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abundance, and graceful set of the flowers, the variety of 

 its colours, and for its pretty foliage, deserves to be 

 much more generally cultivated than it is. The seed 

 keeps long, should be sown in March, in sandy soil, 

 under glass, and the young plants will often flower the 

 same year. The Columbines are quite hardy, grow 

 from one to two feet high, come into flower in May, 

 and flower for a long time. The roots may be divided 

 in autumn or spring. 



The Snapdragons (Antirrhinum) are hardy, easy to 

 cultivate, and have an almost endless variety and 

 mixture of colour. They will do in any garden soil if 

 not wet, grow about two feet high, or a little more, 

 flower in June, and keep in flower all through the 

 summer. Good sorts should be propagated by cuttings, 

 as seedlings generally vary from the parent plant. Great 

 variety in colour may be got from seed, which should be 

 sown in spring : the young plants have the advantage 

 that they flower the same year. 



The Foxglove is a handsome growing flower, which 

 makes a good mass of colour wherever it happens to 

 be wanted, and offers a fine pure white. The seed 

 should be sown in the autumn, that the plants may 

 flower the next year. Digitalis Canariensis is a handsome 

 plant from Teneriffe, producing yellow flowers ; it is a 

 greenhouse plant. 



The Veronicas are fine showy, hardy plants, producing 

 blue, purple, and white flowers in summer. They will 

 grow well in any garden soil which is tolerably light 

 and moist. They are increased by seed and by division 

 of the roots. 



The Wallflower, Cheiranthus cheiri, is gay and very 

 hardy, and especially valuable from producing its deli- 

 ciously fragrant flowers early, and retaining them long. 

 A light, rich, sandy soil suits them best. The fine 

 double sorts must be propagated by cuttings, under a 

 hand-glass, in May or June. The double yellow, double 

 blood-red, double purple, and several others, are hand- 

 some, but they have not the fragrance of the common 

 single sorts. Cheiranthus Alpinus is a pretty little hardy 



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