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places is very successfully cultivated. At Culzean Castle, 
the seat of the Marquis of Ailsa, in Ayrshire, I found 
(1820) the Cranberry ground surrounded by a ditch, the 
water of which was made to filter through among stones 
and stakes to the interior, so as tc keep the Cranberry 
plants constantly supplied with moisture. In the same 
garden a second compartment was dedicated to small fruits 
‘of this class, having in the centre a rock-work planted with 
whortleberries (Vaccinium vitis-idea), and around the 
rock-work beds of American Cranberry, of Scottish Cran- 
berry, and of Crowberry (Empetrum nigrum), also native. 
The following plants produce fruit in English gardens, 
some of them abundantly in a wild state, others sparing- 
ly ; but they can scarcely be said to come within the pro- 
vince of Horticulture: Berberis vulgaris, the Barberry ; 
Sambucus nigra, the Elder; Prunus spinosa, the Sloe; 
P. insititia, the Bullace; and Rhubus Chamemorus, the 
Cloudberry. 
KITCHEN GARDEN. 
In this department those plants are cultivated which, 
after being subjected to various culinary processes, are 
used at the dinner table as articles of food. We shall 
class them in groups, enumerating the kinds nearly in the 
order of their importance, each, for the sake of precision, 
being accompanied by its botanical name. 
Cabbage Tribe. 
The Brassica oleracea, Linn., is a plant indigenous to 
the rocky shores of Great Britain, but no one, seeing it 
