IX. 



WHAT TO GROW 



IN this and the following chapters I propose 

 to make mention of some of the standard varie- 

 ties of the various kinds of vegetables adapted 

 to amateur culture, and to give, in connection 

 with the descriptions of them, such suggestions 

 as may seem necessary to enable one to grow 

 them well. 



If the reader consults the catalogues of the 

 seedsmen in making his selection of seeds for 

 his garden, he will find many kinds described 

 therein of which no mention will be made by 

 me. Many of these are good. Some of them 

 may possibly be superior to those I shall refer 

 to, but most of the kinds sent out each year 

 as "desirable new sorts," "great improve- 

 ments on old varieties," and the like, prove 

 on trial, to be inferior. They may have some 

 points of merit, but these are not sufficient to 

 overcome the lack of general merit which a new 

 kind must have in order to be classed among 

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