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pink, red and golden varieties, are rapidl}'- coming into favor, and 

 should receive a careful trial White Plume, a self- blanching sort, is 

 early and can be grown without banking. The plants, however, are 

 tender and weak growers. It is a poor keeper, and lacks the crispness 

 and rich nutty flavor so desirable in celery. 



Sugar Corn — As a very early kind, the New Cory seems to be the 

 best, as it is as early as the Marblehead, and the ears are a half larger. 

 Crosby's Early makes a good second early, while the New Amber 

 Cream promises well. Evergreen Sugar and Stowell's Evergreen are 

 as yet unsurpassed as late varieties. 



Cucumber — Several of the vVhite Spine varieties are excellent, 

 either for table use or for pickbng, while Tailby's Hybrid for slicing, 

 and Green Prolific for pickling, are among the best. 



Lettuce — The Simpson and Tennisball varieties are among the best 

 for forcing, while Salamander and Hanson are adapted for garden cul- 

 ture. 



Onions— Yox early onions, where sets are used, the yellow and sil- 

 ver skin varieties are equally desirable. When they are grown from 

 seed no better choice can be made than the Yellow Danvers. The Red 

 Wethersfield is a great cropper, and the Silver Skin and Pearl are 

 mild table sorts. 



Peas — The competition among the seedsmen causes them to fill 

 their catalogue with long lists of varieties, in the hope of exceeding 

 the number off'ered by their rivals. 



Oftentimes an unscrupulous dealer re-names an old variety with a 

 high sounding name, and disposes of it to a credulous public at an ex- 

 orbitant price. This gives rise to a vast number of synonyms as is 

 seen particularly in the pea. Each seedsman has a variety generally 

 called by his own name, which is the earlist and most productive va- 

 riety known. As an example of this, we have Landreth's Extra Early, 

 Sibley's First and Best, Henderson's Earlist of All. If these varie- 

 ties are planted side by side, and given the same care, they will grow 

 to the same height, blossom the same day, ripen at the same time, and 

 yield the same number of pods, and in stem, leaf and pod, be exactly 

 identical. 



For the earliest varieties, either of the three above mentioned, 

 would be recommendable ; for second early, American Wonder, Hors- 

 ford's Market Garden and McLean's Advance, are good, while the 

 Marrowfats and Champion of England, hold the first place as late va- 

 rieties. 



Potatoes — Experiments by reliable persons have demonstrated the 

 folly of planting small tubers, or of pieces cut to a single eye. The 



