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'"\"" < Large Pruning Shears, For lopping oft' branches. Ladies' Fancy Pruners, For Rose Bushes, &c., Grass Shears, Long hfiiidles and vvlioola Hedge Shears, UitiSarenl Sizes. Edging Irons, Cast Steel. Tiirring Irons, t Cast Steel. Garden Hoes, All Sizes. Dutch Hoes, Garden Rakes, Green-house Syringes. Gravel Rakes, Lawn R kes, . , . Gardep Forks, Diggir;g Forks, Toy Spades, Cast tSieel, ' Fancv Setts Garden Tools, For Ladies. Garden Lines & Reels, Thistle & Dock Spuds, Transplanting Trowels, Saynor's PruLiing and Budding Knives, Watering Pots, Steel Spades & Shovels, Books on Horticulture. No. of Plants or Trees tliat caft be plaiited oji an Acre of ground, at the following distances apart, inject. Distance apart. No, 1 li 2 2 ii\ 3 3 3 31 4 4 4 4 4J 5 4 5 5 5 5} 6 by 1 H 1 3 n 1 1 3 3.i 1 2 3 4 l' 2 3 4 5 5J G of Plants. 43,5G0 19,3G0 21.780 10.890 6,969 14.520 7,260 4.84.t 10,890 4445 3,630 2.Ti2 2,15J 8.712 4,:i';6 2.904 2.173 \.1A2 1,417 l.-ilO i,o;)i I, iRitrljrn (oarhfii k Slgrirultural $nh. ASPARAGUS. New Giuii^. BEANS. Broad Windsor Taylor's Large do Lono," Poi KIDNEY BEANS Yellow .•T'ix \V(-tks Black S[Hclil.-d White do Boyal Bwarf" Early Valentine •Lima oi- Butter Bean Case Knife Scarlet Runners BEET. Lonaj Blood Extra Long Early Tuinip-rooted BORECOIE o> GREENS Gtrinan (.Tretns Scotch (rrecns , BROCOLI. Early l'ur|tle (.;ape Early White Cape New Wali-lieren(7i«e CAULIFLOWER. Early London " French, Late French Large Asiatic (Neiv) CARROT. Early ilorn Dutch Horn Long Orange Feed Altringham Fine Selected do Red Surry White Belgian {for field cult are) CABBAGE. Large Sugar ^Carly York York -■ Leaf l^^arly Battersca Early Vannack Vtkiiis'iMatchless ■hilling's Queen Oilfield Market ^ Neii Late CJuintal > is. St. Denis 3 f.ne Large Drumhead Late Bergen Flat Dutch P»ed Dutch Savoy Green Curled " ]Marcilen {Ncu " Cattle's {neio Dwarf) CELERY. \Vhiie Solid led Solid Seymour's Superb Jole's Solid Bed " New Crystal Wliite Tsiqjerh CRESS. Common ^ Culled Extra CUCUMBER. Long Prickly Short Prickly I"]arly Frame Long Fiidge Manchester Prize And several otler choice sorts, ENDIVE. Green Curled White Curled EGG PLANT. While Purple LEEK. Large I'lag .Vusselburgti [frwej LETTUCE. Paris Co§s Curled Silocia True Malta \ ictoria Cahhage MANGEL WURZEL. Lied Cilobe TiOno; Bed New Yellow Globe White Sugar Beet MUSK MELON. Fine Green Fleshed. Fine Scarlet Fleshed Mmorca Nutmeg [^/te] [Several other choice WATER MELON. Long Island Citron , MUSTARD. • White NASTURTIUM.': Yellow New Dark ONION. Large Paie Red Weathersfield Red White Silver Skincd Large l.ar-c Yellow PEPPERS, Large Red Small Red Cherry PARSLEY, Curled Double Curled Myat's Matchless, for garnishing; PARSNIP. Dutch Hollow Crown Long Smooth White PUMPKIN. Common Field New Large, yellow PEAS, Early Frame Early Emperor Early Kent Bishop's fine Long Podded Burbridge's Eclipse Fairbeard's Champion .of England Royal Dwaii" Knight's Tallow Mar- row Knight's Dwarf Do. White Spanish dwarf Flack's !New Imperial Blue Imperial White Marrowfat Dwarf Sugar .with eat- able pods RADISH, Early Frame Long Salmon Scarlet Short-top Scaiiet Turnip White Turnip Black .>panish Rose Olive Shaped RHUBARB, Scarlet Giant Myat's Victoria SQUASH, Acorn SummerBoston Squash Winter do Vegetable Marrow SEED POTATOES Early Ash-top " June do " Gold Finder " Shaws Several late varieties SPINACH, Round Prickly TOMATO, Large Red Yellow New Red, very larg' TURNIP- Fo)- Garden Culture Early White Stone " Snow Ball " Maltese, yellow TURNIP, For Field Calticre Swedish or Ruta Eaga Purple top S^vede,fme Lamg's Improved Swede Green Top Swede Yellow Alteringham Robertson's Golden Yellow ) new Orange .Telly ) sort? Yellow Aberdeen White Globe HERBS, Summer fcavory Winter Savory Sweet Marjoram Pot Marjoram Sage Thyme Fennel Balm Lavender Rosemary Rue Basil Carraway MISCELLANEOUS, Salsity Scorzonera Sea Kale English