14 
ings falling below those varieties in quantity of fruit ripened; 
showing a tardiness in the matter of ripening, which makes the 
variety undesirable, at least for this locality. The fruit is large, 
very smooth, dark pinkish-purple in color. 
Shah .—Seed from Peter Henderson & Co., introducers. The 
foliage of this variety is of the Potato-leaf type. The plants were 
vigorous, and the most productive in our test; fruit begins to ripen 
early, is of large size, golden yellow, firm and solid; as the season 
advances the fruit becomes more and more irregular in shape, the 
late pickings yielding only very ill-formed and undesirable fruits. 
Its color and poor shape would exclude it from the list of market 
varieties. 
Dwarf Champion .—Seed from Peter Henderson & Co. This 
variety did very poorly this season; it was the least productive of 
those under test. Fruit ripened early, was small, below the usual 
size, smooth and solid ; color as in Mikado. As a dwarf variety 
Aristocrat is far preferable to Dwarf Champion, producing as much 
again fruit. 
The following table shows the comparative earliness of varieties, 
number of fruits picked, weight’ of same, and approximate yield per 
acre in pounds of ripe fruit, and also the yield of green fruit. The 
figures in the columns showing yield per acre being derived from so 
small ah area, can be regarded as only approximate. 
VARIETIES. 
1 No. of Plants. 
First Ripe Fruits. 
Last Picking. 
No.of Ripe Fruits 
Picked. 
1 
Weight in ibs. 
Average Weight 
p(?r Plant. 
Weight of Three 
Specimens, 
Yield per .Acre in 
lbs. 
No. of Green 
Fruits picked 
Sept. 23rd. 
Total Weight of 
Green Fruits in 
Bbs. 
Average Weight of 
Green Fruits per 
Plant in lbs. 
Yield of Green 
Fruits per Acre 
in lbs. 
Aristocrat. 
12 
Aug. 
15 
Sept. 23 
216 
46.96 
3.91 
1.1 
8,515 
262 
45.96 
3.83 
8,341 
Buckeye State. 
9 
Aug. 
22 
Sept. 23 
102 
30.91 
3.43 
1.7 
7,470 
345 
71.73 
7.97 
17,358 
Gold Ball. 
12 
Aug. 
14 
Sept. 23 
581 
50.24 
4.18 
.4 
9,104 
846 
59.40 
4.95 
10,781 
Ignotum. 
11 
Aug. 
23 
Sept. 23 
183 
52.89 
4.80 
1.5 
10,454 
280 
74.47 
6.77 
14,745 
Large Rose Peach. 
11 
Aug. 
17 
Sept. 23 
229 
44.81 
4.07 
1.0 
8,864 
853 
121.20 
11.01 
23,979 
Matchless. 
11 
Aug. 
22 
SepL 23 
106 
27.54 
2..50 
1.3 
5,445 
266 
64.13 
5.83 
12,697 
New Dwarf Champion.... 
9 
Aug. 
11 
Sept. 23 
109 
18..50 
2.05 
.6 
4,464 
126 
19.98 
2.22 
4,835 
Peach.'. 
12 
Aug. 
17 
Sept. 23 
313 
28.12 
2.34 
.7 
5,096 
1,277 
81.36 
6.78 
14,766 
Ponderosa. 
11 
Sept. 
2 
Sept. 23 
91 
37.54 
3.41 
5.2 
7,426 
293 
74.58 
6.78 
14,766 
Potato-Leaf. 
11 
Aug. 
17 
Sept. 23 
320 
78.60 
7.14 
1.4 
15,550 
375 
85.91 
7.81 
17,010 
Puritan .. . 
12 
Aug. 
7 
Sept. 23 
257 
87.08 
7.25 
1.7 
1-5,790 
406 
118.30 
9.85 
21,453 
Royal Red. 
23 
Aug. 
23 
Sept. 23 
328 
112.08 
4.87 
1.7 
10,606 
957 
118.25 
10.28 
22,389 
Table Queen. 
12 
Aug. 
23 
Sept. 23 
220 
75.46 
6.28 
2.1 
13.677 
443 
131.10 
10.92 
23,773 
The Shah. 
12 
Aug. 
16 
Sept. 23 
353 
109.76 
9.14 
2.2 
19,906 
284 
78.90 
6..57 
14,303 
Trucker’s Favorite. 
12 
Aug. 
23 
Sept. 23 
156 
41.77 
3.48 
1.8 
7,.579 
461 
117.20 
9.76 
21.237 
BEANS. 
Bush or Snap Beans .—As the bean plant is very tender and 
easily injured by low temperatures, the seed should not be planted 
until all danger of the young plants being nipped by late spring 
frosts is over. It is a good rule to make the first planting about the 
