EXPERIMENT STATION BULLETINS. 



VEGETABLK, TESTS. 



■ No. 90. — Horticultural Department. 

 CONTENTS. 



Page. 



Beans, Bush 



" Pole 



" Bush Lima. 



Cabbages 



Cucumbers 



Lettuce 



91 

 93 

 95 

 95 

 98 

 99 



Page. 



Peas 101 



Potatoes 107 



Peppers 103 



Sweet Corn 97 



Squashes 104 



Tomatoes 104 



During the past season we have grown many of the novelties offered by 

 the seedsmen in their catalogues of 1892. Many of the high priced 

 "novelties" are inferior to the older and well-known sorts, although some 

 are of real merit. In this bulletin we have endeavored to give the results 

 gained from the experience of one season. Perhaps another year's trial 

 might change our opinion in some instances. Some of the bost of the older 

 kinds have been grown with the new, for comparison. The summary at 

 the end of each class may aid the grower in selecting varieties for planting. 



BUSH BEANS. 



The beans were planted in drills two and one half feet apart, June 10 

 and 11. Ten feet of drill were given to each variety. In this space one 

 hundred beans were planted; from the number coming up the per cent, of 

 germination was computed. After all the beans had germinated that would 

 do so, each section was thinned to thirty plants; these thirty plants were 

 divided in two parts of fifteen each ; with one section the pods were picked 

 and weighed when in edible condition. In this way the comparative pro- 

 ductiveness of the several varieties was determined. The other lot of 

 fifteen plants was allowed to ripen the pods, and the beans were shelled 



