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The following is a list of good showy varieties : 

 elegans, aristata? 



eximia, Juliana, 



Lambertia rosea, delecta, 



retorta major, depressa, 



geminiflora, tricolor, 



Banksia, alba, , ventricosa superba, 



Bowieana Linneeides superba, 



Hartwellii, vernix coccinea, 



odora rosea, 

 Albertus, 

 ampullacea, 

 Cavendishii, 

 hybrida, 

 hyemalis, 



And now, if some of our good Philadelphians will come out and 

 give the foreign gardeners a chance of displaying their skill and of 

 staging their handiwork in the Chinese Museum, we may hope perhaps 

 to see another Chiswick. Experiment. 



RETROSPECTIVE CRITICISM 



The Pelargonium. How very much astonished some of our lady 

 friends are at hearing a new name for their old favorites j but with 

 the new name they got a new flower, and a ver^ handsome flower it 

 is. With such regularity of petal, in the new varieties rivalling old 

 Hooper's Pansier, with such splendour of colour, with such handsome 

 foliage, it must needs arrest the attention of every one. And when 

 we arrive at more perfection in growing them, we may hope to see 

 very fine specimens. There is one obstacle we have to contend with, 

 which is, the difficulty of importing them ; like all other soft wood- 

 ed plants they will not bear a long voyage ; out of eight fine varieties 

 we saw arrive here in twenty-days (from nursery to greenhouse) from 

 London, only one survived ; and they were not young plants, but had 

 strong woody stocks. It has been recommended to cut in plants and 

 pack and send them as soon as they break out, others recommend 

 packing in powdered charcoal. We wish some of your contributors 

 would give their experience in the matter. 



Management of Window Plants. We are glad to see this subject 

 still receiving your attention ; for nothing is more pleasant than to 

 see windows full of beautiful flowers; especially on cold da} r s when 

 our noses are freezing, and nothing is to be seen but hard pavements 

 and bare trees, as we have no evergreens in tow T n. Ivy might be 

 %L run up our trees in the streets, but perhaps the boys and b'hoys, to 



