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land. lie had grown them seven years at North Easton on the 

 same land and they improved yearly. For eight years he had done 

 the same on another estate with equally good results. He remem- 

 bered his father had kept a bed twenty-five years in the same spot 

 and the crop was always good. Dressings of soot, especially the 

 imported article, would destroy the onion maggot. He said that 

 tomatoes trained to stakes, poles, or fences were vastly superior to 

 those allowed to trail on the ground; a main stem and two laterals 

 should be allowed to each plant; the fruit ripened better and was 

 more perfect and clean than that grown under the old plan of 

 culture. 



Peep-o'-Day was the earliest sweet corn but it was small; he 

 considered Golden Dawn a splendid early sort; the kernels were 

 yellow but the flavor was delicious. In an ordinary season he 

 would sow Stowell's Evergreen after July 4; Potter's Excelsior to 

 July 10; the small early kinds from July 15 to 20; and they would 

 come in season barring a very early frost. He preferred sowing 

 corn in rows as compared with hills; the land produced more per 

 square yard under the drill than under the hill system. 



Mr. Craig said that the Golden Queen was an earlier and better 

 flavored lettuce than any of the regular forcing sorts usually grown; 

 the Commodore Nutt was small but it was a splendid extra early 

 variety which could be planted twice as close as any of the Tennis- 

 ball sorts. 



Cauliflower sown indoors in January, pricked out in flats, then 

 planted in cold frames in rich material, and kept well watered pro- 

 duced fine heads in late April through May and until peas came in 

 season. It has a much finer flavor than large, outdoor-grown 

 heads; the best forcing variety is Kronk's Extra Early Erfurt. 



Mr. Craig recommended kan-udo, commonly called udo, a new 

 Japanese vegetable received from the Department of Agriculture, 

 Washington, last season. He thought it very promising. It should 

 be planted in rows four feet apart and two feet between the plants. 

 It should be allowed to grow all summer; cut down to the ground 

 about September 1; and earth banked up a foot deep over the 

 crowns. Thick, fleshy shoots would come up through this compost 

 and could be used from the middle of October onw^ard. These 

 shoots can be used either as a salad or are excellent boiled in the 

 same wav as cauliflower and served with a white sauce. 



