REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON GARDENS. 297 



between drills. We have water laid on about three acres, sup- 

 plied by a windmill. 



The farm is owned by Col. Frederick Mason. 



Warren H. Heustis's Vegetable Garden. 



Mr. John G. Barker, Chairman Garden Committee : 



The Vegetable Garden entered by me contains about twelve 

 acres, consisting of light, low, and soil bordering on the clay. 

 The farm is devoted to a general assortment of garden crops, 

 namely: parsley, carrots, lettuce, onions, spinach, dandelions, 

 cucumbers, cabbages, beans (string and shell), salsify, squashes, 

 melons, corn, rhubarb, and celery. We grow about three hundred 

 thousand celery plants, divided about equally between Paris 

 Golden and Giant Pascal, with a few thousand Boston Market. 

 The early celery is set two feet by four and one-half inches and 

 lettuce or spinach is sown between the roAvs ; for later we set 

 four feet by four and one-half inches. Lettuce is sown every 

 week, using Black Seeded Tennis Ball altogether. For parsley 

 we use the Double Curled ; carrots, the Intermediate ; onions, 

 the Danvers ; spinach, the Round Thick Leafed and the Pointed 

 Leafed ; dandelions, the Improved Thick Leafed. Of cucumbers 

 we have the White Spine, and use about five hundred hotbed 

 sashes. Of cabbages we have this year about ten thousand, 

 equally divided between All Seasons, All Head, and dumber 

 Two. Of beans we have the Golden Wax and Goddard. The 

 cabbages, cucumbers, and in fact all the crops where it is pos- 

 sible, are succeeded by celery. We use no commercial fertilizers 

 whatever, having an abundance of manure from about twelve 

 hundred pigs. For irrigation we use a sixteen-foot Eclipse wind- 

 mill and a Blake steam-pump. 



Warren H. Heustis. 



BussEY Institution, Jamaica Plain. 



On the 21st of March the Committee visited the greenhouse 

 of the Bussey Institution to see the hardy shrubs and herba- 

 ceous plants, forced by the skilful gardener, Charles Jackson 

 Dawson, whose interesting statement follows : 



