THE FIELD AND GARDEN VEGETABLES OF AMERICA
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ch are formed in small, united, rounded groups, or clusters, are of a brownish color, and about one-fourth of an inch in diameter; the size, however, as well as depth of color, varying,
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es in their greatest diameter, and about one foot in depth. Skin dark brown, thick, hard, and wrinkled, or striated, sometimes reticulated or netted, much resembling the bark of some de
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brown above the surface, where exposed to the sun. Flesh white, rarely circled, with rose-red. Leaves pale green, o
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well flavored. Not much cultivated for the table, on account of the brown color it imparts to soups or other dishes of which it may be an ingredient. It is also inclined to run to see
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s wedge-shaped, pale yellowish-green, the upper surface marked by two brownish lines or stains in the form of two sides of a triangle; flowers terminal, of a carmine-rose or pink-red co
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; flowers whitish; tubers rather small, round, smooth, and of a light-brownish color. A very healthy variety, mealy, well flavored, and quite productive. The plants do not decay, nor do
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, crisp, and well flavored. GRAY TURNIP-ROOTED. Gray Summer. Round Brown. _Trans._ The form of this variety may be called round, though it is somewhat irregular in shape. It grows l
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mooth, and regular. The skin, where exposed to light and air, is of a brownish-green; but, where covered by the soil, yellow. The flesh is firm, and well flavored. The Early Stubble is
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grant; pod smooth; seeds rather large, oblong, a little angular, of a brown color, spotted with black; root spreading, furnished with numerous blackish, irregularly shaped tubers, which
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ept where exposed to the sun, when it often becomes purple or reddish-brown. Below the surface of the soil, the skin is of a dull or dirty white. Flesh white, moderately fine, tender, a
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ipens in autumn, and its maturity is known by the heads changing to a brown color. It is best preserved in the heads; and these should be cut off with a portion of the stalk a foot in l
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rge, three inches wide, and full two inches in depth; outside coating brown, of firm texture. Divested of this, the color is reddish-brown, tinged with green. Flavor comparatively mild.
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y green color, erect, fleshy at the base, and terminating in a sharp, brownish spine, or thorn; leaves of the plant deep-green. Most esteemed in its crude state; eaten as a salad in vin
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, of a grayish or grayish-green color, spotted and streaked with deep brown; and, when perfectly grown, are similar in size and form to those of the apple. About six hundred are contain
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n prickly, green,--at the blossom-end, often paler, or nearly white,--brownish-yellow when ripe; flesh white, seedy, tender, and well flavored, but less crispy or brittle than that of m
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to the variety, being either red, white, black, yellowish or grayish brown. An ounce contains from a hundred and seventy-five to two hundred seeds, and they retain their vitality eight
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ot more than half an inch in thickness; seed cream-color, tipped with brown at the eye, and having a brown stripe around the edge; flesh fine red, commencing abruptly at the rind, and e
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, of a grayish or dull-white color, with a rough and uneven yellowish-brown border; three hundred are contained in an ounce. [Illustration] The Canada is unquestionably the best of th
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the table; seeds of medium size, grayish-white, the border darker, or brownish. About two hundred are contained in an ounce. It is a very hardy and productive variety; ripens its crop
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direction. PURPLE BORECOLE. Red Borecole. Tall Purple Kale. Curled Brown Kale. Chou frisé Rouge Grand. _Vil._ With the exception of its color, the Purple Borecole much resembles the
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which ripen in July and August of the second year, are round, reddish-brown or blackish-brown, and retain their vitality five years. About ten thousand are contained in an ounce. _Soil
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round, solid, broad and flat on the top, and often tinted with red or brown. The exterior leaves are few in number, roundish, broad and large, clasping, blistered on the surface, bluish
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anching. The flowers are yellow; the seeds are small, round, blackish-brown, and, in their general appearance, resemble those of the Turnip or Cabbage. An ounce contains about ten thous
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or very similar to that of honey. The seed is enclosed in a yellowish-brown shell, or pod, which, externally and internally, resembles a pit, or cobble, of the common cherry. About six
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rs when they expand, are quite inconspicuous; the fruit is of a dingy-brown color, three-eighths of an inch deep, three-eighths of an inch in diameter at the top or broadest part, hard
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ced on separate plants; the seeds are small, triangular, smooth, of a brownish color, and retain their germinative properties two years. An ounce contains nearly thirty thousand seeds.
