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planted in tlie full sun, wliicli is not 

 so good for it as the shade. This is 

 just the time for people who wish for 

 flowers next winter to obtain stock 

 of this hellebore, and also to part 

 the plants they have. The cut will 

 show the form of the root and how 

 easy it is to pass a knife through it 

 in several places, so as to separate 

 pieces with buds and fibres, which 

 have all to be planted in a shady 

 place in sandy loam and left to take 

 care of themselves. Now, also, the 



HELIEBOKUS NIGES. 



enthusiastic gardener should provide 

 himself with stock of the showiest 

 of the fancy pansies ; Beaton's 

 *' Good gracious," Trentham Blue, 

 and Magpie to be of the number. 

 These all bloom on strong stools left 

 out all winter, just at that critical 

 season when the bedders are bloom- 

 less and the ordinary lun of spring 

 flowers are over. Double primroses 

 and hepaticas should be grown in 

 plenty ; all they want is a fat loam 

 and lo be divided as soon as out of 

 bloom, and may be moved about to 

 decorate the borders when wanted 

 and to grow strong again in the re- 

 serve ground for the next season. 



Foliage Bidders. — Last year's 

 experiences proved that Coleus Vers- 

 chaflelti may be u.-ed as a bedder 

 with the greatest certamty of success. 



There is no other way for people who 

 are not so deep in gardening as to be 

 ready at any moment to turn traders, 

 and compete with the nurserymen, 

 to get up a stock of this glorious 

 plant than to buy a few now and put 

 them in a stove or warm greenhouse, 

 and make cuttings of the tops and 

 side-shoots. We see that Messrs. 

 Carter advertise them at from six to 

 twelve shillings a dozen, so there is 

 no longer the objection of dearness 

 to its plentiful use, and any one 

 handy at propagating could get up a 

 stock of a thousand from a (evr to 

 begin with. They strike in a dung 

 heat of 70^ in ten days, and any- 

 body can manage them after that, 

 remembering that they like warmth, 

 a rich soil, and plenty of water* 

 The new Amaranthus melancholicus 

 can be got up in any quantity by 

 sowing seed now and treating it 

 just the same as love-lies-bleeding. 

 This also can be topped and struck 

 wholesale, but it must never be 

 starved, or it will run into bloom, 

 and then it ceases to grow freely. 

 Perillasand purple Orachs our readers 

 know all about from past advices. 

 Chenopodium atriplicis, which we 

 have so often recommended for its 

 exquisite carmine colouring, will not 

 work in with any of the Ibregoing, 

 that is, not to satisfy our eye. It 

 must be used by itself, and makes a 

 fine bed either nipped back or allowed 

 to run into flower. A band of golden 

 mint round it is about the best edaicg 

 it can have. We have had from Barr 

 and Sugden, with other novelties, 

 seed of Urtica nivea, which produces 

 a fine silvery foliage. This grows 

 three feet high, and will tell for the 

 centres of beds where foliage forms 

 predominate, and will be especially 

 valuable where a nondescript bed of 

 liicinus, Cauna, and other large- 

 leaved plants are to be grouped. 

 But a still better centre will be 

 Helianthus argophyllus striatiflorus 

 fl. pi., which we liave had from the 

 same house. But it must be a large 

 bed for such a plant as this, and one 

 a little out of the way of the geo- 

 metric garden, as in a niche of the 

 woodland walks and shrubbi-ries, for 

 it grows four feet high and makes a 



