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to three, and may be arranged so as to form a cone. I liad a small 

 round bed last season in fine display. It contained orange, white, dark 

 velvet and white, rose, yellow, and pink-coloured kinds. 



Cupheas. — The C. platycentra is a charming plant ; its beautiful 

 red flowers tipped with white in such profusion are very ornamental. 

 The C. strigulosa, with its yellow, green, and red flowers, is very 

 pretty. It grows erect, and does well for the centre of the bed and 

 the other kind around it. 



Anagallis. — The blue Compactum is a most profuse bloomer, and 

 grows lialf a foot to a foot high. Brewerii is a fine large blue, grows 

 a foot high or more. Grandiflora, with its fine orange-red flowers, is 

 also very showy, growing a foot high. All beautiful. 



Lobelias. — The fine upright growing kinds of crimson, scarlet, 

 white, lilac, red, purple, and pink colours are alike handsome, always 

 admired. The dwarf prostrate kinds, as L. erinus, erinus lucida, 

 lucida compacta, erinoides, &c., form a neat edging to the others. 

 They bloom profusely. 



Aloiisoas. — Their beautiful spikes of scarlet flowers are very showy. 

 The erect-growing Articifolia does well for the centre, and the 

 Incisa-grandiflora around it. 



Hcliotr opiums. — The Voltaireauum, with its deep blue flowers, is 

 very pretty ; the bed should be planted full, as it is not so rampant as 

 the other kinds in its growth. Triomph de Leigh has immense heads 

 of white flowers, and, grown in a sandy loam and vegetable mould, 

 blooms very freely. The old Grandiflorum, with its bluish-white 

 flowers, is known so well, I need not recommend it more. 



Atiemone Japotiica.— This is a beautiful bedding plant, blooming 

 from July to November ; grows half a-yard high, and its fine rose- 

 coloured flowers are i^articularly showy at the latter part of the season. 



Peiitstemons. — There are many fine kinds, which answer admirably, 

 and bloom profusely. Cloasii, scarlet outside, pure white inside, is 

 most charming. Gigantea elegans, with its brilliant crimson flowers, 

 very showy. Chandlerii, with its neat rosy-red, is very pretty ;- it is 

 of a dwarf shrubby habit. The fine blues, as difl^usus, ovatus, pubes- 

 cens, and speciosus, arealike beautiful, profuse bloomers, and very neat. 



Jioses. — Mr. Cox, of the Durdham Down Nursery, lias given a list of 

 Roses, that answer admirably for grouping in this style of cultivation. 

 The following kinds are what he enumerates, and which we extract from 

 the "Magazine of Botany." Such might be obtained in pots, and 

 supply for the present season's bloom. 



Hybrid Perpetual. — Baronne Prevost, bright rose; Dr. Marx, 

 carmine; Duchess of Sutherland, mottled-rose; Geant de Batailles, 

 brilliant crimson ; La Keine, glossy-rose ; Madame Laflay, bright 

 crimson ; Standard of Marengo, brilliant crimson ; William Jesse, 

 lilac-crimson. 



Bourbon. — Bouquet de Flora, carmine ; Compte d'Eu, bright car- 

 mine ; Enfant d'Ajacio, scarlet-crimson ; George Cuvier, rosy-crimson ; 

 Grand Capitaine, fiery scarlet ; Pierre de St. Cyr, glossy rose ; Queen, 

 fawn colour ; Souchet, purple-carmine ; Souvenier de la Malmaison, 

 white with fawn centre. 



