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JOURNAL OF HORTICULTURE AND COTTAGE GARDENER. 
as long experience induces me to attach much importance to both. I 
have about thirty varieties growing side by side—early, intermediate, and 
late, many only introduced within the last few years, and it is very 
interesting to note their progress and appearance from day to day. The 
most remarkable of the whole is the above, and it certainly is the most 
promising. It is not a tall grower, but the leaves are as large as a 
Cabbage, and of a fine dark glossy green, much smoother than the 
majority of other varieties grown under the same conditions. Last year 
now established that a visitor can fully rely upon finding abundance 
to compensate him for his journey. Numerous classes well filled with 
examples of the best culture must present something of interest, and 
possibly of profit too. If it were for one circumstance alone a southern 
cultivator would reap no inconsiderable benefit, and that is the genuine 
enthusiasm which prevails amongst our northern friends, a most pleasing 
unanimity amongst the promoters of horticulture, and an absence of 
petty jealousies that too frequently mar meritorious projects. The 
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the tubers were large, but I had but a limited quantity, and kept most of 
them for propagation.—W. J. Murphy, Clonmel. 
NOTES AT MANCHESTER. 
The Whitsuntide Show at Manchester has gained a great fame 
throughout this country, and in consequence many horticulturists pay 
an annual visit to the great Cotton City, with the object either of con¬ 
tributing some of their productions or to inspect and criticise those of 
other members of the craft. So firmly is the reputation of the Show 
result of this earnest combination of workers has been the institution 
and growth of the Manchester Show to its present magnitude and 
excellence, highly creditable alike to its organisers, its subsequent 
management, and its liberal supporters. As the veteran exhibitor, Mr. 
B. S. Williams, pointed out at the dinner on the opening day, this 
success is due in a large measure to a judicious liberality with the prize 
money, and to the generous encouragement given to amateurs, meaning 
thereby gentlemen or others who do not grow for sale. Undoubtedly 
this is a point of great importance, and the opinion, coming as it did 
from an experienced nurserymen, should have great weight with the 
