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or 12 feet lower than on May 3. The rainfall from November 15 
to May 1, was 8.83 inches, or about 1.6 inches per month. From 
May 1 to November 15, it was 20.81 inches, or about 3.2 inches per 
month. In other words, a rainfall of 1.6 inches per month during 
the colder part of the year increased the amount of soil water 
sufficient to raise the well water three-fourths of an inch per day 
during the whole period, while despite a rainfall of double that 
amount during the remainder of the year, the soil water was so much 
depleted by evaporation that the well water lowered at an equal rate 
per day. The indications are that the soil becomes stocked, so to 
speak, with water during the colder part of the year, and that it pays 
out during the summer and autumn at a far more rapid rate than it 
is replenished by the rains of these seasons. 
VEGETABLES. 
A description of varieties, with classification, lists of synonyms and 
bibliography of 
1. The Garden Beet. 
2. The Carrot. 
3. The Badish. 
4. The Turnip. 
5. The Onion. 
6. The Celeriac. 
7. Celery. 
8. Spinach. 
9. The Cucumber. 
10. The Squash and Pumpkin. 
11. The Egg Plant. 
12. The Tomato. 
Introductory. 
In this report is presented descriptions, with a classification, lists of 
synonyms and bibliography of the more important vegetables not 
heretofore reported upon,* with the exception of the melons and 
cauliflower, of which the plants have generally failed to make normal 
development in the Station garden; and of the pepper, of which our 
notes are still incomplete. 
The data from which the descriptions are made have been accumu- 
* Similar data were presented with reference to the garden bean, in the 
reports of the Station for 1882 and 1883 ; to the Sweet Corn in 1884 ; to the 
Pea in 1884 ; the Lettuce in 1885, and the Heading Cabbage in 1886. 
