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The application of moderate heat for some time, has the effect to change a part of the starch into a sweetish substance, called dextrine, which is more easily digested into fat than starch ; that is, part of the making of fat is accomplished by the agency of heat. When parching is done in a proper way, and upon a large scale, it is a cheap way of cooking corn. Let any man who is inclined, try the experiment this fall upon two pigs as nearly alike as possible ; feed each the same quantity of corn, in one case parched, in the other not, and observe the result at the end of a week, or letter at the end of a fort night. The more slowly the com is parched, the bet ter. It is not necossary to have it “ pop.’’— Perhaps the word roasted would be better; but in this case it is to be understood that the com is not to be blackened, burnt, or even browned but slightly. As respects the importance of having a good natured attendant, I.have become convinced for many years, (see Lambert’s Physiology,) for I have never met an exception to the rule, that he who produces fat cattle, horses, hogs, or any creature, is always good to them at least. It is ■ a pscychological fact of not a little interest. The first two or three hundred pounds of a hog can bo produced from com alone, but to produce pork above that weight, good nature must be added to the corn, and the percentage of good nature rises rapidly as the weight increases. — SOUTH CAKOLINA STATE FAIR. The State Fair, at Columbia, which closed on the 12 th instant, was highly creditable to the in dustry and skill of the Palmetto State. All the departments were well represented, and the stock exhibition i 3 said to have been decidedly the best yet mado at any similar gathering in that State —affording evidence of the adapta tion of our soil and climate to the successful rais ing of fine stock. A largo number of the ani mals on exhibition were under a year old, and South Carolina raised. The Brahmin stock of CoL F. Hampton, Dr. J. W. Parker, Thomas Da vis, and Dr. F. Green were objects of much cu riosity. One of Mr. Hampton, Dr. J. W. Par ker, Thomas Davis, and Dr. F. Green were ob jects of much curiosity. One of Mr. Hampton’s animals attracted particular attention. The stock of Col. R. Beatty, of Union, was much admired. These were selected for Col. Beatty, by Mr. Richard Wardle, under whose care they were brought from England. Mr. Wm. Sum mer, of Pomaria, had a very choice selection of Devons, Durhams and Ayreshires on exhibition. W. P. Smith, of Abbeville ; Dr. R. Harlee, of Marion ; J. D. Williams, of Laurens; Col. A. P. Calhoun of Pickens ; James T. Latte, of An derson ; T. J. Robertson, Columbia; R. A. Griffin of Abbeville ; Col. E. S. Ervin, of Green ville ; L. W. Murray, and R. Arnold, of Charles ton; D. A. C. Fuller, of Laurens; Col. Walter Gwynn, of Columbia ; J. 11. Threewits of Lex ington ; L. A. Osborne, of Anderson ; had also on exhibition some very handsome Devon and Durham stock. Some of the imported Sheep and Goats were very fine animals. The largest number were shown by R. S. Porcher, of Pickens, and Mr. Wm. Summer, of Pomaria. The Cotswold sheep of Mr. P. cannot be sur passed. This breed is also said to be prolific, and capable of great endurance. Their fleece has more the appearance of strength than beau ty. Tho dam obtained the premium at one of the largest fairs in Scotland. • . During the distribution of prizes, an episode varied the regular proceedings. Col. A. M. Hunt, of the United States Hotel, had caused to be made some months since a handsome silver pitcher of the value of SGO, as a premium for the best specimen of a native African imported in 1858 or 1859. This pitcher is richly chased. Two Africans are represented hoeing in a field, —a farm house in tho distance. As competitors for this prize, placed by the donor into the hands oi a Com mittee consisting of Hon. J. Duncan Allen, Hon. 0. M. Dantzier and R. S. Porcher, Esq., two “ natives ” were exhibited in front of the Am phitheatre, standing erect in a buggy, neatly dressed, looking well, and decidedly pleased. Our curiosity prompted us to examine them.— The eldest, Napoleon, about 13 or 14 years of age, has liis two front upper teeth sharpened to a point. He is a likely boy, of good countenance and features. Tho other, Isaac, is about 11 or 12 years old. Ho is tattoed, but not so much as to disfigure him. Upon him the choice of the Committee fell. The little fellow evidently felt gratified at the result, aud held the pitcher aloft triumphantly. 