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THE ANNUALS. 
a soil composeJ of light loain and leal- mould : each catting might, l^je 
aljout three inches long. The pots were plunged in the earth o^,]!^ 
melonry, and covered with a small bell-glass. ,,. ,,;„f,in^,,j;u n-A^un^ 
I could not pay the plants that attention which thi?^ Tea(%<jc?<jui- 
red, in consequence of an alteration that was made in the pit,; aiid 
by wliich many of its vegetable tenants were gi'eatly injured., J 
however succeeded well with one of the cuttings, and this was finally 
placed in a small pine stove, during the winter. Here, the tempera- 
thre was never very high, because my object was not to force any 
plant to grow during the dark months; and therefore, as the climate 
very frequently did not exceed from forty- five to fifty degrees during 
many of the winter nights, I am confident that a good dry green- 
house, or even a sitting-room, would have afforded sufficient protec- 
tion. 
The plant was kept iii: the stove till it attained the height of about 
three feet : it had one simple and erect stem, and was in strong and 
rigorous health. In May, it disclosed the first flower-bud at the 
summit, and then the plant which had been kept in a pot of the for- 
ty-eight size, was removed to a thirty-two. I at that period took 
it from the stove, and placed it in the dwelling-house, in a window 
\yith 9, south-east asi)ect ; and in a few days afterward,s removed it 
_ fcom the pot, and planted in a flower-border. ; 
if. By so doing I acted prematurely, for not only wasi the plaiit e^jpp^ 
sed to frosty nights, but it suffered severe assaults from violent winds, 
by one of which the summit was broken off; and I thus lost n>y 
first blossom-buds. The plant however did not suffer materially, for 
it thi'ew out six or seven fine lateral shoots, and now stands four feet 
rhigh, with a branchy head, covered with its beautiful orange- coloured 
blossoms. The larj,cr flowers are of the diameter of a cro\\ n-piece, 
the smaller ai'e as large as half-a-crown; and twenty or thirty of such 
flowers on a plant so erect and well balanced as mine is, form a beau- 
tiful, and at this period pf the summer, a rather peculiar object., , -j 
li .,: I wish to call the reatler's attention to one fact of importance, it is 
fjj^ip, the Coreopsis may not only be propagated in the autmim by 
nsQuttings, but it will endure almost any variety of temperature, after 
ii feeing once fairly established, and in a healthy growing condition. 
flB^fy bouse was frequently heated by the sun to eighty-five, ninety, 
and one hmidred degrees, (the thermometer suspended in the shade) 
during the months of March and April ; and after the plant was re- 
moved into, the open border, the external temperatm*e was in several 
^bji)nstances below thirty -five degrees. ^ , ^^^ ^^1 , , , 
-dJ>ji!rhe fact, that vaiiaus? annuals, the balsam, coreopsj^^j.^d,p|;^e.rs. 
