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Express. — Same season as last; type not quite as well fixed; heads round and 

 solid ; weight, 2 to 6 pounds. 



Premier. — Koundish oval, vigorous thick leaf; a good early market sort, which 

 averaged 5J pounds per head this season. 



Wakefield. — This is a sort of generic name, with which arc associated Selected 

 Early Jersey Wakefield, Early Jersey Wakefield, Jersey Wakefield, Long Island 

 Wakefield, and Charlston Wakefield. There was practically no difference in the 

 time of maturing of any of these. Seedsmen are too fond of prefixing adjectives to 

 old sorts, or to fancied improvements, thus unnecessarily multiplying varieties. 



Long Island Wakefield (Henderson) gave the greatest number of solid heads for 

 the number of plants set out. Heads averaged 6 pounds. 



Aroostook. — Heads round; very solid; strain is not completely fixed, but a very 

 promising early sort, averaging t! pounds per head. 



MEDIUM EARLY. i 



Montreal Market (Evans). — Medium to large ; round flat-topped ; heads well and 

 solidly; heaviest head, 15 lbs.; lightest, 5^ lbs. 



Succession. — Last j-ear as well as the past season, this has pioved itself one of the 

 most valuable midsummer varieties; average weight ihis year, 11 lbs. 



Schweinfurt (Simmers). — Large, flat, solid; a sure header; averaging 10 lbs. 

 per head. 



LATE VARIETIES. 



Foitlefs Brunswick. — Large, round, leafy; one of the best medium early or late 

 market sorts. Average weight, 11 lbs. 



Brunsivick Short Stem (Pearce).— Much like last, but later; heads of the largest 

 size, round, flat, weighing on an average 12 lbs. 



Syde Park (Hallock). — One of the largest and best in the list for late market^ 

 head round solid; average weight, 13^ lbs. 



Mammoth Bock Bed (Henderson). — Probably the best of the large late-pickling 

 sorts. 



Drumhead Savoy (Pearce). — Medium size ; very firm and a sure header; aver- 

 age weight, 5 pounds; one of the best varieties for winter storing. 



Cauliflower. 



Owing to the extreme drought already referred to, very few of the thirty varie- 

 ties of this vegetable gave satisfactory and I'cliable results; many failed to head, while 

 others, especially early varieties, headed prematurely, consequently fell below the 

 characteristic size. Early London and Autumn Giant headed best and gave the most 

 satisfactory returns. The latter is exceptionally large, and a sure header. 



Celery. 



A varietal test, in which thirty kinds of this vegetable were included, was made. 

 Seed sown on :-Jlst March appeared in fifteen to twenty days. The lowest pjr cent 

 found to germinate was 17 and the highest 74 per cent. After transplanting twice 

 and cutting back once, it was set out in well-manured trenches on 22nd June. All 

 varieties were twice handled before earthing the 1st September. Treated in this way, 

 there was not more than five days difference in the time of edible maturity of any 

 variety. But this early earthing up had a very deleterious effect upon the keeping 

 quality of the late sorts; nearly all of this class were affected with heart or stalk 

 rot — a disease said to be of bacterial origin — which, in a few cases, entirely destroyed 

 some varieties, and in all cases prevented their being kept for more than a few 

 weeks. The spread of this disease may have been peculiarly favoured, and 

 aggravated by the unusually hot weather during September. Varieties earthed 

 two weeks latter did not suffer to the same extent. 