Rye Grass American Red-tcp do Kentucky Blue (irass American Orchard do English L«wn Grasses Engli'ih Potatoe Onions Top " Shallots Asparagus Roots Giant Rhubarb Roots Cabbage, Cauliflower, Celery and Brocoli plants in their sea- son Plum, Cherry, Apple and P^ar Trees Red, White & Black Currant Bushes Gooseberries.fine sorts Hardy Roses, all sorts Flowering Shrubs Herbaceous Flower Roots, &c., With a general nssort- me.nt of all othnr Hor- licultuial and Agriciil- Seeds and Roots. FLOWER .SEEDS. ANNUAL, PirKKIAL AND PEKESKIAL. African Marigold Asrrostis Pulchella Ainmobium Alitum Anagallis Indica I" New Blusl Anterrhinum.fnemix'd Browallia Elati, blue Bracliycoina IboriiJi- folia Balsam, fine dbl. sorts Bartonia, Golden Briza maxima Cacalia Cocci.iea EutocD viscida , *' Wrangleana! Flos Adonis . . Calandrina grandiflora Candytuft, White « Purple « Normandy Canterbury Bells Carnation Centaurea Americana China Aster[fine Ger- man sorts] Cleome Speciosa Clarkia grandiflora « Pulchella »< Alba Cockscombsjfine Dw'f Columbine Convolvulus Major j " Minor Coreopsis Drummondi " Tinctoria Cowslip Collomia Coccinea Cuphpa Viscosisima Daisies, sinoh Datura Alba Dolichos Lablab Ecremo cajpus scabra Eschscholzia Cristata " Californica Erysimum, orange flower Foxglove French Marigold Gauiardia hicolor 'riiiia, mi^ed Globe Amaianthus Godetia vinosa '• Rubicunda Helichrysum (var.) Hibiscus Africanus Hollyhocks, fine sorts Ipomea Burredgii Ice Plant Indian Pink .' broad-leaved Ipomopsispicta Tacobea do )le Kulfusssia Dwf blue Linaria Tryphilla Larkspur Dwarf " Rocket « Tall Rocket " Branching « DoubleWhite " Chinese Lavatera, mixed Lavender, sweet i Lotus Jacobeus Lupins [fine sorts] Malope trifida Martynia Proboscida Madia Elegans Nemesia floribundia Mignionette, sweet Nasturtium, tall " new crimson Nemophilla Insignis " grandiflora Palma Christi Pansey, fine Penstemon, sorts Petunia, white « Red Pheasant-eyed Pinks Phlox Drummondii Pc'yanthus Poppy, carnation " double white ; " new French Portulaca splendens ^ Russian Violet Salpiglossis Picta Schizanthus [var.] Sensitive Plant Sphenogyne Speciosa Stock, ten week " scarlet German i% ten varieties <' BromptoQ " Virginian Sweet Alyssum Sweet Peas, fine mix'd Sweet Pk,ocket Sweet Sultan Sweet Scabious Sweet William ^- Tropaeolum canariensis Thunbergia alata Viscaria oculata Wallflower, dark Zinnia elegans « '• striata <• Atomaria Nigella, dwarf NOTE. The assortment of Flower Seeds embraces a great many more varieties, but the want of space prevents enumsration of all their names. Price,— 3d. per paper, or 2s. 6d. p«r doz. H ^0 * • •V ( !, . Directions for Sowing and Raising ANNUAL FLOWEKS. (From Bredi's Book of Floicers. The phuts generally known as Annnals, are raised from the seed, perfect their flowers, niuuire iheir seed ihe same season, and then perish. '1 here are some flowers, however, culttvated as Annuals, tliat are such only in a noithern climatb, being in their own more congenial region perennials, or biennials. — Among them are the Verbena. Chriscis, or Eschscholizin, as it was formerly called. Commelina, Alirabilis, and many others. This class of Annuals may be kept through the winter in green houses or in any lijjht cellars. Annuals are most appropriate for thojo who are changing their abode from year to year, as from these alone a fine display may be kept up the whole season, with tho exception of the ver;ial k ontbs. and this deliciency may be supplied by having a choice collection of perennial?, grown in pots, which can be plunged in the ground, and thus removed at any time when it is necessary to change the resi- cence. No collection of plants can be perfect without an abundance of Annuals, aa theycnu be disposed of snch a way as to succeed the perennials, and keep up* a continuous bloom in all parts of the garden througti the season. Annuals may bo dirided as follows : — hardy, half-hardy, and tender. IJardy Annuals