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than any other strain. Peanuts we have no difficulty what- 

 ever in raising, even the Mammoth having time to mature 

 on Long Island. Further north the Spanish peanut, which 

 is usually raised, would undoubtedly be more satisfactory be- 

 cause of the shorter time necessary in developing. The pea- 

 nut pays to raise if for nothing else than a summer cover 

 crop and as a legume benefitting the ground enormously. 



Sakurajimah radish is another great favorite of ours 

 with which we have worked for ten or twelve years. The 

 largest one we have raised weighed forty-two pounds. It 

 should be treated as a winter radish and planted late. Other- 

 wise it runs to seed. It will average from twelve to twenty 

 pounds in weight. The leaves are very long, sometimes 

 reaching four feet. The mid rib is excellent, stewed; the 

 green portion of the leaves makes fine greens, and the radish 

 itself, being as delicate as a spring French radish and crisp, 

 is fine sliced and eaten raw or cooked like turnips. It will 

 keep all winter and is a very great addition to our vegetables. 

 It is a favorite of Japan. We have tried out all sorts and 

 kinds of pumpkins and again found Japan had all other ter- 

 ritories down and out. Their Chirimen, which ranks as 

 number one in Japan (where all vegetables are numbered 

 according to their quality), is not large, but is almost solid 

 pumpkin, with a very small seed cavity, thin skinned, ribbed 

 like a cantaloupe, but flatter, and keeps perfectly for a year 

 and a half in a common attic without any particular care. 



We now get down to the fall season, and besides the regu- 

 lars such as spinach, late sweet corn, lettuce, onions, potatoes, 

 celery, cabbage and cauliflower, there is Brussels sprouts. 

 We found tremendous disappointment in this and also great 

 variation. No matter where we purchased seed we had good, 

 bad and indifferent plants of all sorts of heights and all sorts 

 of sprouts from large, mushy ones to hard, little ones the 

 size of a marble. Our disappointment was annual until we 

 found the Case strain, developed by Frank Case of Cutcho- 

 gue, Long Island, whose seed is carefully grown and rogued 

 and whose plants are uniform in height and in bearing quali- 

 ties. Brussels sprouts continue the income not only through 

 December, but on the Island frequently into February, when 



