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seclusion in fairyland ; such a sordid world as this does not deserve 

 to behold its beauty. 



The mixed border will supply a few good flowers for drying, 



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GEOUP OF ORNAMENTAL GRASSES. 



such as the hardy statices and gypsophilas, and it is an easy matter 

 to dry the flowers of double geraniums so as to preserve their 

 brilliant colours in perfection. 



GNIDIA PINIFOLTA. 



jHE delicious fragrance of this plant is of itself sufficient 

 to secure it a place in the most select collection ; but it 

 is also a most profuse bloomer, each shoot terminating 

 in a head of creamy white flowers, which, if guarded 

 from damp and drying currents of air, retain their 

 beauty and sweetness for several weeks. Like many other choice 

 plants, however, it is somewhat delicate, and requires careful 

 management. It is not very speedily propagated, but it is 

 plentiful and cheap enough to render this of little consequence, 

 and beginners will pave time, and probably disappointment too, 

 by leaving its propagation to those who devote exclusive attention 



April. 



