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fine flavour, and a good cropper. Lee's Kidney, fine early variety ; 
good cropper. Manning’s Kidney, early, larger than the Ash-leaf, and 
stronger grower. Purple Ash-leaf, a good variety, and good cropper. 
St. Alban’s, handsome full-sized variety, not very early. Slough 
Kidney, very smooth and clear. White Blossom Kidney, a good old 
kind, but not so white as the round varieties. Round varieties : 
American Seedling, a capital late variety for general use ; very heavy 
cropper. White Forty Fold, alias British Queen, early and very prolific. 
Early Frame, true ; a first-rate early variety; good cropper. Early 
Oxford (Soden’s) a fine variety for frame or first crop ; one of the best 
Potatoes grown. Early Surprise, early; a fine variety and a good 
cropper. Forty Fold, good. Flourball (Rillott), excellent flavour, and 
a good cropper. Oxonian (Looker), good cropper, early. Prolific 
(Burgess). Perkins’s Seedling, very floury, of excellent quality, 
exceedingly productive ; good for general crop. Robinson’s Early, a 
useful variety for frame work, having very little top. Tarku’s Seedling, 
pink eye ; an excellent late variety, very heavy cropper. Wellington, 
a I ate pink-eyed variety; a strong growing kind, fine. The same 
exhibitor likewise sent Capsicum ovatum, called a “ new Pepper from 
Kertc-h.” From Messrs. Bass & Brown came a specimen of Improved 
Custard Vegetable Marrow, which differed a little in form from the 
ordinary kind. Mr. Harman, of Denham, sent the true Custard 
Vegetable Marrow, and a three years old root of Dioscorea Batatas, 
stated to weigh 5 lbs. 
Samples of fruit baskets were exhibited by Mr. M £ Ewen, recom¬ 
mended as suited for holding fruit at exhibitions. Whether baskets or 
earthenware dishes should be used, we will not now pause to inquire ; 
we, however, certainly agree with Mr. M‘Ewen that some uniformity of 
shape should be fixed on and adopted ; we therefore trust that the 
Horticultural Societies in general will take up and settle the matter. 
The ordinary meeting having ended, the Society resolved itself into a 
Special General Meeting for the purpose of electing a President and 
Secretary in the room of the late Duke of Devonshire and Dr. Boyle. 
It was announced that H.R.H. the Prince Consort had consented to 
fill the Presidentship, and that Dr. Lindley, who had resigned his office 
of paid Vice-Secretary, was selected for the office of Honorary Secretary. 
Scrutineers having been appointed, a ballot took place, when His Royal 
Highness the Prince Consort was declared to have been unanimously 
elected President, and Professor Lindley Secretary. 
NOTES ON BROCCOLI. 
During the last ten years there has been an immense accession of 
new varieties added to this important class of culinary vegetables, 
many of which are without doubt decided acquisitions, possessing 
dwarfness of habit, beautiful white heads, and hardiness of constitution, 
enabling them to withstand the severity of winter, together with many 