1 • — Prepare the Soil. — Tho effect of the frosts of winter in disintegrating and preparing stiff tenacious soils, has been admitted by all culti vators of experience. Ridge up your vacant ground before winter, that the greatest possible surface be exposed to the ameliorating action of the somewhat mysterious frosts. Soil in a good stato of culture, loose and friable, it is not so necessary that you should operate upon. Par tially trench up—that is what old gardeners call “ bastard trench” —all worn out soils, for escu lent root-growing next season. This method of trenching consists in opening a deep and wide trench, say two and a half to three feet in width, to a depth of two spades. The contents of the first trench must be to removed to the further side of tho lot; if tho space is considerable, it had better bo carted; if not, tho wheel-bar row will serve to transport it; let it bo deposit ed along the ground in heaps at regular inter vals, ss as to make lip the last trench. Instead of throwing the active surface soil (partially ex hausted or wholly so, perchance,) into the bot tom of the trench, as many understand the ope ration, turn over the bottom with the spade, leaving the subsoil open, as in common spading; on this spread a portion of the surface soil, then a layer of good barnyard manure, tho coarser the better ; then another layer of surface soil, taking care to mingle tho soil and manure. On the surface turn in the layer of soil formerly im mediately before the surface soil, so that the trench when finished will bo intermixed to a cer tain extent, but not wholly reversed. On the surface you will have what was formerly the se cond layer ; the second layer will be the former surface or exhausted soil, mixed with a good sup ply of long manure, bones, oyster shells, or any such refuse ; tho subsoil will bo as before, but spaded up, so that the manure, by being wash ed into it, will partially prepare it for coming up into a higher tier the following season. — This is “ bastard ” trenching, as we have prac ticed it; it does not retard the growth of crops by bringing the inactive soil at once to the sur face, but partially prepares it for future active use. The soil is always supposed to be first "thorough drained." —[ Country Gentleman. A Texaß correspondent asserts that that State is the best wheat-growing State in the Union; and that the crop of the present year is the best he has ever seen, the wheat weighing from 75 to 80 lbs. a bushel. wms, BouxKsms vxs&s juto vsbesxbs. SHROPSHIRE DOWNS. The above engraving represents one of three prize wethers, bred by and the property of Hen ry Smith, Jr., of Sutton Maddock, Shiffnal, En gland. They received the first prize, with a breeder’s silver medal, at tho Birmingham and Midland Countidh Show of Christmas, 185 G. We have had the cut drawn and engraved from a fine plate in a recent number of the Farmer’s Magazine —which speaks of the sheep them selves as admirable for “ splendid quality of meat, broad chines, and full plaits, and wonder fully good loins and rumps.” This breed—the “ Shropshire Downs ’’ —is now rapidly coming into notice and repute in England. They are originally descended from a hardy mountain breed, through which they inher it an excellent constitution. This enables them to thrive on some of the most exposed districts ; while on more fertile pastures they evince a ra pidity of growth, and natural tendency to a hea vy weight at an early age. certainly not sur passed by any other breed. The exertions of tho Salopians, however, have not been directed to size and weight only. The Shropshire sheep unite with these two recommendations—excel lent ferm and symmetry, first-class wool of thick pile and great length of staple, well-formed, good dark brown heads, deep chests, famous legs of mutton, with a good dock set high on a straight long spine. The class of “ Short-wooled sheep not being South-downs," now affords the Shropshire breed ers an opportunity of exhibiting their stock on fair terms at the meetings of the Royal Agricul tural Society. At Salisbury in this section, the Shropshire Dcwns took three of the prizes for rams out of’the four offered. At Birmingham, as we have often had to record, the show of this kind of sheep is one of the chief features. [Albany Cultivator. —4*4 Mr. Editor : In your agricultural department, will you pleaso give some directions as to the transplanting, culture, and soil, best adapted to the Orange Tree —how near they should be planted, and