178 THE SEED-GROWER. 
The Mammoth Potiron is the largest pumpkin, sometimes reaches 
two feet in diameter, from 100 to 200 pounds in weight. 
Mammoth Tours. Large size; oblong form; rind 
deep orange, slightly mottled; flesh yellow. 
Nantucket, or Hard Shell, ‘‘ Nigger Head.’? Flat- 
tened or depressed form, but sometimes oblong; medium 
or rather small size; faintly ribbed; color dark green, 
which becomes lighter at full maturity; rind thick, 
hard, covered more or less with warty excrescences; 
flesh yellow, thick, fine-grained, sweet. 
Sugar. Round, flattened form; small size, eight or 
nine inches in diameter, five or six in depth; regularly 
ribbed; rind hard, orange-yellow; flesh light yellow, 
fine-grained, sweet, abundant bearer. 
Tennessee Sweet Potato. Medium size, pear-shaped; 
rind creamy-white, with light green stripes; fiesh 
creamy-white, fine-grained, sweet. 
RADISH. 
Early Varieties.—Chartier. Long thick root, not 
so long as the Long Scarlet; red, shading to white at 
the bottom. 
Early Deep Scarlet Turnip, or Cherry, Ne Plus Ultra, 
Red Turnip, Scarlet Button. Spherical root, when full- 
grown measuring about an inch in diameter; skin deep 
scarlet; flesh white, sometimes stained with red. 
Earliest Scarlet Erfurt, or Early Bird, Fire Ball. 
The earliest red round-rooted variety; small root, small 
top. 
Earliest White Short-top Turnip, or Hail Stone. 
The earliest white round-rooted radish; small bulb, 
short leaves. 
French Breakfast. Oval root, the upper part scarlet, 
the bottom tipped with white. 
