34 HORTICULTURAL TOUR. 



and the epidermis easily separating on being rubbed. The 

 Lite red kidney potato, it will be recollected, is one of the 

 oldest sorts, and is not much liked in Britain ; while an early 

 red potato of the kidney shape is, we believe, unknown at 

 home. Purslane, both of the green and the golden varie- 

 t\\ is common ; and summer. savory (Satureia hortensis) was 

 plentiful on the stalls, lied Dutch cabbage was common ; 

 but, what seemed strange, the white cabbage was not to be 

 seen. 



Rising from amidst the confined gardens attached to the 

 hotels or principal dwelling-houses, we frequently remarked 

 large plane-trees, both oriental and occidental, in a perfectly 

 healthy state; and likewise walnut-trees, often 50 feet high. 



Market Garden. 

 Hiving readily obtained permission, we entered a sale 

 garden^ containing many fruit-trees, and numerous beds 

 of kitchen vegetables. Apple-trees had but a light crop; 

 pear-t "ees were loaded. Of these fruits, we saw no varieties 

 peculiarly good or promising. The trees have been graft- 

 ed on rcry tall stocks, not less than seven feet high. The 

 soil is a peaty loam, mixed with sharp white sand; and this 

 sort of roil seems to be general in this part of the Nether- 

 lands. It this garden, we first saw the Dutch white run- 

 ner (Phaseolus vulgaris) in perfection : it grows as luxu- 

 riantly as hops do in Kent, and it is staked in the same 

 •ray, three or four stakes being crossed, and tied together 

 near the top. The seeds had been sown in the spring, 

 and the plants were now yielding unripe pods, or haricots 

 verts* Succession crops appeared in other parts of the 

 garden ; some now in flower, and others only a little above 

 the ground. The scarlet runner (Phaseolus multiflorus) 

 i ometimes, though not very commonly, used in place of 

 hite : both the pods and the beans are good for kit- 



