The Hydropult

One of our correspondents, it will be seen, objects to the expense of a garden engine in the application of Mr. Veitch's remedy for the " slug." This objection can be measurably met by using Vose's Hydropult, a portable, cheap, and efficient instrument for this and all gardening purposes. We have thrown water with it fully sixty feet perpendicularly. It is a convenient and useful article for both the greenhouse and garden.

Hypoxis Latifolia (Broad-Leaved Hypoxia)

Introduced, in 1854, by Captain Garden of the 46th Regiment, from Natal. It has a bulb-shaped tuber, about the size and colour of a small greened Turnip. The leaves, about six inches long, rise from it like those of a Leek, and from their axils come the flower-stalks terminating in bunches of yellow flowers. It will probably prove hardy. (Ibid, 4817).

I. Fortune's Cape Jasmine

( Gardenia Florida, var. Fortuniana.) - Very few greenhouse plants, introduced within the last five years, will bear comparison with this superb new Gardenia, brought from China by Mr. Fortune. In the first place, the plant is one of the finest green-house shrubs, with noble broad leaves, each four to six inches long. In the second place, the flowers, which are very large - of the size of the largest Camellia, resemble those of the double White Camellia, both in form and purity of color; and in the last place, they are deliriously fragrant. We notice that Messrs. Parsons & Co., of Flushing, advertise this unrivaled Gardenia for sale this autumn.

II. Large Red Escallonia

(Escallonia macrantha.) - One of the most ornamental evergreen shrubs, a native of Chiloe - hardy about Baltimore, and likely to prove a most valuable "bedding-out" plant for the flower garden farther north. The flowers are borne in terminal panicles, are large and showy, and of a deep crimson red color. It blooms from June to October, most abundantly. The leaves are elliptical, and doubly serrated. "No garden where ornamental plants are esteemed" - says the periodical just quoted, "ought to be without this Escallonia. In Devonshire it is hardy. In a cold conservatory it would form a splendid bush, and moderate sized plants, grown in pots, would be very useful for purposes of decoration. It may be multiplied to any extent by cuttings of the young shoots, planted under hand glasses, in sandy soil; the young plants requiring the protection of a frame in winter."

II. Yucca Filamentosa, Or Adam's Thread

This variety differs mainly from the former, in having no spines at the ends of the leaves, but instead, the foliage is irregularly serrated, and edged with long threads, which hang down two or three inches long. The same popular notion which coupled the idea of Adam's Needle with the thorn at the end of the leaves of Y. gloriosat has found a corresponding thread on the leaves of this species. It is a native of Virginia; has stood many winters perfectly uninjured in the open borders of our garden on the Hudson. Its growth, however, seems slower, and it produces flowers more rarely than the Adam's Needle. Still, as both the foliage and flowers are quite ornamental, it is worthy of a place in every good garden. It flowers in Septem-tcr, the blossoms being whiter, and growing more closely to the stalk, than those of Y. gloriosa.