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SPECIALITIES IN VEGETABLE SEEDS. 
SPECIALITIES IN VEGETABLE SEEDS. 
The following choice vegetables may be relied on as possessing sterling merit. All 
novelties not here enumerated can always be supplied at current prices. 
BEANS, MINSTER GIANT. 
This is the best Broad Bean in cultivation, for general crop ; the pods are long, large, and well 
filled ; very fine flavour. Price Is. per quart. 
BEANS, HARICOT D’ALGER. 
An old but very valuable Runner Bean, possessing a richness of flavour that surpasses all other 
kinds of Runners or Dwarf Kidney Beans in cultivation ; it is an excellent cropper, has no inner skin, 
or strings, as they are called, at the dorsal union of the pods, and only requires the support of sticks 
21 feet high. It has only one fault, and that is its colour, which is between that of a lemon and a 
pale Apricot, but the substance and flavour fully repays for the want of the green colour we aie so 
familiar with in our own varieties, and those who once taste it are sure to demand a fresh supply. 
Price 3*. per quart. 
BEANS, PURPLE PODDED. 
A new Runner Boan, with very long and narrow pods of a dark violet colour, containing yellowish 
seeds. It is of rapid growth, produces its rich violet flowers very profusely, an abundant bearer, 
boils easily, and is exceedingly tender. Price \s. per packet. 
BEET, IMPROVED SHORT-TOP (DEWAR’S). 
Very handsomo shaped roots, of a brilliant dark red colour, tender and well flavoured. Awarded 
a First Class Certificate by the Royal Horticultural Society. Price Is. per packet. 
BORECOLE, NEW TRIPLE CURLED VARIEGATED PERENNIAL 
(MELVILLE’S). 
Originated from the Woburn Perennial Borecole, which in olden times was used as a decorative 
ornamental shrub. This variety has been crossed by the raiser, Mr. Melvillo, with the showiest of 
his Variegated- Borecole, and the result is a perennial variety with the brilliant markiugs and colours 
of the Common Variegated. It was doubted if, when hybridised with the common varieties, the 
perennial character of the Woburn would be retained ; but, although severely seeded, the old plants 
have, again sprung freely into growth from the bottom. Their being so very hardy in constitution, 
and of a woody growth in the stems, enables them to withstand tho severest winters with impunity. 
They will be found invaluable for the decoration of town gardens, ornamenting shrubberies, or as 
single standards in beds or herbaceous borders. The following description of them is extracted from 
a report of the Horticultural Spring Show, held at Edinburgh, 1868 In the side room were 
ranged a dozen pots, which at first sight appeared to contain a beautiful variety of foliage plants, 
purple, and green, and white, mauve, and olive, and yellow, all colours interspersed in the most 
harmonious fashion ; but a near inspection proved thorn to be only Kale— a new hybrid between the 
Woburn Kale, ‘ a perennial,’ and the annual variegated Kales. They havo an effective appearance. 
Mr. Melville, Dalmeny Park, was the exhibitor.” 
This is the variety that Mr. William Bull exhibited before the Fruit Committee of the Royal 
Horticultural Society, March 3rd, 1868. Price 2s. 6^. per packet. 
