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not determine the species without a better 
specimen ; No. t, SoUdago —poor specimen ; 
No. 5, another Aster, but flowers ami leaves 
incomplete ; No. (5, Matrix ; No. 7, Argcra- 
tum; No. 8, Clirysopsis; No. 9, Aster, but 
all too poor specimens to make out the spe¬ 
cies ; No. 10, Monotropch Unijlorn, or Indian- 
Pipe ; Nos. 11 anil 19 we cannot make out. 
the sickliest specimen T ever saw—pale, rag¬ 
ged and odorless! 
I feel inclined to boast of our Zinnias. Wc 
have twenty-three shades this year, from 
purest white to deep, dark red. There are 
two or three the result of hybridization. One 
is magenta, globular shaped, and the petals 
all regularly curled, giving the bloom a very 
beautiful and striking appearance. Another 
of pyramidal form, has the outside half of 
dark, greenish salmon, while the center is a 
bright pink. No annual gives a better return 
for good culture than the Zinnia. 
I wish every one who cultivates flowers 
PEACH ORCHARD EXPERIENCE 
PAULLIN1A THALICTRIFOLIA 
This plant (herewith illustrated) is a native 
of Brazil, and belongs to the order Sptnda- 
cece. Some of the members of this genus arc 
possessed of peculiar properties ; for instance 
the seeds of the Gunrana (P. xorbilis) are 
pounded into hard cukes and become an im¬ 
portant article in trade, being used hi the 
preparation of a cooling drink, and distribu¬ 
ted all over the Brazils under 
the name of Pao de Guara- 
na. The active property is 
called guaranine, and is said 
to be exactly similar to the 
tlieine of the Chinese tea. 
As will lxs seen by the fig¬ 
ure, Paullinia threUctrifolia 
is a very elegant plant; its 
leaves are beautifully divi¬ 
ded, reminding one of a 
very finely-cut. Maiden-bair * 
Fern ; in a young state they 
are suffused with a charm- cgfSjjg 
ing tint of rosy pink, which ? 
changes with age to a rich, ^2-2/ 
bright green. The young 
shoots will form a splendid j 
addition to the available ob- AA. 
jects for table decoration.. 
and may be used with ad- 
vf?ntage for twining about 
the stem of a large vase or 
epergno, or for forming an /v ['■ « Mr 
arch over the dinner table. 4r V 
The fact of their lasting for ffify 
a very long time after being /WfJ 
cut will considerably en- AK 
hancc their value for pur- m 
poses of this description, w 
Looking at the plant, how¬ 
ever, with a gardener’s eye, 
we shall find that it is of 
somewhat scandont habit, 
and that it may be used with 
advantage for covering a 
pillar or trellis, or for train¬ 
ing up a rafter in the plant 
stove ; it may also be grown 
into a bushy specimen, and 
thus managed will be found 
a most effective object either 
for home decoration or pub¬ 
lic exhibition. 
This species is one of the new plants dis¬ 
tributed to the public by Messers. Veitcli 
Sons, of Chelsea, for the first time this season. 
Paullinia thalietrifolia requires the tem¬ 
perature of a stove, and should be potted in a 
mixture of about two parts light loam, one 
part pea1 s and one of good leaf mold, adding 
enough sharp sand to make the whole feel 
gritty when taken in t he hand. As a plant to 
be cut for bouquets, or to be grown into lit¬ 
tle specimens for the decoration of apartments 
or for the exhibition tent, it is scarcely possi¬ 
ble to find a more effective and pleasing sub¬ 
ject, and I strongly recommend it to all whom 
it may concern .—Experto Crede, in London 
Cottage Gardener. 
IMPORTING JAPAN CAMELLIAS 
THE Practical Farmer says ; — “Eugene M. 
Van Reed, a native of Berks Co., Pa., but 
for many years a resident of Japan, has for- 
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would try the blue Phacelia. It is a perfect 
little, treasure. Agcratum is one of the 
“ lessor lights,” that needs only to bo known 
to bo prized; but in our West Virginia hills 
we do not need to cultivate it, as it grows 
wild in abundance. 
Stocks, Asters, Phlox and the beautiful 
double Portulacas, have done well in defiance 
of the drouth. I have never raised a flower 
that endures hot, dry weather better than 
Portulacas. 
Why is it, that Everlastings are so neglect¬ 
ed ? Every few days some one has to bo as¬ 
tonished and enlightened by the “fadeless 
flowers” that adorn our vases. Then the 
seed-tops of our common wild grasses are so 
beautiful, if gathered and dried in the shade. 
