. Shumway : garden guide. Nursery stock Illinois Rockford Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs. Black Mexican SWEET CORN. A good large; rather late variety, and is claimed to be sweetest and richest of all. , |, , , Burpee's New Fordhook Pickling- ('T< tJMT5ER. Is a cross of a European sort on the "Oool and ( '; and Wombr- fnlly prolific, and bears oonthiiiously. It is cnsp and tender, and the skin is very thin, and is one of the finest of all for piokline-. lb 65, i„Itx40, l4tr).2r). 0/..S. G-ixat value in Cucu
. Shumway : garden guide. Nursery stock Illinois Rockford Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs. Black Mexican SWEET CORN. A good large; rather late variety, and is claimed to be sweetest and richest of all. , |, , , Burpee's New Fordhook Pickling- ('T< tJMT5ER. Is a cross of a European sort on the "Oool and ( '; and Wombr- fnlly prolific, and bears oonthiiiously. It is cnsp and tender, and the skin is very thin, and is one of the finest of all for piokline-. lb 65, i„Itx40, l4tr).2r). 0/..S. G-ixat value in Cucumbers for slicing; pickles, and mai kot, Tlie Cucumber, like alt other vine crop, should have a good soil. A newly broken lieltl is If old worn crroimd must be used, it should be well fertilized, or a shoveifull of manure OD^ISd well with the soil under each hill. Plant in hills, four feet apart, and put a dozen seeds m each hill, and if not all destroyed by cut worms and striped bugs, they can be thinned out to t ftue© or toin* plants to each hill. The nest remedies for the ravages of all insects on vine crops, h |i ing of a little Pans Green^ well mixed with flour;-a8hes;-dust;-or any very fine powder. AiiO: Tobacco dust is efiective in many localities. A very early supply of cucumbers can be gtoim ly planting a few stseds in small pieces of inverted sods and kept in a warm place until lyreli ee- tablishecl, and then set them into open ground, and they will be well ahead of insects. A little turpentine mixed with air slacked lime is recommended to keep off insects. The cucumber is easily, and quickly grown, and is a paying crop in many localities. Any family can have plenty of pickles by keeping them in a salt brine, and a few days before they are required for use they can be freshened in water, and then put into vinegar. In a few days they would be ready to use. ^ome vine crops, and onions have been devastated by small worms, or maggots at the roots. If such ravages occur
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