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rapid growers, and free flowerers, and readily increased by cut- 

 tings. They form small bushes, with pink, yellow, orange, or 

 changeable heads of flowers. L. Sellawii, with orange flowers, 

 changeable to scarlet, is the finest for the garden. A small plant, 

 put out the first of June, will increase to a large size at the close 

 of the season, and be in continual bloom. This is too large for 

 beds, but fine for grouping. 



PETUNIAS. 



Petunias. No class of summer flowers better repay the small 

 care they require, than Petunias ; they are a mass of gay bloom 

 from June to November, and, when planted in patches, or in 

 beds, or even in pots, or vases, flower ad infinitum. They are 

 successfully raised from seed, sown in a hot-bed in March; 

 they may afterwards be pricked out into small pots, and, when 

 sufficiently strong, turned into the open ground, some time in 

 May. A' bed of good seedlings, in full bloom, is a brilliant sight. 



The finer varieties are increased from cuttings. The best time 

 is late in the summer, and from plants that have been headed 

 down for that purpose; or, if the plants are taken up in autumn, 

 and kept in the green-house, they will make abundant increase 

 from cuttings during the winter. As it is not generally con- 

 venient to keep the plant over the winter, it is more economical 

 to purchase a new stock of choice varieties of the florist every 

 spring, as the best sorts are sold at about $2 per dozen. 



PYRETHRUM. 



Pyrethrum partkenium, or Double Feverfew. The abun- 

 dance of fine double pure white daisy-like flowers, which this plant 

 produces through the whole season, will ever make it a favorite 

 for ornamenting the garden. As the seed will not produce fine 

 double flowers in one of a thousand, and as the double varieties 

 will not stand through the winter in the garden, young plants for 

 bedding-out must be raised from cuttings. 



To produce fine bushy plants, the leading shoots should be 

 pinched off while young. The pure white of this plant shows off 

 to good advantage with the brilliant scarlet of the geranium ; they 



