E Fred Washburn's amateur cultivator's E. Fred Washburn's amateur cultivator's guide to the flower & kitchen garden for 1880 . efredwashburnsam1880wash Year: 1880 ^ASKBUKN'S Per pkt PEA, Multum in Parvo. This pea closely resembles the Little Gem; gro»vs 18 inches high, and bears large pods 15 Edible Podded Wrinkled. A novelty of great merit. The pods should be cooked whole after having the back strings taken off. A delicious addi- tion to the dinner-table. Per qt. .50 10 — Easte's Kentish Invicta* A handsome blue pea, with straight, well-filled pods. Earlier than Daniel O'Rourke, and of finer
E Fred Washburn's amateur cultivator's E. Fred Washburn's amateur cultivator's guide to the flower & kitchen garden for 1880 . efredwashburnsam1880wash Year: 1880 ^ASKBUKN'S Per pkt PEA, Multum in Parvo. This pea closely resembles the Little Gem; gro»vs 18 inches high, and bears large pods 15 Edible Podded Wrinkled. A novelty of great merit. The pods should be cooked whole after having the back strings taken off. A delicious addi- tion to the dinner-table. Per qt. .50 10 — Easte's Kentish Invicta* A handsome blue pea, with straight, well-filled pods. Earlier than Daniel O'Rourke, and of finer flavor than any white pea 10 — Popular. A decided improvement on Champion of England, being somewhat earlier, and having better-filled pods 15 Superlative. The largest and finest-podded variety ever raised. As it some- times runs seven or eight feet in height, it should be slightly pinched in when about five feet high 15 PARSLEY, Champion Moss Curled. This parsley is the perfection of a curled parsley for garnishing purposes. We cannot recommend it too highly: it is not to be surpassed .10 New Fern-Leaved. Most exquisite in form and color, invaluable as a gar- nishing plant, and admirably suited for mixing with dwarf ornameatal foliage plants in the flower-garden, and also for table decoration . . .10 PARSNIP, Carter's New Maltese. A most excellent variety, the base of the leaf-stems presenting the appearance of a Maltese cross. This variety shows a marked improvement in texture and quality upon the sorts at present in cultivation 10 RHUBARB, Johnson's St. Martin. This variety has fully established a repu- tation for earliness, productiveness, and good flavor, so indispensable to forcing, and for all purposes is considered superior to the Victoria, or any other variety now in cultivation .25 SQUASH, Butman. A new variety, distinct in color, being a bright grass-green, intermixed with white, in size and productiveness resembling the Hub- bard, and recommended as an improve
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