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and single ; Pseonies ; Primroses, double and single ; Pentstemons ; 

 Polyanthus ; Oxlips ; Tulips, many early and late kinds ; Sweet 

 Violets ; American Cowslips ; Gladioli ; Christmas Roses ; and, lastly, 

 Everlasting Flowers, which may be grown with the pretty Grasses, 

 and, like them, be gathered for the house in winter. All these fair 

 flowers deserve care in the gardens, and should not be trusted to the 

 too often ill-cultivated slips called " mixed borders," and many other 

 plants which we wish to increase or take good care of. 



In these special plots for hardy flowers are included the various 

 hardy florists' flowers. The term " florists' flowers " was once applied 

 to flowers supposed to be popular with amateurs and florists, but it had 

 never any clear meaning. A Rose is a florist's flower; but it is more 



Christmas Roses in bed in reserve garden. (Durie, Fife, N.B.). 



it is everybody's flower, and we call it a Rose, having no use for 

 any other term. The reserve garden is a good place to grow flowers 

 for cutting for the house. The enemy in the way of plenty of cut 

 flowers has hitherto been the gardener ; but he was limited in his 

 cutting operations to glass-houses, which he naturally wished to keep 

 gay. A supply equal to that of a dozen plant houses can be got from 

 an open square in the kitchen garden or any piece of good ground. 

 For eight months there is a procession of open-air flowers, which can 

 easily be grown in sufficient quantity to allow the cutting of plenty 

 for every want. A bed or a few lines of each favourite in a plot of 

 good soil would give a great number of flowers, and these, aided by 

 the Roses and other bush and tree flowers about the garden, would 

 yield all the flowers that a large house would require, and many 

 besides for hospitals and for those who have not gardens. Flowers 



