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remarkably fine build and substance, and a free grower ; it is a variety showing the 

 possession of a great deal of refinement. 



Tea, Madame Camille, has full and finely cupped smooth flowers, with a great deal 

 of petal ; the color flush on the exterior, with bright salmon, buff" center. 



lea, Madame Jtdes Margottiu is a charming Tea Rose ; the circumference of the 

 flower, flesh white, the center primrose and nankeen in the bud state, it is simply 

 perfection ; the habit is vigorous and free, and it has a most desirable upright 

 growth. 



Jflana for T^nying otit burdens. 



There is not enough attention paid to this subject in our horticultural literature ; 

 and yet, the people are delighted with any plan or suggestion, showing how to arrange 

 their floral borders and ornamental plants ; and yet, every place must have its own 

 plan. No distant gardener could give an absolute rule, good for any place, in any 

 town. Hence, plans must be made specially for each place ; and then comes judicious 

 advice about planting. Some of these suggestions are urged by the Agriculturist, 

 as follows : 



Whatever else there is, let there be a plenty of turf. The humblest place can 

 aff'ord an expanse of grass, which if large is dignified by the name of lawn, and if 

 small is called only a grass-plot. This gives an air of neatness if there should be 

 no flowers, and if there are flowers, no matter whether costly or common, their 

 appearance is many-fold enhanced by the turf-setting. Do not strive after anything 

 elaborate and complicated. Recollect that the more elaborate the pattern, the 

 greater will be the care required in keeping. Scroll, chain, and other borders look 

 wonderfully well in print, especially if they are printed in colors. But these plans 

 which are carried out in the favorable climate of England only by keeping a number 

 of men at them all the time, would utterly fail with us, where one gardener is 

 expected to do everything, and where in the majority of cases there is no gardener 

 at all. Lay out only what can be well cared for from spring until frost. Circles, 

 ovals, ellipses, and egg and "palm-leaf" shapes, neatly cut in the turf, are much 

 better thati anything more complicated. Avoid making beds with sharp points and 

 acute angles. If one has only room for a single bed, as in a front-yard in town, he 

 will get more satisfaction out of plants with striking foliage than with flowers. A 

 circle, edged with some of the silver3'-foliaged plants, such as Centaureas, Cinera- 

 rias, and Artemisias, then a row of Achyranthes Lindeni, and within this a center 

 of some of the Golden Coleuses would be bright and showy all summer. This is 

 only a suggestion, as the bed may be planted in a great variety of wa,ys. A group 

 of Cannas would give both fine foliage and flowers, and this may be edged with a 

 row of Gladiolus with some low-growing plant upon the extreme margin. Very 

 good eff"ects may be produced with little expense by the use of annuals, among the 

 most popular and best of which is Phlox Drummondii in its various kinds, from 

 white to deep scarlet. 



In laying out beds of any kind, recollect that every foot of path and every foot of 

 margin implies a promise to keep the one clean and the other neatly trimmed. 

 Unless there exist the ability and the inclination to do these, the beds had better 

 not be laid out but the grass left unbroken. 



