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crimson ; Poly gala, purple and white ; Lotus, rich 

 brown ; Mimulus, yellow ; and Tropaeolum, yellow, 

 or orange, or dark brown all in perpetual bloom 

 from one end of the season to the other. In this 

 assemblage, we have a multiplicity of lovely forms, 

 arrayed in the most exquisite vesture, and fragrant 

 with the most delicious perfumes : 



" And what a wilderness of flowers ! 

 It seems, as though from all the bowers, 

 And fairest fields of all the year, 

 The mingled spoil were scattered here." 



" Whether they are blended or arranged, softened 

 or contrasted, they are manifestly under the conduct 

 of a taste that never mistakes, a felicity that never 

 falls short of it, the very perfection of elegance. 

 Fine, inimitably fine, is the texture of the web on 

 which these shining treasures are displayed. What 

 are the labors of the Persian looms, or the boasted 

 commodities of Brussels, compared with these curi- 

 ous manufactures of nature ? Compared with these, 

 the most admired chintzes lose their reputation; even 

 superfine cambrics appear coarse as canvass in their 

 presence." 



ROSES, 



Stake standard Roses, and bud them ; they will 

 take through the summer, while the bark rises; those 

 which are budded now or in the preceding month, if 

 headed down, will shoot the same year. Clear off 

 suckers from the roots. 



The mode of budding, by which to insure the 

 shooting in the same season, is to make the cross- 

 cut below the insertion of the bud, and to bring the 

 bark of the bud itself in contact with the bark of the 

 stem on which you have placed it. This method, 



