Scarlet Rhododendrons

Everybody loves scarlet, - of course the lover of flowers whose taste is matured loves all colors, including scarlet; but ask the unsophisticated schoolboy what colored flowers he would prefer, and odds are, that the answer will be, " Scarlet, sir, if you please." "Well," says the 'Cottage Gardener,' ' lose no time in paying a visit to the Royal Botanic Gardens, - always worth a visit in June, but now pre-eminently so by the attraction of Mr. John Waterer's Scarlet Rhododendrons. There are other colors, rich, gorgeous, most attractive; but the scarlets we verily believe to be unequalled: they alone are worth a journey from John O'Groats to see".

Scarlet Sage

A few plants of these taken up at the end of the month are useful for winter decorations and also for cuttings in the spring; those plants are best which have not flowered much while planted out, and are of a moderate size.

Sceptre D* Or

Golden saffron; medium size, very double; an attractive variety.

[The improved Hollyhock is a noble flower, and should be more commonly grown. We have seen some of the above kinds, and know them to be very beautiful. Mr. Barker's article would have been more complete if he had added a few words on cultivation. Perhaps he will do so yet. New varieties are obtained from seed, and prized kinds are propagated by cuttings and by division of the roots. - Ed].

School Of Design, For Women

While there is so much of mere speculation about the "rights" of the sexes, it is gratifying to find now and then, something actually done in the right direction. From the following account, by Mrs. Bateham, the School of Design established for women, in Philadelphia, seems to us to have more value in it than a dozen conventions. Give the women of America who have talent and industry, an interesting and intellectual occupation, and we shall find the wrongs rapidly dipappearing. In the instinctive faculty of taste, many women are largely gifted, and such schools of design as this would not only give employment to thousands - but elevate and refine their whole social life. Ed.

The Schuylkill Park

Efforts are making here to redeem our character by creating a park on the Schuylkill River, by purchasing the property adjoining Lemon Hill, and uniting the two - in fact, the space of about one hundred and ten acres between the two waterworks belonging to Philadelphia. The intention is to purchase the new property, improve the two in unison, and to present the whole in a finished state to the citizens; a noble enterprise, indeed, and one which may be executed for four months interest on the New York investment. Our park will present a most attractive undulating surface of 110 acres, and be bordered on one entire side by the most picturesque of rivers. Shall we fail.

Sciadopitys Verticillata

One of the finest Conifers of Japan, or, after Deodar, of all Asia. Mr. Standish exhibited two nice bushy young plants in perfect health, a foot high, showing the aspect presented by the long linear blunt ended foliage, and also its peculiar whorled arrangement. Some of the older leaves on these young specimens measured three inches in length. This had received a Silver Knightian Medal at the exhibition on June 5th.