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T II E G A R D E N M A G AZIN E 
February, 1915 
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“Making Plans for the Vegetable 
Garden” 
T O THE EDITOR: In reading the excellent 
January number of The Garden Magazine, 
my attention was attracted by Mr. Wilkinson’s 
statement under the heading “What Varieties.” in 
his article, “Making Plans for a Vegetable Garden. ” 
reading as follows: “Your aim should be to grow 
1 only the highest quality. In fact, home gar- 
! deners will not be satisfied with anything but the 
| best.” I felt very much like applauding, for that 
is a great truth, which I have made the basis of 
all my past efforts in writing for The Garden 
Magazine. 
But when I began to study the list of vegetables 
supposed to represent “quality.” I fairly gasped. 
Not only did the writer make serious errors in the 
classification, hut he likewise ignored completely 
the progress of American horticulture in the vege- 
table line during the past eight or ten years. Were 
it not for the fact that readers of The Garden 
Magazine take anything printed there as gospel 
truth, the matter wouldn’t be so serious. As it is 
you are apt to get into trouble with hundreds of 
good American housewives who will surely be 
justified in “kicking” when their husbands plant 
the sorts suggested and, later on, expect them to be 
cooked. 
'the matter of suggesting Black Wax beans after 
talking of “only the highest quality” reminds me 
of a letter I received from a woman nearly ten years 
ago, while a “cub” in the seed business. That 
good lady had ordered a pint of seeds of this sort in 
the regular way from the catalogue, and got what she 
asked for. In June, she threatened to “sue the seed 
house for damages” for selling that sort of bean 
and for “trying to spite perfectly innocent people 
by giving them beans that grew small bits of wire 
ropes on their bushes.” 
That is just one illustration of where the writer is 
“off” when it comes to quality. But let me correct 
the wrong classification first, for many a good reader 
will surely get into trouble if he or she plants White 
Marrowfat beans and expects to gather bush limas. 
Don’t plant Detroit Dark Red Beet and expect 
a late crop. It’s early. Don’t waste space on 
Early Winningstadt cabbage; and learn to consider 
Copenhagen Market an early sort. 
Golden Rose celery was “a dead one” ten years 
ago. White Plume should be mentioned as an 
early sort, since it is the second best seller among 
all the celeries in cultivation. Golden Self Blanch- 
ing cannot be recommended as a late sort, because • 
it does not keep. 
None of the three sorts of sweet corn mentioned 
as “Extra Early” are as early as Peep O’Day or 
even Golden Bantam. Country Gentleman is as 
late a sort as grows and Stowell’s Evergreen has, 
for nearly ten years now, been superseded by its 
improved strain White Evergreen. 
Among the peas, Little Marvel and Gradus be- 
long in the class of the First Earlies. For heaven’s 
sake, don’t plant Alderman as a late dwarf sort. 
It’s late all right, but is a twin brother to Telephone 
which you all know to grow about five or six feet 
tall. 
In the case of spinach, the mistake in classification 
must be on the printer. The sentence: “prickly, 
grown differently from above” should appear after 
New Zealand, not before. 
Some of the varieties suggested in Mr. Wilkin- 
son’s list are so “dead” that most seedsmen don’t 
list them any longer and this will, in a degree, ) 
lessen the impending “calamity.” But I realize ! 
that no criticism is justified if it is not constructive. •' 
So I am offering a list of “pedigreed” sorts that 
The Readers ’ Service will gladly furnish information about Retail Shops 
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