. Catalogue : Sherwood Hall Nursery Nurseries (Horticulture) California Menlo Park Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Trees Seedlings Catalogs. French, Concombre. German, Gurke. Spanish, Pepino. I plant one hundred hills ; two pounds will plant one acre. They succeed best a warm, moist, rich, loamy soil. Plant in hills four feet apart each way. Leave four of the strongest plants to each hill, but do not thin out until plants are strong enough to resist the attacks of insects. The English forcing varieties can be grown in hot
. Catalogue : Sherwood Hall Nursery Nurseries (Horticulture) California Menlo Park Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Trees Seedlings Catalogs. French, Concombre. German, Gurke. Spanish, Pepino. I plant one hundred hills ; two pounds will plant one acre. They succeed best a warm, moist, rich, loamy soil. Plant in hills four feet apart each way. Leave four of the strongest plants to each hill, but do not thin out until plants are strong enough to resist the attacks of insects. The English forcing varieties can be grown in hot-beds wliere the temperature does not fall below si.\ty-five degrees at niiiht. Many of this class grow from twenty to thirty inches in length. Boston Pickling. Of uniform size; dark verv productive Karly Cluster. Excellent variety grows in clusters . Eai'ly Russian. One of the earliest; fruit small and produced in pairs Extra-Lonjj Green. Handsome in shape and color ; very desirable Gherkin. Used only for pickles. Known also as West India Burr Green Prolific. Resembles Boston Pickling, but much earlier Improved AVhite Spine. Very popular ; flesh crisp and of good flavor Xicliol's Medium Green. Of beautiful color ; very uniform in shape and size Thorburn's Everbearing. Verj' early and enor- mously productive ; the peculiar merit of this va- riety is that the vines continue to flower and pro- duce fruit, whether the ripe Cucumbers are picked t,)ff ur not, thus becoming almost a perpetual bearer . ENGLISH FK-\3IE CUCUMBERS—These require to be grown in a frame or green- house, and. so provided for, produce wonderfully large and fine fruits. The varieties oflTered are the best known. Duke of Edinbui'gh, Telegraph, Tender and True, and Sion House Improved ... each, per pkt., 25 cts. Oz. 14-lb. Lh. $0 10 $0 25 So 75 10 25 75 10 25 75 10 30 I 00 20 60 2 00 10 25 75 10 25 75 10 30 I 00 30 I 00 3 00 French, Pissenlit. German, Pardeblinn. Culture.—One ounce will sow two hundred feet
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