The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1906-06-01
GARDEN NOVELTIES

Buttercup lettuce is Il bright chrome
yellow in color-a popular new sort.
recommended by Green as very beau
tiful, tender and desirable.
May King. Il novelty in lettuce, is
said to make an extra large, round,
solid head, light green outside, with Il
clear yellow heart is very tender and
Of fine flavor. An advantage that has
been suggested for it when grown for
market is that it fills up the package
well, giving Il very attractive appear
ance to the whole package.
Hardy Celery.
While stating that he has had no
personal experience with it. l.. i. Taft
has the following to say in Gardening
concerning the claims made for the
new Silver King hardy celery by its
diSSeminators: The description given
by the firm seems to be quite accurate.
The plant Is a hardy perennial which
sends up numerous stalks from thick,
tieshy CORN. The plant also has large.
fieshy roots, so that a clump of it APP
pears much like rhubarb, although
white in color and considerably small
err. The leaf stalks are round. solid
and smooth. The stalks are readily
blanched either by banking with earth
or covering with a box or barrel. They
seem free from rust and are quite crisp
and tender. The flavor quite closely
resembles that of celery. although it
does not have the distinctive "nutty"
flavor that is characteristic of the best
celery. | have never seen anything
that even resembled it, but from the
descriptions given of archangelica II
may be a European species of that
genus.
TrnnspIanted Lettuce.
Unusually fine development of head
lettuce has been secured at the Yer
mont experiment station by starting
the plants in the greenhouse and then
transplanting to open ground with the
coming of favorable weather. Varie,
ties giving best satisfaction were Ice
berg, Deacon, Market Gardeners Pri-
vate Stock and Improved Hanson. in
about the order named. While the av-
erage weight of Improved Hanson ex-
ceeded that of all but Iceberg, it lack
ed the solid, well blanched head of the
Deacon and Market Gardeners Private
Stock.
New CrOssbred Sugar Corn.
The New Jersey experiment station
Is pursuing a unique line of expert
mental work in the breeding of sweet
or table corn and has already estab-
lished some promising crosses, an ac-
count of which is given in bulletin 1872
Of the state station at New Bruins.
wick. Solid black ears of Mexican
Gentleman are one of these Ears of
mixed white and black or purple are
other interesting results. The station
offers sample packets of the cross
seeds to those who wish to test them
Dangers In Circulating Libraries.
A foreign medical journal has been
publishing facts about the dissemina
ton of disease through books from
public libraries. 1t Is, of course, impos-
sible for librarians to ascertain where
books have been or to know the condi.
tons of families into which they 60 A
large number Of books were examined
and were found to contain the bacilli
Of pneumonia, diphtheria and many
other sorts, some of which were harm.
less. Even new books fresh from the
publishers hands were found to con.
tain germs. There are very many per.
sons who practice wetting the fingers
with the lips or tongue when turning
the pages of books. This Is an exceed
ingly dangerous thing to do, not only
to the person who does it, but to all
others who may use the book after.
ward, especially If the person so doing
has any form of disease in the system.
Invalids of all kinds are likely to be
great readers, and the consumptive or
those suffering with cancer may un.
Willingly deposit on the pages of the
volumes they peruse the deadly germs
Of their own malady.