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no extrnordinary skill to keep them from degenerating or dying 

 ont. Our present subject is an example in point. Although seve- 

 ral years have now elapsed since the raiser, Mr. Wilmer, of Sun- 

 bury, in England, first brought it before the public, it is just be- 

 ginning to be eagerly sought after and grown 'by the gardeners 

 of this country. Its free flowering property in the open ground 

 in summer, and in the greenhouse or Avindows in Avinter, make it 

 one of the nicest flowers lie can groAv for bouquets, as a jiink car- 

 ries its recommendatit)ns with it, in the refreshing fragrance of 

 its flowers. Planted out in summer, they are easily propagated 

 by layers or by slips, even the layers throwing up a succession of 

 flowers. It may with propriety be called a monthly pink. The 

 flower is fair in quality'' as a shoio flower, and the base of each 

 petal is marked with a well defined blotch of purple. — Edgar 

 Saxders, in Country Gent. 



Groavixg Baskets of Flowers. — A recent writer says : '' Every 

 case I recollect of seeing ivy and floAvers associated the effect 

 Avas agreeable. I haA'e seen himdreds of ladies admiring and in- 

 A^estigating the modus operandi of hillocks, or baskets of flowers, 

 formed simply by driving rough pieces of wood into the ground, 

 coA-ering them Avith iA'}', and filling the space within with earth 

 and plants, having some of the outside rows of the latter of such 

 a character as to interlace a little with and fall over the ivy. I 

 lately saw a nice iA-y basket on the lawn. Originally a basket 

 had been made, Avith one central stem to support it, and against 

 this ivy had been planted, trained up and round the basket . The 

 original basket has long been gone, but the ivy retains the shape, 

 and bears, without flinching, the weight of the earth and plants ; 

 the diameter of the basket being, so far as I recollect, something 

 about four feet.'' 



Effect of Salt Water on tee Germination of Seeds. — As you 

 have published notices of Mr. Berkely and myself on the length 

 of time seeds can withstand immersion in sea water, you may, 

 perhaps, like to hear, Avithout minute details, the final results of 

 my experiments. The seed of Capsicum, after 137 days' immer: 

 sion, came up well, for 30 out of 56 planted germinated, and I 

 think more would have groAvn with time. Of Celery only six out 



