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variety of the latter is a great acquisition. The Candytufts are quite remarkable, 

 especially the white rockets and deep purple. No grower of annuals should be without 

 these. The Convolvulus, or Morning Glory, makes a fine show ; the tricolor, or striped 

 one, is very pretty. An Arc/emone, with prickly leaves, and large, showy, yellow blos- 

 soms, appears well. I might go on and cover pages with names. 



It is not only in the rarity and variety of the flowers here that its greatest beauty 

 consists, but in the wonderful luxuriance in which everything is growing. There are 

 natives of many widely separated countries, and difierent climates, yet all are flourishing. 

 This garden is but a small portion of the grounds of Messrs. Vilmorin & Co., devoted 

 to Horticulture ; they have several other gardens appropriated to other objects, but, just 

 at this time, this is the most interesting. 



Under the title of " Vilmorin Albmns,'''' this house publishes every year two gi-eat folio 

 l^lates, lithographed and colored, one representing culinary vegetables of the natural size, 

 and the other new and interesting flowers artistically grouped in a boquet. We had the 

 pleasure of examining these Albums. They are kept in the ofBce for the benefit of 

 purchasers of new and rare articles. The seed catalogue of this establishment is prepared 

 in the most skilful manner ; and, besides, they issue a small, cheap work, which gives 

 simple directions for the sowing of flower seeds and cultivation of them in the open air. 



The house of Messrs. Vilmorin, Andrieux & Co., is well known over all Europe, as 

 well as in America. There is not, probably, in existence a more complete or better 

 managed establishment of the kind. The proprietors are not mere merchants who know 

 how to buy and sell, but they are profound botanists and skilful horticulturists, familiar 

 with the flora of all explored countries and with the particular culture required by 

 diflJierent species and tribes. M. Louis Vilmorin is at this moment one of the most 

 efficient promoters of horticultural improvement in France. P. B. — Paris, July, 1851. 





OTSEGO HALL. 





~\ N HESIDEijOE OF TETE LATE J. FENNIMOEE COOPEE, COOPEBSTOWN, N. T. DEAWN BY MISS COOPEE, AUTHOR OF "rUKAL HOMES." 



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