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In the spring of the year the sun will shine so powerfully 

 as to injure and disfigure the foliage of the camellias hy scorching 

 it by its intense rays. In such cases, the window glass should 

 be washed over, (or made dim,) by the application of com- 

 mon whiting and water, or a thin muslin curtain should be hung 

 over the window, to protect the foliage of the plants from the 

 scorching rays of the noon-day sun; though this caution will 

 not generally be necessary, except where the windows are on 

 the south side of the house. 



I have cultivated camellias by the above plan, in such a 

 manner as would do credit to most green-houses or their cul- 

 tivators; I am also led to the conclusion, from experience, 

 that camellias are easier cultivated than most other plants. 



If you deem this hasty sketch of sufficient importance, you 

 may publish it in your valuable Magazine. 



Respectfully, yours, J. S. Gunnell. 



Washington, D. C, April, 1841. 



Art. VI. Descriptive account of four new seedling Ver- 

 benas. By VViLLLiAM Howell, Gardener to C. F. 

 Rockwell, Esq., Norwich, Conn. 



Agreeably to your wish, I send you the following de- 

 scriptions of four seedling verbenas, which I raised the past 

 year. 



Verbena var. Haggerstonu. — Flowers pale lilac, in large 

 corymbs, and at night giving out a delightful fragrance, which 

 can be perceived from that of all the odors of other flowers. 

 The corymbs are finely shaped, and each individual flower of 

 large size. The plant is of a procumbent habit, though ra- 

 ther stiff in its growth, and can, with very little pains, be 

 formed into a bush of several feet high. The leaves are 

 thick, large, and of a very dark green, ovate, lanceolate, ob- 

 tusely dentate, and slightly pubescent. I have named it in 

 honor of our esteemed friend, Mr. Haggerston, gardener to 



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