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of a bi'own colour, black-eyed, and spotted with yellow. A good bearer^ but 

 only fit for field culture. 



" 40. Late Grey. English Synonymes : Tall grey, tall Capucine, large grey. 



— About 8 ft. high, and very robust. Pods broad, but not very long, con- 

 taining 7 or 8 peas, of a yellowish-brown colour, black-eyed, and large. A 

 good bearer, 



"41. Maple Grey Pea. English Synonymes : Marlborough, partridge grey. 



— About 7i ft. high, and very robust. Pods broad, and rather long, contain- 

 ing 7 or 8 peas, which are like those of the preceding kind, but much smaller, 

 and not black-eyed. This is a good bearer, and the flowers are much lighter- 

 coloured than those of No. 40. 



" 42. Spanish Marotta, French Synonymes : A'' ceil noir, Michaux a ceil noir. 

 English Synonyme: Tall black-spotted marotta, black-spotted. — About 6 ft. 

 high, and rather slender. Pods small, and nearly round, containing 7 peas of 

 a yellow colour, black-eyed, small, and round. It is very productive, and to- 

 lerably good if gathered when young, as it is by no means so bitter as the 

 other grey peas when boiled. 



" 43. Bean Pea. English Synonyme : Funnel's black-spotted. — About 

 8 ft. or 9 ft. high, and very robust. Pods long, broad, and not much pointed, 

 containing 9 or 10 peas, of a yellowish-white colour, black-eyed, and having 

 some resemblance to small horse-beans when ripe. It is very productive, but 

 only fit for field culture, as it is rather bitter when boiled, although not so 

 bitter as grey peas in general. 



" The following are the best sorts (particularly those marked *). 



" For Early Sowing. Pois nain hatif : * Early frame, * early Charlton, 

 * d'Auvergne. 



" For Late Sowing. Knight's dwarf marrow, * Knight's tall marrow, tall 

 green marrow, * crown, branching marrow. 



" Sugar Peas {iiot to be soivn before the 1st of Marcli). * Early May, * large 

 crooked, * Vilmorin's sugar, * new tamarind. 



" Dwarf Blue Peas for Summer Use. Dwarf imperial, *b!ue Prussian, *white 

 Prussian, * Groom's superb dwarf blue." 



46. On the Cultivation of the Pine-Apple. By Mr. George Warren, 

 Gardener to H. J. Grant, Esq., F.H.S., at the Gnoll, near Neath, 

 Glamorganshire. Read October 16. 1832. 



The following account of the management of a crop of 76 plants, none of 

 .which produced fruit weighing less than from two to three pounds, many much 

 more, obtained the Banksian medal : — 



" In October, 1830, the suckers were taken from the parent plants, potted in 

 small pots, and plunged in the tan at the front of the older succession plants. 

 In February, 1831, wishing to grow them as large as possible, Mr. Warren had 

 his succession pit, which is 21 ft. long by 9 ft. wide, filled with fresh oak leaves 

 which he had collected the preceding winter ; on the top of which he put a 

 compost of two thirds light hazel loam from a turfy pasture, and one third 

 rotten hot-bed manure and leaf-mould, to the thickness of 14 in. In this the 

 pines were planted 14 in. apart: they grew and flourished in such a manner, 

 that, in October, 1831, Mr. Warren's usual potting time, finding the plants 

 doing so well, he resolved to try and fruit them as they then stood, instead of 

 potting them, as was his usual practice. He then began to withhold the water- 

 ing from the two back rows till the latter part of January ; afterwards water 

 was given as usual ; and in February several fruit began to^^appear : the water- 

 ing was then withheld from the other rows for a time, in order to bring them 

 on in succession. In order to obtain bottom heat to swell the fruit off", the 

 two front rows of plants were taken out and potted, taking out the oak leaves 

 to the bottom of the pit : the space thus made was filled with well-fermented 

 horse-dung ; and, covering the later with tan, the potted plants were again 

 plunged. The horse-dung gave sufiicient heat to swell off" the fruit to a great 