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worms or caterpillars; and these small tufts, in connection with the brownish-green color and peculiar coiling of the pods, make the resemblance nearly perfect, especially if seen from
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ty forms at the base of the leaves, near the surface of the ground, a brownish, irregular, rounded root, or tuber, measuring from three to four inches in diameter. The leaves are small,
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colored, and produced in erect, terminal clusters; the seeds are of a brown color, small, oblong, shortened on one side, rounded on the opposite, and retain their vegetating powers four
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an inch in diameter; the seeds are oval, flattened, and either white, brown, or black, according to the variety,--nearly thirty thousand are contained in an ounce, and their vitality is
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the leaves are comparatively brittle, and of tender texture. LARGE BROWN CABBAGE OR MOGUL. Grosse brune paresseuse. _Vil._ Large Gray Cabbage. Mammoth. Head remarkably large, round
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inter culture; but, as a summer lettuce, of little value. MONSTROUS BROWN COS. _Vil._ Two-headed. Head of remarkable size, long, loose, and open; leaves large, equalling in size tho
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t, having the odor of orange-blossoms; the seeds are small, roundish, brown, or reddish-brown, and retain their vitality two years,--fifteen thousand are contained in an ounce. _Sowing
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am, of the flower-garden; the seeds are quite small, and of a reddish-brown color. The flowers are produced in May and June, and the seeds ripen in July. _Propagation and Culture._--I
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extremities of the branches; the seeds are long, furrowed, of a pale-brownish color, and somewhat resemble those of Anise,--about seven thousand are contained in an ounce, and they ret
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seeds are ovoid, somewhat three-sided, slightly curved, of a grayish-brown color and aromatic taste,--seven thousand are contained in an ounce, and they retain their vitality three yea
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ced in terminal, globular heads; the seeds are quite small, of a deep-brownish color, and retain their vitality three years. It may be propagated from seeds or by dividing the roots; t
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thickness. They are of a yellowish-drab color, with a narrow, reddish-brown line about the eye; the drab changing, by age, to dull nankeen-yellow. About seventeen hundred are contained
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with purple, and contain six or seven beans. The ripe seeds are pale brownish-drab, with a yellowish-brown line about the eye; oblong, flattened, shortened at the ends, nearly half an
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em in abundance for six or eight weeks. The ripe seeds are chocolate-brown, somewhat quadrangular, flattened, half an inch long, and three-eighths of an inch broad. In size and form, t
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e seeds are of a bright blood-red color, but change rapidly by age to brownish-red. They are of an oblong form, often squarely or diagonally shortened at the ends by contact with each o
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nch in width: they are green and wrinkled while young, pale yellowish-brown when ripe, and contain three, and sometimes four, seeds. Though several days earlier than the Lima, the Siev
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e oval, smooth, and contain three or four globular, wrinkled, grayish-brown seeds, nearly a fourth of an inch in diameter. About five hundred and fifty seeds are contained in an ounce.
