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each other with difficulty. Chrysanthemums united readily. A bean 

 plant, bearing two partially grown beans, chanced to grow in a chrysanthe- 

 mum pot. The stem bearing the pods was inarched into the chrysanthe- 

 mum. Union took place readily, but the beans turned yellow and died. 

 Pumpkin vines united with squash vines, cucumbers with cucumbers, 

 musk-melons with water-melons, and musk-melons, water-melons and 

 cucumbers with the wild cucumber or balsam apple (Echinocystis lobata). 

 Another interesting feature of the work was the grafting of one fruit 

 upon another, as a tomato fruit upon a tomato fruit or a cucumber upon 

 another cucumber. This work is still under progress and it promises 

 some interesting results in a new and unexpected direction, reports of 

 which may be expected later. 



THE INFLUENCE OF DEPTH OF TKANSPLANTING UPON 

 THE HEADING OF CABBAGES. 



Nearly all gardeners suppose that deep setting of cabbage plants is 

 essential to success. The plants are set in the ground up to the lowest 

 leaves when transplanted from the seed-bed. Tests were made upon this 

 point in 1889 with thirteen varieties, and the results showed no appreciable 

 difference between the deep set plants and those set at the natural depth. 

 (These resuls appeared in Bulletin XV, page 209.) The test was 

 repeated this year upon Early Wakefield (Early Jersey Wakefield.) 

 Over two hundred plants, for which the seeds were sown under glass April 

 14, were set in the field May 29. They were set in six parallel rows, 

 every other row containing plants set at the same depth as they stood in 

 the seed-bed, and the alternate ones containing those set down to the first 

 leaves. The soil was a heavy clay loam, unfertilized. The crop was har- 

 vested Aug. 1 and Aug. 23, and the following figures were obtained: 



Deep 



Shallow . 



No. ol 

 plants. 



107 

 104 



No. of 

 mature or 

 solid hds. 



82 

 89 



Per cent of 

 Plants pro- 

 ducing 

 mature 

 heads. 



77 

 85 



Average 



weight per 



head. 



1.6 lbs. 



1.8 " 



Shallow planting gave better results than deep planting, both in the 

 percentage of good heads and in the weight of heads. In 1889, in a larger 

 experiment, the comparative results of the two methods were indifferent. 

 We feel, therefore, that the common notion that deep transplanting is 

 essential to success in cabbage-growing is at least doubtful. 



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