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Title: Dreer's garden calendar : 1884
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Henry A. Dreer (Firm) Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Seeds Catalogs Nursery stock Catalogs Gardening Catalogs Flowers Seeds Catalogs
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. : Henry A. Dreer
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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snap-short or shelled green they have no superior 10 60 12 00 Southern Prolific. Producing in clusters excellent snap-short beans in 80 days from germi-nation. Vigorous grower, prolific, succulent, and bearing until killed by frost 10 5^ 120c Horticultural, or Speckled Cranberry. An old favorite; equally good as a snap-short or shelled in the green or dry state 10 4o 10 00 Dutch Case Knife. One of the eariiest, used as a shelled bean, green or dry 10 40 10 oo White Cranberry. Wliite round pods, tendei and rich flavored -^-o 4^ 8 00 White Dutch Runner. An ornamental variety, with large white seed and beautiful clusters of white flowers, also good as a shelled bean 10 50 8 co Scarlet Runner. A great favorite, producing clusters of beautiful scarlet flowers, principally grown for jmament; they can also be used as a shelled green bean 10 50 8 00 On all three flasses of Beans, remit for postage 25 ctg. per quart or fraction thereof when ordered to be sent by sail 10 DREERS GARDEN CALENDAR.
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J. Improved Dwarf Brussels Sprouts. 2. Egyptian Blood Turnip Beet. 3. Pineapple Beet. 4. Bastians Extra Early Red Beet. 5. Early Blood Turnip Beet. 6. Bastians Half-Long Blood Beet. 7. Extra Early Bassano Beet. 8. Improved White Sugar Beet. 9. Improved Long Blood Red Beet. 10. Yellow Globe Mangel-Wurzel Beet. II. Long Red Mangel-Wurzel Beet. DREERS GARDEN CALENDAR. 11 BEET. Rat)u oiUr RunktlrUbe, Gee. Betterave, Fr. Acelga 6 Remolacka, Spax. The Beet is universally cultivated even in the smallest vegetable gardens, and used in aH its stages of growth.The soil best suited for Beet culture is that which is rather light, provided it is well enriched with manure. Sowin drills i foot apart and i inch deep, as early as the ground can be worked in the spring, for an early supply, andwhen the plants are large enough thin out to stand 6 or 8 inches apart in the rows, continuing for a succession aslate as the middle of July for the early varieties. Keep free from weeds by hand-weeding and hoein

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