WioEi.tA Amauilis. — A correspondent at Baltimore writes as follows : "I notice the Horti- 

 cultural Journals lay great stress on the Wigclia Amabilis blooming late. My plant, now 

 standing out two years, and in a sunny aspect, lias both seasons bloomed twice — in May, 

 and again in September — one as profuse as the other. I also find great diiTorence between 

 tho blooms of it and W. rosea ; the latter is in bunches of four or six upright flowers, 

 while the Amabilis forms pendulous heads of a dozen or more blooms like Deutzia gracilis." 



AroxooETON DisTACHYox. — Somc of our friends have of late years paid deserved attention 

 to the introduction of aquatic plants, and, amongst other discoveries, have found the Ndum- 

 biurn luteum to be hardy enough to stand our winters, and growing in abundance near Phila- 

 delphia. We cannot have too many hardy water plants, and the one named at the head 

 of this paragraph is a very desirable kind. Its flowers are as fragrant as those of Magnolia 

 glauca, and are produced very abundantly. Though a native of the Cape of Good Hope, it 

 is hardy in England, and feels so well satisfied with France as to become quite naturalized 

 in some of her rivers. 



Books. — In answer to D. A. W., we may say that no copy of the work mentioned ever 

 reached our "Table ;" it was, however, bought, and noticed on its own merits, and this 

 course we greatly prefer to having any inducement in the way of a bookseller's donation ; 

 it leaves us entirely free to notice such books as are of interest to our readers, without 

 bias. The source of profit from books received by editors, is beneath their notice, and 

 results, more frequently than not, in puffing the most worthless trash that it is well pos- 

 sible to print ; every editor who lends himself to such measures, does himself and the 

 public a great wrong. We have labored long to convince all concerned of their error, 

 and it is at length better understood that all such notices bring with them their own con- 

 demnation. A library, so called, is known to us, containing thousands of volumes presented 

 in this way, and we very much doubt if any bookseller in the Union would give more for 

 the lot than the price of waste paper. 



Col. Wilder has entered the arena against Mr. W. S. Stoms, of Cincinnati, on the dwarf 

 pear controversy which we so innocently started. The Colonel offers to meet Mr. S. at any 

 Boston station, with a carriage and pear of horses, and drive him all about Boston, Salem, 

 and Concord, at the proper time of year, and exhibit to him all the dwarfs on record there- 

 away. This is an offer not to be neglected, and Mr. Stoms will, we have no doubt, avail 

 himself of it in due season. The same thing was done to a near friend of the Horticulturist, 

 last year, to his great delight. A monthly periodical, called the Cincinnatus (no doubt, 

 because it never expects to be called from the plough which it drives so ably), contains this 

 new breeze, which we are pleased to find blowing at such a safe distance from Philadelphia. 



The flower of the Downing Camellia reached our " Table" by the kindness of Mr. Rauch ; 

 it is unquestionably one of the most beautiful and delicate we have ever seen. 



Rules for showing a Garden. — " There are two rules for taking a party over a garden," 

 says a modern writer, "which, if violated in any one instance, will do infinite harm in re- 

 spect to the best effect. The first is, never — never — to take strangers over your garden against 

 the sun. It is worse than throwing dust in their eyes, if there is an ' eye' amongst them ; 

 and the second rule is, to be sure not to let strangers see the best parts of the garden first. 

 Take them to moderado first, then let each turn reveal a better scene than the last, and let 

 the last itself be the grand climax. As long as they live, if they are worthy to 1 

 gardening, they will never forget the good impression." 



