A contributor to the Country Gentleman, lately saw some fine specimens of floral plants in Baltimore, Md. "A plant of Begonia Marshallii, four feet across the front, two plants of Caladium esculentum near five feet high, leaves thirty by twenty inches, and Cissus discolor, with leaves eight inches in length and beautifully marked. These plants are in seven inch pots. Besides those mentioned, he has a collection of Begonias in the most robust health, and varieties which are usually considered difficult by the most skillful among us, flourish with him equally with the more robust kinds.

"His Coleus, too, are models of splendid coloring and rampant growth. One plant challenged my attention more particularly - a Pheris, in a four inch pot, with upwards of twenty fronds, the largest near five feet. I have not mentioned these things as being very extraordinary, but to show that when a man can take hold of a collection of plants in a sickly state, and in a few months bring them into the most robust health, and in such small pots grow them to a size that many gardeners cannot do after a long life of practice - I say when a man can do that, he is an honor to his profession".