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the frame, you can make room for them as other things are removed ; and the way 

 to plant them is to turn out the ball under the centre of a light, and then heap 

 loam all round it, so as to make a hillock, the outer edge of which must be heaped 

 up above the ball, so that the plant will stand in a basin at the top of a mound ; 

 water \yill then soak to the roots, instead of running off down the sides. It is 

 better, if you can do it, to make up a second bed to receive the plants from the iirst, 

 when they are ready for it, and so on, working from frame to frame, and the first 

 beds, when half spent, will be found quite warm enough for things that require 

 only a little heat. We raise our early annuals in beds after gourds, and sometimes 

 spawn the beds for mushrooms after the annuals. 



OF PLIIifS, SEEDS, ETC. 



A SELECTION OF THE FINEST PEAS FOR 

 GARDEN CULTURE. 



-E'aWy.— Dickson's First, Saugster's No. 1 

 Emperor, Advancer. 



Second IJarli/. —Eley's Essex Rival, Prin- 

 cess Royal, The Prince. 



Za^e.— Ne Plus Ultra, Knight's Dwarf 

 .. Green Marrow, British Queen, Champion of 



^' Scotland. 



'-\ HEAVY CROPPERS OV SECOND-CLASS QUALITY. 



Bishop's Long-podded, Auvergne, Lynn's Wrinkled Marrow, Blue 

 Scimetar. 



A SELECTION OF BROAD BEANS FOR GARDEN CULTURE. 



lEarlt/.—MsiZSigSin, Marshall's Prolific. 



Late and Fine. — Mackie's Monarch, Taylor's Windsor. 



Profitable. — Johnson's Wonderful. 



A SELECTION OF VARIETIES OF BEET FOR GARDEN CULTURE. 



Nutting's Selected Dwarf Red, Pineapple Short-top, Covent Garden Improved, 

 Dewar's Short-top, Cattell's Dwarf Purple-topped. 



SELECTION OF VARIETIES OF BORECOLE FOR GARDEN CULTURE. 

 Cottager's Kale, Gibbs's Extra Curled Green Kale, Dwarf Green Curled Kale. 



A SELECTION OF VARIETIES OF POTATOES FOR GARDEN CULTURE. 



JEarly Kidneys. — Veitch's Improved Ashleaf, Grimsdale's Early, Sutton's 

 Racehorse. 



Early Rounds. — Smith's Early, Victoria Early. Early Handswortb. 



Main Crop Kidneys. — Milky White, Prince of Wales, The King, The Queen. 



Main Crop Rounds. — Daintree's Early, Pink-eye Radical, Flour Ball, Forty- 

 fold. 



TO COEEESPONDENTS. 



Forcing Seakale and Rhubarb. — R. ^tVcA.— Dung- heat is the best when 

 well managed, but hot-water pipes are now much used, on account of the greater 

 ease and certainty in management. They may be forced in the open ground by 

 putting seakale pots over, and heaping hot dung upon them. When the heat is 



