VEGETABLES. . 217 



Peas. — Green peas, are one of the choicest veg-etables grown, and 

 if 3'ou please, I would like a dish of them almost any day. Good, 

 nice,tender green peas, properly served, will please almost any one. 

 I can imagine your mouths watering for some, as I call your atten- 

 tion to them. 



There are so many good varieties of peas to grow that it is hard to 

 select what is best. The Gem pea is a standard variety for medium 

 early. I plant the dwarf varieties in rows about two feet apart, and 

 the tall varieties in rows about three feet apart. The mildew is a 

 great hindrance to pea culture. 



Radishes.— It will surprise you for me to say that my income from 

 radishes exceeds $7.5.00 annually. I have a variety that I have kept 

 for the past ten or twelve years; they are oval-shaped,rose-colored 

 and of a good flavor. I plant a succession about once a week dur- 

 ing the summer, so as to have a constant supply of radishes that 

 are crisp and tender. 



DISCUSSION. 

 Mr. Beardsley: Mr. Sampson has a good variety of late 

 peas, but when he strikes off the Little Gem from the later var- 

 ieties, or the Telephone, I cannot agree with him, that is our 

 standard variety. In beans we use what we call Wardwell's 

 Kidney Wax beans, and any one with a small amount of that 

 variety planted will get a large crop. In sweet corn we have 

 a variety that comes in between the early varieties andStowell's 

 Evergreen, but we do not think much of the Excelsior. 



Mr. Sampson: I notice the gentleman takes exception to my 

 using the Excelsior sweet corn for planting in succession, as a 

 late variety. I know of no better sweet corn than the Excel- 

 sior, and consumers agree with me on that point. A gentle- 

 man out my way had been growing the Black Mexican corn, 

 and any one who is acquainted with that variety knows it is 

 very choice. He happened to be taking dinner at some place 

 where they had some of my Excelsior sweet corn on the table, 

 and when I saw him a few days later he wanted to get some of 

 that sweet corn which he had tasted at that table. He said 

 he had the Black Mexican and thought he had the best sweet 

 corn that was grown, but he considered the Excelsior superior 

 to that. I furnish the best customers I have in Excelsior 

 with Excelsior corn, and I have received a great deal of praise 

 for that variety. 



Mr. Pearce: I think the Excelsior is the finest sweet corn 

 and the best that grows. It has a white cob, and a white cob 

 corn is always superior. It Is exceedingly sweet, and the only 

 objection I have to it is, that it is too late. It is earlier than 

 the Evergreen, but it is not so large. It is a very fine quality 

 of sweet corn; it is the very finest for drying we have found 

 yet. 



