360 On the Cultivatioji of American Plants. 



have brought up specimens to such a size and of such bril- 

 liancy, that they have been the chief attractions of the 

 garden. 



Recently a small pamphlet has been published, entitled 

 •' Waterer's System of Growing the Rhododendron, Azalea, 

 Kalmia, and. other American Plants," and as further aiding 

 in the good work, Messrs. Standish & Noble, also extensive 

 growers, have appended to their catalogue their own mode 

 of treating the same plants. Neither of these, however, 

 have come under our eye, but we find in the Gardeners'' 

 Chronicle so good an abstract of the latter, that we transfer 

 it to our pages in anticipation of the original. It is prepared 

 by the editor, Dr. Lindley, and will serve to show that the 

 rhododendron may be successfully cultivated, even without 

 a peat soil, heretofore considered indispensable in the growth 

 of the plants. We would direct particular attention to the 

 article, and we shall be glad to know that it has prepared 

 the way for the more general introduction of " American 

 plants" into American gardens : 



The beautiful appearance of the rhododendrons, and other 

 American plants, every where this spring, notwithstanding 

 the severity of the winter, — and the great improvements 

 which the shows near London prove to have been effected 

 among them, beyond any thing that could have been antici- 

 pated, — induce us to place at once, and prominently, before 

 our readers some judicious observations on their cultivation, 

 which have been recently published by Messrs. Standish & 

 Noble, of Bagshot, in their new catalogue of hardy orna- 

 mental plante. 



After remarking upon the general want of an accurate 

 knowledge of the true principles of managing American 

 plants, they proceed to remark to the following effect : 



'' Comparatively few persons have succeeded in the culti- 

 vation of rhododendrons, and those few more from accidental 

 circumstances than from a real knowledge of their natural 

 requirements. In fact, it is a prevailing idea, that few local- 

 ities are to be found where they will creditably exist, — to 

 luxuriate is out of the question. But, on the contrary, ex- 