if to be trimmed, —and how often ? G. M. Will some of our Southern readers, familiar with the culture of Orange Trees, answer the above inquiries? - r Lice ox Fowls. —A subscriber wishes to be informed how to exterminate the vermin that frequently infect hens and hen roosts, Ac. Pre vention when practicable, is always better than cure. Strict cleanliness about the roosts and nests, will always prevent hens from becoming lousy. The dropping under the hens should be removed frequently, the nests often renewed, and an-slacked lime and ashes scattered around the floors and roosts. Boxes of dry ashes and lime should always be kept under cover where the fowls can have constant access to them, that they may wallow in at pleasure.— With these prt cautions, fowls that are free from vermin will never he infested. But when they have become lousy the roosts should be thor oughly swept and cleaned, tho straw and litter from the nests entirely removed, and the wood work and roost poles of the house whitewashed with fresh slacked lime, into which a quantity of sulphur or tobacco has been mixed. A day or two before this operation, the fowls should be fed with coarse com meal wet with milk or water, into which a quantity of sulphur has been mixed. Feed with this several days ; it may then bo omitted for a few days, and re repeated again at intervals of three or four days, and continued in this way until all the nits have hatched, when the insects will drop ofl’and leave the fowls. Thorough cleanliness after this, will generally exterminate them. Fowls are always poor and uuthrifty, and setting hens are seldom successful in hatching their eggs, when annoy ed with vermin; a little care is all that is nec essary to prevent it.—[ Valley Farmer. ■ - -444- Cheap and Valuable Paint. —Editors Coun try Gentleman : —Yours, requesting me to send receipt for paint, was duly received. At the time it was not in my power to furnish it, for the reason that the book containing it was not in my possession.. After many inquiries I found it yesterday in the hands of a neighbor who bor rowed it some years since. I did not originate the composition, but found it in the second vol ume of Cliaptal’s Chemistry, (pages G 8 and 69,) an old work published in 1807. It is intended as a substitute for white lead paint, and is composed of Skimmed milk, two quarts. Fresh slacked lime, G J ounces. Linseed oil, 4 ounces, and Common whiting three pounds. Directions for mixing are—“ Put the lime into a stoneware vessel, pour upon it sufficient oft he milk to make it like thin cream, add the oil a lit tle at a time, stirring to mix thoroughly; add the remainder of the milk ; then the whiting (made fine) is to be spread upon the surface, and the whole well stirred. It is then fit for use.— It should be frequently stirred while using.” It is applied with a common paint or white wash brush, and will dry in three or four hours. Two coats make a very perfect paint. It pos sesses great solidity, will bear rubbing with a woolen cloth, and does not become dingy or yel low with smoke, Ac., as much as lead paint. I have used the composition only for inside of buildings on brick and wood. Twelve years since I painted the over-head flooring and tim bers, underside of a store. It is now perfect; holds its color better than white lead ; is much more cconolhical, as the chief expense is the la bor of putting it on. It is also recommended for out-door work by adding to the foregoing—2 ounces lime, 6 ounces oil, and 2 ounces whito Burgundy pitch, the pitch to be melted in the oil by gentle heat, and added to the mixture.—[Wm. H. White. Ver gennes, Vs. -4- ■•«» A Pleasant Drink— Beer. —Take a half gal lon of Molasses (syrup will not answer), with a large table spoonful of best ground ginger, and mix well into five gallons wator. In two or three days, according to the weather, it will be ready for use. Try it if you are fond of good beer. HINTS ON HOUSE PAINTING. Tho next four months being the best season for painting all outside work, the annexed arti cle from the Baltimore Rural Register is appo site. In the preceding number of the Rural we took occasion to recommend any quiet neutral tint as the most appropriate color for villa residences and country cottages. This of course had refer ence to the mam walls of the building, and it is now proper that we should lay down a few sim ple rules with regard to the most appropriate colors for the outer doors, the porches, or ver andahs, the cornices and the shutters; in brief, whatever may be called the trimmings of the house. All educated architects recommend that more than two shades of colour are required to render the exterior of a house pleasing to the eye, because artistic in the effects which a great er variety of colors will invariably produce.