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LXXX. Description of the different Plants grown in the 

 Gardens, under the denomination of Winter Greens, with 

 an Account of their Qualities, of the Seasons in which they 

 are to be used, and of their Cultivation. By Mr. William 

 Morgan, Gardener to Henry Browne, Esq. at North 

 Mimms Place, Hertfordshire. 



Read at different Meetings, from Dec. 3d, 1816, to 

 April 1, 1817. 



Th e Horticultural Society having, in their notice of sub- 

 jects on which they desired information, distributed at the 

 Anniversary of 1816, called for an account of the different 

 plants cultivated in our gardens as Winter Greens, I pro- 

 cured the seed of all those varieties with which I had been 

 previously acquainted, and of every other sort which I 

 considered as coming under that denomination, and being 

 consequently in possession of full grown plants of the whole 

 tribe, I am enabled to lay the following account, together 

 with living specimens of each, before the Society. 



The Savoys do not, perhaps, strictly belong to the Winter 

 Greens, but I have introduced them into the present collec- 

 tion, in order that I might be able to exhibit all the green 

 vegetables for the supply of the table, during the winter 

 portion of the year, that is, from the month of November to 

 April inclusive. 



The first plant I am to notice is the Green Savoy. This 



