increase of sorts. They esteem it increase of plants, 
without increase of profit; and the propagation of 
the latter of the two may easily be conceived to be 
far the most attractive. There are, however, indi- 
viduals in the trade, who possess both taste and 
science, but we believe scarcely one who does not 
avoid introducing this feeling into his business as 
seedsman. The nurseryman, on the other hand, has 
no wish to dispose of scarce seeds, because he can 
propagate and sell new plants to much greater ad- 
vantage. Thus, unless the botanist or florist has pri- 
vate friends, through whom he can obtain a supply 
of the more rare exotics, very little chance is affor- 
ded him of gratifying his wishes by the possession 
of new beauties — beauties rendered the more desir- 
able by the praises which their novelty excites. 
If these observations should meet the eye of any 
one willing to exert himself for the gratification of 
the lovers of a flower garden, and doubtless, for the 
benefit also of his own finances, we shall be glad to 
combine a list of his sorts, with some future number. 
If the prices also of the most rare could be added, 
it would be additionally convenient; and very choice 
rare seeds may be sold by number. 
Seeds of Isotoma may be sown in April, on a 
gentle hotbed ; or in pots, in a greenhouse, or cu- 
cumber bed ; and as soon as the young plants are 
up they should be gradually exposed to the atmos- 
phere. When an inch or two high, they may be 
transplanted into pots for flowering, or into the open 
borders, three or four together, where with a little 
support, to their slender stems, they will form an 
elegant, though not splendid, ornament. 