— Calvory Vaux, an excellent authority in such matters, advocates the employment of not less than four different colors, and as the cost is not sensibly increased by so doing, and as the monotonous appearanco which is given to a house by sameness of color is thereby avoided, his advice in this respect is well worth follow ing. He says:— “ Tho main walls should be of some agreeable shade of color; the roof trimmings, verandahs and other wood work being either of a different color or a different shade of the same color, so that a contrast, but not a harsh one, may be es tablished. The third color, not widely differ ent from the other wood work should be ap plied to the solid parts of the Venetian blinds, whilst the slats should be painted of the fourth tint. This last should be by far the darkest used on the premises, for the effect of a glass window or opening in a wall is always dark when seen from a distance, and if this natural fact is not remembered and the shutters are paint ed the same color as the rest of tho house, a blank uninteresting effect is produced.” Let us illustrate this —suppose the main body of the house is painted a light fawn color, say throe shades deeper than a rich cream; the color most in harmony with this and therefore best suited for roof trimmings, verandahs and outside casings would be a very light chestnut brown. The solid part of the venitian blinds aud the frame work of the doors should also be a rich sienna brown, two shades darker than the roof trimmings, &c.; while the slats of the blinds and the pannellings of the doors should be paint ed of a much darker shade still of the same col our. It is really wonderful how greatly the ap pearance of a house is improved by a little atten tion to such simple details as these, while to ne glect them is not merely to evince a want of cor rect taste, but is very apt to perpetuate the error in others. Since the dark colored stand-stones camo into fashion for building the fronts of town houses, we have seen quite a number of villa residences painted a deep brown with white fa cings—nothing could be more odd or in more violent contrast. A cream color and white will certainly harmonize very well, and if it should so happen that the trimmings of a house are to be lighter than the body color, —but it is only in a few instances that this can be safely recommended, —the same gradation of tints should be observed as in the directions already given. We may as well also at this time, enter our protest against painting the roofs of houses a staring red. This colour may look attractive enough in those Dutch toy houses, from which it has been very probably imitated, but in a landscape it offends the eye quite as much as a brick house does, or as one of those chalk white and spinach green cottages in which some of our good country folk take so much delight. Bread without Yeast, Saleratus, Ac. —A writer in the Massachusetts Ploughman tells how to make healthy bread of flour and water and a little salt, and no yeast, saleratus, cream of tartar, or any such vile soap-making stuff. She says: “Take as much milk-warm water as you will want to make your batch of bread, and salt it about twice as salt as you would if you were going to mix the same quantity into sale ratus bread. Stir in flour enough to make a paste about as thick as griddle-cake dough. Put this paste into a tin pail, and' set the pad into a pot of warm water on the stone-hearth, where the water in the pot will keep about milk-warm all the time. This will give the paste an even temperature. “ In four or five hours the paste will rise and foam like yeast. Then turn it into your mix ing-pan, and mix in flour enough to make your dough for bread, and mould it into your pans ready for baking. Set the pans in a warm place, under or about the stove, and cover them over with a clean cloth or paper, and let it rise, which will take about two hours, and as soon as it is fairly raised, put it into a hot oven and bake it quick and thoroughly. “You will have the lightest, whitest, and sweetest bread that can be made, and bread thatis healthy and will retain the natural taste of a handful of wheat when chewed in the mouth, and is not spoiled by saleratus, cream of tartar, yeast powder, and such like drugs. “If you