96 THE FLORIST AND 



ing to keep off the red spider. It does very well in the open air, fully ex- 

 posed to the sun, in almost any kind of soil. I exhibited one plant last week 

 which had about thirty-five or forty flowers on it. It was rather pretty, but 

 does not repay one for the trouble it gives in the summer time to keep it free 

 from the above-mentioned pest ; its ehickweed-like foliage, like Hoitzia coc- 

 cin,ea, is very apt to turn yellow, and burn altogether ; from what I know of 

 it I consider it worthless. 



JEschynanthus pulcher is in flower with me since last March or April — I 

 have only two plants, and since they commenced blooming I do not think 

 they have been without flowers, one or the other, for three weeks altogether. 

 It grows freely, and as Mr. Meehan says, is beautiful \ but I think that when 

 we have good size plants of Aesch. miniatus it Will surpass it. Aeschynan- 

 thus speciosus is also very handsome, and grows more in the way of iEs. 

 grandiflorus. Messrs. Parsons h Co., had a large quantity of exceedingly 

 fine young plants of this last, last summer, all covered with flowers. 



Anthophilus. 



We were invited a few weeks ago by Mr. Peter Mackenzie, of west Spruce 

 street, to see a seedling Camellia of his, then in bloom. It is a white, of 

 good imbrication, great regularity, and shape of petal in this being equal to 

 Fordii, delicately shaded with pink, and with a few stripes of a deeper color. 

 It has been pronounced by competent judges to be one of the finest flowers 

 ever raised. We were unable to have it figured — but another year we shall 

 give our subscribers a representation of it. 



The Horticulturist for March, is as usual neat in appearance, and interest- 

 ing and useful in its information. Mr. Barry is proving himself the worthy 

 successor of the late editor. 



The Germantown Telegraph has a wide circulation and a well deserved re- 

 putation as a family newspaper^ and is a good authority in farming matters. 

 Major Freas, its editor, is a successful farmer. 



The Working Farmer, published monthly in New York, Prof. J. J. Mapes, 

 editor. The fifth volume of this periodical has just commenced; it is devoted 

 to the improvement of farms and farmers. The reputation of its editor is a 

 sufficient guarantee for its usefulness. 



We receive the Soil of the South, published at Columbus, Ga. — An excel- 

 lent authority for the section in which it is published, and to the productions 

 of which it is devoted. 



Letters received from Oliver Taylor, R. Parnell, A. J. Fuller, Wis., R. 

 G. Courtenay, Louisville; Jas. Stephenson. 



Messrs. Mcllvain & Orr of John st. N. Y., will receive any subscriptions 

 due us there. E. J. Tryon, 98 Chambers st. will also act as agent. Those 

 of our subscribers who have not yet paid, we respectfully request to do so. 



