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INDIAN CORN. 



Flowers in the style of the old double 

 White. — Apollo, a transparent rose ; Auro- 

 ra, a salmon rose, marbled with white ; 

 Calypso, pure white ; Brochii, cherry rose, 

 striped with white ; Candidissima, pure 

 white; Ccelestina, delicate rose ; Coquettii, 

 salmon rose, suffused with white spots; 

 Cooperi, reddish salmon ; Elegans, very 

 large, and sometimes marbled with white ; 

 Estherii, white, with rose flakes; Fordi, 

 salmon rose ; Grunelli, pure white ; Harri- 

 son!, pure white; Helena, deep poppy red ; 

 Henri Favre, bright cherry rose ; Hookeri, 

 pomegranate colour, spotted white ; Imbri- 

 cata Alba, creamy white striped with rose; 

 Marchioness of Exeter, beautiful rose ; Mar- 

 guerite Gouillon, blush rose, striped and 

 spotted with carmine; Mutabilis Traversi, 

 bronzy salmon, with white stripes ; Negri, 



carnation colour, spotted with red ; Ochro- 

 leuca, creamy white, with buff centre ; 

 Palatinus Hungaricus, red, suffused with 

 rose and white spots; Queen Victoria, red- 

 dish carmine, striped with white ; Rudolphi, 

 white, with broad blood-coloured stripes j 

 Susannah, blush rose, shaded with salmon, 

 and striped with" carmine ; Woodsii, fine 

 rose ; Wardi, brilliant red ; Carswelliana, 

 salmon red, striped with white. 



NEW SEEDLING. 



Countess of Orkney, very noble floAver. 

 not fully double, brilliantly striped with 

 pale rose and deep crimson ; outline, very 

 good, and the flower beautiful in all its 

 stages, free grown, rich foliage and good 

 habit. 



ON INDIAN CORN. 



BY THOMAS CARLYLE. 



[The following article by Thomas Carlyle 

 is from Frazer's Magazine. Our rea- 

 ders will find an interest in it, besides what 

 belongs to productions from the pen of the 

 author of Sartor and the French Revolution, 



Ed.] 



" It is much to be regretted that no in- 

 dividual of the many large classes whose 

 business and interest it might seem to be, 

 has yet taken any effective steps towards 

 opening to our population the immense 

 resource of Indian corn as an article of food. 

 To all that have well considered it, this 

 grain seems likely henceforth to be the staff 

 of life for over-crowded Europe; capable 

 not only of replacing the deceased potato 

 which has now left us, but of infinitely 

 surpassing in usefulness and cheapness all 

 that the potato ever was. 



"From general attainability, there was 

 no article of food ever comparable to it 

 before ; a grown man, in any part of Eu- 

 rope accessible by sea, can be supported on 

 it, at this date, wholesomely, and, if we 

 understand the business, even agreeably, 

 at the rate of little more than a penny a 

 day; which surely is cheap enough, Neith- 

 er, as the article is not grown at home, and 

 can be procured only by commerce, need 



political economists dread new ' Irish diffi- 

 culties,' from the cheapness of it. Nor is 

 there danger for unlimited periods yet, of 

 its becoming dearer; it grows in the warm 

 latitudes of the earth, profusely with the 

 whole impulse of the sun ; can grow over 

 huge tracts and continents lying vacant 

 hitherto, festering hitherto as pestiferous 

 jungles, yielding only rattle-snakes and 

 yellow fever ; it is possible, if we were 

 driven to it, the planet Earth, sown, where 

 fit, with Indian corn, might produce a 

 million times as much food as it now does, 

 or has ever done ! To the disconsolate 

 Malthusian, ihis grain ought to be a sove- 

 reign comfort. In the single valley of Mis- 

 sissippi alone, were the rest of the earth 

 all lying fallow, there could Indian corn 

 enough be grown to support the whole pos- 

 terity of Adam now alive ; let the disconso- 

 late Malthusian fling his ' geometrical se- 

 ries' into the corner ; assist wisely in the 

 ' free trade movement ;' and dry up his 

 tears. For a thousand years or two, there 

 is decidedly no danger of our wanting food, 

 if we do not want good sense and industry 

 first. In a word, this invaluable foreign 

 corn is not only calculated, as we said, to 

 replace the defunct potato, but to surpass 

 it a thousand fold in benefit for man ; and 



