54 MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



S. A. Hall said be had not been successful in making squashes 

 follow early potatoes, as the latter shaded the squash vines and 

 made them spindling. 



Mr. Philbrick replied that in some seasons this would occur, 

 but he would plant potatoes of the early kinds, and the squash 

 vines would generally' overrun the potato vines after the latter had 

 made their growth. 



Mr. Faxon remarked that this course of culture would make the 

 garden less neat and attractive than is desirable. 



W. W. Rawson advised the cultivator to grow his own plants 

 and sell to others rather than buy from others. He said that in 

 the growing of celery flat culture is preferable ; the formation and 

 growth of suckers is to be encouraged, as it adds fulness to the 

 head. He had found the Boston Market, or strains derived from 

 it, to be as good as the crimson celeries for winter keeping. 

 Boston Market is inferior in vigor of growth to the later strains ; 

 as compared with the Arlington, for instance, it gave not more 

 than one half the yield. He agreed with most of the views pre- 

 sented in the essay, but thought there should be successive crops 

 taken from the same ground, in one season. Crops so raised 

 would cost no more, if as much, and it would be even easier by 

 this plan to keep the ground in a neat and attractive condition. 



Mr. Faxon admitted that less land would yield the crops he had 

 described if cultivated by the methods followed at Arlington, but 

 such extremely high culture had not yet become general and he 

 had kept in mind the conditions of ordinary gardening — poorer 

 land and lighter manuring. 



George A. Tapley thought the rhubarb or pie plant worthy of 

 a place among vegetables recommended for the family garden. 

 He had planted beans as early as the loth of April : a portion of 

 the same seed planted ten days later came along at least a week 

 behind that planted first. He had grown beets in forty-eight 

 days from the seed, and squashes in sixty days from the time of 

 plowing the land. He had often raised three crops of beets and 

 sometimes taken off a crop of spinach besides, making four crops 

 in one season from the same ground. 



Mr. Rawson thought this impossible unless the first crop had 

 been started under glass. 



Mr. Tapley stated that he sowed the spinach between the rows 

 of the first planting of beets and removed the spinach, all at once. 



