e Giant Naples | Oct. 17 | 5 | 3 | 4
Late Paris | Aug. 12 | 10 | 7 | 7-1/2
Late Stadtholder | Oct. 7 | 11 | 6 | 5-1/2
Le Maitre Pied Court | Aug. 14 | 15 | 13 | 7
Lenormand | Sept. 15 | 12 | 10 | 6-1/2
Len'm'd Short-stem'd (Hend'son) | Aug. 14 | 20 | 11 | 6
Len'm'd Short-stem'd (Vilmorin) | July 25 | 12 | 7 | 7
Purple Cape (Noir de Sicilie) | Aug. 10 | 12 | 8 | 6-1/2
Thorburn's Nonpareil | " 14 | 7 | 6 | 8-1/2
Veitch's Autumn Giant | Sept. 24 | 13 | 11 | 7-1/2
Walcheren (Henderson) | " 1 | 4 | 4 | 7-1/2
Walcheren (Vilmorin) | Aug. 5 | 6 | 6 | 7
Wonderful | Oct. 27 | 7 | 6 | 6
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The following early varieties were tested in 1888. The seeds were all
sown May 10, and the plants set out June 23, two by three and one-half
feet. All the varieties headed well, except one called "Early," from the
English Specialty and Novelty Seed Co., which formed no heads.

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| Seeds | No. of | No. of | Fit for
VARIETY. | from. | plants. | heads. | table use.
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Dreer's E'st Snowstorm | Dreer. | 11 | 8 | Sept. 24
Earliest Dwarf Erfurt | Vaughn. | 9 | 5 | " 6
Extra E. Dwarf Erfurt | Tillinghast. | 9 | 4 | " 29
Gilt-edge Snowball | Thorburn. | 12 | 10 | Aug. 25
Henderson's E. Snowb'l | Henderson. | 12 | 8 | Sept. 6
Long Island Beauty | Tillinghast. | 11 | 8 | " 14
Long Island Beauty | Bragg. | 12 | 11 | Aug. 25
New Early Padilla | Tillinghast. | 11 | 8 | " 29
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At the same station, in 1889, the following varieties were tested. The
seed was sown in frames April 23, and the plants set out June 22. The
Early Erfurt and Early Snowball were from seed grown by H. A. March, of
Fidalgo, Washington.

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