. The Garden : an illustrated weekly journal of gardening in all its branches. I thought 1 wfuldtry its hardiness. One set of plants was placed in a greenhon&e, wherethey soon perished from damp. Another lot was placed in the dwelUng-houso,in an airy room where there baa been no fire throughout the winter, and whereat one time, for a week or more, the temperature could not have been but adegree or two above freezing; they were, of course, kept dry at the have lost most of their toliage; but a few days ago, they were placed inheat, and are already giving signs of growth, thus showing
. The Garden : an illustrated weekly journal of gardening in all its branches. I thought 1 wfuldtry its hardiness. One set of plants was placed in a greenhon&e, wherethey soon perished from damp. Another lot was placed in the dwelUng-houso,in an airy room where there baa been no fire throughout the winter, and whereat one time, for a week or more, the temperature could not have been but adegree or two above freezing; they were, of course, kept dry at the have lost most of their toliage; but a few days ago, they were placed inheat, and are already giving signs of growth, thus showing that they willwithstand a much lower winter temperature than that to which they aregenerally subjected.—J. SawkcJiurch, near Axminster, Feb. 26, 1876.] THE GARDEN. 211 MR. VICKS often admire the effective way in which woodcuts are used toillustrate articles on rural affairs in America, and in the richly illus-trated catalogue of Mr. James Vick, of Kochestor, we lind the art a step farther than is usual. We mean, for example, a variety of. The woman whose flower seeds all came up.* diminutive illustrations of the people who succeed and who fail intheir gardens. Oar own farmers gardens are paradisaical comparedwith those one often sees in the Eastern States of America, wherethe Nettles are frequently allowed to look in through the are, however, better managed, and here we have a sketch ofthe woman whose flower seeds all come up, and a less pleasinone of her whose seeds come up after another fashion. Mr.
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