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THE CUBA REVIEW 



turnips, dandelions, endive, mustard, spinach, Swiss chard, parsley, garlic, Iccks, shallots, 

 cabhage, kohl rabi and sweet potatoes. 



2. The Kinds With Which We Have Had Fair Success 



These are Irish potatoes, beans (bush, lima and pole), cucumbers, pumi)kins, squash, 

 Bermuda onion sets, celery, collards, and peas. 



3. The Kinds That We Have Found Almost a Failure. 



These are sweet corn, musk melons, watermelons, kale, American onions, broccoli, 

 Brussels sprouts, and cauliflower. 



The varieties of the different kinds of vegetables that wc have found to succeed 

 the best, both from test and observation, are as follows : 



List of Varieties Recommended. 

 Beans (Lima). Endive. 



Potato Leaf (pole), Henderson's Bush Giant Fringed. 



Lima, Burpee's Bush Lima, Dutch Case- 

 knife (pole). 

 Beans (Snap). 



Stringless Green Pod, Refugee, Red 



Valentine. 

 Beets. 



Edmond's Blood Turnip, Extra Early 



Eclipse, Crimson Globe. 

 Cabbage. 



Early Winningstadt, All Season, Early 



Jersey Wakefield, Steen's Flat Dutch, 



Late Flat Dutch. 

 Carrots. 



Carenten, Nantes, Strain, Half Long 



Stump, Rooted, Half Long Danvers. 

 Cauliflower. 



(Try) Extra Early Snowball. 

 Celery. 



Golden Self Blanching. 

 Chard. 



Swiss. 

 Collards. 



Georgia. 

 Dandelions. 



Improved Thick Leaved. 

 Eggplant. 



New York Purple. Black Beauty. 



Kohl Rabi. 



Early White Vienna. 

 Lettuce for commercial growing. 



Hubbard Market, Big Boston, California 



Cream Butter. 

 Lettuce for the home garden. To those 



already mentioned may be added : 



Iceberg. Mignonette, Grand Rapids, 



Paris White Cos. 

 Salsify. 



Mammoth Sandwich Island. 

 Spinach. 



New Zealand, Long Standing. 

 Tomatoes. 



Matchless, Livingston's Beauty, Bol- 



giano's Best. 

 Turnips. 



Red Top Globe Shaped, Flat Dutch Strap 



Leaved, Golden Ball. 

 Rut'i Baga. 



Purple Top Improved. 

 Okra. 



Long Green. White Velvet. 

 Potatoes (Irish). 



Red Bliss Triumph, Early Rose. 

 Potatoes (Sweet). 



General Grant, Red Nose, Hanover Yam. 



The growing of vegetables upon a commercial scale for export to the United 

 States has already become a well established industry and is rapidly growing. The 

 leading kinds of vegetables that it has been found profitable to grow for this trade are 

 tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, Bermuda onion, and Irish potatoes. The varieties of these 

 vegetables have already been given in the list. 



There is also no doubt in our minds that when we have reliable refrigerator 

 transportation upon the steamship lines many kinds of the more tender vegetables 

 can be grown profitably for the export trade, such as celery, beets, carrots, lettuce, 

 etc., but at the present time the commercial grower will have to content himself with 

 the production of vegetables of the hardier types that can stand the long delays and 

 rough handlings that are common in the pioneer life of this industry. 



We have put in a few pictures of vegetables as grown either here at the Station 

 or on the farm of some grower in the Island. They give an idea of what has been 

 and what can be done. There is no reason why every person living in Cuba should 

 not have something fresh from the garden nearly every month in the year, and for 

 most of the time an abundance of choice garden vegetables. A garden in any country 

 means work and it is equally so in Cuba. 



