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must be kept up by spring and summer sowings. They re- 

 quire a well manured soil." 



Dwarf Couve Tronchuda. — A variety of the above, eighteen 

 inches high, and producing sprouts. It is conjectured that 

 this variety is distinguished in Portugal by the name of Mur- 

 ciana. It seems to be the plant alluded to in the following 

 letter; but of this we shall speak after the plants our cor- 

 respondent has sent us have come to maturity : — 



Sir, 

 At the request of Dr. Whately I send you some seeds 

 of the Tranxuda, which is cultivated precisely like our sum- 

 mer cabbage, and by sowing the seed in the autumn they 

 come in much about the same time. I have also forwarded 

 you some plants raised this spring ; and indeed, to have a 

 succession, my gardener keeps sowing throughout the summer. 

 It is an excellent vegetable from the first cutting to the after 

 sprouting. It requires a good stiff soil, and I should advise 

 the seed to be procured genuine from Portugal, which may 

 easily be done through some wine-merchant's house, as it is 

 apt to degenerate in this country. I have grown it very 

 successfully, but found it decidedly better from the original 

 seed Dr. W. brought over from Lisbon. 



1 am, Sir, 

 Chediston Flail, Halesworth, Yours faithfully, 



May 16. 1827. Robert Baas. 



Vanack Cabbage. — An old variety, which has fallen into 

 neglect. Mr. Torbron, gardener to the Countess of Bridge- 

 water, at Ashridge, in Hertfordshire, has cultivated it since 

 1776, and keeps no other hearting cabbage in his garden. 

 " By timely sowings it is always in season ; it makes excellent 

 spring coleworts, becomes a white-hearted cabbage very early, 

 and pushes fine sprouts from the stump after the cabbages are 

 cut. In quality it is inferior to none of the best cabbages." 

 Seed shops. 



Neapolitan Borecole, Chou de Naples frise nain, Fr., Ca- 

 volo torsolo ricciuto, Ital. — Attracts notice " more on account 

 of its appearance than its utility," and " not to be put in com- 

 petition with our Scotch kale." 



Golden Potato of Peru, Papas Amarillas, Aborig. — When 

 dressed, waxy, and of a peculiarly pleasant flavour ; late, and 

 an indifferent bearer. 



Red. Golden Potato. — In quality similar to the above. 

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