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Pure specimens I have rarely seen, and an attractive object in 

 the horticultural department of the last exhibition, was an ear of 

 pure blue sweet corn from Canada, which I have procured for 

 seed, and another year will endeavor to obtain a supply for those 

 who take other than a pecuniary interest in this variously formed 

 and colored grain 



CATTLE ROOTS. 



• Beets. 



The red and long yellow mangold wurzel, and white sugar, 

 were grown on deep loomy soil, from seed sown on the twenty- 

 ninth of May, in drills eighteen inches apart and the plants 

 thinned one foot distant in the rows. The ground wds prepared 

 with a good supply of yard manure and deeply worked. 



The superior growth on that portion, furnished with manure 

 collected when feeding beets, has after trial the second year, sat- 

 isfied me in regard to the good result attending this course of 

 cultivation, a full account of which is to be found in your Transac- 

 tions of last year. 



Carrots. 

 These were grown on soil similar with the preceding, prepared 

 in the same manner with perhaps rather more attention to its 

 thorough pulverisation and the addition of a light dressing of 

 wood ashes between the rows when the plants were about six 

 inches high. 



Of the five varieties cultivated, the " Belgian white" gave the 

 largest yield. The " big orange " were of handsome growth and 

 the return remunerative. It is a highly desirable and long estab- 

 lished variety and by many esteemed superior. 



The result of the Altringham was not satisfactory, notwith- 

 standing, I had some good specimens, the growth was very un- 

 even, the rows containing many inferior roots, and either I have 

 expected too much from it, or else have been furnished with im- 

 pure seed, which is probable, as this is the second season I have 

 endeavored to grow it and have not yet had an approach to what 



