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plants by frosts. We suspect it can only be increased with any 

 success but by the seeds. 



Calliopsis tinctora var. atrosangu'inea, (Coreopsis o( J\^uttall,) 

 The parent of this variety, one of the most brilliant plants in 

 the whole list of annuals, is too well known to need even a passing 

 remark at this time. P^ver since its introduction — and no plant 

 ever spread over the country much sooner — it has been a univer- 

 sal favorite, and is found in almost every patch, in town or city, 

 devoted to flowers. It has been well honored, and if it shall 

 now have to give way to a younger aspirant, even one descended 

 from itself, it may retire without complaint. The dark-colored 

 variety we estimate as the most brilliant annual flower in our gar- 

 dens. Its rich velvety petals, seeming, as it were, encircled 

 with a ring of gold, glitter in the rays of a noon-day sun with all 

 the brilliancy of gems. Its beauty cannot be over-rated. Some 

 notice of it will be found in our II., p. 143. 



It was first introduced into our gardens last year, but was 

 found in only those collections, whose proprietors are ever eager 

 to procure every thing new; and it may yet be considered as 

 scarcely known. We have, in consequence, introduced it into 

 our notices, at this time, in order thai it may be known and 

 grown wherever its parent has been an object of interest. Of its 

 culture we need not speak; for the seeds only require to be sown 

 in a good soil, and an abundance of plants will be the result. 



We may, however, be allowed to caution the amateur, garden- 

 er, or nurseryman, who wishes, when once he possesses the true 

 variety, to perpetuate it, to t)lace it beyond the reach of all plants 

 of the common kind, or, otherwise, the produce of the seeds will 

 be nothing but a mass of those with which they abound in already* 

 The best mode is to pull up all the plants of the yellow ones 

 within, at least, ten yards of the dark ones. 



In this family we would propose impregnation, and submit one 

 or two more interrogatories to our amateurs. Could not the 

 beauty of that handsome perennial species C lanceolata be en- 

 hanced, by adding to its clear and deep yellow serrated petals a 

 deep spot of velvety purple? And could not somewhat of the 

 size of the C. lanceolata be added to that of the dark variety, to 

 give it more boldness, and still preserve its annual habit? We 

 wish to see such attempts made, for we are certain they would 

 be attended with favorable results. 



Petunias. — Another class we now name, which, though yet 

 not extensively known, is by no means wanting in beauty or 

 interest. In our first volume, (p. 254,) we have offered some 

 brief remarks, on training both the P. nyctagini flora and phce- 

 nicia, which, we trust, have not been without their use. We do 

 not now intend to say much in regard to their growth, but rather 



