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FLORAL NOTES. 



I HE Asclepias is a very showy flower. Patches which are found 

 growing along the railroads and elsewhere, are quite brilliant and 

 noticeable. It is equally fine when cultivated. 



Cardinal Flower, which is difficult to find in the wild state, has 

 a splendid shade of scarlet which is rivalled by very few flowers. 

 Plants make but little growth the first year, but the second sum- 

 mer the flower stems will grow four feet high. 



The Candytuft is a popular flower, the pure white being 

 in much demand for boquets. Several new sorts have been 

 lately introduced. The Dwarf Hybrid, first sent out from France, 

 has seldom been over praised. The plants are of excellent habit and flower 

 profusely. From this strain we get some new shades of color. From England 

 we have got Carter's New Carmine and White Tom Thumb, the first being a 

 fine pink color, but we have the same shade in Dwarf Hybrid, which is superior 

 in habit and vigor. The weak constitution of Carter's is proved by the scarcity 

 and high price of its seeds. The White Tom Thumb is very distinct. Well- 

 grown plants will cover a foot in diameter and not be more than a foot high. 

 They are a mat of white flowers. 



For a budding geranium in a sunny position nothing can surpass the Queen 

 of the West Some of the best roots under glass, such as Jealousy, Wonderful, 

 and Harry King, are quite worthless when planted outside. New Life is novel 

 and distinct and very popular as a window flower. 



The late perennial phloxes present an endless assortment of colors, and a 

 bed of old roots will produce so many spikes that one can pick without any 

 feeling of regret. The improvement of late has been so great that many new 

 colors have been produced with flowers and spikes double the size of the old 

 ones. 



The Wall flower leaved stocks are of the greatest value on account of their 

 flowering so early and surely. The colors are not as numerous as in some other 



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