. Bliss & Sons' abridged catalogue and gardeners' almanac for 1874 : containing a list of the best known and most polular varieties of garden, field and flower seeds, selected from out large assortment of nearly three thousand varieties, with brief directions for their culture. Nursery stock New York (State) Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Gardening Catalogs. TURNIPS—(Continued.) Yellow Aberdeen Purple Top.—Bulb globular, reddish-purple above, and deep yellow below, tap-root small, flesh pale yellow, tender, sugary and solid. Per pkt,, 5 cents; oz 10; 3€ l
. Bliss & Sons' abridged catalogue and gardeners' almanac for 1874 : containing a list of the best known and most polular varieties of garden, field and flower seeds, selected from out large assortment of nearly three thousand varieties, with brief directions for their culture. Nursery stock New York (State) Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Gardening Catalogs. TURNIPS—(Continued.) Yellow Aberdeen Purple Top.—Bulb globular, reddish-purple above, and deep yellow below, tap-root small, flesh pale yellow, tender, sugary and solid. Per pkt,, 5 cents; oz 10; 3€ li>., 25; lb., 75. Robertson's Golden Ball.—Unsurpassed for richness of flavor and quickness of its growth. It forms a beautiful bulb, with a bright yellow rind and cream-colored flesh ; rich, pulpyj and excellent for culinary use, as well as for stock. Its keeping qualities are unrivaled' Perpkt., 5 cents; oz., 10; }i lb., 30; lb., § Large Yellow Globe.—This variety grows to a large size, handsome globular-shaped, color pale yellow with greenish top leaves, rather small and spreading. One of the best for a general crop, either for table use or stock; keeps hard and brittle until late in Spring Per pkt., 5 cents; oz., 10; }i lb., 30; lb., § TURNIP, (Ruta-Baga.) [Brassica campestris nabo-brassica, Lix. Ckou rutabaga, Fr. KoTilrab in der Erdegelber, Ger. Xabo rutabaga, Sp.] Culture.—The Swedes, at the North, should be sown from the 20th of June to the 1st of July, in twenty-five inch drills, and thinned out at, the first working to ten inches apart, or they may be sown in a seed-bed and afterwards transplanted. It is necessary that the ground should be dry, and made very rich. Skirving's Purple Top.—An improved purple-topped variety, of verj^ strong growth ; large size. By its quick vegetation it generally escapes the ravages of the fly; best suited to field culture and cattle feeding. Per pkt., 5 cents; oz., 10; ^ lb., 25; lb.,"75. Xaing's Improv
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