A correspondent of The Rural New Yorker finds the following a good selection:

First, then, is Attraction or General Grant, which everybody now wants. Its flowers are bright scarlet and very abundant. Next, Beaton's Indian Yellow, with flowers of an orange scarlet, decidedly a yellow tinge. Cybister, with flowers of a crimson scarlet. Donald Beaton, somewhat like Beaton's Indian Yellow, but with immense trusses of flowers. Leonidas, a fiery scarlet and flowers of immense size. Le Grand, also, with large truss but more of a crimson scarlet. Phoenix and Provost, both bright scarlet. Godfrey, very brilliant, and a profuse bloomer. Hector (new), a free grower and bloomer. Village Maid, with bright, deep pink flowers. White Perfection, with, as its name indicates, flowers of pure white, and a free bloomer.

These are some of my bed, not obtained because of their special novelty or newness, but for their beauty; and then I have gone back again to my early love, and got me an old ivy-leaved Geranium, and also, to compare with, one of the new ones of its class, called Bridal Wreath. The flowers of this class are not conspicuous, but there is such a richness in the foliage, that I always love to look at it, and everybody wants a little of it whenever I make a bouquet to give away.

I find pinching and pegging down all classes of bedding plants, such as I have here named, with many others, pays well for the trouble, in the great addition it gives to appearance, and in the greater profusion of bloom and added vigor and beauty of foliage.