ANNUAL MEETING AT LEXINGTON. 221 



THURSDAY, 9 A. M. 



Meeting called to order by the President. 



REPOET OF THE COMMITTEE ON VEGETABLES. 



BY PROF. L. K. TAFT, AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE, COLUMBIA. 



The early part of the past season was favorable for the production 

 •of vegetables. Sun followed shower in just the right proportion, and 

 the supply of early vegetables was all that could be desired. The 

 drouth of July and August cut short the late supply, and gave a bad 

 ending to a season which opened under the most favorable auspices. 



At the Warrensbur^ meeting I submitted, in brief, the results of 

 my vegetable experience during the year 1885, giving a list of the 

 varieties which seemed most worthy of cultivation. The past year I 

 continued the trial and added such novelties as seemed most desirable. 

 In addition to the varieties of peas given last year the Alaska and 

 Cleveland's Rural Kew Yorker (from the originator),Thorburn and others 

 were tried. The Alaska filled its first pods about a week in advance 

 of the ordinary extra early varieties. The foliage is distinct, and in 

 productiveness it stood well at the head of the early kinds. The 

 Rural New Y'orker was almost as productive, and ripened about with 

 Philadelphia Extra Early. 



Bliss Abundance and Horsford's Market Garden follow the Ameri- 

 can Wonder in ripening, and proved extremely productive. They 

 branch just above the ground, forming from three to six distinct vines, 

 and although the seeds were planted six inches apart they were, if any 

 thing, too thick. From one seed as many as three hundred were produced, 

 while ten average plants bore four hundred and ten pods, which con- 

 tained over sixteen hundred peas. 



The Imperial Valentine Bean proved to be a week earlier than 

 Early Valentine and equally productive. 



The Egyptian Beet, as obtained from Gregory, was greatly im- 

 proved over the old Egyptian ; equally early, it had taken on a more 



