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toward hardy flowers, especlall}' herbaceous and bulbous sorts. 

 What is more beautiful in late summer and autumn than Anemone 

 Japonicaf The white variety, Honorine Jobert, is the finest. 

 Often it grows four feet in height. Large bunches of dark' green 

 leaves are surmounted b}' numerous pure white, single flowers, re- 

 sembling those of Hellehorus niger (Christmas Rose). It is her- 

 baceous and hardy, onl}' requiring a little compost in the fall. 

 One very acceptable feature of this,pJant is the fact of its thriving 

 in partial shade, and as almost everybody has some such place 

 which is rather hard to fill, it just supplies the want. 



Early in summer we have Pceonia tenuifolia, with its delicatel}' 

 cut foliage and double flowers, the color and size of a Jacqueminot 

 rose. This is also an herbaceous plant. 



The new, hard}' Amaryllis Hallii is very beautiful. It makes 

 its foliage earl}' in spring, and after maturing it dies down. Late 

 in the summer the flower stalks spring up almost like magic, so 

 rapid is their growth, and produce a number of pink blossoms 

 which are unlike any other Amaryllis or Lih' with which I am ac 

 quainted. I consider it a great acquisition to the list of hard}' 

 bulbs. 



Euphorbia coroUala is an exceedingh' valuable plant. The 

 flowers are white, quite small, in panicles, and keep a long time 

 after being cut, making it ver}' useful for cut flowers. It is an her- 

 baceous plant. 



The Oriental Poppy is a very showy flower, and deserves a place 

 in the garden. It is a perennial, but is easily grown from seed, 

 and blooms tbe second yea.Y. Most people like it because it makes 

 so much show when in bloom, and after that it requires no care. 

 It is also very hardy. 



The hardy Pentstemons are useful flowers, and are well worth 

 cultivating. They are very easily grown, and I should miss mine 

 ver}' much. 



The Hollyhock is a great favorite. People wlio have grown holly- 

 hocks in old times remember them as purely single flowers, or at 

 most semi-double, and they look on the hollyhock of todav as 

 entirel}' disconnected with the old-fashioned flower of long ago. 

 Their plants were hard}' and came up year after year ; ours must 

 be protected, or the place where they were will be vacant in the 

 spring. They must be taken up, and covered in a cold frame, or 

 protected in such a manner as not to feel the effects of freezing 

 and thawing. It is a good plan when you have one or two rows 



