finost, selpctod from those that have taken prizes before the Pennsylvania ' Horticultural 

 Society, in 185C. 



Ajax, dark crimson and pink. 



Bi'TTERi'LY, rose and crimson. 



FoKOKT-ME-NOT, bright scarlet crimson. 



Generalissimo, largo, scarlet crimson, with salmon lower petals. 



Leonora, rich, waxy pink. 



OcELLATUM, Orange, crimson, and pink. 



ONoraE, blush white, striped with crimson. 



Prince of Orange, bright scarlet. 



Sarau Rose, each petal with a crimson spot. 



Snow Flake, pure white, with dark velvet spot in upper petals. 



Vulcan, dark crimson upper petals, bottom rose. 



Wii.mer's Sl'Rprise, rosy carmine ; nothing similar in shape or color ; very showy. 



Tliese are all English sorts. Plants at our May meeting have been two feet high and nine 

 feet in circumference. Buist is the leading grower, and frequently imports them at a guinea 

 per plant. 



Twelve Fuchsias — By P. — The dozen takes them all ; the balance are worthless where the 

 following can be had : — 



Ariel, Clio, King, Prince Arthur, light colors, with purple or red corollas. 



Alpha, Glory, Hendeksonii, Omega, Perfection, President, Prince Albert, scarlet colors, 

 with crimson, purple, or blue corollas. 



Queen Victoria, red, with white centre or corolla. 



Magnolia Grandiflora. — Frequent allusion has been made in this journal to two fine 

 trees of the evergreen magnolia, which flourished eight miles north of Philadelphia, without 

 any particular care or shelter. Considerable curiosity has been manifested to ascertain how 

 they withstood the past winter. We regret to state that they Avere both utterly killed. 

 Smaller specimens in the neighborhood, while they lost their leaves, survived the unpar- 

 alleled cold and are looking well. We think it established that Baltimore is the most 

 northern limit for its successful growth in the open ground, and even there it is sometimes 

 injured. A few degrees south of that place it flourishes in brilliant beauty. 



The Deodar. — Tlie Cedrus Deodara has not proved sufficiently hardy at Philadelphia and 

 north of it, to be any longer a tree to plant in quantities. In consequence, now is a good 

 time for southern planters to lay in a supply. We saw at the Parson's nurseries large 

 numbers which it was said would bo sold a bargain. They are injured at the top, but 

 would soon recuperate in a genial atmosphere. 



The Late Winter. — Numerous communications respecting the eflfects of the late winter have 

 reached us. From the number we have selected several which have been published latjely, 

 and have to regret that space precludes the insertion of all. One in particular, from our 

 valued correspondent George L. Taylor, Esq., of Chicago, Illinois, we should have been glad 

 to copy. He says : " I, for one, am not discouraged, though we fared badly here with our 

 fniit-trees. The motto of the arboriculturist should ever be, 'Nil desperandum.' The 

 Garden City, each recurring spring, looks and becomes more worthy of the name, and that 

 the Horticulturist has within the past two years more than doubled its list of Chicago sub- 

 scribers, evinces a more settled purpose and growing taste in these matters, which are 

 sources of congratulation to every friend of the cause and lover of his country." 



