. Buist's garden guide and almanac. Nurseries (Horticulture) Pennsylvania Philadelphia Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Grasses Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs. Buist's Improved Large Thornless Purple Egg-Plant. EGG-PLANT. AUBERGINE (Fr.). EIERPFLANZE (Ger.). BERENGENA (Sp.), No seed is more difficult to vegetate than the Egg-Plant; it always requires the strongest heat. For early use sow in a hot-bed early in Spring; after sowing, give them a good watering, and keep the frame closed until the plants appear, when admit fresh air in fine wea
. Buist's garden guide and almanac. Nurseries (Horticulture) Pennsylvania Philadelphia Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Grasses Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs. Buist's Improved Large Thornless Purple Egg-Plant. EGG-PLANT. AUBERGINE (Fr.). EIERPFLANZE (Ger.). BERENGENA (Sp.), No seed is more difficult to vegetate than the Egg-Plant; it always requires the strongest heat. For early use sow in a hot-bed early in Spring; after sowing, give them a good watering, and keep the frame closed until the plants appear, when admit fresh air in fine weather; cover the frame at night with mats, to protect against frost; after the plants attain two or three inches, they, should be transplanted into another frame three inches apart, in order to make strong plants before it is time for planting out; it is a very good plan to put them singly in small flower- pots, and place them in a frame where they will become thoroughly established, and ready for setting out as soon as all cold weather is over, after which they can be planted from the pots without disturbing the roots; plant them in rows twenty inches apart, and two feet from row to row , they luxuriate in rich, loamy soil. Buist's Improved Large Thornless Purple.—This is an Improvement in eaiii- ness, productiveness, and size of fruit, over the ordinary large purple variety or what is known as the New York Purple, and is en- tirely thornless. When full grown, it is of mammoth proportions, and is especially re- commended to market gardeners, in fact there is no variety equal to it, for produc- tiveness, color or perfection of form. Per oz , 60 cts.; J lb., $; lb., $ New York Improved Purple.—This is grown very largely by the market garden- ers of New York; it is of a large oval shape, with smooth stems, quite productive and of good size. Per oz., 40 cts.; J lb., $150; lb., $ Early Long* Purple.—The earliest va- riety, a strong grower, producing fruit of an ob
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