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THE FLORIST AND POMOLOGIST. 
[ January, 
annual fair on October 3. Hundreds of gardeners sow in January, and buddle tbe 
plants together until they are as weak as straws, to their own and the plants* 
inconvenience ; these, in point of size and quality, are not so forward as those 
sown at a much later period, but allowed to have no rest afterwards. 
The Celeri Turc^ for both salad and kitchen purposes, I have dug in good 
eatable condition every week in the year.— William P. Ayres, Brochley Iron 
Worlcs^ New Cross^ S.E. 
|T page 284 of the last volume you remark :—“ A dwarf white Celery, known 
as Takers Celery, was growing at Gunnersbury some quarter of a century 
since, and since that date has been grown as the Incomparable.” My 
object in writing is to call attention to the name “ Tuke,” which is 
evidently a corruption of the French name “ Turc” —for as Celeri Turc it was 
distributed for many years by the Horticultural Society. One thing is certain, 
that Dr. Tuke, who lives near Gunnersbury, had no more to do with its paternity 
than I have. This, the finest of all white Celeries, comes to us from France. It 
is the favourite variety of the Paris market-gardeners, and is grown under the 
names of Celeri Turc^ Celeri Court Hdtif^ Celeri Plein Blanc Court Hdtif, Its 
English names are Dwarf White Solid, Dwarf White Solid Self-blanching, Incom¬ 
parable, and lastly, Sandringham. Of Bed Celeries there are no better than 
Major Clarke’s Solid Bed and the Leicester Bed. I have not had an opportunity 
of growing these two celeries side by side, so cannot tell if they are distinct, but 
I can say that with either you have the best Celery that can be desired.—B. 
SUGAR PEAS. 
'HEBE are Sweet Peas, but these are not the Sugar Peas,—-one is a 
delicious vegetable, and the other an ornamental flower. The pods of 
the Sugar Peas are eaten when very young, just as the pods of French 
Beans and Scarlet-Bunners are eaten. About the year 1826 I busied 
myself to get Sugar Peas forward, and they were forwarded in V-shaped boxes, 
and put into the rows out-of-doors as soon as the weather would permit, and they 
were fit for table just about the time that French Beans were appearing above 
the ground. It will need little ventilation of the subject to start lady house¬ 
keepers to ask for Sugar Peas early, and not only early, but at any time, for 
they are far more palatable than either French Beans or Scarlet-Bunners. In 
Dickson and Bobinson’s (Manchester) Catalogue now before me I see they quote 
an edible-podded Pea called New Dwarf Wrinkled edihle-podded, —evidently 
showing that the thing has not quite died out. One would have expected that 
the great Show at Manchester would have brought this fine old vegetable on the 
table, but I looked in vain for my old favourite. If the pods are gathered 
when quite flat, and before the seeds are formed, they will be indeed sugared, but 
if allowed to go to seed, they are useless for table, for they are not of any value 
as Green Peas. 
