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its stem, where it divides into four white-pointed sepals; the coro.lla is also scarlet; novel and 

 beautiful. Geo. Felton, crimson scarlet sepals and tube ; dark purple corolla ; very 

 double. Grandiflora Gem, a very desirable variety ; the tube and sepals are light crimson ; 

 corolla dark crimson ; fine form and large size. Heather Bell, tube and sepals white ; corolla 

 dark crimson ; quite distinct. Little Dorrit, a variety of miniature size ; tube and general form 

 about one-fourth the ordinary size ; very free flowering. Puritani, white corolla ; scarlet sepals. 

 Prince Imperial, sepals fine scarlet ; corolla violet ; the earliest dark variety. Princess of 

 Wales, a crimson scarlet variety of glossy texture, with white corolla ; very double and large. 

 Rose of Castile, sepals white ; corolla violet rose ; a somewhat dwarf, but early and profuse 

 bloomer ; one of the best. Sally Mead, tube and sepals scarlet ; corolla crimson ; very double 

 and of irregular length, laying open like a rose. Sir Colin Campbell, an old favorite ; double ; 

 tube and sepals scarlet; corolla dark purple. Schiller, sepals white; corolla a light violet, 

 changeable to rose ; a profuse and early bloomer. Victor Emanuel, tube and sepals coral red ; 

 corolla fine double white, tinted with scarlet stripes; beautiful. Wave of Life, golden foliage; 

 sepals scarlet ; corolla dark purple. White Eagle, corolla white ; sepals carmine. 



WINTER FLOWERING FUCHSIAS. The following two varieties are the best for winter 

 flowering, while Bianca Marginata is also useful for this purpose. Carl Halt, a new and 

 distinct variety, and very valuable for winter flowering. The flower is striped in clear colors of 

 white and red, in a novel and beautiful form ; very productive. Speciosa, a well known variety, 

 producing large flowers two inches in length, tubes and sepals of which are blush, the corolla 

 crimson. The single plants of this variety, grown in eight or nine inch pots, will produce from 

 three hundred to five hundred flowers from December to May. 



FUNKIA THE DAY LILY (Hardy Herbaceous Perennial). 



The White Day Lily (F. Alba Odora) is an attractive, bulbous garden plant, with luxuriant, 

 broad, ovate, veined foliage of rich yellowish green coior, that grows in an elegant clump or 

 mass one foot high. The flowers are pure white and fragrant, of an exceedingly pleasing 

 appearance, and are borne on stems twenty inches high, before midsummer, opening only in the 

 day. A mass of this beautiful plant growing on the lawn is very handsome. F. Ccerulea, 

 quite similar to the above, excepting that the flowers are light blue, and the foliage of a deep 

 green. F. Marginata, with elegant variegated leaves, distinctly edged and striped with sulphur 

 yellow. 



GALANTHUS SNOWDROP (Hardy Bulbous Perennial). 



Most delightful little flowers, blooming in the open air the very earliest of all flowers, gener- 

 ally in warm, sunny exposures long before the snow has all disappeared. There are double and 

 single varieties, pure white. No garden can be considered fairly stocked, without at least a few 

 clumps of these earliest of early flowers. The bulbs should be planted in the fall months with 

 Hyacinths, Tulips, etc., about two or three inches deep, and if set three inches apart in clumps 

 a foot or two across, the effect will be the finest. Reset them once in three years. The Galan- 

 thus are also useful for forcing into bloom in winter. (See page 21). 



GAZANIA (Greenhouse Perennial, 32, 45, 8f). 



Summer and autumn flowering bedding plants of low prostrate habit ; the prevailing colors 

 are orange and yellow, with a broad, intensely black velvety ring passing around the center. 

 Excellent for planting in hanging baskets and vases. Propagate from cuttings and layers. 



GERANIUM PELARGONIUM (Greenhouse Perennials, 33, 45, 85, except where noted). 



An extensive, varied and interesting family of plants of great value for pot culture and bed- 

 ding; indeed, in such a degree, that a nice flower and window garden might be sustained by 

 employing no other plants than those included in the genus. Their requirements through- 

 out are of the most simple kind, and there is scarcely such thing as failure in realizing 

 satisfaction from cultivating them, even by inexperienced amateurs. All the varieties of 

 the several sections strike root readily from cuttings. August and September are suitable 

 months for propagating, as an abundance of growth is then available, and cuttings struck at this 

 season will make strong plants for next year's use. They will also, each, afford several young 

 cuttings during the winter for propagation. Young plants make such rapid growth that it is 

 better to provide plenty of new stock each fall and winter for bedding in the spring, and also 

 for pot culture, to the exclusion of old plants. A light place, where air can be introduced to 

 them, is most suitable for their winter quarters. Old plants can easily be kept over in a warm 

 cold-pit or light cellar which is not too damp. (See Pelargonium.) 



ZONALE, SCARLET, OR HORSESHOE GERANIUMS. This is perhaps the best known class in 

 cultivation, being easily grown, afford a large variety of colors, and different habits. As 

 bedding plants they are unequaled, being rapid growers and are remarkably free-flowering. 

 Scarcely a more pleasing or yet more simple disposal of plants can be effected than to mass the 

 scarlet varieties a foot or eighteen inches apart, according to size, in a bed upon the lawn, to be 

 viewed from *a distance, as from a walk, or a favorite window in the living room. For brilliancy 

 the varieties Gen. Grant and Queen of the West are the best, being strong growers and immense 

 bloomers. All during the season many large dazzling heads of bloom will be conspicuous over 

 the green, compact mass of leaves, affording a continual, never-tiring view for months, which, 



