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colored body, spotted with black, and its hind legs fringed with long 
orange colored and black hairs. The hind wings only are transparent, 
the fore wings expand from one inch to one inch anda half. I[t deposits 
its egg on the vines close to the roots, and may be seen flying about 
the plants from the tenth of July to the middle of August.” 
The ravages of this insect were confined chiefly to certain varieties, 
proving fatal in the case of the New Marblehead and Mammoth Chile, 
while in Yokohama, Winter Crookneck, Canada Crookneck, Little 
Cocoanut, Green Striped Bergen and Perfect Gem, the damage was 
scarcely perceptible. The vinesof the latter varieties were conspicuous 
throughout the season by the deep green color of their foliage. We 
have never seen the ravages of this insect so severe as on the Station 
farm. In a section six inches long of the stem of the Low’s Premium 
Hybrid squash, six grubs were found, each an inch long. ‘The injuries 
were not confined to the squash, but included the-destruction in many 
instances of cucumber and pumpkin vines, | 
It seemed difficult to devise means for attacking an enemy that com- 
mits its depredations concealed in the heart of the plant. At the 
suggestion of Prof. W. R. Lazenby of the Ohio State University, we 
tried injecting bisulphide of carbon about the roots of a few plants in 
the latter part of August. The results were such as to encourage hope 
of success if the application were made at the first indications of the 
insect, and continued at frequent intervals throughout the season. 
Our plants, however, were so infected with worms when operated upon 
that our success was but partial. We hope in the future to make more 
extended experiments in this line. 
The experience of the past season would lead us to recommend the 
Canada Crookneck for garden culture. ‘This variety yielded more in 
weight than any other, and its table qualities, though surpassed by 
other sorts, are very good. The plant is very hardy and suffers little from 
the attacks of insects, the deep green of the foliage making it con- 
spicuous when planted with less hardy varieties. The fruit is of 
medium size unusually “crooknecked,” often slightly ribbed, cream- 
yellow when ripe. Flesh salmon-red, close grained, sweet and well 
flavored. Its keeping qualities are said to be very good. 
A few seeds of the Vegetable Marrow squash were planted in the 
garden May 26. The plants made a luxuriant growth, often ten or 
twelve feet in length, yielding fruit from eight to ten inches long, of 
an oblong oval form, distinctly ribbed, of a straw color when ripe, 
with a very hard shell, ‘The flesh is white and watery when cooked 
before the fruit is ripe. 
As will appear from the yields of the different varieties as noted in 
the table, the squashes must be rated as little less than a failure. This 
result is doubtless largely due to the extremely heavy character of the 
soil in which they were planted. 
CABBAGE. 
Twenty-eight varieties of cabbage were tested in garden culture. 
The seeds, thirty of each sort, were planted in the cold-frame April 7th 
and 8th, with the soil temperature of 52°, and the plants transplanted 
to the garden May 27th, in rows three feet apart, and two feet apart 
in the rows. 
