. Bliss and Sons' illustrated hand-book for the farm and garden for 1883 : containing a list of the best known and most poplular varieties of garden, field & flower seeds, with directions for their culture : also, a large assortment of plants, gladiolus, lilies, horticultural requisites, &c. Nursery stock New York (State) Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Agricultural implements Catalogs; Gardening Catalogs. 8^ B. K. Bliss & Sons' Catalogice MARTYNIA. One ounce will plant about two hundred hills. CULTURE
. Bliss and Sons' illustrated hand-book for the farm and garden for 1883 : containing a list of the best known and most poplular varieties of garden, field & flower seeds, with directions for their culture : also, a large assortment of plants, gladiolus, lilies, horticultural requisites, &c. Nursery stock New York (State) Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Agricultural implements Catalogs; Gardening Catalogs. 8^ B. K. Bliss & Sons' Catalogice MARTYNIA. One ounce will plant about two hundred hills. CULTURE.—The of this plant, if picked wlien green .and tender, make excellent pickles. For very early plants, sow in March in a hot-bed, and give necessary protection until the weather is sufiSciently mild to allow transplanting out of doors. Sow in May, in the open ground, in hills about three feet apart allowing three or four seeds to each hill. When well started, thin out, leaving one plant to a hill. If by mail in quantities of 4 ounces and upwards, postage must be added at the rate of 16c. per pound. Martynia proboscidea.—Per 10 cents; oz., 30 ; }, lb., -$ ; lb., $ MELON, MUSK. [Cncnmis melo, Lin. Melon, Fr. Melone, Ger. Melon Muscatel, Sp.] One ounce will plant about eifzhty hills. CULTURE—A rich, deep, sandy loam, well worked, and highly manured with old rotten compost, is of the first importance. Plant, when all danger of frost is over, in hills live or six feet apart each way; scatter a dozen seeds to a hill, an<l after they are out of danger from bugs, thin to three or four plants. When they have four or five rough leaves, pinch off the end of the main shoot, which will cause the lateral branches to put forth sooner. This will strengthen the growth of the vines, and the fruit will come earlier to matni ity. If by mail in quantities of A ounces aiidupioards. postage must be added atthc raU of ICc. ijer pound. Jenny lilnd.—Small size, delicious
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