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Lettuce. — Yictoria Cabbage and All the Year Round are good. 



Melons. — I have had good success with what I call the Montreal Musk Melon, raised 

 from seed. I saved from a fine specimen bought in that city many years ago. They have 

 always ripened, are large, netted, and of excellent quality, flesh green. This year I 

 tried the Bayview Melon ; very highly recommended ; planted ten days later than the 

 Montreal Melon, it soon outstripped it, and when I left for Scotland, 1st July, the vines 

 were most luxuriant, and there was fruit six to eight inches long, the others yet hardly 

 showing fruit ; a severe drouth seemed to damage both kinds. The Bayview ripened 

 enough fruit to prove the quality good ; it then dried up and failed. The Montreal kind 

 recovered and yielded well. I watered neither kinds ; perhaps they would both have 

 been improved by liberal A^atering. (John Croil). The New Surprise is early and luscious, 

 but too small for market. In water melons have found the Ice Cream good, and the 

 Sculptured Seeded Japan an improvement on old kinds. The Cuban Queen is a new variety, 

 very large and fine, sometimes reaching as high as eighty pounds in weight ; vines very 

 strong, healthy and vigorous, flesh bright red, solid, luscious, crisp and sugary, excellent 

 keeper, good to ship to distant markets, rind thin. 



Onions. — Top onions are largely grown. Good success has been attained with seed 

 sown of the Large Red American and Yellow Danvers varieties, but consider Red Weathers- 

 field the leading variety. 



Rhubarb grows everywhere and thrives on any soil, but prefers a light rich bed. "I 

 was much struck when in Scotland at the effect produced oh two plants treated with 

 liquid manure from the barnyard. The leaves were three feet long and about as broad, 

 but the stalks were not in proportion." (John Croil.) 



Spinach. — The Savoy leaved, a new variety, is an improvement. 



Squash. — Early Crookneck, Hubbard and Vegetable Marrow, yield palatable dishes. 

 The vines would yield more fruit if pinched off", and not allowed to run at such great 

 length. 



Tomatoes. — The Trophy, Hubbard's Curled Leaf and Hathaway's Excelsior are the 

 best. 



Turnips. — Little cultivated ; the little black fly is a great enemy to them. 



Sicmmer Savoy, Sage and Wormwood are raised to some extent and with profit to 

 the market gardener. 



W. Pemberton Page. 

 A. W. Taylor. 

 John Croil. 



Mr. Beadle. — I would say with regard to the cauliflower that when we have 

 extreme heat and drought, that frequently prevail in our part of the Province, it is 

 difficult to raise that vegetable. However, I have found that by sowing the seed late, 

 keeping the plants in a cool, shady place on the north side of a fence or by a building, 

 and planting them out the latter part of the summer when we may hope very soon to get 

 copious rains, that they do much better. If the autumn is something like the autumn we 

 have just passed through those plants will head pretty well ; and if they have just com- 

 menced to "button" when the cold weather begins to come on I take them up and put 

 them in my root-house and set them out again— something like it was described 

 with regard to celery — putting some earth around the roots, moistening the roots enough 

 to have the circulation continue in the plants ; pack them closely together — about as 

 close as they would stand — and they would develop in the root-house very fair sized 

 heads — though not as large as if grown out of doors — and the flavour would be very fine. 



Mr. Beall. — I would have liked if the chairman of the Committte had submitted 

 something with reference to the profitableness of growing any of these vegetables. It 

 strikes me that asparagus is an exceedingly profitable crop. I have a small bed three 

 rows in width — about four feet and a half and about seventy feet long — and I get from 

 seven to ten dollars from that bed every year in addition to all my family desire to use 



