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before. The varieties were Early Frame, Chartier, and Chi- 

 nese Rose. The roots were beautiful, glossy, scarlet, straight, 

 and true. In fact, we could easily have made a bunch of 

 Chartiers equal to the colored plates sent out by the originator. 

 The Early Frame may have been a little ahead of the Chartier ; 

 but three days later, the Chartiers were much larger and finer. 

 In three days more (thirty- three in all) we had Early Bloom- 

 dale turnips fit for the table. They, too, were wonderfully 

 handsome, both radishes and turnips being crisp and sweet, far 

 beyond the ordinary. The Grand Rapids lettuce was also fit to 

 put on the market-wagon in thirty days. Of course, it did not 

 make large heads in that time, but the leaves were as large as 

 one's hand, and the plants made very fine basket lettuce. How 

 much of this is due to the strawberry-plants and how much to 

 the manure and how much to the ashes, we can not tell ; but I 

 think just about the combination was needed for the results 

 noted. Mr. E. C. Green, of the Ohio Experiment Station, 

 looked them over yesterday, and he said he had never seen any 

 thing to excel it in the way of a crop, in only thirty days. It 

 should be remembered, that the ground was our best creek-bot- 

 tom ground that had been enriched and worked over for the 

 past four or five years. 



Adjoining the above patch are some of our rows of straw- 

 berries which were also put out with the transplanting-tubes on 

 the loth of July. We did not think best, however, to put 

 strawberries where strawberries had been the season before. 

 These strawberry- plants, in thirty days have sent out runners 

 and made little plants so that some of them are well enough 

 rooted to bear removing from the parent plants ; that is, by the 

 aid of the tubes. Now, these few results give one a glimpse of 

 what is possible in market-gardening, as well as in strawberry- 

 raising. In forty days the radishes can easily be cleaned off, 

 and another crop of something else can be turned off before 

 winter. I am planning to transplant some of the Grand Rapids 

 lettuce where the radishes are taken off, and thus get large 



