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-II Pnrli Itow, XViv York. 
82 lhilTulo 8t., Koplitsler, 
NEW YORK CITY AND ROCHESTER, N. Y 
$:t.OO I'KH YEAR. 
Single No., Eight Cent* 
FOR THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY OCTOBER U, I 8 G 9 
1869, by I). D. T. MOORE, in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United Stutes for the Southern District of New York.] 
[Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 
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to vary the bed a little at all points, and give 
it unsurpassed charm in spring. But, for the 
brilliancy and chief beauty, you must have a 
number of plants of a very beautiful, hardy 
perennial, Calandrinia umbellnta. Make the 
groundwork of your bed of these, and put. a 
few good specimens on the little elevations 
about the highest points and liny rocks in 
your little bed. Plant in spring, give a good 
soaking of water in dry weather, and wait 
for the result. The Calandnnia is a contin¬ 
uously-blooming plant; and when it begins 
to flower, if well grown, you may expect a 
display of the purest magenta-colored flowers 
for many weeks. 
earlier and finer if sown on a hot-bed in 
March, All the vatic Lies named in cata¬ 
logues are good, and may be purchased with 
perfect safety. Sapoma iacalaMca is a lovely 
little rosy-flowered plant, which flowers 
all the summer long; it is useful lor any bed 
or border, or even for an edging to a bed; 
blooms of surpassing beauty and great va¬ 
riety; but owing to our plants being too 
thick, the size of flowers is only from one to 
two inches In diameter. One among them 
is so unique that Ave give the accompanying 
drawing; the petals are pure white, with 
irregular sized spots of dark, rich purple— 
^loricnltnrf 
CORN CRIBS AGAIN, 
CAMPANULA OR BELL FLOWER. 
Tire Campanula or Bell Flower is one of 
the oldest cultivated flowers. In varieties 
it is numerous, and has in its classes annuals, 
biennials and perennials. Many of the bi¬ 
ennials may he made almost perfect peren¬ 
nials by propagating them from cuttings, 
although strictly they never propagate by 
offsets as do the li ne perennials. There are 
a great number, two hundred or more, of 
varieties, all pretty, some very beautiful,and 
all of the easiest possible culture; very good, 
light, common garden soil being well adapted 
to their wants. The one we figure, Campa¬ 
nula gmndiflora alba semi pleno, we count 
as among the very best. Its flowers are 
semi-double, nearly pure Avhitc, with a deli¬ 
cate lilac line or two drawn lengthwise of 
the petal. The month of September, or 
early in October is a good time to transplant 
these and other perennial flowering plants. 
Tiieke are many farmers who follow, a 
mixed husbandry, and who raise compara¬ 
tively small quantities of corn, who cannot 
afford the expense of structures of the. ( liar- 
actor of those given on page 050 of Rural, 
For the benefit of such the accompanying 
designs are given. The Elevation, Figure 1, 
HYACINTHS IN GLASSES. 
Sarah Jones wants to grow hyacinths in 
glasses, and wants to know bow to do it. She 
should get dark colored glasses, lill with 
water so that the bulb will but Just or scarce¬ 
ly touch the water, and set bulb and glasses 
in a dark, cool place until the roots of the 
bull) reach the bottom of the glass. Of course 
they must be kept from frost and the water 
changed once iu seven to ten days. Soft 
water should be used, and when changed it 
should lie about the temperature of the at¬ 
mosphere iu which the bulbs in glasses are 
kept. When the glass is well tilled with 
roots, it may he exposed to the light, and 
they will speedily bloom. 
FINE BALSAMS, 
Figure I.-A Cheap Framed Cohn Crib. 
is an excellent crib. The sills are four by 
six inches, framed; if only a small crib is 
needed, it will only lie necessary to bore 
two-inch holes at, each comer, and one in¬ 
termediate, and insert sharpened sticks 
three inches square, to which secure slats 
horizontally, three-quarters of an inch apart. 
As this structure has but one door, it is best 
to divide the room into two parts, the bent 
or sound corn to be put iu the rear compart¬ 
ment and the poor corn iu front, where it 
may be first fed out. 
Josr.ur Kent, Cattaraugus county, N. Y., 
writes us that among some two or three 
hundred Balsams of all colors, double and 
single, in his borders, he lias those that 
measure from three feet to three feet seven 
inches in height and from five to six inches 
in circumference, with three to four branches 
beside the main stalk, with as many more 
flowers to each stalk as one Ohio correspon¬ 
dent had on one stalk. Home of his choicest 
Asters, he says, have from twenty to forty 
very superior large flowers, very double, and 
very beautiful hi color. Many of the plants 
are from twenty inches to three feet high. 
Air. Kent is sixty-five years old, and at¬ 
tends to his flower borders himself. This is 
no trifling task, Ave reckon, since he says 
they are nearly four feet wide and a half 
mile in length. 
KEEPING TUBEROSE BULBS, 
Henderson says lie is satisfied beyond all 
doubt that the cause of the decay and conse¬ 
quent failure to flower in the Tuberose is its 
being kept, at too low a temperature in win¬ 
ter. He asserts that the bulbs must be kept 
both dry and warm from October until Alay. 
