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is necessary at an early period of the season in the flower- 

 garden, it will be indispensably requisite to have a piece of 

 ground set apart for the growth of such, where they will remain 

 permanendy ; and which will prove a store-garden, to which the 

 gardener may resort when plants are wanted to produce certain 

 effects; such, for instance, as a show of flowers, previous to the 

 summer-flowering plants coming into blossom. But, notwith- 

 standing their suitableness for a spring show, many of them will 

 continue flowering pretty well during the summer months. 



The following list contains a few of the plants recommended : — 



CBnothera Lindleyajza, purple. Collomia linearis, red. 



albicans, white. Nemophila insfgnis, blue. 



decumbens, purple. Collinsia grandiflora, blue and white. 



viminea, purple. verna, blue and purple. 



Clark/a pulchella, purple. bicolor, pinkish. 



elegans, pinkish purple. Leptosiphon densiflorus, lilac. 

 Gih'« tricolor, whitish. «nclrosaceus, lilac. 



rtchilleix/o/z'a, blue. Chryseis (Eschscholtzza) crocea, 

 Madia elegans, yellow. orange. 



Collomia grandiflora, pink. californica, yellow. 



Art. X. Notice of some neiv, or little knoivn. Sorts of culinary Ve- 

 getables, cultivated in the North Riding of Yorkshire. By J. B. 

 Whiting. 



A KIND of Celery is grown here, which is not noticed in the 

 EncTjclopcedia of Gardening., and, probably, is unknown in the 

 south ; but its merit is so great, that it deserves general culti- 

 vation. It is called, here, the Flat-stalked; one of its distin- 

 guishing characters being the great breadth and flatness of its 

 leafstalks, which are white, and perfectly solid. The leaves are 

 large and spreading, pale green, with broader leaflets, and more 

 obtuse serratures, than the common white. 



In the spring of 1836, I received an excellent Lettuce, called 

 thd^Asiatic Cabbage, from Messrs. Backhouse of York. It is 

 not a very large lettuce; but it cabbages particularly well, and 

 stands a long time without running to flower. The leaves are 

 pale yellowish green. We have here another very superior 

 cabbage-lettuce, seeds of which were received, some years ago, 

 from the London Horticultural Society, under a French name. 

 It is larger than the preceding sort, rather darker in colour, 

 and the leaves are slightly speckled with brown. 



We grow here a Broccoli, which frequently attains an enor- 

 mous size. In 1835, I measured two heads, one of which was 

 1 ft. 11 in. across, and 3 ft. 1 in. in circumference; the other was 

 1ft. 6 in. across, and 2 ft. 10 in. round. It is called Metcalf's 

 Gray ; having, as I understand, been originated by a gardener 

 named Metcalf. In flavour, it is inferior to many other sorts. 



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