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I think the Early Harvest will prove 

 valuable for tliose growers with whom very 

 early ripening is an important quality. It 

 seems to be a few days earlier than the 

 Wilson, and has some other points of 

 advantage over that sometimes excellent 

 kind. It cannot be ranked with it in size, 

 as the Harvest is only small to medium, 

 while the Wilson is among the largest. 

 But the former is far more hardy than the 

 latter, being equal, and possibly superior 

 to the Lawton in this important respect. 

 Th^ Wilson is safest as to the rust, as it is 

 rarely affected, while the Harvest shows 

 some weakness in that direction. But 

 every blossom of the Harvest makes a 

 berry, and there is an abundance of tliem, 

 while the Wilson has some radical weak- 

 ness in its flowers, Avhich sometimes in the 

 ])est situjvtion, and always in many locali- 

 ties, produce more abortions than perfect 

 berries. The Harvest has not yet been 

 marketed in any considerable quanity, 

 and it is not safe to say how well it may 

 please the trade. But as a berry for 

 home use, it has unquestionable value, 

 because of its earliness and reliable pro- 

 ductiveness. — Cou7itry Gentleman. 



In the Farm and Garden we find 

 the following : — 



Early Harvest is very distinct in growth 

 and foliage from any other cultivated 

 variety, and its name, aside from its 

 pretty sound, is singularly appropriate, 

 ripening as it does just as the earliest 

 winter wheat is in condition to harvest. 

 The canes are of strong, upright growth 

 and branching and immensely productive. 

 Berries of excellent quality ; and although 

 not large are of good size, averaging larger 

 than Snyder. What adds much value to 

 the variety, especially for the fruit- 

 grower, it ripens its entire crop in a few 

 days, and is all gone when the Wilson 

 and other of the early kinds begin to 

 turn black. While the Early Harvest 

 is a good blackberry in other respects, 

 its distinctive value, is its earliness, 

 ripening as it does far in advance of all 

 other varieties, which, together with its 

 good size, large yield, and hardy, healthy 

 canes, render it of almost inestimable 

 value, either for the amateur or profes- 

 sional fruit-grower. 



CABBAGES. 



AT THE NEW YORK ARCICULTURAL EXPERIMFNT 

 STATION. 



Twenty-eight varieties of cabbage, 

 early and late, were tested under gar- 

 den culture. The seeds — thirty of each 

 sort — were planted in the cold-frame 

 April 7th and 8th, and the plants tran- 

 splanted to the garden April 27th, in 

 rows three feet apart, plants two feet 

 apart in rows, the soil made moderately 

 rich and the plants kept cultivated 

 thoroughout the season with a hoe. 



One of the first troubles which we 

 met was in the varieties not coming 

 true to name, although the seeds were 

 procured of one of our most reliable 

 seedsmen. Thus, Henderson's Early 

 Summer gave but thirteen genuine 

 plants, Schweinfurt Quintal twenty- 

 five. Sugar Loaf fifteen, American 

 Savoy thirteen, etc. But little differ- 

 ence was ])erceived in the time required 

 for vegetation, varying only from 9 to 

 10 days in the varieties. There was, 

 liowever, quite a large difference be- 

 tween the germinative powers of the 

 different varieties of seed. In no cas^, 

 howevei-, did all thirty seeds vegetate. 

 In two cases twenty -nine seeds; in four 

 cases twenty-eight; in two cases twenty- 

 seven ; in two cases twenty-five ; in one 

 case twenty-four ; in two cases twenty- 

 three; in six cases twenty-two, etc. 

 The first to arrive at edible maturity 

 was the Early Ox heart and the Nonpa- 

 riel on July 26th. Vilmorin's Early 

 Flat Dutch and Newark Early Flat 

 Dutch came two days later, then follow- 

 ed, on August 1st, the Early Ulni 

 Savoy, the Early Jersey Wakefield, 

 and the Ejirly Winningstad ; on August 

 4th, Cannon-ball and little Pixie; on 

 Augn.st lltli, Hendei-son's F]arly Sum- 

 mer, Cmne's Early, Schweinfurt Quin- 

 tal, Early Blood Red Erfurt ; on August 

 15th, Sugar Loaf, Fottler's Improved 



