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surface of the bed loosened with a fork, the leaves must be laid from two and a 

 half to three feet thick all over the bed, by which means the usual method of 

 covering the plants with pots will be rendered unnecessary. The bed will require 

 no further care until the kale is fit to cut. The proper time for cutting will be 

 seen by each plant, as it gets ready, pushing up the leaves over-head, like large 

 mole-hills, thus indicating the exact part of the bed where they are ready for 

 use, and consequently saving the trouble of seeking with uncertainty for the 

 most forward plants, as is the case when covered with pots, and forced with dung. 

 When forced in this way, the leaves come up perfectly erect, and in one compact 

 stick, often two inches in diameter, perfectly clean and well blanched ; while those 

 forced with dung (particularly when the heat has been rather strong) come up 

 slender, with the leaves spreading, so as to be obliged to be taken off singly before 

 they can be dressed for table. Portions of the quarter may be covered at later 

 periods, to keep up a succession until the beginning of May, when it is succeeded 

 by asparagus, which then comes into season. If sea-kale is wanted earlier than 

 the middle of February, it must be forced with dung in the open quarters, or 

 taken up and forced in hotbed frames, cellars, the mushroom house, or other 

 convenient place, where it may be got of inferior quality by Christmas ; but such 

 early forcing tends very materially to weaken the plants. 



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DICOTYLEDONES. 



MALVACEAE. Br. 



Pavonia Schrankii. Spr. Shrank's Pavonia. Bot. Mag. t. 3692. This is an extremely 

 pretty plant, bearing crimson flowers of about an inch and a half in diameter. It was received 

 from the Botanic Garden, Berlin, at the Edinburgh Botanic Garden in 1836, and flowered in the 

 latter establishment in July 1837. It is said that it will not be a favourite in cultivation, because 

 its flowers are only expanded during the forenoon. The shrub is coarse, and in no degree 

 attractive. Bot. Mag. 



LEGUMINOSiE § PAPILIONACEiE. 



Hovea Manglesii. Lindl. Mr. Mangles' Hovea. Bot. Reg. N. S. t. 62. This is a 

 pretty species of Hovea, bearing purplish flowers, and nearly allied to H. lanceolata, but from 

 which it differs in the hairiness of the under side of the leaves ; in Hovea lanceolata the hairs are 

 short and straight, with a distinct glandular base ; in Hovea Manglesii they are long, entangled, 

 torulose, and scarcely at all glandular at the base. 



It was raised by R. Mangles, Esq., from seeds sent from the Swan River by Captain Mangles. 

 It is a greenhouse shrub, and should have plenty of air and light. Bot. Reg. 



Crotalaria undulata. nov.) Suffruticosa sericeo-pubescens foliis breviter petiolatis, 



ovato-lanceolatis undulatis mucronatis; stipulis subulatis petiolis longioribus decurrentibus ; 

 floribus magnis luteis ; calycis segmentis superioribus inferioribus multo majoribus. 



This is certainly a distinct species of crotalaria, and showy, from its large bright yellow 

 flowers. It is allied to C. rubiginosa in structure. The seeds from which it was raised were 

 imported from Mexico in 1837, by G. Barker, Esq., of Springfield, near Birmingham. 



