. Annual catalogue of choice and select flower and vegetable seeds embracing the most esteemed varieties in cultivation, importend and grown expressly for us. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs. CATALOGUE OF VEGETABLE SEEDS. 43 ENDIVE. Endive is one of the best salads for fall and winter use. Sow for early supply about the middle of April. As it is used mostly in the fall months, the main sowings are made in June and July, from which plantations are formed at one foot apart each way, in August and September. It
. Annual catalogue of choice and select flower and vegetable seeds embracing the most esteemed varieties in cultivation, importend and grown expressly for us. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs. CATALOGUE OF VEGETABLE SEEDS. 43 ENDIVE. Endive is one of the best salads for fall and winter use. Sow for early supply about the middle of April. As it is used mostly in the fall months, the main sowings are made in June and July, from which plantations are formed at one foot apart each way, in August and September. It requires no special soil or manure, and after planting is kept clear of weeds until the plant has attained its full size, when the process of blanching begins. This is effected by gathering up the leaves and tying them by their tips in a conical form, with bass mat- ting. This excludes the light and air, which in the course of three to six weeks, according to the temperature at the time, become blanched. Another and simpler method consists in covering up the plants, as they grow, with slates or boards, which serves the same purpose, by excluding the light, as the tying up. Per pkt. Oz. Green Curled.—Very hardy; leaves dark green, tender and crisp. 5c. 25c. White Curled.—Leaves pale green; should be used when 5c. 25c. KOHLRABI. A vegetable intermediate between the cabbage and the turnip. It is best cultivated by sowing the seed in rows in May, June and July, according to latitude. It is rather difficult to transplant, and it is generally preferable to sow the whole crop from seed, and thin it out where it stands ; although when the weather is favorable, the thin- nings may be planted at the distances above named. Per pkt. Oz. Early While.—Flesh white and tender; the best market sort 5c. 20c. Early Purple.—Differing from the above in color, which is of a bluish-purple 5c. 20c. LEEK. The Leek is very hardy, and ea'sily cultivated ; it succeeds best in a light, but
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