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Large Lima are the most buttery and delicious of all, 
and are a universal favorite, green or dry. (Fig. 10.) 
Giant Wax (Ked Seed) make pods 8 to 9 inches long, 
thick and fleshy, of yellow waxy color, and is very pro- 
ductive and tender. (Fig. 12.) 
Horticultural, or Speckled Cranberry is an old 
favorite and is equally good as a snap orasa shell bean, 
either green or dry. (Fig. 5.) 
White Dutch Runners are very ornamental, large 
white seed, and beautilul clusters of white flowers, and is 
a good shell bean. 
Scarlet Runners are a great favorite, producing clus- 
ters of beautiful scarlet flowers, which are very ornamen- 
tal. This is very flne for use as a green shell bean. 
(Fig. 14.) 
Dutch Case-Knife. A very productive variety, and 
one of the earliest; sometimes used as “ snaps,” but gen- 
erally shelled. Next to the Limas the best market sort. 
Southern Prolific. Desirable for snap beans, mature 
in seventy days. Bears its pods in clusters. Popular in 
the South. 
Asparagus, or Yard Long. Pod sometimes grows 
from two to three feet long; very Curious, succulent and 
tender. 
Beets. 
The soil best suited for Beet culture is that which is 
rather light and well enriched. Sow in drills one foot 
apart and 1 inch deep, ns early as the ground can be 
worked ; continue for a succession as late as the middle 
of July; when the plants are large enough thin out to 
stand B inches apart in the rows. The Sugar and Mangel 
Wurzel varieties are grown for feeding stock, and should 
bo sown from April to June in drills 2 feet apart, and 
afterwards thinned out to stand 1 foot 
^ apart in the rows; keep well cultivated. 
One ounce will sow a drill fifty feet in 
length; flive or six pounds are required 
for an acre. 
Eclipse. A very early, smooth, globe- 
shapea beet with small top and thin 
root; its skin an intense deep red, its 
flesh of very fine texture, earlinesa and 
quality it Is excelled by none. Many 
of out Market tlardeners prefer it to the 
Egyptian. 
Early Blood Turnip. An old standard variety of 
fine form and avor. Next to Eclipse in earliness. 
Egyptian Turnip. A standard sort, being from 
ten to twelve days earlier than the old Blood Turnip. The 
roots are large in size, and of a rich, deep crimson color. 
From the smallness of the tops of the Egyptian at least 
one-fourth more can be grown on the same space than 
any other variety. ™ . . . . 
Extra Esrly or Bassano. Turmp-shaped. An 
improved early kind, small top, round root, sweet and 
tender' attain a very large size. „ . 
De-wing’s Improved Blood Turnip. Boots deep 
blood-red. of fine form and flavor. Very early. An ex- 
cellent market variety. . , 
Pine Apple. The roots are half long, medium size; 
well formed and of very dark crimson color. Fine grained, 
sweet, tender and excellent for table use. 
Long Dark Blood. Long, smooth, growing to good 
size; lialf out of the ground; color dark blood-red; top 
small, dark red, and of upright growth; keeps weU. It 
is apt to be tough when sown to early. 
Bastian’s Half-Long Blood Of bright color and 
excellent quality; a valuable variety to follow. The early 
6ort8 for winter use plant abr^ut the middle of July. 
Swiss Chard, or Sea Kale. The leaves are used 
as Spinach, and the mid-rib etewed and served as Aspar- 
Long Blood. 
Egyptian Blood Turnip. 
Bassano. 
Mangel Wurtzel.— (For Field Culture.) 
Early Blood Turnip. 
Dewing s 
Improved Blood 
Turnip. 
Hendersons Pineapple 
4 to 6 pounds to the acre. Extensively cultivated in all parts of the country as a field crop for feeding stock in 
the winter. When grown for this purpose, the distance between the rows should be from two to two and a half feet 
so that the cultivation can be done with horse tools instead of with hand-hoes. 
