VEGETABLES POTATO. 265 



Rul)y Kiil, Introduced two years ago, and a decided 

 acquisition. The peppers grow from four and a half to 

 six inches long by three and a half to four inches thick, 

 are bright-red in color, and are mild and pleasant to the 

 taste. 



Squash or Tomato-Shaped, Generally grown for 

 pickling, hardly so early as the Bull Nose, but very pro- 

 ductive, and the leading market variety. 



Golden Dawn, Of the same shape and size as the Large 

 Bell, but of more delicate flavor, while the color, as the 

 name indicates, is a beautiful golden .yellow. 



Cranberry, One. of the best for pickling. The fruit 

 closely resembles the Cranberry in appearance. 



Long Ked Cayenne, The variety of commerce. Pods 

 small, cone-shaped, scarlet when ripe. It is quite a 

 late variety, but the pods are as frequently used for pick- 

 ling green as when ripe. 



POTATO.-- (SoZcmwi tuberosum.) 



The soil acknowledged to be best suited for the Potato 

 is sandy loam ; in all heavy soils it is more subject to 

 disease, and the flavor is also much inferior ; this, how- 

 ever, is true of nearly all vegetables, heavy land inducing 

 a watery insipidity of flavor. Like all robust-growing 

 vegetables, Pototoes can be grown with varying success 

 on soils of all kinds and in all conditions of fertility, but 

 it is every way most profitable to use an abundance of 

 manure when it is at all attainable. In breaking up good 

 pasture land, the decaying sod answers sufficiently well 

 for the first year in lieu of manure. Manure is applied 

 either in the rows or hills, or broadcast over the surface, 

 and plowed in ; the latter plan being in all cases pre- 



