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an excellent bearer. Of dwarf varieties, Tom Thumb and McLean's Little 

 Gem pea are the earliest. McLean's Little Gem is the most productive, and is 

 one of the best varieties for a market garden that can be grown, the haulms 

 being literallj covered with large well-filled pods. It requires no stakes. 



Saxton's Prolific Early Long Pod pea and Warner's Emperor are two first- 

 rate second-early peas, and there are a good many of the new varieties well 

 deserving the attention of those interested in pea culture. These varieties are 

 all growing together and receiving the same treatment, and have interested many 

 professional and amateur gardeners, who have acknowledged the experiment to 

 be highly successful and instructive. 



All the other seeds sown in the ground promise well. 



CURRENT IMPORTS OF GREAT BRITAIN. 



It is important to watch the current trade of this great consumer of the sur- 

 plus agricultural products of the world ; important both for the purpose of taking 

 advantage of a temporary demand for some product of which our farmers have 

 an excess, and for showing how poor a dependence a foreign market actually is, 

 especially for our cereals and other heavy products. 



The following are pome of the imports into Great Britain for four months of 

 the present year, as compared with those of the same period in 1865, embracing 

 a few of the agricultural items in which farmers of the United States are interested. 



1865. 



1866. 



Cotton, raw — 



From United States cwts 



Bahamas and Bermuda do. 



Mexico do . 



Brazil do. 



Turkey do. 



'Egypt do. 



British East Indies do . 



China do . 



Other countries do. 



Total 



The supremacy of United States cotton is again shown in this exhibit. For 

 four years past it has made a trifling figure in the British market. It here 

 towers above the figure for India by almost one hundred per cent., and almost 

 exactly equals the totals from all other localities. It is equivalent to 508,726 

 bales of four hundred pounds each. Half a million bales in four mouths, and 

 seventy millions of dollars, are respectable figures in the trade with one foreign 

 nation, even for the palmiest days of cotton-shipping from the ports of the 

 United States. 



