Novelties in Vegetables. 
Each recurring season brings to the front 
si list of vegetable novelties, in the hands of 
•different enterprising seedsmen, who vie 
'with each other for the production of some¬ 
thing which shall on trial be found to sur¬ 
pass, in some one or more important requi¬ 
site, the older sorts of the same class or 
'Character. The present spring is no excep¬ 
tion, for the various catalogues seem un¬ 
usually full of promising novelties. In 
-Beans vye have an improved evergreen 
flageolet, called the Wonder of France , 
which, if shelled and dried before it is 
thoroughly ripe retains its green color and 
tenderness for succotash throughout the* 
year. Also the Ne Plus Ultra , which is 
said to be the most dwarf and compact 
•growing sort ever introduced. It is very 
4 productive and makes a, fine show when 
grown in pots in the greenhouse, making 
string beans in winter easily attainable^ 
Cleveland s Improved Valen tine is an im¬ 
provement by selection for earliness and 
thickness of pod on the best old thick 
aneated pickling sort known. Important 
improvements in the Lima class has been 
developed in Bliss's Extra Early and the 
Challenger , both in earliness and quality. 
most interesting of these. The fruits us- 
ually grow in pairs and are very uniform 
in size and shape, being round, and from 
six to eight inches in diameter. The skin 
is of a vivid red color, faintly striped with 
pale yellow. Flesh, yellow, sweet and fine. 
The new Olive squash is from France. The 
fruit is rather longer and skin smoother 
than the Hubbard, which it is said to sur¬ 
pass in quality, though that seems barely 
possible. It is a g< od keeper. The Brazil 
Sugar is an unquestionable acquisition and 
should be tried by all. The Valparaiso and 
White Pine Apple are two 1 more promising 
sorts which were figured and described in 
these pages last month. 
NEW OLIVE SQUASH. 
More than the usual number of new 
Squashes have recently appeared, and 
among them are some very promising nov¬ 
elties. The new Bed China is one of the 
golden tankard mangel wurzel. 
One of the most important additions to 
our list of roots for stock-feeding purposes 
is found in the n<pv Golden Tankard Man¬ 
gel. It differs from all other Mangels in its 
richness of color, having a deep yellow 
flesh of great nutriment, and also for its 
extraordinary yield. 
Half a dozen or more new varieties of 
Lettuce are on the market and it is so 
