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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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to 6 ins. long by 9 to 12 ins.in circumference. It can be sliced for salad or eaten with salt and vinegar liketomatoes and cucumbers. 10c. pkt., 30c. oz., $1.00 J4 lb., $3.50 lb.CHERRY RED. Fruit round, of a rich scarlet color. 5c. pkt.. 25c. oz., 75c. 34 lb.LARGE BELL, or BULL NOSE. An early variety of mild flavor, a favorite forpickling and for use in the natural state. 5c. pkt., 25c oz., 75c. 34 lb., $2.50 lb.GOLDEN DAWN. Of same shape and size as the Large Bell, but of moredelicate flavor; color, yellow. 5c. pkt., 25c. oz., 75c. 34 lb., $2.50 lb.For Pepper Plants, seepage 152. If any of the above Seeds are desired by mailing lb. and upward, postage must be added at the rate of 8c. per lb.; packets, ounces and 34 lbs. mailed free. PEPPER, COUNTY FAIR. Read the story on page 5 of our great exhibits at theWorlds Fair. No other American seed house approachedour displays either in excellence or extent.Received over 30 awards. PETE$ HH^DE^SOfl fit CO., flEW YOt^.— VEGETABLE SEEDS. 41
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PBA.S—EXTRA. EA.RL,Y. German, Erbse.—French, Pois.—Spanish, Ouizante. lqt.for 75 feet of drill. 2 to 3 bushels in drills for an acre. If sent by mail, 15c. qt. extra.Our trial of Peas is probably the most extensive on this side of the Atlantic, and it enables us to discard inferior sorts, and to offer in the following list only the bestvarieties. Peas come earliest to maturity in light, rich soil. For general crop, a deep loam or a soil strongly inclining to clay is best. For early crops decomposedleaves or leaf mold should be used, or if the soil is very poor, strong manure may be used. For general crops a good dressing should be applied, and for the dwarfgrowing kinds the soil can hardly be too rich. When grown as a market„crop, peas are never staked, and are sown in single rows, two or three inches deep, and from twoto three feet apart, according to variety or strength of the soil. When grown in small quantities for private use, they are generally sown in double rows, six o

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