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fact that Shaker's Early was on first- 

 class soil, while I grew the Perry on 

 both good and bad land. Planted June 

 lOch, Perry's Hybrid matured in quan- 

 tity for market early in September. I 

 consider it the best early corn tested to 

 follow the Cory, and the only main 

 crop variety worth growing in a climate 

 such as that of the Owen Souud Dis- 

 trict. Early Pee and Kay was about 

 two weeks later, and smaller. 



By special favour of the Clerk of the 

 weather, or otherwise, I got a test of 

 Mai'blehead Mammoth, Triumph, Squan- 

 tum Sugar, Livingston's Evergreen (an 

 improvement on Stowell's Evergreen), 

 and others. Late in September they 

 made a spurt, and early in October the 

 , ears were marketable, and we furnished 

 them to customers until the latter pai't 

 of October, when patient Winter fore- 

 closed his mortgage and stopped the 

 fun. Of coui'se we had slight fi-osts 

 before, but a protecting orchard and 

 fences moderated it, so that the corn 

 could grow until, I think, about the 

 23rd. Generally we get too much 

 frost for corn late in September. Had 

 such occurred last fall my corn experi- 

 ence would have been materially cur- 

 tailed. 



Hence these late sorts will not do 

 for us. 



Shaker's Early, Perry, Cory, Marble- 

 head, Early Minnesota, Moore's Early 

 Concord and Boston Market we man- 

 aged to select ears of on one day that 

 were tit to cook and compare. I tested 

 them cai-efully when cooked, and found 

 so little difference that my prejudice in 

 favour of Cory and Perry, caused by 

 their remarkably good behaviour as to 

 earliness, size and crop, proved strong 

 enough to make me think Cory and 

 Perry tasted a little better than the 

 others. Probably most people would 

 be unable to distinguish any difference 

 in the quality of these varieties. 



I conclude that whoever will develop 



a white-cobbed variety of Cory — call it 

 what name he pleases — and the same 

 of Perry, will do the public and him- 

 self a benefit. Were this once done, I 

 know of no other vai'ieties worth grow- 

 ing in comparison. 



Cucumbers for garden use do much 

 better when on stakes made of portions 

 of trees that afford six inches or so of 

 side branches. They climb small 

 stakes by tendrils, which cannot attach 

 themselves to thick stakes. For cu- 

 cumbers, therefore, a lot of twiggy 

 brush-wood should be tied around the 

 heavy stake. The cucumber will then 

 climb up easily. — Gardener's Monthly. 



Celery, — Henderson's White Plume 

 celery is having the effect to make 

 every man a celery gi-ower. Farm 

 hands and day laborers now find ways 

 to have a row of this appetizer in their 

 gardens. How easy the cultivation 

 when good plants can be had. A lib- 

 eral quantity of old manure is spread 

 on the top of the ground and well 

 spaded in ; some necessary hoeing and 

 stirring of the soil after setting ; some 

 banking or tying up of the plants — 

 sometimes neither, and last of all the 

 plants are dug up and stood away close- 

 ly in a box in a cool cellar, and where 

 rats do not molest, and the celery keeps 

 till wanted, sometimes into Mai'ch. — 

 The American Garden. 



CELERY LEAF BLIGHT. 



A writer in the Botanical Gazette 

 writes from Missouri : — 



This disease (Cercospora apii) annu- 

 ally destroys about one-half the celery 

 planted in this section ; last year (1886) 

 the loss occasioned by the parasite 

 was not so great as in former years, 

 owing no doubt, to the dry weather 

 which prevailed in this section. Fi-e- 

 quent showers, and heavy dews fol- 

 lowed by hot sunshine favors the 



