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Norway, Sweden, Poland and Russia. All have been success- 

 ful, *and the descendants of the Slav races settled near the 

 county seat of Suffolk County have inside of five years built a 

 big church and a fine hall, erected fences, reconstructed houses 

 and built barns, until prosperity quickly achieved is marked 

 by even the most unobserving of observers. Fruit trees are 

 being set out by men who recognize the fact that western fruit, 

 while handsome to look upon and big because filled with water, 

 has no flavor, — a fact which is rapidly being discovered by 

 even the city dweller, who has had no opportunity to learn 

 the taste of fresh vegetables or high-class fruits except by an 

 occasional visit to some country cousin or a summer vacation 

 spent in the country. 



The Long Island Railroad experiment stations have further 

 demonstrated that there are many' extremely valuable vege- 

 tables, well known in Europe and imported from there at 

 heavy expense, that can be grown with ease under Long Island 

 conditions. Sea kale, earlier than asparagus, coming at a 

 time when human nature craves fresh green things, is an 

 extremely valuable addition to the limited number of vege- 

 tables known generally to Americans. LTdo, a Japanese favor- 

 ite, can be cut in the open in December and January, if pro- 

 tected by a mulch. The Sakurajima radish, a mammoth fel- 

 low, as delicate as our best spring radish, with firm, fine flesh, 

 is an excellent addition to our bill of fare, either raw or 

 cooked. There is also Pe-tsai, the most delicate of the cabbage 

 family, more like a solid-headed lettuce in appearance, and 

 with three times the amount of leaves (beautifully blanched) 

 ever found in the finest Big Boston grown. Then we have 

 Saxony potatoes, the only potato that makes real potato salad, 

 sweet potatoes, just as sweet and firm or just as mealy as you 

 wish. The Spanish onion, sweet as an apple, is delicious when 

 eaten raw and equally good cooked, making bulbs from seed 

 weighing over 2 pounds apiece, and selling as high as two for 

 35 cents. The famous French cantaloupe, sold for $2.50 

 apiece in the markets of Paris, is one-third the size of the big, 

 coarse Montreal melon, and ten times as good. There are 

 others, many others, for the list is a very long one. So the 

 opportunities presented for the young man or young woman 



