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variety named after Rev. C W. Bolton is typical of a race of 

 plants to be used for bedding which ought to be developed in 

 America. Triomphe de Solferbio has a thick stem which cuts 

 like timber. One has to cut down nearly the whole plant and 

 trim off the coarse, clumsy foliage in order to get two or three 

 flowers, which are, after all, only vegetable curiosities and will 



not go into a vase. Rev. C. 

 W. Bolton has a multitude 

 of medium-sized flowers on 

 long, slender stems just 

 right for cutting. Three 

 big flowers on a little plant 

 distract the attention as 

 would individual squashes, 

 or pumpkins. Pompons 

 have a unity of effect in 

 their multitude of detail ; 

 and midget and lilliputian 

 are prettier words than 

 humpbacked dwarf. 



4. The cactus varieties 

 often have a trick of hiding 

 their flowers under the 

 leaves. This is no great 

 calamity in the case of old 

 fashioned bedders like Tri- 

 omphe de Solferino. Here 

 Rev. C. W.Bolto7i (Fig. 31) 

 is again the type and the 

 ideal, its many slender 

 stems raising the flowers 



31. — Rev. C. W. Bolton. Flower naturally 

 four inches in diameter. 



above the foliage. 



5. The whorled effect in Priscilla, Blumenf alter and others, 

 must be pretty and novel to those who know only the old-time 

 dahlias. Their so-called quilled rays are arranged in a circular 

 or rotary fashion which gives a certain neatness and mock-mili- 

 tary precision that is often pretty and attractive, particularly in 

 young flowers, as in children playing soldiers. 



