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plants are in fine bloom. One has forty-four spikes of flowers, the stem 

 of each about four feet high, and the spikes from six to ten inches long. 

 Each blossom is tube-shaped, two inches long, and the stem is very 

 thickly set with them all round. In their early stage they are of a 

 light scarlet, but change to a rich yellow, the contrast being very 

 pretty. The plants continue in bloom most of the summer, and are 

 exceedingly ornamental, well deserving a place in every flower garden. 



Tritoma media is also very showy, the spikes of flowers being half 

 a yard long, and the blossoms about three inches, red, tipped with 

 yellow. Very pretty. 



Pentstemon elegans. — The blossoms are an inch and a-half long, of 

 a pretty rose colour, produced in profusion. Plant half a yard high. | 



P. digitalis. — Blossoms wide tube-shaped, an inch and a-half long, 

 white, produced in profusion, are very pretty, contrasting nicely with 

 the rich-coloured ones. 



P. hirsutus. — Wide tube-shaped, an inch and a-half long, blue, with 

 a white five-parted end. Neat and pretty. 



P. Themisteri. — Tube wide, an inch and half long, light pink. A 

 medium-sized plant, but very neat. 



Pyrethrum Partlienium, pleno. — Plant grows about a foot high, and 

 blooms in vast profusion, each blossom being very double, an inch across, 

 of a snow white. It is the best white-blossomed plant we have seen for a bed. 



Lantana delicatissima. — This is a very neat bedding plant, grows 

 about a foot high ; the heads of flowers are an inch and a-half across, 

 lilac, with a white eye. The centre of a bed is composed of this, and 

 surrounded with the dwarfer L. Sellowii, the blossoms of which are 

 darker. The plants require to be placed close enough to become a 

 compact mass, and then forms a beautiful neat bed. 



Zauchneria californica. — There is a bed of it in most profuse bloom, 

 one foot to eighteen inches high, the light orange-scarlet flowers being- 

 very showy. To keep the plants erect, it is necessary to have from the 

 first sticks about nine inches high pricked closely among the plants ; 

 this will keep them upright, and the flowers show well. 



The following Pelargoniums are excellent bedding varieties, which 

 we have seen proved, being free bloomers, and not having too much 

 leaf. They are such as our readers may fully depend upon for a fine 

 display of bloom. We give them thus early, that persons desirous of 

 having such for beds next year may now procure bushy plants from 

 which cuttings may immediately be taken, and a stock of young plants 

 be provided this autumn : — 



P. diadematum rubrum. — The flowers are large, in fine trusses, of a 

 showy rosy-crimson, tinged with purple. They stand out well above 

 the foliage. An admirable variety. 



P. variegatum. — Leaves of a deep green, with a broad margin of 

 creamy-white, edge rather deeply cut. The flowers are of a bright 

 red, petals narrow ; but the numerous trusses of flowers, well elevated 

 above the leaves, render it very showy. 



P. Annette— White, tinged with lilac, and the upper petals having 

 a deep-red spot. The foliage is much curled, and has a powerful 

 lemon seent. It is a profuse bloomer, an excellent bedding variety, 

 and grows about a foot high. 



