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three weeks after they came up. McLane's Epicurean and Dunnit's First 

 Early peas were both good, the latter first-rate, very prolific. Large 

 late, hardy Winter Drumhead Savoy I consider of but little value — not 

 a good head among them. The Vaugirard Winter Drumhead cabbage 

 produced a good crop for the season ; early and hardy ; a good variety. 

 Carter's Champion broccoli grew finely, and is very nice. Early Narra- 

 ganset Sweet corn, planted April 12, did not produce a single well- 

 matured ear, though planted in a good soil and cultivated. The season 

 was too cold and backward for it. Cedar Hill tomato is a large and 

 good variety; truits early, and is very nice. Of the Student parsnip, 

 not a seed germinated. The Hollow Crown or Sugar parsnip came up 

 well and produced a good crop— a valuable accession. Long Surry and 

 James's Scarlet carrot were i^lauted 26th of April in a good soil, though 

 not manured; both kinds did well for the dry season; one measured 

 thirteen iuches in circumference. Planted the Spanish turnip in ridges, 

 with some care, sowing at two different times; few came np; too dry 

 and hot. 



mcholas County, W. F«.— The Talavera wheat, one peck, sent me in 

 October, 1868, was carefully sown as soon as received. It grew very 

 finely, heavy strawed, but the midge nearly destroyed it. It is a large, 

 taU wheat, too late for this climate. 



Stone County, Mo.— From the Tappahannock wheat sent me last year 

 I harvested a little over two bushels, which was again sowed in Septem- 

 ber last, and it looks well at this time, (December 25th.) The Black 

 Swedish oats did well: from a quart I raised a bushel. The White 

 Schonen oats did better; from a quart I raised one bushel and a peck. 

 I will sow them again and report the result. 



Cuyahoga County, Ohio. — Six quarts of Excelsior oats, received from the 

 Department last spring, produ(;ed three and a half bushels, weighing 

 forty-tv/o pountls to the bushel. 



Trumbull County, Ohio.— Five quarts of the Excelsior oats sent out by 

 the Department produced two and a half bushels, forty-two pounds to 

 the bushel. They grew splendidly. The Arnautka spring wheat grew 

 and headed well, but it did not fill out. 



Fond du Lac County, ^Yis.— The peck of Eussian spring wheat re- 

 ceived from the Department resembles in every particular a variety 

 introduced here thirteen years ago, known as the Labrador wheat. It 

 was condemned by millers as being too hard, and more like the hard 

 portion of a kernel of corn than wheat. 



I sowed the peck on one-eighth of an acre of ground, and harvested 

 two and a quarter bushels, besides wasting at least four quarts that were 

 scattered in adjoining wheat and fallen to the ground. Full yield, nine- 

 teen bushels per acre. The seed was very dark-colored, but at least one- 

 third of the product is quite white and soft. It is my opinion that the 

 next crop will be quite soft. It is a very hardy variety, but rather in- 

 clined to fall. 



Only a few of the Danvers onion seed came up, but enough to prove 

 them good for this locality. The Connecticut Red onion yielded at the 

 rate of nine hnndred and sixty bushels per acre. 



Cherokee County, Iowa. — The Arnautka spring wheat received from 

 the Department yielded nearly two bushels from four quarts. The sea- 

 son was rather too wet for it. 



Lassen County, Cal. — The peck of Tappahannock wheat sent me 

 yielded three bushels, and the farmer who sowed it says that one- 

 half of the seed rotted. One pound of the Swedish oats yielded twenty- 

 four pounds. 



