Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-03-22

the varieties of the different kinds of veg
etabIe seeds which we may wish to plant ]
would beg leave TO call your attention TO
some new sorts of recent production, which
are worthy of trial, if not, indeed, Of extern
siye cultivation, both for family use and the
market stalls. Besides the new sorts, there
are some old and well known varieties Of
superior merit, which / would recommend
as being uaequalled by other kinds maturing
simultaneously with them.
All of the following varieties can be OBJ
tanned from the seed stores, or supplied by
them on short notice, at reasonable prices:
DWARF OR SNAP BEANS.
Early Valentine, one of the earliest and
best; Brown Specked Valentine, or Refugee,
or Thousand 10 One is the most productive
and best for the main crop. Both Of these
kinds have round pods, long and tender, and
are longer in season and more succulent
than those with fiat pods. The Refugee
should be planted throughout the season as
it is the tenderest and most productive of all
the snap beans, and good until frost kills the
young pods.
Dwarf Horticultural or Potawatamie, and
the large White Kidney, or Royal Dwarf,
are most excellent beans 10 use, green or
dry; shelled green and cooked as Lima
they are more valuable for winter use and
much better than white field beans.
All dry beans and peas should be soaked
for six hours, or longer, in warm water be
fore they are cooked for table use.
POLE OR RUNNIHG'BEANs.
The London Horticultural, or Wren's
Egg, stands unriyalled at the head of this
class. Pods striped with red, seeds oval,
medium 70 large size light cream color,
striped and speckled dark red is excellent
when used as SNAP" and is peculiarly
rich and fine when, at a more advanced
stage, il is shelled and cooked as the Lima
bean; indeed for fall and winter use. there
is no bean that equals the Wren's Egg in
tenderness, richness and deli,acy of flavor.
These qualities are all retained when dry.
n. B-The foregoing list Of nap-beans
embraces all the varieties that need be
planted, whether for summer or winter use.
Their great value in winter has been over
looked, and, when fully appreciated, they
will entirely supercede the ordinary white
bean now generally cultivated.
LIMA BEANS OR BUTTER BEANS.
The Large Lima is better than the Small
Lima (Synonyms of the Small Lima are
CarOlinG, Sei0ee, iSlepd or Saba 6edn.) 1t is
superior in size tenderness and in rich, but
UdNCT. Inc lillld Dctin utNcT
be shelled until needed for the table. The
practice of Smelling and keeping them on
hand for several days before using, detracts
much from their flavor, and makes them
tough and insip;d. The Lima bean should
be planted in sunny weather; after rather
than before rain, as the seeds are apt TO rot
ID the soil is too wet.
But few persons are aware Of the fact that
unless each bean is planted with the eye
placed downwards, it viii probably not come
upat all.
CABBAGE.
There are two new varieties, of which
wonderful accounts as 10 their great size and
productiveness we're published during the
past season. If acclimated in Kentucky (by
planting seed raised here they might prove
acquisitions. These new varieties originated
with Mr.. J. j. III. Gregory, of Marblehead,
Mass, and are described as follows:
Stone Mason, size very large, and exceed
ingly rich, sweet and tender; stump small
and short
Marblehead Mammoth, the largest ever
grown with good culture will average
thirty pounds per head. A farmer in Ill
inois made, it is stated, at the rate Of
thousand dollars per acre this past season
by growing these two kinds of cabbage.
CELERY.
The Dwarf White French is said TO be a
superb variety Of dwarf habit, very solid,
crisp of fine flavor and not Sc liable 10 wi
ther and become stringy as the large yarie-
ties. Several correspondents of the HOrti-
eulturia have highly commended the Dwarf
Celery as being far superior to the Giant
variety.
CORN FOR THE TABLE.
The Evergreen Sweet is undoubtedly the
best, but Il natures later than the Early
Adams The Evergreen keeps soft longer
than any other sort, but the suckers must be
down from the very start or the roasting
ears will not be more thon half filled with
grains.
oKRA, OR CONDO.
II is astonishing how few persons use this
nutritious and wholesome vegetable; il
cannot be gathered too young, and when
fried like oysters, it is equally as delicious
and more digestible. A committee sent
neighboring agricultural society 10 examine
the fair grounds in this vicinity saw and
tasted this vegetable for the first time, while
dining at my house. Two out of the three
agriculturalists did not even know what
Il was-not having ever heard the name
before.
OF all the numerous varieties of peas,
there is a new variety of such surprising ex-
cellence that il is pleasure TO call especial
attention TO il. II is the
EUGENE PEA.-Every cultivator who
has tested il speaks of it as among the very
best.
Thornburn, of New York, says wrinkled
marrows (of which this is one) are the finest
nowora1 ,f oll Yooo plies IF CpfinUfiald
Mass, says it is the earliest white Wrinkled
marrow pea in cultivation, podding from the
bottom Of the haulm 10 the top, with fine,
large pods. Dandreth, Of Philadelphia, the
best known of the seed-growers, says 1t is
unquestionably the best pea in cultivation
dwarf in its habit three feet high,) requir-
ing but short rods the pea large succulent,
luscious--beiter than the Champion of Eng
land, though the latter is good. We recon-
mend the Eugene, wherever quality is the
ruling object, and next the Champion.
Now 70 these recommendations can add
my own experience, and can say that 1t is
the best favored and most delicious pea
ever tasted. II natures after the early va
rieties, and is the best for the main crop.
Let every one plant the Eugenie, If they
wish TO be gratifed and delighted.
POTATOES.
The Peach Blow is now ceaceded TO be the
best late potatoe Cor this latitude. The
White Sprout proves the earliest; and with
me, last season, il was quite productive, and
ready for use at least ten days before the
Neshanoc was matured. There are several
new seedlings that are very popular in the
United States that should be tested in our
soil aud climate. One is the Early Sover-
eign, spoken Of by Landreth and by Thurn-
burn as ga very early variety, quick growth,
highly productive" and extra fine" The
price Of this variety is this season just
double what il was in 1868, which may be
considered fair test of its merits, having
proved satisfactory under further trial. The
other seedlings were raised by the late Rev
C. L. Goodrich, of Utica, n, Y; one, called
the Garne: Chill, is almost universally re
commended in the Northern States as the
best for general crop; it is very large, fine
favored, does not rot and is uncommonly
productive" This tessiiaony is corroborated
by hundreds of citizens, fron Maine TO Mis-
souri,, who have grown this variety for the
past five years.
The other seeding raised by Mr.. Goodrich
is called the Cuz-co, or Cuz-co White, which
Is Of T" first rate quality" and is said 20 sur
pass the Garnet Chill in its extraordinary
productiveness. have read the statements
Of reliable persons, living in different States,