22 ANNUAL REPORT. 
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“No. 9. Salt and ashes (leached) in proportion to jth salt and 4ths 
ashes increased the yield of beets 40 per cent. and carrots 30 per cent. at the 
rate of 1,200 pounds per acre in drills. 
No. 10. Sweet Potatoes. Four varieties planted. Southern Queen ma- 
tured only; plants set May 15th, matured October 12th; yield good; quality 
nearly equal to the Nansemond when grown in New Jersey. Lest the above 
statement might result in a partial failure under different culture, will give 
the details for success: Select light sandy soil, plow shallow, drag and 
mark out with single shovel plow (from north to south) drills 34 feet apart, 
scatter well rotted manure in the drills and cover with double furrow, two- 
horse plow, throw the furrows well up. and set the plants about 16 inches 
apart on top of furrow; keep clean by light surface culture, but do not dis- 
turb the soil near the base of plant. Mzm.—Planted on a level surface, was 
a failure; plant as near the 10th of May as possible, and see that the plants 
be exposed to the atmosphere at least three days before removing from the 
hot bed. 
No. 11. Cabbage—Jersey Wakefield, new, early, fair size, quality good, 
one of the best. 
No. 12. Cabbage—Winingstadt, new, early, large, extra, promises to be 
one of the best. 
No. 13. Tomatoes—Canada Victor, early, fair size smooth, good quality, 
fair yield. ; 
No. 14. Trophy, large, prolific, good, succeeds best on trellis work. 
No. 15. Tomatoes for pickling, preserving and canning. The pear shaped 
yellow, seems to be the favorite of the small varieties and greatly superior 
in flavor and appearance. 
No. 16. Beet—Sugar Yellow Globe, greatest yield; Yellow Silesian, 2d; 
and long white Mangle Wortzel, 3d. 
No. 17. Deep Blood Red, (imported from France,) Long Blood Red, 
Early Bassoon, Early Blood Beet, as far as quantity and quality were con- 
cerned, seemed about equal in all respects and worthy. 
No. 18. Egg Plant—Early Purple, worthy. 
No. 19. Squashes—seven varieties. Summer and Winter Crookneck, 
Summer bush, Turban, Boston Marrow, and Mammoth and Hubbard, all 
worthy. 
No. 20. Turnips—Rutabagas. Yellow Swedish best yield; White Ger- 
man, best quality. 
No. 21. Peas—Dwarf, McLean’s Little Gem, wonderfally prolific ou rich 
soil; Tom Thumb, fair; Champion of England, vigorous and productive; 
Landreth’s Extra Early, good. Perhaps there may. be better kinds, but we 
have yet to find them. 
No. 22. Onions—Wethersfield, large red, reliable, best for planting to 
perfect a crop in first season: Yellow Danvers, best from sets, second sea- 
son. 
No. 23. Cucumbers—Early Frame, Long Green, good and productive ; 
difference in maturing of Early Frame, eighteen days, in southern and 
northern exposures. 
No. 24. Watermelons—Five varieties tested; Mountain Sprout, large, 
good, late; Mountain Sweet, medium size, extra good, ten days earlier than 
first; Ice Cream, (marked extra early) proved extra late, small size, good; 
Phinney’s Early, medium size, prolific; Early Extra, good; Peerless, one of 
the best, if not the best. 
No. 25. Skillman’s Nettled Muskmelon seems worthy to be placed at the 
head of the list; Jenny Lind, small, early and good; Long Persian, too late; 
Mustang, (from New Mexico,) peculiar flavor, large and extra good. 
FOREST AND ORNAMENTAL TREES. 
No. 27. About six thousand forest trees have been planted, for experi- 
mental purposes, of various kinds—box elder, post oak, white, red, water 
and rock elm, soft maple, mountain ash, European larch, and a variety of 
evergreens. A large number of the mountain ash were materialiy injured 
last winter. 
