Dreer's garden calendar for 1888 . dreersgardencale1888henr Year: 1888 Improved Large-Leaved Dandelion. DANDELION. (Taraxacum Dens-Leonis.) lowenzahn oder Pardeblume, Ger. Pitsenlit, Fr. gon, Sp. Amar- spring greens or salads. The roots, when dried and roasted. are often used as a substitute for coffee. The seed should be sown early in the spring in drills 12 inches apart, about i of an inch deep, and thin out to 6 inches in the drills; the following spring it will be fit for use. Large-Leaved Improved. Used as spring greens or salad. Pkt. 10 cts., oz. 40 cts. Thick-Leaved, or Cabbaging. This
Dreer's garden calendar for 1888 . dreersgardencale1888henr Year: 1888 Improved Large-Leaved Dandelion. DANDELION. (Taraxacum Dens-Leonis.) lowenzahn oder Pardeblume, Ger. Pitsenlit, Fr. gon, Sp. Amar- spring greens or salads. The roots, when dried and roasted. are often used as a substitute for coffee. The seed should be sown early in the spring in drills 12 inches apart, about i of an inch deep, and thin out to 6 inches in the drills; the following spring it will be fit for use. Large-Leaved Improved. Used as spring greens or salad. Pkt. 10 cts., oz. 40 cts. Thick-Leaved, or Cabbaging. This variety is dou- ble the size of the common, and for salad will soon supersede it. Pkt. 10 cts., oz. 50 cts. EGG-PLANT. Eicrpflanzc, Ger. Aubergine, Fr. Berengena, Sp. Sow the seed in hot-beds early in March. When 3 inches high pot the young plants, using small pots, and plunge them in the same bed, so that the plants may be- come stocky. They can be planted out, from the pots, when the season becomes sufficiently warm, in May or June; or they can be transplanted into a second bed to make them strong, until the weather is warm enough to transplant, about 3 feet apart each way, in thoroughly worked and well-enriched soil. Draw the earth up to their stems when about a foot high. Egg-plant seed will not vegetate freely without a strong uniform heat, and if the plants get the least chilled in the earlier stages of growth they seldom recover. Therefore repeated sowings are sometimes necessary. Care should be observed in cutting the fruit so as not to disturb the roots of the plants. Early Long Purple. The earliest and hardiest, very productive; fruit from b' to 10 inches long. Pkt. 10 cts., oz. 30 cts. New York Improved Large Purple. The leading market variety ; large, round, dark purple, free of thorns, excellent and the most productive varietv. Pkt. 10 cts., oz. 60 cts. Black Pekin. Fruit purplish black, round to globular, large, solid, smooth and glossy, very prolific, early, and
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