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It appears that thirteen rows produced pods of edible 
size in fifty-six days from planting. In eleven rows the 
pods were of edible size on the same day, June 11. In six- 
teen rows peas were fit for table use fourteen days. 
Krfurt Early Dwarf White Marrow, H. & S., yielded 
the greatest number of pods calculated per hundred plants. 
Sabre or Beak, H. & S., produced the greatest number of 
peas per hundred pods. 
Synonyms, 
The following so called varieties, Alaska, Cleve., and R. 
NV. Y.; Burpee’s Extra Early, Burpee ; Cleveland’s Rural 
New Yorker, Cleve.; Dreer’s Eureka Extra Karly, Dreer ; 
Extra Karly, J. & S.; Landreth’s Extra Karly, Land.; Liv- 
ingston’s Ist in Market, Liv.; Maule’s Earliest of All, 
Maule, so closely resemble the Philadelphia Extra Early, 
Land., both in habit of growth and also in earliness that T 
can perceive no reason for calling them different varieties. 
OKRA. 
Seeds of the following differently named samples of okra 
were planted in the garden May 29 in rows three anda half 
feet apart, the plants were thinned out to eighteen inches 
in the row. The plants are very difficult to grow in the 
greenhouse on account of their liability to damp off,” but 
there was no difficulty in growing them in the open ground 
this season after the soil had become warm and weather 
settled. 
The data noted were as follows: 

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Landreth’s Long Green Pod........ Land. ‘¢ 28 ©660 seers Tite: 
A DOOD IVY HIRO May oy int, Sait + Aug. 1] 628 per te bth") | 
mUItamMol Smyina Fen. s oe). ced wee Dam. ‘“ 18} 81 |Sept. 11] 105 
Mae eemeNLa Ws J ONTSON -& COs). os itso oe dues July 28] 60 |Aug. 13] 76 


