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to learn the art of arranging the flowers for the lawn or 

 garden ; and such as have a correct taste for the colors, 

 will probably be the most expert. • 



The most suitable plants for bedding are the following : 

 Portidacas ; white, lemon, orange, scarlet, and crimson. 

 Verbenas ; scarlet, rose, white, purple, and blue. Helio- 

 tropes ; lilac, and blue. Petunias / pure white, crimson, and 

 variegated. Eschselioltzia ; orange. Prummond^s Coreop- 

 sis ; yellow, (reram^/ms / scarlet. Pyrethrmn^ m Y>Q)\\\Aq 

 Fever-few ; white. 3fexican Ageratum ; pale blue. 

 Pwarf Coreopsis ; dark brown, brown with yellow edge, 

 yellow. PrummoncVs Phlox / crimson, scarlet, rose, and 

 white. Stock Gilly -flowers ; Pwarf Phloxes^ and many 

 other plants of taller habits appear to great advantage 

 when planted in masses in the shrubbery border or lawn, 

 where the latter is extensive. 



DOUBLE FLOWERS. 



Many botanists do not approve of double flowers or 

 hybrids : they see no beauty in them, it brings into con- 

 fusion the regularity of their classification, and therefore 

 regard them as monsters, as indeed they really are. By 

 high cultivation, the stamens of the flower are converted 

 into petals, to the great delight, in most cases, of the florist. 

 In what estimation, in the eye of the florist, would a single 

 rose be held, in comparison with a full double perfect 

 variety, or a single Aster beside an improved Pseony- 

 flowered one. The fragrance would be the same in the 

 rose, double or single ; but it would be like going back to 



