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list of the best and most reliable. When you set them out, 

 give them well broken up and new rich soil, and, of both the 

 Rose and of the Dahlia, mulch the roots with stable-litter 

 during their growing and blooming seasons. The list contains 

 well-known kinds that have been abundantly proved and are 

 known to be excellent. You will find them, any and all, at 

 the celebrated Rose-garden of Messrs Putnam, of Salem. 

 Baron Prevost, Rivers, 



Cup of Hebe, Eliza Mercaeur, 



Mrs Elliot, Madam Pisaroni, 



Blanchefleur, George 4th. 



Madame Plantier, Princes Clementine, 



La Reine, Count de Brobinsky, 



Madam LafFay, Prince Albert, 



Giant of Battles, Village Maid, 



Luxembourg Moss, Aglae Alanson, 



Princess Adelaide, Kean, 



Persian Yellow, Queen of Prairies, 



Great Western, Baltimore Belle, 



Mogador, Amadis, 



Cristata, Inermis. 



The last four are climbing Roses and may be trained against 

 some part of your house, or by the side and over a door or 

 window, or against a stout pole securely fixed into the ground. 

 A young pine tree stripped of its branches, but not of its bark, 

 and standing eight to ten feet high, answers very well indeed. 

 And now we have "said our say," about the flowers, and 

 we hope not in vain. We have written not for the floral-wise, 

 but for those who have not yet cultivated. Our farmers' wives 

 and daughters, (and why not their sons ?) have undoubtedly a 

 taste for flowers, and that taste need but be awakened and 

 educated, to make the grounds about their homes "to blossom 

 like the rose," and to glow .with brilliant beauty, filling the 

 summer air with the rich odor of 



"The bee's ambrosia out of balm-breathing flowers." — Theocratus. 



All which the Committee respectfully submit, by 



HENRY K. OLIVER, Chairman. 

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