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THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY 
mediate house, between a greenhouse and a stove, and is 
trained to a rafter about fourteen feet high. The first three 
years it grew rapidly, throwing out strong side-shoots, and 
was frequently repotted, hut did not show any signs of 
llowering. The last two years it has been grown in the 
same pot, so that the roots have got cramped, which I 
believe is the cause of its dowering. The flowers are pro¬ 
duced on last year’s shoots from two inches to a foot in 
length. 
This plant was brought here when very young, from 
Lisbon, by Lady Seymour.— John McLaren, Carding ton, 
near Bedford. 
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a shoemaker. As I w r as his next-door neighbour I know the 
story from the thread to the needle, and should not like any 
one else to be considered the raiser of that excellent Potato. 
He was called Mager (Major?) Haigh, and he did not live 
at Newton Kyne, but at Bartsey, near Leeds. That man, 
and no other, raised the above-mentioned Potato. After that 
he raised the Lapslone Kidney , and this having the form of 
his own lapstone, he said he would call it the Cobbler's Lapslone 
Kidney. Positively he was the raiser of both these excellent 
Potatoes, and of which I am of opinion that the Haigh’s 
Seedling has the finest flavour. Haigh died at Bartsey in 
the month of February, 185G.—Juno. 
ORIGIN OF THE IIAIGH SEEDLING AND 
LAPSTONE KIDNEY POTATOES. 
I am quite sure that Mr. Appleby has been very wrongly 
informed as regards the raiser of the Haigh Seedling Potato. 
His name was Haigh, but he was no schoolmaster; he was 
Pickling Large Onions. —Cut them into thin slices 
or small pieces, and cover them with salt for two days. 
Afterwards pour boiling vinegar, with ground pepper, 
over them. When cold they are fit for immediate use. 
This is a first-rate, wholesome pickle. 
ZAUSCHNERIA CALIFORNICA. 
Raised from seeds collected by Mr. 
Hartweg in fields about Santa Cruz, in 
California, and received at the Garden 
May 11th, 1847. 
This curious plant, which it has so 
long been an object to obtain, proves to 
be a species of much horticultural in¬ 
terest. It forms a bushy perennial, about 
three feet high, clothed with ovate, ses¬ 
sile, toothed leaves, resembling those of 
a Gaura. Every branch emits from the 
axils of all the upper leaves one hori¬ 
zontal bright scarlet flower, about an 
inch and a half long. Its general ap¬ 
pearance is not unlike that of a Fuchsia, 
but the calyx tube has four stout ribs. 
The petals, which are inversely heart- 
shaped, spread flat; the eight stamens, 
with red anthers, and a red four-lobed 
stigma, project beyond the flower. 
The plant grows freely in good garden 
soil, and is easily increased by cuttings 
or seeds. The seedlings flower in the 
first season, in the month of September, 
if sown in May. It is a very fine hardy 
perennial, rivalling the Fuchsia, and most 
probably will flower from June to October 
if planted in a warm, dry situation on rock- 
work.—( Horticultural Society’s Journal.) 
NOTES FOR MAY. 
The April weather, sunshine and 
showers, that we have lately had, has 
been most propitious for vegetation, and 
the blossoms of Pears, Apples, and other 
fruit trees being remarkably strong and 
abundant, and of good colour, are favour¬ 
able indications of a most fruitful season. 
Vegetable Marrows and Ridge Cucum¬ 
bers to be sown in a gentle heat, and 
leaves, dung, short grass, and any other 
fermenting materials to be collected into 
a heap, to be occasionally turned over 
until it subsides to a mild, gentle heat, 
when it will be fit to put into the 
trenches, which are generally made about 
three feet wide, and from eighteen inches to two feet deep. 
The fermenting materials to be covered about one foot 
thick with the soil that has been shovelled out of the 
trench. To give them a fair start, it is advisable to provide 
each plant witli a bushel or two of rich, light soil, to be 
covered with hand lights, and shaded from bright sun until 
they make fresh growth, when the routine operations of giving 
air, stopping the plants, &c., must be carefully attended to. 
Trenches from one foot to eighteen inches deep to be 
made for the early crop of Celery ; six inches of rotten dung 
to be dug in at the bottom, choosing a dull day for planting 
them ; to be well watered and shaded if necessary. 
