CHAPTER XXIV. 



BEDDING PLANTS. 



Propagation. Gazauia. Verbena. Lantana. Heliotrope. Calceola- 

 rias. Geraniums. Petunias. Cuphca. Feverfew. Nierembergia. 

 Salvia. Tritoma. 



S COMMONLY used, this general 

 term is given to plants which are 

 winter inhabitants of the green-house, 

 but which, if planted in the garden, 

 bloom profusely all summer. They 

 are generally green-house peren- 

 nials, but among them are included many 

 plants which bloom late in the summer, 

 from seed sown the same spring, and of 

 which fine varieties are propagated by cut- 

 tings. As examples, we may mention petunias and ver- 

 benas. 



The treatment of these plants is very simple ; about the 

 middle of May turn them out into the flower garden ; they 



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