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CHALLENGE BLACK WAX BEAN 



mer and give it to jour seedsman, who 

 will get the seeds in Europe when he 

 orders his stock of other seeds. 



The Vegetable Garden. 



fl LIST OP VEGETABLES. 



Some kinds of vegetables may do better 

 in one part of the country than in an- 

 other, some will do well in one soil but 

 not as well in another, and folks' tastes 

 about vegetables difter just as they do 

 about flowers or clothes. While we are 

 always getting a few new varieties of 

 vegetables, we should depend upon well- 

 tried standard sorts for our main crops, 

 taking some of the new ones on proba- 

 tion, and these well-tried sorts are gener- 

 ally good all over the country. If a 

 variety is real good all of the prominent 

 seedsmen will catalogue it, there is no 

 monopolv of or patent on tested vegeta- 

 bles 



Asparagus.— Colossal is large and 

 good. Sow in a row just as soon as the 

 ground is open. 



Gloiie Artichoke.— Get French or 

 Green (jlobe, but remember that there is 

 a good deal > f difference in the quality of 

 the individuals. If raised early they may 

 flower the first year, but are sure to the 

 second season. 



Snap Bea.ns —Valentine and Refugee 

 are good reliable old green-podded sorts. 

 Refugee Wax and Challenge Black Wax 

 are fine wax varieties. There is a new 

 Valentine Wax that is worth trying as a 

 novelty. 



Lima' Beans —Get Henderson's Dwarf 

 to fill the ga|) between peas and Limas. 

 Then Drcer's and Burpee's dwarf Limas 

 to sow in rows 2':; feet apart; but if j'ou 

 want to use poles get Dreer's Lima or 

 Challenger. 



Beets — Edmond's is a fine dark beet, 

 and Eclipse an excellent general crop 

 variety, not as dark as the other. It is a 

 comm n thing to sow early vegetablesin 

 light, dryish soil, but we find that in the 

 case of both beets and carrots, that even 

 the early crops like good land. 



Brissels Sprouts.— Try Improved 

 half Dwarf. And sow the seed a month 

 earlier than you do your winter cabbage. 



Carrots.— A row of Early Horn for 

 early, and the balance of Half-long Stump 

 rooted nr Chantenay. Sow two or three 

 times during the summer, so as to have 

 tender roots. 



Cabbage.— Early Jersey Wakefield for 

 early and Early Summer or All-Seasons 

 for a succession bring us up to frost. For 

 the winter crop grow Savoys, say Drum- 

 head Savoy, they are far finer in" quality 

 than plain cabbage. 



Cauliflower.- What is sold as Snow- 

 ball is as good as any for most anytime 

 of the year; add Gilt-edge by way of 

 variety. 



Celery.— .\ little White Plume or 

 Golden self-blanching for early; but for 

 main crop depend on Perfection Heartwell 

 and Giant Paschal. 



Corn. — Get Cory for early and Squan- 

 tum and Countr\''Gcntleman forsunimer, 

 and Sto well's Evergreen for late. The 

 Cory isn't of good quality, no very early 

 corn is. 



Cucumber — (ireen Prolific for pickles. 

 And Improved White Spine for table. The 

 young cucumbers of the last may also be 

 picked for pickles. 



Dandelion.— Large-leaved. This isour 

 first green vegetable in spring. It never 

 blooms the first year from seed, and if we 

 dig up the roots and throw them away 

 after we cut the leaves, they will never 

 become a weed. 



Egg Plant.— New York Improved. 



Endive- Green Curled. We ought to 

 grow more of this vegetable. Sow it 

 about the middle of July for heads in 



October and November, treating it as 

 yoti would lettuce. 



Kale. — Curled Dwarf Green Scotch is 

 good. Sow in June, and treat ascabbagc. 

 It is a very nice vegetable in winter, a 

 gootl change from cabbage and a substi- 

 tute for spinach. What we call "sprouts" 

 or Germ ill kale we sow about the first of 

 Se|)tembcr and save over winter as we 

 would spinach to cut in spring. 



Lettuces — Improved Boston Market 

 for hotbeds and early planting out of 

 doors. Trianon Cos for spring and early 

 summer; and Deacon, Thorburn's Market 

 Gardeners' and Salamander for summer. 

 It is ea'v enough to get good lettuces 

 up till June, but between the middle of 

 July and the end of August the lettuce 

 (|uestion is a troublesome one. The 

 jilants hardly get to hearting size when 

 they "bolt" and the best of them at that 

 time is poor and tough in quality. In the 

 cooler northern states, and high eleva- 

 tions, this isn't so, but here on Long 

 Island good lettuces in the hot summer 

 months are beyond us. 



Leeks. — American Flag. 



Musk Melons. — Surprise, Emerald 

 Gem, Osage, and Long Island Beauty. 

 Both the musk and water melon question 

 is another vexed one with us, and we 

 have got to sow more seeds and more 

 kinds than seems reasonable in order to 

 get enough melons for use; a variety that 

 was very good with us last year may be 

 worthless this season. In fact several of 

 the kinds common in catalogties have 

 never given us a melon fit to eat. 



Water Melons.— Cuban Queen is our 

 most reliable sort, and Hungarian Honey 

 was fine with us last year. We always 

 get nice Ice Cream melons but people 

 don't like their white seeds. Twenty other 

 sorts were more or less a failure. Land 

 rich, sandy, weather warm and exceed- 

 ingly dry. 



Onions love moist land. Sow Prize- 

 taker now in the greenhouse, or a little 

 later in a hotbed to transplant out of 

 doors in April. And get vellow Danvers, 

 Red Wethersfield, and Sbuthport White 

 Globe for sowing out of doors. 



Parsley.— Moss Curled. 



Parsnips. — Hollow Crown. 



Peas.— Get some Earliest of k\\ or Best 

 Early for the first crop only To im- 

 mediately succeed that Alpha is a very 

 sweet pea, then comes .\dvancer, Heroine 

 and Stratagem. All of these can be 

 grown without stakes, at the same time 

 staking improves them. American Won- 

 der and Premium Gem are two fine dwarf 

 peas that need no staking; grow them in 

 good ground. Champion of England is 

 perfection in quality of peas, and Tele- 

 phone is fine, but both should get the 

 support of stakes or wire netting. 



Pumpkin.- Cheese. 



Pepper. — Oxheart, Rubv King. 



Radish.— French Breakfast as a tumii) 

 radish, and Ghartier as a long rooted 

 sort. Turnip radishes should be used as 

 soon as they arc big enough to eat, for 

 they don't last but a few days before get- 

 fing foggy in the heart. 



Salsify —Sandwich Islands. 



Spinach. — Improved Thick-leaf 



Squash. — Summer Crookneck and 

 Golden Custard for summer, and Boston 

 Marrow and Hubbard for winter. 



Tomato.— Most any one of the twenty 

 or more sorts in common cultivation will 

 give you good and plenty tomatoes. Try 

 Stone, Matchless or Perfection. 



Turnip.— Purple-top Strap-leaf forearly 

 and Purple-top White Globe for general 

 crop. The early Milan is too biting. 



