JUNE. 



weather be cool ;) Cistus or Rock Roses, (half-hardy 

 plants,) Chinese and American Magnolias. 



Observations on some of the Flowers and Shrubs now 

 in Blossom. 



TIGER FLOWER, (TIGRIDIA.) 



"Emblem of human pride, that fades away; 

 Of earthly joys, that bloom but to decay." 



This flower critically corresponds with its motto; 

 it blossoms but for a few hours, and is analagous to 

 the ephemeral insects which are born but to die. 

 However, it presents a constant succession of flowers 

 during the warm months of the year. Its vegetating 

 process is singularly rapid ; in the course of a few 

 hours, the flower perfects all the functions which 

 nature designed it to perform, and contrary to the 

 habit of other blowers, it expands by night. 



GERANIUM. 

 " Geranium boasts her crimson honors." 



The Geraniums are as remarkable for their beauty 

 as for the facility with which hybrid varieties are 

 produced among them. They are the most distin- 

 guished ornaments of the green-house some of the 

 Pelargoniums displaying a brilliancy and depth of 

 coloring scarcely to be equalled by any of the other 

 Exotics. The Geranium is a native of the northern, 

 and the Pelargonium of the southern hemisphere. 

 They are easy of culture ; thriving in the w r arm 

 borders of the garden during the summer and au- 

 tumnal months. Cuttings of these plants strike with 



