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the side of the river. All this shews they are fond of moisture, (as, 
indeed, is the fact in America,) and points them out as the best and 
most ornamental plants which any gentleman can use, who is form¬ 
ing a pleasure plantation in a dampish soil, or on the hanks of a ri¬ 
ver. A mistake has generally prevailed upon this subject I suppose, 
for I cannot, in any other way, account for the neglect of so beautiful 
and hardy a plant. Thomas Dee. 
Labels for Plants. —Not having seen any plans in the Horti¬ 
cultural Register of labels for plants, I take the liberty of submit¬ 
ting one (fig. 15.) to your notice; it is particularly adapted for 
plants in pots, as it is exceedingly unobtrusive, but 
I know not whether it may be already known to you. 
It is a piece of lead about two inches in length, and 
sloped nearly to a point from three quarters of an 
inch in diameter. In order to mark them, I got steel 
types, as I may call them, made; they are about 
four inches in length, and have a numeral at the bot¬ 
tom, with which I mark the lead by the blow of a 
hammer, and I intended to have thrqe letters G. S. 
V. cut on three more types. I mark the lead thus, 
on one side G 10. V. 2.; on the other side S. 1, S. 
V. 1.: that is. Genus 10, Species 1, Variety 2, Sub- 
variety 1. I get the labels made for one shilling per 
hundred, the types for sixpence a-piece; twelve in 
all with G. S. V. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0. 
Fine Specimen of Cockscomb. —I send you an account of a 
Cockscomb, (Celosia cristata) grown by me, at the Right Hon. 
Lord Southampton’s, Whittlebury Lodge, Northamptonshire; it 
was exhibited at the Northamptonshire Horticultural Show, July 
27th, 1832, and also at the - Buckingham Horticultural Show, on the 
31 st of July. The flowers measured thirty-two inches over, fourteen 
inches in length, and eight inches in width. It now (Oct. 12th, 
1832) measures thirty-six inches and a half over, fourteen inches 
and a half in length, and eight inches and a half in width. It is a 
very handsome shaped comb, and is of a brilliant scarlet colour. 
J. Oxley. 
Hydrangea hortensis. —The method of treating the Hydran¬ 
gea by Mr. Brown, gardener, at Stoneleigh Abbey, is simple and 
successful. Summer cuttings of young wood, are struck under a 
common hand-glass, and afterwards potted off singly into small pots, 
or several into larger pots, and kept through the winter in the green- 
H. L. T. 
