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Title: Annual catalogue of seeds and bulbs
Identifier: annualcatalogueo1896owcl (find matches)
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: O. W. Clark & Son; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Commercial catalogs New York (State) Buffalo; Vegetables; Flowers; Fruit; Gardening; Commercial catalogs
Publisher: Buffalo, New York : O. W. Clark & Son
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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CATALOGUE OF VEGETABLE, FLOWER AND FARM SEEDS Medium, or Second=Early Qt. Horsford's Market Garden. The finest medium early in cultivation. A strong grower, very productive ; popular with market-gardeners fo 25 McLean's Advancer. An excellent wrin- kled variety, of delicious table quality . . 25 Bliss* Everbearing. Matures about the same time as Advancer, but continues longer in bearing 30 Yorkshire Hero. Not as early as the above ; more branching habit. Very sweet, excellent quality for family use 30 Nott's Excelsior. An excellent new sort. Very small vine, but exceedingly vigorous. Pods well filled ; of superior quality. . 40 Admiral. Height, 3 to 4 feet. Ripens about same time as Telephone. Very pro- ductive, and of fine table quality 30 Late, or Main Crop Peas Champion of England. One of the best and most popular Peas in cultivation . .$025 Stratagem. A dwarf wrinkled variety ; a heavy yielder, producing large, well-filled pods of fine flavor 30 Telephone. Very large pods ; very pro- ductive and of superior flavor. An excel- lent late market variety . . .... 25 Shropshire Hero. A valuable new En- glish variety, well worthy of cultivation. Pods very large 30 White Marrowfat. Pure white. A heavy yielder ; large pods, and a general favorite. 15 Black-Eyed Marrowfat. Very hardy and productive. Excellent for general use . . 15 White Field. For sowing .
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Telephone. Pepper. French, Piment. German, -j^feffer. Spanish, Pimiento. Culture.—One ounce will produce 1,500 plants. Good, rich, mellow ground is best for Peppers. Sow early in April in a hotbed in shallow drills, 6 inches apart, and transplant to the open ground as soon as the weather is warm and settled. Transplant into rows 2 feet between the plants each way. Keep the soil open and free with the cultivator. The seed may also be sown in the open ground, but not until all danger from frost is past.

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