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highly aromatic, and is a great addition to a 

 pot-pourri, or sweet-pot. 



The green-house Verbena also may be grown 

 out of doors for the same purpose : against a 

 wall, it will live during the winter. I must tell 

 you it is a deciduous plant, that you may not 

 imagine it to be dead when you see it stripped 

 of its leaves. 



May is the month in which carnation seed 

 ought to be sown. I have already said, that 

 it is necessary to be what is called a florist, in 

 order to grow these flowers in perfection ; but, 

 nevertheless, I have been so much amused by 

 raising varieties of them, from seed sent to me 

 from Berlin, (where they are celebrated for 

 carnations,) that I cannot help giving a short 

 account of my method of managing them. It 

 is very simple. 



The seed is sown at this season in pans, and 



