. Descriptive catalogue of a choice collection of vegetable, agricultural and flower seeds, gladiolus, lilies, and other summer flowering bulbs. Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture) New York (State) Catalogs. YKLLOW FLESH TURNIPS. Yellow Malta.—A beautiful, symmetrical, small-bulbed early variety, slightly flattened above, skin smootb, bright orange yellow, foliage small, flesh i)ale yellow, tine-grained ami well-tiavored. It is a good garden variety, and one of the best for Summer use, - - - - Early Yellow liutcli.—This variety Jias a small globular root
. Descriptive catalogue of a choice collection of vegetable, agricultural and flower seeds, gladiolus, lilies, and other summer flowering bulbs. Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture) New York (State) Catalogs. YKLLOW FLESH TURNIPS. Yellow Malta.—A beautiful, symmetrical, small-bulbed early variety, slightly flattened above, skin smootb, bright orange yellow, foliage small, flesh i)ale yellow, tine-grained ami well-tiavored. It is a good garden variety, and one of the best for Summer use, - - - - Early Yellow liutcli.—This variety Jias a small globular root, of a pale yellow eolor throughout. It soiiH'\\hat resembles the Yellow Malta, and is a good garden variety. 'I'lic iiortioii of bulb above ground is vpashed witli green. It is ot' mediimi sizi;, early, tender, rather grained and sugary, i)etter suited lor Summer and Autumn than^Viider, Early Yellow Finland.—A lieMutitul medium size Turnii), of a bright yellow througliout. The under purl of the bull) is singularly depressed, from this depression issues ,i small mouse-tail-like root. It is some- what earlier, also liardiei-. tliau the Yellow :Malta. The flesh is tender, close-grained; of a sw(>sh dry, yellowish while, fine- grained, piquant, sugary, early; in high repute in P'rance, (iermany and Holland for culinary purposes, particulai ly for soups; largely grown around the sandy fields of Berlin for the London market. Its jieculiar Haver is in the outer rind, which should not be peeled when used. I'kt. Oz. }iLb. Lb. $0 05 $0 10 $0 30 Si 00 10 20 10 20 10 20 10 20 75 TUKNIP, (Kuta-Baga.) [Brassica campestris nabo-hrassica, Lin. (liou rutabaf/a, Fr. Kohlrab in der Erdegelber, Geu. Nabo rutabaga, iSi'.] Tlie Ruta-Baga, Swedish, or Russian Turnip, known also to many under the name of " French Turnip," forms a distinct class. The bulbs are close-grained, very hard, and will endure a consid- erable degree of cold without injury. They keep well stored in a
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