. Curtis, Cobb & Washburn's amateur cultivator's guide to the flower and kitchen garden for 1878. Nursery stock Massachusetts Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Kitchen gardens Catalogs. Enslish Frame or Forcing Varieties. Berkshire Champion; Carter's Cham- pion, selected; Cuthill's Highland Mary; Carter's White Spine; Man- chester Prize; Lynch's Star of the West; L-rnch's Conqueror of the West; Star of the West; Sion House Improved; Sir Colin Campbell; Stilwell's Matchless; Weedon's Surprise; Kenyoa's Favorite; Walker's Rambler; Napoleon lU. Per pkt, .25. DANDELIOl^. These two varieties wi
. Curtis, Cobb & Washburn's amateur cultivator's guide to the flower and kitchen garden for 1878. Nursery stock Massachusetts Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Kitchen gardens Catalogs. Enslish Frame or Forcing Varieties. Berkshire Champion; Carter's Cham- pion, selected; Cuthill's Highland Mary; Carter's White Spine; Man- chester Prize; Lynch's Star of the West; L-rnch's Conqueror of the West; Star of the West; Sion House Improved; Sir Colin Campbell; Stilwell's Matchless; Weedon's Surprise; Kenyoa's Favorite; Walker's Rambler; Napoleon lU. Per pkt, .25. DANDELIOl^. These two varieties will, we have no doubt, soon supersede everywhere the olu on», which has become in the last ten years one of our best ana most>asked-for winter and sprin" sal- ads. Culture same as Spinach. ° per oz. liai^e-ieaved {tmproved). Improvement of the common Dandelion: its leaves are larger, erect, almost entire, or at least much less denticulated. Per pkt., 10 Thick-leaved (imp-ovcfl). This is also an improved variety; its leaves are smaller and more denticulated, but more numerous than in the preceding variety; more thickly set per pkt., .10 . 'Iktmmon variety Per pkt. .10 . .40. PUBPLB EGG-PLANT (Solanum Melongena). German, Cierpjlame. — French, Aitbergine. — Spanish, Bermgena. The Egg-Plant was introduced from Africa, and is sometimes called the Guinea Sqtiash. 7t is not generally cultivated, but is coming more into use every year. They are cut into thin slices, and fried, when they have a taste similar to oysters; they are also used in stews and soups. Culture. — Sow in hotbed very early in spring; transplant, when two inches high, into a second hotbed; if that is not done, thin to four inches apart. Do not plant out till the wea- ther becomes settled and warm. Keep plants watered for a few days if hot when put out. Where hotbeds are not convenient, a tew plants can be started in flower-pots or boxes, and when plnnteil out must have a deep rich
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