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plant bears from eight to ten pods, which are 2f inches long, 
and upwards of half an inch wide, quite straight, and containing 
seven and frequently eight Peas in each; they are generally pro¬ 
duced singly, but occasionally in pairs. 
Sown on 19th February, the plants began blooming May 22nd. 
On the 5th of June the slats appeared, and on June 29th the 
pods were ready for gathering. It will thus appear that in all 
its stages Sangster’s No. 1 is less rapid than Dillistone’s Early. 
It was slower in blooming ; came into use seven days later, and 
remained considerably longer on the ground before ifs crop was 
fully matured. 
It appears that Isherwood’s Railway has of late years advanced 
in earliness and become a synonyme of Sangster’s* No. 1. Seven 
years ago it was the same as Early Emperor. 
3. Early Kent .Noble Cooper & Bolton. 
Syn. Prince Albert; Parly May. 
The Early Kent grown in the garden this season was quite a 
mistake, and proved to be the same as Early Emperor. The true 
Early Kent is now almost if not quite out of cultivation, and 
deservedly so, its place having been occupied by Sangster’s No. 1, 
a more prolific and an equally early Pea. It is of a very slender 
habit of growth, and rarely more than 2 feet high, producing a 
scanty crop of small ill-filled pods. Its only recommendation, 
even in its best days, was its earliness. 
4. Early Emperor .Noble Cooper & Bolton. 
Syn. Parly Sebastopol . Charlwood & Cummins. 
Morning Star. 
Rising Sun. 
Plant of a slender habit of growth, always with a single stem, 
which is to 3 feet high, and producing from eight to ten pods, 
which are from 2^ to 3 inches long, generally single, but some¬ 
times in pairs, and become perfectly straight as they approach 
ripeness. They contain about seven good-sized Peas, which when 
ripe are white. 
Sown February 19th, the blooms appeared May 24th, and on 
the 5th of June they began to fall. On the 3rd of July the pods 
were fit to be gathered. 
This is a taller grower, and a heavier cropper than either of the 
two preceding, but as an early variety it is not to be compared 
with either of them. 
5. Danecroft Rival. 
Syn. Girling 's Pea ; Glass Pea. 
In habit of growth, height, and productiveness, this closely 
resembles Early Emperor, but it can be easily distinguished from 
that and every other variety by the total absence of glaucescense 
or bloom on the leaves, which gives it a singular and sickly 
appearance. The plant is remarkably tender, and on that account 
has long since been discontinued a3 a standard variety. It is now 
preserved only in the gardens of the curious, where it is grown 
more for its singular appearance than for any great merit it 
possesses. 
6 . Tom Thumb. . Paul & Son. 
Syn. Peck’s Gem . Beck & Co. 
Royal Dwarf ... Turner. 
Nain Hdtif extra . ...Yilmorin. 
This is the most dwarf growing of all the varieties. It rarely ever 
exceeds a foot in height; the stem is of a stout habit of growth, 
and branches at every joint to within three or four of the top, 
producing from fourteen to eighteen pods. The pods are almost 
always borne in pairs, rarely singly, and are produced at every 
joint, particularly towards the top ; they are smooth, of a dark 
green colour, and well filled, containing from five to eight Peas, 
which are almost as large as Imperials. The ripe seed is some¬ 
what ovate, and of a greyish pearly colour. 
The seed was sown on February 19th, and the plants bloomed 
on the 29th, ten days later than Dillistone’s Early. The slats 
appeared on the 12tli of June, and the crop was ready to gather 
July 3rd, being as early as Early Emperor, and eleven days later 
in coming into use than Dillistone’s Early. This is a very 
excellent Pea for forcing, and for early sowing under walls or 
other shelter. It is remarkably prolific, and cannot but be of 
great use in small gardens where sticks cannot be conveniently 
obtained or made use of. 
Telegraph .Batt Rutley & Silverlock. 
This is in every respect, as regards habit of growth and general 
appearance, sinrlar to the Early Emperor, and differs from it in 
the ripe seed having a black liilum like the Egg Pea. It also 
partakes of the character of the Egg Pea in flavour, having that 
rough Bean-like taste which is remarkable in that variety. It 
produces on an average five to eight pods on a stem, and these 
contain from seven to eight Peas. Sown the same day, it ripens 
two days later than Early Emperor. The variety is not worth 
growing. 
(To be continued .) 
TRADE LISTS RECEIVED. 
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Protun, 43 and 45, Corporation Street , Manchester, is a very 
capital and useful catalogue, because it gives a great deal of 
information about the articles which are contained in it. 
