. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. Improvements in Vegetables.—Fig. 4. Squasll.—Of the summer sorts in bush form the yellow and other varieties have been improved. The object has been to get into bush form the best of early and late sorts. Tomato. — This valuable vegetable, which even at this day is used in Europe as an ornamental plant, is coming into use gradually as a staple vegetable with us. Its use has demanded the greatest improvements from the flat, irregular varieties, which were the only early sorts known a few years ago. We now have perf
. The American florist : a weekly journal for the trade. Floriculture; Florists. Improvements in Vegetables.—Fig. 4. Squasll.—Of the summer sorts in bush form the yellow and other varieties have been improved. The object has been to get into bush form the best of early and late sorts. Tomato. — This valuable vegetable, which even at this day is used in Europe as an ornamental plant, is coming into use gradually as a staple vegetable with us. Its use has demanded the greatest improvements from the flat, irregular varieties, which were the only early sorts known a few years ago. We now have perfect, round, well colored sorts of excel- lent quality. They are also in tree form, with fruit of uniform character. The forcing sorts are distinct and excellent in quality. The latest introduction is the tree shape, with large, dark red solid Iruit. Some of our well known vegetables have been omitted in this list, but the improvements not having been marked in the last decade they have not been mentioned. Having touched only on types and not varieties, this subject is lelt with you in an unfinished state, but the seed catalogues of all of the reliable seed firms have the newer types listed and their dis- tinctions thoroughly described. REFERENCES TO rLLUSTRATIONS. Fig. 1.—Shows improvements in the green and wax podded beans, overcoming the air cells above the seed and also the neck; also, by the introduction of round podded sorts, producing longer, more brittle pods and less string. Fig. 2.—Shows improvements in the Golden Wax types of beans from the short flat pod to the long semi-round and round sorts, which are of a more golden color, less stringy and have more abundant croppers; shows also the large, very tender Yosemite Wax, which remains in edible condition longer than any other variety. Fig. 3.—Shows old type of beets with thick root and large top and crown, and the early blood varieties with short top and turnip-shaped root; also the late turnip varieties wi
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