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GARDENING. 



Sept. is, 



The Vegetable Garden. 



CORN, EARLY GOLDEN YELLOW. 



Coming just after the extra early sweet 

 corns and excelling in quality any sort 

 ripening before it is the Early Golden Yel- 

 low. This corn for table use is delicious, 

 very sweet and of superior richness, while 

 its golden yellow grains are distinct and 

 attractive. We purchased it last year 

 from Tliorburn & Co. but did not plant 

 it till this year. The firm did not list it 

 in this season's catalogue, neither have I 

 noticed it in any other. It is to be hoped 

 that so valuable a variety will not be lost 

 as have been several other good strains 

 of seed. Following immediately aftcrthe 

 Golden Yellow the following varieties 

 came on in close succession in the order 

 here named: Crosby, Pee and Kay, 

 Moore's Concord, Stabler's Early, Shaker 

 Early, Potter's Excelsior, Clark's None- 

 such and New Everbearing, Amber Cream, 

 Hickox, Early Mammoth, Asylum, Tri- 

 umph and Egyptian. These sorts gave 

 us corn for the table for a fortnight, using 

 a different variety each day. We are 

 now enjoying the Country Gentleman. 

 This and the Golden Yellow arc the two 

 best in quality that I have named. 



Sii.as L. Albertson. 



Market Gardener, Long Island, August 

 22, '96. 



NEW MALTA SQUASH. 



I received eightseeds of the"New Malta 

 Squash" from Mr. Wood. They were 

 planted at the same time 1 planted other 

 varieties, but two of theseedsgerminated 

 and these have made a prodigious 

 growth, alas, however, no fruit set until 

 about three weeks ago and the largest of 

 these is about four inches in diameter 

 and we expect a frost most any time now. 

 J. E. Prior. 



Moosup, Conn., September 7, 1896. 



If we remember aright all of the seeds 

 we had germinated well, at anvrate we 

 have a good many plants, and "you just 

 ought to see them grow," some of them 

 are 40 feet across. Though slow to set 

 fruit at first they are now forming 

 squashes very freely and three or four of 

 these are to be big enough to give us 

 Malta squash pie for Thanksgiving, frost 

 or no frost. No doubt it requires too 

 long a season to be desirable for cultiva- 

 tion in the northern states, but we think 

 it is just right for the south and Califor- 

 nia. And we sincerely thank Mr. Wood 

 for his kind and unselfish generosity in 

 distributing some 700 packages of seeds 

 of this squash free of charge or any c m- 

 mercial interest whatevr, among our 

 people. 



Although Queen Charlotte still 

 ranks among the gold-edged cannas as 

 Madame Crozy does among the scarlets, 

 we have one that is decidedly better than 

 it, but the raiser who sent it to us for 

 trial has not vet named it. 



Yellow Cannas. — Wintzer's Yellow is 

 absolutely pure yellow, without a streak 

 or a spot, and it has the largest petals of 

 any of the pure yellows we have seen. We 

 had a strong plant in bloom at Dosoris 

 last summer. 



SITUATION WANTBD-A imrdener. well experl- 

 e ' '■'! In the cultivation uf flowers and veiietttbles 

 Knows the care of greenhouses and frames. Middle 

 aye. Good recommendations. Gentleman b place 

 preferred. Is a good landscape gardener. Address 

 A B. care Chas. Everdlng. Branford, Conn. 



If you like Gardening please recom- 

 mend it to vour friends. 



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