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tion of tbe plants. This is the time for removing the pots or other 

 cover. The plants stand the frosts well, the stools acquiring in- 

 creased vigour therefrom, 



Seakale thus treated will shoot again quicker than asparagus, 

 so that another cutting may be made at the end of a week. A 

 well-managed bed should last tea years, especially if it be well 

 dunged from time to time with thoroughly-rotted dung. 



JsOTES ON XEW VEGETABLES. 



BY A KENTISH OARDEKEB. 



INCREASED attention has of late years been paid to the 

 improvement of existing types of vegetables, and every 

 year a large number of novelties are introduced to 

 public notice. Some are new in name only, whilst 

 others are no better than kinds we already have, 

 therefore a certain degree of caution is necessary in purchasing, to 

 avoid wasting money. 



Taking them in alphabetical order, we have first of all the 

 kidney beans. Of these the number is rather large, and to buy all 

 is quite unnecessary. The most important of these is Carter's White 

 Advancer, a dwarf heavy cropping variety, of great merit ; the pods 

 are long and fleshy, and produced in the greatest abundance ; it is 

 also valuable for first crops, because of its coming in quickly. 

 Osborne's Neio Early Forcing was sent out last year, yet it is so 

 thoroughly good for forcing, and early and main crops out-of-doors, 

 that it well deserves a place here. Cutbuslis Scarlet Giant is 

 another good dwarf variety, remarkable for its productiveness and 

 high quality. The price of this is only slightly in excess of the 

 established kinds, and it may therefore be tried without much extra 

 outlay. Several of the New Butter Beans were grown and certi- 

 ficated at Chiswick last summer, and are well deserving attention 

 for their distinctive character and extreme productiveness. The 

 Divarf Butter Beans (black-seeded and white-seeded) attain a 

 height of twelve or fifteen inches, and produce a profusion of thick 

 fleshy pods, from three to four inches in length. The Butter Bean 

 Mont d'Or differs from the two former in having a scandent habit, 

 and producing pods from six to eight inches in length. The pods of 

 all these are skinless, and are usually cooked and served up whole. 

 The colour of the pods is a pale lemon, and when cooked they are 

 less pleasing to the eye than a dish of the ordinary kinds. Never- 

 theless, they are well worth growing ; and it may be mentioned 

 that they are especial favourites in America and on the Continent. 



Several new broccolis were brought prominently before the public 

 last season, but the only one that was really good and distinct was 

 Perhins's Leamington, a late self-protecting variety of great merit; 

 it is, in fact, the very finest late broccoli we have, both as regards 

 size and quality, and too much cannot be said in its praise. 



Several celeries have been introduced of late, and the best of 



February. 



