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the garden orache, sallad, and red cab- 

 bage, which last thrives very well, though 

 the M^hite will not come to perfection here; 

 also garden cresses, Mdnter cresses (Erij- 

 simiim Barbarea (B FL Suec), scurvy- 

 grass, chamomile, spinach, onions, leeks, 

 ehives, cucumbers, columbines, carnations^ 

 sweet-williams, gooseberries, currants, the 

 barberry, elder, guelder-rose and lilac. 

 Potatoes here are not larger than poppy- 

 heads. Tobacco managed with the greatest 

 care, and when the season is remarkably 

 favourable, sometimes perfects seed. Dwarf 

 French beans thrive pretty well, but the 

 climbing kinds never succeed. Broad beans 

 come to perfection; but peas, though they 

 form pods, never ripen. Roses, apples, 

 pears, plums hardly grow at all,^ though 

 cultivated with the greatest attention. The 

 garden however affords good radishes, 

 mustard and horse radish, and especially 

 leeks, chives, winter cresses, columbines^ 

 goose-tongue (Achillea Ptar?7iica), rose- 

 campion {.Agrosiemma coronaria), scurvy- 



