. Bliss & Sons' abridged catalogue and gardeners' almanac for 1874 : containing a list of the best known and most polular varieties of garden, field and flower seeds, selected from out large assortment of nearly three thousand varieties, with brief directions for their culture. Nursery stock New York (State) Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Gardening Catalogs. —(Continued.) Drumliead, or Malta.—One of the best Summer Lettuces, large, crisp, compact. PerpU., 5 cents: oz., 20; lb., 60; lb., $ Ice Drumliead.—Heads readily, blanches naturally, cris
. Bliss & Sons' abridged catalogue and gardeners' almanac for 1874 : containing a list of the best known and most polular varieties of garden, field and flower seeds, selected from out large assortment of nearly three thousand varieties, with brief directions for their culture. Nursery stock New York (State) Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Gardening Catalogs. —(Continued.) Drumliead, or Malta.—One of the best Summer Lettuces, large, crisp, compact. PerpU., 5 cents: oz., 20; lb., 60; lb., $ Ice Drumliead.—Heads readily, blanches naturally, crisp, tender, well-flavored. Per pkt., 5cents: oz., 20; lb.,60; lb.,^ Broun Dutch.—Will endure the Winter with less protection than most of the other sorts, and is generally sown in Autumn. Per pkt., 5 cents; oz., 30; lb., $; lb., $ Hammersmltli Hardy Green.—The best for Autumn sowing to stand Winter. Per pkt., 5 cents; oz., 30; }i lb., $; lb., $ Paris Green Cos.—One of the best of the Cos varieties. It grows upright, with long, nar- row, and dark green leaves. It should be tied up to blanch a week or ten days before cutting. Per pkt., 10 cents ; oz., 40; yi lb., $; lb., $ Paris White CoSo—Similar to the above, with leaves of lighter color. Per pkt., 10 cents; oz., 40: i4 ^b', $; lb., $ MAKTYNIA. A hardy annual plant, the seed pods of which, if picked when green and tender, make excellent pickles. Sow in May, in the open ground, about three feet each way where the plants are to remain; leave but one plant in a hill, or a few seeds may be sown m a hotbed, and afterwards transphmtcd. Martynia probiscoides.—Per ;;7:^., 10 cents; oz., 40; }i lb., $; lb., $ MELON (3Iusk varieties.) [Cucumis melo, Lin. Melon, Fr. Melone, Ger.] Culture.—Plant late in Spring, in hills five or six feet apart each way, well manured with old rotten compost; scatter a dozen seeds to a hill, and after they are out of danger from bugs, thin to
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