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Champion op Englahtd. — One of the tall-growing sorts, 

 usually about five feet Mgh, but long known as one of the finest 

 quality. Its great length of vine is a serious inconvenience, and 

 it is doomed to be crowded out by some of the shorter-growing, 

 and therefore, more manageable varieties. 



Lajcton's Alpha. — A new sort that we have not grown, but 

 is highly commended by others, as the earliest blue wrinkled 

 marrow, being earlier than McLean's Little Gem, and wonder- 

 fully productive. It is said to be a cross between Laxton's 

 Prolific and McLean's Advancer. It grows about three feet high. 



McLean's Wonderful. — ^Another new wrinkled marrow, 

 growing about three feet high, of robust habit, very prolific, and 

 said to be of excellent flavor. 



We name these new sorts, believing they will prove to be valua- 

 ble varieties with us, not growing so tall as to require supports, 

 and possessing the richness and delicacy of flavor so much, 

 desired. 



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Being naturally tropical plants, it is necessary to start the 

 plants in a hot-bed, or in the house, in order to give them a 

 longer season than they could have when sown in the open, 

 ground. The seed is sown thinly, and about half an inch deep, 

 in the month of April, and the plants cared for in the same man- 

 ner as Tomato plants. When the weather has become settled, 

 and frosts no longer feared, tns plants shoiQd be set out in the 

 open ground, choosing a light, warm soU, with a sunny aspect, 

 and planting them in rows eighteen inches apart, and twelve 

 inches between the plants in the row. 



In some places they are grown extensively for pickle manu- 

 facturers, and sold to them by weight. When grown for this 

 purpose, they are usually planted in rows about two feet apart, 

 and the plants fifteen inches apart in the row. The thick-fleshed 

 varieties are preferred for this use, and these usually yield about 

 three tons to the acre. 



