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all thrive extremely well ; so do many of our English vegetables. The 
cabbages are sadly hurt by the green caterpillars of a white Pontia ; 
and so are Peas, Beans, &c. Strawberries are now (April) but in 
flower; and Raspberries, Currants, and Gooseberries will not grow at 
all. 
“The manufacture of economic products is not neglected. Excel- 
lent coffee is grown ; and arrowroot, equal to the best West Indian, is 
prepared, at 1s. 6d. per bottle of twenty-four ounces—about a fourth of 
the price of that article in Calcutta. 
* “ The seed-room, a well-lighted and boarded apartment, measuring 
forty-six feet by twenty-four, is a model of what the arrangement of 
such buildings should be in this climate. The seeds are all deposited in 
dry bottles, carefully labelled, and hung in rows, round the apartment, 
to the walls; and for cleanliness and excellence of kind they would bear 
comparison with the best seedsman’s drawers in London. Of English 
garden-vegetables and varieties of the Indian Cerealia and Leguminous 
plants, Indian corn, Millets, Rice, &c., the collections for distribution 
were excellent ; and Iam promised samples of all these, as well as other 
economic products of the districts, for Kew, by my liberal friend Major 
Napleton,”’ 
THE FLOWER GARDEN GAY IN SPRING. 
BY CLERICUS. 
Arter the severity of winter, how cheering it is to have a profusion 
of what are termed spring-flowers to produce a display near to the 
dwelling-house. This object is readily obtained, and the bulbous tribe 
of flowers compose a principal portion in its composition. 
Crocus.—What a variety there exists ow in this charming family! 
Its yellows, purples, whites, blues, lilacs, and others in twenty varieties 
of shades, or plain, or with blotches and stripes, are admired by 
everybody. 
Snowprop: and this first harbinger contains its original single 
pearly drop as well as the double flowered, of three varieties. 
THe Winter Aconite, with its golden starry-looking flower, 
produces an interesting contrast with any other of the season, dazzling 
in the sun-beams, 
Barty Hyacinrus are a chief ornament, and are very readily 
grown in the open bed. ‘The variety is almost innumerable, all lovely, 
whether single or double flowers. ‘They grow vigorously in a compost 
of good loam, very old rotten cow-dung, and leaf mould, with a good 
sprinkling of sand. The bottom of the bed must have four inches of 
drainage, brick-bats, &c.; upon this, twelve to fifteen inches deep of 
the compost. If planted in November, they will probably require a 
little protection if severe weather occur after the leaves appear. A 
good plan, however, is to plant them in pots, keep them in a cool 
frame, and early in April, or before, turn them out entire, into the 
bed, or in large patches in the border, to bloom. Of course, in both 
cases the bulbs require being taken up when ripe, and saved for another 
season. It is said the bulbs will only do well for one season. I have 
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