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placed between them, and the space between the hoards is filled 
with soil to a depth of four inches. When this is done, the board 
nearest the end is drawn out gently and put on the other side of 
the second row, against which the other leans. As soon as this is 
accomplished, the second board is drawn out and placed against the 
third row, so as to keep the soil in its place whilst it is being 
filled in between the second and third rows as was done between 
the first and second. This process of shifting the boards and filling 
in the soil is repeated until all the rows have been earthed up. 
In drawing out each board the soil should be placed nicely about 
the plants with the hand. By the use of boards as here advised, a 
large bed can be earthed up in a very short space of time. At 
each operation, the soil should be taken equally from both sides of 
the bed, and be also well broken up with the spade before it is used 
for filling in. 
The best sorts for table are, Williams’s Matchless Red, and Tur- 
ner’s Incomparable White. The large-growing sorts, in the way of 
Mooley’s Conqueror, are too coarse for the table. 
THE VAEIETIES OF KALE, OE BOEECOLE. 
Report on Rales grown in the Garden at Chiswick in 1871-2. By Robert Hogg, LL.D., F.L.S» 
Pomological Director to the Royal Horticultural Society. From the Society’s Journal." 
is exactly ten years since the last trial of kales was 
made in the Garden of the Society. That was a very 
partial one in comparison with this upon which I am now 
about to report, the number of varieties being much less, 
and the various names under which the different varieties 
were received greatly more numerous. When I reported on the same 
subject in 1862, I was struck by the amazing confusion in which 
the kales were found ; and my surprise has not been lessened by the 
present trial. 
From the very much fuller character of this year’s experiments, 
I have been enabled in many cases to add to, and in some to correct, 
those of 1862. This I have been enabled to do by the very prompt 
and liberal manner in which the members of the seed trade have 
placed their collections at the disposition of the Society. 
It is proper here to state that, although many errors in nomen- 
clature are to be found in this report, apparently originating among 
the seedsmen, no blame is to be attributed to them, nor is there to 
be any impeachment of their good faith on that account ; for this 
confusion of nomenclature has existed not only for years, but for 
generations, and, however anxious they may have been to correct it, 
the task was one most difficult of accomplishment. 
Now, however, that something like order has been attained, I 
trust that a more general concurrence in nomenclature will be 
maintained. 
Aspaeagtjs Kale. — The original asparagus kale of a century 
and a half ago was a sprouting broccoli, which was introduced from 
February. 
