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ROUND COLOURED SECTION. 



Forty/old. — A good crop of moderately -sized tubers, always welcome at 

 table. 



New Rose-end. — Fair crop, large tubers, but inferior when cooked, and 

 diseased. 



RintouVs Striped Don. — Large crop, good-sized tubers, and of very good 

 quality. 



NisbeVs Don. — Fair crop, medium-sized tubers, and very good when cooked. 



Red-shin Flour-ball. — Bad crop, badly diseased, and not good to eat ; dis- 

 carded. 



All of the above, excepting those specified, were free from disease when 

 lifted. I had those which I put away for seed looked over and examined 

 about the end of October. The following list remained free from disease — viz., 

 New Rose-end, Magnum Bonum, Early Sandringham, Oxford Early, Rintoul's 

 "White Don, ilyatt's Ash-leaf, Ruby, Wonderful, Climax, Sutton's Prolific. 

 The following were slightly diseased — viz., Coldstream Early, Porter's Excel- 

 sior, Snowflake, Fenn's Early Market, Nisbet's Don, American Bread-fruit, 

 Covent Garden Market, American Early, and Schoolmaster. Those badly 

 diseased as follows — viz., Forty fold, Rintoul's Striped Don, Dalmahoy, Early 

 Sovereign, Eureka, Bountiful, Early Vermont, Late Rose, International Kid- 

 ney, and Red-skin Flour-ball. I hardly expect to be able to save any sets for 

 planting of some varieties in the last-named section. 



J. G. W. 



DOUBLE WHITE HEPATICA? 



In the course of a paper on " Hardy Spring Flowers," read by Mr 

 Robertson Munro before the Scottish Horticultural Association last 

 month, he stated that while there were varieties of double red and 

 blue Hepaticas, he was not aware of a double white one being in 

 cultivation. Mr Munro is a very high authority on such subjects ; 

 but as it seems strange, I would feel obliged if you, or any of your 

 readers, would say if you have met with such. — Yours, &c, 



Theta. 



SCOTTISH HORTICULTURAL ASSOCIATION. 



The monthly meeting was held in the hall, 5 St Andrew Scpiare, Edinburgh, 

 on Tuesday evening the 3d ult. — Mr Dunn, president, in the chair. Mr L. 

 Dow read a paper on the " Kitchen-garden." After a few preliminary remarks 

 illustrative of the great importance of young gardeners making this branch of 

 their profession the subject of special study, he gave in detail the modes he 

 had practised for many years for the successful cultivation of Cauliflowers, 

 Peas, Carrots, and Swedish Turnips, dealing with the latter chiefly for winter 

 forcing — the roots being treated in a similar manner to Seakale, the blanched 

 leaves alone being used, and as much appreciated as those of that vegetable. 



