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The. Advantages of Bottom Heat on a large Scale. — The Bank 

 Colliery, near Rotherham, caught fire a hundred years ago, and all efforts to ex- 

 tinguish it have been ineffectual. So intense is the heat arising from this fire, 

 that people possessing gardens above the colliery declare that the growth of the 

 plants is materially affected, and that they are enabled to obtain two and three 

 crops every year. English yournal of Hortiailture, 



New Vegetables of 1870. — The most important addition here is Laxton's 

 William the First pea, an early hybrid, blue, wrinkled variety. There are also 

 Laxon's Quality and Quantity, two very fine wrinkled sorts, with Maclean's 

 Best of All, and Easte's Kentish Invicta. In broccoli we have the addition of 

 Cooling's Matchless, a splendid late spring variety, and Veitch's Autumn Giant 

 cauliflower, which furnishes a fine late autumn supply. In beets we have the 

 New Red Egyptian, turnip-rooted ; and we get an excellent parsley in Carter's 

 Covent Garden Garnishing, In onions we have a fine addition in the New 

 White Italian Tripoli, which has very large, very solid, pure white bulbs. In 

 tomatoes there are Hopper's Giant and Trophy, two very large sorts, greatly 

 resembling each other. Among kales we have Melville's Hybrid Imperial Scotch 

 Greens, a hybrid perpetual, having excellent close hearts. Of cucumbers there 

 are many ; Heatlierside Rival, a black-spined sort, being the best. We must 

 also notice Temple's new Chinese cucumber " Sooly-qua," a huge thing, growing 

 to the length of seven or eight feet, and twelve inches in circumference, said to 

 be eaten when boiled by the Chinese, and as much relished as roast pig. In 

 potatoes there are many claimants, but nothing calling for special notice. 



Florist atid Poniologist. 



Rose-colored Honey. — The Gardener's Chronicle notices a specimen of 

 honey tinted of a beautiful rose color, and vouches for its beauty and delicacy. 

 The comb was virgin, the wax almost white, the honey limpid, pure, and of the 

 color of pale red currant jelly ; and whether exposed in the cut cells, or seen 

 shining through the white semi-translucent wax, the effect was exceedingly 

 pleasing. It was produced by feeding the bees with loaf sugar — two pounds to 

 a pint of water — highly colored with cochineal, and scented with rose-water. 



Chrysanthemum frutescens. — The French are specially fond of the 

 Chrysanthemu7n frutescens, a large white-flowered green-house bush, which 

 they call Anthemis. In the early summer it is seen everywhere — in windows, 

 in halls, in flower-beds, on restaurant tables, and its similitude in almost every 

 young lady's bonnet. If it were not effective, it would not be permitted to grace 

 the latter situation. At the Paris exliibition, last spring, were some gigantic plants, 

 from four to five feet across, and trained dome-fashion ; they were very hand- 

 some and novel, a trifle too regular, perhaps, but that would be thought no 

 defect by some. Florist and Pomologist. 



Sugar Cane. — The English Journal of Horticulture says that sugar cane 

 is grown there as an ornamental plant, for which it is very useful and easily 

 grown. Small plants, in 48-sized pots, look particularly graceful. 



