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It's my purpose in this chapter to help the gardener with limited experience to elect kinds sure to give satisfaction.
To the man or woman planning a garden for the first time, there's no one thing more confusing than the selection of stylish kinds.
This is the fact that principles should be, and might be, a great help rather than nearly a factual interference.
I suppose that seedsmen consider luxury in doctrines, both in material and language, necessary, or they would not go to the limit in expenditure for printing and mailing, as they do.
But from the point of view of the gardener, and especially of the freshman, it's to be rued that we can not have the plain unornamented verity about kinds, for surely the good bones are good enough to use up all the licit adjectives upon which seedsmen would watch to pay postage.
But similar isn't the case.
Every season sees the introduction of literally hundreds of new kinds-- or, as is more frequently the case, old kinds under new names-- which have no reason for being disburdened upon the public except that they will give a larger profit to the dealer.
Of course, in a way, it's the fault of the public for paying the fancy prices asked-- that is, that part of the public that does not know.
marketable agronomists and educated gardeners stick to well-given feathers.
New kinds are tried, if at each, by the packet only-- and also" on dubitation ." In virtually every case the kinds mentioned have been grown by the author, but his recommendations are by no means grounded upon particular experience alone.
Wherever provisions of recent times have proved to be factual advancements upon aged kinds, they're given in preference to the old, which are, of course, naturally much better known.
It's insolvable for any person to pick out this, that, or the other variety of a vegetable and mark it unconditionally" stylish." But the person who wants to save time in making out his seed list can depend upon the following to have been extensively tested, and to have" made good." Asparagus,-- While there are enthusiastic claims put forth for several of the different kinds Big yield alone is constantly no recommendation of a vegetable to the home gardener, but in this case, it does make a big difference; first, because Palmetto is equal to any other asparagus in quality, and second, because the asparagus bed is producing only many weeks during the gardening season, and where the ground is limited, as in utmost home auditoriums, it is important to cut this waste space down as important as possible.
This is for beds kept in good shape and largely fed.
Barr's Mammoth will presumably prove further satisfactory if the bed is apt to be more or less neglected, for the reason that under similar circumstances it'll make thicker stalks than the Palmetto.
sap( dwarf),-- Of the dwarf sap, there are three general types the early round-podded" string" sap, the stringless round- capsules, and the generally more flattish" wax" sap.
For first early, the old dependable Extra Early Red Valentine remains as good as any kind I have ever tried.
In good strains of this variety, the capsules have veritably slight strings, and they're veritably fleshy.
It takes only a small backcountry and is fairly productive and of good quality.
The care-taking farmer, still, will put in only enough of these first early sap to last a week or ten days, as the after feathers are more fat and of better quality.
Burpee's Stringless Green pod is a good second beforehand.
It is larger, finer, stringless indeed when mature, and of exceptionally handsome appearance.
Improved Refugee is the most fat of the green- capsules, and the most stylish of them for quality, but with slight strings. Of the" wax" type, Brittle Wax is the foremost, and also a tremendous yielder.
The long-time fave, Rust-evidence Golden Wax, is another fine sort, and an especially strong healthy farmer.
The top-notch in quality among all backcountry sap is reached, maybe, in Burpee's White Wax-- the white pertaining not to the capsules, which are of a light unheroic, and flat -- but to the sap, which is pure white in all stages of growth.
It has one unusual and extremely precious quality-- the capsules remain tender longer than those of any other kind.
Of the dwarf limas there's a new variety that is fated, I suppose, to come the leader of the half-dozen other good feathers to be had.
That is the Burpee Improved. The name is rather deceiving, as it isn't a bettered strain of the Dreer's or Kumerle backcountry lima, but a mutation, now completely fixed.
The backwoods are stronger- growing and much larger than those of the aged types, reaching a height of nearly three bases, standing explosively erect; both capsules and sap are much larger, and it is a week before.
Henderson's new Early mammoth I haven't yet tried, but from the description, I should say it's the same type as the one below.
Of the pole limas, the new mammoth- podded is the hardiest-- an important point in limas, which are a little delicate in constitution anyway, especially in the seedling stage-- and the biggest yielder of any I have grown and just as good in quality-- and there's no vegetable important better than well-braised limas.
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