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to form a semi-globe, whose natural liabits are too flat to sliow 

 them to advantage in certain positions, and there are few flower 

 borders that liave not a particular i^oint of sight to be viewed 

 from, so tliat sheets of bloom have to be created by pegging or 

 tying the flower-heads forward, where the habit of the plant is to 

 produce only awkward clusters of flower-stalks, half of whicli 

 would be hid by the other half, and the hint given by the Lanca- 

 shire gooseberry-growers need not be disregarded in floriculture : 

 — lie would rarely succeed in getting a prize fruit who did not 

 train his gooseberry bush. I could enimnerate hundreds of highly 

 ornamental plants that cannot be grown in ordinary gardens for 

 want of a trellis to support their vines ; here then is a cheap and 

 ready way of training and keeping them trim by sticking them as 

 they advance ; and as for tall plants, they seem to be almost dis- 

 carded from cultivation, for unless they have a stem like a holly- 

 hock, they are rejected on account of the trouble they would 

 cause. It is quite disgraceful to see how few varieties of flowers 

 flower gardening people grow : it is time to alter this, and to 

 give those slender-stemmed and elegant plants a place whose 

 vines are not furnished with tendrils to climb, and whose 

 beautiful heads of flower it would ill become such to make the 

 earth their pillow. 



XXVII. — Notes upon New Fruits and Vegetables proved in the 

 Garden of the Society. By R. Thompson. 



1. Pois Nain HItif extra. 



Presented to the Society by M. Vilmorin, of Paris. 



It is not oidy very dwarf and early, as its name implies, but 

 also most prolific. Sown April 10; in flower June 16; and fit 

 to gather June 25. Grows about a foot high. Pods straight, 

 nearly round, containing generally six tolerably large peas. 



From its dwarf habit, it may be sown in rows 18 inches apart; 

 at this distance it will almost closely cover the whole surface of 

 the ground, thus tending to prevent the latter from becoming too 

 dry. It may be grown between the rows of tall sorts. 



It is superior in every respect to the Pois nain hdtif; not so 

 large in pod and pea as Sishop's New Long Pod, but it is even 

 more prolific and fully a week earlier tlian that sort. It will 

 therefore prove \aluable as an early dwarf pea, and more espe- 

 cially to those who cannot afford space for tall sorts. 



2. Hooper's Seedling Strawberry. 



An abundant bearer, ripening soon after Keens' Seedling. 



