Transcriber’s Note:

Extra, missing, or misprinted punctuation has been corrected without note. Variation in hyphenation (e.g. house plants vs. house-plants), and capitalization in some botanical names has been left as in the original.

The following changes were made to the text:

p. 9: couservatory to conservatory

p. 12: Burridgianum to Burridgeanum (Cosmidium Burridgeanum)

p. 13: autumnale to autumnalis (Adonis autumnalis.)

p. 13: Callirrhöe to Callirrhoë

p. 23: herbacous to herbaceous

p. 41: Beaumé to Baumé (26° Baumé)

p. 55: batchelor’s to bachelor’s (bachelor’s buttons)

p. 56: Callirhoë to Callirrhoë

p. 89: rocommended to recommended (the treatment recommended for Crocus)

p. 122: establishd to established (when well established)

p. 132: 80,° to 80°, (begins to fall below 80°,)

p. 133: witholding to withholding (gradually withholding water)

p. 207: seed to seeds (six seeds in each hill)

p. 233: ipomeas to ipomœas and Ipomea to Ipomœa

p. 233: Cobea to Cobæa

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