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heavier cropping properties, combined with fair average quality at least, which 
will render them very popular wherever crop is an object. 
Amongst Peas, we have again to thank Mr. Laxton, who has done so much 
towards their improvement. Mr. Laxton has already set his seal upon nearly 
every class of Peas, and given us at once the earliest and the latest, the largest- 
podded and the most handsome. This season Mr. Laxton has broken into fresh 
fields, and in Laxton's Gem we get a large-podded, prolific, and decided improve¬ 
ment on Maclean’s Little Gem. In The Shah and Dagmar we get two dwarf and 
very early—quite as early as Dillestone’s Early—white wrinkled marrows. In 
Marvel we have a large-podded, most prolific, and handsome mid-season dwarf 
wrinkled marrow, of very fine quality, which we think is one of the most meri¬ 
torious of Mr. Laxton’s introductions. In The Baron we have a very handsome 
large-podded green marrow, resembling Superlative, but earlier than that 
variety. If we go on at this rate, our old varieties of Peas will soon disappear 
altogether. 
In Kidney Beans we have also many important additions, which we gladly 
welcome, such as Carter's White Advancer^ a great improvement on the White 
Canterbury; Osborn's New Early Forcing^ a very fine early and good forcing 
variety; and Cuthush's Giant Dwarf, a very fine variety for a general crop. In 
the Dwarf Butter Beans we are to be introduced to a somewhat new class, the 
pods being of a pale yellow colour, which they retain from their earliest stages 
throughout. The Mont d'Or Butter Bean is also one of the same class, but a 
runner ; it is a great and wonderful cropper, and of very excellent quality. These 
yellow-podded Beans, although rather novel to us, and not much appreciated 
on account of the prejudice against them as to colour, are very common in 
Hungary and other parts, and are known under the name of Fleisch, or Fleish 
Beans. 
In Beocooli we have a very fine and important addition in that called the 
Leamington'^ the heads of which are very large, very solid, very white, and well 
protected ; whilst among Oauliflowees, the finest is named Dean's Snoivhall, a 
very dwarf, very early, and close-headed sort. 
In Celeries, the Leicester Bed comes forth as one of the best of the season ; 
it is dwarf, and the heads are always very solid, and it is of excellent quality. 
In Cucumbers, we are indebted to Messrs. Munro and Wilkinson for their 
Dulce of Edinburgh. This is one of the finest of Cucumbers—a free bearer, of 
medium length, and a fine deep green colour, bearing a few black spines, and 
having scarcely any neck. 
In Tomatos, although several new aspirants were brought forward, there were 
none equal to Hathaway's Excelsior., which is undoubtedly a great acquisition ; it 
is early and prolific, with the fruits large, smooth, round, and of a fine colour. 
From the above, therefore, it will bo seen that the past year has been more 
than usually profuse in its additions to our stock of vegetables. This is 
extremely gratifying and satisfactory.— Abridged from the Gardeners' Chronicle. 
