17 

 THE VEGETABLE GARDEN. 



By F. G. Krauss. 



DFXEMBER. 



The illustration accompanying this month's ''Notes," "A De- 

 cember Vegetable Harvest at Kainehaincha," suggests what any 

 out-of-door home-garden about Honolulu might offer at this 

 season of the year, and for that matter, during any other season. 



Tht basic requirements are the planting of suitable kinds, and 

 intelligent and persistent managenieiit. The success of our Chi- 

 nese vegetable gardeners is principally due to the application of 

 the latter important requisite, to the lack of which most 

 failures among ourselves may directly be traced. If to the 

 patience and perseverance of the Asiatic we add greater intelli- 

 gence and a better knowledge of new and improved varieties, or 

 perchance create new sorts ourselves, as some of the leading truck- 

 gardeners of the mainland are constaritly doing, why then may 

 we become proportionally advanced over present accomplish- 

 ments, and with added pleasure and profit thereto. 



The varieties of vegetables represented in the illustration are: 



Snap-beans — Kamehameha Selection, Golden Wax. 



Garden Beets — Improved Blood Turnip Beet. 



Cabbage — Sure head or Imp. Flat Dutch. 



Carrots — Half Long Orange, Chantenay and Scarlet Home. 



Siveet Corn — Kam. Selection of Mammoth Sugar. 



Lettuce — Improved Deacon, Hanson, and The Morse. 



Onions — Australian Brown, green for table. 



Radish — Imp. Chartier and Rose Queen. 



Squash — Hubbard, Heart O'Gold and White Scalloped. 



Sii^eet Potatoes — White, yellow and red varieties. 



Swiss Chard or Sea Kale. 



Tomatoes — New Stone. Acme, Honor-Bright, Spark's Earliana 

 and Red Cherry. 



