CHAPTER XXVII. 



New Azaleas. Notes on Cyclamen. New Pelargoniums. Verbenas. Helio- 

 trope. New Roses. Pinks. Fuchsias. Abutilon. Callas. Cuphea. 

 Chrysanthemums. 



I 



N the previous chapters, first printed in 1863, we have 

 followed the course of horticulture to that year. Now 

 in 1876, twelve years since our first edition was issued, the 

 progress of horticulture demands additional chapters to 

 bring our subject to the standard of knowledge of the 

 present day. 



Each passing year has given us, both by discovery and 

 hybridization, many new plants, and although in floriculture 

 novelty is by no means a criterion of superiority, we have 

 yet obtained many plants which are decided acquisitions. 



In bedding plants, such as Verbenas and Pelargoniums 

 in bulbs, in roses, each year some old varieties are lost 

 to cultivation, and their places are taken by new kinds, 

 which in their turn often give place to others of yet more 

 recent origin. 



Some of the varieties mentioned in former pages, it 



