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future. First Crop in the open air is likewise very short in the pods, and 
ripens all at once ; but Sangster’s No. 1, although a little later, is a better 
podder and bearer. 
The Peas this year which I have found worth forcing are Beck’s Tom 
Thumb and Turner’s Little Gem. These varieties can be grown in pots in 
frames or low houses near the glass, and will produce pods worth looking at, 
and are of excellent flavour when forced early. Another earlv wrinkled Mar- 
row, called Advancer, also forces well; it is dwarf, and makes a good succes¬ 
sion to the others. In the open air this variety can be had ready for gathering 
only a week or ten days later than these small early kinds, and there is no 
comparison as to its flavour and productiveness. 
In a large establishment where Peas are required from the middle of May 
till frost cuts them down, I have succeeded best with the following list:—For 
the earliest: Ringleader, or First Crop, and Sangster’s No. 1 ; early Marrows : 
Advancer, Prince of Wales, Long-podded Tom Thumb, and Laxton’s Prolific, 
an excellent large-podded new kind. For late and successicnal purposes: 
Veitch’s Perfection, Premier, King of the Marrows ; and for the very latest, 
Knight’s Dwarf Marrow and Hairs’ Mammoth I find are the best sorts. With 
the above varieties I believe the best and surest succession of Peas might be 
kept up that it is possible to select from the present over-grown lists of seeds¬ 
men. As some prefer the flavour of the old Blue Prussian varieties, Bedman’s 
Imperial and Batt’s Wonder will be found good sorts. 
WelbecL William Tillery. 
BROW ALL IA ELATA. 
“ A. D.’s” note on Trachelium caeruleum "was a well-timed recognition of a 
charming old plant, “ somewhat neglected,” as he truly says. Any one who 
has this season seen it produced at the meeting of the Committees at South 
Kensington, from the gardens of the Koval Llorticulturai Society, will be ready 
to endorse most heartily all that “ A. D,” says respecting its value and attrac¬ 
tiveness. The name of another old favourite which time has used badly heads 
this paper. Browallia elata is an old Peruvian annual, so old as to have 
reached nearly the age of a century, and yet it deserves that care and attention 
bestowed on many new favourites not possessing one-half its charms. I have 
within the last few days seen it in flower at the nursery of Mr. William Dean, 
Shipley, Yorkshire, and the pretty cerulean blue flowers were strikingly gay 
and attractive. In a cool house several plants of it were in flower that had 
been raised from seed early in the spring. The seed was sown in March in a 
•mild heat, and the plants had been pushed on in a stove-house, but pinched 
back to make them bushy. It should have a place in a greenhouse at this 
season of the year, where it would be a fitting companion for the Balsam, 
Cockscomb, &c., now so useful for decorative purposes. 
E. W. 
NOTES AT THE FLORAL AND FRUIT COMMITTEES. 
August 1th .—A very pretty group of cut spikes of Gladioli was shown by 
Messrs. J. Veitch & Sons. Among them were fine examples of Brenchleyensis 
but wanting that peculiar vermilion hue of colour that Messrs. Youell & Co. 
always impart to their flowers of that variety. Whether it is owing to some 
peculiarity of soil, &c., at Yarmouth, or whatever else may tend to produce it, 
there are always in the spikes of Brenchleyensis that Messrs. Youell occasion- 
