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BEDDING PLANTS. 



A paper read by Louis Boeglin before the 



Twin City Florists' and Gardeners' 



Club. 



In a paper on "Bedding Plants, 

 their Propagation and Preparatory 

 Culture," before the Twin City Flor- 

 ists' and Gardeners' Club, Louis Boeg- 

 lin named as among the best cannas 

 for large beds, the tall growing varie- 

 ties Alphonse Bouvier, Duke of Marl- 

 borough, Flamingo, J. D. Eisele, Chas. 

 Henderson, Florence Vaughan and 

 Paul Marquant. For smaller beds the 

 low g-rowing varieties, such as Express, 

 Egandale, Premier, Queen Charlotte, 

 etc. In bedding geraniums, he places 

 S. A. Nutt, Mrs. E. G Hill, Miss Per- 

 kins, Beaute Poitevine, Gen. Grant, A. 

 Rieard. Warrior, Buchner, Madame 

 Bruant and Jean Viand among the 

 first. 



Flowering Plants of the Best Sorts. 



He said that begonias should be 

 grown more than they are today, and 

 most of them will stand the sun well 

 if properly treated while growing. He 

 named as tin best tuberous begonias 

 Puke of Zepplin and Lafayette, both 

 having the (lowers well above the dark 

 foliage and being continuously in 

 bloom, and as the best fibrous or seni- 

 perflorens type Vernon, Erfordi pink 

 ami red, gracilis and gracilis luminosa, 

 Triumph de Lorraine, Biyon, Bedding 

 King and Dewdrop, all of which va- 

 rieties are perfectly sunproof. 



The best salvia is splendens com- 

 pacta Zurich, a variety introduced by 

 W. Rothpletz, superintendent of parks, 

 Zurich. Switzerland, and first import- 

 ed here a lew years ago by Theodore 

 Wirth. The best heliotrope is the 



Czar, a healthy, strong-growing varie- 

 ty with good foliage and solid dark 

 flower-spikes. The best impatiens is 

 Sultani Holstii with bright red flowers 

 and fine foliage. Of ageratums Stella 

 Gurney is the best, a healthy dwarf 

 grower and free bloomer. In verbenas 

 we have venosa, Aubletia compaeta and 

 erecta purpurea. Verbena venosa is a 

 most charming bedding plant with 

 dark foliage and a mass of purple 

 flowers. Verbena Aubletia compaeta, 

 a last year's novelty, is considered one 

 of the best introductions by the lead- 

 ing florists of France, Germany and 

 Switzerland. It is of the venosa type, 

 the flowers being larger and more red- 

 dsh. Verbena ereota purpurea is also 

 a good addition to our bedding ver- 

 benas. The plant is dwarf, robust, up- 

 right mowing; the flowers dark pur- 

 tnd it is a first-class bedder. Ver- 

 bena erinoides. with its trailing habit 

 and pure white dower, is useful to 

 plant boxes and vases. 



Dwarf Foliage Plants. 



In dwarf foliage plants the best bed- 

 tiers in coleuses are Verschaffeltii, 

 Golden Bedder. Firebrand and Firefly. 

 In iresines we have Vallisi, Bienmul- 

 leri, and in achyranth.es, formosa, Lin- 

 deni, reticulata and aurea reticulata. 

 In centaureas, candidissima, gymno- 

 carpa. and maritima. In pytvthrums, 

 parthenifolia. selaginoides and ex- 

 celsa. In santolina, tomentosa and in- 

 cana. In gnaphalium, lanatum major 

 and lanatum minor. In artemisia, 

 stelleriana and arborescens. In abuti- 

 lon, Savitzii. etc. The most popular 

 alternantheras are, paronyehioides ma- 

 jor, aurea major, aurea minor, specta- 

 bilis, versicolor, sessilis and rosea 



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