10 ' Retrospective View of the 



Dr. C. T. Jackson, and, as will be seen by the following table, 

 the Old Colony corn contains by far the greatest quantity 

 of saccharine matter of the whole : — 



Phosphates and starch, no oil or gluten. 

 Gluten, oil, starch, phosphates. 

 Gluten, phosphates, starch. 

 Dextrine, sugar, phosphates. 

 Gluten, oil, starch, phosphates. 

 Gluten, oil, starch, phosphates. 

 Gluten, oil, starch, phosphates. 

 Oil, gluten, starch, phosphates. 



It will entirely supersede all other sorts of sweet corn for 

 the table. It is literally, when boiled, nothing but cream 

 and sugar. 



Floriculture. 



The introduction of new plants has been greater the last 

 year than any preceding one for some time ; a much deeper 

 interest is also manifested in the production of seedlings than 

 heretofore, and many fine additions hsBve been made to some 

 of our most popular flowers. The Camellia, Verbena, and 

 Japan lily, have attracted particular attention, and our Amer- 

 ican seedlings vie in beauty, if they do not surpass, any of 

 the foreign productions. Few plants have attracted more ad- 

 miration than the new Pompone Chrysanthemums, to which 

 we have alluded in another page. The herbaceous Paeonies 

 are just beginning to be appreciated ; few plants have been 

 more improved than these ; the new French varieties, which 

 are yet quite rare, are superbly beautiful, and must command 

 a prominent place in every flower border. Our descriptive list 

 of twenty-six varieties, (p. 360) received much attention 

 among English amateurs, in whose gardens they are more 

 rare than our own ; and the list was copied entire in the 

 Gardeiiers' Journal. 



There is one tribe of plants which our own gardeners 

 have sadly neglected, saving one exception : we have refer- 

 ence to the rose. Every one is aware of the vast improve- 

 ment in our Prairie roses ; from the small, almost worthless, 

 Michigan bramble, have been produced, apparently without 



