﻿Ravenglass and Bootle : Mr. Wood. Between Maryport and Flimby : Rev. J. 

 Hariuman. — Devon; Cliffs near Teignmouth : Dr. Maton. Frequent on the 

 marly cliffs, but rare in pure sand: Rev. Dr. Beeke. Sidroouth Cliffs, in in- 

 accessible places : Mr. D. Turner. Cliffs at Dawlish : 1830, Mr. J. H. Parker. 

 Slapton Sands, from thence it was first obtained for cultivation in 1795: FI. Dev. — 

 Dorset ; Not uncommon on the sandy shores ; on Chesil Bank ; about Weymouth ; 

 on the Purbeck coast ; and at the North Haven, about Poole: Dr. Pulteney. 

 Lulvvorth Cove : Dr. Withering.— Essex ; On the sea-shore between the town 

 of Harwich and the Cliff: Dale. — Hampsh. Western Court: Dr. Pulteney. — 

 Kent ; In St. Margaret’s and Langdon Bays; and very plentiful on the beach 

 about half way from Dover to Folkstone : Mr. Dillwyn. Lydden Spout ; East- 

 wear Bay ; Dover: Rev. G. E. Smith. — Lancash. Roosebeck in Low Furness: 

 Mr. Woodward. — Lincolnsh. Among the sand hills on the coast, in abund- 

 ance: Sir Joseph Banks. — Norfolk; Abundant at Mundesley : Sir J. E. Smith. 

 — Suffolk; On the beach at Dunwich: Mr. Davy. Between Dunwich and 

 Southwold on the Suffolk coast, abundantly: Dr. Withering. — Sussex; On 

 the cliffs at Beachy Head ; on the beach at East Bourne, and near Shoreham : 

 Mr. Borreu. At Hastings, and Worthing: Mr.T. F. Forster, jun. — Yorksh. 

 Cliff at Whitby: Mr. Brunton. — WALES. Anglesea ; Sandy sea-coast be- 

 tween Rhuddgaerand Llanddwyn : Bing ley. — Carnarvonsh. On the coast in 

 various parts of the promontory of Llyn : Bingley'. Beach near Crickaeth, 

 plentifully : Rev. H. Davies. In the most inaccessible rocks of the Lesser 

 Orme’s Head, near Conway, facing North : Mr. Griffith. — Glamor gansh. 

 Rocks about Port Eynon : Dr. Turton. Pembrokesh. Cliffs at Tenby: Dr. 

 Turton. — SCOTLAND. Near Fast-castle: Rev. J. Lightfoot. Isle of 

 Isla: Dr. Walker. — IRELAND. Strand near Bantry: Mr. Drummond. 

 Sea-coast between Malahide and Beldoyle: Mr. J. T. Mackay. 



Perennial. — Flowers in May and June. 



Root thick and fleshy. Whole plant smooth, glaucous (sea- 

 green), and somewhat succulent. Stems several, from 1 to 2 feet 

 high, branched, spreading, and leafy. Root-leaves on leaf-stalks, 

 very large, spreading or deflexed, variously waved, jagged, and in- 

 dented, of a leathery texture ; generally sea-green, sometimes tinged 

 with purple. Stem-leaves sessile. Clusters terminal, collected into 

 dense panicles. Flowers white, smelling strong of honey. Pouches 

 (fig. 5.) smooth, the size of Black Currants. 



“ The country people in the West of England have been, from time imme- 

 morial, in the practice of watching when the shoots and leaf-stalks begin to 

 push up the sand and gravel in March and April, when they cut them off under- 

 ground, as is done in gathering Asparagus, and boil them as greens. About the 

 middle of the last century the plant was first introduced into gardens, grown on 

 deep sandy soil, and blanched either by sand, ashes, litter, or by covering with 

 flower-pots, earthen pots made on purpose, or any opaque cover. It is now 

 almost as universal in good gardens as Asparagus, and, like it, is forced, either 

 by taking up the roots and planting them on a hot-bed, or in a border of a 

 forcing-house, or by covering or surrounding them with litter, in the open 

 garden. Before covering a bed with warm litter, each plant, or stool of plants, 

 is covered with an earthenware blanching-pot, or wicker case, to keep off the 

 dung from the young shoots, and to ensure their being blanched. No plant is 

 so easily forced, and, unlike Asparagus , it yields produce the first Spring after 

 raising from seed. The taste is very like that of Cauliflower. Professor Mar- 

 tyn has printed some valuable instructions for its cultivation, from the MSS. of 

 the Rev. M. Laurent; and the late Mr. W. Curtis, by a Pamphlet on the 

 Culture, has done more to recommend it, and diffuse the knowledge of it, than 

 any of his predecessors. Don’s Gen. Syst. of Gard. and Bot. — For more par- 

 ticulars respecting the cultivation. &c. of Sea-Kale, see the excellent work of 

 Mr. Don, just quoted ; Mr. Loudon’s valuable Encyclopaedia of Gardening ; IT 

 and Baxter’s Lib. of Agr. and Hort. Knowledge. 



IT The great number of beautiful wood-cuts, and the vast fund of valuable infor- 

 mation which this work contains on every department of Horticulture, Floricul- 

 ture, Landscape Gardening, &c. as well as the cheapness at which it is pub- 

 lished, cannot fail to recommend it to every Gardener and Florist in the king- 

 dom. To the young Gardener it is almost indispensible. Mr. Loudon is now 

 publishing a new, and much improved edition of it, which he is bringing out in 

 Monthly Parts, at a price which will enable every working Gardener, and Gar- 

 dening Apprentice, to put himself in possession of it. 



