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this place we cultivate a great deal of this veg'etable, and I find one plant will 
cover about fifty square yards of ground. The exact number of fruit gathered* 
from a plant during a season, I am not prepared to state, but the produce, when 
compared with other vegetables, is very far below them. An early crop of Pota¬ 
toes, and then a late crop of Cauliflowers, Cabbages, or Broccoli, upon the same 
extent of ground, will be found to yield a far greater produce than the former 
vegetable, and in some instances superior in point of nourishment. Vegetable 
Marrow, to be made at all palatable^ requires rather more accommodating sauce 
than many of the poor can affoid to furnish it with, whereas most of them can 
supply a little salt and pepper for Potatoes and Cabbages. 
Peiwori/i GardeyiSy Nuv. 6, 1831. G. Harrison. 
VEGEtABtB Mould. —In reply to G. A. L., page 2*25, I beg to inform him that 
what I ferm Vegetable Mould, is that produced by well-rotted cabbage leaves, and 
vegetables of a similar character. What I mean by decayed leaves is a soil pro¬ 
duced from tlm leaves of oak, &c. The former soil is one of the richest, and the 
latter is a vdfy light one; both are very essential in a suitable compost for Pelar¬ 
goniums, 
G. Harrison. 
Error.— *1 find in the article I sent you on the treatment of Pelargoniums, page 
102, an error in the description of the compost. It should have been stated—to 
equal parts of vegetable mould and decayed leaves, add one-third of peat soil, and 
one-sixth of white sand. 1 will thank you to give this insertion at an early oppor¬ 
tunity. 
G. Harrison. 
IlEAit’f’s-i^ASE. —Gentlemen, plants of the Heart’s-ease, (^Viola tricolor,') which 
are gold in the London Markets are often better than those grown in private 
gardens, and I have often known it complained of, that when removed, they soon 
degenerate. I shotjid be obliged, (and I doubt not also, many of your readers) if 
any of your Correspondents acquainted with the culture of that favourite flower, 
would send the be.st method of managing it j and also the way of managing the 
Dark Red China Rose. I remain, your obedient Servant, 
T. S 
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IT.—C0LLECT10*\\H AND IlECDLLECTIONS 
NATtRAL IIISTORV. 
VEGEtABLE Serpent. —Some Italian Journals mention (hat a new organised 
beinsr has been discovered in the interior of Africa, wliich seems to form an inter- 
mediate link between vegetable and animal life. This singular being has the 
shape of a spotted Serpent; it drags itself along on the ground, and instead of a 
head has a flower shaped like a bell, which contains a visconS liquor. The flies 
and other insects, attracted by tbe smell of this juice, enter into the flower, when 
they are caught by the adhesive matter; the flower then closes, and remains 
shut until the prisoners are hfuised and transformed into chyle. The indigestible 
portion, such as (he head and wings, are thrown out by two lower spiral openings. 
