178 THE SEED-GROWER. 



The Mammoth Potiron is the largest pumpkin, sometimes reaches 

 two feet in diameter, from 100 to 200 pounds in weight. 



Mammoth Tours. Large size; oblong form; rind 

 deep orange, slightly mottled; flesh yellow. 



Nantucket, or Hard Shell, " Nigger Head." Flat- 

 tened or depressed form, but sometimes oblong; medium 

 or rather small size; faintly ribbed; color dark green, 

 which becomes lighter at full maturity; rind thick, 

 hard, covered more or less with warty excrescences; 

 flesh yellow, thick, fine-grained, sweet. 



Sugar. Round, flattened form; small size, eight or 

 nine inches in diameter, five or six in depth; regularly 

 ribbed; rind hard, orange-yellow; flesh light yellow, 

 fine-grained, sweet, abundant bearer. 



Tennessee Sweet Potato. Medium size, pear-shaped; 

 rind creamy-white, with light green stripes; flesh 

 creamy-white, fine-grained, sweet. 



RADISH. 



Early Varieties. Chartier. Long thick root, not 

 so long as the Long Scarlet; red, shading to white at 

 the bottom. 



Early Deep Scarlet Turnip, or Cherry, Ne Plus Ultra, 

 Red Turnip, Scarlet Button. Spherical root, when full- 

 grown measuring about an inch in diameter; skin deep 

 scarlet; flesh white, sometimes stained with red. 



Earliest Scarlet Erfurt, or Early Bird, Fire Ball. 

 The earliest red round-rooted variety; small root, small 

 top. 



Earliest White Short-top Turnip, or Hail Stone. 

 The earliest white round-rooted radish; small bulb, 

 short leaves. 



French Breakfast. Oval root, the upper part scarlet, 

 the bottom tipped with white. 



