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well, and they began to bloom about the middle of 

 June, and gave an uninterrupted display of bright - 

 colored and interesting forms until late in August. 

 Although the lot was a mixed one, having come from 

 seeds, all the varieties were interesting, particularly 

 the single flowers. If any one strain was more pleas- 

 ing than another, it was probably the Vienna, which 

 bore single and semi -double little flowers of very pure 

 and dainty colors, ranging from ivory white to rose- 

 red. Some of the plants had been taken up in the 

 fall and removed to the house for winter bloom, and 

 here, too, the Vienna was very pleasing. These hardy 

 carnations are perennial, although so good results 

 cannot be expected from the subsequent seasons of 

 bloom, and it is best to raise new plants annually. 

 A collection of the best named border sorts from 

 Europe would undoubtedly aiford some excellent varie- 

 ties for this country. At all events, they could be 

 depended upon to give perfectly adaptive offspring in 

 a course of a very few generations of plants. 



