Garden VegetablesFearing Burr Jr.'s 1866 book aims to give readers a full description of vegetables commonly grown in America, as well as the "most approved methods" by which to grow, preserve, and use them. |
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annual plant beans biennial plant Borecole branching bulbs Cabbage Cauliflower Celery color Common crisp crop cultivation culture curled Dan O'Rourke drills Dwarf early eighteen inches Endive excellent feet high feet in height fifteen inches five inches flattened flavor flesh white flowers foliage four inches fourteen inches fruit garden green green beans grown half an inch head hills hot-bed hundred inches high inches in diameter inches in length inches long July June June 28 kernel leaves Lettuce Marjoram Marrow Massachusetts Horticultural Society maturity medium Muskmelon oblong open ground ounce pale Parsnip peas perennial plant propagated purple quart remarkably resembles ripe seeds ripened roots rows SEA-KALE season six inches skin smooth soil sometimes sorts sowing sown Spinach Squash stalk stem sub-variety succulent sugary summer surface sweet tender thick Thomp three feet three inches tivation tubers Turnip weather well-flavored winter wurzel yellow yield young pods