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" New Queen," and I promise you she will 

 maintain her rank when so many of her degen- 

 erate sisters are losing theirs. Other queens 

 may frantically sway their sceptres in vain, but a 

 breath from her will cause many to grow sick 

 and faint. Long live the new Queen onion. 

 For the sake of our Democratic friends, I will 

 add that she is described as having a " white 

 skin." Here is something called Scorzonera. 

 The idea of asking your youngest child if he 

 would take some of that for dinner ! We come 

 next to a squash called " Hubbard," probably 

 in honor of the good old lady of that name, in 

 hopes that her "cupboard" will never be 

 "bare" of the delicious p ; es it makes. 

 Strange ! here is one called the " Boston Mar- 

 row." The profanity of suggesting in faintest 

 allusion that the marrow of Boston enters in a 

 squash ! We hardly know what we are coming 

 to in the way of Tomatoes. Every year there 



