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. dried stalk in Mr. Lambert’s possession thirteen feet high. This is mainly 
produced by daily pulling off the lower leaves as fodder for cows, leaving 
| foliage only at the top ; thus a small garden of them has almost the appear- 
~ ance of a little plantation of Palms. Planted close, as living fences, they 
keep out fowls and small animals. Sheds are thatched with the dried 
stems; they serve as stakes for kidney-beans, peas, ete. ; and as cross spars 
for upholding the thatch or roof of cottages and other farm buildings.” 
We have seen this cabbage cultivated in the South of England, 
but we never saw it average more than three or four feet in 
height. It appears to need the sea air, as well as a milder cli- 
mate than ours, to produce it in perfection. 
“ Matvacem&. Mallow Family (cases 4 and 5, Room 1).”—The 
famous Cotton plants, Gossypium herbaceum and G. barbadense, 
are found in this Order, on which volumes have been written. 
The author of the Catalogue gives us an extract from Dr. Royle’s 
work on the ‘Culture and Commerce of Cotton in India,’ ete. : 
London, 1851. From this it appears that this material is capable 
of being spun into threads of exceeding fineness ; for example :— 
a pound spun into a hundred hanks will extend 84,000 yards; one 
of three hundred hanks will extend 252,000 yards; one of six 
hundred hanks is of the amazing tenuity of gossamer, too fine to 
be handled, and can only be looked at. 
TERNSTR@MIACER. Tea Family.—It appears that three kinds 
of Tea are cultivated—Thea viridis, T. Bohea, and T. assamica. 
Mr. Fortune has stated that the black and green teas of com- 
merce may be prepared from either of the two first-mentioned 
species. We have not talked with any shopkeepers on this sub- 
ject who did not demur to this statement. All sorts of tea ever 
produced either in China or in London are to be seen in the Kew 
Museum—from the common congous to the imperial, prepared 
only for royal and imperial lips. Here is Assam tea and medi- 
" cated tea, paper tea and yellow tea, Tartary tea and Russian tea. 
Here are also the flowers of tea; and, oh, horribile dictu! a case 
of the various ingredients used by the Chinese in the manufacture 
of Green Tea, viz. turmeric, gypsum, and Prussian blue, with 
spurious teas, adulterated teas, etc. 
“ LEcuMinosm. Leguminous Family.”—We regret that we can 
only afford room for the following extract :— 
“« Lentils, seeds of Ervum Lens (fig. 10), of which 24,468 bushels were 
imported in 1853. ‘ Revalenta’ of the shops is a flour or meal prepared 
