. 1900 catalogue of Plant Seed Company : reliable vegetable, farm, and flower seeds. Nursery stock Missouri Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Agricultural implements Catalogs. Plant Seed Company, St. Louis, Mo. 25 EGG PLANT> French, Aubergine. German, Eierfrucht. Spanish, Berengena. Culture—One ounce will produce about 1,000 plants. Sow in hot beds very early in the spring, and transplant two or three feet apart, in very rich, warm ground. Hoe often, and hill up gradually till they blossom. IMPROVED OVAL PUR- PLE THORNLESS OR SPINE- LESS EGO PLANT —A de- cided imp
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. 1900 catalogue of Plant Seed Company : reliable vegetable, farm, and flower seeds. Nursery stock Missouri Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Agricultural implements Catalogs. Plant Seed Company, St. Louis, Mo. 25 EGG PLANT> French, Aubergine. German, Eierfrucht. Spanish, Berengena. Culture—One ounce will produce about 1,000 plants. Sow in hot beds very early in the spring, and transplant two or three feet apart, in very rich, warm ground. Hoe often, and hill up gradually till they blossom. IMPROVED OVAL PUR- PLE THORNLESS OR SPINE- LESS EGO PLANT —A de- cided improvement on the N. Y, Large Purple, in qviality, size and beauty. The plants are large and vigorous; leaves of a light green shade; fruit early, very large, oval, and of a fine deep purple- never red or yellow; flesh white, tender and of a super- ior quality, A sure cropper. Packet, 5c.; ounce, 4:0c.; Mpound, «l-35. BLACK PEKIN—Fruit globular, almost black, skin smooth, flesh white, fine grained, and highly flavored. Packet, 5c.; ounce, 40c.; >4 pound, SI.35. EARLY LONG PURPLE—Earliest and most productive; fruit long, dark rich purple, an'i of fine quality. Packet, 5c.; oujicc, 535c.; 14 pound, 75c, ENDIVE.. French, Chicorea Endive. German, Endivien. Spanish, Endivia. CULTURE—One ounce will sow about 500 square feet Sow in June to August, in shallow drills, twelve to fifteen'. Inches apart, and thin one foot in the drills; when fully^ grown tie over the outer leaves of a few plants every week or ten days to blanch. Draw a little earth to the base oC the plants. An open situation with rich, mellow soil, is most suitable. GREEN CURLED—Leaves curled; dark green, crisp an(i tender, easily blanched. Packet, Sc.; ounce, 20«:; pound, 60c.; pound, *1.75, WHITE CURLED—Self-blajiching, very fine flavored and tender. Packet, 5c,; ounce, 30c.; yi pound, 60c.; pound, SI.75. GREEN BROAD LEAVED—EscaroIIe—Leaves broad^ light green and nearly plain. Packet, 5c.; ounce, 30