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Title: The Florist and horticultural journal
Year: 1853 (1850s)
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Subjects: Horticulture Botany
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. : (s.n.)
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s services. Do try and impress upon the horticultural public, that because a man pre-sents a plant or plants, he is not entitled to a prize, without any regard totheir evincing any skill in their culture; and that such are not the purposes-for which prizes are awarded. The annual meeting of the National Agricultural Society has just taken;place. A large proportion of the States were represented. The Hon. Mar-shal P. Wilder delivered an address, of which we have received a copy. OfProf. Booths paper on the Chemical Analyses of Soils, the correspondentof the German-town Telegraph says:—The doubts and suspicions which itcasts over the high-sounding professions of some of our modern philosopherscreated quite a stir. This essay., the property of the Philadelphia Agricul-tural Societyy will, when committed to print, do some good, and must provea wholesome ^admonition to empyricism. With which we agree entirely.The formation of an Agricultural Department by the government was re-commended.
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3^> * NEW VARIETIES OE DAISIES ihi Stone, ai tlie School vfDhiqn,. THE FLOEIST AM HOUTICULTURAL JOXJMAL. Vol. II.) Philadelphia, March, 1853. (No. 3. GERMAN DAISIES.Bellis perenxis L. Nar. Ord. Composite. It is difficult to an j one who does not know what hybridization hasdone and can do, to believe that these charming flowers which wefigure this month, originate from the well known English daisy whichis sold in our markets in the early spring. Having all the beautyof form which is to be found in the Dahlia, with more beautiful,though as yet not so varied colors, they present an attraction to everylover of flowers. The writer had the pleasure a few days since of seeing in bloomsix or seven varieties equal in shape and color to those in the plate.They are new to this country, for like all herbaceous plants, theyare very difficult to import, and it is not always that the seeds ofthe best varieties can be obtained from foreign nurserymen. Wecan promise, however, that several good coll

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