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Critique on the October Number. — Carnations and Hollyhocks, by 

 Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, wlia, in talking about flowers, speaks out just wliat 

 he thinks, — just as he does when talking about any thing else. 01 course, he is 

 partial to generous flowers : a man with such universal sympathies might and 

 no doubt does admire the magnificent but costly flowers produced in the hot- 

 house or stove ; but they never could be favorites like the flowers that every- 

 body can grow. But I must give a warning to growers of carnations and holly- 

 hocks in more northern locations than Mr. Beecher's. No doubt, they survive 

 the winter in his garden without covering ; but, as far north as Boston, any one 

 who expects them to go through without protection will find himself mis- 

 taken. 



Autn/nn Transplanting, especially for large trees, has every advantage over 

 spring transplanting ; at least, such has been my experience. It is not only a 

 more convenient season ; but trees set in autumn succeed better than those set 

 in spring. If you are under the necessity of transplanting large trees, take my 

 advice, and do it the last of October, or early in November. 



I cannot conceive that there can be any attraction in trees offered for sale, 

 as they frequently are, in leaf and blossom. Such exhibitions, to me, are even 

 painful. In the withering foliage and drooping flowers I can see nothing but 

 the certain promise of a sickly growth, if not an early death. 



Mr. Breck offers us this month, from his floral treasures, the Driini/nond 

 Phlox, — a flower which would have delighted the heart of old Gerarde, could he 

 but have seen it ; but in his day it bloomed unknown amidst the wilds of Texas. 

 And the present generation who have always seen it growing can hardly realize 

 the gayety which its acquisition has imparted to the garden. Probably there is 



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