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places is very successfully cultivated. At Culzean Castle, 

 the seat of the Marquis of Ailsa, in Ayrshire, I found 

 (1820) the Cranberry ground surrounded by a ditch, the 

 water of which was made to filter through among stones 

 and stakes to the interior, so as to keep the Cranberry 

 plants constantly supplied with moisture. In the same 

 garden a second compartment was dedicated to small fruits 

 of this class, having in the centre a rock-work planted with 

 whortleberries ( Vaccinium vitis-idcea), and around the 

 rock-work beds of American Cranberry, of Scottish Cran- 

 berry, and of Crowberry (Empetrum nigrum), also native. 



The following plants produce fruit in English gardens, 

 some of them abundantly in a wild state, others sparing- 

 ly ; but they can scarcely be said to come within the pro- 

 vince of Horticulture : Berberis vulgaris, the Barberry ; 

 Sambzicus nigra, the Elder ; Prunus spinosa, the Sloe ; 

 P. insititia, the Bullace ; and Rhubus Ckamcemorus, the 

 Cloudberry. 



KITCHEN GARDEN. 



In this department those plants are cultivated which, 

 after being subjected to various culinary processes, are 

 used at the dinner table as articles of food. We shall 

 class them in groups, enumerating the kinds nearly in the 

 order of their importance, each, for the sake of precision, 

 being accompanied by its botanical name. 



Cabbage Tribe, 



The Brassica oleracea, LINN., is a plant indigenous to 

 the rocky shores of Great Britain, but no one, seeing it 



