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was established. On Long Island, where the season is longer, the 
seeds were planted in the field. 
As a result of the season’s work it must be said that but one 
variety in the whole list proved to be really promising, and that 
was one of the cabbages. Mr. Allen reports that it is a variety of 
the Flat Dutch or Drumhead type, producing a very deep and solid 
head, a strong grower, and after a few generations grown in this 
country would probably develop a very useful variety, particularly 
for the South and West. The other cabbages were some of them 
mixed, others were inferior strains of varieties already known 
here, and the rest were not at all promising. . The turnip was an 
inferior type of ruta baga. 
Of the Russian melons which were successfully fruited one 
ranked good in quality, eleven ranked fair to good, fifteen were 
only fair, twenty-four were poor and thirteen ranked from poor to 
fair or good with different specimens. ‘'wenty-four were selected 
as possibly worthy of further testing. Ten kinds of seed gave 
mixed variety of melons. The record of the Asiatic melons was 
even more discouraging than that of the Russians. They seemed 
to be especially subject to disease, and the fruit, when any was 
obtained, ranked far below that of American kinds which were 
grown beside them for comparison. The Russian melons also 
appeared to be more subject to disease than the American sorts. 
Notwithstanding several treatments with Bordeaux mixture the 
anthracnose did much damage, and together with the bacterial 
disease injured many kinds so seriously as to prevent the develop- 
ment of perfect fruit. 
Fertility of grapes.— It has been found that many varieties of 
cultivated grapes are self-sterile; others are imperfectly self- 
sterile, that is to say when cross pollination is prevented they 
form clusters whieh are more or less imperfect; others are fully 
self-fertile. The last class includes nearly all the varieties which 
have proved satisfactory in commercial vineyards. 
Investigations concerning the self-sterility of grapes have been 
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