Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1878-02-27
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The Best Vegetables.
A iudicious selection of seed lies al
the very foundation of all success. Fol
this reason the safe rule is for each one
TO cultivate only such varieties as have
proyed successful in the same soil and
climate. But to adhere rigidly TO thi!
rule would exclude all the newer and
more improved varieties. 1t is desira
BILE, therefore, to experiment with new
varieties to a moderate extent, while re-
tanning the old reliable sorts for the main
crop. The experience of Others in this
sort of experimenting is available to
certain extent, and saves many vexatiOu:
failures. Peter Henderson writes to the
AoricuAurist the result of trials made in
1877, which is 50 valuable that we repro
duce it entire, promising that each one
of our readers will keep in mind the
difference between his own soil and eli
mate and that of eastern New Jersey:
For a number of years past we have
set apart a piece of ground on jersey
City Heights, N. j., for testing the rela.
tive merits Of all the leading kinds OF
vegetables in general use. Every class is
treated exactly alike. All of each class
is sown on the same day, and in every
subsequent operation the greatest care is
taken that all are treated alike, whether
g,wn in hot-bed to be transplated, or
when sown in the open ground. Our
"Trial Book shows the following results
of the various tests. We name, how
ever, only the varieties having merit, all
such as were tested and found to be in
ferior, either in earliness or quality, not
being named here at all or merely noticed
to show wherein, in u estimation, the
want of merit lies. About an average
of rs varieties of esch kind of vegeta-
bles we're tested, and at least so plants of
variety:
Beans, Bush-Early Mohawk is q 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 picking.
Beans, Pole-Large Lima is still the
~favorite. Dutch Case Knife is also an
excellent sort, and the Giant Wax is a
stringless snap bean, but a climber.
Beets-For first early we find Egyp-
tian best, next the Blood Turnip, and for
late the Long Blood. Bassano is early,
but Objectionable for market, on account
of its very light coler.
Mangels and Sugar Beets-In an i'm
trial of the four best known sorts,
Norbiton Giant gave 20 per cent. more
per acre than any other.
Cabbages.-The seeds were sown in
hot-bed on March LIST, and the plants set
out in the open ground the first week in
April. The early Wakefield still stands
as earliest and best of its size,
it being in fine marketable order on June
Is. Early summer, however, that came only
one week later, was double the weight,
and equally uniform in heading. This
find is becoming the favorite large
early variety in almost every section of
the country. 1t has only been intro
duced into general cultivation within the
past four years, though it has been grown
for nearly twenty years by one of our
best Long Island farmers, who had a
monopoly of it up to that time. Next in
value as a second early the Win
ningstadt, a we'll known pyramidal-
variety of great solidity. Next
in order came early fiat Dutch, which, by
of July, gave heads of Is lbs
For the fall crop, (sown in May,)
nothing is found better than premium
bat Dutch. A correspondent in Penn
writes that a field of five acres
averaged IA lbs. per head. American
savoy is best in its class. OF
cabbages for picking, we fad the blood
red erfurt by far the best colored.
Carrot--French forcing, earliest and
handsome, next early horn, and a new
sh sort called half long red, of very
bright color and excellent flavor. For
ield crop improved long Orange is best.
C%ulifowers, (sown and planted at same
late as the cabbage).-The new variety
known as early SNOWFALL is the best
of the season. 1t was a week
than all other sorts tried heads of
inc size, of snowy whiteness, few and
hort leaves, making it in every way
desirable, whether for growing under
glass or in the open ground. Next to
his was the extra early erfurt, hitherto
the best variety. Later, for
succession, same half early Paris and LIE
short stemmed, too late for
but valuable as a fall sort.
Celery Probably in no vegetable cul-
has the variety 50 much to do
With success az celery. Our W exper-
and that of our immediate neigh
,ors, is that nearly all of the giant or tall
kinds are improbable to raise.
Not only does their culture entail twice
he labor, but they are almost always
wanting in solidity and in flavor.
While some hundreds of acres of celery
Ire now grown for the market of New
York, the kinds are mainly the half
iwarf and dwarf Sandringham, in the
proportion Of four of the first to one of
he second. The Boston Market variety
mas never been a favorite for the New
York market, as its tendency to throw
up suckers or side shoots, considered the
merit of that variety in Boston, makes it
Objectionable here. Hoods dwarf red is
the best variety Of celery in cultivation,
but the American public, with few ex-
ceptions, will not use red celery, while
n England it is highly valued, as it
should be, for it is not only much better
favored than the white sorts, but it keeps
and surely, when used as an
vegetable, as celery often is.
its bright crimson and white color makes
il more attractive than the white.
Corn-Minnesota We find to be the
variety Of good size. The habit
is dwarf, the size of the ear medium,
very productive and sweet. Large s.
second early, large size, sweet
The New Egyptian variety is large.
is about as early as S-rowed. The
merit claimed for it is its excellent flavor
1t has been but little grown outside d
Baltimore, but has been cultivated there
for several years, to the exclusion O
nearly all the other sorts. Stowelr.
Evergreen for late main crop; we fine
nothing yet to supercede this old ant
reliable kind.
Cucumbers-Early White.spine ant
Green Prolific are the e earliest and mos
prolific, while for picking Early Cluste
and Short Green seem the best.
Lettuce (sown and planted same dat
az cabbage)-We find Al l-the-year-roun,