. George Tait and Sons' price list and descriptive catalogue of field and garden seeds. Nursery stock Virginia Norfolk Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Grasses Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs. A^EGETABLE SEEDS. 19 Culture. — One ounce is sufficient for 60 feet of drill, four or five pounds being allowed to an acre. For early crop, sow be^iaiiing of March, and for a succession, to the middle of May. For winter use, the Blood Turnip and Long Blood are best, and should be sown about the middle of June. The stock beets require a longer sea- son to perfect their growth and must be sown e
. George Tait and Sons' price list and descriptive catalogue of field and garden seeds. Nursery stock Virginia Norfolk Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Grasses Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs. A^EGETABLE SEEDS. 19 Culture. — One ounce is sufficient for 60 feet of drill, four or five pounds being allowed to an acre. For early crop, sow be^iaiiing of March, and for a succession, to the middle of May. For winter use, the Blood Turnip and Long Blood are best, and should be sown about the middle of June. The stock beets require a longer sea- son to perfect their growth and must be sown early in May. Sow about an inch deep, in drills eighteen inches aps»rt, thinning out afterwards to eight or nine inches in the drills ; the field varie- ties in drills two feet apart, and thinning out to ten or twelve inches. To obtain very early beets for shipping, the Egyptian and Eclipse may be sown in a gentle hot-bed in December, the seed- lings being transplanted to the open ground as early in spring as the season will permit, but under this system a large proportion may be expected to run up to seed before the root is fit for use. Beets require the soil to be deep and thoroughly worked with plenty of well-rotted manure, and the addition of a small quantity of purple cape brocoli. galt wiU be found very beneficial away from the seacoast. Mangel-Wurzels and the Sugar Beets are greatly relished by cattle, and are cheap, wholesome and excellent food ; our farmers could not do better than give their attention to these root crops. Six pounds of seed are put to the acre. BORECOLE. [See Kale.] BROCOLI. (Brassica Oleracea Botrytis) g@T\For price per pound, see Market Gardeners' List in last pages. EARLY PURPLE CAPE.—In its general habit brocoli resembles cauliflower, to which how- ever, it is much inferior in flavor. This variety is hardy, a fairly sure header, and seems to be the only one worth cultivating with us. Per pkt. 10 cts ; per oz. 30 cts. ; per \ lb. 75 cts. Cultur
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