Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1883-05-23
Spring Notes for the Vegetable
Garden.

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id evolution. All the old roots have
been turned out as uneatable. The
newer roots are certainly far more
palatable and digestible. One who
only knows the old style carrot can
hardly imagine what table luxury is
to be now found in the French Short
horn or Danvers Yellow. These are
not only better for soups, but are near
ly equal to the potato as table escul-
ent Boiled and mashed they are lik-
ed by all who use them during the fall
as we'll as winter.
Among the very best of the new
things are the improved Lima beans.
The Lima is very seldom raised, from
q mistaken notion that it is tender and
difficult to bring to perfection. This is
a mistake 1t will readily perfect it.
self as far North as Canada, if rightly
trained. 1t should be pinched back at
four or five feet and tied two hills to a
stake The improved bean that like
best is received from the Rural Ne,U
Yorker. 1t fills the pods with square
beans, and is perhaps trile earlier as
well as more prolific than the old
variety.
A second luxury in the same line is
the Golden Wax bean, as q string
bean. In fact, however, it is string
less, and no more like the old string
bean than it is like the Lima. There
are dozen or more varieties of Black
Wax, Golden Wax, Crystal Wax, etc.,
but in quality they do not differ; that
| is, there are half dozen or more of
good varieties The Golden Wax, a
red striped bean, is as good as any.
This is fair bean for baking, if q
large quantity is left from Summer use.
The Lima is best for all purpose, green
or baked.
The old caulifower was a treacher-
Gus affair, full of disappointment; and
as consequence few farmers know
anything about the vegetable. But
there are now several varieties that are,
according to vegetable morals, sure to
head, and are every way delicious.
The Erfurt, the Snowfall, and the
Walcheren are very reliable as well as
very fine. The only secret with the
cauliAower is, keep them we'll watered
and hilled up while hoeing. They will
keep quite late into Winter; often
heads will form on late plants if trans
planted to the cellar
The long white Dutch parsnip is q
remarkable improvement on the old
woody. indigestble parsnip of ten
years ago.
OF all the peas | have tried, the best
early is Bliss American Wonder; the
best late the Telephone or Telegraph,
for they do not differ For careless
culture the Advance has done remark
ably well with me, giving good re.
turns when planted with potatoes.
The vines should be pulled up when
the peas are picked.
Among the new potatoes some are
absolutely worthless. The Burbank is
great yielder, but is so inferior for
table use that it will sooD be dropped.
The Peerless is also good cropper,
and good for very late table use; but
| not on the whole desirable. The
White Elephants yellow-heshed po-
tato of good quality, and so enormous
ly productive that it will be perman-
ent fixture. Of all table potatoes
among some twenty varieties / prefer
decidedly the Late Rose. 1t yields
finely, good size and shape, and 10 good
to eat FROM September till the next
June. | do not believe we have bet.
ter potato. OF early varieties prefer,
next to Early Rose, Clark's No.
Early Ohio is excellent, as also Beauty
of Hebron and Snowflake. Mammoth
Pearl, Climax, Late Snowflake are not
desirable all in all, especially Nam
moth Pearl. Too much money is made
from new varieties for US to get honest
advertisements.
The new tomatoes are nearly all es-
sentially duplicates and no improve
ment at all over the old Trophy, ex-
cept in early ripening. The best to-
mato is not yet secured
Among the corns we have as good
as we can ask for or desire. (D Early
Marblehead; (2) Moore's Early; (3)
Egyptian These will cover the sea-
son finely. There is little difference in
quality between Early Minnesota and
Early Marblehead.
Among the cucumbers there is no
better in quality, shape, and yield than
Tailby's. The addition of Hybrid"
may as well be left off from this as
well as many other vegetables, as they
are nearly all hybrids in the same
sense.
The vegetable garden is quite as
good a place for hybridizing and secur-
ing novelties as is the flower garden.
All of the vegetables may be improved
with little care /; and experiments are
very delightful. | have, during the
past two years, secured about thirty
varieties of self,prossed beans. They
present some exceedingly beautiful
colors, stripes and Aecks, with gray.
green, chocolate, and other ground
colors. The vegetable oyster should
be taken in hand. l have an aspara-
gus that is nearly white, without any
artificial blanching. 1t came from two
roots; probably at first one, which was
shoot of Conoy er's Colossal. The
Argenteuil is promising looking as
paragus, but l have not fully tested it.
NOTES IN THE FRUIT YARD.
1t is getting to bs & prime matter in
planting apple trees to secure varieties
that are hardy The old Seeding
orchards were as secure as elms, but
not so our finer sorts. Evolution in
onalitv does not secure a survival of
the toughest wood. The tendency is
rather the other way. Of the harder
sorts of late introduction the Spy ranks
high. The Roxbury Russet does not
easily kill, while the Kirkland is as
tough as the toughest of the old time
seedlings. These are the three best
late winter keepers and most hardy