. Annual descriptive catalogue : seed & Nursery stock Massachusetts Boston Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Catalogs; Grasses Seeds Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs. Salsify, or Oyster Plant. German, Boksbart. — French, Salsifis. — Spanish, Ostra Vegetal. The demand for Salsify is increasing from year to year, as its delicious qualities are becoming known. It is used stewed, boiled, or fried, and sometimes as a salad sliced raw in vinegar with salt and pepper. When cooked it has an oyster flavor, and is common
. Annual descriptive catalogue : seed & Nursery stock Massachusetts Boston Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Catalogs; Grasses Seeds Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs. Salsify, or Oyster Plant. German, Boksbart. — French, Salsifis. — Spanish, Ostra Vegetal. The demand for Salsify is increasing from year to year, as its delicious qualities are becoming known. It is used stewed, boiled, or fried, and sometimes as a salad sliced raw in vinegar with salt and pepper. When cooked it has an oyster flavor, and is commonly called " Vegetable ; The directions for growing and keeping are the same as for parsnip. One ounce will sow jo feet of drijl ;^io lbs. to the acre. Pkt. Oz. Breck's Improved Long White. Roots of medium *size. white and smooth $ $ Mammoth Sandwich Island. Twice as large as the preced- ing, and of fine quality . m .05 .15 Lb. $ Tobacco* Connecticut Seed-Leaf. Best adapted to the climate of the Northern and Middle States Havana. Imported seed Rose Muscatel. Makes an excellent quality cigar Tomatom •05 .10 .10 •25 •30 •30 3-5o * German, Liebsapfel. — French, Tomate.— Spanish, Tomate. ( For Tomato Plants, see Vegetable Plants.) The seeds should be sown in a hot-bed about the first week in March, in drills five inches apart and half an inch deep. When the plants are about two inches high, they should be set out about four or five inches apart in another hot-bed. About the middle of May the plants may be set in the open ground; they are planted for early crops on light, sandy soil, at a distance of three feet apart, in hills in which a good shovelful of rotten manure has been mixed. On heavy soils, which are not suited for an early crop, they should be planted four feet apart. Water freely at the time of transplanting, and shelter from the sun for a few days until the plants are established. One ounce will
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