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Little Pixie. Enfield Market and Sugar-Loaf are good larger sorts. Tha 

 Drumhead kinds are unfit for a small garden — the "dwarf" being of better 

 quality than the "giant." 



Savoys— Sutton's Tom Thumb, very small, but of superexcellent quality; 

 and if planted a foot apart each way, will yield almost as much as the larger 

 kinds. Early Dwarf Ulm is a good early sort ; and Drumhead a larger and 

 later one. 



Celery — Sandringham and Cole's Crystal among whites; Sutton's Sulham 

 prize of pink varieties ; and William's Matchless among reds. 

 Vegetable Marrow — Moore's Cream, and Hibberd's Prolific. 

 Leeks — Ayton Castle Giant for quality and size, and Musselburgh for 

 hardiness. 



Lettuce — Cos varieties — London White and Paris "White, Champion Brown. 

 Cabbage — Varieties — All-the-year-round and Neapolitan. 

 Onion — The Queen, very early, Danver's Yellow, Blood Ked, James's Keep- 

 ing, for spring sowing ; and Globe, Flat Tripoli, and Giant Rocca for sowing 

 early in August. 



Peas— Ringleader, Kentish Invicta, William the First, and Sutton's Emerald 

 Gem for first sowings; Dickson's Favourite, Daniel O'Rourke, and Fabus Market 

 Favourite for second; best of all, M 'Lean's Wonderful; Champion of England 

 (very tall) for third sowing ; Veitch's Perfection, Ne Plus Ultra, Lynn's Mar- 

 row, William's Emperor of the Marrows, Hair's Dwarf Mammoth, and M 'Lean's 

 Premier for last sowings. 



Potatoes — Veitch's Early Ashleaf, Wonderful Red, Alpha, Early Rose, Snow- 

 flake, Dalmahoy, Walker's Early Regent, Paterson's Victoria, Sutton's Mag- 

 num Bonum. I strongly recommend beginners to fight shy of the more famous 

 show kinds, as not a few are of very inferior quality, such, for instance, as the 

 old Handsworth's Early, very wrongly re-christened Porter's Excelsior. This 

 is an inferior Potato to eat, although of fine shape. 



Radish — We advise amateurs to get their seed in mixed packets. 

 Parsnip — Student, Hollow Crowned. 



Spinach — Round, for sowing in spring and summer ; Prickly, for sowing 

 about the middle of August. New Zealand requires to be raised under glass, 

 and transplanted early in June. 



Tomato — The Conqueror, and Hathaway 's Excelsior. They require rearing 

 under glass, and after danger from frost is past, to be put in any vacant space 

 of a warm wall. In cold districts they require to be under glass. 



Turnip— Early Dutch White, Early White Strap Leaf, Robertson's Golden 

 Ball, Chirk Castle, Black Stone, and Laing's Swedish, for keeping over winter. 

 These varieties have always given satisfaction. It would have been very 

 easy to have doubled or even trebled the list. Few amateurs require a long 

 list, and more experienced growers will be able to add to this list for them- 

 selves. Sometimes a given variety of a vegetable will do well in one district 

 and not in another, such as Peas and Potatoes. I would warn amateurs 

 against being led astray by large vegetables — that is, kinds which grow large 

 naturally, as the more rapidly the majority of vegetables are grown the 

 tenderer they are. Half-starved garden produce is neither palatable nor 

 wholesome ; nor, as a rule, are giant varieties. Size and coarseness almost 

 invariably go hand in hand ; and as a matter of fact, it is not often that great, 

 coarse-growing vegetables yield the greatest amount of real useful produce. For 

 instance, the ground occupied with a coarse Drumhead Cabbage would produce 

 three or four Little Pixies, the united weight of which would equal the coarse 



