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Lord Eanelagli (Salter) ; Mr.Brocme (Salter), large rose and lilac, incurved; 

 White Christine (Simmons), a sport from Ciiristine, and valuable as a speci- 

 men plant ; White Themis, a sport from that variety ; White Queen of Eng- 

 land, also a sport. Among new pomponcs we noticed Acis (Salter), Capella 

 (Salter), dark cbesnut ; Citrouella (Smitli) ; Lucinda (Salter), rose and lilac ; 

 Orange Boven (Salter), bright orange. These are in the shape of dwarf bushy- 

 plants covered with well-formed flowers. Other groups contained all the best 

 varieties in general cultivation, among which the most conspicuous were 

 Queen of England, Lady Hardinge, Boadicea, Little Harry, Golden Queen, 

 Prince Consort, Alfred Salter, Jardin des Plantes, Pandora, Ariadne, Cas- 

 sandra. Eifleman, Yellow Perfection, General Hardinge, Novelty, Leon Le- 

 suay, Aimee Ferriere, Golden Hermioue, Bouquet des Eleurs, Gluck, Progue, 

 Etoile Polaire. Garibaldi (Clark), Caractacus, Yellow King, Alma, Nancy de 

 Sermet, Le Prophete, Dr. Ko.Tas, Wonderful, Christine, Madame Sentir, 

 Calliope, Florence, Shirley Hibberd, Miranda, Andromeda, Mrs. Turner, 

 Miss Julia, Diana, Fanny, Ida, Mrs. Dix, Mr. Astie, Madame Chalonge, and 

 Julie Lao-ravere. Of these there are numbers of beautiful examples, and 

 being neatly arranged, they have an excellent effect. 



PEACE IN A GAEDEN. 



A LITTLE gleam of that peace and purity 

 which liung over the old Paradise still 

 li:ino;s abovit a garden. Quaint old thinkers 

 liave said their say as to the reasons why 

 oni- first parents were placed in the garden 

 of Paradise. The new Paradise, whichwe 

 all hope to reach, is to be a celestial city, 

 and will be adorned with untold and un- 

 imagined splendours ; but in the new birth 

 and glory of the year, when spring leaves 

 and flowers hang out their beauties upon ' 



every side, the mind is apt to revert to that 

 old one in which the first man walked and 

 talked with God, and was therein instructed 

 by Him in the wealth and wonders of his 

 new possession — the earth around him ; 

 and, perhaps, even now, in the midst of 

 rural solitudes and garden shades, the 

 works of man seem furtlier distant and 

 those of God nearer than elsewhere. — 

 Family HcraUL 



POETTJLACOAS SELF-SOWN. 



I OBSERVE the remark of a correspondent 

 on the subject of portulaccas, in which be 

 expresses some degree of surprise at their 

 reappearance this year, especially after 

 such a winter as the last of our experience. 

 Now, in confirmation of such a fact. I may 

 mention that I am in the habit of sowing 

 samples of many things, and amongst them 

 the different varieties of portulacca, and 

 almost invariably, wherever they happened 

 to be sown, they reappear the following 

 season, showing that they ai'e as hardy as 

 almost any of our common annuals. 



Another singular fact in connection with 

 this flower has jtistoccun-ed to me. Lnst 

 spring twelvemonths I presented a friend 

 ■with some seed to sow between rows of 

 Nemophila insignis, when it was about 

 half gi'own, in order to keep np a succes- 



sion after the Latter had gone oft', but, to 

 the disappointment of us both, it did not 

 grow. But I was somewhat surprised, two 

 or three months ago, at beholding the pro- 

 duce of the self-same seed beautifully in 

 bloom, and almost as thick as one could 

 have wished it to be ; thus proving its 

 hardiness and retentiveness of the power of 

 germination, at the same time showing that 

 the non-growth of seeds is not always to be 

 put to the seedsman's debit. The i-esult of 

 the circumstance has been seen by hun- 

 dreds at Satney station, on the South Wes- 

 tern railwa}', this summer, amongst whom 

 are probably some of your readers, although 

 they have not been conversant with the 



facts. lioOPEK A1\D Co. 



Covcnt Garden. 



