340 TRANSACTIONS OF THE ILLINOIS 



French's Seedling— don't pay. • 

 Green Prolific — excellent. 

 Hovey's Seedling — good. 

 Jenny Lind — don't pay. 

 Large Early Scarlet — good. 

 McAvoy's Superior — good. 

 Triomphe de Gaud — don't succeed. 

 Wilson's Albany — best of all. 



MISCELLANEOUS FRUITS. 



Barberry — succeeds well. 



Fig — fruit drops. 



Downing's Everbearing Mulberry — very good for birds. 



Papaw — ought to be cultivated and improved. Let us see to it. Delicious. 



Persimmon — ought to be cultivated and improved. Let us see to it. Dolicious, 



VEGETABLES. 



Artichoke, Green Globe — not hardy. Jerusalem —only for hogs. 



Beans — Early Valentine and Red Speckled Valentine are probably the same. 



Speckled Cranberry — plant with corn. 

 Cauliflower, Early Erfurt is best. 

 Cabbage, Early Flat Dutch discarded. 

 Cardoon — not hardy. 



Parsnip — Guernsey, Large Hollow Crown, and Sugar arc probably all the same. 

 Peas, Champion of England — best. 



Potato, Buckeye — excellent. Quaker Russet — excellent. 

 Radish, Chinese Rose — sow with turnips, for winter use. 

 Rhubarb, Linnaeus — best. 

 Sweet Potato, Brazilian — is excellent. 

 Tomato, Large Round Smooth — best. 

 Turnip, Purple Top Strap leaved — best. 

 Ruta Baga — don't succeed. 



TREES. 

 I. Ailantus — ornamental, worthy of a place in large collections, should not he 

 planted near dwellings. 



8. Double Flowered Apple — the flowers and fruit quite ornamental. 



9. Weeping Ash — properly trained makes excellent arbors. 



10. Mountain Ash — no ornamental plantation is complete without it,' its red berries 

 have a fine effect planted with evergreens, i e, with a back ground of evergreens, 



13. Purple Leaved Beech — very unique and beautiful, in spring and early summer ; 

 leaves become dull-colored late in the season ; yet, it is a most desirable tree. 



17. The Birches — succeed admirably here, and are beautiful, rapid growing trees. 



18. Catalpa — a most desirable tree for ornament; quite spreading, makes a dense 

 shade ; the flowers are handsome, and quite fragrant and abundant. 



2S. Deciduous Cypress — succeeds well here, and deserves a place, even in small 

 collections. 



