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collected that though we saw these in flower, the specimens were 

 by no means so good as they were a fortnight before. The fol- 

 lowing are the names: — 



Agrippina, crimson scarlet, large and fine. 



Belladonna, pale pink, with red spots, very pretty. 



Cupid, fine white, with purple blotch. 



Diomede, rose, pretty flower, and fine shaped truss. 



Incarnatum superbum, pink, very large flower, fine truss, and 

 a most superb variety. 



Lord Hill, rose, large flower, and very beautiful. 



Lovely Ann, pink, elegantly feathered with dark red; fine large 

 flower. 



Lautum, pale pink, a fine variety. 



Pixy Queen, shaded rose, handsome truss, delicate and beautiful. 



Polybianum, dark rose, fine large flower, and a splendid truss 

 of blossoms. 



Pulcherrimum, bright rose, good shape, and pretty flower. 



Sancho Panza, dark rose, large flower, and very fine, large, 

 compact truss. 



Sir John Broughton, dark rose, large flower and elegant truss. 



Speculum mundi. fine red ground, lined on both upper and low- 

 er petals, wiih dark pur])le, handsome truss, and very showy. 

 This is the Tarn O'Shanter of some collections. 



Gem, Hector, Brightoniensis, Charles X, and some others, are 

 fine kinds, but the above embraces the most showy and beautiful 

 of all we saw. The plants had been culled out to supply orders, 

 and we conld form no opinion of the degree of perfection to which 

 Mr. Mackintosh grows his geraniums. The demand has been 

 very good, and of some sorts only a single plant was left. The 

 taste ibr geraniums around New York is very great, and those 

 who are lovers of this flower, can have no reason for not being 

 able to supply themselves, with such collections as Mr. Hogg's 

 and Mr. Thorburn's at hand. 



We found every thing removed from the green-houses, and 

 set out or plunged in the border, and of course there was but 

 little to notice. In the border in front of the houses, the ground 

 is cut up into small beds of various shapes, and in them is planted 

 a superb collection of Chinese and noisette roses, which were 

 nearly out of flower, (at least ten days earlier than Boston and vi- 

 cinity.) Two large clumps of Ferbena Twecdiedjift graced the 

 border with its brilliant flowers. We also saw here the V. inci- 

 sa, and, though a pretty addition to the garden, it is by no means 

 so valuable a plant as the Twcedieajm. 



The dahlia season was not yet over, and we found Mr. Macintosh 

 just making preparation for planting out the roots. INIr. Thorburn's 

 rollection is one of the finest in the country, and a superb dis- 



