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new Ilvbrid INIelou, — Fay's Triumph, — weighing from eleven 

 and one-half to fourteen pounds each. This melon is a cross 

 between the Iroudequoit and Christiana, and of tine flavor. Mr. 

 Fay also showed extra fine specimens of Surprise, Christiana, 

 Emerald Gem, and Hackensack melons, besides a general display 

 of melons, consisting of twenty-one specimens, making the largest 

 and best collection of green and salmon flesh melons ever shown 

 in the Hall by a single exhibitor. Mr. Fay has been a large con- 

 tributor at our weekly exhibitions all through the season, and his 

 exhibits have attracted particular attention on account of their 

 excellence. 



Among the novelties in the way of new vegetables introduced 

 the past season may be mentioned Burpee's Dwarf Lima Bean, 

 exhibited here for the first time August 30, by C. E. Grant. 

 This new bean should not be confounded with Henderson's Bush 

 Lima (noticed in our last report), which is a small bean, belonging 

 to the Carolina or Sieva class. Burpee's Bush Lima is a perfect 

 bush bean with pods and beans as large as those of the well- 

 known Large Lima Pole bean. The plants grow from eighteen 

 to twenty-two inches in height, with a strong and branching main 

 stem and thick leathery foliage, indicating a strong constitution. 

 Each plant will produce under ordinary field culture from twent}'- 

 five to fifty pods, each pod containing three or four beans ; gen- 

 erally three. In field culture of the Pole Lima, the cost of poles 

 and the labor of setting them adds considerably to the expense 

 of the crop, while in gardens they are anything but ornamental. 

 With the introduction of this new bean we now have both the 

 Large and Small Lima in bush form, which can be grown with no 

 more trouble or expense than common bush beans. We consider 

 this bean a great acquisition, and have no doubt it will soon become 

 a popular variety with market gardeners. 



At the Annual Exhibition, in September, the show of vegeta- 

 bles was large and fine — a credit to any State or society. Market 

 gaidening, as carried on around Boston, is probably not excelled 

 in any other locality in the country. In Arlington, Belmont, and 

 other suburban towns, large areas are devoted to vegetable 

 houses, where all through the winter and early spring may be 

 seen immense quantities of finely grown vegetables under glass. 

 There are also, among these market-gardeners, specialists, who 

 devote their whole attention to the growing of either Celer}-, 



