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fFulmer's Forciug, lEarly China, tLarge Wliito Kiducy, Fal^ntinc, aud Giant War 

 beans were planted. The first and second prolific, but rough pods. tLarge White Kid- 

 ney moderately prolific, good for winter use, but not equal to small White Bnsh beau, 

 grown liere. Valentine is decidedly the best bush-bean for cooking in tlie pod which 

 we have tried. Giaizi fFax has no equal among polo beans. tLong Smooth Blood beet, 

 tDwarf Blood beet, tCartor's Warden Mangel Wurzel, and tVilmorin's Improved sugar- 

 beets grow well, and are of ordinary quality. tPino Apple Short Top beet, received in 

 1868, and tNcw Pine Apple Short Top, received in 1869, appear to be identical, and are 

 the ne^^Zws «?/ra among table beets. They are early, tender, handsome, well flavored, 

 large enough, and of beautiful shape. The earliest planted are good any time during 

 the summer, the fall, or tlie next winter — .ilways tender — never stringy. tSnow's 

 White broccoli proved to be a bushy, \niSK(i\e?<h cahhage plant, three feet high, leaves 

 loTig, slender, lyre form. tAmerican Drumhead Savoy Cabbage is the best of its class. 

 tLarge Late Hardy Winter Drumhead Savoy cabbage has a larger name than head. 

 tNew Sprouting Dwarf Ulm Savoy cabbage is of no account with iis. Drumhead 

 Savoy cabbage is similar to the American Drumhead Savoy, but not quite as exempt 

 from rot. tSupcrfine Early cabbage is the best early variety that we have yet tried. 

 tLarge Brunswick Short Stem cabbage is pretty good, but lialde to rot. tSchweinfurt 

 Quintal cabbage is early, large, pretty good, but very liable to rot and fall from the 

 stem. tLarge Late Drumhead is the best winter cabbage. tEarly Short French carrot, 

 as received from the Department, is identical with the variety we have grown for years, 

 aud is the best yet tried. tNantes Lai'ge Stump-rooted carrot is larger, but not e<iual 

 for the table. tDwarf White Solid celery is very good. 



Sweet corn was ready for the table i]i the following order: tNarraganset, tBrill's 

 Early Extra, tBurr's Mammoth, Darlinrj's Early, tStowell's Sweet corn, and tBoston 

 Late Sweet corn. Narraganset is good but small ; Brill's Early Extra no larger aud 

 scarcely as good ; Burr's Mammoth large and good ; Stowell's is the very best iu quality ; 

 Darling's Early is hardy, good, prolific, aud would be my selection if I could have but 

 one variety. 



tLoug Purple egg plant produces smaller fruit than the Large Purjyle, but seems to 

 bo eminently hardy, quite early, aud produces more fruit than the Large Fnrple. tLarge 

 Green Curled Ruffed endive grows luxuriantly and is pretty good. tLarge White 

 cabbage or Maderia lettuce has nothing to recommend it. tlvery's Nonesuch lettuce 

 is tender, and, from its upright growth, readily gathered while quite young. tVictoria 

 lettuce is small, tender, and this season (a favorable oue) made nice heads; it is soft 

 and oily, rather than crisp aud juicy. Felton^s India Head lettuce is the best wo have 

 tried. tCovent Garden Pickling, tNuneham Park, and tLarge Maderia onions were 

 plauted, for sets, with *SiZyer *S7a>i and Yellow Strasburg, Covent Garden Pickling, and 

 tNuneham Park made quite small sets ; tLarge Maderia was quite late and grew 

 larger, but the Silver Skin and Yellow Strasburg made quite the largest sets, and 

 ripened earlier. 



The tStudeut parsnip is best, but much smaller than the Large Sugar, which is also 

 very good, but different in flavor, being more sugary, and having more of the '• native 

 parsnip " taste. tTom Thumb peas have nothing to recommend them bxit their dwarf 

 habit. tPhiladelphia Extra Early peas are the best early variety yet tried. Hubbard 

 Squash has no equal, unless it be another of the same vine. I did raise one vine and one 

 squash on it; all others were destroyed by the squash bug, despite the most persevering 

 efforts ; about the first of September, while examining my vines, I found on the vine, at 

 the base of several leaves, white, footless, fat, greasy-looking grubs, the largest of 

 which were about one inch long. These I cut out carefully, and barely succeeded in 

 saving part of my vine aud one squash. All these grubs were on the vine at the base 

 of the footstalks, (petioles.) 



tCedar Hill tomato is early and prolific, rather disposed to be wrinkled aud ill- 

 shaped, and not of as good quality as the ITIlden or Maupa.)!. The IMaupay is ihd 

 most solid, middling early, good-flavored, .and rather smooth, and keex)8 longer than any 

 other known to me. The tTilden is very smooth, solid, of good flavor, very i)rolific ; 

 the vine is very healthy, and altogether it is unsurpassed. tCartei^'s Imperial Hardy 

 Purple Top Swede turnip I sowed as a common turnip, {B. rapa,) and tliey are now 

 under the snow and as thick as my little finger. Tlie name (above) did not, to me, 

 suggest a ruta baga, (B. campestris.) 



The Excelsior oats are full ten days earlier than the comiuon varieties. When they 

 are threslied I will report the yield. 



Yorli County^ Me. — The Am autka spring wheat yielded eighteen bush- 

 els to the acre, four bushels better than any old seed. The RedMedi 

 terranean winter wheat was sown September first in drills, four inches 

 deep ; it came uj) well, and did not wiDter-kill ; product, fifteen bushels 

 to the acre. The quart of Probstier barley returned twenty-four fold. 

 I sowed one quart Schonen oats, aud one of Black Norway ; also, two 