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lar in form, and of a greenish-yellow color, spotted or speckled with brown. It is about a week later than the Large Crooked Sugar. LARGE CROOKED SUGAR. _Thomp._ Broadsword. Six-inc
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ate; flowers white; seeds small, of an angular-ovoid form and grayish-brown color. _Propagation and Cultivation._--The plant prefers a rich, warm soil; and is generally propagated by d
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und, bright-orange, or vermilion; seeds ovate, whitish, or very light-brown, a fifth of an inch long, and a tenth of an inch thick. _Soil and Cultivation._--It grows best on soils rath
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ite, cylindrical, hollow, or solid, smooth stem; its cap is of a pale-brown or gray color, nearly spherical, hollow, adheres to the stem by its base, and is deeply pitted over its entir
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rice-white; cob generally white, but sometimes red. KING PHILIP, OR BROWN. Improved King Philip. Ears ten to twelve inches in length, uniformly eight-rowed when the variety is pure
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e large, round-kidney-shaped, of a greenish-drab color, black or dark-brown at the eye, and retain their power of germination five years. _Soil, Sowing, and Cultivation._--Okra may be
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red or reddish-white, in erect, loose, terminal spikes; the seeds are brown, triangular, membranous at the corners, and retain their germinative properties three years. _Soil and Culti
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se of the Connecticut Seed-leaf, and much more prolific; seeds small, brownish. [Illustration: Green Tobacco.] The Green Tobacco is early, and remarkably hardy, but not generally cons
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de Daubenton, 232. Coxcomb, 232. Cow-cabbage, 232. Curled Brown 235. Curled Proliferous, 232. Daubenton's Creeping, 232. Dwarf Feather, 231. Dwarf Curled, 23
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601. Twelve-rowed Sweet, 602. Corn: Field varieties, 602. Brown, 605. Canada Yellow, 602. Dutton, 603. Early Canada, 602. Early Dutton, 603. Hill, 604.
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es, 81. New-London Particular, 81. Noir Hatif, 76. Oblong Brown, 82. Oblong Rose-colored, 79. Olive-shaped Scarlet, 79. Purple Turnip-rooted, 80. Rave Violet
Variegated, 447.
Tare, 558.
Summer, 559.
White, 558.
Winter, 559.
Tarragon, 400.
Tetragonia expansa, 295.
Thlaspi Bursa Pastoris, 303.
Thousand-headed Cabbage, 249.
Thyme, 447.
Broad-leaved, 447.
Common, 447.
Evergreen, 447.
Lemon, 449.
Narrow-leaved, 448.
Variegated, 448.
Thymus citriodorus, 449.
" vulgaris, 447.
Tobacco, 633.
Broad-leaved, 635.
Connecticut Seed-leaf, 634.
Green, 637.
Guatemala, 635.
Negro-head, 638.
Oronoco, 638.
Peach-leaf, 634.
Turkish, 637.
Virginian, 634.
Tomato, 639.
Apple, 643.
Apple-shaped, 643.
Bermuda, 643.
Cluster, 646.
Early Red, 651.
Extra Early, 651.
Fejee, 644.
Fig, 644.
Giant, 645.
Grape, 646.
Large Red, 646.
Large Red Oval, 647.
Large Yellow, 647.
Lester's Perfected, 648.
Mammoth, 645.
Mexican, 648.
New Upright, 650.
Perfected, 648.
Pomo d'Oro Lesteriano, 648.
Red Cherry, 649.
Red Pear-shaped, 644.
Red Plum, 649.
Round Red, 649.
Round Yellow, 649.
Seedless, 650.
Tomate de Laye, 650.
Tree, 650.
White, 651.
White's Extra Early, 651.
Yellow Cherry, 652.
Yellow Fig, 652.
Yellow Pear-shaped, 652.
Yellow Plum, 652.
Tota Bona, 313.
Tragopogon porrifolius, 92.
Trauxuda Kale, 273.
Tree Primrose, 35.
Tropæolum, 388.
" majus, 389.
" minus, 390.
" tuberosum, 103.
Truffle, 589.
Common, 589.
Piedmontese, 590.
Tuber cibarium, 589.
" magnatum, 590.
" melanosporum, 590.
Tuberous-rooted Chickling Vetch, 103.
Pea, 103.
Tropæolum, 103.
Wood-sorrel, 41.
Turkey Rhubarb, 573.
Turnip-rooted Celery, 331.
