Adonis

A very fine variety, with tall scapes of flowers of a rosy salmon, shading off to soft carmine.

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Aeaculuc Michauxi

This is probably a variety of our native species, AEsculus Pari*, or red-flowering buckeye. The plant, however, is more dwarfish in habit than the species, and the spikes of flowers much larger. When worked on the common buckeye or horse-chestnut, it forms a beautiful shrub or small tree, producing its large spikes of flowers in great abundance. We are indebted to Mr. Wm. S. Carpenter for a specimen plant imported by him from France.

Affleck's Southern Rural Almanac And Plantation And Garden Calendar For 1856. Washington, Mississippi

This neat little almanac is southern throughout, and as such should be in the hands of all southern cultivators, to whom it will impart much informa. tion.

Catalogue of Fruit and Ornamental Trees, Evergreens, Flowering Shrubs, Plants, Bases, etc., cultivated and for sale at the Hopewell nurseries, near Fredericksburg, Va. Henry R. Robey, Proprietor.

Affleck's Southern Rural Almanac And Plantation And Garden Calender, For 1853

A pamphlet of over 100 pages, containing the usual almanac matter; some timely hints; various tables and recipes; the nursery catalogue of the editor; and various other advertisements, all of which the planter will find it convenient to refer to. From the March calendar we extract the following:

Agave Maculosa. Nat. Ord. Amaryllideoe

A new dwarf species, received from Texas, by the Horticultural Society Of London, bearing yellowish-green flowers, and small leaves from four to six inches long, of a blue-green, slightly spotted; the scape, or flower-stem, rises from a foot to eighteen inches high. (Bot. Mag. 5122).

Agave Univittata

This is now flowering for the first time in Europe, at the greenhouse of Mr. Peacock, Sudbury House, Hammersmith, England.

Age Of Some Varieties Of Fruits

The pear Cuisse Madame is at least over three hundred years old. The Bell pear of our orchards, and which is still a very popular variety, is a seedling from this, or at least generally supposed to be; and this is known to have been in existence at least two hundred and fifty years ago. P.

Ageratums

These are very useful as winter flowers, at least through November and December. They are best from cuttings struck in July, which, with proper cultivation, will become nice stock plants by the month of October. They must be frequently pinched in order to render them bushy, and may be finally established in five and seven-inch pots. The stopping, or pinching, must cease after the beginning of September, and all they require after is a cool situation on a greenhouse shelf, or in a frame.

Agloe

A very showy variety of a fine salmon, richly shaded with bright carmine.