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gEEB-TSflE AH® HA1¥EST. 
A Massachusetts Crop Keport. 
BY E. A. HOLLENBECK. 
As the harvest is drawing to a close, we 
look back with pleasure on one of the most 
favorable seasons this section has ever 
known. With no late spring frosts to nip 
our early plants, and the fall freezes hold¬ 
ing off till all danger to growing crops was 
over, we have reaped the most bountiful 
supply of good things in many years. Ap¬ 
ples. pears and grapes are abundant and can 
be bought and sold at reasonable figures. 
Think fruits of'all kinds will keep well. 
The only draw back we have experienced 
is the rotting of our enormous crop of pota¬ 
toes, both in the field and cellar to an alarm¬ 
ing extent. Can offer no explanation why 
this is thus, unless it was caused by our fall 
rains. Corn, though filling late, is now hard 
and plump. Squashes are especially plen 
tiful and of better quality than we have 
ever known before. 
Root crops are plenteous and will be a 
source of much pleasure to the farmer dur¬ 
ing the coming winter. 
Grains gave big yields and were unu¬ 
sually clean and entirely free from rust. 
In our gardens we have grown several 
specialities from your seeds which we are 
very much pleased with. 
The Red China squash yielded more pro- 
lificly than any we have ever grown, and 
is the driest, sweetest squash a housekeeper 
ever baked. Shall plant largely of it next 
year. The Olive, Pineapple and Brazil sug¬ 
ar squashes all did as well as recommended. 
Next season these four varieties, with the 
old stand-by, ‘‘Gregory’s Hubbard,” will be 
the only ones we shall raise. 
The small package of Golden Prize beans 
contained only eleven reed, and these only 
sprouted nine thrifty plants. From these 
were shelled and counted yesterday, Octo¬ 
ber 12th, three thousand one hundred and 
fifty-two beaus. We are perfectly satisfied 
with them and shall make them our main 
specialty in beans the coming year. The 
neighbors all are pleased with them and we 
have supplied many of them with enough 
to start a new crop. This is the second 
year we have grown the new Kose bean 
from seed got of you in 1883, and we have ( 
just harvested six hundred bushels. Can 
sell these, where known, for a higher pries 
than Limas in the green state, and for mors 
than the Marrowfat or Navy in the dry 
state. 
We have three acres of Kohl Rabi grow¬ 
ing, which we shall get in the last of Novem¬ 
ber. Find it more profitable to raise this 
fruit (?) for cattle than turnips, beets or car¬ 
rots. Think it makes more and better milk. 
Think every farmer ought to raise them as 
they are a sure crop and need very littls 
care. 
Have been growing Savoy cabbage this 
year and am so pleased with the prospects, 
shall set a larger field again. Besides these 
Savoys we only grow Fottler’s Brunswick 
from seed bought of you. 
YourP. S cabbage seed cannot be beatea 
by any other seed house in the world. 
Such large, fat seed always come up and 
start such thrifty plants that every one set 
out in five acres headed nicely. 
We count any man’s fortune made, who, 
raising a large crop of cabbage, gets his 
seed of your P. S. stock. 
Counting costs and gains for this year, 
shall be unwilling to part with what ws 
have for ten thousand dollars. 
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PLANTS of Parry, May King and other Strawber¬ 
ries in Julv, August and September All kinds of 
Fruit Trees and Small Fruit Plants at 
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