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DEscrIPTIVE NOTES. 
Bloomsdale Early Summer Creole. Closely resembled the Berlin, 
as described in Report New York Agricultural Experiment Station, 
1885, page 141. 
Buttercup. A very fine heading variety of medium size, resem- 
bling in its general characters the above, but of a beautiful golden 
yellow color. It was one of the latest to run to seed, and was of 
superior mildness and tenderness. I regard it as one of the very 
best summer varieties for the family garden. 
Cahforma Cream Butter. Plant very vigorous, about 12 
inches in diameter and 7 inches tall when fully developed; 
clear green, with a few scattering brown spots, the outer head 
leaves very perceptibly tinged with brown; leaves roundish, 
remarkably thick, obscurely dentate throughout, apex broadly 
retuse, veins sunken, rather conspicuous, surface slightly blistered ; 
forms a rather poorly defined, compact, roundish head about 4 
inches in diameter, the leaves about the head exposing rather 
conspicuously their lower surfaces. 
The quality of this lettuce is of the very best. 
Golden Fringed. Closely resembled the Buttercup, but was a 
little larger and.more vigorous. The seed was considerably 
mixed. , 
Golden Head. Seemed to be the same as the above. 
Marblehead Cabbage. This was quite distinct from, and decidedly 
inferior to, the Marblehead Mammoth Cabbage from Mr. Gregory, 
grown in 1886. It appeared to be an inferior strain of the Berlin 
that soon became bitter and ran to seed early. 
Olio. Very similar to Early Simpson, described in our report 
for 1885, page 147. 
Sibley’s American Beauty. Very similar to, if not identical with, 
Black Seeded Simpson. (Described Ibid, page 141.) 
THe MUsKMELON. 
‘Seeds of the muskmelons named below were planted in the 
Station garden May 24, one drill of each twelve feet long, the 
drills seven feet apart. 
