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and is covered all the season with a great profusion of bright 

 yellow flowers. 



The Dbummond Phlox. — If there be any one annual of more 

 beauty than another, beautiful in the variety and loveliness of the 

 flowers, beautiful because of its long continuance in bloom, and 

 beautiful in the durability and freshness of the cut flowers in 

 water, this is the most beautiful of them all. The flowers are 

 white, crimson, scarlet, purple, red, rose, pink, lilac, violet, and 

 aU of these colors with distinct eye of some other color. They 

 vie with the Verbena in variety and intensity of coloring, and 

 to be fully enjoyed should be grown in masses of distinct colors. 



The seed may be sown in the open ground in May, though 

 it is preferable to start it in a frame and get the plants on a little 

 earlier. These may be set in the bed, about a foot apart each 

 way, as soon as the weather becomes settled. They flourish in 

 any good, rich, friable soil, though giving a preference to the 

 lighter rather than the heavier. The plants begin to bloom while 

 quite small, and continue to grow and bloom all summer and 

 autumn ; the abundance of bloom is improved by free cutting of 

 the flowers, so as to lessen the amount of seed ; if the plants are 

 allowed to ripen a full crop of seed, it checks their growth, and 

 injures the beauty of the bed. 



If the seed of the several colors be kept and sown separate, a 

 fine effect may be produced by planting the bed in ribbons of 

 various colors. Being never out of bloom from June to N^ovember, 

 and if the precaution in regard to the ripening of seed be observed, 

 never sparsely supplied with flowers, it makes an excellent plant 

 for such a purpose. But planted in any way, whether in sepa- 

 rate masses of color, or in. ribbons of distinct and various colors, 

 or with aU colors indiscriminately mingled, it is one of the lovKest 

 flowers of the garden. 



The Marigold. — Although useless in hand bouquets, on 

 account of their strong disagreeable odor, the flowers of the French 

 Marigold are exceedingly pretty. They have a very rich velvety 

 appearance, are of a reddish-brown color, variously striped and 



