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Show TBE iilSJl, UhLD, A: (iAKDEX Kasslnff Paiisles. Since pansies have become such universal uni-versal favorites with the practical and amateur florist?, it is but littie use to say anythinc about their culture; they are so modest, yielding to almost any treatment, and yet making a good floral display whether in tho house or out in the open ground. As they are generally grown in the garden, the many ways in which they are served up is quite astonishing. Having had some experience with them, lor several sev-eral years pasr, as bingle plants and for edging, etc, I have I'ound them to give the best satisfaction when all colors are grown en masse. There are lew flowers that will excel a lino bed of parties, all colors mixed. One of the most beautiful sights I ever saw was a mass of them on a cool October morning, while the crystal dew drops were j;t upon their pei alas al-as if they were tears of j .y at our appearance ap-pearance petals of purest while, ethereal blue, violet purple and gold all as if from one parent stock. m. j. w. it. Small Evergreen. We are very often asked the question ques-tion ns to " when is the best time to plant small evergreens ?" Our answer is, any time when the ground is in a mellow, free condition except the months of'July and August, aa being too hot ; at all other seasjns we would plant subject to the above considerations considera-tions ; yet there are seasons and conditions con-ditions when success may bo dec rue 1 more certain, and these are first, it the soil is light and dry, in Maryland and Virginia the months of March and April would be best ; second, if your land is heavy and vet, then we would select May and June. For ourselves, wo plant most of ours in the latter month. The many failures in the planting of evergreens does not depend so tnuch on the time u which it is done, as the manner in which it is performed, for it ii no unusual thing to see a tree three or four feet high have its roots (that have been dried by tho wind and scorched by the sun) stuck into a hole not larger nor deeper than a gentleman's gentle-man's dress hat, whereas it ought to have a hole provided for its roots from three to four feet wide. There is another an-other practice among planters that is, in planting everything too deep in the ground. Old mother nature never gives herself up to suoh follies as we see perpetrated by men, who arc decoicd sensible in other matters ; our advice, therefore, is, to keep the roots near the surface, or not deeper than they stood in the nur:ery rows or their native wilds. American Farmer. Fertilizer for the I.nwn, F. K. Elliot recommends, in the Cleveland Herald, the following fertilizers fertili-zers lionc meal is the only one that can cive off a bad odor, and if that oould be sown upon light snow, or just before a rain, l ho ammonia would probably bo washed into tho ground before much would pass into the air. Wo are aware that it is a long old-time old-time practice to dress tho lawn in autumn with coarse manuro, and so make the wholo (ore-ground of a gentleman's place the apparent reoep-tacle reoep-tacle of his stable yard lor the winter; but, thanks to our American ideas of propriety,and oar knowledge of assimilation assimi-lation of plant food, we now measurably ignoro tho dogmas of old country gardeners and use apecitics t, f., just now we apply Rait at the rate of from lour lo eight bushels per acre, bone-meal bone-meal in same quantity, and plaster one-fourth. The sooner these manurial agents all except the plaster are now applied, the better, ualc.-a it be upon a lay of' land so sloping that the coming rains, with melting of snow and ice, will cause the commingling or detrition of tho manures to wash away with the falling water. In tuch locations wo should not apply our specitios as above-named, until tho snow and ice arc gone, but then wo make no delay. The application of tho plaster, i. e., its sowing, should be just as the grass has made an inch, or more of growih. Kx. Verbenas. Among all tho variety of "bedding-out" "bedding-out" plants, which oontributo to the' gay and lively appearaneo of a garden, tho verbena is most generally cultivated, cultiva-ted, and claims the rank amOLg brilliant bril-liant flowers. Some of its varieties are awect scented, but most of them depend de-pend for their merit upon their ."how y, gorgeous coloring, and their wonderful prolusion of blossoms, which render them of the greatest value. Therp have been some splendid new varieties introduced in the few past years, whoe wondrous stripes and eyes aro not approached by any of tho older sorts. I hoy arc selected from many thousand seedlings and are both rich aud rare. Verbenas do not sprout readily from seed; they-are in a horny rutstauce and should be soaked in water tor twenty-tour twenty-tour hourn, and then planted in a hcht sandy loam with a good bottom heat. Thus treated they will germinate, and when the fourth leal' is formed, should be potted into thumb pots in sandy loam. VerbenaA arc natives of Brazil, and love the hot sua and sand, if the bed in which they are p'anted is covered two or three inches deep with common sand, they will bbom most perfectly. 1 once raised seventy verbenas from seed, and planted thorn in a very fndy soil, tuch CTowth 1 never wiiue-d they were niacniricvD'. A the i Un; sends out it- nrt shoots they s'uou.ri be peered d,iwn wnh hair pin, ard thus e-iaxed to crow. When watcrtd they de?irc a copioa supply, at-d ti.e sud." trom washing day are very hen tkial to them, liuaro is also a go--d manure fer thc-d; aig an iron "p-joavj. arour.d ch p'ant, not touc.irir ti.e !CT,f. The green lice, or sj 1. i.-t in their p!icue in rt c.niirp, hit t r. -- are desire's "i hy sn'kicii thri wi;h t il'.areo i 'tit U o .ants ;.rc i cr. and ti.-r' s.'TT.e t: .Vif-rn on f. "! e .a. m a -it xT eair: e c: il.e wi..e wiLn a wah tu , aii let thrm m -te I t ut, or :;:';ct.rj c.ir.-jiii.. a:,d ths ceo wn i-;wept i-;wept Dp and Lr.:rrtc. I .a.v; liie coi tar as po--;t.c from the j l-.nts. v.roT 'i.e tu:. so as n;t to it. ur; ii, fin "itri ihtir het. j If c-afinirs :e do. red 1"t w,-: i -'.--ti, ti.iy siV.a i to tVTt erf ir I A i. so lo berime T'j -'d- it never py to ist' up o'.d p'.n; tj: 1 wx;er b; Jvaiisg. tJ |