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Title: McCullough's seed catalogue and amateur's guide
Identifier: CAT31284804 (find matches)
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: J. M. McCullough's Sons; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nursery stock Ohio Cincinnati Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Grasses Seeds Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs
Publisher: Cincinnati, Ohio : J. M. McCullough's Sons
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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ily £lalf-L.ong Nantes. Early Scarlet Horn. Cliantenay. OARROT. (Mohre, Ger.) One ounce will sow 100 feet of drill. Four pounds for one acre. A light, sandy loam, "well-tilled and manured the previous year, best suits the Carrot. For early crop, sow as early as the ground can be worked, in drills ten inches apart, and thin five inches in the rows. The French Horn, owing to its extreme earliness, is used for hot-bed culture. The late sorts, long and half-Ions varieties (main crop), sow from middle of May until first of July, in drills twelve to fourteen inches apart. Thin out to sis and seven inches in a row. Keep the hoe at work. As Carrot seed is slow to germinate, all precautions must be taken. Trench Forcing. The earliest variety. It makes a small, almost globe- shaped root, 01 an orange red color 5c pkt., 10c oz., 30c 34 lb., SI.00 lb. Early Scarlet Horn. The favorite early red summer variety; fine grained and good flavor '. 5c pkt., 10c oz., 20c 34 lb., 60c lb. Danvers. A handsome, cylindrical-shaped Carrot of good size, and stump- rooted. It is of a rich dark orange color, grows to a large size, is smooth, and the flesh very close in texture, with little core. It is a first-class Carrot for all soils 5c pkt., 10c oz., 20c 34 lb., 70c lb. Cliantenay Half-Long Scarlet. A stump-rooted variety, somewhat re- sembling the well-known Nantes Carrot, but having a larger shoulder, and being much more productive 5c pkt., 10c oz., 20c 34 lb., 70c lb. Half-L,ong Scarlet Nantes. A stump-rooted variety, having little or no core. Flesh red, and of fine flavor 5c pkt., 10c oz., 20c 34 lb., 70c lb. Guerande or Oxheart. A thick Carrot, five inches long and very blunt at the lower extremity. It grows very rapidly, and the roots attain a weight of more than a pound. It is tender, of" good flavor and of a deep red color 5c pkt., 10c oz., 20c 34 lb., 70c lb. McCullougli'.s Intermediate. The roots grow very regular and smooth: they are of good size, being from ten to twelve inches in length, and two to three inches in diameter at the top. Productive, rich color, sweet and tender flesh. Excellent varietv for either field or garden. 5c pkt., 10c oz., 20c 34 lb., 70c lb. These are undoubtedly the most valuable of all the roots usually grown for stock. They are more nutritious than Turnips and nearly all animals like them and are benefited by them. The seed may be sown at any time in April until the end of May. Improved Giant Short White. This is the heaviest cropping Carrot grown, yielding more tons to the acre than any other sort. The flesh is white, solid, crisp and very sweet, the roots are short and very heavv at the shoulder which allows them to be harvested very easily. " They do not break easily in pulling or storing, owing to their solidity and shape. One of the most profitable Carrots ; cattle and horses like it." 5c pkt., 10c oz., 15c % lb., 50c lb. Improved I^ong Orange. A standard late variety, handsome and uniform in shape ; deep orange color, good flavor, yields heavily. It is of excellent table quality, and is highly nutritious for stock. 5c pkt., 10c oz., 15c 34 lb., 50c lb. Large "VTliite Belgian. The lower part of the root is white ; that growing and exposed above ground, green. It is exclusively grown for stock. 10c oz., 15c 34 lb., 50c lb. Above Prices Include Postage. If Wanted by Express, l>educt Ten Cents Per Pound.

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