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in the beginning of June. It grew with me about 3 Jft. high, was a good cropper, 
with fine, well-filled pods, and peas of excellent flavour, and is decidedly a great 
.acc|uisition amongst second early marrow peas. 
Beck’s Tom Thumb and Turner’s Little Gem, that came in flrst in the 
beginning of May, were sown in pits in December, and successions of all the other 
kinds were sown in January and February, so that plenty of dishes of fine young 
peas were had for six weeks, and until the open-air ones came in. I have no doubt 
that if Beck’s Tom Thumb and Little Gem were sown in pots, in low pits, in 
October or November, good dishes of peas could be had from these varieties in 
March and April.— William Tillery, Welheclc. 
TREES AND SHRUBS FOR ENGLISH PLANTATIONS. 
S O much of the beaut}’’ and interest of our gardens and pleasure grounds is 
due to the judicious use of ornamental trees and shrubs in dressing-up or 
furnishing them, that any assistance which may be forthcoming in regard 
. ^ to information concerning the objects themselves, especially if conveyed in 
■such a way as to become an aid in making selections suitable for different situa¬ 
tions and different objects, must always be welcome. New subjects, in this 
department, as in others, are continually appearing, so that the old records— 
Loudon’s Arboretum^ and EncyclopcBdia^ for example—become obsolete ; and 
hence, since all available information concerning these newer trees—the debate- 
able ground of sylviculture—is of importance to those who are about to plant, 
or who are likely to be occupied in the embellishment of their grounds, a new 
book on the subject such as that just issued by Mr. Mongredien* comes in most 
opportunely. 
The vast extent of the resources in shape of shrub and tree which are 
available to planters of the present day, is seldom appreciated by those who have 
grounds to embellish, except it be in the case of those who are professionally 
engaged in this occupation, and even they are somewhat too prone to suffer their 
ideas to run along the old grooves. The available materials for grouping, as Mr. 
Mongredien observes, “ have never been utilized to nearly the extent of which 
they are susceptible. Like the colours on a painter’s palette, by the selection and 
combination of which he makes his canvas glow with beautiful forms and 
harmonious tints, so the infinite variety of outline and colour in trees affords 
scope for so arranging them as to produce most striking results, both in home 
views and distant landscapes.” It is to help to bring about this result, that the 
work now before us has been written. 
The book is divided into two parts, the first and larger half consisting of an 
alphabetical descriptive account of some 600 or more trees and shrubs which are 
considered desirable for open-air planting; and the second half, classifying them 
into groups, exhibiting particular features or adapted for particular purposes. 
* Trees and Shrubs-^or English Plantations. By Augustus Mongredien. With Illustrations. London: Murray. 
