LEADING VEGETABLE CROPS 2I3 



The list of varieties of the potato perhaps changes 

 more rapidly than with any other widely cultivated 

 plant. The varieties popular with our grand- 

 fathers are scarcely recognized, except as a matter of 

 history, by the present generation. The profitable 

 cultivation of a variety of potatoes rarely extends 

 over a period of more than fifty years. This is 

 largely accounted for by the propagation of the po- 

 tato from the abnormally developed parts, under 

 which conditions deterioration invariably takes 

 place after a considerable length of time. 



Varying seasons, soils and uses make a wide range 

 of variety selection possible. Under southern con- 

 ditions, especially for trucking purposes. Bliss 

 Triumph, Bovee, Irish Cobbler, Early Ohio and 

 Early Rose are largely cultivated, Bliss Triumph 

 being by far the most popular of the list. Under 

 northern conditions the Early Ohio, Irish Cobbler, 

 Early Rose and Beauty of Hebron are extensively 

 grown as early sorts, while the Green Mountain, 

 Rural New Yorker, Carman and Sir Walter Raleigh 

 are the leading winter varieties. 



RADISH 



The radish is one of the most popular and impor- 

 tant of the spring and early summer vegetable 

 crops. It is very easily grown and reaches an 

 edible size in from three to six weeks after sowing. 

 Although one of the minor garden crops, it is grown 

 in large quantities by the gardeners directly supply- 

 ing city markets, and in certain sections of the 

 South is grown extensively as a truck crop for 

 northern markets. It is also being more exten- 

 sively used as a forcing crop in greenhouses and 

 hotbeds. Frame and greenhouse forcing has be- 



