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ter state of things, and we have good reason to beheve that 

 something will be done to restore the former interest in this 

 department of gardening. 



In our last volume, we have endeavored to awaken a greater 

 zeal among cultivators for the growth of that brilliant plant, 

 the pelargonium, which is now eliciting so much attention in 

 England, and which forms one of the main objects of attrac- 

 tion at all the great floral shows of the London Horticultural, 

 and Royal Botanic Societies, of London. No person has done 

 more to improve this beautiful flower than Mr. Beck, whose 

 article, complete in every particular, we gave in our last vol- 

 ume, (p. 34,) and also a descriptive list of his seedlings. Few 

 of our cultivators know to what perfection of culture the pel- 

 argonium may be brought in the hands of good gardeners : 

 they are not the lean, lank, and spindling plants we have been 

 used to see, with a few straggling trusses of flowers on the 

 top ; but they are now stout, dwarf, and immense plants, ten 

 feet in circumference, and covered with a profusion of flowers 

 and foliage, which render them unequalled as specimens of 

 skill and beauty. 



That exquisite tribe of plants, the heath, has been admi- 

 rably treated upon by Mr. Cadness, (p. 167.) Indeed, we 

 know not when we have given our readers an article more 

 thoroughly practical. If the heath is not often seen in a 

 healthy and flourishing condition, it will not be for want of 

 information, but rather for the neglect of applying it to their 

 growth and treatment. 



The science of culture has been most ably elucidated by 

 the admirable papers of Mr. Kennedy, in which the propaga- 

 tion of plants, by all the modes in general use, has been laid 

 down in the plainest and most concise manner. To these 

 we may refer the young practitioner, as well as the more ex- 

 perienced amateur, for all the information they may need to 

 propagate successfully, so far as it can be done without the 

 aid of long-continued experience. In connexion with Mr. 

 Kennedy's articles, we may also refer to the many valuable 

 extracts in our Foreign Notices, which embrace all the really 

 useful information which we could glean from our foreign 

 periodicals. The dahha, (p. 229,) Azalea, (p. 326,) Pansy, 

 (p. 327,) Tea Rose, (p. 416,) Scarlet Pelargonium, &c., are 