DIANTHUS, OR PINK 
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This family have, of late years, been so in¬ 
creased in variety and beauty, and are so 
easily raised, that they are now, iu their im¬ 
proved and beautiful varieties, becoming al¬ 
most as common and as necessary to make 
the garden complete as was the old Garden 
Pink (Dianthus hortensix) in years gone by. 
Flowers of all colors, double and single 
shaded, edged, striped and spotted, in size 
from one to four inches diameter, are among 
the product of seeds sent out by enterprising 
seedsmen under the varieties of Heddtucigii 
laseeniakis, &c., &c.; and so beautiful are 
they that no one passes them without ex¬ 
pression of admiration. From choice seeds 
received of W. H. Lyman this past spring, 
Figure 2. -A Corn Chiu OF Poi.es. 
A still cheaper plan of construction is to 
use poles or small logs, secured together in 
the form shown in Figure 2. This is an ex¬ 
ceedingly cheap and expeditious manner of 
constructing a corn-crib. If properly done, 
it will lust for years, is easy of access, and, 
with ft good cover, corn will keep in it as 
well as iu those of the more expensive de¬ 
scription. 
If they are allowed to remain for any length 
of time in a temperature of less than 50°, the 
center, or flower, germ, he says, will he de¬ 
stroyed, though the outward appearance of 
the bulb, to the uninitiated, would be the 
same. If one has a green-house, the best 
place to keep them is alongside the flue, or 
hot water pipes; those who have no green¬ 
house may keep them in a closet of any well 
CAMPANULA GRAND1FLORA AliBA SEMI PLENO. 
but the flowers are so small that it produces 
no effect a t a distance, Silene pendula makes 
a charming clump of bright magenta or 
pink. Vixcaria oculata is an elegant plant, 
with rosy flowers; all the varieties of this 
are good. 
one of the most beautiful as xvell as distinct 
flowers Ave remember ever to have seen.— e. 
Figure 3, Showing How the Poles are Spliced, 
warmed room. If our readers only knew Figure 3 gives a sid< 
how SAveet, fragrant and desirable these gtructed of poles or log 
flowers are, and how much they are valued ncr 0 f splicing at A, A, 
wherever they arc known, there would be tween the supports. P 
more general attention to their culture. We the point of joining. I 
know of no flower whose perfume is more several hundred feet i 
attractive and desirable in bouquets. constructed. 
ANNUALS FOR CLUMPING. 
The Floral World says: — The pretty 
“Rose of Heaven” ( Agrostemma cadi-rosa ) 
makes a fine clump, sown rather thick; the 
plant grows a foot high, and there are sev¬ 
eral varieties entered in seed catalogues, the 
best being hybrida flare plow, which has 
double flowers. Crimson candytuft, or 
Theris umbellala, is a fine annual, Avhich lasts 
long in bloom if sown in autumn, but will 
make a good display if sown in March. 
Silene anneria,, or Lobel’s catch fly, produces 
abundance of pretty corymbs of rose-colored 
flowers. Clarkia elegans is well known; it 
thrives best iu poor soil, and lasts longer in 
bloom if sown in autumn; but it may be 
sown now in any kind of soil, and will in 
due time make a beautiful display. The 
double Clarkias are rubbish. Dianthus 
chinemix, the Indian pink, must not be sown 
iu the open border until April, but blooms 
A BRILLIANT FLOWER BED 
A correspondent of an English periodi¬ 
cal Avrites:—Select or make a small isolated 
bed in some spot/ fully exfbsed to the sun, 
and let it contain line sandy peat, or fine 
sandy soil of any other kind; and let it he 
well drained, of course; and place a few 
rustic stones round the margin and through 
the bed, half or more buried in the soil, so 
that the whole will be elevated a little above 
the grass level. Over the bed, besides the 
stones, Ac., plant a few, a select few, of the 
best dwarf sedums and saxifrages of the in- 
crusted section; and perhaps, if you are fond 
of them, a few of the very choicest spring 
bulbs—such, for instance, as that little Si¬ 
berian exquisite, Puxchkinia scillohles, —just 
New Chrysanthemums. — Among the 
new chrysanthemums that have been brought 
out by the English florists during the past 
season arc the Princess Tech and Pink Per¬ 
fection. Mm Narechaux is a while variety 
that is much praised lor size and fullness. 
There are also some Japanese kinds that are 
attracting attention, and which have been 
awarded high praise by the floral committees 
of the London exhibitions. Among these 
latter are Dr. Masters, Hero of Magdala , 
James Sitter, and Regalia, sorts which arc 
especially commended. 
Painting an Old Building— Having a 
weather-beaten building to paint with white 
lead, and as it would he very expensive to 
use all linseed oil, what can I use for the 
“priming” coat, to fill the pores, that will 
be cheap and durable? 1 wish for some 
preparation that has been thoroughly tested, 
and whoever answers this, 1 hope it will be 
from personal knowledge. Some recom¬ 
mend crude petroleum, or kerosene oil. If 
it is durable, please tell me. Many, no doubt, 
are interested in the answer. J. m’c. 
under the name of Diadem Pink— D.Hedde- 
wigii diode metus flore plena — vve have now 
