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others, which are none the better for being kept long out 

 of the ground. We are beginning to turn a sort of gar- 

 dening corner ; we may look two ways, behind and before 

 lis ; but we have not yet time to pause and rest, for a 

 grammatical lesson has to be learned by conjugating the 

 verbs mow, rake, siceep, tvater, dig, roll, clean, and gather. 

 Sow the seeds of choice primulas, polyanthuses, and auri- 

 culas. Plant out rooted cuttings of pansies in a shady 

 situation. Sow stocks for spring flowering. Visit the 

 nurseries now, and select (before they have lost their 

 foliage ; and mark, or number, so that you have not to 

 scramble for them by-and-by, or be obliged to take 

 just what others choose to leave you) ornamental shrubs 

 for planting in November, to try the effect of a spring- 

 flowering bed. Many valuable plants have been intro- 

 duced, which were unknown to our fathers in their youth. 

 Forsythia viridissima, from China, forms a thick bush, 

 with deep-green leaves which are odoriferous when 

 rubbed, and produces an abundance of brilliant-yellow 

 bell-shaped flowers. Berber is Darwinii has shining ever- 

 green leaves, and drooping spikes of golden florets. The 

 Siberian Ehododendron (R. Dauricum atromrens) dis- 

 plays its cheerful violet-pink blossoms in March. Rhodo- 

 dendron ciliatum is a dwarf Himalayan species, with 

 comparatively large and conspicuous white blossoms. 

 Bhodora Canadensis (in heath-mould and shade) will 

 put forth, before its leaves, a profusion of rose-scented, 

 pinky-lilac blooms, which are exceedingly pretty, though 

 not large in size. Eemember, too, Dwarf Almonds and 

 double-blossomed Peaches, and what has been already 

 written respecting Deutzia gracilis and scabra, and 

 Jasminum nudiflorum. if we never regretted any money 

 worse than what we spend on flowering shrubs 1 



