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and the loads of fruit will keep you in high spirits. 

 The two best varieties are Golden Queen and Liv- 

 ingston's Stone, although there are several of the 

 reds of about equal quality. The Jack Rose and 

 Earliana are notable for being very early and at the 

 same time solid and of good quality. 



Melons are halfway between vegetables and fruit, 

 and there are so many thoroughly superb sorts that 

 I can only give you a bit of my own experience. On 

 my Northern home I have succeeded with Jenny Lind 

 and the Emerald Gem among muskmelons, but with 

 watermelons I have had no success whatever in this 

 climate, with the single exception of a yellow-fleshed 

 sort, the seed of which came to me from Italy. In 

 Florida the Florida Favorite and the Dixie are two of 

 the more popular sorts, but the Triumph is a new sort 

 that meets with great and deserved favor. Probably 

 Kleckley Sweets, Paul's Bonny, and the Bradford are 

 about even rivals and all worth testing. The Rocky 

 Ford muskmelon is nothing more than the old Gem 

 grown under favorable conditions. 



Now we have the sweet corn and the peas still to 

 provide for. I grow no corn except hybrids of my 

 own creating, crosses of the Black Mexican with 

 the Minnesota, recrossed into Henderson, with the 

 blood of the Golden Nugget intermixed. It is in- 

 comparably sweeter than any that I have been able 

 to purchase. The two best peas that I grew dur- 

 ing the last year were Senator and Carter's Danby 

 Stratagem. 



