Smyrna times., 1878-02-20
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Experience with Vegetables in 1877
ny rETEE HENDERSON.

the great variety offered 10y the catalogues,
find it difficult to make a selection of vege-
tables, we have usually given in February
a list Of those we regard as reliable. While |
it is desirable that the main crops should |
be of sorts, the value of which is well estab |
lshed, we would not discourage the trial OF
novelties of which many are offered every
year. the testing Of these in comparison
with the older kinds adds much to the in
tcrest Of gardening This year, Mr.. Hen.
derson gives us the result of his experience,
which in the main agrees with our own.-
Ed.
For number of years p-st we have set
apart piece of our ground on Jersey City
Heights, y. j.. for testing the relative
merits of all the leading kinds of vegetable,
in general use. Every class is treated
exactly alike. All of each class are Sown
the same day, and in every subsequent
operation, the greatest care is taken that
all are treated alike, whether sown in hot
bed to be transplanted, or when sown in
the open ground. Our Z" Trial Book shows
the following results Of the various tests.
We name. however. only the varieties
having merit, all such as were tested and
found to be inferior either in earliness or
quality, are either not named here at all or
merely noticed to indicate, Wherein in our
estimation, the want OF merit lies. About
an average Of p varieties Of each kind of
vegetables were tested and at least 30 plants
of each variety:
Beans, Bosk.-Early Mohawk is few
days earlier than Valentine, which is vet
the best for general crop. Black Wax is a
fine stringless variety. Refugee late and
largely used for pickling.
Beans. Pot.-Large Lima is still the
favorite. Dutch Case Knife is also an ex
cellent sort, and the Giant Wax is string
less snap bean, but climber
Bscts-For first early we find Egyptian
best, next the Blood Turnir. and for late
the Long Blood. Bassano is early, but OBJ
iectionable for market, on account of it.
very light color.
H1ngies aad .Sg3o,. B,<-In an impartia
trial of the four best known sorts, Norbitor
Giant gave 20 per cent. more weight pei
acre !han any other.
CaJ6ages-The seed were sown in hot. bee
on March lst, and the plants set out il
the open ground the first week in April
The Early Wakefield still stands unriyalleC
as earliest and best Of its size it being il
fine marketable order on June II. Earll
Sammer, however, that came only on,
week later, was double the weight, anC
equally uniform in heading. This we fin,
is becoming the favorite large early variet
in almost every section Of the country.
has only been introduced into general Gu
tivation within the past four years, thong
it has been grown for nearly 20 years by on
of our best Long Island farmers, who had
monopoly Of it up TO that time. Next i
value, as a second early, comes the VIII
ningstadt, well known pyramidal-shape
variety of great solidity Next in ordt
came Early Flat Dutch, which, by midd
of July, gave heads of Is lbs. weight. Fo
the fall crop, (seed sown in May,) nothir
is found better than Premium Flat Dutc
A correspondent in Pennsylvania writ
that field of 5 acres averaged II TBS. p
head. American Drumhead Savoy is be
in its class. OF cabbage for picking, '
find the Blood Red ErGurt by far the be
cOlored.
CarrOLs.-French Forcing. earliest, al
handsome, next Early Horn. and newi
sort called Half Long Red, of very brig
color, and excellent flavor. For field crc
Improved Long Orange is best.
Cantfocers, (sown and planted at sal
dates as the cabbages. )-Thc new yarie
known as Early Snowfall, Is the best AGO
sitiOn Of the season. 1t was a week earl
than all other sorts tried head Of fine ST
Of snowy whiteness, few and short leav
making it in every way desirable, whetl
for growing uudog = u in the op
ground Next to thi- wa> the Extra Ea
Erfurt, hitherto considered the best varie
Later, for successor. c.... 81 IF Erly Pan
and lie Norman .-..... mined too !;
for early, but valuable as fall sort
Celcry.-Probably in no vegetable Gu
waited has the variety 50 much to do "
success as Celery. Our own experien
and that OF scores Of our immediate ne
boFs, is that nearly all the giant or t
growing kinds are improbable to raj
Not only does their culture entail twice
labor, but they are almost always wa
ing in solidity and in flavor WI
some hundreds Of acres of Celery are n
grown for the market OF New York,
kinds are mainly the Half Dwarf and DW
Sandringham, in the proportion Of foul
the first to one Of the second. The Bos
Market variety has never been a fayo
for the New York Market, as its tende
TO throw up suckers, or side shoots, c
sidered the merit Of that variety in Bosl
makes il Objectionable here. Hoods Dv
Red is the best variety Of Celery in cult
iion, but the American public, with few
csptions, will not use red Celery, Will
England it is highly valued, as il should
for it is not only much better favored t
the white sorts, but it keeps better,
surely, when used as an ornamental v
table as Celery often is, its bright Grim