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i«r> hands, will be as forebearing as their interest will warrant. Late de-r») 

 0° cisions at the monthly meetings have not given satisfaction ; it can °A 

 / serve no purpose to conceal this fact — it is palpable, and may as well \ 

 be clearly stated, and data furnished on which we cannot help coming 

 to this conclusion. We trust a new leaf will be turned over, and that 

 good feeling will prevail at the great feast of Flora and Pomona on 

 the 15th, lb'th, and 17th instant, at the Chinese Museum, Philadel- 

 phia. 



New York follows. We know she will retrieve her character ; we 

 doubt much if Philadelphia will long bear away the palm. The means 

 are not wanting at New York ; a few spirited individuals have taken 

 the matter in hand, and from what we know of the gentlemen who 

 compose the committee of arrangement, we shall be much disappoint- 

 ed if something worthy the Empire City do not result from the prepa- 

 rations now making. That room in the Metropolitan Hall is too low 

 in the ceiling; good plants will never be exhibited there to advantage. 

 We publish the Schedule of the New York Society. We should have 

 been pleased to have done as much for the Pennsylvania Society ; but 

 they do well to economise their funds, and let us help ourselves. 



ANNUALS— SELECT LIST. 



The crowd of trashy annuals which we meet with in the summer 

 months, speaks very little for the taste or skill of the gardener. The 

 amateur cannot be blamed — he is at the mercy of the seedsman. We 

 shall interpose a few hints for his especial benefit, leaving the garden- 

 er to continue drawing upon his own knowledge. And taking up a 

 list of choice flower seeds, let us glance the eye over the various claim- 

 ants for public favor ; lest, however, we might overlook the old stand- 

 ard sorts, we shall fiist enumerate them ; they are — 



Mignionette ; Double Wallflower; Brompton, Giant, and ten-week 

 stock; Phlox Drummondii in all its varieties; Schizanthus, several spe- 

 cies; Primula sinensis ; Calceolarias, Cinerarias, Pansies, China Asters, 

 dwarf French Marygold, Chinese Pinks. 



After these, try Portulacca (new white); Grammanthes gentianordes; 

 Ipomaea Burridgii; I. limbiata, Zauschneria Californica; double Rocket 

 Larkspur; Eucharidium grandiflorum; Papaver Marseillii; Salpiglossis, 

 several species; Leptosiphon densiflorus; Tropceolum canariense (creep- 

 er;; Eccremocarpus scaber (creeper); Lobelia gracilis, and many 

 others, which we shall enumerate before Spring. 



To secure a good show of annuals, the choice varieties should be 



sown in pans or boxes in September or October, and keeping them 



from the frost throughout the Winter, be held in readines to transplant 



' r , at the first opportunity in May, or often by the latter end of April, ,... 



,£> when the season proves a propitious one. Those sown in Spring in )*} 



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