. McCullough's seed catalogue and amateur's guide 1896. Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Agricultural implements Catalogs; Commercial catalogs Ohio Cincinnati; Vegetables; Flowers; Fruit trees; Agricultural implements; Commercial catalogs. Early Scarlet Horn. Chantenay. CARROT. (German A/afire.) A light, sandy loam, well-tilled and manured the previous year, best suits the Carrot. For early crop, sow as early as the ground can be worked, in drills ten inches apart, and thin five inches in the rows. The French Horn, owing to its extreme earliness, is
. McCullough's seed catalogue and amateur's guide 1896. Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Fruit trees Seedlings Catalogs; Agricultural implements Catalogs; Commercial catalogs Ohio Cincinnati; Vegetables; Flowers; Fruit trees; Agricultural implements; Commercial catalogs. Early Scarlet Horn. Chantenay. CARROT. (German A/afire.) A light, sandy loam, well-tilled and manured the previous year, best suits the Carrot. For early crop, sow as early as the ground can be worked, in drills ten inches apart, and thin five inches in the rows. The French Horn, owing to its extreme earliness, is used for hot-bed culture. The late sorts, long and half-long varieties (main crop), sow from middle of May until first of July, in drills twelve to fourteen inches apart. Thin out to six and seven inches in a row. Keep the hoe at work. As Carrot seed is slow to germinate, all precautions must be taken. / One ounce to 150 feet of row ; four pounds to the acre. g THESE PRICES INCLUDE POSTAGE. |k McCu I lough's Intermediate, The roots grow very regular and smooth; they .'^t§||p are of good size, being from ten to twelve inches in length, and two to three iHtggp inches in diameter at the top. Valuable not only for its great productive- ness, but also for its rich color and sweet, tender flesh. A most excellent variety for either field or garden culture 5c pkt., 10c oz., 30c34 lb., $ lb. Danvers. A handsome, cylindrical-shaped Carrot of good size, and stump- rooted. It is of a rich dark orange color, grows to a large size, is smooth, and the flesh very close in texture, with little core. It is a first-class Carrot for all soils, and it is claimed that under good cultivation it will yield the greatest weight per acre with the smallest length of root of any now grown. 5c pkt., 10c oz., 30c % lb., lb. Chantenay Half=Long Scarlet. A stump-rooted variety, somewhat resembling the well-known Nantes Carrot, but having a larger shoulder, and being much more productive 5c pkt., 10c
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