed and there is little danger of frosty nights, make holes 4 feet apart each way and put in them a good shovelful of well-rotted manure. Work the manure into the soil by tearing or chopping it to pieces with a hoe or spade and thorough- ly mixing it with the soil in the hill. Put in ten or twelve seeds in each hill about an inch deep, and when the plants appear keep down the weeds and draw- a little fresh earth about the plants. Thin out gradually and ultimately leave only three or four of the strongest plants in each hill. I find superphosphate an excellent manure for cucumbers. Put a tablespoonful in each hill and mix thoroughly with the soil at the time of planting. Keep the land free from weeds. The sooner you cut the cucumbers. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Moreton Farm; Joseph Harris Company; Henry G. Gilbe
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