Flower In California

We are favored with the following from the correspondence of a lady who is visiting at Vallejo, near San Francisco:

"I have been over to the United States navy yard. It seemed like an hour in Eden, the park and gardens are so beautiful. The

Castilian rose is the native rose here; into it are budded all the choice varieties. I saw roses, " Cloth of Gold," eleven inches across, the bushes clambering over half-way up a three story brick house; hedges of from six to eight feet high of pink and red Fish geranium; trees of Lemon geranium and Hairbell fuchsias grow" like grape vines.

" Lady Washington geraniums are the plants that grow most thrifty here in the yard, and Cuba lilies keep blowing all the summer out of doors. Dew plants run over everything unless it is kept weeded out. Carnation pinks are as large as our roses. They have to keep cutting flowers, or the blossoms kill the plants if allowed to blossom too freely."

Flower Stands For Greenhouses

In small greenhouses, particularly those attached to or near the proprietor's house, where elegance of design and neatness in keeping are attended to, we see not why stages of the ordinary clumsy description should not be entirely dispensed with, and the plants set in elegant vases or flower-stands, having the surface of the pots covered with clean green moss. The subjoined cut represents a flower-stand suited to this purpose, and much used in France They are of east-iron or bronze, and not only are the plants tastefully arranged in them, but often little jets are introduced, as shown in our cut Wherever such an arrangement is intended, we would suggest to have all the tables portable, so that the arrangement may be altered at pleasure - M'Intoth's Book of the Garden.

Flower-Pot Drainage

I beg to suggest the use of perforated of earthenware cylinders instead of potsherds, stones, etc., for this purpose. These, if merely covered with a thin layer of moss, fibrous-rooted peat, or charcoal, would, doubtless, answer admirably. - A. B. C.

Flowering Thorns

When arranging for shrubbery planting this coming fall, the various flowering thorns should not be forgotten. Some years since our friend Charles Downing gathered together a beautiful collection of various shades of bloom, from pure white to a deep crimson, but the latter was only a single flower. At this present time the brilliant rich crimson tint is in existence in a double-flowering variety, which has been figured in the Florist and Pomolagist, and is doubtless already in the hands of our leading nurserymen.

New Seedling Strawberry Nicanor.

Flowers And Bulbs

Gladiolus bulbs of the best mixed varieties are worth twenty-five dollars a thousand. Of the flowers, Mr. Allen is at present sending one hundred dollars' worth per week to our city stores. As soon as the flowering season is over with the gladiolus, the bulbs are taken up and dried, aud the largest are laid away for autumn and spring sales, while the smaller sorts are replanted for the next seaaon's flowers.