Turnip, 104.
Altrincham, 106.
Altringham, 106.
Autumn Stubble, 115.
Border Imperial, 106.
Border Imperial Purple-top Yellow, 106.
Chiva's Orange Jelly, 106.
Common Field Globe, 118.
Cow-horn, 107.
Dale's Hybrid, 107.
Decanter, 110.
Early Dwarf, 115.
Early Flat Dutch, 107.
Early Stone, 119.
Early White Dutch, 107.
Early Yellow Dutch, 108.
Finland, 108.
Freneuse, 108.
Golden Ball, 109.
Golden Maltese, 120.
Green Globe, 109.
Green Norfolk, 110.
Green Round, 110.
Green Tankard, 110.
Green-top Flat, 110.
Green-top Norfolk, 110.
Green-top White Globe, 109.
Green-top Yellow Aberdeen, 111.
Green-top Yellow Bullock, 111.
Hungarian Green-top Globe, 109.
Lincolnshire Red Globe, 111.
Liverpool Yellow, 112.
Long Black, 111.
Long Early White Vertus, 107.
Long White Clairfontaine, 111.
Long White Maltese, 111.
Maltese, 120.
Mouse-tail, 119.
Navet Boule de Neige, 116.
Navet Gros d'Alsace, 119.
Petrosowoodsks, 112.
Pomeranian Globe, 112.
Preston, 112.
Purple-top Aberdeen, 114.
Purple-top Flat, 112.
Purple-top Strap-leaved, 113.
Purple-top Yellow Aberdeen, 114.
Purple-top Yellow Bullock, 114.
Red Globe, 114.
Red Norfolk, 114.
Red Round, 114.
Red Tankard, 115.
Red-top Flat, 112.
Red Mouse-tail, 119.
Red-top Norfolk, 114.
Robertson's Golden Stone, 115.
Round Black, 115.
Six-weeks, 115.
Small Berlin, 117.
Small Long Yellow, 116.
Snow-ball, 116.
Stone Globe, 116.
Tankard, 110.
Teltau, 117.
Teltow, 117.
Waite's Hybrid Eclipse, 117.
White Dutch, 107.
White Garden Stone, 119.
White Globe, 118.
White Norfolk, 118.
White Round, 118.
White Stone, 119.
White Tankard, 119.
White-top Flat, 120.
White-top Strap-leaved, 120.
Yellow Altrincham, 106.
Yellow Dutch, 108.
Yellow Finland, 108.
Yellow Globe, 109.
Yellow Malta, 120.
Yellow Scarisbrick, 121.
Yellow Stone, 121.
Yellow Tankard, 121.
Turnip Cabbage, 38.
Turnip-rooted Chervil, 31.
Tussilago farfara, 564.
Unicorn Plant, 612.
Urtica dioica, 293.
Valeriana, 401.
" cornucopiæ, 401.
" locusta, 339.
Valerianella eriocarpa, 340.
Vegetable Oyster, 92.
Veronica beccabunga, 316.
Vetch, or Tare, 558.
Napoléon Pea, 558.
Summer, 559.
White, 558.
Winter, 559.
Vicia faba, 503.
" sativa, 558.
Water-cress, 401.
Water-melon, 192.
Welsh Onion, 147.
Ciboule Blanche Hative, 147.
Common, 147.
Early White, 147.
Red, 147.
White, 147.
West-Indian Bean, 499.
West-Indian Cress, 387.
West-Indian Cucumber, 199.
White Beet, 289.
Wild Endive, 334.
Wild Navew, 394.
Wild Spinach, 313.
Winged Pea, 559.
Winter Cherry, 592.
Purple, 593.
Winter Cress, 403.
Common, 403.
Wood-sorrel, 404.
Worms, 405.
Wormwood, 576.
Common, 576.
Roman, 577.
Sea, 577.
Yellow Rocket, 403.
Ysano, 103.
Zea mays, 594.
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