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THE CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST. 



US at exceedingly low prices, were all 

 good, and many of them valuable. I 

 will only speak of kinds new or nearly 

 so. 



Celery. — We tried Nellis' Self- 

 Blanching, but could not see it to be 

 better than Henderson's White Plumer. 

 Both of them are early and excellent, 

 easily grown and very ornamental for 

 the table, but as they keep good only 

 till about Christmas they do not super- 

 sede the later varieties. 



Cabbage. — Nellis' Mohawk, early 

 market, is all that the catalogue claims, 

 being early, with large solid heads, 

 the best early cabbage we have tried. 

 For fall, and even winter use, we have 

 found none better than Henderson's 

 Early Sumaier; although ripening 

 early, it keeps long without bursting, 

 heads very evenly, and in weight 

 equals most of the late varieties. 



Cauliflower. — Nellis' New Sea 

 Foam, said to be ahead of all other 

 kinds, did not go ahead at all with us, 

 but I must confess neither did other 

 kinds tried, so we must not condemn 

 the Sea Foam. 



Corn. — Black Sweet Mexican, al- 

 though highly recommended, and said 

 to be the most sugary corn of all, is of 

 too swarthy a complexion to grace the 

 table ; the color is decidedly against it, 

 and it is too late in ripening in cold 

 sections; the taste, too, we think in- 

 ferior to Crosby's Early sugar corn and 

 Moore's Early — great favorites with us. 



Lettuce. — The Deacon, very good ; 

 but we still claim to have a better, and 

 the best of them all, in our own old 

 variety described in our last year's re- 

 port. 



Beet. — New Eclipse ; we don't find 

 any better than the old Egyptian beet. 



Onions. — New Golden Queen grew 

 to an immense size, but was liardly 

 matured before heavy frost set it. The 

 large Red Weathei-sfield and Danver's 



Yellow seem to be second to none yet. 

 We have always had a large proportion 

 of thick necks. Mr. Beadle, in his 

 excellent book on gardening, attributes 

 this to wet seasons. With us it has 

 been a general thing. This summer I 

 visited the grounds of a friend, a mar- 

 ket gardener near Montreal. He had 

 upwards of an acre as fine a crop as 

 the ground would carry. They were 

 nearly free from thick necks, except 

 one ridge on one side of the field, and 

 they were all thick necks. They were 

 all sowed at the same time, with the 

 same seed, manured and cultivated 

 alike, on soil seemingly the same. 

 Query, how came the difference 1 He 

 could assign no cause. 



Peas — Rural New Yorker. — The 

 earliest variety we have tried, large, 

 well-filled pods, fine flavor ; think it 

 would be a profitable field pea ; height 

 two feet. For general use we still 

 claim preference for Bliss' American 

 wonder, a perfect dwarf, very prolific, 

 early, and in flavor among the best. 



Tomatoes. Fulton's Market ripened 

 first, but with us it was roughly 

 shaped, and rotted badly; otherwise 

 it was in every respect good. New 

 Cardinal, about a week later, comes up 

 well to the catalogue description, ripens 

 early, smooth, a good keeper and ship- 

 per. The Mayflower we consider as 

 good as either of the above. 



(Concluded in next number.) 



THE WINDSOR BEAN. 



Sir, — In your issue for October Mr. 

 Simon Boy says he is only partially 

 successful in growing it. I have grown 

 it for a good many years — fifteen or 

 sixteen — nine times out of ten with 

 success ; but my theory is that it can- 

 not stand the hot sun, so 1 plant it 

 within two feet of a high, close board 

 fence, and on the north side of it — the 

 fence runs east and west, — so that dur- 



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