. Dreer's garden book 1927. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. Black Beauty Egg-Pl.\nt. Broad-leaved Batavian Endive 412 Dreer's Giant Fringed. (See Specialties, page 5.) Pkt., 10 cts.; ioz., 20cts.; oz., 30 cts.; J lb., 85 cts. 414 Green Curled Winter. Standard sort for fall and winter crop. Very hardy and vigorous. Easy to blanch. Pkt., 10 cts.; oz., 25 cts.; \ lb., 75 cts. 416 White Curled {Self-blanching). Plants 14 to 16 inches across, leaves pale green, finely cut, cri
. Dreer's garden book 1927. Seeds Catalogs; Nursery stock Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Seeds Catalogs. Black Beauty Egg-Pl.\nt. Broad-leaved Batavian Endive 412 Dreer's Giant Fringed. (See Specialties, page 5.) Pkt., 10 cts.; ioz., 20cts.; oz., 30 cts.; J lb., 85 cts. 414 Green Curled Winter. Standard sort for fall and winter crop. Very hardy and vigorous. Easy to blanch. Pkt., 10 cts.; oz., 25 cts.; \ lb., 75 cts. 416 White Curled {Self-blanching). Plants 14 to 16 inches across, leaves pale green, finely cut, crisp and very tender. Pkt., 10 cts.; oz., 25 cts.; \ lb., 75 cts. Finnocchio, or Florence Fennel 418 A delicious vegetable which should be more widely grown. It is extensively used in Italy as a salad, but is particularly palatable when served boiled, with a cream dressing. When the enlargement of leaf stalk at base of stem is about the size of a hen's egg it should be earthed up so as to cover half of it, and in about ten days cutting for use may be commenced and continued as the plants grow. The flavor is some- what like celery, but it has a sweet taste and delicate odor. Pkt., 10 cts.; oz., 30 cts.; \ lb., $ Dandelion Pissenlit, Fr. Amargon, Sp. Loewenzahn, Ger. One ounce to 100 feet of row. Culture —Sow seed in good clean loam, in drills 1 foot apart, and thin to 10 or 12 inches apart in the rows. 401 Broad-leaved. (See Specialties, page 5.) Pkt., 15 cts.; \ oz., 60 cts.; oz., $; \ lb., $ 402 Common. Yields an abundant supply of large succulent leaves. Pkt., 10 cts.; \ oz., 30 cts.; oz., 50 cts.; \ lb., $ Plants of Egg-Plant are offered on page 212. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Henry A. Dreer (Firm); Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection. Philade
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