seedlings to the test. As the readiest way of ascertaining which of them are 

 most likely to repay the trouble of cultivating, I have found it an excellent 

 plan to sow the seed in pots as soon as it is gathered. These being kept under 

 cover during the winter months, not so much as a protection to the plants as 

 for the sake of preventing the pots from being injured by the frost, the young 





i valuable variety. The quaUties in question I hold to be, chiefly, a 

 at is thick, succulent, and of a red colour; and a leaf that is round in 



the varieties already in cultivation. The mode which I pursue is this : 









after the Prince Alb. 

 least twelve or fourt 

 treated in the mannei 



'urther proof that they have not otherwise degenerated in that length of time, 



leaf he had ever seen, though he had certainly seen them with a thicker stalk. 



