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an exercise of judgment will be requisite is in the selection, to 
ensure a sufficient number to be in bloom at the same time. 
Herbaceous plants are regarded by the great mass of gardeners 
as mere matter-of-course things, that have only to be put in'the 
ground, and except to tie them to a stick when blown down, it 
is but seldom they are thought of. From the ease with which 
they accommodate themselves to circumstances, no trouble is 
occasioned in their management, and hence the neglect with which 
they are generally treated. 
It will now, however, be different, and I am much deceived if, 
in a few years, this article does not form an important one in the 
schedules of most horticultural societies. In the present state 
of the matter, when we have abundant time before us to make the 
selection, it would be useful to invite your readers to forward lists 
of such as they deem best suited to the purpose, namely, twenty to 
bloom in May, June, and July, the only conditions insisted on by 
the Society being that they are hardy and dwarf. The subject 
interests all who have gardens, whether they contemplate exhibit¬ 
ing or not, for to know twenty of the best herbaceous plants, 
which flower in the three principal months of the summer, must 
be a matter of consequence, and to ensure them it is likely a 
greater number must be collected than commonly falls to the 
charge of a single individual; therefore, among the whole it is 
most likely there will be some strangers to most of us, and be 
it remembered, none but the best, that is, such as combine dwarf¬ 
ness with neat compact growth and free habit of blooming can 
be accepted. I shall endeavour to refresh my recollections of the 
tribe, and forward my quota by next month, when I may have 
something to say on their management in pots. 
Hortulanus. 
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The Rose Garden. By William Paul. (Second Notice.) 
We have before us Parts II, III, 1Y, and Y of this excellent 
work, and are much pleased to find an increasing interest with 
each successive portion. The plates, of course, arrest the first 
attention, and in this department an evident improvement on the 
