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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



Planted nearly on the level, with only 

 one slight earthing up, about one inch, 

 which I don't think it required, it 

 blanched beautifully. I can fully en- 

 dorse Henderson's description of it 

 when they say, " It far exceeds any 

 known vegetable as an ornament for 

 the table. Its eating qualities are equal 

 to the very best of the old sorts. Alto- 

 gether we can't find words to describe 

 its many merits as it deserves." We 

 also tried Major Clark's Pink Celery 

 (new), but giving it the same treatment 

 as the White Plume, i. e., failing to 

 earth it up ; it is as green to-day as we 

 were to neglect it. 



Corn (sweet). — For this crop the sea- 

 son was unfavorable. We had only a 

 few dishes late in the season. We 

 have found none better than Moore's 

 Early planted at intervals. Sto well's 

 Evergreen is also good for a late crop. 



Cucumbers. — Who can^t grow them ? 

 Early White Spine, the catalogues say, 

 is very desirable ; we have found it so. 



Lettuce. — I think I hear my good 

 friend the Editor saying, What in the 

 world can the Scotchman tell us about 

 lettuce? Muckle, i.e., much. After 

 trying the legion of kinds, I confine 

 myself to a kind I've grown for forty 

 years. If you ask me for its name, 

 that's the only thing about it I don't 

 know ; but, it deserves a name, as Burns 

 says, as lang as rtiy arm. Our worthy 

 President is full of big names ; I'll get 

 one from him, and you'll have it some 

 of these days under the head Novelties. 

 Joking apart, I consider it very valu- 

 able. Besides supplying many friends 

 here, I have sent it to England and 

 Scotland, and as they have difficulty in 

 ripening the seed there .1 have yearly 

 orders for it. I'll ask Mr. Wright, of 

 Renfrew, to report on it. 



Melons. — A failure, I believe, all 

 over ; season too cold. 



Onions. — On ground clean and rich, 

 sowed early, they are a profitable crop, 



not otherwise. This year we could not 

 get them sowed early enough. Last 

 year off \ acre T sold 80 bushels at 65 

 cents, and had 20 bushels of thick 

 necks besides. Query, was it the sea- 

 son, the soil, the culture, or what the 

 cause It But friend Beall is the most 

 successful grower of onions I know of, 

 and he can tell us how to keep them, 

 too. I take it that every Director of 

 our Association is in duty bound to 

 make known all he thinks worth know- 

 ing. 



Parsnips seldom fail. Left in the 

 ground all winter they supply a lack of 

 vegetables in early spring. 



Fea.s — the perfection of vegetables. 

 So think the black-birds. As usual 

 they left me nothing of the early sow- 

 ings but the pods. We have not yet 

 found any variety come up to the Am 

 erican Wonder. 



Rhuharh. — Mr. Wright kindly su])- 

 plied us with plants of the Victoria 

 and Cahoon's Mammoth. They pro- 

 duced leaves as large as a good-sized 

 umbrella, and stalks as thick as my 

 wrist ; the quality excellent. If these 

 are a sample of Renfrew production, 

 what provokes our friend to complain 

 of his hard climate % We cover our 

 plants in spring with sash before they 

 are needed for melons, and have it a 

 little in advance of the season. 



Salsify fails to repay us the trouble 

 of growing. 



Tomatoes were late of ripening, and 

 rotted badly on the ground. The May- 

 flower variety is good and early, but a 

 neighboring garden growing the Fulton 

 Market had fine tomatoes about two 

 weeks earlier than I had the Mayflower. 

 The Fulton Market is recommended in 

 the Am^erican Garden as first early. 



Turnips. — I never succeeded in grow- 

 ing early turnips fit to eat. This year 

 I got among the novelties ; and ex- 

 perimenting with them, it's no novelty 

 to be disappointed. The Early Millan, 



