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beauty, we have copied the following article from Beck's 

 Florist, which is especially minute in all the details of grow- 

 ing it, either for the amateur's own inspection or for exhibi- 

 tion. We trust it will be the means of bringing the pansy 

 into more general notice. — Ed. 



Few plants are held in more general estimation than the 

 heartsease. Of easy culture, hardy, and blooming nearly all 

 the year round, it is to be found alike in the cottager's and 

 in the nobleman's garden, where, from the diversity of its 

 beautiful colors and its charming form, it equally ornaments 

 the quiet corner or the bed appropriated to its cultivation. 

 At the floricultural exhibition it is a looked-for favorite; and 

 those who have been in the habit of attending the metropoli- 

 tan and provincial shows cannot but have been struck with 

 the great advance made in the last few years in the form, 

 substance, and distinctness of the new varieties. Nor has the 

 improvement effected been made in the flower only ; great 

 improvements have taken place in the mode of cultivation. 

 The intention of these papers is, to place before the amateur 

 the benefit of our experience in the growth of this little pet, 

 promising the readers of 7'he Florist that we have no nos- 

 trums to recommend, but a few simple rules easily carried 

 into practice, the adoption of which will be attended with 

 success. The treatment of plants for exhibition, and of 

 those for the flower-beds, requires but little variation ; the 

 only difference being, that the former need a little more stim- 

 ulating with manure, and the young shoots cutting back, so 

 as to allow the strong leaders to receive the whole vigor of 

 the plant, and by this means to increase the size of the 

 blooms. For both purposes the plants must be renewed 

 annually, either by cuttings, layers, or parting the root, or 

 they will soon degenerate in size and color. Of the different 

 varieties we shall speak in due course, adding a descriptive 

 list, and explaining the merits and faults of the flower in the 

 amateur's estimation. 



PRACTICE FOR JANUARY AND FEBRUARY. 



There will be but little to do in the first of these months, 

 if those plants for early blooming are well established in 



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