VII 



STANDARD V.\RIETIES OF \TGETABLES 



THE amateur gardener will find it ex- 

 tremely perplexing work to make a 

 satisfactory^ selection of varieties of vege- 

 tables to grow in his garden. He knows 

 quite well, as a general thing, what ki?ids 

 he wants to grow, but when he comes to a 

 consultation of the seedsmen's catalogues he 

 discovers that of each kind of vegetable 

 listed therein there are so many varieties 

 mentioned that he is bewildered. IMost of 

 them are described as being so desirable that 

 he cannot help getting the impression that 

 if he rules out this or that one he is likel}^ 

 to deprive himself of the very thing from 

 which he would obtain the highest degree of 

 satisfaction. Xine times out of ten he finds, 

 after going through the catalogues and mark- 

 ing the kinds and varieties that appeal to 

 him most forcibly, that he has a list which 

 would furnish enough seed to supply an 

 average-sized market-garden. 



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