364 Vegetables. 



VEGETABLES. 



Keyes's Early Prolific Tomato. — This new and very distinct variety 

 originated with Mr. Charles A. Keyes of Worcester, Mass. The fruit 

 is of medium size, uniformly smooth, solid, and of excellent flavor. 

 It is very early. Grown with the Tilden and other leading varieties 

 the past season in the grounds of Mr. Keyes, it ripened thirty days 

 earlier than any other sort. The fruit is produced in clusters, from 

 six to twenty in a cluster, and from seven to fifteen clusters on a vine, 

 with the fruit not more than eighteen inches from the root of the plant. 

 The foliage is large, — entirely distinct in this particular from any other 

 variety ; some of the leaves often measuring eight inches in length 

 by si.x in breadth. Being naturally of a dwarf, compact habit, it can be 

 planted as thickly as potatoes ; and may, on this account, prove a valuable 

 variety for forcing. We consider it worthy of trial, and shall grow it exten- 

 sively the coming season for an early crop. 



Black Pekin Egg-Plant, introduced the past season by Messrs. 

 Hovey & Co., is a native of China, as its name indicates. It is very dis- 

 tinct in its character. Fruit very large, round, and vv'eighing from five to 

 seven pounds each ; plant erect, vigorous, without spines ; leaves oblong., 

 and of a dark bluish-black color, quite ornamental. Fruit of this new vari- 

 ety was exhibited at the Annual Exhibition of the Massachusetts Horticul- 

 tural Society, and attracted considerable attention. Seeds of this new 

 variety can probably be procured of seedsmen the coming sprin^ 



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SiMONs's Extra Early Beet, introduced last season, fully maintains 

 its reputation for earliness ; and is an improvement on the Bassano, being 

 quite as early. Uniformly smooth, of a blood-red color, and turnip-shaped. 

 Valuable as an early variety for the market-gardener. 



C. N. Bracken. 



