8 Retrospective View of the 



is now again likely to take its proper rank. The new sorts 

 flower abundantly and early, and are very perfect in their 

 form. The pelargonium has also received additions of many 

 of the choicest English varieties. The pansy is yet grown 

 only to a limited degree, but it merits a fair share of the flor- 

 ist's attention. Many new roses have been received, and our 

 collections now contain fine selections of kinds. 



Among the more rare things, we may notice Lilium lanci- 

 folium album, as having flowered and been exhibited before the 

 Massachusetts Horticultural Society: it is a most splendid va- 

 riety. Lisianthus RusselliauMS, a plant which has made con- 

 siderable noise in England, we saw in many collections in New 

 York and Philadelphia, and plants of it were exhibited at the 

 annual exhibition of the INIassachusetts Horticultural Society; it 

 is a very showy plant. Among the new annuals, the new orange 

 flowered thunbergia, (T. alata var. aurantiaca,) has flowered 

 freely all summer, in the collection of Messrs. Hovey & Co. 

 The collection of cacti, in the possession of J. B. Smith, of 

 Philadelphia, is one of the ricliest in the country, and con- 

 tains many singular, grotesque, and curious forms, peculiar to 

 this extensive tribe. Several new azaleas, camellias, and 

 other plants, have been imported since last year, and notices 

 of them will be found under our Floricultural Notices in 

 the last volume. 



Among the articles in the past volume, more particularly 

 interesting to cultivators of flowers, we may mention the arti- 

 cle on the propagation of plants, by cuttings in charcoal; this 

 subject has been considerably agitated in Germany, and sev- 

 eral articles have been translated and published in the Gar- 

 dener''s Magazine; but we believe we have condensed the 

 substance of it in our article. We would advise some experi- 

 inents by the process which has been detailed, in connection 

 with those of the ordinary modes, in order that the true value 

 of the system may be fully tested. Not less interesting is 

 the review of Liebig's Chemistry. An excellent article 

 upon the growth of camellias, (p. 214,) in the parlor, has 

 been contributed by Dr. Gunnell, which is deserving an at- 

 tentive perusal by all who wish to cultivate this beautiful plant 

 in such a situation. Jf a proper selection of fine flowering va- 

 rieties is made, and the directions contained in the article fol- 

 lowed, success must be the result. An extract from the 

 Gar(lener''s Chronicle, (p. 302,) giving the mode of growing 



