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well shaped. It is sti-ongly branched 

 and very comjmct in growth. The 

 foliage is very fine and healthy. 



Progression must not be omitted from 

 the list of the fine varieties, for it is as 

 near an approach to a yellow pelargonium 

 as has yet been introduced. It is of a 

 soft chrome-yellow shade, flower and 

 trusses of good size and shape. 



Excelsior is a noble variety, and one 

 which we can highly recoramencK It 

 bears remarkably large flowers of pure 

 scarlet, almost perfect in form ; the 

 habit of the flower is branching and 

 compact. 



The varieties named, while by no 

 means all of the newer kinds, may at 

 least be considered equal to any, and 

 will repay trial. They are all double 

 and of fine, healthy foliage. We can 

 strongly commend them to our readers, 

 and trust that many window gardens 

 this winter will contain at least some 

 of the kinds we have named, — Ameri- 

 can Garden. 



SQUANTUM SUGAR CORN. 

 I should like to speak a good word for 

 the Squantum Sugar Corn. Among the 

 many novelties thatare continually being 

 introduced so many are worthless that 

 often a good thing is catalogued for sev- 

 eral years perhaps before its merits are 

 generally known to the public. How 

 much of a novelty the Squantum Corn 

 is I cannot say, but it is not planted to 

 any great extent in this section that I 

 know of, and I notice that it is not gen- 

 erally catalogued by seedsmen, or, if it 

 is, it does not appear under this name. 

 I have planted this corn now for several 

 years, and no other is acceptable on my 

 table while it is in l)earing. If it has 

 any faults I have never discovered them. 

 It is what I suppose would be called a 

 second early, coming in after the Early 

 Minnesota. The ears are about the same 

 in size as tlie latter — perhaps a trifle 

 larger — well filled with eight to twelve 



straight rows of pearly- white grains. It 

 is exceedingly productive, bearing three 

 and often four ears, on a stalk, and re- 

 markably sweet; in fact, the flavor is 

 wherein it principally excels. Whatmore 

 a person wants I cannot see, and I know 

 of nothing more delicious than a dish of 

 this corn fresh from the garden. Some 

 may prefer the larger ears of the Ever- 

 green, Egyptian and Mammoth, but 

 they are more fond of distending their 

 jaws than I am. As long as corn is 

 sold by the hundred, however, I suppose 

 the larger eared, late varieties will gain 

 the preference in the market, although, 

 for my part, if I had to buy my corn, I 

 would rather have the smaller ears of 

 the Squantum, even at the same price 

 per hundred. I have sent some of this 

 corn to the grocers on several occasions 

 each season, and it is the same old story 

 every time — the customer sends back 

 word that he wants some more of that 

 kind of corn, and one even went so far 

 as to say that he would have no other. 

 It seems to me that if our farmers 

 would pay more attention to quality 

 sometimes and less to quantity it would 

 pay them, at least in certain markets. — 

 Wm. Hewitt, in Rural New-Yorker. 



THE SPRINGFIELD BLACKCAP. 



This new black raspberry is as yet 

 but little known outside of Springfield, 

 Mass. , where it originated. The old bush 

 was found, neglected, on J. W. Adams' 

 place some years ago, and was rooted 

 up and given away as of but little value. 

 The variety was propagated, however, 

 and later attention was called to it so 

 strongly that others secured plants and 

 have since propagated it as fast as poa- 

 sible. It is thornless, and by some has 

 been considered identical with the old 

 Davidson Thornless, but the character- 

 istics of the variety belie this opinion. 

 It is an exceedingly vigorous grower, 

 hardy, a prolific bearer, and, being 

 practically thornless, is easily picked 