do not put the salt into the water, you will fail to get a good rise about nine times out of ten, but follow the directions, and you will seldom fail “If people would eat this kind of bread, we would not hear so much complaint of sour stom ach, headache and dyspepsia. —■— Good Farming in Johnston County. —We learn from a friend that John W. Poole, Esq., living about two miles from Smithfield, on the Neuse river, raised the present season twenty four barrels of corn on one acre of land. The acre was surveyed by Mr. Charles Massy, and the corn gathered and measured in the presence of several of Mr. Poole’s neighbors. The land is on Neuse river. This is a remarkably fine field. How many farmers in tho State have raised this year one hundred and twenty bushels of corn to the acre? We would be glad to hear from our readers on the subject. — [Raleigh (X. C.) Stod dard. -4- -■ Rye for Milcii Cows. - Mr. C. E. Brooks, one of the best dairymen of Orange county, claims that rye makes more milk than corn or oats, or other meal. Brewers’ grain formerly cost six cents per bushel at the farm, now they cost one shilling, and are not so profitable as rye at six shillings per bushel. Oats ho esteems the poorest kind of grain for cattle. His daily al lowance to each cow is five pounds of meal, giv en with cut straw, wet with warm water. He fed corn and oats, buck w heat and wheat bran, changing the kind frequently, thinking his an imals thrive best on a frequent change of diet. in »i Healixg Salve.—Take rosin, mutton tallow and linseed oil, equal quantities; mix and melt; to be spread on linen when applied. — mam- mb The N. Y. Post says that if General Tom Thumb finds a fitting wife, the public will enjoy tho pomological exhibition of a new variety of “ Dwarf Pair.” HORTICULTURAL. WM. N. WHITE, Editor. SATURDAY, NOV. 26, 1859. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. L., and other friends inquiring for pear and other fruit trees, are referred to our advertising columns. The editor has not a tree of any kind for sale. Full directions for the winter treat ment of Asparagus, you will find in Gardening for the South. Tan Bark, we would only use on clay soils af ter being fully rotted. The addition of lime or ashes will improve it and destroy its acidity. It is best to apply it to such crops as Irish Pota toes or Com which it certainly benefits. Ap plied to such things as Cucumbers, Cabbage, and most garden plants it frequently the first season does more harm than good. It is better to put it into the yards under cattle or swine, where it soon becomes, a most excellent manure. N., of Miss. Yes, J. M. Tiiorburn A Co., are reliable. We ourselves obtained from them this scafson, a most satisfactory collection of bulbs, Ac. We cannot, as a general rule, answer inqui ries except through our columns. In these, we are ready to impart any information that is in our power. — • -444- ■ THE ROSE* Os all flowers, Methinks a.Rose is best. * * * It is the very emblem of a maid ; For when the west w ind courts her gently. How modestly she blows anil paints the sun With her chaste blushes ! When the north comes near her, Kudc and impatient, then, like chastity. She locks her beauties in their bud again, And leaves him to base briars. Beavxont & Fi.etcukr. From the very dawn of civilization no flower has won such general admiration as tho Rose. In the Bible it is cited as the type of grace and beauty, and the poets of every age have cele brated its loveliness. Two thousand years ago Sappho gave it its title of Queen of Flowers, and in the long period which has since elapsed, the gardens of the world have produced no ri val claimant to the title. What divers perfec tions are in this one flower united! It is the only one beautiful in every stage of develop ment; whether in the seducing coquetry of faint ly blushing buds, the elegant disposition of half opened petals, or in the graceful contour of fully expanded blooms. It glows with the liveliest, loveliest tints, from virginal whiteness to vivid crimson or golden yellow, and is fragrant with the sweetest and most delightful perfume. It is the only flower which is really rich in its con fusioD, and is none the less elegant for the ab sence of all uniformity and order. *• We are blushing roses. Bending with our fullness, Midst our close-capped sister buds, Warming the green coolness. Whatsoe'er of beauty Yearns, and yet reposes, Blush, and bosom, and sweet breath Took a shape In Boses. Hold one of us lightly, See from what a slender Stalk we bower in