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Grapes 



. 115 



Figs 







&4 



Gooseberries 



. 230 



Currants 





Raspberries 





Strawberries 



24 





Total 2165 



A standard collection of Kitchen Garden plants is always 

 susceptible of much less precision and extent than an orchard ; 

 vegetables are mostly annuals or biennials, and must be propagated 

 by seed, each variety of which must in many cases be sown at a 

 considerable distance from all others, so as to prevent crossbreeding ; 

 such varieties are often the immediate result of soil and climate, or 

 of special but well known and expensive modes of cultivation, and, 

 when transplanted or resown under less favourable circumstances, 

 they very soon degenerate. The Garden Committee have there- 

 fore thought it, in many cases impossible, in others unadvisable 

 considering the limited funds at their disposal, to maintain a 

 collection of well known vegetables ; in tKe beauty of which they 

 would always be excelled with a much less outlay by any market 

 gardener who has a rich soil, abundance of manure, and the proceeds 

 of a regular and steady sale at his command. The ground formerly 

 occupied by the Kitchen Garden has therefore been in some 

 measure reduced and limited to what is strictly necessary for the 

 growth of samples only of the principal varieties of vegetables in 

 common cultivation, and for proving such as are reputed to be 

 new and possessing merit. The annual average number of foreign 

 imported varieties sown in the garden has been about 90, and 

 that of varieties procured in this country or presented by individuals 

 nearly 120. 



