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French. varieties, which are certainly not the best adapted for a cold 
climate. The Calville Blanche d'Hiver does not succeed as a standard 
in England, and it was small and comparatively imperfect from Christi- 
ania. The Calville d'Eté approached nearer its natural character. 
The Golden Reinette was well coloured, and the Ribston Pippin 
possessed, though not large, a fair appearance. There are, it is stated, 
346 known varieties of Apples cultivated in Norway, several of them 
being new and peculiar to the country. This being the case, doubtless 
some will be found better suited to the climate than the old varieties 
which had been introduced from warm parts of the continent. The 
Pears exhibited were the Bergamotte d'Automne ; it came from seven 
exhibitors ; but the climate is evidently not suitable for the variety ; 
nevertheless, where it grows at all, various hardier new sorts would 
probably do tolerably well, especially against high south walls, and 
these again sheltered by steep elevations. In addition to apples and 
pears, some Apricots were exhibited by the Bishop of Christiania, Of 
Plums, were exhibited the Yellow Egg Plum, or Magnum Bonum, a 
good size; and the Blue Egg Plum, or Red Magnum Bonum, but it 
was comparatively indifferent. -The Green Gage and Victoria (Den- 
yer's) were fair specimens. Walnuts were exhibited from Drobak, lat, 
59° 40, from a tree 13 feet high and 14 years old, being its first 
produce. 
The exhibitions of Vegetables were numerous, and consisted of exten- 
sive collections of the varieties of Peas, and the dwarf sorts of French 
Beans. These, it appears, succeed well; their seeds were perfectly 
ripened, and they are cultivated as far north as Drontheim. Broad 
Beans were also very good. The Brassica tribe was well represented, 
especially the Turnip, which Dr. Schiibeler says is deservedly the 
most popular of all the cultivated plants in Norway, there scarcely 
being an inhabited spot where turnips of some kind or other are not 
known and cultivated. In proof of its extreme hardiness, it may be 
mentioned that a small erop has been obtained near the little fortress 
of Vardehus, lat, 70° 22’, a place which lies exposed to the storms of 
the Arctic Ocean, and to extremely severe weather. In the south of 
Norway, turnips up to 20 lbs. are tolerably common. When the 
Swedish turnip was first introduced to Britain, it was small and of 
little value to the agriculturist, compared with the large hybrids whieh 
it afforded the possibility of obtaining. Some of these were exhibited 
from Christiania, with such familiar names as Dale's Hybrid, Walton 
Hybrid. The Norwegians, it appears, have obtained the most highly 
prized English varieties of Turnips. A Purple-top Yellow Swedish 
Turnip, from the Royal Agricultural College, near Christiania, measured 
33 inches in circumference ; and a Purple-top Yellow Bullock Turnip, 
12 inches; and, at the early period when these must have been 
taken up, they probably had not attained their full size. Fair speci- 
mens of Kohl-Rabi were exhibited. It is perhaps not quite so hardy 
as the Turnip ; it is, howeyer, cultivated in Norway, as far north as the 
