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liable to damp off ; the seeds he brougiit with him from the south last 

 year. The plants are considerably crowded together, too much so, to 

 appear to the best adv^antage. The demand lor bouquets, however, is 

 large, and we presume that many are placed in the house for that pur- 

 pose only. 



Amateur Garden of Mr. Sioeetser, Cambridgeport. — Jan. 22rf. The 

 most remarkable plants in flower, in this choice collection, are the camel- 

 lias. Of those new, a variety under the name of C. j. pulcherrima is de- 

 cidedly the most beautiful. In form and color, it greatly resembles C. j. 

 ])unctata; but the petals are not quite so much sprinkled with pink as 

 the latter sort. It is a free grower, the foliage of a deep shining green. 

 The difference between the two is not near so great as we have observed 

 between two flowers on a plant of C. j. variegata. It is a singular in- 

 stance of the similarity of two sorts, one raised in England, the other in 

 France. C. j. «ltha3jefl6ra has expanded several flowers; Welbankw 

 rosea pleno, alba pleno, psconiflbra, Pompbnia, rubra pleno, and some 

 others, with several flowers each. Henriette (belle), a French variety, 

 is a small, single, red flower. In the course of a few days, De Cah- 

 doUn will be expanded: from the appearance of the bud, it will be red, 

 striped or blotched with white. From one bud, on a small but vigorous 

 plant of fimbri^ta, two jierfectly formed flowers were developed: we rare- 

 ly meet with such an anomaly in this genus. In the course of the present 

 month, a number of new varieties will come into flower; among others, 

 Swe^tiY, said to be one of the finest. The plants in the house look in 

 excellent health. The hot water system as detailed at p. 6, works with 

 very little trouble, and the temperature is easily kept from 42° to 48°. 



Mr. Sweetser has just had completed a small pit for forcing, which is 

 heated on the plan of the green-house: at another time, we shall speak 

 further in regard to it. 



Hawthorn Grove, Dorchester, — M. P. Wilder, Esq. From the late- 

 ness of the month, we are compelled to omit our notice of this place. 

 The inside of the camellia house is not yet wholly finished, and conse- 

 quently the j)lants are not arranged in their places. The steam and hot 

 water apparatus answer every purpose, and the command of heat is 

 more than suflicient. Several new camellias are now in bloom, but not 

 so many as there will be during the next month. Before our next num- 

 ber goes to press, we shall endeavor to improve the opportunity to give 

 our readers an account of them. Many fine plants have been added to 

 the collection; among others, nearly a hundred new and superb varieties 

 of Amaryllis. 



At our Garden, we have now in bloom a beautiful variety of the Prim- 

 ula, a notice of which will be found in another page of the present num- 

 ber. E'pacris grandiflora is covered with its copious wreaths of exqui- 

 site rosy red and white blossoms. Camellia japonica insignis, fimbriata, 

 onemoneflora alba, the double white, double striped, and other common 

 kinds, are in bloom. During the month of February, the following will 

 flower: — elegans, eximia (of the French), florida, corallina, althaeseflora, 

 Herbertn, sericea, Parks' rose stripe, imbricata, rosa miindi, punctata, 

 Chandl^,ri, Wiltoni, Harrisonzi (Harrison's new white), crassifolia 

 (crassinervis),ven6sa, gloria belgica, reticulata, and some others; eximia, 

 of the French, is decidedly distinct from the English: a flower on a 

 plant of the latter, which has opened at Hawthorn Grove, correspond- 

 ing precisely with the figure in Chandler's Illustrations, &c. The foliage, 

 however, of the two, is nearly alike. 



