. Buist's garden guide and almanac : 1902. Nursery stock Pennsylvania Philadelphia Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs. buist'S Garden guide. 69 fry. Vv a i Buist's Improved Earge Thornless Purple Egg-Plant. EGG=PLANT. No seed is more difficult to vegetate than the Egg-Plant; it always requires the strongest heat. For early use sow in a hot-bed early in Spring; after sowing give them a good water- ing, and keep the frame closed until the plants appear, when admit fresh air in fine weather; cover the frame at nights with mats or straw to protect against frost; after the
. Buist's garden guide and almanac : 1902. Nursery stock Pennsylvania Philadelphia Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs. buist'S Garden guide. 69 fry. Vv a i Buist's Improved Earge Thornless Purple Egg-Plant. EGG=PLANT. No seed is more difficult to vegetate than the Egg-Plant; it always requires the strongest heat. For early use sow in a hot-bed early in Spring; after sowing give them a good water- ing, and keep the frame closed until the plants appear, when admit fresh air in fine weather; cover the frame at nights with mats or straw to protect against frost; after the plants attain two or three inches, they should be transplanted into another frame three inches apart, in order to make strong healthy plants before it is time for planting out; it is a very good plan to plant them singly in small flower-pots, and place them in a frame where they will become thoroughly established, and ready for setting out as soon as all cold weather is over, after which they can be planted from the pots without disturbing the roots ; plant them in rows twenty inches apart, and two feet from row to row, they luxurate in rich, loamy soil. *^-The Egg-Plant is a very important and remunerative crop for the market-gardener, and especially so for those who grow them for shipping ; but to find ready sale the Egg-Plants must be of handsome form and of a dark purple color, to secure this stock sow Buist's Improved Large Purple, which is not only a thornless variety, but the Purest and. Best Egg-Plant in the world. Over half the seed sold by dealers throughout the country produce Egg-Plants of irregular form, and of a bronzy brown coior, which are unsalable and worthless. uist's Improved Large Thornless Purple.—This is an Improvement in earliness, productiveness, and size of fruit; over the ordinary large purple variety or what is known as the New York Purple, and is entirely thornless. When full-grown, it is of large size, and is especially recom- mended to market ga
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