On the neglected State of Cottage Gardens. 53 



In the course of three or four weeks, the plants will be suf- 

 ficiently rooted to bear removing- to the hot-house, placing 

 them in the shade as much as possible for two or three days, 

 and exposing them gradually to the sun and air. In the 

 course of two or three weeks further time, they will require 

 to be shifted into five inch pots [No. 3], and in which they 

 should remain, either for sale, or until the weather will 

 admit of their being planted out in the open border. 



The proper time for this is about the latter end of May, or 

 beginning of June ; the ground they are to be planted in 

 should be a mellow, light, rich earth ; and, as to situation^ 

 I should prefer the south border, where they will be shelter- 

 ed from the north wind. They will require to be planted 

 two feet apart each way. This done, you are at no more 

 trouble with them (except tieing them up when required), 

 until the approach of frost. They should then be cut down, 

 and the roots dug up in the same manner as those of the 

 dahlia, and placed away in any convenient part of the green- 

 house, covering them with a little mould, and in this state 

 allow them to remain during the winter. Yours, 



Wilmington, S. C, Dec. 23, 1835. Japhet. 



The Erythina Crista galli is a plant almost wholly unknown in this 

 neighborhood. A species of this genus, in Mr. Lowell's collection, sup- 



Sosed E. picta, is the only one we have observed in flower here. In 

 few York and Philadelphia, it is frequently to be met with in 

 great splendor. We hope the above excellent remarks will be the means 

 of directing attention to this plant; and if a supposition that it is diffi- 

 cult to manage, has been the reason of its being so neglected, we hope 

 that the ease with which our correspondent states it can be grown, will 

 dispel such an error, and induce every amateur and gardener to possess 

 a plant. Its terminal racemes of coral-colored papilionaceous flowers 

 have a most gorgeous appearance, either in the hot-house or open bor- 

 der. E. picta (?), which has flovverd every season at Broomley Vale, 

 planted out upon the border, in front of the hot-house, is well known for 

 its beauty; but it is much inferior to E. Crista galli. — Conds. 



Art. IV. On the neglected State of Cottage Gardens, with Hints 

 for their Improvement. By R. Murray. 



O, who that loves with curious eyes to trace 



Nature's least beauty, or most transient grace, 



Can walk a garden's cultivated ground, 



At morn, when flowers their fragrance breathe around. 



