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agation, and has never yet attained two inches in height, nor its 

 whole top exceeded one or one and a half inch in diameter. The 

 rose is about the size of a buckshot. In pelargoniums he has 

 also been quite successful, producing many fine sorts, and now 

 possessing many in progress. He also has large quantities of 

 seedlings of other plants, to give a list of which would tire you. 



I mention these facts for your information, as you seem to 

 think little has been done in this department, except in New 

 York. There are others here, also, that have produced a great 

 many new plants by this process; the Kurtzii camellia is an in- 

 stance. John Feast also has a very large collection of seedlings 

 of all these fine plants. The Huntingdon dahlia, and many oth- 

 ers produced here, will compare with some of the best of any 

 country. Excuse this hasty note. 



Yours, 



An Amateur. 



Baltimore, March 20th, 1S37. 



Art. ni. Observations on the Management of the Auricula 

 and Polyanthus during the Spring Months. By J. Clark. 



Some months since I communicated to you, under the signa- 

 ture of " An Old Florist," (vol. ii. p. 129,) a few observations 

 respecting the state of the gardens in our vicinity; and at the 

 same time promised to give your readers a little information re- 

 specting the cultivation of fancy flowers, as collected from my 

 own experience during several years' practice in that delightful 

 amusement. This being the season of the year that I used to 

 watch, from day to day, the progress of my auriculas and poly- 

 anthuses, the subject is called fresh to my mind. I shall first 

 give you my opinion respecting the importation of the plants, 

 as I find there is scarcely a fine flower, and but a very few of the 

 most common sorts, in the country. 



The first object is to procure the plants; perhaps my ideas 

 on that subject may be very erroneous, but such as they are I 

 shall offer them to your readers. There is no place in England 

 where auriculas and polyanthuses are cultivated so extensively, 

 or with so much success, as in the neighborhood of Manchester, 

 and that is the place to procure them; good varieties can be 

 purchased at a cheap rate: some scarce sorts fetch a high price 



