Some New Vegetables.

Manawatu Herald, 27 June 1896, Page 3

Some New Vegetables.

Straw-coloured Spanish Onion.-— This is a new variety of ths old brown Spanish onion, but with a much lighter skin. It is claimed as being the best keeping onion grown. Mancare Prize Cucumber. — A selection from the English type of cucumber. It has a dark green skin, with a few spines, and is of superior flavour and quality. Stanley Pea.— A very early dwarf pea which only grows 18 inches high. Bears immense crops of long straight pods. Market Favourite Tomato. — A selection of the old large r<?d, with large ribbed fruifc which are produced in greafc profusion. The fruit is very solid, juicy, and good flavour. Yields large crops and is hardy. Apple - shaped Cucumber. — A round small cucumber, very prolific and good flavoured, and said to be more digestible than the long varieties. Rice Marrow. — A very desirable sort of vegetable marrow, when boiled the flesh separates in shreds like grains of rice. Mango Melon or Vegetable Peach. — A plant of the melon tribe requiring the same treatment and climate as that fruit. It produces enormous crops of orange golden fruifc from the size of a large peach. These can be fried in butter, boiled like vegetable marrow, or it will make delioiou3 preserves. Tho late fruit are also used for pickling.