The following most practical list of the best varieties of 
vegetable seeds for a private garden was given to us by 
John Easer, gardener for Mrs. Albert Herter of Easthampton, 
Long Island, and holds good for all moderately sandy soils on 
the Atlantic coast. We hope to have a list suitable for other 
localities in the March Bulletin. 
VEGETABLE Beans (Stringless) Masterpiece 
SEEDS Beans (Lima) Henderson's Bush Lima 
Beet 
Cabbage 
Carrots 
Cauliflower 
Celery- 
Corn 
Lettuce 
Peas 
Baspberries 
Dreer's Carpenteria 
Dreer's Pole Lima 
Crosby Egyptian 
Copenhagen Market 
Early French Forcing 
Marshall Intermediate 
The "Dry Weather" 
White Plume 
Winter Queen 
Golden Bantam 
Howling Mob 
Evergreen and Country 
Gentlemen 
Big Boston 
Early Bird 
Champion of England 
Quiet Content 
St. Eegis, Everbearing 
Best for hot weather. 
Early. 
Mid-summer. 
Late. 
Early as Jersey Wakefield 
and has much larger and 
firmer head. 
Early and easy to bleach. 
Later. 
Early. 
Mid-summer 
Late. 
Mid-summer 
Early. 
Mid-summer. 
Late. 
June until frost. 
Mrs. Francis King's Garden. 
As a member of the Garden Club of Michigan, it was with 
eager anticipation that I went to Orchard House, to see this 
garden and describe it for the Bulletin. It was just ten years 
ago that Mrs. King inspired us to start a Garden Club and 
became its first president. Since then she has continued to 
stimulate our interest and arouse our imaginations with reports 
of important work being done, news of new and rare plants and 
fascinating (and successful) color combinations. 
As the train neared Alma, I began to doubt my wisdom in 
coming. Mrs. King's garden is a spring garden par excellence 
and any garden at the end of August looks badly, — what would 
I find? 
We drove through shady streets up to the house, and walking 
up the broad brick path, with its border of low Grapes trained 
on chains, one visualized its spring planting of bulbs; now the 
form of the Grape leaves, and the fine foliage mass of two 
Viburnum Carlesii flanking the step, take the place of the 
earlier, more colorful pictures. 
In the living room one's eye was immediately caught and 
held by a tall jar of Lycoris Squamigera (Amaryllis Hallii) 
which introduced the dominant note of the whole garden beyond. 
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