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«n which is the bouquet season, very extensive arrangements for furnish- f») 



ing bouquets and floral ornaments for balls. One range of glass is C A 



devoted to Camellias, where are collected many fine plants for sale, \ 



as well as to furnish the most valuable of ball room ornaments. In 



another house are planted in the ground, back of the stage, the 



Abutilon striatum, yielding a large supply of its graceful flowers. — 



The stage is filled with Poinsettia pulcherrima, with its striking whoil 



of scarlet leaves. Another house was filled with Stevia serrata, whose 



tiny white flowers are so useful to the bouquet maker ; in another 



place are hundreds of heliotropes, of mignonette, of Epiphylla, &c. 



Several large houses are devoted to roses, of which Mr. Dryburgh 



has a large and excellent collection. The ground in cultivation is 



large and is filled with roses, vines and other hardy plants cultivated 



for sale. We omitted to mention the acacias, of which there are 



some very large specimens. 



R. Kilvixgtox's, Schuylkill Third near Vine St. Mr. Kilvington 



has in his houses very many fine specimens of stove and greenhouse 



plants, including most of the standard plants used in the decoration 



of conservatories and windows, together with many novelties. His 



collection of Exotic ferns is very extensive and well worth a visit. 



Mr. K. is well known as an enthusiastic botanist, and in his garden 



is to be found the only collection of cultivated indigenous plants in 



this city. In spring and summer the lovers of "wild things" and the 



botanist may find many beautiful and rare plants. The bouquets 



from this nursery are well known to all who admire flowers. . . 



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All those gentlemen who have money and taste enough to keep up 

 gardens, and who employ gardeners, cannot be sufficiently careful in 

 doing their part of the work ; that is, in providing all things which 

 are necessary for carrying on gardening operations. It is of great 

 importance that the workman should have the concurrence of his em- 

 ployer in all his schemes, but it is also a great matter that he should 

 have every facility for doing his work, whether in tools, material, 

 or assistance. An incomplete or inferior set of garden tools — want 

 of proper arrangements for storing them when not in use — of proper 

 facilities for potting and training plants, or insufficiency of soils or of 

 pots, and of many other details of horticulture, must needs be very 

 discouraging to the spirited gardener, who wishes to do his best, and 

 make his place worthy of his skill. These things are in many cases 

 not sufficiently thought of. A gentleman may have a place — he has 

 perhaps a fair collection of plants ; they have been neglected by a 

 \ sham-gardener ; when this one is providentially removed, the owner 

 t)p looks around for a new one, or applies to a nurseryman, who sends 

 (•> him one well versed in his profession ; the first business is to set mat- 



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