. Annual descriptive catalogue : seeds & Nursery stock Massachusetts Boston Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Grasses Seeds Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs. 28 JOSEPH BRECK & SONS (Corporation.). New York Improved Egg-Plant New York Improved, the leading market variety White Pearl. Quite an ornamental plant ENDIVE. German, Endivien —French, Chicorec. — Spanish, Endivia. Sow for an early supply about the middle of April. As it is used mostly in the fall months, the main sowings are made in June and July, from which plantations are formed


. Annual descriptive catalogue : seeds & Nursery stock Massachusetts Boston Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Grasses Seeds Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs. 28 JOSEPH BRECK & SONS (Corporation.). New York Improved Egg-Plant New York Improved, the leading market variety White Pearl. Quite an ornamental plant ENDIVE. German, Endivien —French, Chicorec. — Spanish, Endivia. Sow for an early supply about the middle of April. As it is used mostly in the fall months, the main sowings are made in June and July, from which plantations are formed at one foot apart each way, in August and September. As it is generally used for salads, it should be blanched by tying all the leaves into a bunch at the extreme top. One ounce will sow 150 feet of drill. DANDELION. Pardeblum. — French, Pisse-en-lit. — Spanish, Amargon. Sow seed in May or June, in drills half an inch deep and twelve inches apart. Cultivate, to keep down the weeds during summer, and upon the approach of severe weather cover with litter, which should be removed early the following spring. One ounce will sow 200 feet of drill. One lb. will sow an acre. Pkt. Oz. Lb. American Improved. A fine home-grown _ variety 10 .40 $ Thick= Leaved French. Large and tender .10 .40 EGG-PLANT. German, Eierpflanze. — French, Aubergine. — Spanish, Berengena. (For price of Plants, see Vegetable Plants.) Sow the seed in hot-beds the first week in April, care being taken to protect the young plants from cold at night. Plant out about June I, about two and a half feet apart. One ounce will produce about 1,000 plants. • ' Pkt. Oz. Lb. Black Pekin, early, fruit jet black, round in form and very solid, .10 .40 $ Early Long Purple, differing in shape from the foregoing ; hardy and productive .... excellent and very productive Broad=Leaved Batavian, used for soup Green Curled, a nicely curled sort Moss Curled, of dense habit, finely curled, Pkt. •05 •OS •05


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