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matter how many novelties may be added to our already choice 

 collections. 



It may seem of trivial importance to devote much space to the 

 notice of annual plants, having already made some observations 

 upon the management of several of the most desirable and least 

 known varieties, in our first volume. But, as many new plants 

 have been introduced to our gardens since that time, we may be 

 permitted to offer a few remarks upon the treatment of some of 

 the choicer and less known varieties, that we may aid in their 

 more general distribution and cultivation. Our Floricultural No- 

 tices record the introduction of nearly every plant into Britain; 

 but many of those described as beautiful, and which seem worthy 

 of possession, often prove to be mere weedy plants, with no at- 

 tractions sufficient to claim a place in a garden where beauty, 

 and not novelty, is desired. It cannot, therefore, but prove a 

 source of interest to know what are valuable, and those cultiva- 

 tors who have grown any varieties sufficiently to deem them worth 

 general dissemination, will undoubtedly confer a favor by recom- 

 mending them for trial. Many kinds remain neglected for a long 

 time, from the want of such information. The first plant we 

 shall mention is the 



Vldox Drummondi'i. — This is an annunl species of the Phlox, 

 a native of Texas, discovered there by Mr. Drummond, and in- 

 troduced by him to England in the spring of 1835, where it flow- 

 ered in the fall of the same year, in the garden of Dr. Neill, of 

 Canonmills Cottage, Edinburgh, and was figured in the Bo- 

 tanicalJMagazine, t. 3441. It is noticed in our II., p. 62. It 

 has also been figured in Paxton''s J\Iagazine of Botany, and again 

 noticed by us, respecting titles of works, in our last volume, p. 

 301. 



Seeds of this species were, we believe, first brought out from 

 London, in the spring of 1836, by Mr. Wilson, of Albany, who 

 raised plants from the same. From the nursery of Buel & Wil- 

 son it was disseminated among the New York and Philadelphia 

 nurserymen. The first time we had the pleasure of seeing it in 

 bloom was at the exhibitions of the Massachusetts Horticultural 

 Society, last fall, when specimens were presented by Mr. John- 

 son, of Charlestown, which commanded universal admiration. 

 Seeds have, we think, been received the past spring from seve- 

 ral sources in London. So far as we have grown the plants, their 

 treatment may be detailed as follows: — 



The plants may be raised from seeds or from cuttings with fa- 

 tility; but, as the plants are very shy in ripening their seeds, cut- 

 tings seem to be a more ready and expeditious means of pro- 

 curing young and thrifty plants. Seeds should be sown in a pot 

 or pan, in a light sandy soil, in the month of April or May, and 

 when the plants have three or four leaves, they maybe potted off 



