. Bliss and Sons' illustrated hand-book for the farm and garden for 1881 : containing a list of the best known and most poplular varieties of garden, field & flower seeds, selected from our large assortment of nearly three thousand varieties with brief directions for their culture. Nursery stock New York (State) Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Agricultural implements Catalogs; Gardening Catalogs. For the Farm and Garden. DANDELION. \LeQntodon Taraxacum^ Lrs'. Pi^se-en-lit, Fe. Loeicenzahn, Ger. Amargon, Sp.] T
. Bliss and Sons' illustrated hand-book for the farm and garden for 1881 : containing a list of the best known and most poplular varieties of garden, field & flower seeds, selected from our large assortment of nearly three thousand varieties with brief directions for their culture. Nursery stock New York (State) Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Agricultural implements Catalogs; Gardening Catalogs. For the Farm and Garden. DANDELION. \LeQntodon Taraxacum^ Lrs'. Pi^se-en-lit, Fe. Loeicenzahn, Ger. Amargon, Sp.] The Dandelion resembles Endive, and affords one of the earliest, as -well as one of the hest and most healthful Spring greens. It is also sometimes blanched aud used as a salad. The roots, when dried and roasted, are often employed as a substitute for coffee. The seeds may he sown m May, in drills ten inches apart; thin out the young plants about three inches apart; cultivate during the season, and in the follow- ing Spring the plants will be fit for the table. If liy mail in quantities of 4 ounces and upwards, postage must Tie added at the rate of 16c. per pound. DandeKon.—Common variety. Per pkt., 10 cents; oz. 40 cents; >4 lb., §; lb., Improved liarge lieaved.—Per plit., 20 ceiits; oz., § EGG-PLANT„ [Solanum melongena, Lrs*. Auherghie, Fe. Eierj^flanze, Gee. Berengena, Sp.] CULTUKE.—Sow thickly on a hotbed for early crops, or very early in the Spring, in a warm, sheltered, dry situation in open ground, where they can be protected by hand glasses. "When the plants are three or four inches high, and the warm weather"^has set in, transplant them into well-enriched ground, about thirty- inches apart, each way. Draw earth to the plants as they advance. One ounce of seed will produce about one thousand plants. If by mail in quantities of 4 ounces and upicards, postage must he added at tJie rate of 16c. per pound. New-Tork Improved Piu-ple.—A
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