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REPORT ON MISCELLANEOUS VEGETABLES 

 AT WISLEY, 1908. 



Broccoli. 



'Snow Queen' (Deal). — Plant of moderate size; compact habit; 

 medium-sized foliage ; heads of fair size, with a very close white curd. 

 Bean. 



1. 'Dwarf Bush ' (Stark). — A very prolific variety with medium-sized 

 pods. Raised from ' Burpee's Bush ' x ' Magnum Bonum.' Intermediate 

 in character between these two French Beans. 



2. 'Exhibition Longpod ' (Bunyard).— A very fine variety of the 

 Longpod Broad Bean. A variety under this name from Messrs. 

 R. Veitch received an Award of Merit, July 1, 1897. 



3. ' Kentish Invicta Prize Scarlet Runner ' (Bunyard). — A strong, 

 vigorous variety, producing very long, thick, fleshy, straight pods, of 

 a bright-green colour in good clusters. A very fine, handsome variety. 



4. 'Leviathan White Longpod,' A.M. June 30, 1908 (Carter).— Pods 

 of great length and freely produced. An excellent variety for home use 

 or exhibition. A seedling, No. 255, sent by the same firm was decided 

 to be identical with the above. 



5. 'Perpetual Dwarf French,' A.M. July 31, 1908 (Carter).— A 

 compact growing French Bean, producing great crops of medium-sized 

 pods, straight, of a dark-green colour, and bearing for a long period. 



0. ' Robin Hood Longpod ' (Harrison). — A distinct variety with long, 

 handsome pods. Abundant bearer. 



7. ' Scarlet Emperor ' (Carter). — A very large variety, resembling 

 No. 3. 



Calabash (Hayman). 



These were not a success. Evidently our summers are not hot enough 

 for them in the open. 



Dolichos Lab-lab soudanensis (Dammann). 

 No improvement on other varieties in cultivation. 



Lettuce. 



1. 'Brittle Ice' (Burpee).— A very large, coarse, spreading variety, 

 with a large heart. 



2. 'New Excelsior' Cabbage (Harrison). — This scalded so badly as 

 to be of little value. 



3. ' Wayahead ' (Burpee). — An excellent little Cabbage variety of the 

 1 Tom Thumb ' type, coming quickly into use, and standing well without 

 running to seed. 



Melon. 



1. ' Brode de Poche ' (Hindmarsh). — A scarlet-fleshed variety of 

 medium size, pale in colour, not much netted ; flesh melting, and of 

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