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should be cut, and after final cutting, give a good dress- 
ing of manure, ashes and salt. Ever after that, the bed 
should give a full crop if annually dressed with manure, 
ashes and salt. As soon as the tops are ripe and yellow 
they should be cut and burned. 
Conover’s Colossal. — A mammoth sort, frequently 
sending up fifteen to thirty sprouts from one to one and 
a half inches in diameter from a single plant, and spread- 
ing less than most sorts. Color deep green; quality good. 
Broccoli. 
Produces 
heads in 
auturn like 
a C a u 1 i- 
flower. Sow 
about the 
middle of 
April; tras- 
plant in 
rich soil 
and manage 
as winter 
Cabba^ife. 
For an 
early crop 
sow in a hot-bed and' cultivate as early Cauliflower. It 
succeeds best in a moist soil and cool climuto; cun be had 
in perfection from November to April. 
Early Purple Cape.— This is the 
best for the Northern IStates, producing 
compact heads, of a brownish purple, and 
of good flavor. 
White Cape.— Not as early as the 
above; heads large, creamy white; close 
and certain to head. 
Brussels Sprouts. 
This is one of the host vegetables for win- 
ter use, producing from the axils of the 
leaves an abundance of sprouts resembling 
small cabbages, of excellent mild flavor. 
Brussels cpprouis. 
Beans. 
One pound will plant 50 feet of drill; 80 pounds one 
acre in drill. 
DWARF SNAPS OB STEINOLE83. 
All varieties of this class are tender, and do best in 
rather dry, light soil, and should n t be planted till the 
ground is warm and can continne at intervals throughout 
the season. Plant 3 inches deep, in rows 2 feet apart. 
Keep well hoed, drawing the earth up to the stems while 
dry. 
Early Improved Red Valentine is one of the very 
best leading sorts. Pods are round, fieshy and tender, 
and remain longer in a green state than most varieties. 
(Fig S.) 
Cleveland’s Improved Red Pod Val-mtine is ten 
days earlier than the Ked Valeniine and much more pro- 
lific and combines all its good qualities. One of the best 
for market and gardeners. 
White Valentine is a good short snap, and also desir- 
able as a shell bean. 
Red Eye, or Early China is largely cultivated in 
California by market gardeners, and is good either as a 
snap or dry slieli bean. 
Early Mohawk is one of the hardiest varieties and 
will endure some frost. It is a good string bean, and is 
a'so desirable for pickling. (Fig. 4) 
Ivory Pod Wax are a White bean and earlier than the 
Black Wax. Pods are tender and stringless, and of a rich 
creamy flavor, and are ivory white. 
Crystal White Wax are similar to the above — crisp, 
tender, and of the richest flavor. The pods develop 
quickly and retain their tenderness longer than any other 
sorts. 
English Dwarf, or Broad Windsor is a very hardy 
kind and can be planted very early in the season, in good 
soil, in drills 5 feet apart. Pinch oil tops as soon as the 
lower pods begin to fill. They are used only as shell 
beans. 
Early I Refugee is 
very productive and fine 
for spring snaps or for 
pickling. Used ^ mar- 
ket gardeners. (Fig. 2.) 
Yellow Six Weeks 
is very early, productive 
and excellent tor snap or 
shell. 
w White Kidney, or 
Royal Dwarf is an ex- 
cellent green shell bean, 
and one of the best for 
baking. (Fig. 6.) 
CJolden Wax. This 
variety is quite early. 
Pods are long, brittle and 
entirely stringless, and of 
rich battery flavor, and 
one of the very best for 
our Market Gardeners. 
(Fig. 3 ) 
German, or Black 
Wax is one of the bet>t 
Tods are of rich, waxy 
yellow when flt for use, 
and very tender and de- 
licious. (Fij?. 18.) 
UcuiiS. 
Pole, ok Kunning. 1 pound to 75 hills. 
These are ^renerally more tender than dwarf kinds, and should not be planted till the'^round becomes warm. Set 
poles about 4 feet apart, and pinch off the tops when they grow higher than the polos. They succeed best in sandy 
ioam mixed with well rotted compost to each hill. 
