. Dreer's garden book / Henry A. Nursery Catalogue. Round Pod Kidney or Brittle Wax Bean 79 A fine early Bean of very high quality and one that we can unhesitatingly recommend. The pods grow up to six inches long and are thick, perfectly round, and of a clear yellow color. So brittle and stringless are the pods that the variety is often called for under the name of Brittle Wax. Pkt., 10 cts.; £ lb., 25 cts.; lb., 40 cts.; 2 lbs., 75 cts.; 5 lbs., $, prepaid. Dreer's Special Crosby's Egyptian Beet 145 This special selection of extra early Beet is as great an improvement over the ord
. Dreer's garden book / Henry A. Nursery Catalogue. Round Pod Kidney or Brittle Wax Bean 79 A fine early Bean of very high quality and one that we can unhesitatingly recommend. The pods grow up to six inches long and are thick, perfectly round, and of a clear yellow color. So brittle and stringless are the pods that the variety is often called for under the name of Brittle Wax. Pkt., 10 cts.; £ lb., 25 cts.; lb., 40 cts.; 2 lbs., 75 cts.; 5 lbs., $, prepaid. Dreer's Special Crosby's Egyptian Beet 145 This special selection of extra early Beet is as great an improvement over the ordinary Crosby Egyptian as « the latter variety is over the old-time Egyptian Blood fc . Turnip Beet and is valuable both for the private gardener and the amateur, on account of its reliability to produce a uniform crop of best quality. The skin is very smooth, bright red and flesh vermilion, very sweet and tender. Pkt., 10 cts.; oz., 25 cts.; i lb., 60 cts.; lb., $ Sprouting Broccoli "Calabrese" 179 Of easy culture, it can be grown for an early crop, start- ing seeds in hotbed or greenhouse in February or March and later transplanting the same as Cabbage, but we believe it is better grown for fall use, sowing seed in the open bed in May and transplanting later thirty inches apart each way. One ounce of seed will produce about 2000 plants. Plants produce, growing from the centre, green heads somewhat in the flfrni of a Cauliflower and measuring four or five inches across, although not of so compact a form. These are cut out and used before the flower buds open up, and then from the axils of the leaves there gradually will develop thick, fleshy, light green sprouts with buds similar in form to those removed earlier from the centre of the plants, but smaller, ranging from one to three inches across. Cut these with about five or six inches of stem and prepare for the table like Asparagus. They are tender and of a distinct and very agreeable flavor, and will be found
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