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length of 2 feet or more, very slender, and pendulous or 
slightly curving. They are of a whitish colour, the seeds 
being widely separated, and the interspaces slightly con¬ 
tracted, which imparts a curious appearance to the pods. These are 
cooked and used in the same way as French Beans. 
Several other species of Dolichos are known. For instance, the 
Cat’s-claws is D. filiformis, which is used as a purgative; D. hastatus 
furnishes a food for the natives of East Africa, D. Lubia being similarly 
employed in Egypt; while a Jamaica species, D. sphairospermus, is 
called the Black-eyed Pea, and its seeds are used like liidney Beans. 
Fig. 3.—Dolichos sesquipedalis. 
EARLY STRAWBERRIES. 
Noticing in last week’s Journal Mr. Gilbert’s remarks on King of the 
Earlies Strawberry, I beg to say a word in favour of another early Straw¬ 
berry—viz., Vicomtesse Hericait de Thury. I have this Strawben-y 
gi'owing in the open field without the least protection or shelter. I 
gathered some very line ripe fruit the first week in June, and on the 16th 
of June I gathered about 10 lbs. of fruit, and have gathered large quanti¬ 
ties every day since. I consider Vicomtesse H. de Tliui’y the best market 
variety grown, being very prolific and a good colour. I grow several 
other varieties in the same field, which is about 100 yards from the sea, 
but Vicomtesse is decidedly the best.— George Randall, Skegness, Lin¬ 
colnshire. 
ROSES AT CHESHUNT. 
Having a short time at my disposal a happy thought struck me—I 
would spend an hour at Cheshuut. Having seen the Cheshunt Roses as 
exhibited at most of our Rose exhibitions I was anxious to see them at 
home. Cheshunt is on the Great Eastern line, and about fourteen miles 
distant from London, trains from Liverpool Street or St. Pancras. Having 
selected the latter as being the more convenient for me, I soon found myself 
rapidly passing through a most interesting country, and in a short time 
arrived at Cheshunt station, and from an obliging porter soon learned 
the way to Mr. George Paul’s nurseries. I was fortunate in finding him 
at home, and was soon rewarded with a sight which more than repaid 
any little trouble I had taken, a sight which when once seen is not 
soon to be forgotten—namely, a lot of that beautiful almost scarlet Rose, 
Duke of Teck, in full bloom, and, again, Duke of Edinburgh so fine I 
hardly knew him, and had to ask for an introduction ; but I suddenly 
remembered that “ their feet were on their native heath,” or in other 
words, their roots were in their native soil, and thoroughly at home they 
seemed. But I must be fair to Mr. Paul, and say the way he grows and 
tests his Roses is calculated to prevent much disappointment, and to a 
great extent settle the stock question, for there are seen rows of Roses 
upon the seedling Briar side by side with the same variety upon the 
Manetti stock, and the difference was very marked. Sometimes those 
grown upon the Briar had the best of it, and sometimes those on the 
Manetti, and in this way Mr. Paul soon finds the most suitable stock for 
each variety ; it is seldom they do equally upon both. 
I was much struck with a comparatively new white Rose, Violette 
Bouyer, but one 1 feel certain we shall see often this season. Madame 
Isaac Peridre, foliage and habit something like Souvenir de Malmaison, 
but the bloom delicate pink ; Mr. Paul calls it the Pink Malmaison. 