heavy blooms, And roundness rich anil tender. Know you not our only Rival flower—the human ? Loveliest weight on lightest foot — Joyvabundant woman ? Above one hundred species of roses have been described and there are over two thousand vari eties in cultivation. From this chaos it is a little difficult to decide what are best worthy of a place in our gardens. Before we can make a selection, we must have a distinct idea of what are the essential characteristics of a g<®d rose. There are certain of these distinct points essen tial to perfection in all roses, while there are some few that may rank as excellencies in one group and as defects or non-essentials in an other. Among tho points to be sought for in all roses whatever: (1.) The petals should be thick, broad and smooth at the edges. Thickness of petal is de sirable in all flowers and is equally so in a moss rose which is never shown fully opened, and in the florist’s favorite, which is to be exhibited fully expanded like a dahlia. The thicker the petal, the longer is the bud in opening and the longer does it remain in perfection while ex panded. The thicker the petal, the more dense is the shade, if colored, or if not, the more pure its whiteness. The most brilliant scarlet would look tame and watery, if the petal were thin, transparent and flimsy. (2.) The flower should be highly perfumed. Whether a climbing rose, employed to screen a parlor window or verandah, or a standard or dwarf in the open garden, fragrance is one of its most desirable charms. A rose without fragrance should be very distinct and of remark able merit as to color, form and habit of contin ance in bjoom, to entitle it to retain a place in our gardens, at this time so affluent in desirable varieties. (3.) The flower should be double to the cen tre, high on the crown, round in the outline and regular in the disposition of its petals. The more double the flower, the more full and beauti ful the bud in all its stages. Single and semi double moss roseß present buds, thin and point ed, starved looking affairs, while the old moss rose, which is full and double as the cabbage rose, is bold, rich and effective from the instant the calyx bursts. (4.) The habit of blooming freely and con tinuously through the entire season. We have so many excellent roses of this kind that, except in very large collections, transient bloomers are, with some remarkable exceptions, not worth re taining. Some other characteristics essential to all the varieties, in particular groups of roses, are as follows: In moss roses, the quantity of moss, the length ♦Butst on tho Rose. Panl’s Bose Garden. Mrs. Lou don, Bon Janlinier, Rural Cyclopoedla. Ac. of the spires which form it, and its thickness or closeness on the stems, leaves and calyx, can not be too great; neither can the divisions of the calyx be too long or the ramifications at the end bo too many. The plant should be bushy, the foliage strong, the (lowers abundant but not crowded, and set well above the foliage on stiff footstalks, so as to hold them up in full view.— The color should be bright or dapae, as the case may be, and the same at the bdflkaa on the front of the petals. In all roses for stands, designed to be set out in detached flowers like dahlias, the petals should be imbricated and in distinct rows, whether they be reflexed or cupped, and they should continue the same in form to the very centre, being mere ly reduced in size. The color should be distinct and new or striking, and stand fast against sun and air until the blooms fall. The blooms also should stand well out of the foliage and not in each other’s way. As to all Noisette roses, (which bloom in clus ters,) the clusters should be sufficiently open to bloom freely, and the stem and footstalks should be firm and elastic to hold the flower face up ward or face outward, and not to hang down, showing the outside instead of the inside of the blooms. The blooms should be abundant at the end of every shoot, and the shoots should not exceed twelve inches before they flower; the bloom should stand out from the foliago and the plant should be compact and bushy. The worst habit a rose can have, is that of throwing up several blooms close together on short stiff foot stalks, a part of which must be cut away before the others can be fhlly developed. As show flowers they are bad, and as plants they are very untidy; the side buds prevent the centre flow ers from opening fully, and when the first beauty is off them, dead roses are exposed, held fast between two living