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Gilbert's Green Flesh Melok takes precedence of all others 

 in the green flesh class, there being few to equal it in beauty, aud 

 none to equal it in flavour. It is of full medium size, with yellow 

 skin and deep green flesh of the most delicious flavour. 



The Shah is a remarkably fine red flesh melon, that took first 

 place in its class at the last Crystal Palace Fruit Show, being sliown 

 by Mr. Webb, of Calcot. It is of medium size, pei-fectly round, with 

 bright yellow skin, rather heavily netted. The flesh is lii^ht red, with 

 a distinct breadth of green next the rind. It is quite melting, and of 

 the finest flavour. We believe this to be the best variety of its class. 



Turner's Dr. Maclean Pea. — This is the mo^t prolific pea of 

 high quality in cultivation. It is a green marrow, rising three to 

 four feet, branching freely, and therefore requires to be sown very 

 thin. The pods are straight, rather narrow for their length, with a 

 short beak, the colour a fine deep green, the peas averaging seven to 

 nine in a pod. In quality it is equal to the very best of the green 

 marrows, and it surpasses them all in productiveness, the branches 

 being literally smothered with pods from top to bottom. 



Sutton's Giant Emerald Marrow Pea. — This is a strong 

 growing white wrinkled marrow pea of excellent quality, and highly 

 productive. The pods are straight, with a slight beak of a light 

 grass green colour, each pod containing six to nine large peas. 



Barr's New Davarf Cabrage. — This is a m'^mber of the 

 useful group of which Shilling's Queen and Ward'w Ineompurable 

 were formerly representatives, but is in advance in point of quality 

 and purity on those excellent types. We have grown it four years, 

 and repeatedly compared it with the best varieties of its class, and 

 always found it superior to them all. It is of compact growtli, quickly 

 produces solid globular or bluntly conical hearts of a large size in pro- 

 portion to the very small extent of ground the piant covers. For 

 autumn and winter use it is the best garden cabbage in cultivation. 



Sutton's Duke of Connaught Cucumber. — This is a large 

 fast-growing white spine variety of the most ])erfect proportions, 

 and adapted for any and every purpose for which a cucumber can 

 be grown, whether to supply the market or the table, or take the 

 lead in an exhibition. It may be grown to any size, but is very 

 fine in quality and proportion, at from 20 to 24i inches. We have 

 made notes on a fruit 22 inches in length ; it was of the same 

 width through, neatly rounded, without the slightest prolongation 

 of the nose, aud absolutely without a handle, for it contracts to the 

 stalk suddenly, and may be sliced to the very hilt. The skin is grass 

 green, glossy, and shows a few iuconspicuous white spines. 



Cucumber Blue Gown is worthy of a note, although no longer 

 a new variety. It has proved the finest black-spiiied cucumber out, 

 and it will be no easy matter to beat it. Having grown it in the 

 same house with a selection of varieties noted for higli quality, we 

 find it not only the handsomest of its class, but the most prolific ; 

 in fact, in productiveness it surpasses the Siou House breed, but 

 requires just a little more heat. Blue Gown and Duke of Con- 

 naught are undoubtedly the two finest cucumbers in all the long list. 



S. H. 



November. 



