PLANTS SUITABLE FOR BEDDING-OUT 



OR TO BE GROWN IN MASSES. 



" Put on your brightest, richest dress, 

 Wear all your gems, blest valo of ours ! *' 



" Strew the glad and smiling ground 

 With every flower." 



THE taste for growing flowers, in beds or vases, has greatly 

 increased within a few years. This mode of disposing flowers in 

 the garden has a very pleasing effect, whether they are grown in 

 figures cut out of the grass, on the lawn, in patches on the bor- 

 ders, or in irregular beds of the parterre. 



The varieties best suited for this purpose have been multiplied 

 to a great extent of late years; and, if we might judge from the 

 continued and increasing demand for them from year to year, 

 we may conclude that this mode of planting has become quite 

 popular. 



ABRONIA. 



Abronia umbellata has already been spoken of as a plant 

 suited for this purpose. 



AGERATUM. 



Ageratum Mexicanum. Its pale blue and tfhite varieties are 

 annuals, easily raised from seed, and used for bedding-out. The 

 best plants, however, are those raised from cuttings, as they are 

 more compact and dwarfish in their habits, and do not run so 

 much to foliage and stem as those from seed, and produce a 

 greater profusion of bloom. Plants taken up in autumn, and 

 placed in the conservatory, will, when pruned in, produce a 

 plenty of young wood for cuttings, or for flowers during 

 winter. 



