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STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 



VEGETABLE TESTS OF 1897. 



BY L. R. TAFT, H. P. GLADDEN AND M. L. DEAN, 



CONTENTS. 



Page 



Beans - 230 



Cucumbers. 233 



Lettuce 233 



Peppers — 235 



Tomatoes - 236 



Pago 



Cabbages 240 



Cauliflower 244 



Sweet Corn 245 



Peas 246 



Potatoes 248 



As in previous years we grew mobt of the new varieties sent out by the 

 seedsmen, as well as many of the standard sorts, and kept careful notes upon 

 their behavior. We also undertook quite a line of experiments in methods 

 of culture and the use of various fertilizers, particularly with potatoes and 

 celery, but the excessive rains during August so affected the results as to 

 make it impossible to draw correct conclusions. 



BUSH BEANS. 



Variety. 



Black Valentine 



Cream Valentine 



First in Market 



Fuller Black Wax 



Improved Goddard 



Lima Wax 



Eefugoe 



Stringless Green Pod... 

 Union White Valentine 



Vineless Marrow... 



Warren 



Yosemite Wax 



Byer's One Bean 



Seedsman. 



Henderson 



Landreth 



Gregory 



Ferry 



Dreer 



Livingston 



Burpee 



Johnson & Stckes 



Ferry 



Gregory 



Johnson & Stokes, 

 Byer Bros 



Average 



weight 



of single 



pod. 



.162 

 .187 

 .111 

 .171 

 .ISO 



.093 

 .143 

 .169 

 .156 



.174 

 .112 

 .155 

 .169 



