. Importers growers and dealers in choice seeds, bulbs and plants, 1900. Nursery stock New York (State) Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs. Ill WI- TH ew Columbia Beet. -Columbia.—This new turnip beet is one of the very earliest, grows very quickly and does not become stringy like most early varieties when allowed to grow full size. In quality and earliness will supersede well-known varieties like Eclipse and Edmand's, which are among the best. The skin is smooth, flesh deep blood- red and of the f
. Importers growers and dealers in choice seeds, bulbs and plants, 1900. Nursery stock New York (State) Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs. Ill WI- TH ew Columbia Beet. -Columbia.—This new turnip beet is one of the very earliest, grows very quickly and does not become stringy like most early varieties when allowed to grow full size. In quality and earliness will supersede well-known varieties like Eclipse and Edmand's, which are among the best. The skin is smooth, flesh deep blood- red and of the finest quality. A good market sort, as well as for private pkt. oz. I^lb. lb. use 5 10 20 50 CARROTS. One ounce will sow 100 feet of drill. Three to four pounds will sow one acre. The carrot, like all other root crops, does best an light, loamy or sandy soil. Fresh manure should not be applied, as it has a tendency to make forked and badly shaped roots. For early -crop, sow as soon as possible, and for main crop in May or until middle of June. Plant in rows 15 inches apart, thinning out to 3 or four inches apart in the rows. pkt. oz. >4lb. lb. Early Short Horn 5 10 Carentail Early French Forcing.— The earliest variety, valua- ble for forcing; root small nnd of fine flavor Long Orange Improved. culture n vprs,—Orange, growing very smooth and handsome CAULIFLOWER. One ounce will soiv a bed of forty square feet, and produce about 3,000 jJants. Cauliflower is sown both for early and late at the same time cabbage is. Unless it is planted very early, it had better be delayed till late, for if the heads do not mature be- fore excessive hot weather arrives, theybreak and run up. When very early they will produce a fair crop, but never so good as that raised in autumn, when cooler. Set the young plants for fall crop in June or July; keep soil well stirred until they begin to head, then mulch thoroughly, and, if dry, water thoroughly once or twice—a pailful to each plant be
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