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* s Improved Purple Top Ruta Baga. 

 This is grown for feeding stock and also for 

 table use. It is oblong in shape, yellow 

 flesh, very solid. Should always be sown 

 in rows or ridges. 

 Long Island Purple Top Ruta Buga. 



"This kind is purely of American origin. 

 The root is smoother than the foregoing 

 variety, the flesh is of golden yellow, fine 

 grained and solid; it is earlier to mature. 

 The stock we have is expressly grown for 

 us on Long Island and cannot be surpassed. 

 Cannot be too highly recommended. 

 Extra Early White French, or 



^White Egg". This is a lately introduced 

 variety ; is said to be very early, tender and 

 crisp. The shape of it is oblong, resembling 

 an egg. Having tried it we found it as 

 represented, quickly growing, tender and 

 sweet. It will never become a favorite 



market variety, as only flat kinds sell well 

 in this market. It has to be pulled up 

 soon, as it becomes pithy shortly after at- 

 taining maturity. 



*fextra Early Purple Top Munich. 

 Recently introduced from Germany; fiat, 

 with red or purple top; same as the Ameri- 

 can variety, but fifteen days earlier to ma- 

 ture. It is very hardy, tender, and of fine 

 flavor. 



* Large Cow Horn. A lcng white varie- 

 ty of very good quality, shaped like a cow's 

 horn, from which the name. It is good for. 

 feeding stock. 



^ Sweet German, or Hanover. Re- 

 sembles the Ruta Baga in growth; it is a 

 white flesh variety, very solid and sweet. If 

 sown in the fall will keep well until spring 

 without getting pithy like the flat varieties,. 



Improved Purple Top Ruta Baga. Extra Early White French or White Egg Turnip. 



, THE VEGETABLE PEAR. 



Sycios or Sechium edulis. 



The Vegetable Pear, or "Mirliton,' , as the Creoles here call it, belongs to the Gourd, 

 family, and is known to botanists under the name of '-One-Seeded Cucumber." Like 

 most of the Gourds the plant is a vine and may be trained upon a trellis, on a fence or 

 arbor; it is verv ornamental rnd rn fbnndant bearer. The fruit, if prepared right, forms; 



The Silver Roving Cup was Captured by us at the late Horticultural Exhibits 



