254 BOTANICAL NOTES, NOTICES, AND QUERIES. [AugUSt, 



P. S. As Mr. Jerdon does not give the district from whicli he writes, 

 of course it may be very di£Ferent there to the place I refer to. I speak 

 only from my own experience. 



Wakefield, June, 1859. 



DoRONicuM Pakdalianches. Bi/ George Jorden, Bewdley. 



In the ' Phytologist,' No. 50, N. s., inquiry is made, Are the two 

 plants, Do7'onicm)i and Digitalis, in bloom at the same time? Both are 

 now in bloom, June 24th, the Doronicum Fardalianc/ies in several localities 

 in the neighbom'hood of Bewdley, and the Digitalis everywhere in profu- 

 sion ; the former comes into bloom generally about the middle of May, the 

 latter in the first or second week in June ; they are in bloom together 

 about three weeks. The Digitalis remains much longer in bloom, after 

 the end of July, or longer. 



[Our kind correspondent sent a blossom of both plants, quite fresh, as a 

 proof that they do flower together. — Ed.] 



Doronicum Pardalianches. 



In the June number of the ' Phytologist,' A. Jerdon says in his neigh- 

 bourhood the Doronicum flowers in May, and the Foxglove not till July or 

 August. 



I saw the Do7-07iicum Pardalianches in flower here (Cumberland) near 

 the end of last May, and on the 1 6th of June instant I obsei^ved the Digi- 

 talis in fuU bloom, over an extent of some acres of the sunny slopes of 

 Embleton, near Cockermouth, in this county. 



Wm. Dickinson, P.L.S. 



Workington, June, 1859. 



Brassica oleracea and Common Cabbage. 



" All is the gift of industry, wliate'er 

 Exalts, embellislies, or renders life 

 Delightful." 



If I were to go and seek for the origin of the countless varieties of Cab- 

 bage, Kale, Greens, Savoys, Cauliflowers, and Brocoli, I would not go to 

 the ancient site of the garden of Eden, even if I knew where it was ; but I 

 would go to Belgium or Holland, the traditionary native place of these and 

 many other culinary vegetables. 



It would be a quixotic enterprise, and as fruitless as the Barren Straw- 

 berry. We may learn a lesson from these fruits. Strawberries. Keen's 

 Seedling did not exist from the beginning, nor did the British Queen ; and 

 scores might be named which had no existence when we were children. 



Wlien Adam was a boy, — when young in years, not short of stature or 

 of small size, — I ween there were few or none of these delicacies we now 

 enjoy. The Ripston Pippin, the Jargonelle Pear, had not then a being. 

 The famous Battersea, Early York, Sugarloaf, and other celebrated breeds 

 (races) of Cabbages, were undiscovered until recent times, when industry 

 and ingenuity united, raised up innumerable varieties, good, indiff"erent, 



