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fruit, it will be seen, is small, roundish, and 
about the size of a large pea. The beauty of 
the plant resides entirely in its foliage, which 
is very prettily cut, so that young freely- 
grown plants have a very elegant appearance 
in a collection of choice foliage plants. Like 
the rest of the Figs, the plant grows freely in 
the ordinary, well-drained peat and loam com¬ 
post, used for choice subjects.—T. M. 
Ficus exSCUlpta. 
SUBURBAN 
ARCH, the month of keen easterly 
winds, has been aptly termed the 
“ loud-voiced blusterer,” because of 
its boisterous character, but it is a month that 
admits of many garden operations being 
carried out, because generally fine and open. 
The month of February has been generally un¬ 
favourable to garden work, fog and damp, with 
heavy sunless skies, having prevailed, and it has 
been difficult to till the ground. Gardeners 
long for the fine weather that is slow to come, 
and gardening operations wait for favourable 
weather. 
Kitchen Garden .—Sowing is now the gar¬ 
dener’s order of the day; but he must first get his 
ground in order, and fine weather and a drying 
GARDENING. 
atmosphere are necessary. The amateur’s 
selection of Peas should consist of William /., 
Advancer , G. F. Wilson, and Premier; these 
are all dwarf-growing wrinkled varieties of 
great merit, and may be sown successionally 
up to the end of May in the south, and to the 
end of June in the north, where the climate is 
moist, and mildew is not so destructive. Of 
Beans , sow the Seville Long Pod, Beck’s Dwarf 
Green Gem , and Johnson’s Wonderful. Potatos 
should be planted without delay, and some 
autumn-sown Cabbages, Cauliflowers , and Onions 
planted out, where there is a little room to 
spare. In many suburban gardens the space is 
limited, and only a few leading vegetables can 
be grown. Some Cabbage, Cauliflower, Lettuce, 
Spinach, Radishes, Mustard and Cress, Bore - 