Spring Catalogue and Amateur's Guide for 1861, by Sutton 
and Sons, Reading, is a quarto pamphlet of 55 pages, containing 
a great deal of useful information, and is illustrated by three 
lithographs of vegetable roots, and an engraving of Gynerium 
argenteum. 
General Price Current of the Plymouth Seed, Agricultural 
Implement and Manure Company (Limited), is an octavo pamphlet 
of 88 pages, published by Simpkin & Marshall, price 6d., and is 
similar to the usual seed catalogues which furnish descriptions 
and notes on the cultivation of the varieties of seeds. 
TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
Propagating Camellias ( C. L.).— You may get seeds from seedsmen 
and sow at once in heat for raising stocks. The single and semidouble 
kinds make good stocks. Choose well-ripened shoots in August or Sep¬ 
tember, and cut it into as many pieces as there are buds, leaving the leaves 
on each. Strip off a little piece of the bark on the side opposite the bud, 
and insert as thickly as they will stand in pots well drained, filled with 
sandy peat and loam to within an inch of the surface, which supply with 
silver sand. Place the pots in a close shady place, and keep in greenhouse 
heat all winter, and then plunge in a gentle hotbed in spring. In summer 
and autumn they will want repotting. Double ones may be done the same 
way, but they seldom do so well as when grafted on stocks raised as above. 
Cucumber, Melon, andPropagating-house [R. D. L .).—For the house 
you propose, if it is to be twelve feet wide, we would raise the back wall 
twelve feet higher than the front if you can go that length. That will be 
first-rate for early work ; for summer and autumn you may come to some¬ 
thing like a pit. To make sure, you will want two four-inch pipes in your 
bed of from four to five or six feet, with rubble over the pipes, and you 
will need three such pipes for top heat. In your ground-plan you show no 
return-pipe. We think your place will answer. The propagating-bed will 
do well. If that was made, say, eight feet or nine feet, and you wished to 
propagate after Christmas, you would need three pipes. If to commence 
in the end of February two pipes will do. 
Various (B. IF.).—Gooseberries prune, so as to have a good portion of 
middle-sized young shoots, merely topping an inch or so off their points; 
these will produce the best fruit. Black Currants should be thinned out, 
so as to leave plenty of young shoots. Common Currants, White and Red, ; 
bear chiefly on spurs: therefore the young wood on the points of stems : 
should be shortened back to four or five inches, young shoots left near 
their full length where a new stem is required, and all the other summer ’ 
growth cut back to within a bud or two of its base. Raspberries, cut clean 
away all the shoots that bore last season, and thin out the smaller ones of j 
last summer’s growth if too thick. Your vinery must be small if the small i 
boiler of Mr. Allen suit it and a pit. People get fonder than ever of novelty, ; 
if it be only so in name ; for boilers exactly on the same principle have 
been in use many years. We should imagine, though we cannot be certain i 
without seeing it, that repairing the flue would be your most economical 
mode of management. If the Vines are so bad and neglected, the best plan 
would be to cut them in severely, and give them next season to make fresh \ 
wood. We can give no other directions without more details. That 
and what you have done to the roots might thoroughly renew them ; but ■ 
you had better see a gardener, who might so thin and prune that you could 
have a crop next year, and renew the Vines too. We advise you to get our 
gardening manuals; they will explain everything, or nearly so, that you 
seem to require. We do not know Riddell’s stove, but are surprised there I 
should have been such a do as to its declared merits. Any good stove or 
boiler will keep the fire in a long time if you prevent a close combustion ; j 
but the fire will be slow, and mild, and gentle. 
Camellia Buds Falling (JV. H . P.).— “ Just like other folks” is with 
too many a very consolatory reflection, though, as you well remark, a very 
humiliating one so far as human progress is concerned. Some day we may 
feel glad that others have fared better than we have done, and that the 
evil is not lessened but increased when we have brethren in misfortune, j 
Even on this account we are sorry to say that we have no reason for sup¬ 
posing that your disappointment with the Camellias is at all a general one. 
Extra dryness, or extra damp in the dull weather, and then the frost 
getting into the house, if the buds were well swelled, would be likely to 
unsettle them. We have had 2° below freezing, but our buds were never 
firmer, and the flowers have opened nicely. 
Vines Planted outside Vinery ( W. H .). —As you have kept the border 
covered and frost excluded from it, and as you can give it a little heat at ! 
the time of commencing forcing, they ought to do well if your other treat- 
ment is correct. Have the stems swathed with haybands or strawbancU * 
before you commence forcing. If you keep the border covered you need 
not mind failing in applying artificial warmth up to the time of ripening. 
Book on Suburban Villas {31. C. Dennis).— The work you refer to is 
Morris’s “A House for the Suburbs Socially and Architecturally Sketched,” 
There are no plans or elevations in it that would aid you in any wav. 
