498 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



The plants all came up July 5-7 and turned out to be a poor variety of celery. 



Rutabapas and Turnips. Rhode Island Rock, a white rutabaga with green top 

 overlaid with purple. Foliage small and tops nearly neckless. Long tapering tap 

 root, nearly globe shaped but inclined to grow rough. Flesh white, firm, not sweet. 

 Extra Early Red Top Milan is the common Purple Top Strap Leaf variety, and 

 for table use is at its best 50 to CO days after planting. Extra Early White Milan 

 is the same variety without the purple coloring. Purple Top Globe is another 

 strap-leaved turnip, as early as the last two and more desirable owing to its 

 smooth and perfect globe shape. White Egg. The seed was mixed but the speci- 

 mens true to name are attractive for being true egg shape. An early strap-leaf 

 turnip with small top, permitting close planting and remaining in season longer 

 than the flat shaped varieties. Large Yellotv or Amber Globe, a strap-leaf turnip, 

 ripening in late summer and of better quality than either the white or purple 

 top varieties. Color dark lemon, flesh sweet and very firm. Depressed globe 

 shape, perfectly smooth, with a very small, abruptly terminating tap root. Will 

 give a very large yield if allowed to grow full size for stock food. Single speci- 

 mens measured 32 inches in circumference. Yellow Stone is practically the same 

 as the last described variety. Improved Long Island, a rutabaga differing from 

 Rhode Island Rock above described in the yellow color of the skin and flesh. 

 Is sweeter, somewhat, larger and of smoother shape. The tops are larger and neck 

 more prominent. The seed was mixed, about one-quarter being purple top sorts. 

 Carter's Hardy. Skin yellow with purple top merging into dark pink. Size 

 medium, mostly smooth with small abruptly terminating tap root. A good table 

 variety with firm and sweet yellow flesh, and one of the best rutabagas for winter 

 keeping. Improved Yassar, a yellow fleshed rutabaga of large size. Tops green, 

 partly overlaid with purple. Long tapering tap root. Nearly neckless and of 

 good shape when smooth. Most of the roots were rough however. Perfection 

 Wliite Sioede. The only rutabaga ever tested here which is perfectly free from 

 necks. Medium to large size. White with green top partly overlaid with purple. 

 Most of the roots were rough shaped and this together with being white fleshed, 

 makes the variety less desirable for table use. Prize Win7ier, a common purple top 

 and yellow fleshed rutabaga which owing to its large size, is best adapted for 

 stock feeding. Of the mangles Improved Dignity and Leutowitzer are identical 

 with Improved Mammoth Long Red. Giant Feeding and Lane's Improved are 

 more desirable, being varieties of sugar beets, hence sweeter. Both having smaller 

 roots than the common mangles, would no doubt give a larger yield when planted 

 closer. Magnum Bonum is a common hollow crown parsnip which ripened early 

 and is of poor quality. Siceet Marroio and Delmonico claimed to be new varieties 

 were but slightly better. Lo7ig White Dutch or Sugar is an excellent variety of 

 superior quality and the best of any which have been tested heretofore. 



Table Beets. — Detroit Dark Red Turnip. A medium early variety of good keep- 

 ing quality. Flesh fine grained and in alternate layers of dark and light red. 

 Leaves of a glossy dark green with red stems and veins. Nearly globe shaped 

 with single small tap root. Sterling largely resembles the last, the leaves being 

 of a dark purplish green color. The yields are shown in the following table: 



