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beautiful for marginal or second lines. The aubrietias are not well 

 adapted for heavy clay soils, as in wet winters a portion of the plants 

 perish. 



Daisies simply require to be divided into single crowns when 

 taken from the beds, or some time daring the summer, and to be 

 planted in a shady position. The Double o'imson, Double White, 

 and Double Pink are the most effective daisies, are exceedingly 

 valuable, for they bloom early and continuously, and are so hardy in 

 constitution, that they grow freely on the unkindest soils, and are 

 not affected by the most unfavourable weather. 



The best of the Forget-me-Nots is that known as Myosotis sylva- 

 iica, as it is robust in growth, blooms freely, and is not aifected by 

 severe or wet winters. To raise a stock it is simply necessary to 

 sow the seed, which can be procured at a cheap rate, in drills on a 

 shady border, and lift when the plants are required for filling the 

 flower beds. As they will not be transplanted, the seed must be 

 sown thiuly, or a few of the plants be pulled out when an inch or 

 so in height. The flowers are of a beautiful light blue shade, and 

 when the plants are in bloom they are usually about twelve inches 

 in height. 



The dwarf-spring flowering Phloxes — of which, P. fronclosa, rose, 

 P. Nelsoni, white, and P. verna, rosy-pink, are the best — must be 

 propagated from cuttiugs, as advised for the alyssuin. They can 

 also be employed several seasons in succession, by pruning them to 

 keep them bushy. They require a rather more shady situation, more 

 moisture, aud greater care than the alyssum. 



The most generally useful of the evergreen Candytufts for 

 massing, is Iberis sempervirens, which has pure white flowers. It 

 requires precisely the same treatment as the alyssum, aud may be 

 kept until it attains the dimensions of a large bush. 



The single and double varieties of the Primrose, Primula acaulis, 

 are very attractive in masses. Even the common Primrose itself is 

 useful for forming an edging to a bed filled with darker flowers. P. 

 altaica has deep violet flowers, and is very showy. P. cortusoides 

 amcBna has flowers of deep rose-colour, is very free-flowering, and 

 unsurpassed in attractiveness. It is quite hardy, and can be 

 strongly recommended for bedding purposes; but it is yet too 

 expensive to aduiit of its being extensively employed for that pur- 

 pose. They should all be divided in the same manner as the 

 daisies, and during the summer be grown in a shady situation. 



On ratlier dry soils, Pansies are unsurpassed in eflectiveness, 

 for they come into bloom early, and produce glorious masses of 

 yellow, purple, blue, and white ; but on cold clays they cannot be 

 depended upon, and they should not, therefore, be planted. The 

 earliest blooming and the hardiest varieties are the Cliveden Blue, 

 Cliveden Purple, Cliveden While, and Cliveden Yelloiv, which have 

 flowers of the colour indicated by the name. Cuttings of the young 

 shoots should be struck in July, under hand-glasses in a shady 

 border, aud the young plants be put in nursery lines immediately 

 they are rooted, to afford them a chance of becoming strong by the 

 time of their being planted in the flowei--beds. 



July. 



