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Bon Silene, Saffrano, and Isabella Sprunt rank among the 

 best for this purpose. To make sure of having good 

 blooms in winter, the plants should have been grown in 

 pots during the summer previous, and not too much ex- 

 posed to the sun or the pots exposed, but either plunged 

 in the ground or wrapped with moss or grass and kept 

 cool. If during winter the green aphis gets upon the 

 plant, make some weak tobacco water, warm not hot 

 and dip the plants into them, immediately thereafter into 

 clean, soft, tepid water. 



Hardy bulbs, such as Hyacinths, Tulips, Crocus, Lilies, 

 etc., make up great beauty in a homestead, and they may 

 be planted, and as they grow in spring, flowers of Verbenas ', 

 Petunias, Sweet Aly sum, Aster, Balsam or Lady's Slipper, 

 Carnation, Pinks of varieties, Clarkia, Sweet Pear, Helio- 

 trope, Lantana, Lychnis, Crocus, Narcissus, Nasturtium, 

 Phlox Drummondi, Portulacca, Salvia Tube roses and 

 Zinnias may be worked in to make up the beds of floral 

 beauty around the house. 



And now we will say to our readers that the formation 

 for beds for flowering summer plants, such as Geraniums, 

 Petunias, Salvias, Herbaceous Paeonias, equal in beauty 

 to Rhododendrons or Tree Pseonias, Phloxes, Chrysan- 

 theunms, Double Flowering Hollyhocks and Dahlias, 

 mingling with them many of the hardy perennials as the 

 Achillea, Aconitum, Aquilygea, Bocconia, Campanula of 

 many colors ; Iris of over seventeen varieties; Liatris, 

 Sedums of more than twenty varieties and of great beauty 

 in a rough, rocky bed ; Spirea,s Statice, Tritoma, Veroni- 

 cas, Vincas and Yuccas, that from these plants, oval beds 



