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tlie yellow, a magnificent flower of from four to six iuclios diameter, grows 

 on the I'ocky slopes. The verbena and fox-glove are also very common on 

 rocky situations, not because of the rocks, but because there the deeply- 

 rooted prairie grass will not thrive, and hence there is an opening* for any 

 very hardy plant. I have seen two colors of the verbena, red and purple, 

 but the latter has so small a flower, as to be almost uimoticeable. We have 

 also a white hyacinth, a purple petunia, a bhie lupui, and many others 

 Sprinkled all over the prairies among the grass we find red and variegated 

 phlox, yellow polyanthus, and sometimes a purple petunia and blue spider- 

 wort, and last of all comes the beautiful blue gentian, with straight-edged 

 petals, after the first frost. All of the above, so far as tried, grow finely 

 under common garden cultivation, and most are equal in beauty to the 

 cultivated varieties. Of wild roses, we have the small prairie rose growing 

 about a foot high, single flower of blush in hot weather, deepening into bright 

 red in cool, usually from two to three inches diameter, and the climbing 

 variety also single, pale red growing in clusters, and resembling in its fo- 

 liage and growth the cultivated queen of the prairie, and for a single rose 

 is a very fine one." 



A Pear for a Name. 



Mr. Nathan C. Ely presented a pear forj a name, which grow on a tree 

 lie found upon his place, at Norwalk, Conn., which is in bearing this year 

 for the first time, and all the fruit presents the uniform appearance of one 

 flat or undeveloped side. Upon tasting, it was pronounced a Duchesse 

 D'Angouleme by Messrs. Carpenter, Bergen, Mapes, Pardee, and others ; 

 and Dr. Trimble decided, upon examination, that its malformation was 

 owing to the work of the apple moth. Mr. Ely said that other trees within 

 twenty feet of this produced healthy fruit. 



Tree Cotton from Bogota. 



Solon Robinson read the following letter, dated Bogota, August .5, 1863 

 from a gentleman who does not care to have his name mentioned, lest per- 

 sons might write to him about the matter. Mr. R. said he would vouch for 

 his statement as coming from a trustworthy gentleman. He says : 



" I inclose for the Farmers' Club a specimen of the Shrub Cotton about 

 which so many inquiries have been made of late. The specimen is about 

 an average one, and was picked by me near this city, but in a much 

 warmer climate. The plant grows wild all over the tropical regions of 

 New Granada, but is not the same as that of the United States, with 

 which I am well acquainted. I do not believe that it can be acclimated 

 there. It does not grow here where the temperature is never lower than 

 60 degrees (Fah.) in the house. It is a very beautiful parlor or hot-house 

 plant, and what is a little curious, bears two distinct flowers on the same 

 branch — one a lively saffron and the other a perfect solferino." 



Prof. ]Mapes. — I think the gentleman must be mistaken about the tem- 

 perature necessary to perfect this cotton, or else it is something diflerent 

 from the true Gossyinum arboretum, as I am assured that that grows in 

 Chili in a much cooler region ; but I have no idea that it can be acclimate 

 n this latitude. 



