Archive image from page 52 of Descriptive catalogue of high grade. Descriptive catalogue of high grade seeds for the farm and garden . descriptivecatal1894twwo Year: 1894 General List of Choice Vegetable Seeds. 49 Golden Queen, or Yellow Trophy. This new variety is the best of the yellow tomatoes, is of large size, handsome, round-shape and smooth, of excellent flavor, and makes a fine contrast when sliced and intermixed with red ones. Per pkt. 5 cts.; oz. 25 cts.; l'\h. 70 cts.; lb. $ Yellow Plum. The best for preserving. Per pkt. 5 cts.; oz. 25 cts.; lb. 70 cts.; lb. Tomato Plan
Archive image from page 52 of Descriptive catalogue of high grade. Descriptive catalogue of high grade seeds for the farm and garden . descriptivecatal1894twwo Year: 1894 General List of Choice Vegetable Seeds. 49 Golden Queen, or Yellow Trophy. This new variety is the best of the yellow tomatoes, is of large size, handsome, round-shape and smooth, of excellent flavor, and makes a fine contrast when sliced and intermixed with red ones. Per pkt. 5 cts.; oz. 25 cts.; l'\h. 70 cts.; lb. $ Yellow Plum. The best for preserving. Per pkt. 5 cts.; oz. 25 cts.; lb. 70 cts.; lb. Tomato Plants. Ready in April. These should not be set out until the middle of May in this section. Varieties—Matchless, Livingston's Beauty, Acme, Perfection, Trophy, and Yellow Plum. Hot-bed plants per dozen, 10 cts.; icq, 35 cts. ; 1,000, $ Transplanted plants, large and stocky, per dozen, 15 cts. ; 100, 75 cts.; l,ooo, $ Jive hundred plants at thousand rates. If to be sent by ??iail, add five cents per dozen, or fifteen cents per hundred for postage. TURNIP. (German, Steckrube.) Culture.—Sow from middle of July to end of September, in well prepared ground. Turnips are generally sown broadcast, but larger crops are obtained by cultivating in drills two or two and a half feet apart, and thinning to six inches in the drill. It is much the best to roll the ground after sowing, as there will be a much greater certainty of getting a good stand by so doing. Ruta Bagas should be sown in July or early August, in drills two or three feet apart, and thinned out to nine inches between the roots. For salad for winter and spring use, sow in August or September. Sow one and a half pounds of seed per acre in drils, or two pounds broadcast. The salad varieties should be sown at the rate of three pounds per acre. Early Purple Top Munich. A very early, handsoniie, quick-growing turnip, which is one of the best for first crop. The bulbs are very flat, with a bright purple top, small leaves,
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