ome tSGHijmiuaii. 
Lobelia, &c., are all suitable, and make a rapid 
growth, provided plenty of water is given, and they 
are not exposed to the sun too much. 
In August and September take cuttings for next 
season’s bedding; after rooting in saucers of sand, 
cigar boxes of good rich earth will hold from six to 
eight slips, and give abundance of room. Deep cigar 
boxes, half filled with earth, with a piece of glass to 
cover, make excellent seed-beds, and are within the 
reach of every one. In September, from the first to 
the last, according to the climate, cut into the ground 
around the roots of such plants as you wish for the 
window and for winter blooming, and in two days pot 
in inch soil; place in a cool room for two or three days; 
give a thorough smoking and watering, and then 
remove to winter quarters. Pull up all useless stalks 
of annuals; give protection to such as need it; rake 
the beds; give a layer of manure, and we rest from 
our labors till another joyous springtime. As I grow 
in experience you will hear from me again. Perhaps 
I may give a description of some of our public gar¬ 
dens. A. P. Peterson. 
Washington, D. C. 
say, “It is an imposition; our slips, seeds and flowers 
are our stock in trade, and the person who asks for 
them asks for money, or the same thing.” I think 
they would also say that the people who do these 
things are generally those who can afford to pay for 
them. A man in this place was applied to, not long 
ago, for slips, and his answer was this, “What, do 
you suppose I heat up this place and spend my 
time taking care of these plants, to give them away"? 
No, madam; I sell plants.” A long article might be 
written on this subject without exhausting it, and I 
hope somebody competent to write it will take hold of 
the matter. M. P. G. 
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hlower Beggars. — Was it Violet who gave your 
readers, not long ago, some very good advice about 
! raising Hoses from slips ■'l She also told them, if I re¬ 
member rightly, how to obtain the slips in the first 
place, namely, by begging them of some generous 
florist. Having found hy experience that the class of 
slips, seed and flower beggars is very large already, I 
am sorry to see them receiving aid and encourage¬ 
ment from any contributor to the Cabinet. Florists 
NEW YORK, MAY, 1875, 
weed them. A nice plan is to have a large grass 
plot for the centre, interspersed with small beds of , 
brilliant flowers, edged with wire-work, shells, or | 
brick, to keep the grass out; is but little work, and i 
I think very beautiful. A border around the whole [ 
garden is very desirable, and I find it will give \ 
abundance of work for “idle hands to do.” ' 
Large beds with broad, close-shaven grass walks s 
are lovely where you have largo grounds. Walks 
of gravel are the best, hut if of brick, strew with 
will find it will save much 
time and labor in weeding. When my beds are all 
laid out and the grass plot sodded, the beds are spaded 
quite deep, and good well-decayed compost forked 
in, and sand added if the earth is stiff. When the 
beds are all ready, I set out bulbs—roots for fall 
planting. Tulips, Crocuses and Hyacinths make 
beautiful beds. I then cover with coarse manure. In 
the spring I rake it all off and sow Phlox Drurn- 
mondii, Portulaca, and plant Verbenas (previously 
started in the bot-bed) as soon as the bulbs are 
through blooming. In this way you have a succes¬ 
sion of bloom; hy the time these plants are well 
started the leaves of the bulbs will have withered, 
and may be cut down with safety. Amaranthus and 
Geraniums for beds are very fine, and make rapid 
growth; also Asters, Balsams, Pinks, Perennial Phlox 
and Gladiolus; Oxalis for bordering and other plants, 
of which every one has favorites. For climbers I 
would advise Madeira Vine, Cypress, Convolvulus Ma¬ 
jor, Virginia Creeper, and ornamental Gourds as the 
most rapid. If you have a shady corner, a little rock- 
work would not he amiss; and if you are careful and 
save all the clinkers from stove and furnace during 
the winter, a little mound of earth, with these taste¬ 
fully arranged in ledges and fissures, is very pretty, 
and can scarcely he told from the real article. It may 
he either whitewashed or washed with gray, at the 
discretion of the owner. Mosses and Ferns, German 
Ivy, Amaranthus, Nolana, Myrtle, Wandering Jew, 
Pilimi;..! 1)11 1,)! im.fi, iffTrUTO 
common 
RUSTIC SEAT. 
BOAT HOUSE. 
Scenes in Central Park, N. Y. 
may sometimes have slips to give away; hut it is my 
opinion that, if they were to tell just how they feel 
when applied to for these things, most of them would 
