cauliflowers, No. 1, grown from seed. In spite of almost daily personal attention and care there is 

 hardly a head of either cabbage or cauliflower planted on acre No. 1 in the home plot, in order to keep 

 it under continual observation, that does not show anything from slight injury to absolute destruction 

 from this very serious imported blight. The long continuing overcast Turkishbath weather has sent 

 the shallots into a weedy-like growth resembling closely marsh grass effect. Peppers are apparently the 

 only things that are truly happy. Summer lettuce lately planted is making a weedy growth, with the 

 exception of one variety which came up turnips, a mixture I understand skilfully concocted by a dis- 

 charged foreman of one of our American seedsmen who carried out exactly the same methods of revenge 

 pursued by a superintendent of a German house who succeeded in absolutely destroying all landscape 

 gardening effects in Europe and America where nasturtiums were part of the color scheme. Various 

 summer radishes lately planted look more like foliage plants than vegetables. Corn, of course, is su- 

 premely happy. In the cabbage patch acre No. 2 imported plants, the growth of black rot and fuzzy 

 cabbage louse is far superior in vigor to the cabbage plant itself. Our splendid stand of kohl-rabi has 

 been infected from the cabbage just east of it through the medium of our frequently prevailing 

 northeast winds. In order to save them, we shall ship all we have at once. The finest lot of kale that 

 I have ever seen even about Long Island City has also been affected by imported black rot and louse 

 so that it must be cut and shipped immediately in order to pull out all we can. The carrots, both 

 first and second planting, are paying beautifully. The shell beans, although as erratic in growth and 

 set as elsewhere according to reports throughout the United States, show freedom from anthracnose 

 and other blights, because of continual and early use of bordeaux. Turnips planted July 20th appear 

 to be in fine condition. Salsify and scorzonera show up superbly. The tips of the salsify leaves are 

 shrivelled and black and occasionally the same effect is seen in the scorzonera, a normal peculiarity. 

 The frost touched golden bantam and peep-o'-day corn is making up for lost time, many of the stalks 

 running three and four ears on main and side shoots. Brussels sprouts planted among this corn show 

 up best of all plantings. Parsnips supremely happy, and sugar beets ditto. Turnips of August 4th 

 show in even and very nearly straight rows. Sprouts in acre No. 6 are in spots badly affected by the 

 louse. Cauliflower, home grown, which was in fine shape, affected badly by imported blight. Potatoes 

 show same erratic browning, which is strikingly prevalent in every section of Long Island and I should 

 judge throughout the United States from reports in the papers. Beans on acre No. 3 would be fine 

 specimens in the best bean season ever known. This beyond question entirely due to bordeaux applied 

 as soon as plants appeared. Onions planted June 13th on acre No. 3 show that ground is in far from 

 proper condition to suit onion germination and growth. The same erratic showing of rows is here 

 that was found in the first planting made on acre No. 2. The cabbage set out in acre No. 3 has done 

 marvelously well, yielding a very large percentage of not only marketable, but very large solid heads. 

 First planting of onions still reminds one very much of a shave with a dull razor. The beets, because 

 late germinations, have somewhat caught up and transplanthigs have helped out broken rows, are grow- 

 ing thriftily and look somewhat like a well kept market-garden. Turnips planted on acre No. 2 were 

 superb the day before yesterday ; to-day leaf and even bulb have rotted so badly that in appearance and 

 stench the showing is awful. Endive for the first time is making beautiful growth and promise for crop 

 is excellent. 



"Melons I hardly dare speak of, for fear they will have the blight. The acre is the most beautiful 

 patch I have ever seen and I came from a melon country. The set is superb, the bees are marvelously 

 thick and the melons are fiUing out large and shapely. The assorted blighted and measly celery plants 

 have at last secured enough vigor through copious doses of wood ashes, Long Island fertility, diluted 

 salt water coming to us in the form of fog, to show considerable promise. The very best of the bunch, 

 however, is golden self-blanching, raised in No. I's seed-bed. 



"In our vegetable flower garden, peppers, are as elsewhere, superb both in leaf and fruit. The 

 cardoon shows here and there leaf blight, but makes up in part by a number of good sized buds. 

 Scarlet runner is growing luxuriantly with no sign of vegetable enemy. On the United States Govern- 

 ment plot both haricot beans and lawTi are in fine shape. The squash and pumpkin samples near house 

 plot we have apparently saved in part from the ravages of the brood of the small striped beetle, 

 who do not seem to keep ahead of the special brand of imported blight. Celeriac and celery look like a 

 convalescent's home. In the orchard, acre No. 4, the trees are making superb growth. Crimson 

 clover well nigh covers bare places. Tomato plants are most disheartening, besides the loss of at least 

 85% of the set crop, the wet weather is rotting the plant itself so that from the present outlook 90% 

 total loss is probably nearer to fair statement. The yellow raspberries from which we even had a small 

 yield are dying rapidly. Will endeavor to discover cause. Peanuts 'all to the merry.' For some 

 reason limas look particularly thrifty, reason unknown; they should be totally or nearly destroyed by 

 mildew. Corn on acre No. 7 superb, in silk, in growth, in tassel, and leaf. Early cucumbers' season 

 about done; yield and freedom from disease first rate. Squashes of all varieties have done particu- 

 larly well and still making fine fruit. Turnips sown July 29th splendid. Late tomatoes are holding up 

 well. Eggplants with the aid of a large assortment of bumblebees, are settling remarkably well. 

 Some of the late tomatoes are apparently keeping in style by rotting from the ground up. 



"We life partners have in going over acres Nos. 8, 9. and 10 imbibed a vegetable ni'nt-julip or 

 cocktail according to one's early environment, the late cabbages, red, curly-leafed, and regular; the 

 Brussels sprouts, and the late cauliflower, which are as magnificent as anyone could possible see. Oc- 

 casionally there is an affected leaf, which to us shows that the spores from the imported plants have 

 been wafted their way. Bordeaux has done well, but we are taking no chances nor omitting any pre- 

 cautions whatever, and to-day all hands are picking infected leaves. The sweet potatoes remind me 

 of Loveland, Ohio ; more cannot be said. Two rows of sunflowers planted for the benefit of the feathered 

 stock go billowing across the field showing plainly where the stumps were burned last year. The soaked 

 sugar-beets have at last about caught up with the unsoaked rows. The test mangels are doing splen- 

 didly. The black Mexican sugar corn is in tassel and .showing up well. Second planting of early 

 corn all well and made quite an even stand throughout. In .spite of frequent showers and downpours, 



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