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New Peas : “ I liad an opportunity of growing’Unique, Dr, Hogg, Supplanter, and 
Connoisseur last year, and they all proved distinct and highly meritorious. 
Unique is exceptionally early, very dwarf, and produces large and well-filled pods; Mr. 
Laxton has given us in this Pea what was especially wanted, precocity combined with high 
quality and productiveness. Dr. Hogg is also an early prolific Pea of rather low habit of 
growth, sweet, green, and of excellent quality. Supplanter has a stiff strong haulm, pro¬ 
duces broad fine pods, and comes in a fortnight later than the foregoing. Connoisseur is a 
tall, free growing, late Pea, of excellent quality. Without disputing the merits of many old 
favourites, I may still venture to say that every kind, and quality, and degree of excellence 
of Peas is to be found in the selection named above.” 
- ®HE sweet-scented white-flowered Eupatoriiim^ so much prized as a 
winter greenhouse decorative plant, has been singularly unfortunate in regard to 
the many erroneous names which have been given to it in gardens. It has been 
called E. glandulosum, E. adenophorum, E. corymbosum, E. gracile, E. odoratum, E. roseum, 
E. Morrisii, and E, glabrum, none of which names belong to it. It was then named E. 
Weinmannianum by Dr. Hegel, but it turns out that it already had an appropriate name in 
E. ligustrinum, which is that which should henceforward be adopted. Mr. Green writes:— 
“ It is some eighteen years since I first grew this plant in the gardens of the‘late "W. Borrer, 
Esq., of Henfieid, Sussex, both as a greenhouse plant and in the open garden. The plant 
from which the figure in Refugium Botanicum^ tab. 155, was taken, was raised from a plant 
which had formed a bush of considerable size on a south border, and which had lived there 
unprotected three years. It would be interesting to know if it has been tried elsewhere, 
or that its somewhat hardy nature is generally known.” 
- 3En Hogg’s Fruit Manual it is stated that KirJce’s Plum was first intro¬ 
duced by Joseph Kirke, a nurseryman at Brompton, near London, who stated 
he first saw it on a fruit-stall near the Royal Exchange, and that he afterwards 
found the trees producing the fruit were in Norfolk, whence he obtained grafts and propa¬ 
gated it. But its true orgin was in the grounds of Mr. Poupart, a market-gardener at 
Brompton, on the spot now occupied by the lower end of Queen’s Gate, and w'here it sprang 
up as a sucker from a tree which had been planted to screen a building. It was given to Mr. 
Kirke to be propagated, and he sold it under the name it now bears. 
- Planting Osiers Mr. Scaling, of Basford, recommends that cuttings 
only should be used; those from two or three-year old osiers are the best. 
From 20,000 to 24,000 per acre will be sufficient of the large common variety, 
but 30,000 to 40,000 will have to be used of any of the finer sorts. This, however, partly 
depends on the market there is for the produce. There is a little skill required in cutting 
osiers, but not more than could be learned by a smart labourer in a few hours’ practice. All 
the shoots must be cut off the stools. It is, above all, important that the variety grown is 
adapted to the land and the market, and is unmixed, for if only a few false ones creep in, the 
entire produce is deteriorated in marketable value. The entire cost of planting osiers at the 
present time may be set down at 20s. per 1,000 cuttings. 
- ©F the Romneya californica Mr. W. Thompson writes:—“ This plant, 
which was first offered by me, is no annual, unless in the sense of being mono- 
carpic. It will need two seasons here for the development which is perfected in 
one in S. California. Plants raised early last year, and kept in pots, have done well in a 
cool greenhouse, and will be tried outside this season. It is not a good seed to get up, unless 
sown soon after gathering.” 
- ®HE Eryngium Leavenworthii^ a Texan annual, is very distinct, both in 
colour and also in the prolonged axis of each head being crowned with the leafy 
tuft. If sown early, it will succeed very well; otherwise, it would bloom too late 
to develope the beautiful red-purple tint in the involucrum and flowers. It grows from about 
2 ft. to 2^ ft. high, the lower leaves being nearly entire. This, like the Helianthus cucumerifolius^ 
is in the hands of Mr. W. Thompson. 
