2OO GARDEN FLOWERS. 



FLORISTS' VARIETIES. The following are superior varie- 

 ties: Double Red Acteur, Prince of Wales, Sans Souci, 

 Waterloo. Double Blush Bouquet Royale, Comtesse de la 

 Coste, Grootvoorst. Double Blue Bonaparte, Bouquet Pour- 

 pre, Grand Sultan, Laurens Koster, Lord Wellington, Oronda- 

 tus. Doiible White Anna Maria, Don Gratuit, La Deesse, 

 Nannette, Ne Plus Ultra, Prince of Waterloo. Double yellow 

 Bouquet Orange, La Grandeur, Louis d'Or, Ophir. Single 

 Red Aimable Rosette, Appelius, L'Ami du Cceur, Mars, Paix 

 d' Amiens, Panorama, Temple d'Apollon. Single Blue Belle- 

 rophon, Grande Vidette, L'Ami du Cqeur, Nimrod, Orondatus, 

 Othello, Prince Albert, Vulcan. Single White Grand Vain-, 

 queur, Grande Vidette, La Candeur, Queen Victoria, Triomph 

 Blandina, Virgo. Single Yellow Heroine, La Belle Jaune, 

 Ida, Due de Malakoff, San Francisco. 



HYDRANGEA. [Saxifragaceae.] Hardy or half-hardy de- 

 ciduous shrubs, most of them showy plants. H. hortensis, 

 the most popular of this family, has been long familiar as 

 one of the commonest of market plants. Grown in the or- 

 dinary way it is very showy, but with pains it may be made a 

 very noble object. There are two very different ways 

 of growing it, the one to form a shrubby plant ; the other a 

 single stem, and a large flower-head. The latter is the fa- 

 vorite mode of growing it for show, the aim being to produce 

 as large a head as possible. For this purpose, take cuttings 

 in July of the strongest shoots, and plant them in sandy soil 

 under a hand-glass ; when rooted, pot them in five-inch pots, 

 in a compost of one-third loam, one-third dung, and one- 

 third peat, well mixed together, and passed through a very 

 coarse sieve. Such of them as branch out will make pretty 

 little shrubby plants ; whilst those whose growth is confined 

 to a single stem, will, in all probability, form a large flower- 

 head. When the general set of plants drop their leaves, 

 and indicate by their terminal buds the strongest heads, 

 some of the most promising cuttings may be taken off, and 



