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purchase street, stable, or cow manure, and bone dust. These 

 never disappointed me, and the eating of! the turnips which 

 they raised every year, with sheep, soon put the soil in a 

 fertile state." 



This is precisely our experience. We have never found 

 stable manure to fail of producing a vigorous growth. The 

 same money paid in carting peat and ashes back and forth, 

 would, comparatively, ruin a crop, or starve an orchard. 



The work will be completed in about 22 numbers, of 64 

 pages each, illustrated with numerous engravings and draw- 

 ings on steel, and furnished at the reasonable price of 25 

 cents per number, or $5 in advance, for the whole. 



MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



Art. I. General JVotices. 



Common Flowers. — Had Ave not seen the remarkable collection of 

 Messrs. Vilmorin-Andrieux and Co., we should not have believed that so 

 fine an effect could have been produced by annuals grown, nearly all of 

 them, in the open air. What beautiful effects might be had by means of 

 these common plants, many of which are of our climate, if we could only 

 grow and arrange them with the skill of these gentlemen ! Some of the 

 vases in this collection would most certainly not suffer though compared 

 with the most magnificent and attrattive objects in the exhibition. The 

 splendid tufts of Schizanthus Grahami and rubens will Avell bear to be 

 compared with any Pelargonium, even with the splendid Reine des Frantjais 

 which did M. Chauviere such great credit. We appeal to all good judges 

 or men of taste who saw the exhibition, to say whether we are not correct. 

 What could be more graceful than the vases of Rodanthe Manglesii, 

 Eucharidium grandiflorum, Viscaria oculata, of Clarkia, with its snow white 

 flowers ? What more magnificent than the Snapdragon, with its long spikes 

 streaked with yellow and purple, surpassing anything of the sort we ever 

 saw before ? Messrs. Vilmorin-Andrieux and Co. have a long established 

 reputation to maintain, and most assuredly it suffered nothing by their last 

 exhibition. Had we more room we should be delighted to describe in detail 

 the numerous species which the clever men in this establishment have placed 

 in the first rank among ornamental plants ; we should tarry over the delicate 

 clusters of Grasses grown in pots (Aira pulchella, Stipa pinnata, Briza 

 maxima, Lagurus ovatus, &c.,) whose airy, silky, or velvet panicles contrast 

 so well with their hair lilce foliage ; we should speak of those pretty violet- 

 colored composites (Brachycome iberidifolia ;) of those Everlastings with 

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