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Exhibitions. Tliis is the last and best of the vahiable new varieties 

 raised b}^ the late Eev. C. E. Goodrich, Chaplain of the State Lunatic 

 Asylum at Utica, New York, who, during a course of experiments, ex- 

 tending through fifteen years, raised and tested over sixteen thousand 

 seedlings. The Goodrich is a seedling of the Cuzco, very early, healthy, 

 enormously productive, and of the finest table quality; long, smooth 

 eyes, on the surface, flesh and skin white, said to be the best of all Mr. 

 Goodrich's productions. 



Full grown specimens of this potato were shown at the Philadelphia 

 Horticultural Society's Exhibition on the 16th of June last, which took 

 the first prize over all other sorts. 



Erom the favorable accounts received from all directions where this 

 potato has been grown, together with oui* own experience with it during 

 the past season, we recommend it with confidence, believing it will prove 

 a valuable early market variety. 



Simons' Extra Eaely Beet. — Introduced last season from Phila- 

 delphia by the Chairman, maintains its well earned reputation. It is 

 quite an improvement on the Bassano, being quite as early, smooth, of a 

 blood red color, and very handsome shape. 



Keyes' Eakly Prolific Tomato. — This new variety was originated 

 by Mr. C. A. Keyes, of Worcester, in 1864. It came up in a plot of 

 ground where several varieties had been grown the preceding year. Not 

 having the appearance or the usual smell of the tomato plant, Mr. Keyes 

 transplanted it out of curiosity. The i^lant produced a cluster of fruit, 

 twenty in number, within twelve inches of the root of the plant, ripening 

 at least thirty days earlier than any of the several varieties in Mr. Keyes' 

 grounds. This year he tested it with the Tilden and other leading kinds, 

 and found it thirty days earlier than either. Whole clusters, from six to 

 twenty in a cluster, of the Prolific were fully ripe, while the Tilden con- 

 tained but one single specimen on the vine. The fruit of this variety 

 grows in clustei-s, from seven to twenty clusters on a vine, with the fruit 

 not over eighteen inches from the root. The foliage is very large, some 

 of the leaves measiiring eight inches in length by six inches breadth, 

 entirely distinct from other varieties. Fruit of medium size, uniformly 

 smooth, solid, and of excellent flavor. 



Mr. Keyes exhibited both fruit and foliage of this tomato at the An- 

 nual Exhibition, and it is, in the opinion of the Committee, a new and 

 distinct variety, and worthy of trial. In order to preserve this or any 

 other variety in its purity, seed for jDlanting should be saved only from 

 the smoothest, best formed, and earliest ripened fruit. All the varieties 

 rapidly degenerate if grown from seed taken from late, immature fruit, 

 remaining on the plants at the close of the season. 



