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injury may be done, both to the growers of fruits and vegetables 

 for the market, and to the private gardener and his employer, 

 by recommending new articles that have little merit but their 

 novelty, than by saying nothing on the subject. We are aware 

 of the ardent thirst for novelties of every kind, more especially 

 among those who are only novices in any particular taste; never- 

 theless, we have always acted on the principle of recommending 

 nothing that we did not feel perfectly confident was decidedly of 

 superior merit to any thing of the kind previously in cultivation. 

 If this determination on our part should render our olitorial 

 notices rather meagre, the fault is not in us, but in the state of 

 the art. The truth is, the nurseryman's catalogues, like the 

 botanical catalogues, are already much too long ; the same thing 

 being introduced under many different names, without its being 

 indicated which of these are mere synonymes. The London 

 Horticultural Society has made some progress towards the cor- 

 rection of this evil, as far as respects culinary vegetables and 

 fruits ; and we have attempted it, as far as respects trees and 

 shrubs, in our Arboretum et Fruticetum Britaimicum. Neverthe- 

 less, as new culinary vegetables are every now and then coming 

 into notice, either originated in this country, or introduced from 

 abroad, the labours of the Horticultural Society, in examining 

 them, and laying their results before the public, would require 

 to be perpetual. It gives us much pleasure to learn that the 

 kitchen-garden department of the Horticultural Society, which 

 had been neglected for several years, is about to be revived. 

 We are certain that this news will be hailed with satisfaction by 

 a number of the best friends of the Society. 



Mr. Charlwood has marked a few articles in his Seed Catalogue 

 for 1837, which he thinks deserve to be better known, or brought 

 more into notice ; and we shall proceed to place the names of 

 these articles, and of some others, before our readers, following 

 the same arrangement as that given in the catalogue of culinary 

 vegetables in our Ency elopes dia of Gardening, and in the article 

 Covent Garden Market, in this Magazine. 



Cabbage Tribe. — Knight's early dwarf cabbage is a very 

 early variety, which has been brought to market since 1835, and 

 seems to deserve to take the place of the early York. The 

 Braganza cabbage is entirely a cabbage of luxury, requiring 

 fully as much care as the summer cauliflower ; but it is a most 

 delicious vegetable when well grown. 



Legumes. — The tall green Knight's marrow pea is one of the 

 best where there is abundance of room. If sown in rows 12 ft. 

 apart, in the direction of north and south, different crops, such 

 as turnips, cauliflower, &c., may be grown between the rows of 

 peas ; and, if sown in rows at the same distance, in the direction 

 of east and west, those crops may be sown or planted between 



