354 Domestic J\'^otices. — Queries^ Answers, ^-c. 



ters of taste connected with the ornamenting of tliis place it would be 

 worse than useless to offer an_y suggestions, when a connnittee of the 

 corporation have already erected a flag-staff, to detract from the repose 

 of the scenery, and lead the promcnader to imagine himself upon a 

 parade ground, or i)rescnt at some holiday show. It should be removed 

 from the spot forthwith. — Cond. 



Vhlox Drummondi. — I have a plant of Phlox Drummondi, raised 

 from a cutting, the present season. It is beautiful and a constant flow- 

 erer.— Yours, J., Aug. 12, 1837. 



Yerbena venbsa. — This plant, which I raised from seed, last season, 

 and kept in the house through the winter, is beautiful, and flowers most 

 profusely. The second season is necessary to the full development of 

 its excellence. — Id. 



Green and Hot-house Plants. — It will be seen, by an advertisement in 

 our advertisingsheet, that Mr. Knevels, of Newburgh, N.Y. intends sell- 

 ing off a portion of the duplicate specimens in his collection. We have 

 no doubt the sale will afford a rare chance of obtaining fine specimens 

 of many plants. — Cond. 



Rhododendron arbbreum. — A remarkably beautiful specimen of this 

 species was exhibited at a late meeting of the Horticultural Society of 

 Charleston, S. C, by Dr. Winthrop. The specimen he has cultivated 

 in the open ground for three or four years, taking only the precaution 

 of a slight protection from the heat of summer and the cold of winter. 

 It was very large and in a flourishing condition. (Southern Jlgricultu- 

 rist.) A great many fine plants were exhibited at the same meeting, an 

 account of which we shall give in our December number. We hope 

 Dr. Winthrop or some of our fi-iends will seed us reports of the future 

 meetings of the Society, which we shall give with the preceding. — 

 Cond. 



Baden Corn. — This excellent variety, of which so much was said in 

 the agricultural papers the past spring, has proved as we anticipated, in 

 the climate of the New England States. We have several plants, the 

 seeds of which were sown very early in the season, but none of the 

 stalks as yet show the least signs of silking; the probability is that this 

 kind will not attain perfection this side of Maryland. — Cond. 



Art, IV. Queries, Answers, <^c. 



Management of old Geraniums, and other Plants, (p. 292.) — In 

 reading Mr. Hogg's paper on the geranium, let me hint that, in place of 

 throwing away the parent plants after the cuttings are taken off, they 

 should be preserved in sand under the stage of the green-house, until 

 the next summer, and then planted in the open ground, where they will 

 be early and sj)lendid ornaments. The same process ap])licd to a nu- 

 merous class of green-house plants, enables us to anticipate the tedious 

 and uncertain jirogrcss of our climate. I wish you would enlarge the 

 list, as you no doubt can, by enumerating other plants which may well 

 be preserved in any dry cellar, where there is no green-house, viz. 



