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LIST OF VEGETABLES. 
l)le to the first, beiug very mild, and sweet without any bitterness. 
Of the curled sort, the small green, and the large green, are those 
most usually cultivated. 
Kidney Beans. —The following may be considered some of the 
best; Chinese, Black Speckled, Canterbury, Early Dun or Buff 
Early Liver Coloured, Early Purple Speckled, Cream Coloured 
Negro, Battersea, Scarlet Runner. The sorts best for forcing are 
the Early Dun, Negro, Cream-coloured; and for a later forced crop, 
the Liver-coloured, which will bear a greater profusion than any of 
the other sorts. 
Leeks. —The varieties are three, but the London Flag, and Com¬ 
mon, may be considered the two best. 
Lettuces. —The following maybe considered the principal sorts. 
Cabbage Lettuces. —Brown Dutch, Hammersmith, Tennis Ball, 
Grand Admiral, Brown Silesia, Imperial, Marseilles, Black Seeded 
Gotte. Coss Lettuces. —Brown or Bath, Florence, Green Coss 
(black seeded,) Aleppo or Spotted, Egyptian, Dwarf Brown, Egyp¬ 
tian Green, Paris. 
Onions. —The following may be considered the best sorts:— 
Deptford, True or Brown Portugal, Spanish or White Portugal, 
James’s Long Keeping, Globe, Stratsburgh, Tripoli, Blood Red, 
Silver Skinned, Welsh. 
Parsnips. —The Guernsey and Hollow-Crowned sorts appear to 
be far preferable to the Old sort, both for size and flavour. 
Peas. —The varieties are numerous, these perhaps will be found 
the most valuable,—Double-blossomed Early Frame. Blue Prussi¬ 
an, Dwarf Green Imperial, Dwarf Marrow, Egg Pea, Green Mar¬ 
row, Knight’s Dwarf Marrow, Knight’s Tall Mai row. Royal Dwarf, 
Spanish Morrotto, Tall Green Imperial, and Wellington. 
Potatoes. —Out of a great many varieties, the following will be 
found amongst the best: Early Kidneys, Early Manly, Fox’s Seed¬ 
ling, Early Dwarf, Champions, Bread Fruits, Ox Noble, Early Shaw. 
Raddishes. —The most approved sorts are the Short Topped 
Scarlet, and Early Frame of the long sorts, and the Crimson Turnip- 
rooted and White Turnip-rooted, for spring and summer use ; and 
the Black Spanish, Large Purple Winter, and White Spanish, for 
winter use. 
Rhubarb.— Four Varieties, Buck’s Rhubarb, Common, Elford, 
and Hybrid. The Elford is very valuable for forcing, &c. 
Salsafy and Scorzonera require to be sown in April in an 
open part of the garden, and afterwards thinned out to eight or nine 
inches apart. 
