Title: Burpee's farm annual : the best seeds that grow including rare novelties
Identifier: burpeesfarmannua1895watl (find matches)
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: W. Atlee Burpee Company; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nurseries (Horticulture) Pennsylvania Philadelphia Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs
Publisher: (Philadelphia, PA. : W. Atlee Burpee & Co. )
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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How to Cook Vegetables, BY MRS. S. T. RORER, Principal of the Philadelphia Cooking School. Every family wants a copy, as Mrs. Rdrer is acknowledged authority by the best housekeepers everywhere. The recipes given have all been proven by practical tests in the kitchen and on the table. It is a book of 182 pages, and gives numerous recipes for cooking all varieties of vegetables in every style—many of which will be new even to the most experienced housewives. As an illustration of how thoroughly the subject is treated, we would mention that it gives forty ways of cooking potatoes, twenty- six of tomatoes, and'twenty-two of corn. It also gives twenty- eight recipes for making Soups and thirty-seven recipes for Salads. Besides "How to Cook Vegetables," it also tells numerous ways How to Pickle,—How to Preserve Fruits, —How to Can for Winter Use, as well as how to serve vegetables cold. An important supplement to the general scope of this trea- tise is the addition, also by Mrs. Rorer, of nearly fifty complete Menus for spring, summer, autumn, and winter. In all it is a most complete book, that will prove really valuable to every progressive housewife. FREE as a Premium. SSh"5S°2& right is owned by us, is not for sale, and can only be had by those who purchase Seeds, Bulbs, or Plants from us, entirely FREE as a Premium on an order amounting to $3.00. A copy bound in cloth can be had free with an order for $5.00. THE POULTRY YARD: How to Furnish and Manage it. By W. ATLEE BURPEE. Fully Illustrated. We have just issued another edition of this popu- lar book, very much amended, with up-to-the-times methods and usages. Besides the descriptions of the leading Land and Water Fowls, it also contains chap- ters on the Best Plans of Poultry Houses,—How to Make Incubators,—Selection and Mating of Stock,—What and How to Feed,—General Management.—French Method of Killing,— Dressing and Shipping Poultry,—Eggs and Chickens,—Directions for Caponizing w7ith Plain Illustrations,—Diseases, with Tried and Proven Prescriptions,—How to Raise Good Turkeys, etc., etc. Price in paper covers, handsomely designed, 50 cts.; bound in cloth, 75 cts., postpaid. BURPEE'S MANUAL OF THOROUGHBRED LIVE STOCK. This is a complete illustrated catalogue of Thorough- bred Sheep, Swine, Fancy Poultry, and Rough-Coated Scotch Collie Dogs. Free ou application. IX

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