34 WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. [1895. 



I never raised any lettuce under glass. I don't quite understand why 

 there should be any wrangling about raising lettuce. I plant lettuce 

 in the early spring, when the ground will work, and it grows. 

 There is no trouble about its growing, I grow it just as easily as I 

 grow grass. Now there is one thing that has not been touched upon, 

 perhaps because it is not exactly a market-garden crop, and yet it is, 

 and that is turnips. Now I have tried a great many times to raise 

 early turnips, but have never succeeded in getting anything that is 

 good for anything. Last year I had a piece of new ground that had 

 not been ploughed up for forty years to my knowledge. I trimmed 

 all of the trees that were there after I had ploughed it, and got quite a 

 heap of brush on top of the furrows. I burned that over, which left 

 a good heap of ashes ; then I put on some phosphate and sowed some 

 black turnip seed. The turnips came up and they grew, and I 

 thought they were going to be good ; but when we came to eat them 

 they were not good for anything, they were as poor a lot as I ever 

 raised, although I noticed that there were good early turnips in 

 market. In regard to Rutabaga turnips, I liave raised some that 

 were first-rate. I planted them about the middle of July ; they did 

 not come up until after we had a good smart shower in August ; they 

 grew finely, and they cooked splendid. The year before, when we 

 cooked them they were black inside and strong. I don't know enough 

 to know why I have good ones this year and last year didn't have 

 good ones. I raised them very largely on phosphate this year, and 

 I did when I had black ones. I had, perhaps, a half-acre and I 

 put on some privy manure and I don't know but what they were just 

 as good and perhaps a little better there ; they grew a little larger than 

 anywhere else. I had a little bit of experience last year with cauli- 

 fiowers. I have raised splendid ones. Last year I got some early 

 plants and I set them out, and then I cultivated them. They began 

 to head out pretty soon and they got a head as big as a silver dollar, 

 and then they stopped. I don't understand it, so you see I don't 

 know anything about raising cauliflowers. Onions is another crop 

 that has not been touched upon ; I have always until this year had 

 good luck with onions. Last year I had a piece of old ground, 

 and also a piece of new ground, side by side. I had fertilized the whole 

 piece with stable manure, and I harrowed it in and ploughed it 

 thoroughly, and I put on about a bushel of wood-ashes to the square 

 rod, then 1 put on a pretty fair dressing of superphosphate, and 

 then sowed onions, four kinds of beets, several kinds of carrots, 

 lettuce, parsnips, etc. All the parsnips did splendidly, and the 



