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The Specimens
Brooke Grove, Flowers, marytynias, tomatoes
sweet corn, sweet potatoes, carrot, salsify
celery and cabbage.
Rockland, Flowers, carrots, tomatoes and parsnips.
Tanglewood egg-plant, apples, pears, lettuce
peppers and cabbage.
Edgewood Flowers, apples, and turnips
Hermon, cabbage, celery, carrots, salsify & kale
Avalon, Flowers
The Cedars, Flowers
Riverside, Flowers.

Questions
1
What is the quince crop this year?
Dr Magruder's are the best he has ever had.
Several others had good crops.
2
How keep onions from sprouting? Spread
on the floor in a dry cool building.
In freezing weather cover with carpet
or bag.
3
Whatis the best winter protection for
young rose bushes? Cedar boughs are
good and should not be put on too
Thick nor too early. Some use stones laid
Around the bushes to keep them from being
thown out by frost.