Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1871 [PAGE 104]

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96 dard varieties for profit, and by keeping careful accounts, to determine the actual amount realized. For these there have been purchased as follows: From Purdy & Hance, South Bend, Ind., 11 varieties of grapes, 4c of currants, 14 of raspberries, and 15 of strawberries. From Elwanger & Barry, Kochester, N . Y., 10 varieties of grapes, 3 of currants, 2 of gooseberries, 4 of raspberries, and 4 of strawberries. From Storrs, Harrison & Co., Painesville, Ohio, 600 Concord grape vines, 200 Creviling, 100 Delaware, 100 Ives, 50 Clinton, and 50 Catawba, all 1 year old.

VEGETABLE GARDEN.

Crops fair to good, some excellent. The number of varieties of vegetables was great, many of them planted for the purpose of testing the qualities of each, so that considerable information was gained in this particular for future benefit. Financially the experiment was not successful, and probably never can be, excepting with a few crops. For the coming year it is thought best to keep up the large number of varieties, but upon a very small scale, and plant largely of the few paying crops. Corn—best varieties, from many varieties grown—1, Early Narragansett; planted April 29th; first sold July 15th ; 2, Crosby's Early ; 3, StowelPs Evergreen. Cucumbers, best—long green ; three varieties planted. Cabbage—best early varieties ; eight varieties grown—1, Early Jersey Wakefield; 2, Early Ox Heart. Best late varieties—1, Marblehead Mammoth ; 2, Eed Drumhead, (for pickling.) Carrots—four varieties—Early Scarlet Horn and Early Short Horn, nearly alike, good, early; Improved Orange and Long Orange, similar, good, winter. Cauliflower—four varities grown—best, Extra Early Dwarf Erfurt. None headed well. Lettuce—three varieties grown—Early Curled Silesia* best early; Drumhead, best summer. Musk Melons—five varieties grown—White Japan, earliest, good; Alton Nutmeg, large, very good; Christina, medium early, good. Water Melons—five varieties grown—Mountain Sweet, best; Joe Johnson, next best. Egg Plant—New York Improved and Black Pekin ; both good, but no market for them. Parsnips—four varieties grown—Sutton's Student, best. The Turnip Rooted seeded.