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fleshy pods. Largp White Kidney — excel- 

 lent green and dry; good for field culture. 

 White Cranberry— the handsomest white 

 bean — excellent green or dry, and good for 

 field culture. Plant two inches apart in two 

 and a-half feet drills. 



Beans — Pole. — Early Dutch case-knife — 

 an early and abundant bearer. Horticultu- 

 ral Cranberry — has all the good qualities of 

 the red cranberry and is larger. Large Li- 

 ma — undoubtedly the best pole bean that 

 grows. There are other varieties, but these 

 here named are the best. The beans should 

 be planted in hills, three feet apart, in good 

 mellow earth, raised in hills. 



Beet. — ^The early Bassano and the Early 

 Blood Turnip, are the best early beets ; and 

 the Long Blood the best for winter. The 

 seed can be sown very early in warm, dry, 

 deep soil. 



Cabbage — Of these there many are excel- 

 lent varieties. Early York,Early Wakefield, 

 Early Drumhead or Buttersea, furnish early 

 varieties; and the Green Globe Savoy 

 and Comstock's Premium Flat Dutch, are as 

 good as any for winter. The Premium Flat 

 Dutch is very certain to produce large and 

 fine heads The Red Dutch is good for pick- 

 ling. 



Cahkott. — Early Horn is the earliest va- 

 riety, and the Long Orange is best for late 

 table and for stock. 



Cauufloweh. — The Early London is said 

 to do well here; and sometimes other varie- 

 ties succeed. Cultivated as cabbage. 



Celehv. — There are very many varieties. 

 The White Solid and the Superb Red are 

 as good as any. To have Celery early, it 

 should be sown in hot beds. For late crop 

 «ow in the spring, very shallow, in a seed 

 bed. When plants are large enough, they 

 should be transplanted into trenches, four 

 feet apart, a foot wide and ten inches deep, 

 made very rich with well rotted manure. 

 The plants should be placed four inches 

 apart. They should be earthed during their 

 growth,hoiding the leaves close with the hand 

 while the earth is thrown in,takiDg care that 

 none of it falls in the centre of the plants. 



Ckess. — This can be sown very thickly 

 broadcast on beds, and once a fortnight. 



CucDMBEa. — Early Russian is the earliest 

 that grows. Early Frame good for table 

 and pickling. Early Prickly, fine for pick- 

 ling. Long London Green, an excellent 

 and late variety, grows a foot in length ; for 

 pickling and for the table. Extra Long 

 Green Turkey grows a foot and a half in 

 length — fine and productive. Gherkin — 

 very small, productive, good for pickling. 



Egg Plant. — Early Long Purple, the ear- 

 liest and most productive. Fruit of superi- 

 or quality. The plants should be started in 

 a hot bed. 



EwDivE. — Green curled is the best varie- 

 ty. It can be made very crisp and tender. 

 It is cultivated for salads. Plants should be 

 thinned to a foot apart to blanch,the leaves 

 must be tied up, and earth thrown about the 

 roots. They will blanch in three weeks. 



Indian Corn. — The three varieties of 

 Sweet or Sugar Corn, known as the ear- 

 ly Red Cob, Large Sweet, and Mammoth 

 are all that is needed for table corn. The 

 first should be planted in hills two and a 

 half feet apart, the second the same ditstance, 

 and the third three feet apart. StoweU's 

 Evergreen is an excellent variety. 



Leeks. — Broad Scotch and London — The 

 seed is sown very early. The plants can be 

 transplanted, but if designed to remain in 

 the seed beds they should be six inches apart. 

 If transplanted they should be planted out 

 deep, nearly up to the leaves. This branch- 

 es the neck and increases the size. The bed 

 requires much water. 



Lettoce, — There are many varieties. Ear- 

 ly Curled Siberia, and Drumhead and Ice 

 head Lettuce, are among the best. For 

 early, sow as soon as the ground is fit. 



Melon, or Cantaledp. — The new varie- 

 ties are of delicious flavor. Green Citron, 

 Pine Apple, Nutmeg, Skillman's Nettled, 

 Beechwood, are all excellent, and nearly or 

 quite equal to pine apples. Plant late in 

 spring in hiiis five or six feet apart: scatter 

 a dozen seeds in a hill, and after they are 

 out of danger from bugs, thin them to three 



