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every opportunity of resisting it, by selecting a dry sheltered position 

 for the transplanting bed. A dressing of leaf-mould should be 

 applied in addition to the sandy stuff mentioned "when speaking of 

 the seedlings. 



The varieties mentioned above will make a glorious bed, if mixed 

 with due regard to their various heights and colours, and the effect 

 produced will be quite equal to that capable of being produced by 

 any other class of plants. The beds should be prepared by trench- 

 ing them deeply, and working in at the same time a liberal dressing 

 of thoroughly-decayed manure and leaf-mould. Where the plants 

 are to be turned out singly, or in clumps of three together, in the 

 mixed borders, the ground should be dug up deeply where they are 

 to be planted, and a few spits of manure added. Few plants will 

 pay much better for liberal treatment than those we have under 

 consideration. The superiority of the spikes and individual flowers, 

 when the plants have a little attention, over those produced by others 

 planted without the soil undergoing any preparation, will be so 

 apparent as to repay the little time and labour expended more than 

 a hundredfold. The flower-spikes should be removed immediately 

 the beauty of the flowers is over, unless it is intended to save seed, 

 and those which flower early will throw up flower-spikes a second 

 time. In an extra sharp winter it is advisable to cover the old 

 stools with coal-ashes, but it should be removed before the plants 

 start into growth. 



The plants raised from cuttings struck in autumn may be put in 

 three-inch pots, and wintered in a frame with just sufficient protec- 

 tion to prevent the frost doing them any harm. Planted out as early 

 in February as the state of the weather and condition of the soil will 

 permit, they will soon become established, and produce an abundance 

 of bloom throughout the summer, if the old flower-spikes are 

 removed when it becomes necessary. 



FLOWEKING PLANTS FOE TABLE DECOEATIOK 



BY J. W. SILVEE, 

 Head Gardener, The Laurels, Taunton. 



|jN The Florae World for June a list of plants with 

 ornamental foliage, adapted for dinner-table decoration, 

 was given, and a promise made that a list of flowering 

 plants, suitable for the same purpose, should follow. 

 It would, perhaps, have been more satisfactory if the 

 list had been given in the issue for the following month, but the 

 demands upon our time during the exhibition season are so great 

 and every moment is so occupied, that very little time is spared for 

 writing. We will commence with 



STOYE PLANTS. 



Anthueitjms. — One of the most useful and effective flowering 



