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eye. These seven kinds I had sufficient of to plant a small cir- 

 cular bed, a yard in diameter, of each in my flower garden, seven 

 plants in a bed. The beds were at a distance of about ten yards 

 from each other, with intervening beds planted with other plants. 

 I had each bed raised high at the centre, so that when the plants 

 were in bloom, the bed had the appearance of a cone of splendid 

 flowers, beautiful in appearance, and producing a neat and 

 striking effect. 



My soil is a sandy-loam what I enriched moderately with some 

 rotten manure. I have already gathered some seeds from each 

 kind, and I observe there is an appearance of obtaining a good 

 supply ; a paper of each I inclose for the Conductor of the Ca- 

 binet. In 1836 I had the original kind but not early enough to 

 afford me an opportunity of obtaining any seed, but having plenty 

 of young shoots upon the plant about four or five inches long, I 

 took a quantity off early in September, inserted them in sandy 

 loam, and placed them on a gentle hot-bed, within a frame, and in 

 three weeks they had struck root. I removed the pots of cuttings 

 at the end of October into a cool part of a greenhouse, where I 

 kept them healthy through winter, and at the end of March I 

 potted them off, singly, into small pots, and in May turned those 

 I wanted for the purpose into the bed in the flower garden, and 

 removed a few into larger pots to adorn the greenhouse, where 

 they have flowered most profusely. The same mode of propaga- 

 tion will, of course, equally succeed with my hybrid varieties, so 

 that I shall be able to keep up each kind permanently. 



The seeds I shall obtain from the plants I possess this year 

 will be sown next spring, and doubtless the produce will afford 

 me many handsome varieties. Whether the plants be grown in 

 the greenhouse, on beds of a sort, or singly in the general mass 

 of a flower bed, in each, and in all nothing can be more neat and 

 striking as a flower. 



My plants, in the open border, came into bloom early in June, 

 and have been in profusion up to the present time, September, 

 and will continue to bloom as long as the season admits. 



The tallest of my plants grow about two feet high, and have 

 spreading heads proceeding from a single stem, more than half 

 a yard across. 



(To be Continued.) 



