The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste . e advantage of good prices. Their fruit can thusbe either sent to a late market or to an early one. Yegetahlea. Their experience has also been quite satisfactory with garden products, and thefollowing list has been compiled from an experience of several years, and is consi-dered a superior assortment: Asparagus.—Large Purple. Celery.—S^h\ie Solid. Egg-Plant.—Large Improved New-York. Cucurriber, {table use.)—Early Russian, WhiteSpine. (Pickles.)—Long Green, Boston Cabbage. — Early Winningstadt, MarbleheadMammoth, Cannon-Ba
The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste . e advantage of good prices. Their fruit can thusbe either sent to a late market or to an early one. Yegetahlea. Their experience has also been quite satisfactory with garden products, and thefollowing list has been compiled from an experience of several years, and is consi-dered a superior assortment: Asparagus.—Large Purple. Celery.—S^h\ie Solid. Egg-Plant.—Large Improved New-York. Cucurriber, {table use.)—Early Russian, WhiteSpine. (Pickles.)—Long Green, Boston Cabbage. — Early Winningstadt, MarbleheadMammoth, Cannon-Bali, Improved Savoy, LateBristol. Cauliflower.—Hhorhnrn9 Nonpareil. Parsnip.—Guernsey or Cup. Squashes.—Summer Crook-neck, Golden Japan,Hubbard, Sweet Potato. Turnip.—White French. Pepper.—Sweet Mountain. Spinach.—Round Leaf and New-England. Lettuce.—Early Curled Siberia, Ice Drumhead. Scotch Kale.—Green Curled. Nutmeg Melons.—Wards Nectar, Green Citron. Watermelons.—Early Mountain Sweet, BlackSpanish, South-Carolina Notes on New Fruits. TJie Prairie Farmer Straioberry is the name given to a new western variety, originated byWilliam D. Neff, Ottawa, Illinois, with the following characteristics, as described by the journalafter whom it has been named: A strong grower. Leaves large, dark green above, pale below; fruit very large, oblongcompressed or ovate, occasionally coxcombed irregular, apex truncated, vertically grooved,seeds deeply imbedded; texture firm, color deep scarlet and remarkably uniform to the centre;subacid, good flavor, (flower not seen.) This plant is a seedling from the Agriculturist, and is supposed to have been crossed withthe Wilsons Albany. The seeds, from which Mr. Neflf produced about one hundred and twenty plants, were takenfrom the two first berries upon one plant of the Agriculturist, which grew in a bed of seeds were immediately planted out in rows three inches apart. In late fall they weremulche
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