ones. As to climbing roses, they should be short jointed from leaf to leaf; the blooms should spring from very short branches and all up the main shoots; the plant should be always grow ing from spring to autumn, and the foliage should completely hide the stems, whether the plant be trained on the side of the house or on a pillar or other device. The habit. of throwing up suckers from its roots is a great objection to any rose, it being impossible to keep such plants within bounds, and roses of this habit should generally be dis carded by thoso who like neatness in their grounds. FALL FLO WEBS. The Chrysanthemum, or as it has been trans lated, the “ Golden Flower,” because the old and common varieties had always a predominance of the gold color about them—is now the pride of the amateur's garden. . Go where you will— by lane or square, by street or alley, in cottage or boudoir, we have the Chrysanthemum. The pest of the farmer, White Daisy, or Ox-Eye Daisy , is the type of the family. The flower has no connection with the Artemisia, the late statement of a very sharp cotemporary to the contrary notwithstanding. And now to our subject. Chrysanthemum is at once the botanical and popular name of our favorite fall flower. Gold is not the prevailing color now, as of old. We have delicate white, soft yellow, pleasing lilac, bright red, dusky brown, and all shades of these. The Chrysan themum is not the flower of a class; it is with in the means of all. It grows by the cottager’s piazza, as well as in the rich conservatory. It is used to form the bridal wreath as well as the villager’s nosegay. Its culture is so simple, its habit so robust, its means of propagation so am ple, that we regard it as the Autumn Garland Flower that will never disappear from our gar den It may degenerate. The roots require di vision, or better, the offshoots or suckers to be broken off close by the parent root; and set up for themselves, they will soon form new roots. This is done in the spring, when growth has fairly commenced. Trained to the garden trel lis, or along the piazza railings, what can bo more gorgeous or pleasing in the flowcrless days of October, or early in November, than the lux uriant trusses of favorite Chrysanthemums ? As pot specimens, the Pompone, or dwarf sorts, are very appropriate for decoration purposes. The number of varieties exceed several hundred, and is annually increased by the growth of seed lings. The most popular sorts are, of Pompones — La Fiancee, white; Mignonette, yellow ground, red tip; Henriette, white, with rose shade; Ber nettiana, dark rose; Bob, dark brick red; Jon gleur, fine yellow; Lais, dark crimson ; Paque rette, blush with carmine shade; Gen. Canro bert, fine yellow; Bouquet Parfait, purplish rose; Drine Drine, yellow; Sylphide, creamy white; Yaleda, white. Large Flowered Varittfies. Annie Salter, white; Grand Mogul, purplish lilac: Temple of Solomon, yellow; Tnlby, creamy white; Admi ral D’Urville, purplish rose; Bossuet, deep crim son ; Madame Poggi, dark crimson; Heine d'Or, orange. Soil and culture do not require any further de tailed directions.— [Country Gentleman. Campanula or Bell Flower.—There are a great many varieties in this family of plants, most of them being perennial. The Canterbury Bells is one of the oldest and best known. This is a biennial. The young seedlings should be transplanted into the border where they are to remain, in September. Os the perennial varieties, the Campanula car pathica, alba and ceruleo, are dwarf sorts, and quite desirable. The Camp, persicifolia fl. pi. and urticifoliafl. pi., are very hamsome tall sorts. Besides these, there are many others well worthy of cultivation. The flowers are very diverse in appearance; some very large, others quite small; some deep bell shaped, others very shallow and almost flat, and varying in color from a waxy white to deep blue.—[ Country Gentleman. i 111 mm A New Petunia —( American at that.) —En- closed I forward for your inspection a blossom of a seedling Petunia raised by an enthusiastic amateur, who has been hybridizing this charming tribe of plants with the most- pleasing success. Compared with a quantity of imported kinds, many of which arc large, coarse weedy things, and a disgrace to any respectable catalogue, this beautiful variety stands proudly pre-eminent. The flowers are of a medium size, with a fine bold outline; color, a rich, deep glowing crimson for about two-thirds the way up the corolla —the remaining part a clear and delicate white. — [Country Gentleman. 215