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soil so a? to destroy a plant, and nine times out of ten, it happens to 

 be the choice?t one of the whole. Toads do very well, where there 

 are no very delicate plants, but when there are, we should advise a 

 trial of tlie old grass in [)ots, as noticed above. — Ed.] 



Seedling Tulips. — Mr. Groom's nietliod of i^rowing seedling tulip?!, 

 is as follows: — The seed is sown about the end of November, in 

 preference to sowing earlier, as those sown in August come forward 

 early, and the foliage is so far advanced that it generally damps off 

 during winter. The seeds are sown in a pot of rich sandy loam and 

 peat, and is {)lace(l in a cool frame, taking care to keep the soil just 

 moist. When the plants have completed their growth, he transplants 

 them very carefully, at a suitable distance apart. At the seconil 

 time of planting out, they are planted in the open bed, as done to 

 established kinds. The period before blooming depends usually upon 

 the treatment given; sometimes they bloom the fourth year, and 

 break at the sixth or seventh. {FloricuUural Cabinet.) 



Art. II. Foreign Notices. 

 ENGLAND. 



New Dahlias, and Dahlia Exhibitions. — A great number of new 

 dahlias are advertised for the coming season, by the most celebrated 

 cultivators around London, and many ofthetji at enormously high pric- 

 es. Indeed, there are so many which are stated to befirst rate, that it 

 is difficult to make a selection, unless the purchaser is guided by the 

 nundjer of premiums which the flowers have gained at the fall exhi- 

 bitions. The weather was not favorable to the bloonn'ng of the 

 dahlia, in the early part of last season, and there was a greater scar- 

 city of fine specimens than in previous years. The same disappoint- 

 ment has been experienced in the new kinds sold out for the fnvst 

 time last spring, at high prices, that has been experienced here, atid 

 amateurs are becoming more and more careful in their ])urchas- 

 es upon the mere recommendation of the grower or seller. The 

 Gardener''s Gazette, of October last, in commenting upon the subject, 

 speaks as follows, in relation to the new flowers now advertised 

 for the spring trade: — 



" The new flowers to be let out next year, we presume, will be all 

 charged half guineas, and puffed up as first rate, although scarcely 

 a dozen really deserve that distinction: indeed, under the present 

 state of things, it would be nothing short of condemning a man's 

 own flowers, to ofi'er them at any thing less. It is, however, highly 

 desirable, that a new and more honest mode of letting out seedlings 

 should be adopted. None should be offered as first class, but such 



