. Amateur cultivator's guide to the flower and kitchen garden: containing a descriptive list of two thousand varieties of flower and vegetable seeds; also a list of French hybrid gladiolus. Gardening; Vegetable gardening; Seed industry and trade. TURBAN SQUASH. YOKOHAMA SQUASH. per oz. Early Egg, or Apple. Skin yellowish-white; thin; flesh dry and well-flavored in its green state; fruit small. Per pkt., 5 20 Early Yellow Bush Scolloped. An early, flat, scollop-shaped sort; color yellow; flesh pale yellow, tolerably fine-grained and well-flavored ; very productive. Per pkt., 5, 15 Early White B
. Amateur cultivator's guide to the flower and kitchen garden: containing a descriptive list of two thousand varieties of flower and vegetable seeds; also a list of French hybrid gladiolus. Gardening; Vegetable gardening; Seed industry and trade. TURBAN SQUASH. YOKOHAMA SQUASH. per oz. Early Egg, or Apple. Skin yellowish-white; thin; flesh dry and well-flavored in its green state; fruit small. Per pkt., 5 20 Early Yellow Bush Scolloped. An early, flat, scollop-shaped sort; color yellow; flesh pale yellow, tolerably fine-grained and well-flavored ; very productive. Per pkt., 5, 15 Early White Bush Scollopek. This is a sub-variety of the Early Yellow Bush. The plant has the same dwarf habit, and the fruit is nearly of the same size and form. Per pkt., 5 15 Early Summer Bush Croolcneck. This is generally esteemed as one of the finest of the summer varieties; color bright yellow ; skin very warty, thin, and easily broken; flesh dry and well-flavored; should be used while young. Per pkt., 5 . . 15 Boston Marrow. Form ovate; skin thin; when ripe, bright orange; flesh rich salmon- yellow, very dry, fine-grained, and for sweetness and excellence unsurpassed; a very popular variety in the Boston market; a fall and winter variety. Per pkt., 5, 20. 25 15 HUBBARD SQUASH. Hubbard. This is a superior variety, and the best winter Squash known ; flesh bright orange-yellow, fine-grained, very dry, sweet, and rich-flavored ; keeps throughout the winter. Per pkt., 10 Fall or Winter Crookneck. The kind most generally cultivated in New England for fall and winter use ; flesh salmon-red, very close-grained, dry, sweet, and fine-flavored; keeps well. Per pkt., 5 Canada Crookneck. A smaller variety of the preceding; ripens early, and, all things con- sidered, is one of the best of the Crooknecks for general cultivation; very prolific. Per pkt., s 15 Honolulu Nectarine. Productive, and of good quality; keeps well. Per pkt., 10 . .25 Valparaiso, or Lima Cocoanut. A large-growing winter varie
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