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GARDENING being a science of the utmost importance to the community at large, is followed by many persons with considerable advantage to themselves. Indeed, what is called market-gardening is a medium between private horticulture and that part of farming which relates to the production of green crops. We shall in this confine ourselves to horti culture, as suited to ornament, and to the management of grounds cultivated with the view to family supply. The following list of fruits is usually resorted to, when forming a garden. Apples in all their varieties, pears ditto, plumbs ditto, peaches ditto, apricots ditto, nec tarines ditto, cherries ditto, figs ditto, grapes ditto, mulberries ditto, med lars, quinces, walnuts, cliesnuts, filberds, gooseberries, currants, raspberries, straw berries. The vegetable department usu ally consists of the following: asparagus, artichokes, ditto Jerusalem, beans, peas, kidney-beans, running ditto, turnips, cau liflowers, cabbages, brocoli, coleworta, sea kale, cucumbers, onions, leeks, ra dishes, lettuces, celery, endive, spinach, beets, parsley, fennel, cardoons; cress, mustard, cbevril, potatoes, carrots, par snips, melons, mushrooms, and love-ap ples: with capsicums, hyssop, marjoram, sage, mint, thyme, balm, lavender, rose mary, basil, Clary, borage, and penny. royal, for pot-herbs, &c.

The flower tribe are as follows : First class, or tender annuals : amaranthus of sorts, stiamonium, egg-plant, balsams, ice-plant, sensitive plant, humble plant, scarlet convolvolus, snake-mellon, and martynia.

Second class, or less tender annuals. African marigold, French ditto, aster of sorts, chrysanthemum, sweet sultan, In dian pink, palma-christi, tobacco, love apple, gourds, persicaria, Indian corn, mignonette, convolvolus, capsicum, basil, len nia, stocks, tree-amaranthus, carma corns, Chinese hollyhock.

The third class or hardy annuals. Ado nis, larkspur, lupin, sunflower, lavatera, convolvolus major, starry-scabius, hawk weed, carthamus, nasturtium, Tangier pea, honey-wort, nigella, catch fly, lych nis, navel-wort, Virginia stock, pansies, snail plant, cyanus, xeranthemum, gar den marigold, purple ragwort, dracoce phalum, bastard fumitory, araythyaten.

The hardy biennial and flowers are these : Aster, Tripolian, dog's bane, arum, asclepius, astragalus, alysson, bachelor's button, borage, rag ged-robin, campanula, Canterbury-bells, caltha, cassia, pinks, sweet william, wall flowers, stock July flowers, French honey-suckle, tree primrose, lichnidea, cyanus, lichnis, rose campion, hepatica, linaria, bee lark-spur, fraxinel la, gentiana, fox-glove, globularia, cycla men, chelone, gold-locks, !illy of the val ley, Solomon's seal, filapendula, colum bines, ibalictrum, pulsatilla orebus, ve sovian, golden rod, valerian, rudhekia, pulmonaria, monarda, jacea, ephemeron, primrose, polyanthus, auricula, violet, London pride, day-lilly, aconite, helle bore, geranium, daisies, ranunculus, peo ny, silphium, iris, cardinal, rocket, sca bies, eringo, angelica, asphodel, ononis, lupins, eupetOrium, balm of Gilead, moth mullien, snap-dragon, and Traclescantia.

The bulbous and tuberous kinds are, amaryllis, crocus-vernus, snow-drop, or nithogalum, erithronium, rottscaria, fiitillaria, crown imperials, tulip, gladiolus, anemone, ranunculus, pancratitvn moly, fumaria-bulbosa, Narcissus, jonqiil, lily_ squill, asphodel, tuberose, iris, hyacinth, leontice, colchicum, cyclamen, corona regalis, aconite, and sisyrinchium.

Plants suited to the hot-house are, Aloes, arums, ambrosia, anthyllis, aretotis, aster, (African) apocynum, apium, aspa ragus, (shrubby), bosea, campanula, bupbthalmum, chysocoma, convolvolus, (silvery), celastrus, Cliffortia, caper, cis chamomile, (Italian), cyclamen, co ronilla, crassula, cy tisi is, digitalis, diosura, iris-uvaria, euphorbia, geranium, guapha lium, grewia, heliotrophium, hyperium, Ilerrnania, jasmine, ixia, justicia, leonu rus, kiggellaria, lemon, orange, citron candy-tuft, dotus, lycium, le ntiscus, lava tera, Malabar-nut, mesembryanthemum, myrtle, oleander, olive, opuntia, osteos permum, ononis, physics, phyfalis, sage, (African), silver-tree, scabius, semper vivum, sideroxylum, sedum, solanum, ar vonum-Plini, pomum-amoris, stapelin, tetragonia, tucrium, tree-germander, and tanacetum-frutescens.

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