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Marie Lemoine***. —A variety of first-class excellence. It is of dwarf stocky habit, 
with flat, faintly zoned leaves, and large-sized flowers, forming abundant, bold, and effective 
trusses. This variety is much like Madame Lemoine in the colour and general aspect of its 
flowers ; but it is of dwarfer habit, distinct in its foliage, and producing better flowers. 
Memnon**. —This is a meritorious vai'iety of moderately vigorous growth, with faintly- 
zoned leaves ; the trusses are of fair size and compact, consisting of close, well-formed, light- 
scarlet flowers. Distinct and promising. 
Signet**. —A ratfier desirable variety, of moderately vigorous growth, with the leaves 
densely zonate, the trusses well filled, and the colour a rosy carmine, in the way of Emile 
Lemoine ; but the individual flowers are of better form. 
Sparkhill Beauty**. —This variety is of moderately vigorous growth, wuth faintly zoned 
leaves, and close trusses of bright I'ose-pink flowers, very much resembling those of Madame 
Lemoine ; superior to that sort as regards smoothness of petal; but, taking other points into 
consideration, the preference must be given to Madame Lemoine. 
Triomplie de Lorraine**. —A variety of some merit, being of moderate growth, with 
faintly zonate leaves, and close trusses of carmine-scarlet flowers, like those of Emile 
Lemoine. 
Triomphe de Tkumesnil**. —A vigorous-habited sort of some merit; the leaves are green, 
not zoned ; while the flowers, which are scarlet with a faint tinge of cerise, are large and full. 
Victor (G. Smith)**.—Dwarf and free-blooming in habit, with the leaves faintly zoned, 
and the scarlet flowers in compact trusses. The flowers are of the same colour as those of 
Wilhelm Pfitzer, and closely resemble those of that variety, but the foliage is smaller. A variety 
well worth growing. 
Victor Leinoine***. —One of the finest of the varieties in the whole collection. The plant 
is of a rather vigorous habit of growth; the leaves are marked with an indistinct zone, and 
the flower-trusses are larger. The flowers themselves are somewhat rough, having serrated 
petals ; but they form a fine head, and are of a rich orange scarlet, brighter than Le V^suve. 
Wilhelm Pjitzer**. —One of the useful second-class sorts, of moderately vigorous growth, 
with indistinctly zonate leaves, and fair-sized trusses of good full flowers of a light-scarlet 
colour. 
CAULIFLOWER AND BROCCOLI ALL THE YEAR ROUND. 
® HESE are vegetables always welcome to every good cook, yet as regards 
many large establisliments, they are often a blank in the cnhnary list 
during August and September, and again during December and January. 
I manage to avoid this by adopting the following plan, though I should 
remark, in the first place, that our land is all deeply trenched, and heavily 
manured :—About the middle of January the first sowing is made in a cold 
frame ; this lot succeeds those sown the previous autumn. The next sowing is 
made out-of-doors during March, and from this time until the middle of June a 
sowing is made every fortnight or three weeks, the last two being large ones. 
About this time sundry crops of early Peas, Potatos, Turnips, Carrots, Straw¬ 
berries, &c., are being cleared off the ground, and we plant up all vacancies as 
they occur, so that by August we have a large breadth of Young Walcherens 
that come in exceedingly useful fromSeptember till the new year. Some time 
during November we lift with balls a considerable number of these, and put them 
close together in pits or frames, at the bottom of a wall, or, indeed, in any place 
where they can be easily sheltered during severe frost; and with the protection 
of a mat or a few branches of Spruce, Yew, or Laurel, they will stand 16° or 18° 
of frost with impunity. It will thus be seen that we have Cauliflowers from 
May until January ; and notwithstanding the many so-called new varieties that 