Tastefully arranged in connection with the 
many kinds of wild berries, they form orna¬ 
ments far more attractive and easily made 
and preserved than the hosts of badly-made, 
burr-bug-stick-and-glue-things that are be¬ 
ginning to swarm upon us. 
Rose Geranium. 
DOUBLE-WHITE MORNING GLORY 
This Summer we had a. Morning Glory of 
the most exquisite pearly-white color and 
very double. A re they usual ? I have seen 
a semi-doubl© one advertised in floral cata¬ 
logues, but I think it is not the common an¬ 
nual species. -Rose Geranium. 
We have never seen a perfectly double 
Morning Glory of the annual species, and re¬ 
gret Hint you did not send us a flower. We 
hope you and all other readers of the Rural 
New-Yorker will remember that we sliall 
always lie pleased to receive novelties of this 
kind. Do not wait until it is too late, and 
then excite our curiosity by telling us wliat 
you have had or seen. 
OUR ANNUALS, 
Last summer we cultivated a great many 
varieties of annuals for the purpose of testing 
their merits and making permanent additions 
to our list of old favorites. Among the 
“novelties” that foiled to find favor in my 
eyes were the Treo Mignonettes. There is 
some beauty in the foliage, but not sufficient 
to recommend it for culture. I had expected 
something exquisite in Erysimum, but was 
exquisitely disappointed; however, it is good 
for variety, and much better than some of 
its rivals. 
Salpiglossis, though very pretty, was 
1 iardly equal to my expectations. It flowered 
tolerably well in the open air, but is rather 
too tender for constant exposure. We shel¬ 
tered onr.s from the hottest suns and hardest 
rains. It produces seed freely. 
Nicatlna nlctifoUa is useless as a foliage 
plant, whore the catalogues advertise it, but 
its creamy-white, trumpet - shaped flowers, 
five inches long, are beautiful. I did not ap¬ 
preciate their worth until I mixed them in a 
bouquet of others flowers. Romo way they 
contrived to be seen without annihilating 
their neighbors. 
If any one has a good old primrose, I ad¬ 
vise them to he careful about sacrificing it. 
Last spring I planted the seeds of a new-fan¬ 
gled, high-priced dwarf sort, and lest its cul¬ 
tivated maimers be corrupted by communica¬ 
tion with its neighbors, l put myself to much 
trouble to exterminate them. When my new 
one condescended to blossom, it was about 
BLUE MOUNTAIN TEA 
From Tower Hill, Schuylkill Co., Pa., there 
recently arrived in the market of a Pennsyl¬ 
vania town thirteen boles of what is known 
as Blue Mountain Tea, weighing 1,920 pounds. 
This tea is composed of the leaves of the 
Sweet Golden Rod, or Solidayo odora, which 
is gathered in largo quantities on the Blue 
Mountains. The tea matures in the latter 
part of September, and is gathered until late 
in the month of October. It is then cured 
and put up in packages, selling on the moun¬ 
tains at from 20 to 30 cents per pound, but 
retailing readily in towns and villages at $1 
per pound. The tea has a very pleasant, 
aromatic flavor, and is held by many persons 
in great esteem. 
MEOMORDICA VINE 
We cultivated this vine for the first time 
this Summer. I havo never seen anything 
quite so luxuriant, and its foliage is very 
graceful, having none of the stiffness and 
coarseness usual to large vines. The only 
difficulty its cultivators will havo is to pro¬ 
vide it with the necessary amount of ladder, 
as nothing short of the one seen iii Jacob’s 
vision seems quite adequate to its demands. 
It produces its singular fruit in abundance. 
Rose Geranium. 
IMPROVING GERANIUMS, 
I have made an improvement on the Mrs. 
Pollock Geranium, by propagating it from 
cuttings in this way:—l do not allow any 
bloom for some, four or six weeks before I 
take off cuttings ; then the color of the blos¬ 
soms, which are scarlet, enters the leaves 
and colors them a deeper red, and I find my 
geranium has improved very much in foliage. 
Monroe, Mass. A, p. 
PLANTS FROM ALABAMA 
The plants sent by “Southern Girl,” Car¬ 
rollton, Ala., were not all in a condition that 
would enable us to name them with any de¬ 
gree of certainty, as most of them are badly 
broken, and of some there were neither fruit 
nor flowers. No. 1 is Lobelia puberula ; No. 
2, Gerard in tenufolin; No. 3, Aster, bateau- 
