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no doubt. But here was a dilemma — to pay one hundred dollars for having 
them removed, or Earnum-like, give the tree a puff direct — extolling it 
under the grandiloquent name, " Tree of Heaven." The latter proved the 
more profitable plan, as it speedily realized the snug sum of five thousand 
dollars. As to the honesty of such a course, I have nothing to say; such is 
the order of the day, let those learn who pay.* 
J. Stauffer, 
Mount Joy, Pa. 
For the Florist. 
ON THE CULTIVATION OF CERTAIN GREEN AND HOTHOUSE 
PLANTS, AS GARDEN ORNAMENTS IN SUMMER. 
BY M. BRYNER. 
In northern Ohio, especially on the shores of Lake Erie, the vicissitudes 
of heat and cold, and moisture and dryness are so great, that the cultiva- 
tion of many of the most showy and valuable annual flowers is attended 
with great difficulty. Very few of the fine Californian plants ever here 
attain any degree of perfection. Experience, however, has demonstrated 
that many species which are usually represented as tender, bear our 
extremes of climate during summer, and succeed well in our garden 
borders. The list of such plants is somewhat limited ; yet, it is believed, 
could be considerably extended. 
A person in this vicinity introduces into his borders the Erythrina 
Crista-Galli and Canna Indica, at the period when he sets out his Dahlias, 
Geraniums, Lantanas, Justicias, Bouvardias, Heliotropes, Verbenas, &c. 
Most of the foregoing species require a green house for preservation during 
winter; yet the Erythrina and Canna have been preserved for several years 
among Dahlia roots, in a box of dry earth, placed in a warm room. Under 
this course of management, there seems to be no more difficulty attendant 
upon the introduction of these plants into our gardens, than in the cultiva- 
tion of the Dahlia ; and it is believed that they may be made to supply the 
place of many insignificant and comparatively valueless annuals. The 
* Not long since, a travelling seed vender, more cute than honest, sold a neighboring 
lady the Sem. Stramonium, (seeds of Datura Stramonium, or Jamestown (Jimson) weed), for 
a new kind of cabbage seed. It was sown in a box, but its wonderful development made 
it necessary to remove it from the window, or have the window removed by the growth of 
the plant. 
