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Title: Annual descriptive catalogue of seeds : the largest collection in the world for the flower garden for the lawn for the vegetable garden for the farm & nursery
Identifier: annualdescriptiv1895jmth (find matches)
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: J. M. Thorburn & Co; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nurseries (Horticulture) New York (State) Catalogs; Vegetables Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Bulbs (Plants) Catalogs
Publisher: New York, N. Y. : J. M. Thorburn & Co.
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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J M. Thorburn & Co., 15 John St., New York. Haricots Culture.—Sow 114
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POLE OR RUNNING BEANS. Rames. Frijole de Bejuco. ©tartgen--330&rten. as the soil becomes warm and dry, from the first part of May (for all except Limas) to the latter part of May, in hills four feet apart each way. Limas should not be planted until warm weather has fairly set in. One quart of Limas will plant about 100 hills allowing four or five beans to a hill, and of the smaller sorts about 200 hills Poles eight or ten feet long should be firmly set in the center of the hills before puttine in the seed. & Per qt. Challenger Lima. best of all ... . Large White Lima. esteemed .... King of the Garden Lima. bean ; productive Dreer Lima. Thick and of fine quality . . ■. . . Early Jersey Lima. A few days earlier in matur Thick and productive ; the Largely grown and highly Large in pod and pk. Perpk. Per bus. Speckled Lima, Large Horticultural Lima. A cross between the Horti- matures much It Small, but very cultural and Dreer Lima earlier than the Lima - . Small White Lima or Sieva. good quality Horticultural or Speckled Cranberry. Showy and excellent, either as a snap or shell bean . . Speckled Cut-Short or Corn Hill. Used for planting among corn Dutch Case-Knife. Pods long, green and flat ; can be either snapped or shelled Southern Prolific. A continuous bearer ; of good quality Scarlet Runner. A popular English pole-bean ■ very ornamental ' Southern Crease-Back. Long, round, stringless pods, fleshy and tender White Dutch Runner. Same habit as the Scarlet Runner, flowers and beans being white Kentucky Wonder (Old Homestead). Pods green very long ; a very prolific variety '. 40 Golden Andalusia. (New.) Most productive of all the pole varieties ; beans pure white, round White Algerian Wax Black Algerian Wax Black German Wax. snap bean .... Flageolet Wax Pole Mont d'Oror Golden Cluster. tive ; golden wax pods French Yard-Long. Pods sometimes grow from two or three feet long ; very curious ; should be grown on pea-brush per gill, 25 cts. $l 25 $2 25 ¥8 00 35 1 25 2 25 8 00 35 1 25 2 25 8 00 35 1 25 2 25 8 00 35 1 25 2 25 8 00 50 35 1 25 2 25 8 50 35 1 25 2 00 7 00 30 1 00 1 75 6 00 35 1 25 2 25 8 00 30 1 00 1 75 6 50 30 1 00 1 75 6 00 30 1 00 1 75 6 50 30 1 00 1 75 6 50 Has yellow pods ; a superb Early, procluc- 30 25 1 50 2 50 1 25 2 25 2 25 3 00 5o 1 75 3 00 9 00 8 00 12 00 BORAGE. Bourrache. Borraja. Sorretd). The young leaves of this annual, which smell somewhat like a Cucumber, are used as a salad, or boiled like Spinach Should be sown at intervals, as the leaves are palatable only when young. Sow in the spring in light soil, and transplant in shallow drills, a foot apart, when of about six weeks' growth. 183 BOra-C ^or2Z0P1oTo ^50 BURNET. Pimpernella Petite^ Pim$inela. ^pimpernell. inrl^ leaf^eS1haVe a warm' Pi(*uant ta5te> and are useful for salads and soups. Sow early in spring, half an inch deep, thinly in rows. 191 Garden Per oz. Per ^lb. Per lh •••••••* to 10 to 25 $0 75

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