156 Notices of Culinary Vegetables. 



Art. III. Notices of Culitiary Vegetables, new or recently in- 

 troducsd, worthy of General Cultivation. By the Editor. 



Notwithstanding four years have elapsed, since our last 

 notice of new vegetables, under this head, only a limited 

 number of new and desirable kinds, have been introduced, 

 during that period. Some of these have been incidentally no- 

 ticed, from time to time, but we now embrace the opportunity, 

 to bring them together, and give a more detailed account of 

 their merits. We begin with 



Peas. Every year adds to the catalogue of varieties offer- 

 ed for sale, by seedsmen, but most of them vary so slightly 

 from each other, that they soon go out of cultivation, or at- 

 tract but little attention. A few only possess merit sufficient 

 to recommend them for general use. Among those of the lat- 

 ter description, are the following : — 



Chamjiion of England. This is one of the most remarka- 

 ble varieties that has recently been produced. It is one of 

 the marrow peas, blue, and exceedingly shrivelled, and, in 

 richness of llavor, surpasses all other peas that we have ever 

 eaten. It is not only one of the tenderest fleshed sorts, but 

 it is more sugary than any other variety. It grows about 

 two feet high, produces well, and it must be ranked at the 

 head of all the peas of its class, yet raised. 



Flack'' s Victory we have already noticed, and we now al- 

 lude to it, to remark, that the experience of three years has 

 fully confirmed all we said of it. It is a large delicious vari- 

 ety, and must form one of a succession of peas in every 

 garden. 



Fairbeard^s Early Surprise. This is another variety, pro- 

 duced by the same cultivator, who raised the Champion of 

 England; and although it is now introduced into our collec- 

 tions, for the first time, it will, undoubtedly, prove a fine pea. 

 It is as early as the Early Frame, and has the flavor of 

 Knight's Marrow. We shall speak of it, after a fair trial. 



Other new ones are Burbidge' s Eclipse, a large blue mar- 

 row, 15 inches high ; Early Danecroft, the Early Emperor, ^c. 



Hoo-suNG, OR 00-SuNG. This is the name of anew Chinese 

 vegetable, brought home by Mr. Fortune, in his Chinese expe- 



