. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. Improvements in Vegetables very perceptible advancement, starting with the long-podded thick-skinned, white-seeded bean, to the shorter pod, with more beans and much thinner shell. These are also doubly prolific and of much better flavor, a greater luxury for the table and more profitable for the market gardener. These types have also been dwarfed in both large and small Lima, and are now known as the bush form of Lima bean which we now have in about six varieties. Beets.—Of the table sorts we may note the varieti
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. Improvements in Vegetables very perceptible advancement, starting with the long-podded thick-skinned, white-seeded bean, to the shorter pod, with more beans and much thinner shell. These are also doubly prolific and of much better flavor, a greater luxury for the table and more profitable for the market gardener. These types have also been dwarfed in both large and small Lima, and are now known as the bush form of Lima bean which we now have in about six varieties. Beets.—Of the table sorts we may note the varieties produced by crossing the best of the deep blood with the white, thus giving color and sweetness com- bined, also earliness with small top, making good forcing varieties. These are not so desirable for summer sowing as the deep blood sorts with heavier Improvements in Vegetables.—Fig. 8. This is imperative to produce a tender deep color turnip-rooted beet during hot weather. Cabbage.—The improvements are not numerous but of value, particularly in early sorts which have been crossed with larger types, thus giving large crops very early in the summer. In the later sorts large heads and long-keeping varieties have been added. Celery.—This important vegetable is the most critical of the market garden- er's stock; he must have the new early varieties. Many new sorts, which are good and of good keeping quality, have been introduced. Consumers are seldom treated to the good quality of celery, excepting those who have their own pri- vate gardens, as the largest quantity of this vegetable comes from the celery- growing districts of the northwest, where it is planted close over the ground, thus bleaching without banking. This method never produces tender celery regardless of the sort, new or old. It is thrust upon the market earlier than our home growers can produce it fuUygrown and bleached. The latest introductions are the Golden and Rose colored com- bined, possessing
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