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and best variety for the table ; next to this, and the best for 

 winter use is the Altringliam. A deep, rich, sandy soil is best 

 adapted to the beet and carrot. 



Few vegetables are more palatable than good beets, and they 

 deserve a more frequent visit at our tables than we are ac(?us- 

 tomed now to give them. The best variety for all seasons of 

 the year is the early turnip. 



Pumpkins. — While we would not discourage the raising of 

 the ordinary field pumpkin for feeding stock, we would earn- 

 estly recommend the small sweet variety for pies and table use. 

 Who does not wait with anxious longing for the season of 

 pumpkin pies to return, and with what a keen and hearty relish 

 are they welcomed and devoured ; now if you would have your 

 palates tickled with a new and more agreeable sensation, pro- 

 cure the sweet pumpkin, and let the good lady of the house 

 display her skill upon that which nature evidently designed for 

 pumpkin pies. 



We should be glad to follow out the list of vegetables on 

 exhibition to-day and speak of each in detail, but the growing 

 length of our report forbids such a reference. In conclusion, 

 we may add, that the present variety and excellence of our 

 vegetables has only been obtained by careful research and per- 

 severing effort. Let then the spirit that has animated the past, 

 in this department of agriculture, be applied to the future also ; 

 then we may hope that the time will come, when the vegetable 

 gardens that refresh and adorn the rural homes of our land 

 will bear some humble resemblance to that which was planted 

 more than three thousand years ago, amid the bowers and fruits 

 of Paradise. 



J. S. Brown, Chairman. 



