80 ANNUAL REPORT. 
“=p Tomatoes. 
Having tested twelve varieties—including nearly all the new very best— 
we believe the Canada Victor, Hathway, and Gen. Grant will be found 
equal to, if not superior to all others for table and cooking purposes, while 
the pear-shaped Yellow will be found to be the best for canning and pre- 
serving. ; 
Sweet Potatoes. 
J Pog | 
That sweet potatoes may be grown of good market size is true. That 
the quality will not always be satisfactory is also a fact. To those who 
wish to succeed, the Southern Queen is most desirable. 
Cauliflower. 
Our climate and soil seems especially adapted to the late varieties of 
cauliflower. We would recommend a northern exposure or slope for this 
crop as well as late cabbage. 
Celery. 
Of all garden products we find this the most difficult to grow success- 
fully. As arule clay subsoil is essential to success, sandy soil the excep- 
tion. In eight varieties, we find Boston Market the favorite. 
Egg Plant. 
Early Purple, best. 
Lettuce. 
Early Butterhead, Hanson and large India give universal satisfaction. 
In a large list of names we find others equally good, but none better. 
Beets. 
Egyptian, Early Bassano, Dewing’s Blood Turnip and Bastian’s Blood 
Turnip, are known to be among the best for early varieties, and equal to 
any for late or winter use, when planted for that purpose. 
Melons. 
Perhaps, all things considered, Phinney’s watermelon is the most pro- 
‘fitable, for home as well as market purposes; of good quality and early. 
Special Fertilizers, 
commercial especially and otherwise,adapted to various kinds of vegetables. 
Very little attention has yet been paid to the application and results of the 
different fertilizers so extensively used in Eastern States. We believe it to 
be a well established fact, that well rotted stable manure supplies in a 
great measure the essential elements required by vegetables to produce 
