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carrot, and whether it is due to the seed, soil or season, we are not in- 
_formed, but in the Long Red Altringham and Long Red Surrey we 
ascribe it chiefly to the seed. 
As appears from the table, the Gartier’s Red Horn and Early French 
Scarlet Forcing, which are very possibly the same variety, were ear- 
liest, while the Half Long Scarlet Nantes was most productive. 
The variety ‘‘ from Norway ” seed of which was presented by Messrs. 
Hiram Sibley & Co., very closely resembled the Danvers in form, but 
was later, and a little less productive. 
The James’ Intermediate and the five ‘‘ Half Long” varieties as 
grown on our soil, so closely resembled one another that samples 
answering to the description of each variety could readily be taken 
from every row. | 
PARSNIP.- 
We planted seeds from eight packages which came to us labeled as 
follows: Abbott’s Hollow Crown, Carter’s New Maltese, Early Round 
or Turnip, Guernsey or Cup, Long White Dutch, Round, Sutton’s 
Student and Turnip Rooted. | . 
As we have not yet harvested the roots, we give no report of the 
productiveness of the different samples. We have, however, examined 
specimens from them all. 
We were able to detect little if any difference in the foliage of the 
different samples as grown in the Station garden. 
Although the number of so-called varieties of parsnip is smaller 
than in the majority of our vegetables, we have very good evidence 
that the number should be much reduced. In our experience of last 
year we pronounced the Long Hollow Crown and the Carter’s New Mal- 
tese as synonyms. Vilmorin* classes the Hollow Crown, Student, 
Long Smooth and Long de Guernsey as one variety, and Burrf con- 
siders the Guernsey and Long Smooth as synonyms. 
We have been able to detect no difference between the samples labeled 
Abbott’s Hollow Crown and the Long Hollow Crown (the latter grown 
last season, nor between the Early Round or Turnip, Round and 
Turnip Rooted. . 
These combinations, if warrantable, reduce the number of varietie 
of parsnip to three, viz.: Long White Dutch, with the synonyms . 
Common or Dutch, Long Smooth Dutch, Large Dutch (of the cata- 
logue), Panais long (French); Hollow Crown, with the synonyms Long 
Hollow Crown, Abbott’s Hollow Crown, Hollow Crowned, Student, 
Sutton’s Student, Long Smooth, Guernsey or Cup, Carter’s New Mal- 
tese, Panais long de Guernsey (French), Grosse lange Pastinake 
(German); and Turnip Rooted, with the synonyms Round, Early 
Round or Turnip, Panais rond, P. court, P. royal, P. de Metz, P. de 
Siam (French), Runde Pastinake (German). 
In 1828 Thorburn offered but one variety, the Large Dutch. We 
learn from a report of the Department of Agriculture that seeds of 
the Hollow Crowned parsnip were introduced from England, and of 
the “ Round,” ‘‘ Panais rond” (French), from France in the year 
1854. } 
* Les Plantes Potagéres, p. 399. 
+ Garden Vegetables, p. 25. 
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