. Bliss and Sons' illustrated hand-book for the farm and garden for 1883 : containing a list of the best known and most poplular varieties of garden, field & flower seeds, with directions for their culture : also, a large assortment of plants, gladiolus, lilies, horticultural requisites, &c. 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. 8i EGG-PLANT. [Solanum melongena. Lin. Anhrrsinc, Fit Eierpjlmze, Gku. Birrn
. Bliss and Sons' illustrated hand-book for the farm and garden for 1883 : containing a list of the best known and most poplular varieties of garden, field & flower seeds, with directions for their culture : also, a large assortment of plants, gladiolus, lilies, horticultural requisites, &c. 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. 8i EGG-PLANT. [Solanum melongena. Lin. Anhrrsinc, Fit Eierpjlmze, Gku. Birrnsenn, Sp.] One ounce will produce about one thonsnud pinut!*. —Sow tliickly on a liot-bi'd for early crops, or very raiiy in the S|iriiipr. in a wanii, slicltcrcrt, ilry situation iu open ground, where tliey can lio protcctiMl by liand-slasscs. Wlii'n tlic plants an- tlirfo or tour inches high, and tho warm weather has .set in. transplant tlieni into well oni iched frronnd, about thirty inches apart, each Draw earth to thi' plants as advaiue. If by mail in quantities of A ounces and upwards, postage mu^t be added at the rate 0/ IGc. per pound. Eiii'ly IjOUK Purple.—Doi's well in almost any sec- tion of the .Northern states, ami, if started early, will jierfeet its fruit iu the Canadas. Per pkt, 5 cents; oz.,3(); ', lb.,.$; lb., $, Gnndnloupe Striped.—Fruit ovoid, skin whilt^ and v:iriei;ated with puri)le; very oriia- nu*nt;il. Per i)kt., 10 rents : oz.,.50. New-York Improved Purple.—An improved variety of the Rounil rurple, of deeper color, and of larger size, and of line (piality: a superior mar- ket variety. I'cr pkt., 10 cents: oz., 60; Js lb., . ; lb., $ Pekin New BInck.—A distinct variety from China; veiy prolific; fruit globular and almost black ; fine grained and delicately flavored. Per pkt., 10 cents; oz., (iO ; 11>.,$;00; lb., .$ Scarlet Fruited. -Highly ornann ntal; fruit about the size
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