are such as may be sown in autumn or very early in the spring, aa all tho Larkspurs, Chriseis, Claikeo, Asters, Candyiut'ts, «&c. Half- hardy ai-o those which will not Lear a haid froj.t, and theicforo not proper to plant in the open ground before tho middle or last of May, as the Balsam Cocks- comb, Mangold, &c. Tender Annuals can hardly bo broiii;ht to jierle* lion without starting them in aitificial boat, in a hot-bed or otherwise, and are veiy sensitive of cold, as tiie Cypress vine, Thumbergia, Ice Plant, Sensitive Plant, &c. Many of these, in a very warm season, will succcei' tolerably will if planted about the 1st of Juno ; "but to have them in perfection they should be raised in a hot-bed, in pots, and turned out in the ground the middle of June. Defore sowing Annuals, tho soil in which they arc to bo grown should be made light and rich, and very finely pulverized, ns' many of the seeds are very smnll, and require every advantage'and core to get them" up. 'J'lie small seeds mu>=t receive 'uul little covcing, and of the f.nest earth. Jn so\viiig tlioie, my practice is to sow them in natches si.v or eight inche:^ sqnare. The soil having been well prepared, I setilo tho ground well with the foot or a small piece of board, so as to make an even, somewhat firm, surface. Then take sotne veiy fine soil and .«jft or strew over them, covering the seed not more than cno eighth of an inch deep, after which press the soil again with tho boaid gently. If is nbwof great importance that the feeds, ns tliey vegetate, should bo pro- (cACted froTu the scorching sun ; an evergreen bough is as pood as anything to shade them. Tho soil must not he permitted to get dry until the young plants have acquired some strength ; afier which they may be left to take their chaoce from the effects of sun or dryness. When the plants are of a proper •rize, and the weatliersuituhle, they ri'ia; bo taken up with atransplatmg trowel, aod set whoro w.^nied, A sina'l patch of this description w'ill nffoid plants wnougii for any common jjarden. In rcn.oving them a number of ihem may s ba taken up together without digturbinj* the roots ; but when the plants hare beconje est .blished, all may bo cut off except ihe t^trongeat ones. As a general rule, a single plant gives belter satisfaction than when a number are grown together, except when planted in masses, or whore there is to bo a groiip. The beauty of many Annuals is completely destroyed by huddling them toirefher. Give every plant room according to its habits. A single plant, welt trained, may be made very beaiiliful ; while a uuniber of the same specie?, grownr together, without sufficient room, would bo worthless. ' Larkspur, and nianv other seeds, should be sorn where they aro to remain. A bed ot Double llocket Larkspur, -well manngcd, is almost equal to a bed of Hyacinths, when in bloom. This succeeds best when sown la;e in autumn or very early in the spring. The seed may be sown in drills, eight or ton mches apart, in beds, and plants well thinned ou'. Larkspur, and many other hardy annual seeds, if ';jwn late in autumn, and lie dormant all winter, will t;ive much htronsrer nlanis than ihe same kinds of r-ced sown ve y early in the spring, nolwithstaiiding those sown in the spring may appear above ground as soon as those sown in autumn. The reason probably i^, that the autumnal town seeds are so prepared, by the action of the tVos't, that they start wiili greater vigor, and consequently are mom robust than the spring sown tecds. Some seeds are diffi:ult to germinate. Cyprus vine is nn example. This requires scalding, to facilitate its germination ; or if the hull is carefully taken oir* with a penkuife, so as not to injure the germ, the object is effected, and it will iinmedialelv vegetate. The seeds of Goinphena globosa (Globe Amaranth) is encased in a thick coating of woolly subManct, which greatly retards vege- tation. This, .vitii the