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the windows of our sitting-rooms in winter. The snowy 

 blossoms of nivea are equally attractive. Doubtless P. ovata 

 Listonzdna would do equally as well; and P. divaricata, with 

 its beautiful light blue flowers, would be very elegant when 

 growing in so early^a season of the year. There can be no 

 reason why all the dwarf sorts may not be so cultivated: and 

 were they arranged, for instance, along the front lights of the 

 common green-house of ordinary temperature, they might 

 furnish a most abundant bloom, to aid in making up bouquets, 

 when flowers are so much needed and often so scarce. ^lany 

 of the out-door garden flowers are thus peculiarly fitted to add 

 a grace and an effect to the more tender and delicate: but as 

 we see them mingled with hundreds of others, in our flower 

 beds, we are apt to overlook their particular beauty and indi- 

 vidual charms. And though they are the hardy children of 

 northern and colder latitudes, yet they mingle well with the 

 sunny beauties of more favored climes, losing nothing by the 

 comparison, and lending their happiest aid. J. L. R. 



Chelmsford, April, 1841. 



Art. V. On the cultivation of the Camellia in the Parlor 

 or Draioing-room . By Dr. J. S. Gunnell, Washington, 

 D. C. 



In your Magazine for April, 1841, "A Subscriber" asks 

 some information about raising camellias in parlors. I have 

 had about ten years' experience in raising camellias in a com- 

 mon sitting room or parlor, during which time I have tried va- 

 rious plans of cultivation, some to the advantage of the plants, 

 and others to their injury; but the plan that has succeeded best 

 with me is the following: — I had three benches or tables, made 

 shout five feet long, and three feet three inches wide, with strips 

 around the edges, so as to be about a third of an inch above 

 the edges of the benches all round, and then common (sawed) 

 laths cut into short pieces, and placed about two inches apart 



