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amination will easily be discovered, for there are generally a few of the 

 small fibres left on the under side of the roots, which will prove a guide to 

 the inexperienced. When the roots are all planted, carefully draw the 

 earth over them with the back of a rake, and be sure they are all safely 

 covered. The time of planting for an early bloom, is about the middle of 

 September. These will flower at the beginning of April, and will continue 

 in flower for three weeks and upwards. If the season be favorable for a 

 second course of bloom, a plantation should be made near the middle of 

 October, or towards the latter end. These will succeed the former; and if 

 some roots be kept in reserve, and be planted in January or February, 

 taking the opportunity of fine weather in either month, as it may happen, 

 they will succeed the second plantation, and thus aflord a continuance of 

 flowers for nearly two montlis. — (Id.) 



Art. II. Domestic A'otices. 



Glazing Sashes without Putty. — Dear Sir, — In a number of the 

 "Philadelphia Florist," which I have just received, I perceive an article 

 signed " R. B. Leuchars," extracted from your valuable Magazine, on the 

 subject above, which by some means I overlooked when it first appeared. 

 I am very jealous of the credit due to anything in American horticulture, 

 from observing the tendency of English journalists to unnotice, or even to 

 underrate anything American. If you and the Editor of the Florist are so 

 lamentably ignorant, as Mr. L. asserts, I fear I am in the same category ; 

 for, on the appearance of your article, I really did believe we had some- 

 thing American. I have been a very extensive reader of the foreign hor- 

 ticultural journals, and recollect nothing, nor can find anything in my files, 

 to justify this charge of ignorance against " I, or me, you, them, and oth- 

 ers." As it was as easy for R. B. L. to give " chapter and verse," when 

 speaking of things " to his knowledge," I hope he will accord to me the 

 privilege of calling on him for his reference. If the system is not Amer- 

 can, what paper or writer first published it ? and where ? — Beta, Philad., 

 May, 1853. 



We quite agree with our correspondent, and would like to have Mr. L. 

 produce the " chapter and verse." We inserted Mr. Leuchars' note without 

 comment, but we do not confess to any ignorance upon the subject. We 

 still believe that the houses which we built in 1833, were the first ever 

 set without putty, upon what has been, and we think justly, termed the 

 American system. Mr. Loudon, who, up to his death, recorded every im- 

 provement of this kind in England, does not mention or allude to such a 

 plan of glazing, in any of his works or his Magazine. The editor of the 

 Florist has no companion in his ignorance upon this subject ; and as we 

 presume he does not endorse the opinions of all his correspondents, he must 

 not suppose we, in all cases, endorse the views of ours. — Ed. 



