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flowering, and differs only in the flowers being double and remain- 
ing upon the plant so much longer. It is yet too expensive for 
bedding out, but those interested in new kinds should, in the course 
of the season, look after it. Charley Casbon is a sumptuous bedder 
on strong deep soils ; it is very neat, and the flowers, which are pro- 
duced very freely, are of the most brilliant orange scarlet. Violet 
Hill Nosegay is rather stronger growing than the preceding, but is 
equally neat, and blooms most profusely ; the colour, a peculiar and 
effective shade of rosy-red. Anna Pfitzen is of a similar shade of 
brilliant orange scarlet as S®leil, and as it is of neat, compact 
growth, and flowers abundantly throughout the season, it may be 
considered one of the very best of its line of colour. Didon also 
has orange-scarlet flowers, and can be strongly recommended. 
Edward Sutton has dark crimson flowers, is very free flowering, and 
the habit is exceedingly neat. Mrs. Hetley is a rather dwarf coun- 
terpart of Lucius; the colour is a pleasing shade of light salmon 
red, the trusses are very large, and the habit excellent; it is in every 
way first-rate. Lady Palmerston, deep purple-crimson ; and Vesta, 
bright crimson, are both excellent bedders ; and Zriomphe de Stella 
is a brilliant orange-scarlet nosegay, deserving of the heartiest re- 
commendation. 
Of the pink varieties that bloom freely on heavy soils, the best 
are Mrs. Kk. Hole, a pretty variety, with bright magenta pink flowers. 
Mrs. Augusta Miles, bright rose-pink; Mrs. Haliburton, a beautiful 
Variety in the style of Christine, but vastly superior to it. Feast of 
Roses, a very attractive nosegay, the colour a very fine bright pink; 
and Mrs. Upton, bright pink, and very dwarf. 
There is no white variety really suitable for heavy soils ; they all 
grow with too great a degree of luxuriance, and I should recommend 
other white flowering bedders to be planted in preference to them. 
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HANGING BASKETS FOR THE CONSERVATORY. 
BY GEORGE SMITH. 
suitable plants, and of a size proportionate to the struc- 
ture, produce such a pleasing effect, that they should be 
considered a most essential part of the furniture of a 
well-appointed conservatory. But the baskets very 
often seen in conservatories are not neat, nor are they so tastefully 
filled that they can be considered elegant, and a few words explana- 
tory of the best form of basket, and the manner in which they should 
be furnished to present a tasteful appearance, may at the present 
season afford material assistance to some, at least, of the many thou- 
sand readers of the F'toran Wortp, Baskets suspended from the 
roof form such conspicuous objects, that unless they are filled with 
suitable plants and kept in good trim, they are eyesores, and the 
importance of bestowing something more than an ordinary degree 
of attention upon them need not be urged. Baskets are wanted 
May. 
