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Show ! 7 JFlortculturc: ! r . , ,i . 1 : ' LKuckct.J Jt,OcJeet. The Sweet Rocket is n very hardy bienni.., bearing clusters of single flowers, and fragrant during the evening.. The' hesL colors aro wpurp)eand vvjhite. - The pl.ant, wjth fair cullure', will grow eii(hteen, incli-e,s incli-e,s in he.;lt. and seod will genninafe readily in t.he open ground. CHlH'TbSia. The Collinsia is a very pre.'ty, free-blooming, uhardy mnual. The marbled or many color col-or d flowers' aire in whorls of five or six. blossoms, and three or more vhorls on acli stem :f Collinsia. Poison Ivy, Virginia, Creeper, For. the benefit of our readers we have procured cuts of twp varieties, of 0 elvy lamily, . Cut No. I. shows the leaf of the poison Ivy. It has three leaflets, which are thin, light green, ' 1 , - 9 withoutgloe.s,'and the veigning is notiJ ve'ry conspicuous. Cut 2 is the Jim-pelopsis Jim-pelopsis quinquefolia, or Virginia ' Creeper,5 lias,'; five leaflets, of a darker green than the Poison Ivy' with very tH prominent ribs and veins, and are iH quite glossy as if varnished, These tvyp species can be readily distin- 1 guished by remembering the above1 description and examining the ''adjoin'-'' JH ed engravings. There is : 'another1 SH variety of the Ivy, JlmpeCoptis veitchiiJ of which we will say more hereftfte'r-- |