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kinds, itis not unlikely that, fora time at least, 
the armies of the Czar may be asked to adopt a 
vegetarian regimen.” Our contemporary did not 
cite his authority for these statements, but made 
them a peg whereon to hang a series of observa- 
tions on vegetables in general, and their history 
in particular. Horticulturists and botanists will 
hardly be likely to rest satisfied with such state- 
ments, and hence we have taken steps to enquire 
into the matter so far as we were able. 
In the first place, presuming that the plant 
was really an Asparagus, we had to ascertain 
whether any species of the genus was known in 
Siberia and Central Asia. This was soon set at 
rest by a reference to Mr. BAkEn's paper in the 
regions, one E which, A. verticillatus, was sug- 
BAKER as possibl the plant 
spoken of. E young Бор of Asparagus 
capitatus are, moreover, mentioned by Surgeon- 
Major AITCHISON as being eaten in the Kuram 
Valley. 
The last-named author (Journal of the Linnean 
Society, xviii, 1881, p. 25) mentions numerous 
Standard's surmise, that the. world has been so 
any rate, is not the region from which a great 
deal is to be drafted. 
On the contrary, we may safely adapt the old 
there more vegetables for 
search than are at present in use. he difficulty 
is rat in overcoming the prejudice against 
new edibles, and in Setting them cultivated, 
Шап in discovering 
To return to the Centéil Asian Asparagus. 
Having noted what had been doeet I 
by him, we then applied dir r friend, 
Кран Major AITCHISON, rim ااا‎ of the 
ffg edition, for any further 
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are fleshy, 
Ето, 122,—BLADE OF LEAF, HYDROSME LEOPOLDIANA: З FEET IN DIAM. 
> т § Established Orchids, at Protheroe & 
TUESDAY, МлАү1 о Jones. 
'1 Morris 
Collection of Orchids in Flower and 
Bud, at Stevens' Rooms. 
Stove and —— ' Plants, at 
WEDNESDAY, Max 13 / Aries Court, by Protheroe & 
а апа туа гу Kioman Plants, &c., 
at Protheroe & Morris 
| ber none, and Imported Orchids, at 
THURSDAY, May 19 Greenhouse Plants, Orchids, | v ak 
Dudley ap еа аа 
Balham, by Proth 
FRIDAY, May 20 ir n Orchids, at Protheroe & 
Nursery Stock, at 
SATURDAY, May nb Nursery, Hm Road, Leytonstone, 
THE — lately regaled its 
e readers with an account of a “ new 
and splendid” variety of Aspa- 
ragus discovered in the ste of Akhal Tekiz, 
and the stalks of which “аге affirmed to be 
plants as eaten by the natives, Thus Eremurus 
f as 
aurantiacus is spoken o 
“The sole vegetable upon n the — 
of the Hariáb district — nd fi pom 
of the year. Thel 
stock as close to аар nd 
stock intact, but for which the plant would long ago 
have been ee! ауу s is, as а vegetable, was 
considered very good by the army, and boys brought 
daily baskets full of leaves into cam 
m in flav vege 
it being hard and crisp, without being either tough or 
fibrous, and it ve under ivation a wel- 
come addition to our limited list of spring vegetables 
The young shoots of Asparagus are collec and 
cooked, as are also the leaves ا‎ cu ot naked Fig, 
of Carum bulbocastanum (not th ا‎ de ‚эй M 
epe 
flavoured like Turn urnip, w 
the "bulb ЫШ, м, the flavour of fresh Almonds. 
leafstalks o: th Rhubarbs, of wild Onions, the 
leaves of fh чаб Clover, Trifolium resupina- 
- and the stems of the young flowering shoots of 
hich is is parasitic upon Artemisis, are 
— raw." 
We this passage at full length i E order 
to show the ill-founded character of the 
(SEE Р. 642.) 
Affghans, Their general appearance before 
flowering. might suggest the name of gian 
серег е Кай know of no other plant, con- 
tin N, “ occu in th 
t Or 
Broomrapes, so iliar in our fields, 
‘dori: eating will surprise many of our readers, 
GARDENERS’ ORPHAN FUND.— Weare reque 
to urge upon gardeners the desirability of ailing a 
st inst, to Mr. 
future action in thi 
undertaking 
ANEMONE FANNINNI,— This handsome herbaceous 
pues nnial is now, probably for pe first time in 
‚ in flower, planted out in a соо1-һопзе at 
ris The full-page illustration which appeared in 
these columns for April 3, 1886, does no than 
t 
ter, and the numerous narrow 
