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any way, as you do carrots. They are fit to raise in July, or a 

 little later, when their leaves are not p.ll dead. The bulbs are 

 kept much as carrots are. One of them set out gives seed enough 

 for ten are, or about a quarter of an acre. You must never let 

 chervil follow celery. No vegetable cooks quicker; a few minutes 

 do it. It may be served in all the ways in which potato is. 



Chemical analysis shows it to contain upwards of eighteen per 

 cent of starch; while the very best potato gives but fourteen to 

 sixteen per cent; and it is more nutritious than potato, as three 

 is to two. The crop can be made to weigh about 37,000 pounds 

 a hectare, equal to about 15,000 per acre; say seven tons weight. 



Mons. Vivet has received medals from many societies for his 

 new bulbs. 



JAVA TEAS. 



Mons. Chatin examined these, and reports them inferior. The 

 best of them being only equal to second quality Chinese. Tea 

 has not yet succeeded in Algeria, but Dr. Cosson thinks it may do 

 in the mountainous parts. 



[RcTue Horticole, June, 1857, Paris.] 



EXHIBITION BY THE IMPERIAL AND CENTRAL SOCIETY 

 OF HORTICULTURE. 



It occupied the nave of the Palace of Industry, and all the 

 southern portion of the lower galleries. Opened on the 20th of 

 May, and continued to the 7th of June. After the 20th of June, 

 when the exhibition of the fine arts takes place, another one of 

 the plants and flowers will take place. The body of the palace 

 appeared like a park in miniature, with its large trees, masses of 

 rare shrubs and bushes. Flowers of the richest colors; its green 

 turfs; its thickets or groves of choice trees; its walks beautifully 

 sanded with river sand; and its river, a true river, more than two 

 metres wide, sometimes boiling and rapid, then calm and deep; 

 its borders covered with flowers, shaded by the trees, quite rocky 

 in places, meandering through the trees and flowers; a rustic 

 bridge over it, from which the visitor beholds on its banks, a 

 ravishing view, one of the most delicious; plenty ol orange trees 

 on both banks of the river. 



