The Vegetable Garden: Illustrations, Descriptions, and Culture of the Garden Vegetables of Cold and Temperate Climates |
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Asparagus autumn Bean.-A beds Borecole branching broad Broccoli Brussels Sprouts bulbs Butter Bean Cabbage Lettuce Capsicum Cardoon Carrot Cauliflower Celery compact Cos Lettuce crimped crop Cucumber cultivated culture Curled dark green deep diameter Drumhead Dutch Dwarf Endive erect Étampes Flageolet flat flavour Flemish flesh white flowers white frames French fruit gardens German germinating power lasts glaucous green colour growing grown growth hardy head hilum hot-bed Italian Kidney Bean late leaf-stalks leaflets light green manure market-gardeners medium-sized Melon Native natural numerous oblong Onion outer leaves oval pale green pods Potato preceding kind productive variety purple Radish resembles ribs ripe ripen roots round rows Scarlet Sea-kale seed seed is sown seldom shape skin slender smooth soil sometimes sowing Spanish Spinach spring stalks stem Strawberry sub-variety summer tall tender thick thin tinged tubers Turnip usually vegetable vigorous violet weather winter wrinkled yellow young plants