The Garden Magazine, January, 1920 



anticipate extra quality in that 

 kind. This we find to be true 

 in Aristocrat, one of the earliest 

 midseason sorts of recent intro- 

 duction, a corn that will go 

 well with Golden Bantam, 

 Howling Mob, and other recog- 

 nized quality standards. 



When the Orient discovered 

 that America was beginning to 

 appreciate the value of Chinese 

 Cabbage, it promptly deluged 

 our trial grounds with a dozen 

 more or less seemingly indiffer- 

 ent varieties, some of which are 

 scheduled for appearance in our 

 gardens next season. Novelties 



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bers in 

 quality. 

 Those 



both appearance and 



we like to have, of course, but 

 as regards introductions from 

 Asia, it is well to remember the 

 old caution "Caveat emptor." 



Out of the maze of offerings one, Wong Bok, stands head 

 and shoulders above the original Petsai. Short and blocky 

 by comparison, Wong Bok may be looked upon to-day 

 as the heaviest yielder of quality greens in the Mustard 

 family — for such is the nature of these Chinese "cabbages." 

 Not much more than ten years ago, a market grower of 

 Grand Rapids, Mich., started out to select a strain of cu- 

 cumber that would combine the free-bearing quality of an 

 open-ground type with the superior appearance of the under- 

 glass kinds. And we have the result in Davis Perfect, 

 which yields a good crop of perfect pickles early in the sea- 

 son, while the full-grown fruit rivals the hothouse cucum- 



THE TOMATO THAT OUTRANKS THEM ALL 



In addition to its other merits Bonny Best is less acid 

 and may therefore be eaten when others are forbidden 



who enjoy creamed 

 celery and French globe arti- 

 choke will be delighted to "dis- 

 cover" Florence fennel. Cul- 

 tivated for decades in Italy for 

 its fleshy leaf base, this vege- 

 table has only recently found 

 any degree of appreciation over 

 here. As easily grown as car- 

 rots and beets, the fleshy 

 "knobs" that form the base of 

 the plants are slightly hilled 

 to blanch; cooked they develop 

 a very delicate celery flavor, 

 and may be served with a 

 creamed sauce. 



For the gardener living where 

 the season gives but ioo frost- 

 less nights and growing musk 

 melons has not been a success, the variety Early Knight 

 is recommended. Fact is that from seeds sown June 6th 

 we gathered delicious, vine-ripened fruits on September 

 6th. These musk melons average the size of a large Rocky- 

 ford, but are more elongated. 



Comparatively few of the fine exhibition Peas sent us by 

 English specialists make a permanent place for themselves 

 because of reversion. Once in a while we get a good one 

 such as Prodigious or Quite Content which for size of the 

 pods and peas is the peer of any tall midseason sort; and hot 

 or cold, dry or wet, and on poor or rich soil, it has held its 

 own and may be considered the finest strain of the desirable 



