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THE COTTAGE GARDENER. 
05, 30, and 37; there is certainly a variety , as they say, by 
having the two ends different, but to do anything on prin¬ 
ciples, and to admit variety to a higher place than a prin¬ 
ciple, is a weak faith in principles altogether. 34 and 40 
are introduced as equivalents for the larger size of 25 and 
28 than 00 and 37. The group from 31 to 40 is infinitely 
better managed and more pleasing than the opposite end. 
Nevertheless, the plan is very well done, and “Jonathan” 
himself will find out, by-and-by, better than I can tell him, 
where his weak points lay. 11 and 12, for instance, are 
right in colour, and quite wrong in size, and the same ob- 
Continuing (from page 1) our observations on the Peas, 
we come now to consider a very valuable class of varieties 
—the Early Green Marrows. It is not very many years 
since these first appeared in the form of the old Early 
Green Marrow , but a great improvement has been ob¬ 
tained since then, so much so, that I very much question 
if the old variety is really in existence. 
Bellamy’s Early Green Marrow. 
The plant is of a strong and robust habit of growth ; 
sometimes with a single, and sometimes with a branching 
stem, which is four-feet-and-a-half to 
five feet high, and producing from 
twelve to eighteen pods on each 
plant. The pods are in pairs, rarely 
single, and from three-inches-aud-a- 
quarter to three-inches-and-three- 
quarterslong, seven-tenths-of-an inch 
broad, slightly curved, thick-backed, 
and terminating abruptly at the 
point. The surface is quite smooth, 
and of a very dark green colour, 
somewhat like the Woodford Mar¬ 
row for intensity. The pods contain, 
on an average, from six to seven 
large peas in each, which are of a 
very dark bluish-green colour, nine- 
twentieths - of-an - inch long, eight 
broad, and seven thick. The ripe 
seed has a mixed appearance, some 
being of a dull, yellowish - white, 
and others light olive - green, in 
about equal proportions. 
The seed was sown on the 5th of 
April, and the plants bloomed on 
the 15th of June, on the 21st the 
blooms dropped and the slats ap¬ 
peared, and on the 8th of July 
many were fit to be gathered, but 
the crop was not generally ready till 
the 11th. 
Of this variety we cannot speak too highly, both as 
a good bearer and a Pea of first-rate quality, whether for 
private use or for the markets. Eor the latter purpose 
j it is admirably adapted, as the pod is of a fine, deep 
colour, handsomely and regularly shaped, and always 
plumply filled. The old Early Green Matron’, as we 
have stated above, is now out of cultivation. Its 
character was the same as that of this improved variety, 
May 11. j 
l 
jection applies to 20 and 21, to 17 and 18, and to 14 and 15. j 
The Calceolaria amplexicaulis, in good soil, will be twenty 
inches high by the first of August, while the white Gera¬ 
nium next to it, all round, will hardly be ten inches high. 
Heights are just as essential as colours, in instances like 
these, and so are styles of growth. Calceolaria here is an 
upright, and the fellow style a trailer, therefore, opposite 
styles of growths mar the effect produced by the colours 
when they thus come in contact. Altogether, there are some 
useful lessons to be learned from the style of this plan. 
D. Beaton. I 
but the pod was considerably smaller, and the produce 
of the plant infinitely inferior. 
There is even an improvement on Bellamy's , known 
in some of the midland counties, particularly some 
parts of Leicestershire, as Noble’s Early Green 
Marrow, having been obtained and sent out by Messrs. 
Noble, Cooper, and Bolton, of Fleet-street. This variety 
is certainly superior to Bellamy's, is a very much more 
abundant bearer, producing from eighteen to twenty 
pods on each plant, and the pods are all so equally and 
handsomely shaped as to give the idea that they had 
been all cast in the same mould. It is, in fact, from 
my own observation, as superior to Bellamy's as the 
true Flack's Victory is to the old Bedmans Imperial. 
The figure which accompanies this description was 
taken from a specimen of Noble's. R. H. 
{To be continued.) 
On the 2(itb of April, in the 09th year of bis age, at 
his house in Upper Gower street, London, died Dr. 
Nathaniel Wallich, author of the Plantes rariores 
Asiatics, as well as contributor to many scientific period¬ 
icals of England and other countries. For many years 
lie presided over the Botanic Garden at Calcutta, and 
the writer of this notice wrote as follows in 1843, whilst 
the remembrance of him was fresh upon his memory:— 
“ Of the Superintendent of the Botanic Garden, Dr. Wal¬ 
lich, I cannot speak too highly: his scientific attainments 
need no testimony from me ; they are demonstrated by bis 
published works, and by fifty societies, which, unsolicited, 
have enrolled him among their associates. But I must not 
omit to mention the urbanity and liberality with which he • 
meets the wishes, not of his friends only, but of all who 
seek from him either the gratification of their curiosity, or 
an addition to their botanical stores. 
« Dr. Wallich is by birth a Dane, and was a medical attache 
to Chandenagore, the chief Indian colony of his native 
country; and it was to the estimable Dr. Carey that he was 
indebted for bringing his scientific merits under the notice 
of the government, and, subsequently, for his appointment 
to the honourable, lucrative, and delightful office he now 
holds. To this be is devotedly attached ; and though of 
late warned that a residence of many years in a tropical 
climate renders a change to one more temperate desirable, 
yet I much fear be will linger on, till he becomes the tenant 
of that grave which he has already prepared in a favourite 
shaded spot among his botanical treasures 
“ During the last two or three years, the doctor has suc¬ 
ceeded in acclimatising many plants, which must eventually 
become objects of commercial importance. Madder ( Cato- 
tropis prorera ), Manettia glabra, a substitute for ipecacuanha; 
Criniim Asiaticum loxirarinm, a substitute for the squill; 
the guiacum, and quassia plants ; Hemidesmns Indians, a 
substitute for sarsaparilla; fustick ( Madura tinctoria) j 