hull, if talren off.causcs the germ to push in)mediately; or, if the seed is soaked in milk twenty-four hours, it will soon start; but, if planted with the coating on, or without soaking, very few will appear above g.ound. As a general rule, the depth of planting Hower seeds is to be governed by the size. For example, the Sweet I'ea and Lupine may bo planted an inch deep, and so in proportion. Annuals have a pleas-iug eli'cCt when planted in masses, particularly when the pleasure-ground is extensive. For this purpose the Ver- benas, of vaiious colors, Portulaccc^, Nomoph\lia, Chii>e: ;, Phlox, Drummon- dii, Coreopsis Druinmondii, Candylufls. and many other duarf plants, are de- sirable. Beds of aiiv of these, or others of siiuilnr habit, in a well managed grass-lawn, a;e very ornamental. The bedsshould be either round, oval, starry, bnt never sqnire, diamoned-shaped, or triiingular. Masses of Annuals may bo so airanged as to make a gian(i display in tho common llower-gaiden. We have seen the walks of an extensive llower-gaidf;); deeply edged with a wide border of ciimson a<>d scarlet Portnlaccas; and, throughcut the whole garden, all the annuals, and other plants, in fact, were planted in masses. We have never seen a better managed g.irden than this one. it contained about au ^cre of ground. Not inoie than twenty crtiiirty kinds of annuals were cultivated ia tho garden, nnd of this class of plants mo'o than one half of the ground was filled. They consisted of every variety of Double Balsams, Gorman Asters, Drummoiul" Phlox, Coreopsis," Amaranths, Verhenris. Portnlaccas,- DcoWe China Pinks, Petunias, JVlignlonette, Cockscomb.;, Giliitlower.-:, &c. ■^^ _\y\ --,ri :i Sll .i \>ti •i'- ■■%■ . til! 4 '»i • 1 {; •e\\i\ vegetable, and very hardy. Seed SLwn in the month of September will stand over the winter, and come in for early greens in the snrinsf. For summer use, seed of round 'spinach may be sown from May to July. It requires a rich soil. Sow in drills, one foot apart. Tomatos arc much cultivated for their fruit. To bare them early, the sted :«hould be .sown in a hot-bt-d, early in March. When the plant!; are a Kood size, and Spring frosts are over, plant them out in the garden ; let the plants be four feet apart. Plant on a south bor- der near a fence, and they will produce abundance of fruit. Ti(r?iips.—One of the best sort for the garden is the Early White Stone, which may be sown from the middle of May to the end of Aug. Sow in drills, fifteen inches apart, and thin out the plants to eight inches ttsimder. Field Turnips, such as Swedish, Aberdeen Yellow, &c., m;iy be sown in drills, two feet apart, about the middle of May. wiiite (iiobe, and Flat Norfolk, will do to sow about the middle of July. 'J'urnips arc very apt to be eaten by the black flea. A good remedy is lo steep the need one night in train oil. This will greatly promote germination, and the growth of the your.g plants. JAMES FLEMING, Seedsman and Florist, Yoitge St., TorofUo. List of Books for sale by J?.mes rieming. I ,>'i1% i Prize Essay on Manure. An Essavpn Manures, submitled to the Trustees of the Massacl-.URCtts So- ciety for riornotinir Agriculture, f' their Premium. By Samual L. Dana, Paper, 25 cis. American Bird Fancier. "^"^ By l). J. Browne. 25 cts. Family Kitchen Gardener. I3y Robert Bnist. $125. • j American Flower Garden Directory. ' ^ ' By Robert Buist. Ma cts. i "^ ' Johnson's Agricnltnral Chemistry. New edition with Appendix. $125. I The Rose Cnltnrist A Praetical Treatise on i's Culiivaiiou and Management. 25 clB. The American Fruit Book. By VV. S. Colo. :)0 cts. Book of FloAVcrs. By Joseph Bieck. 75 cts. The Yonnj? Gardener's Assistant. Bv Thomas Biidgeman. .^l 50. The Florist's Guide." j'y Tkoinas i^iidgemon. .'^Oit'. The Kitchen Gardener's Instmctor. B. 'I'lioina-i I'lidcniian. 50 cts. LruUcs' Companion to the Flower Garden. ^^ — - By IMr.s. Louden. Edited by A. J. Dowiiing. I ! I L ^Q