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ance, For the span-worm, if hellebore is used, the liquid should 
be made three times the usual strength. Paris green is more cer- 
tain and effectual where there is no objection to its use. 
GOOSEBERRIES. | 
The varieties of gooseberries grown on these grounds comprise 
both the natives, such as Houghton, Mountain Seedlings and 
Smith’s Improved; and those of foreign blood, as Industry, Tri- 
‘umph, Wellington’s Glory and Roesch’s Seedling, and at fruiting 
time the comparison between the two varieties was so marked 
that they would almost appear as plants of a different species. 
The foreign varieties have been kept entirely free from mildew 
this year by the early spraying of the plants, and at the time the 
fruits were ripe the plants were loaded with clean. bright fruits. 
They were the admiration of all who saw them. The plants gave 
an average of over ten pounds of fruit, which would make it a 
profitable crop to grow. 
VEGETABLES. 
DESCRIPTION OF BEANS. 
Of the new varieties of beans tested, the Aroostook possesses 
merit in regard to the large number of pods which each plant 
produces. These pods make a very good snap bean, and also are 
well filled with beans of medium size, white. 
The Harly Warwick matures early, furnishing snap beans for a 
short time early in the season. The beans are dark brown, 
slightly mottled. 
Einglefontaine.— A French variety, is very productive, furnish- 
ing a large number of snap beans, and maturing a large white 
bean of fine appearance. 
fonceray.— Green seeded. Also a French variety of very great 
merit as a snap or string bean. The pods are of good length, 
broad and very crisp, and continue to develop on the plants for a © 
long period. The beans are long, rather flat, and of a greenish 
white. 
Burpee's Bush Lima.—Plants of this variety made a very 
vigorous growth, the bushes being of immense size; the leaves _ 
are the shape and color of Pole Lima and without the glossy dark — 

