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In some cases varieties are specially recommended as follows : Cab- 

 bage: Early varieties — Saltzer Lightning, Wakefields, Henderson Early 

 Summer, Bloomsdale Early Market, and Early Flat Dutch; medium 

 varieties — Succession, All Seasons, Reynolds, and Early Drumhead; 

 winter varieties — Drumheads, Flat Dutch, and Rock Heads. Rush 

 Beans: Valentine Wax, Keeney Golden Wax, Cylinder Rlack Wax, 

 Flageolet Victoria, Red Valentine, Stringless Green Pod, and Dwarf 

 Horticultural. Radishes: Long Scarlet Short Top, Rose China, White 

 Vienna, and Yellow Summer Turnip. Beets: Egyptian, Eclipse, Bas- 

 sano, Shull Model Blood Turnip, and Long Blood. Potatoes: Early 

 varieties — Irish Cobbler, Early Pride, Early Michigan, Early Norther, 

 Early Pinkeye, Early Walton, Early Woodbury, and Quick Crop; 

 medium early varieties — Rose No. 9, Early Bell, Good News, and Acme; 

 medium late varieties — Livingston Banner, Country Gentleman, Wise 

 Seedling, Napoleon, Lakeside Champion, Rutland Rose, Inability, Rural 

 New Yorker No. 2, Supplanter, Troy Seedling, and Vanguard; late 

 varieties — Enormous, Champion, Fottler Peachblow, Maggie Murphy, 

 Carman No. 3, Cayuga, Great Divide, Hicks 22, Hicks 101, White Man- 

 hattan, White Prize, and World's Fair. Tomatoes: Vaughan Earliest, 

 Advance, Ruby, Atlantic Prize, Acme, Beauty, Ignotum, Perfection, 

 Potato-leaf, and Optimus. Cucumbers: Russian, Cluster, Commercial 

 Pickle, Green Prolific, White Spine, Long Green, Albino, and Eskimoso. 



The peach industry in Pennsylvania, G. C. Butz (Pennsylvania 

 Sta. Bui. 37, pp. 29, Jigs. 14). — The bulletin deals in a popular way with 

 the status of the peach industry in Pennsylvania, the factors of suc- 

 cess and failure and the profits in peach growing, the selection of soil 

 and location, the planting, cultivation, and manuring of orchards, the 

 pruning of trees, the thinning, picking, and marketing of fruit, the 

 selection of varieties, and the diseases and enemies of the peach. The 

 author estimates the total peach area of the State at 11,000 acres, 

 practically confined to the southeast quarter of the State, and very 

 largely concentrated in 3 or 4 counties. 



Trees on exposed hilltops are found to suffer less from winterkilling 

 than those in protected valleys, probably on account of better maturity 

 of the wood in the former locations. Disintegrated sandstone or shale 

 soil is found to be best suited to peaches. The usual limit of profitable 

 life of an orchard is given as about 12 years. Pruning so as to form 

 low, spreading heads is favored. Thinning the fruit is strongly recom- 

 mended. The borer is the most injurious insect enemy of the peach. 

 Cutting it out with a knife is recommended. 



Notes upon plums for western New York, S. D. Willard and 

 L. H. Bailey (New York Cornell Sta. Bui. 131, pp. 169-195, figs. 12).— 

 General remarks, L. H. Bailey. — The following types of plums are noted: 

 European (Prunus domestica), Myrobalan (P. cerasifera), Japanese (P. 

 triflora), Apricot (P. simonii), Americana (P. americana), Wild Goose 

 (P. hortulana), Chickasaw (P. august if olia), Sand (P. tcatsoni), Beach 



