PRODUCED IN THE GARDEN OF THE SOCIETY. 



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useful to know that at Macon, in France, the market-gardeners 

 take it up out of the quarters when full grown, before winter, 

 and lay it in the soil to the neck in a sloping direction. Thus 

 treated it withstood the severe winter of 1 847. The quarters 

 thus cleared can be trenched and prepared for other crops, — an 

 important advantage in small gardens. It is likely to prove 

 valuable in colder situations than is suitable for the Battersea 

 and other cabbages grown in the neighbourhood of London. 



4. Haricot d'Alger. 



Presented to the Society by M. Vilmorin, of Paris. 



In the ' Bon Jardinier Almanach ' for 1850 it is stated that 

 this excellent variety has been long cultivated in Lorraine, and 

 that it has been lately reproduced under the names of Haricot 

 beurre, cire, &c. 



The pods are of a pale colour, and entirely destitute of any 

 tough lining to the pod. They are exceedingly tender, and 

 excellent when cooked. 



The plants are runners, and consequently require sticks, or to 

 be topped, if sticks cannot be afforded. It would probably not 

 suit growers for the market, as it is not so early as the dwarf 

 sorts usually cultivated, and its pale colour would not be 

 attractive ; but, when known, it will doubtless be esteemed for 

 private gardens. 



5. Wilmot's Black Hamburgh Grape. 



Presented by Mr. Wilmot, of Isleworth. 



The berries of this are larger than those of the common Black 

 Hamburgh, firmer-fleshed, and generally reckoned not so fine 

 flavoured. It requires more heat than the Black Hamburgh. 

 In order to ripen and colour it well, it must, have a high tem- 

 perature and abundant circulation of air. 



6. Varieties of Peas. 



Essex Champion. — Received from Mr. Glend inning. This 

 is only a variety of the Early Frame, from which it has doubtless 

 been saved, and over which it appears to possess no advantage 

 either as regards earliness or productiveness. In some market 

 gardens where the Essex Champion and Early Frame were this 

 season extensively grown, the Early Frame proved the better of 

 the two, and a few days earlier. 



Warner's Early Emperor. — From Mr. Warner. 



Warner s Early Conqueror.— From Mr. Warner. 



Early Bedalean. — From Noble, Cooper, and Bolton. 



