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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
Fig. 1-DRUMMOND PHLOX. 
Flower Garden. 
drummond phlox. ——Phlox Drummondii. 
This beautiful flower is of American origin. We 
have put it in our seed distribution (No. 51.), and 
we are happy to be able to present our readers 
with the above engraving of it, as it appears in 
full bloom. (As the seed is scarce and somewhat 
expensive and many applications are made for 
it, those sending to us will not be disappointed 
on receiving but small parcels. A few seeds, 
however, will form a 
pretty plot, and yield 
an abundance of seed 
for another year).— 
The plants grow low, 
(about one foot high), 
and spreading, and 
when grown in masses 
few or none are more 
showy. From the 
same seed several va¬ 
rieties of color are 
produced, 
Fig 2 —anemone. Sow in the open 
ground in this latitude at any time during May. 
Put in a good mellow soil, the seeds from six to 
twelve inches apart If put six inches apart they 
will form a compact mass. Cover the seeds with 
about half an inch of soil For a succession of 
bloom through the entire season, sow in Autumn 
in the Green or Hot House ; start other seeds in 
the hot-bed in April, and sow in the open ground 
about the end of May They are very fine for 
pot culture in the parlor or conservatory 
ANEMONE —See Fig. 2. 
This is often called the “ Wind-flower,” per¬ 
haps from its slender waving stalk. It is a tuber¬ 
ous plant, or with roots like those of ginger, 
and propagated by division; perennial. It is 
very celebrated in many parts of Europe, but 
does not succeed so well here, though 
it has grown pretty well in some cool 
moist, but not very cold localities. 
The flowers are of various colors, 
and open early in Spring. Though 
very beautiful, we can not commend 
it highly for general cultivation, and 
we introduce the engraving mainly 
to give our reaueis an idea of the ap¬ 
pearance of a flower, so often referred 
to by poets and other writers. 
Gerarde, an ancient English cultivator 
thus describes the Anemone pulsatilla, in a 
work written more than 250 years ago. “ It 
hath many small leaves, finely cut or jagged, 
like those of carrots, among which rise up 
naked stalkes, rough!', hairie, whereupon 
doe grow beautiful floures, bell-fashion, of 
a bright delaid purple color; in the bottom 
whereof groweth a tuft of yellow thrumbs, 
and in the middle of the thrumbs it thrust- 
et.h forth a small purple pointed. When 
the whole flower is passed, there succeedeth 
an head or knob, compact of many gray hairy 
lockes, and in the solid part of the knob lieth the 
seed, flat and heavy,—every seed having its own 
small haire hanging at it. The root is thicke and 
knobby, of a finger long, running right down, and 
therefore not unlike those of the Anemone, which 
it. doth in all its other parts very notably resemble.” 
The poet Ovid relates that Venus, the goddess 
of love and beauty, formed a great attachment 
to Adonis, the son of Cinyras, King of Cypress. 
Adonis was fond of hunting, and received a 
mortal wound from the tusk of a wild hoar. Ve¬ 
nus lamented his death greatly, and changed the 
dying young man into the beautiful flower Anem¬ 
one The heathen poets had many fanciful notions 
as to the origin of beautiful plants. 
nehophila — muculata. 
This differs very little from the Nemophila m- 
signis (No. 26 in our distri¬ 
bution list). They are both 
hardy annuals, originally wild 
flowers of California The 
muculata is spotted instead of 
a uniform blue color. The 
flower stalks are single, and 
longer than the leaves The Fig 3— nemophila 
muculata is a little larger than the msignis. It 
is a profuse hloomer, with deep violet dots near 
the tips of the corolla on a whitish ground color. 
Sow in May in one foot rows, seeds six inches 
apart; cover + inch deep in good soil. 
Fig. 4— golden bartonia —Bartonia aurea 
This plant (No. 36 on our distributing list) is 
well represented above. As already stated, it is 
a very showy yellow flower from California, 
which has contributed so largely to our stock of 
flowers, shrubs and trees during the past few 
years. Dr. Lindley, speaks of it thus: ft is 
only beneath the bright sunshine that its splended 
flowers unfold. In the early morning the plant i« 
a shabby bush, with pale greenish grey branches, 
and weedy leaves: and so metalic is the luster 
of the inside of its petals that one would really 
think they must be composed of something more 
solid and enduring than the delicate and perishing 
tissue of a flower.” 
Sow in May, in a sunny situation, but sheltered 
from winds, as the branches are easily broker 
A moderately rich, moist soil, fine and mellow, 
is the best. Transplant, or thin out into two feet 
rows, with plants one foot apart in the row 
snow drop —GaLanthus nivalis. 
The Snow Drop is one of the earliest flowers 
of Spring, and we hear that in some localities it 
has mistaken the present mild weather and with 
the crocus, is appear¬ 
ing above ground. It 
frequently opens its 
petals during March, as 
if to rival the lingering 
snow bank with its 
white'ness. It is prop- ( 
agated by dividing the 
bulbs, and planting in 
Autumn. Bulbs that 
have been kept in a 
cool situation may still 
be put in the ground 
where it can be worked 
although they will not 
give as fine a bloom as 
those planted in October or November. 
Fig. 5- SNOW DROP. 
A Great Question Solved —“ Where do all 
the pins go to!” This question, which has so 
long agitated the world, has at length been solved. 
It has been discovered that they fall to the earth, 
and become terra-pins I 
