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2. Minhin's Early Reliance. — A very fine variety, and very productive. 3£ pecka to 

 the row. 



3. Royal Ash Leaf (Rivers'). — Very large and fine, but not so many tubers to a root as 

 in No. 1. From 2 to 3 pecka to the row. 



4. Mona's Pride. — A very useful kind, and a good cropper. 3 pecks to the row. 



5. King of Potatos. — A very fine second-early kidnoy, and a true model of what a kidney 

 potato should be as regards shape ; large, a heavy croppor, and free from eyes. It is a seed- 

 ling, I believe, either from the Lapstono or Fluke, which it resembles in shape, but it is 

 earlier. 3£ pecks to the row. 



G. Milky White. — A very fine large second-early kidney, truly named " milky white," as 

 it will be seen when cooked to merit all that has been said in its praise ; it is very mealy, 

 and of a very fine flavour. The produce of this variety I havo no doubt would have been 

 larger if better sets had been used, but the seed was not larger than pigeons' eggs, and I 

 have had only one year's trial with it. 3^ pecks to the row. 



7. Transell's Seedling. — A round potato, with very small eyes, very early, and having a 

 beautiful smooth akin ; of very fine flavour when cooked. The best round potato for forcing 

 that I havo ever grown, andexoallent either under glass or in the open air. 3 pecks to the row. 



8. Early Frame. — A very fine round early potato. 3 pecks to the row. 



9. Early Don. — A very useful kind, and a great cropper ; very distinct from Nos. 7 and 

 8, by its being marked with purple round the eyes. It is a larger cropper than either of the 

 two preceding varieties, but does not possess their other good qualities ; of medium size. 

 5 pecks to the row. 



10. Daintree's Seedling. — A second-early round potato, very productive, but of medium 

 size. 4 pecks to the row. 



11. Early Oxford (Soden's). — A very useful second-early round potato. Twenty years 

 ago this variety was the earliest round potato grown ; but Nos. 7 and 8 are much earlier. 

 2£ pecks to the row. 



It will, I trust, interest some of your numerous readers to know that there 

 has not been one diseased potato found in these gardens this year, up to the 

 14th of August. In 1868 I grew the same varieties as this year, except Milky 

 White, and with better results, as we were then taking them up quite ripe in July, 

 and the produce from each kind was from four to five pecks to the row, 60 ft. long. 

 This year they were cut off by frost about the end of April, and consequently they 

 did not afterwards acquire the same degree of vigour they had in 1868. 



Elsenham Hall Gardens. William Ple3teb. 



ROSE HEDGES. 



fOU mention at p. 192 a hedge of Roses. The success of Mr. Earley and 

 your notice thereof, may do something towards making popular a most 

 ^U useful addition to many parts of a garden. Many persons, for reasons 

 ^ which are scarcely intelligible, object to see growing vegetables in a 

 garden. Hence for many years I have been compelled to introduce something to 

 shut them out from view, and I have found that roses make the best and the 

 most pleasing of all screens. We have also found the old Noisette Fellenberg by 

 far the best sort to use. It must have a good deal of the monthly or Eed 

 China blood in the cross, as it is continually in bloom, and it may be had ten feet 

 high on common hazel stakes — though, of course, stakes of iron are better. If a 

 white hedge rose is wanted, Aimee Vibert is, in good soil, according to my 

 experience, much the best of that colour ; it is clear in colour, free in growth, 



