VEGETABLES. 335 
REPORT ON VEGETABLES. 
JOSHUA ALLYN, RED WING. 
Mr. President and Members of the Horticultural Society; 
As chairman of committee on vegetable gardening, I will say it was 
my intention last year to take notes, from time to time, of different 
things which I expected to grow, and explain here. Iam sorry to say I 
failed to take notes and can only give these remarks from memory. 
I think the past season was very favorable for vegetables except vines. 
The most of these latter were a failure, and all were badly hurt by the cool 
weather of July. Only for the unusually warm weather of September, the 
crop of Hubbard squash would have failed entirely Peas and beans were 
very good,owing to the cool, moist weather of thespring. Celery was fine 
for early growth, but the September heat was too much for it in many 
places. Owing to our climate, one year with another celery cannot be de- 
pended upon for a crop, although a few succeed in growing a fine article, 
and when that is the case the quality is far ahead of other places. 
Onions were very fair and would have been an extra good yield but for 
cut worms in many localities. The price was good,and the demand more 
than usual. 
The early sweet corn crop was immense; sold lively; good prices. We 
shipped to Duluth 100 dozen a day, besides supplying our markets. Pota- 
toes, all know, were an immense crop; which I cannot account for, 
as the season was not so very different from others. East and west they 
were plentiful and good. If the great difficulty of planting so many 
varieties could be stopped,and only a few of the best kinds planted, a 
better result would soon be found. The Early Ohio, Clark No. 1 and 
Early Maineare good enough for any one. Fair potatoes of these kinds 
are never refused by the market, while many kinds are often hard to sell 
and sometimes refused entirely by shippers. 
As for fruit in this county, it was scarce and not very good. This we 
found out in trying to get specimens for the fair. Very few apples were 
found,where years before there had been an abundance. 
Raspberries were very fair and brought a good price. Blackberries are 
raised by very few for market in this county. Grapes asa general crop 
was light, but in some localities very fine specimens were grown. 
