. Descriptive catalogue of a choice collection of vegetable, agricultural and flower seeds, gladiolus, lilies, and other summer flowering bulbs. Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture) New York (State) Catalogs. 31USTAltl). [Sinapis, Lix. Montdrdt, Fk. Sauf, Ger.] CULTUKK.—For early salads sow on a slight hotbed in March, and for a general crop at intervals through the Spring, in lows six inches apait, and rather tliick in the ; cut it when about an inch or two high. To raise seed lor the lloui- of .Mustard sow in April, in drills from six to twelve inc
. Descriptive catalogue of a choice collection of vegetable, agricultural and flower seeds, gladiolus, lilies, and other summer flowering bulbs. Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture) New York (State) Catalogs. 31USTAltl). [Sinapis, Lix. Montdrdt, Fk. Sauf, Ger.] CULTUKK.—For early salads sow on a slight hotbed in March, and for a general crop at intervals through the Spring, in lows six inches apait, and rather tliick in the ; cut it when about an inch or two high. To raise seed lor the lloui- of .Mustard sow in April, in drills from six to twelve inches asunder, or l-ioadcast, and rake or harrow in the seed; when the plants are two or three inches high liiin tlu-ni moderately—they will soon run up in stalks, and in July or August return a crop of seed ripe lor gathering. J'kt. Oz. M Lb. Lb. 05 .SO 10 $0 15 $0 40 5 10 15 40 10 20 White or Yellow.—(iood tor salads; also for medicinal , - Black or Brown.—For culinaiy use, -------- Chinese.—A new variety, witli leav(;s twice the size of the ordinary White Mustard, steins more succulent, of a deeper green, Havor pleasantly sweet and pungent, and far preferable as a salad, - - - - NASTURTIUM, or INDIAN CRESS. ['rrojMeo/tun majus, Lix. ('npucine (/rande, Fk. A' IndUinisclie, Geu. Capuchina, Sp.] This annual is a native of Peru, cultivated both lor use and ornament. Its beautiful orange colored tlowers serve as a garnish for dishes, and thard manur(\ spread on e\(My Si)ring, and turned in with a light furrow.* A toi)-dressing of wtKxl ashes. ai>i)lied after the second weeding, is \evy beneficial to this crop, as will soon be observed by the dark and healthy chan.;(; of coloi- given to the plants. For sowing Onion seed and subsetiuent culture, we know of no ini|ileiiii'ut so usefid as (,'omstock's Seed Sower, Hand Cultivator and Onion Weeder combined. See (It s-l iption umler the head of Implements. Oiiiim scfs (iiid tops-Am pla(;ed on tlu^ surface in s
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