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cline them a little to one side, to check their heading. When a 
cauliflower, broccoli, cabbage, lettuce, has commenced the process of 
heading, it would greatly expedite the said process, increase the size 
of its head, to tie its leaves rather looselv, and from time to time 
with a piece of bass mat or withy. 
Broccoli .—Each of the following broccolis ought to be sown in 
March, April, and May, to come into use in succession from Sep¬ 
tember to the middle of June. The Early Purple Cape, Early 
Dwarf White Russian, and Green’s Close-headed winter, to head 
from September to the end of March. The late Sulphur-coloured 
Russian, Dw 7 arf Danish, Branching, Miller’s late Dwarf White, and 
the Portsmouth, from April to the middle of June.—When a head 
has been cut, the stump and young leaves must be lifted and re¬ 
planted, as has been stated for the cauliflower. 
H. Brooke. 
ARTICLE IV. 
OBSERVATIONS ON THE CULTURE OF CHERRIES, 
With some Account of their Natural History and Introduction into this Country. 
BY JOSEPH PAXTON, F. L. S. H. S. 
It is thought the Cherry was procured and brought into Europe by * 
Lucullus, a Roman General, who drove Mithidrates, king of Pontus, 
from his dominions. The tree was found growing in Cerasus (Ker- 
esoun) a city of Pontus, which his army destroyed. This circum¬ 
stance is supposed to be the origin of the name of the fruit, Cerjjsus. 
Both Mithidrates and Lucullus appear to have been botanists, and 
although the former vanquished twenty-four nations, and learned to 
speak their different languages, with ease and fluency, he yet found 
time to write a treatise on botany in the Greek language. Lucullus 
is said to have planted the cherry in Italy 68 years before the Chris¬ 
tian era; at the end of tw'enty-six years from that time their culture 
had become general on the continent, and they had even extended as 
far as Britain ; this makes its introduction 42 years before the Chris¬ 
tian era, although it is believed by many to have only been planted 
here in the time of News reign, which was A. D. 55. And about 
A. D. 70, Plinv wrote his work on Natural History, and mentions 
eight different kinds as being cultivated in Italy. 
Kent has been long celebrated for the quantity of cherries it pro- 
