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pretty. Bartonia aurea is also tall, but useful. Everybody knows 

 the " Ranunculus marigold," and as we cannot do without it, we 

 recommend the best variety, which is called Calendula officinalis 

 ^uperha. A very charming clump may be made with Chrysan- 

 themum carinatum, if the plants are freely thinned out in their earl)' 

 stages of growth. We now come to the finest yellow-flowering 

 annual known, Erysimurn Peroffuklanum^ which blooms all the 

 summer long, a splendid deep orange colour. To get early flowers 

 the seed should be sown in autumn, but it will do well if sown in 

 March. Strange to say, this is almost too good for clumps ; it is, in 

 reality, a bedding plant. The well known ^scholtzia GaJifornica and 

 crocea are true clumping plants, and fine for the purpose ; they 

 flower earlier if sown in autumn. Leptosiphon aureus we cannot 

 do without. Fectis angustifolia is a novelty, and the only novelty 

 we shall include in this list. Xearly all the sorts we recommend 

 may be obtained in threepenny packets ; but the plant now before us 

 will cost a sliilling for a pinch of it, but it is so good that we must 

 have it, and those who love it when they see it in bloom will find no 

 difiiculty in saving seed for the next season. The plant forms a 

 •close tuft a foot across, and only three or four inches high, and the 

 flowers occur at the ends of the branches. Sanvitalia procumhens 

 jiore pleno is usually catalogued as a half-hardy annual, but the seed 

 may be sown in the border in April, and it will do well. It is 

 almost too good for clumps, and is a true bedder. Lastly, Viola lutea, 

 though a perennial, may be treated as an annual, and is first-rate. 



AjfxuALS WITH Blue Flowees fob Clumping. — The best of this 

 class is Campanula carpatica, but it must be sown early in a frame, 

 and better if in a greenhouse or on a gentle hotbed, and as soon as 

 the plants are large enough to handle, they must be pricked out into 

 pans or boxes, and taken care of till large enough to plant out. 

 The Purple Candytuft is worth a pLice in any garden ; when true, it 

 is splendid, but there are some very inferior sorts in trade. Collinsia. 

 hartsioefolia is fine. Eutoca viscida is a good blue, and pretty. 

 Gilia achillecefoUa is a valuable annual ; it may be sown at any time, 

 and anywhere, and therefore should be kept at hand to serve the 

 same purpose as Virginia stock. G. laciniata and G. minima ccerulea 

 are also worth having. Kaidfassia amelloides is a lovely annual. The 

 hranching Larlcspur may be had in a variety of colours, but without a 

 doubt the blue is the best of all, and makes a brilliant clump or bed. 

 The Lupins are mostly too tall for clumps, but we cannot do without 

 Lupinus suhcarnosus^ which is one of the grandest plants known. 

 If sown early, it flowers the first season, and will last five or six 

 years afterwards. Fortunately it only grows a foot high, and is 

 therefore just the thing for our purpose. Nolana paradoxa is a 

 charming blue- flowering plant. Veronica cjlauca is a novelty ; a 

 pinch of the seed may be obtained for sixpence. It grows four 

 inches high, and is covered through the summer with pretty blue 

 flowers. Viola cornuta may be treated as an annual, and makes a 

 pretty clump. We never thought it good enough for bedding, and 

 80 have never recommended it. We omit the convolvuluses and 

 many other good annuals as unsuitable for clumping. 



