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THE ANNUALS. 
a soil composed of light loam and leaf-mould : each cutting might be 
about three inches long. The pots' were plunged in the earth ol a 
melonry, and covered with a small bell-glass. 
I could not pay the plants that attention which they really requi¬ 
red, in consequence of an alteration that was made in the pit; and 
by which many of its vegetable tenants were greatly injured. I 
however succeeded well with one of the cuttings, and this was finally 
placed in a small pine stove, during the winter. Here, the tempera¬ 
ture was never very high, because my object was not to force any 
plant to grow during the dark months; and therefore, as the climate 
very frequently did not exceed from forty-five to fifty degrees during 
many of the winter nights, I am confident that a good dry green¬ 
house, or even a sitting-room, would have afforded sufficient protec¬ 
tion. 
The plant was kept in the stove till it attained the height of about 
three feet: it had one simple and erect stem, and was in strong and 
vigorous health. In May, it disclosed the first flower-bud at the 
summit, and then the plant which had been kept in a pot of the for¬ 
ty-eight size, was removed to a thirty-two. I at that period took 
it from the stove, and placed it in the dwelling-house, in a window 
with a south-east aspect; and in a few days afterwards removed it 
from the pot, and planted in a flower-border. 
By so doing I acted prematurely, for not only was the plant expo¬ 
sed to frosty nights, but it suffered severe assaults from violent winds, 
by one of which the summit was broken off; and I thus lost my 
first blossom-buds. The plant however did not suffer materially, for 
it threw out six or seven fine lateral shoots, and now stands four feet 
high, with a branchy head, covered with its beautiful orange-coloured 
blossoms. The larger flowers are of the diameter of a crown-piece, 
the smaller are as large as half-a-crown; and twenty or thirty of such 
flowers on a plant so erect and well balanced as mine is, form a beau¬ 
tiful, and at this period of the summer, a rather peculiar object. 
I wish to call the reader’s attention to one fact of importance, it is 
this, the Coreopsis may not only be propagated in the autumn by 
cuttings, but it will endure almost any variety of temperature, after 
being once fairly established, and in a healthy growing condition. 
My house was frequently heated by the sun to eighty-five, ninety, 
and one hundred degrees, (the thermometer suspended in the shade) 
during the months of March and April; and after the plant was re¬ 
moved into the open border, the external temperature was in several 
instances below thirty-five degrees. 
The fact that various annuals, the balsam, coreopsis, and others. 
