. McCullough's seed catalogue and amateur's guide 1899. Nursery stock Ohio Cincinnati Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs. 8 J. M. McCULLOUGH'S SONS, CINCINNATI, Eail^ flalf-Long Nantes, Early Scarlet Horn. Chantenay. OARROT. (Mohre, Ger.) One ounce will sow 100 feet of drill. Four pounds for one acre. A light, sandy loam, well-tilled and manured the previous year, best suits the Carrot. For early crop, sow as early as the ground can be worked, in drills ten inches apart, and thin five inches in the r
. McCullough's seed catalogue and amateur's guide 1899. Nursery stock Ohio Cincinnati Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs. 8 J. M. McCULLOUGH'S SONS, CINCINNATI, Eail^ flalf-Long Nantes, Early Scarlet Horn. Chantenay. OARROT. (Mohre, Ger.) One ounce will sow 100 feet of drill. Four pounds for one acre. A light, sandy loam, well-tilled and manured the previous year, best suits the Carrot. For early crop, sow as early as the ground can be worked, in drills ten inches apart, and thin five inches in the rows. The French Horn, owing to its extreme earliness, is used for hot-bed culture. The late sorts, long and half-Ion? varieties (main crop), sow from middle of May until first of July, in drills twelve to fourteen inches apart. Thin out to six and seven inches in a row. Keep the hoe at work. As Carrot seed is slow to germinate, all precautions must be taken. French Forcing. The earliest variety. It makes a small, almost globe- shaped root, of an orange red ! 5c pkt., 10c oz., 30c 34 lb., $ lb. Early Scarlet Horn. The favorite early red summer variety; fine grained and good flavor 5c pkt., 10c oz., 20c 34 lb., 60c lb. Danvers. A handsome, cylindrical-shaped Carrot of good size, and stump- rooted. It is of a rich dark orange color, grows to a large size, is smooth, and the flesh very close in texture, with little core. It is a first-class Carrot for all soils 5c pkt., 10c oz., 20c 34 lb., 70c lb. Chantenay Half-Long Scarlet. A stump-rooted variety, somewhat re- sembling the well-known Nantes Carrot, but having a larger shoulder, and being much more productive 5c pkt., 10c oz.,20c 34 lb., 70c lb. Half-Long Scarlet Nantes. A stump-rooted variety, having little or no core. Flesh red, and of fine flavor. 5c pkt., 10c oz., 20c 34 lb., 70c lb. Guerande or Oxheart. A thick Carrot, five inches long and very blunt at the lower extremity. It grows very rapidly, and the roots a
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