January 26. 
THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
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the preceding, but it is very inferior in every respect— 
the pods being much smaller, fewer in number, and 
very much less productive. It is, therefore, now un¬ 
worthy of cultivation. 
sangster's number one. 
Synonymes.— Daniel O'RourJce, Waites Daniel 
O'Rourke. 
This variety is of a slender habit of growth, moro so 
thau Warner's Emperor, and consists of a single stem 
two feet high, producing, on an average, 
from eight to ten pods on each plant. 
Pods generally single, but frequently in 
pairs; ten - inches - and - three - quarters 
long, and upwards of half-an-inch wide, 
quite straight, thick, and plump, and 
terminating abruptly at the point. 
When fully grown they become much 
swollen, broad in the back, and some¬ 
what round, or quadrangular. They 
contain, on an average, seven, but fre¬ 
quently eight, peas. The ripe seed is 
white. 
This, and Waites Daniel O'Rourke, 
were sown in adjoining rows on the 
5tli of April, and came into bloom on 
the 5th of June; on the 9th the first 
blooms began to drop, and the slats 
(young pods) appear; by the 22nd the 
whole plants were nearly out of bloom; 
and on the 1st of July the pods were 
quite filled and ready to gather. I have 
been most particular in my observation 
of these two varieties, as it has been said by some that 
they are distinct. That there should be no mistake, T 
procured Sangster's Number One from Mr. Sangster, 
and Daniel O'Rourke from Mr. Waite. They were 
sown on the same day, came up on the same day, slatted 
on the same day, podded on the same day, and died off 
on the same day, after having attained the same height, 
and presented the same habit of growth. I have pre¬ 
served the original name of Sangster’s No. 1, because 
it holds priority of the other, and because I know, by 
my own personal knowledge, that this variety has been 
in that gentleman’s possession for the last eight 
years. There are too many varieties already, without 
increasing them by multiplying the names of those that 
do exist. 
This is a very valuable Pea, and should be cultivated 
in every garden as the earliest crop. As regards earli¬ 
ness, it does not surpass Warner's Emperor; but it 
possesses the desirable property of doing its work 
quicker than that variety, and as much so as the Early 
Kent, but possessing a much larger pod, and being 
more prolific. It is not so tall by somo inches as Em- 
peror, stops growing and blooming much sooner, and 
is ripening off when Emperor is still fresh and growing. 
In this respect it is very valuable to the gardener, as 
it enables him, after obtaining a prolific crop of early 
Peas, to clear the ground for something else. 
warner’s emperor. 
Synonymes.— Warner’s Conqueror, Isherwood's 
Railway, Morning Star, Rising Sun, Emperor, 
Conqueror. 
Plant of a slender habit of growth > 
always with a single stem, which is 
two-and-a-half to three feet high, and 
produces from eight to ten pods on 
each plant. Pods generally single, but 
frequently in pairs, from two-and-a-half 
to three inches long, perfectly straight, 
and terminating abruptly at the end. 
They aro well-filled, and contain from 
five to seven peas, which are roundish 
and flattened, seven-twentieths of an 
inch long, six-twentieths broad, and the 
same in thickness. The ripe seed is 
white. 
The seed was sown on the 5th of 
April, and the plants came into bloom 
on the 5th of June; the blooms began 
to drop on the 9th, and on the 1st of 
July the pods were completely filled, 
and ready to gather. 
Too much cannot be said in praise 
of this as. an early variety; but, as re¬ 
marked under Sangster's Number One, 
it does not get so quickly off the ground 
as that variety. R. H. 
( To be continued.) 
Like the Bourgeois gentilhomme who discovered that 
he had beon talking prose all his life without knowing 
it, many of our readers will, ere this, have discovered 
that they are every day putting in force some of the 
best means for preventing disease and prolonging life. 
If more than 100 or 120 persons cannot dwell to¬ 
gether on each acre of ground without the air of the 
place being sensibly worsened, it is clear that where 
each house has a garden attached any dangerous 
amount of ovor-crowding can hardly take place. The 
constant demand for manure in a garden, must tend to 
diminish the standing nuisance from cesspools, sewerage, 
and so forth. Many of the same laws govern animal 
and vegetable life, therefore it follows that the healthy 
or unhealthy condition of ninety-nine out of a hundred 
garden products is the very best eudiometer or 
measurer of the salubrity of any situation. Thus, if 
the whole air be so smoky as to affect the growth of 
flowers and fruits, it will affect children’s lungs also. 
Smoke or soot (carbon), in descending from the upper 
air, imbibes and fixes all the exhalations from the bodies 
and lungs of a dense population below, so long as it is 
newly burnt, warm and dry, in virtue of a law already 
explained. But, on becoming cold, damp, and over¬ 
charged with ammoniacal matters, the soot at length 
' begins to give out again, in low, moist situations, all the 
noxious compounds previously imbibed. And, although 
coarse herbage and some descriptions of trees may 
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