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several years. Afterwards a little top dressing every second or 

 third year will suffice to ensure a most luxuriant growth, and a 

 plentiful pi'oduction of flowers. 



The following varieties have been selected from my large col- 

 lection, as eminently desirable in the smallest of gardens where 

 hardy herbaceous plants are cultivated : — 



Archangel. — Eose lake, tipped with white, very double. 



CJieruh. — Outer petals carmine, centre pure white. 



Desdemona. — Clear ro?e, large and double. 



Duchesse d'Orlecns. — Outer petals rose lake, centre salmon, fine. 



Officinalis nihra-plena. — The old double crimson. 



Potsi. — Bright carmine, double, and very fine. 



Queen Victoria. — Carmine pink, shading to white, large, and very 

 double. 



Umhellata. — Outer petals pale carmine, centre pale primrose. 



Victoria Modesta. — Outer petals rose lake, centre pink tipped 

 with white. 



Whitlcyi. — White, with clear yellow centre. 



SHOET yOTES O^ USEFUL VEGETABLES. 



[jE now resume our cultural notes on useful vegetables 

 that require immediate attention to ensure good crops, 

 and commence with 



Broccoli. — This is one of the most important of 

 vegetables, yet owing to the risk of the whole crop 

 being destroyed in severe weather, it is not well adapted for very 

 small gardens, for in these it is of the highest importance to turn 

 every yard of ground to good account. The cultivator should aim 

 at securing a succession from autumn until late in the spring, and 

 to do this it is needful to sow early sorts the first or second week in 

 March; the midseason sorts early in April; and the latest kinds 

 towards the end of the same month. Sow rather thinly in beds or 

 drills in an open position, and select a quarter which has been 

 manured liberally and stirred deeply ; and commence to plant out 

 when the plants have acquired sufficient strength. The early sorts 

 should be thirty inches apart each way, and those for late supplies 

 two feet. If the weather is dry at planting time, supply liberally 

 with water until they are established. The caterpillar, which fre- 

 quently does so much mischief, must be kept under by hand-picking 

 and dustings of soot or lime. Deep cultivation, an abundance of 

 manure, and a warm soil are the main points in the cultivation of 

 Broccolis. For cutting in autumn, the best are Graiiiijer's Autumn 

 White and White Cape ; for midwinter, Snoiv's Winter White and 

 Sutton's Superb Early White ; for early spring, Sutton's Perfection, 

 Cooling's Matchless, and The Lea^nington ; for late spring, Lauder's; 

 Superb White, Cattell's JEcUpse, and Carter's Summer. 



