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fifty thousand to two hundred thousand verbenas annually, with hardly a vestige 

 of this disease to be seen in all that time ; while my neighbors on all sides of 

 me, having the same atmosphere, and using the same soil, have, in a majority of 

 instances, utterly failed, and for no other cause, in my humble opinion, than 

 having been neglectful in using these precautionary measures. 



This class of insects is by no means confined to the verbena or heliotrope : 

 it no doubt infests hundreds of different families of plants. With but a limited 

 examination, we have found it on calceolarias, chrysanthemums, phloxes, pelar- 

 goniums, lantanas, pentstemons, and petunias. Whenever the "buzzly" or 

 crisped appearance of the shoot indicated disease, an examination by the micro- 

 scope revealed the presence of the insect. Peter Henderson. 



Bergen City, N.J , March 20, i86g. 



Early Peas ix Pots. — Having the advantage of a great length of glass 

 wall-covering, I made trial of all the earliest peas in cultivation, and took 

 means to have them true from the raisers. They were all sown on the same 

 day, in the same sized pots, soil, and situation. The varieties were Carter's First 

 Crop, Sutton's Ringleader, Dickson's First and Best, Taber's Perfection, Dilli- 

 stone's Prolific, and Sangster's No. i. The First Crop and Ringleader showed 

 flower at the same time ; Taber's Perfection and Dickson's First and Best were 

 two days later ; Dillistone's Prolific was evidently spurious, for it was a week 

 later than the other in flowering ; and Sangster's No. i was the last. The first 

 dish was gathered from Carter's First Crop and Ringleader ; for they are identi- 

 cal in growth and earliness. Dickson's First and Best, and Taber's Perfection, 

 were only two days later in furnishing their first picking. Sangster's No. i 

 and Dillistone's Prolific were eight days later. 



The results were as follow : First Crop and Dickson's First and Best aver- 

 aged only three and four peas in a pod, and came in nearly all at once. By far 

 the best podder and forcer was Taber's Perfec-tion ; for it averaged four and five 

 peas in a pod, which were of good size and well flavored. The sorts I had for 

 Dillistone's Prolific were similar to Sangster's No. i ; for they were both ready 

 at nearly the same time, and resembled each other in the size of the pods and 

 in growth. 



I had a long, low pit filled with Maclean's Little Gem, which produced by far 

 the finest and earliest peas I have ever grown in May ; in fact, the pods and 

 peas were as large as those produced in summer, and quite of the Marrow 

 flavor. For the future, I intend discarding all the tall early peas for forcing, 

 and only using Little Gem and Tom Thumb, with Advancer for the tallest 

 variety. — \V. Tillery, in Florist and Pomologist. 



Early Vegetables. — It is stated that the growers of early vegetables in 

 Cornwall, Eng., had great success last year. Upwards of three thousand and 

 six hundred tons of broccoli were sent out of the country during the season. 

 The consignments of potatoes were also unusually large, and the crop was 

 the best and most forward that had been known for nearly a quarter of a cen- 

 tury. 



