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Title: Washburn & Co.'s 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,
Year: 1869 (1860s)
Authors: Washburn & Co Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Flowers Seeds Catalogs Vegetables Seeds Catalogs
Publisher: Boston, Mass. : The Company
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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om three to five inches in length, and from two and a half to three inches in diameter ; grown principally for ornament Per pkt, 5 1.00 Scarlet-fruited. A highly ornamental variety. In general appearance, it resembles the common Egg-Plant ; but the fruit, which is about the size of a hens egg, is of a most beautiful scarlet: principally cultivated for its peculiar, richly colored, and ornamental fruit, which makes a tine garnish. Per pkt, 10.Gaudaloupe Striped. Fruit nearly ovoid; smaller than the large purple; skin white streaked, and variegated with red. Per pkt., 10.Pekin New Black. A new variety, from Pekin, China, producing very remarkable, large, round fruit, weighing six to eight pounds each. Per pkt., 25. Endive (Chicorium Endivia).German, Endivien. — French, Chicoree. — Spanish, Endvia.The garden Endive is a native of Northern China, and has been cultivated in Europe the pastthree centuries for a winter salad. The French are particularly fond of it, using it raw, pickled,
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Large Musk Melon.— Pee page 113. TO THE VEGETABLE GARDEN. 113 fried, and boiled, elteeming it exceedingly wholesome in every form. It agrees with every consti-tution. Culture. — For the early crop, sow about the 1st of July. It will do on the ground whereearly Cabbages or Peas have come off, by giving it a coat of manure. Draw drills the depth of thehoe, one foot apart, and sow therein ; sprinkle a little earth in the bottom of the drill, sufficient tocover the seed, which will be up in a few days. If dry weather ensue, water once or twice till theplants get hold. Thin them out, when about two inches high, to ten inches apart; hoe freely, andkeep clear of weeds. Being grown in these shallow drills, they are more easily earthed up, and growbetter in warm, dry weather. When the leaves have attained about eight inches long, they are fitfor blanching: for this purpose a dry day must be chosen. Gather up the leaves in your hand, in aclose and rounded form ; see that there is no earth o

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