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cilities to obtain an extensive collection for a small amount of 

 money ; any other special recommendation of the pansey arises 

 from its delightful fragrance. 



During the past winter, the severity of the cold has made ex- 

 tensive ravages amongst the plants, and has instructed the grow- 

 ers with the fact, that some kinds are far more tender than others. 

 It is very evident that plants raised from cuttings or slips, the pre- 

 vious summer, and are close and bushy, endure the severity of the 

 winter the best. Plants that had been raised very early in spring 

 grown freely, and pushed long shoots during summer, or older 

 plants with long shoots, have generally been cut oft*. To obviate 

 this injury, it is advisable to raise a quantity of young plants each 

 summer, or where old established plants are to remain, to have 

 the long shoots cut in early in September, this induces a pro- 

 duction of young and vigorous shoots, which I find will stand the 

 severity of the winter uninjured. During winter I have observed 

 that the frost, and worms in many cases, so operate upon the soil 

 as to render it open and loose, it is advisable in such cases, to 

 press close to the roots and stems, and to give an addition of 

 surface soil. 



ARTICLE VIII. 

 LIST OF PLANTS FOR FURNISHING BEDS IN A FLOWER GARDEN. 



BT MR. THOMPSON. AUTHOR OF A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE CONSTRUCTION 

 AND HEATING OF HORTICULTURAL ERECTIONS. 



Having observed in the Floricultural Cabinet an application 

 to any of your numerous subscribers for a list of plants best 

 adapted for the ornamenting of flower gardens on plans similar 

 to the engravings inserted in the Cabinet last month. Although 

 these engravings are of a very superior description, yet in my 

 opinion, there has been a great omission either in the artist or de- 

 signer in not numbering the beds, so that any person being in- 

 clined to forward you a list of plants, suitable for that purpose, 

 might do it more correctly, and more to the satisfaction of the 

 reader, the numbers being a guide to the plants in each bed. 



I, with much pleasure, forward you the following list of plants, 

 which if you think worthy of a place in the Cabinet, is at your 

 service. Great attention is necessary in the embellishment of 

 a flower garden, to the contrasting of the tall and dwarf habited 



