Identifier: manualofeverythi18pete_0 (find matches)
Title: Manual of everything for the garden : 1894
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Peter Henderson & Co Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Seed industry and trade Catalogs Seeds Catalogs Flowers Seeds Catalogs Plants, Ornamental Catalogs Vegetables Seeds Catalogs
Publisher: New York : Peter Henderson & 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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r makes it most attractive. 5c. pkt., 20c. oz., 60c.% lb., $2.00 lb. ACME. Early, of medium size, perfectly smooth, very solid anda great bearer. Color crimson, with a pinkish tinge. 5c. pkt.,20c. oz., 60c. % lb., $2.00 lb. THE SHAH. A sport from the Mikado, with which it is iden-tical, except in color, which is a dark, waxy yellow. 10c. pkt.,30c. oz., $1.00 14 lb., $3.00 lb. GOLDEN SUNRISE. It has all the good qualities of the bestred varieties and is of a beautiful golden-yellow color, making itinvaluable for slicing and mixing with red varieties for table use.(See cut.) 5c. pkt., 25c. oz., 70c. J^ lb., $2.50 lb. We can also supply the following standard varieties of Toma-toes, which are too well known to need description, at theuniform price of 5c. pkt., 20c. oz., 70c. J^ lb., $2.50 lb.:Paragon, Red Cherry (see cut), The Trophy, Strawberry, or Winter Cherry, Yellow Plum, The Lorillard, Pear-shaped Red (see cut), Ignotum. 50 PETEf* HE^DE^SO^i & CO., fiEW YOt^.—VEGETABLE SEEDS.
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Copyrighted by Peter Henderson & Co., 1891. TURNIP. German, Steckrube.—French, Navet.—Spanish, Nabo Coman. 1 oz.for 150 feet of drill; 1 to 2 lbs. in drills for an acre. Turnips do best in highly enriched, light, sandy or gravelly soils. Commence sowing the earliest varieties in April in drills from twelve to fifteen inches apart, andthin out early to six or nine inches in the rows. For a succession sow at intervals of a fortnight until the last week in July, from which time until the end of AugustBowings may he made for the fall and main crop. Turnips may be preserved until spring by cutting off the tops about one inch from the bulb, and storing in a cellar orcool shed during winter, covering the roots with dry sand; they should be harvested before severe frost sets in, for, though comparatively hardy, few of the varieties willsurvive the winters of the Northern States in the open ground. If by mail in quantities of y2 ^°- and upward, postage must be added at the rate of 8c.

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