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US and one of the most beautiful flowering sorts that we have. 

 It produces its flowers in the latter part of summer, or early in 

 autumn after almost everything else has disappeared, and it 

 does not seem to be troubled with any specially injurious plant 

 diseases or insects. 



The Oriental poppy, gorgeous in its scarlet coloring, is an 

 interesting and ornamental plant and well worthy of a place 

 among the hardy perennials. 



About fifty varieties of potatoes have been grown. These 

 were exceedingly healthy until the latter part of the summer, 

 when they were afifected by the blight which also affected the 

 tubers and caused them to decay. Some sorts have rotted so 

 badly that they were not worth digging. The kinds that have 

 resisted the rot most satisfactorily have been the vigorous late 



TOMATO PLANTS COMPARED. 



Ripe vs. Unripe Tomato Seed.— In the illustration the box of plants to the left 

 in which the plants are short, was grown from unripe tomato seed which was 

 gathered before the tomatoes had begun to color, in fact, while they were quite green. 

 Such seed will generally grow and often start more quickly than that which is thor- 

 oughly ripe. The effect is to dwarf the plant and cause the fruit to mature rather 

 earlier than from ripe seed. On the other, hand it has a tendency to cause the fruit to 

 be small and ^^oft Generally only a small percentage of the unripe seed will sprout. 

 The box to the right is from ripe seed. The illustration shows very plainly the differ- 

 ence in vigor of the plants when a few weeks old. 



maturing kinds, such as Rural New Yorker, Sir Walter Raleigh 

 and Carman No. i. 



A piece of land about one-eighth of an acre in extent, that 

 this year yielded its seventeenth year of consecutive crops of 

 onions, is of interest from the fact that it shows conclusively 

 that this crop may be raised for many successive years upon the 

 same land without serious injury, provided, of course, that there 

 is no trouble from the blight stalk and provided it is suitably 

 manured. Its seventeenth crop was nearly as large as any of its 

 predecessors, and yielded at the rate of about 700 bushels per 

 acre. 



The plat of twenty-seven different kinds of hedges, which 

 was started some four years ago, is now large enough to furnish 



