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We also planted seeds of samples named green flat cabbage, White 
Paris Cos, Victoria cabbage, Black Seeded Tennis Ball, and White 
Seeded Satisfaction. The first two failed; the remainder were spurious. 
Among the fine heading varieties we would name Salamander, the 
Deacon, White Chavigny, and White Cabbage. Some of these reminded 
us of of miniature cabbages. The Deer Tongue, a new and yery dis- 
tinct variety, though rather homely in appearance, is very tender, 
with a sweet, pleasant flavor, which is retained until the seed stalk 
commences to form. 
SYNONYMS. 
We rated the following names as synonyms : 
All the Year Round, Black Seeded Satisfaction and Salamander. 
American Gathering, Prize Head, and Ferry’s Karly Prize Head. 
Gray Seeded Butter and Frankfurt Head. 
Hardy Green Winter and Hammersmith Hardy Green. © 
French Imperial Head and Large Princess Head. - 
Perpetual and Curled Simpson. 
White Seeded Tennis Ball and White Forcing Head. 
White Cabbage and Large White stone Summer. 
CELERY. 
In growing celery we made the experiment of planting one row of 
each so-called variety in a trench, one foot deep, well manured in the 
bottom with thoroughly rotted horse-manure, and a second row ad- 
jacent to the first on the level, without special manuring, Market 
‘gardeners have generally abandoned the practice of trenching the 
ground for celery. Whether the family gardener who grows but a 
small amount of celery can afford the extra expense of trenching and 
high manuring is the question which we hoped to answer in this ex- 
periment. 
Our list included twenty named samples. One hundred seeds of 
each were planted in boxes April 11th and 12th, the latter being 
placed in a cold frame, where they were covered in severe weather. 
July 5th sixty plants of each sample that vegetated so large a num- 
ber were transplanted to the garden, thirty being set ina trench, and 
thirty on a level, as noted above, the rows being ten feet long. Where 
the samples failed to vegetate sixty plants, half of those that vegeta- 
ted were set in each row. The data which we have noted are as 
follows: 

